Q&A: What do we know about North Korea’s missile capability?
By Anna Fifield
February 8 at 2:25 AM
North Korea said its Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite was successfully launched into orbit. (KCTV via EPA)
TOKYO – North Korea launched its sixth long-range rocket Sunday, claiming to have blasted an “earth observation satellite” into orbit. Military authorities in the United States and South Korea both said the launch appeared to have been successful.
But the rocket was widely viewed as part of North Korea’s long-range ballistic missile program, and the launch part of the regime’s efforts to perfect its technology.
With every launch it conducts, North Korea learns more about what it’s doing wrong and what it’s doing right. And that is alarming the international community.
What do we know about Sunday’s launch?
Details are still somewhat sketchy, but the thing that North Korea fired Sunday was a three-stage rocket, one that looked very similar to the “Unha-3” it launched in December 2012. It was successful then at putting a satellite the size of a refrigerator into (very wobbly) orbit. Sunday’s rocket appears to also have been successful in putting a satellite into orbit.
The Unha-3 (also known as the Taepodong-3) is a 100-foot-long rocket with an estimated range of about 6,300 miles. At its shortest point, the distance between North Korea and Alaska is 3,100 miles, while it’s 5,800 miles to Los Angeles. That means that the West Coast of the United States is within reach.
The wise folks at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies have made cool interactive 3-D models of North Korea’s missiles — check out the Unha-3 here.
Wait, did you just say that North Korea can now strike California?
READ MORE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/08/qa-what-do-we-know-about-north-koreas-missile-capability/
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