{"id":28390,"date":"2017-11-29T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28390"},"modified":"2017-11-29T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T11:57:41","slug":"north-korea-says-completed-state-nuclear-program-warns-the-whole-us-is-in-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28390","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Says &#8220;Completed State Nuclear Program&#8221;; Warns &#8220;The Whole US Is In Range&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-28\/north-korea-make-important-announcement-1030pm-et\">North Korea Says &#8220;Completed State Nuclear Program&#8221;; Warns &#8220;The Whole US Is In Range&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"messages-holder\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-608140\">\n<div class=\"sub-title-box\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.yonhapnews.co.kr\/news\/2017\/11\/29\/0200000000AEN20171129009400315.html\">North Korea claims<\/a> its <em><strong>&#8220;new ICBM can put whole U.S. mainland within range<\/strong>,&#8221;<\/em> says it has <strong><em>&#8220;realized great historic cause of completing state nuclear force&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>Following the successful test-firing of its<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-28\/it-can-reach-washington-dc-latest-north-korean-icbm-can-hit-all-continental-us\"> longest range ICBM yet today<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yonhapnews.co.kr\/\">Yonhap News reports<\/a>, citing North Korean media, that <strong>North Korea will make an important announcement at noon Seoul time (10:30pm ET).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presumably, Kim&#8217;s comments will be a braggadocio reaction to President Trump and General Mattis&#8217; comments (begins around 6:30):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mattis warned &#8220;[North Korea] R&amp;D is accelerating and they now appear to have the capability to launch an ICBM attack on anywhere in the world&#8221;<\/strong> to which<strong> Trump replied &#8220;we will take care of it&#8230; it is a situation we will handle.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid843835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNDtsvRlWWg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump then tweeted later this evening: &#8220;After North Korea missile launch, it&#8217;s more important than ever to fund our gov&#8217;t &amp; military! &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea1_0.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yonhapnews.co.kr\/politics\/2017\/11\/29\/0505000000AKR20171129112500014.HTML?template=2085\">North Korea announces that it<\/a><strong> \u201csuccessfully\u201d fired a new Hwasong-15 missile with improved technology,<\/strong> according to an announcement read on state-run television on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea3_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kim gave the order to test fire the missile, state-run Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAfter watching the successful launch of the new type ICBM Hwasong-15, Kim Jong Un declared with pride that now we have finally realized the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force, the cause of building a rocket power,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The new missile &#8220;brings the whole US mainland within North Korea&#8217;s range.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea4.jpg\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/11\/28\/20171128_korea4_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-28\/it-can-reach-washington-dc-latest-north-korean-icbm-can-hit-all-continental-us\">None of which is news as we already reported these details.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the most notable claims is that <strong>North Korea says it has &#8220;realized great historic cause of completing state nuclear force&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea Says &#8220;Completed State Nuclear Program&#8221;; Warns &#8220;The Whole US Is In Range&#8221; North Korea claims its &#8220;new ICBM can put whole U.S. mainland within range,&#8221; says it has &#8220;realized great historic cause of completing state nuclear force&#8221; *\u00a0 *\u00a0 * Following the successful test-firing of its longest range ICBM yet today, Yonhap News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7844,414,8312,2006,827,4318],"class_list":["post-28390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-icbm","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28391,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions\/28391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}