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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the plans-are-for-next-launch-to-put-DC-in-oven dept.

North Korea's latest missile launch appears to put Washington, D.C., in range (archive)

North Korea appears to have launched another intercontinental ballistic missile, the Pentagon said Tuesday, with experts calculating that Washington, D.C., is now technically within Kim Jong Un's reach.

[...] The missile launched early Wednesday local time traveled some 620 miles and reached a height of about 2,800 miles before landing off the coast of Japan, flying for a total of 54 minutes. This suggested it had been fired almost straight up — on a "lofted trajectory" similar to North Korea's two previous intercontinental ballistic missile tests. [...] If it had flown on a standard trajectory designed to maximize its reach, this missile would have a range of more than 8,100 miles, said David Wright, co-director of the global security program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. [...] The U.S. capital is 6,850 miles from Pyongyang.

Although it may be cold comfort, it is still unlikely that North Korea is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the U.S. mainland. Scientists do not know the weight of the payload the missile carried, but given the increase in range, it seems likely that it carried a very light mock warhead, Wright said. "If true, that means it would not be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to this long distance, since such a warhead would be much heavier," he said in a blog post.


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:44AM (23 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:44AM (#602812) Homepage

    Well, I did always like the style of Donald Trump.

    But those idiots arent going to give us the false flags we wanted to start a war.

    Big Baby wants us to may more attention to him and give him more grain to feed his people.

    We traditionally did. Now, let his own people feed him.

  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:47AM (20 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:47AM (#602815) Homepage

    It's the same thing that happens every time. We're not gonna nuke them. They're crying for more grain. Perhaps China should feed them that grain.

    One of their missiles may actually hit Japan, or Korea. We know they're not. They're crying out for food. China needs to feed them their food.

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:50AM (19 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:50AM (#602817) Homepage

      Now, China, let's feed baby his grain and let him be a useful idiot to both ourselves and China, because it's gonna be one of us who takes him out - You? Or US.

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:52AM (15 children)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:52AM (#602819) Homepage

        " Ethanol-fueled saves the world from WWIII, nuclear war. "

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:56AM (14 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @04:56AM (#602820)

          You must be experiencing anxiety to reply to yourself that many times.

          Just remember your spare gas can for when the car runs out of fuel on the side of the road.

          • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:00AM (13 children)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:00AM (#602822) Homepage

            Absolutely not. What I am suggesting is that China give them their grain, become their problem. Nobody wants war.

            But it's time for the Eastern nations to handle them as their own problem.

            • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:14AM (12 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:14AM (#602825)

              Nah, I think Trump's massive failure is causing your psyche to crumble.

              • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:23AM (11 children)

                by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:23AM (#602828) Homepage

                You are misguided. We don't want total war, either do you. We just want idiot-boy to shut up! He hates us for historical reasons, and he hates you less. So help us out here. Let's help this fucker out!

                Lots of potential, here. Let's not fuck it up!

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:23AM (10 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:23AM (#602829)

                  You're really far gone, maybe time to sober up.

                  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:32AM (9 children)

                    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:32AM (#602832) Homepage

                    Kim, we like you! We want you too understand our people! But should you resist, we will destroy you. Too bad, buddy. We rather liked you.

                    Now you will be destroyed. Good night, Kim.

                    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:42AM

                      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:42AM (#602833) Homepage
                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:45AM (7 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @05:45AM (#602835)

                      Spoken like a true sociopath. You really are a trumpette.

                      • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:45AM (6 children)

                        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:45AM (#602847) Homepage

                        You are true gay. Homo, to be exact. Now, we like to save the gay whales, like in Star Trek 4. But will you help us save the gay whales? the fulcrum of humanity's win or defeat rests upon your shoulders!

                        So I ask you again, brother...will you save the gay whales?

                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:05AM (4 children)

                          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:05AM (#602851)

                          Ethanol_fueled! Stop! Please re-cork the bottle, and fall into your usual stupor. You are contributing nothing, you are nothing. Your comments are not making anything better. Please stop. Ethanol_fueled, log out now. We have arranged for a donkey to arrive in the alley behind your residence in five minutes. Please shutdown the computer, go out into the alley, and wait. Please, Eth? Please?

                          • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:14AM (3 children)

                            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:14AM (#602855) Homepage

                            You can bring a donkey to my alley...but you cannot explain the disappearance of the quantum experts from Freescale Conductor on MH370.

                            So how about that donkey?

                            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:00AM (2 children)

                              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:00AM (#602871)

                              Sorry, the best we could do was . . . squirrel!!

                              • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 29 2017, @12:09PM (1 child)

                                by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @12:09PM (#602945) Journal

                                Just. Get. A. Room!, you two!

                                Slam it out with your bones!
                                ;)

                                --
                                --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
                                • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:06PM

                                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @01:06PM (#602962)

                                  And a donkey.

                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:14AM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @03:14AM (#603269)

                          you like fish dicks hehehhahahahohohoho

      • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:30AM (2 children)

        by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:30AM (#602861) Homepage Journal

        China has made that quite clear to all sides.

        The only way the US could avoid CHINESE ICBMs would be for the DPRK to attack first.

        China also made quite clear that NK would be on its own if it initiates the war.

        It's only two and a half minutes to midnight. Dear me, I'm about to turn into a pumpkin!

        --
        Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:39AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:39AM (#602865)

          Mao is not running the country anymore. People in China are no longer isolated from the rest of the world; they travel all over. The cultural revolution is past. China no longer fears that ordinary Chinese people will become aware of capitalist wealth.

          North Korea was once a buffer country with a similar system of government. Now it is just a fucked up and hazardous annoyance.

        • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:01AM

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:01AM (#602873) Homepage

          The Chinks will get stomped. They stole all of our blueprints, specifications, plans; from all of those "Chinese engineers" who started from "academic solicitation" in our country who somehow managed to get security clearances and went on to work for Boeing and Lockheed-Martin...they are in places to steal everything we have -- and did -- and yet still can't manage to build it properly.

          Bring it on, you insectoid scum. It's about time to call in the Orkin man.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:02AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:02AM (#602836)

    We could supply grain containing birth control. After 40 years of that, there wouldn't be much of a military.

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:18AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @08:18AM (#602876) Homepage

      The Chinks did a good enough job of that with their "one child" policy.

      They kill or otherwise relagate the girls into orphanges. You think the American neckbeards are sexually frustrated? The Chinese ain't seen nothin' yet.