{"id":5211,"date":"2017-07-04T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2017-07-04T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T09:16:28","slug":"north-korea-tests-ballistic-missile-capable-to-reach-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/north-korea-tests-ballistic-missile-capable-to-reach-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea tests ballistic missile capable to &#8216;reach Alaska&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Korea claims successful intercontinental ballistic missile test, defying international condemnation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea on Tuesday launched what appeared to be its longest-range ballistic missile yet, with experts suggesting it could reach Alaska.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a special television announcement, North Korean state media claimed the country had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, which, if confirmed, would be a major development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cunidentified ballistic missile\u201d was fired from a site in North Phyongan province, the South&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, and came down in the East Sea, the Korean name for the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">North Korea&#8217;s KCNA said that the missile was a Hwasong-14, which it described as an &#8220;almighty ICBM rocket,&#8221; launched at a steep trajectory, traveling 930 kilometers and reaching an altitude of 2,082 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ICBMs have a minimum range of around 5,500 kilometers and are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. For its part, South Korea did not rule out the possibility of the missile being an ICBM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The initial analysis by South Korean and the U.S. authorities is assuming that today&#8217;s provocation was of a mid-to-long range missile, but we are not ruling out the possibility of the missile being ICBM class,&#8221; South Korea&#8217;s President Moon Jae-In said, according to a press pool report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Pacific Command confirmed the test and said it was a land-based, intermediate range missile that flew for 37 minutes, adding the launch did not pose a threat to North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s an ICBM,\u201d responded arms control specialist Jeffrey Lewis on Twitter. \u201cAn ICBM that can hit Anchorage not San Francisco, but still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This\u00a0launch was the latest in a series of provocations that have ratcheted up tensions, and came days after Seoul&#8217;s new leader Moon Jae-In and Trump focused on risks from Pyongyang in their first summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea claims successful intercontinental ballistic missile test, defying international condemnation North Korea on Tuesday launched what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[137,6,31,96,113],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-asia","tag-defense","tag-missile","tag-north-korea","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NorthKorea-ICBM-4July2017.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1m3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}