North Korea says it has successfully tested a new type of ICBM that can reach the US

[bathroommonkey76]

North Korea says it has successfully tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the US.
It claimed it launched a Hwasong-15 missile early on Wednesday. The test prompted international condemnation.


This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42162462?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

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[Abouttime]

1. Good job Trump!!

This never would have happened under Obama or Clinton.
Cooler heads must prevail and we must negotiate, there is no other option.

[uppityperson]

2. I've been following Will Ripley on twitter. It's frightening.

https://twitter.com/willripleyCNN

[bathroommonkey76]

4. It will probably happen sometime early next year.

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. They said they were gonna.

[bathroommonkey76]

5. In other news

My sister told me tonight that Ft. Bragg has been training like crazy the past two weeks.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. A distraction? Two Decades, DPRK was heavily investing in midget subs and nuclear underwater mines.

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Midget subs cannot be detected by the USN or even trip the SOSUS nets if drifting. Heck, we can't find full-sized subs, ships and aircraft in the water. They can be towed by friendly nation cargo vessles to near their destination and then have a range of 2-3,000 miles. One of these subs can contain a suicide nuke, that the crew might or might not know about. Whatever harbor or city they pull near would be incinerated. And the US can't detect most nukes, as we lost at least 6 nukes that we cannot find. One is in the delta of Savannah, GA. Another is in North Carolina somewhere.


Here's an interesting article on what an underwater nuclear explosion would do. A single 1946 era nuke would destroy an entire US Aircraft Carrier Task Force.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/70-years-ago-the-us-military-set-off-a-nuke-underwater-and-it-went-very-badly

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