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Post by Admin on May 31, 2017 18:18:53 GMT
Sometime between noon and 4 pm Pacific Time, the Pentagon will attempt to intercept and destroy an intercontinental ballistic missile. The Pentagon has other systems designed to shoot down short-range and medium-range missiles but this is the first ever attempt to shoot down an ICBM. From ABC News: The U.S. will launch an ICBM-class target from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and a ground-based interceptor from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. If successful, the “kill vehicle,” or intercept, will collide with the ICBM test target mid-course over the Pacific Ocean… This will be the 18th test of the ground-based interceptor. The last one, in June 2014, was the first success since 2008. The system is nine for 17 since 1999 with other types of target missiles. An ICBM target has never been tested before. The Associated Press created this graphic showing the location of the ICBM and the interceptor. The “kill vehicle” does not have a warhead but uses its high-speed impact to destroy the target.
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Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2017 18:42:29 GMT
Putin said he will hold a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump to talk him into resuming dialogue with Kim Jong-un, according to Song, a lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party. Touching on South Korea's staging of the U.S.-built Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, Putin reiterated Russia's opposition. "The THAAD system has limits in its effectiveness to fend against North Korea's long-range artillery. ... The problem of (North Korean nuclear and missile development) cannot be resolved by military responses only," Putin was also quoted as saying.
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2017 18:51:57 GMT
Revised US military options for North Korea have been prepared and are ready to be presented to President Donald Trump, two US military officials told CNN. The options, which include a military response, will be presented to the president if Pyongyang conducts an underground nuclear or ballistic missile test that indicates the regime has made significant progress towards developing a weapon that could attack the US, they said. US National Security Adviser HR McMaster also confirmed publicly Wednesday that military options had been prepared. "What we have to do is prepare all options because the President has made clear to us that he will not accept a nuclear power in North Korea and a threat that can target the United States and target the American population," McMaster said during remarks at a Washington think tank. "The threat is much more immediate now. We can't repeat the same failed approach of the past," McMaster said. "The President has directed us to not do that and to prepare a range of options, including a military option, which nobody wants to take."
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2017 18:20:46 GMT
North Korea claimed it test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday following a launch that drew condemnation from President Donald Trump and sharply raised the stakes in the standoff over the communist state’s nuclear weapons program. The missile test – the first in nearly a month – sent a powerful political message as it occurred on the eve of Independence Day in the United States and days after a U.S.-South Korean summit that focused on measures to stop the growing threat from the North. If confirmed it was an ICBM, the launch would mark the communist state’s most successful in a series of missile tests as it continues to make progress in its efforts to develop a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the U.S. mainland.
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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2017 18:35:03 GMT
RAW: North Korea launches ICBM (state TV footage)
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