Where Could North Korea's Missiles Strike?

A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency shows the test fire of a new weapon at an undisclosed location in North Korea in August 2019 [File: KCNA/EPA-EFE]

Al Jazeera: Project Force: Where could North Korea's missiles strike?

North Korea has long wanted to develop long-range missiles that could reach the US. Now it may have achieved that.

For years, North Korea has been working steadily to build missiles with sufficient range to strike at its potential enemies, no matter how far afield. For a long time, it has been producing missiles with the range to hit its regional neighbours, but what it really wants is to develop some which can strike as far away as the United States. Now, it may have done exactly that - at least in theory.

Why missiles and not, say, aircraft? Missiles have some unique advantages. The first is speed, the second is they are very hard to stop. Ballistic missiles fly in a parabolic arc towards their targets, leaving and then re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at several times the speed of sound. This makes them very difficult to intercept. They can deliver a large warhead with reasonable accuracy very quickly and with a high chance of getting through an enemy's defences. The longest-range missiles would take about 30 minutes to strike a target halfway around the world.

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