{"id":89362,"date":"2013-11-06T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/n-korea-missile-hitting-us-alerts-officials\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:26:26","slug":"n-korea-missile-hitting-us-alerts-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/n-korea-missile-hitting-us-alerts-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"N Korea missile hitting US alerts officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>North Korea displayed what it said was the new KN-08 missile during a military parade in April 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The commander of the US Pacific Command says the United States is prepared to counter North Korea&#65533;&trade;s intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit his country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether they [ballistic missiles] are real or not, or whether they have the capability or not, North Korean regime wants us to think they do and so we plan for that,&#8221; Adm. Samuel Locklear said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea unveiled its road mobile KN-08 missile during a military parade in Pyongyang in April 2012. However, some experts believe they are not real missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The KN-08 missile is capable of hitting the United States as it can reach about 6,000 miles, which puts Los Angeles in range.<\/p>\n<p>Markus Schiller, an expert in the North Korean military, said that it was &#8220;totally impossible&#8221; for the KN-08 to be operational without tests.<\/p>\n<p>However, another analysis by the Johns Hopkins University&#8217;s US-Korea Institute said the missiles could be real.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elegant or not,&#8221; those missiles in the parade show an ability to assemble components and technologies to produce missiles with theoretical ranges of 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles) to more than 11,000 km.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost all of the configurations examined would be able to deliver a light, first-generation nuclear warhead at least as far as Seattle,&#8221; according to the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-meter-long KN-08 can be readied for a launch in a short time and fired from various sites via a movable pad, making a preemptive strike difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and North Korea have been at loggerheads for decades. The tensions mounted over Pyongyang&#65533;&trade;s missile tests during the past months.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts believe that the Obama administration is escalating tensions on the peninsula to step up its military role in the region and encircle China.<\/p>\n<p>AGB\/HJ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/11\/06\/333302\/north-korea-missile-hitting-america-alerts-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"N Korea missile hitting US alerts officials\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea displayed what it said was the new KN-08 missile during a military parade in April 2012. The commander of the US Pacific Command says the United States is prepared to counter North Korea&#65533;&trade;s intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit his country. &#8220;Whether they [ballistic missiles] are real or not, or whether they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}