December 24, 2010
SouthAmerica: It would be a piece of cake for North Korea to attack Tokyo with 5 or 6 nuclear warheads.
Kim Yong-chun, quoted by state news agency KCNA, said the North was "getting fully prepared to launch a sacred war of justice", and also threatened to use a "nuclear deterrent".
Belligerent rethoric grows between North and South Korea
December 23, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugjnFaWJcY0&feature=player_embedded
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Distance from Pyongyang to Tokyo = Distance is 1288 kilometers or 801 miles or 696 nautical miles
Distance from Seoul to Tokyo = Distance is 1153 kilometers or 716 miles or 622 nautical miles
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North Korea Might Hold Nuke-Capable Missile, Report Says
Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010
A new research report indicates that North Korea might have developed an medium-range ballistic missile that could be loaded with a nuclear warhead, the Yonhap News Agency reported today (see GSN, Oct. 13).
The BM-25 Musudan missile could seemingly be tipped with a warhead as heavy as 1.2 tons and has a "circular error probability" for accuracy estimated at about one mile, according to senior researcher Han Sang-soon of South Korea's Defense Agency for Technology and Quality.
"That means it can carry a nuclear warhead," Han stated in a report released widely today.
The Musudan was rolled out publicly during an October military parade, though it was reportedly seen earlier in a 2007 event that was not open to international media.
Analysts have to date expressed doubt regarding the North's ability to prepare a nuclear warhead small enough to fit onto a missile.
There are also conflicting reports regarding the Musudan.
The Yonhap report said the missile, derived from the former Soviet R-27, has a flight range of nearly 2,500 miles and that roughly 50 had been fielded by 2009.
Analyst Joshua Pollack said in an October blog posting that the missile was believed to be able to fly roughly 1,865 miles; a South Korean newspaper article from that month indicated that 12 Musudans had been deployed (Yonhap News Agency, Dec. 23).
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20101223_8212.php
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