A declassified report sheds light on an incident in South Dakota involving a nuclear warhead 80 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
A declassified report sheds light on an incident in South Dakota involving a nuclear warhead 80 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
missile on sunday, which traveled more than 3500 miles above the earth, according to state media. prompting the sister of dictator kim jong-un to issued a statement saying that north korea now has, quote, satisfactory technology and capabilities for the re-entry of long range missiles back into earth s atmosphere. that was a capability that experts say the world was watching for. and there had been doubts about whether kim s ridging was able to perfected. regarding this new claim, could they really have perfected re-entry? there s some debate about that. but most experts excess that this is technology well within north korea s capabilities. and, any prudent defense planner has to assume that north korea has a reentry vehicle that could deliver a nuclear weapon to the united states. with the latest missile filing, kim jong-un has begun this year as aggressively as he ended last year, appeared when north korea launched more than 90 missiles. kim jong-un is trying to build up a ne
four missiles at each one those missiles if they come in. right now we have 44 we put in 2019 enough money to get 20 more. the whole intent was to get them off this icbm track, where president trump got in negotiation with them to say, knock it off, stop doing this. they ve still got a ways to go. they still haven t developed a good reentry vehicle. we know that pretty well from intelligence. you can get the missile going, but a reentry missile is hard. in the atmosphere, the heat takes over, the stability of the missile takes over. there s still a ways to go before they re fully developed. what needs to happen, charles, they need to pick up the phone and say, what are you doing, get off this, but there s been no communications. until they start talking to kim jong-un again, he ll keep doing it. when we talked to him, he stopped doing it. charles: it s even more desperate than normal, probably ravaged by covid-19, wouldn t