This Guardian report says that North Korea would hit the United States with a “fire shower” of nukes if we attack first. But how far can NK deliver the 5-7 nukes that they’re currently suspected of having?
According to Wikipedia, it depends. If they’re using the short to medium range missiles, it’s probably going to be the Musudan, which has an operational range of 2500-4000 kilometers. The darker red circle shows the maximum range of this. Nowhere close to US territories, but China, Russia and Japan should probably keep an eye open.
However, if they’re going to use their Taepodong-2 long range three-stage missiles, there’s a MAXIMUM possibility of 10,000 kilometers (the larger circle). However, a more likely scenario is somewhere around 4500 kilometers, which still isn’t quite far enough to hit Alaska or Hawaii.
In the case that somehow it can reach the maximum 10,000 kilometers, it’s still not quite there to the west coast of the US, so I can take my diapers off and stop worrying. [Guardian]
Kim Yong Ill
June 26, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Silly Imperialist Pigs, you are using the wrong sort of map for your overlay. The distances are not taking into account the curvature of the earth. I should know, I am the master of mis-information.
Report PermalinkGerry Kregor
June 26, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Gee, not very hard to tell that map was made by someone in the US. Those missiles could reach most of three continents and about 70% of the World’s population and the only point highlighted on the map is Hawaii!
Report Permalinkbob
June 28, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Well Gerry
Maybe thats a heads up that the REST of the world ought to get up off their collective asses and stop expecting the US to do its dirty work.
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