North Korea just made a huge breakthrough in its nuclear program… here’s why you should be worried
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Monday, May 22, 2017
Perhaps anticipating that the Trump administration and regional U.S. allies, including South Korea and Japan, are preparing to preemptively strike its nuclear weapons development program, North Korea is ramping up tests of ballistic missiles even as it works to perfect miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to place atop an ICBM.
The development program got a major boost over the weekend. A ballistic missile launched by the North on May 14 managed to successfully reenter the Earth’s atmosphere, a crucial test of performance vital to perfecting the design of a missile intended to hit targets thousands of miles away.
As reported by the U.K.’s Telegraph, the liquid-fueled Hwasong-12 missile’s reentry was confirmed by South Korean and U.S. defense officials.
Pyongyang earlier said the missile had reached a height of 1,312 miles before traveling about 490 miles and breaching Japan’s exclusive Air Defense Identification Zone then landing in the Sea of Japan, some 60 miles from Russia.
The missile is believed to have a maximum range of 2,800 miles, putting most of Asia in reach, including substantial U.S. military assets in the region.
The Telegraph noted further:
The missile took a steep parabolic route that tested its ability to survive reentry into the atmosphere, with North Korean state media reporting that the missile — capable of carrying a “large-size, heavy nuclear warhead” to target the U.S. mainland — had come through “the worst reentry situation” and truck its intended target.
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