North Korea Is About To Give Trump The Nuclear Arms Race He's Lusting After

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7. The North Korean nuclear threat is looming larger.

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-nuclear-threat-growing-2016-12

Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow of Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA deputy division chief for Korea, says the North Korean threat isn't four years away — it's nearly here.
"After the December 2012 launch, the South Korean navy dredged up off the ocean floor the stages of the North Korean missile," Klingner said. "South Korean and US officials assessed the missile had a 10,000-kilometer range, which covers a large part of the US."

Fast forward to this year, on February 7, a month after North Korea's purported hydrogen-bomb test, the rogue regime fired a long-range rocket it claimed was carrying a satellite for its space program.

The launch, which was largely viewed as a front for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile, was not only successful but also showcased the North's technological advancements.

"After the February 2016 launch, experts assessed it could have a range of 13,000 km, covering the entire US," Klingner said, which makes the Seattle range estimate "outdated," Klingner added.

According to Klingner, even the rocket with a range of 10,000 km would compromise approximately 120 million people in the US.