TRUTH@POINT BLANK RANGE...THE ANTI-JFK OLIGARCHY OF INSIDERS ARE STILL IN CHARGE AS A RULING CLASS, WORLD-WIDE.The right decision, move, policy, can always be foiled by the vicious evil wrongdoer and enemy if ever he has the power to do so, and he has the power of Monetary Fraud. So, don’t waste your time with the right decision until the invisible enemy is powerless to foil righteousness. There's no left, nor right. It's 1% of Insiders versus 99% of Outsiders.
ECONOMICAL+PANDEMICAL+DECLASS-ATTEMPTED COUP. THE BRITISH ROGUE EMPIRE STILL BREATHES IN THE SWAMP
Homicides In Baltimore Top 200, Expected To Break Record
==========================================
BLAME IT ON RUSSIA, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA.
THE US IS RIDDLED IN DEBTS, CRIMES, CORRUPTION, COUPS WORLD WIDE, AND THEY HAVE THE NERVE IN PREACHING TO OTHERS INSTEAD OF MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS.
A 23-year old man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a double shooting on Baltimore’s 1200 block of Greenmount Avenue topping the city’s 200th homicide. So far, 30 homicides have been reported for the month of July with the expectation of further acceleration into the latter summer months.
The Economist seems to think Baltimore “may see more than 400 murders this year”. This is based on their figures from Jan’17 through May’17 homicides extrapolated by summer seasonal trends. Nevertheless, this would indicate Baltimore is headed for a record breaking year in terms of homicide count.
Earlier this year, Baltimore’s mayor was basically begging the Federal Government for help as her city’s murder rate spiraled ‘out of control’. Per CBS Baltimore:
“I’m calling on all the assistance we can possibly get because I can’t imagine going into our summer months with our crime rate where it is today, what that’s going to look like by the end of the summer,” says Mayor Catherine Pugh. “Murder is out of control,” says Pugh. “We are looking for all the help that we can get,” she says.
Meanwhile, Baltimore’s public safety expert Rob Weinhold isn’t sure the Federal Government alone will solve Baltimore’s descent into chaos. Here’s what he had to say:
“I don’t think relying on federal resources is a new strategy at all, in fact, I think the devil is in the detail. You can talk about the FBI and that’s fine, but I’d actually like to see more emphasis on drug enforcement administration, ATF, and the Marshall service to get these folks who are wanted on warrants off the street,”
All eyes on Baltimore as per CBS: “Baltimore’s murder rate more than doubles Chicago’s, which has gained international attention for its violence”. Don’t be shocked if Trump’s next tweet on America’s inner cities targets Baltimore….
***********
Video emerges from Baltimore’s 200th homicide scene with anger in the streets.
THE ANGLOS WERE NEVER MEN ENOUGH TO STAND ON THEIR OWN FEET AND WITHOUT A HAND FROM THEIR KHAZARIAN ALLIES.
HOWEVER, THE TRUE AND REAL HELP MAY BE FROM N.KOREA WHO CAN OVERTHROW WASHINGTON DC AND ITS ACT OF 1871 AND FREE AMERICANS UNDER CONSTITUTIONAL RULE AND MONEY.
N KOREANS ALSO HAVE THE SAME DNA AS NATIVE AMERICANS AND THIS IS ALSO A NATIVE AMERICAN UPRISING IN THE MAKING.
Kim Jong Un: "The Entire US Territory Is Now Within Our ICBM Range"
===========N KOREA TO THE RESCUE OF AMERICANS===== THE ANGLOS WERE NEVER MEN ENOUGH TO STAND ON THEIR OWN FEET AND WITHOUT A HAND FROM THEIR KHAZARIAN ALLIES. HOWEVER, THE TRUE AND REAL HELP MAY BE FROM N.KOREA WHO CAN OVERTHROW WASHINGTON DC AND ITS ACT OF 1871 AND FREE AMERICANS UNDER CONSTITUTIONAL RULE AND MONEY. N KOREANS ALSO HAVE THE SAME DNA AS NATIVE AMERICANS AND THIS IS ALSO A NATIVE AMERICAN UPRISING IN THE MAKING. =================================
Tyler Durden's picture
by Tyler Durden
Jul 29, 2017 10:31 AM
Confirming a Friday report by David Wright, physicist and co-director of the UCS Global Security Program, that the newest North Korean ICBM - which on Friday night flew for 45 minutes, reaching an altitude of up to 3,725 kilometers and traveled just under 1,000 kilometers before landing in Japan waters - can strike half the major metro areas on the continental US, overnight North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un said that “we have demonstrated our ability to fire our intercontinental ballistic rocket at any time and place and that the entire U.S. territory is within our shooting range.”
Quoted by the Korean Central News Agency, he also expressed his “great satisfaction” with the ICBM test - the country's second after an earlier test on July 4 - which reaffirmed that the missile was able to deliver a “large-sized, heavy nuclear warhead" to the United States. The test was part of the "final verification" of the Hwasong-14 missile’s technical capabilities, including its maximum range.
As a reminder, Wright's calculations showed that the ICBM could have a range 10,400 km (6,500 miles), not taking into account the Earth’s rotation, which if added would increase the range of missiles fired eastward. And, calculating the range of the missile in the direction of some major US cities gives the approximate results in Table 1, which showed that Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago appear to be well within range of this missile, and that Boston and New York may be just within range while Washington, D.C. is just out of range.
Melissa Hanham, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, confirmed the findings saying that the test showed North Korea is now capable of hitting U.S. cities such as Denver or Chicago.
Also on Saturday, Kim said the test was a “serious warning” to the US, which has been “meaninglessly blowing its trumpet” in threatening Pyongyang.
In response, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that "as the principal economic enablers of North Korea’s nuclear weapon and ballistic missile development program, China and Russia bear unique and special responsibility for this growing threat to regional and global stability." He added that even as the US seeks a peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Tillerson said, “we will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea nor abandon our commitment to our allies and partners in the region.”
In a late Friday statement from the White House, Trump rejected North Korea's claims that its nuclear program is designed to prevent an attack by the U.S. or other, saying it had the “opposite effect.”
“By threatening the world, these weapons and tests further isolate North Korea, weaken its economy, and deprive its people,” Trump said.
China also responded to the launch, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang saying in a Saturday statement in the People’s Daily newspaper that Beijing also opposes North Korea’s launch and its violations of Security Council resolutions, while calling on all parties to show restraint.
As Reuters subsequently reproted, Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed “military response options” in a phone call with his South Korean counterpart, his spokesman said in an emailed statement that didn’t elaborate. While Trump hasn’t ruled out a military response, Dunford warned in June that an armed conflict with North Korea would leave the millions of residents in Seoul, South Korea’s capital, to face casualties “unlike anything we’ve seen in 60 or 70 years.” This month he told a security conference in Colorado that “what’s unimaginable to me” is allowing the capability for “a nuclear weapon to land in Denver, Colorado.”
Shortly after the North Korean launch, the US and South Korean militaries responded with their own display of military strength, firing live surface-to-surface missiles from rocket launchers, amid renewed tension on the peninsula. Videos posted by the South Korean Ministry of Defense showed the US-made Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, as well as its own Hyunmoo Missile II.
The missiles hit the East Sea on Saturday morning, where North Korea’s ballistic missile is believed to have landed, as part of a live-fire exercise to demonstrate its “precision firing ability,” the US 8th Army said. US Forces in Korea said two missiles were fired from the ATACMS along with two Hyunmoo system missiles. The ATACMS is a Lockheed Martin surface-to-surface missile, with a range of 160km that can be fired from a range of rocket launchers.
The South Korean ministry said it was responding “to provocations of North Korean ballistic missiles.” “The systems can be rapidly employed to provide deep-strike precision capability, enabling the ROK-U.S. Alliance to engage a full array of time-critical targets under all weather conditions,” the 8th Army said on Facebook.
South Korea also said it would deploy four additional THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense] anti-missile launchers after North Korea’s test. The THAAD deployment had been delayed after South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered an environmental assessment. Meanwhile, China on Saturday said it had grave concerns about the possibility of more Thaad launchers in South Korea. It called on the U.S. and South Korea to stop the deployment, saying the launchers hurt the strategic balance in the region.
Kim Jong Un: "The Entire US Territory Is Now Within Our ICBM Range"
===========N KOREA TO THE RESCUE OF AMERICANS===== THE ANGLOS WERE NEVER MEN ENOUGH TO STAND ON THEIR OWN FEET AND WITHOUT A HAND FROM THEIR KHAZARIAN ALLIES. HOWEVER, THE TRUE AND REAL HELP MAY BE FROM N.KOREA WHO CAN OVERTHROW WASHINGTON DC AND ITS ACT OF 1871 AND FREE AMERICANS UNDER CONSTITUTIONAL RULE AND MONEY. N KOREANS ALSO HAVE THE SAME DNA AS NATIVE AMERICANS AND THIS IS ALSO A NATIVE AMERICAN UPRISING IN THE MAKING. =================================
Tyler Durden's picture by Tyler Durden
Jul 29, 2017 10:31 AM
Confirming a Friday report by David Wright, physicist and co-director of the UCS Global Security Program, that the newest North Korean ICBM - which on Friday night flew for 45 minutes, reaching an altitude of up to 3,725 kilometers and traveled just under 1,000 kilometers before landing in Japan waters - can strike half the major metro areas on the continental US, overnight North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un said that “we have demonstrated our ability to fire our intercontinental ballistic rocket at any time and place and that the entire U.S. territory is within our shooting range.”
Quoted by the Korean Central News Agency, he also expressed his “great satisfaction” with the ICBM test - the country's second after an earlier test on July 4 - which reaffirmed that the missile was able to deliver a “large-sized, heavy nuclear warhead" to the United States. The test was part of the "final verification" of the Hwasong-14 missile’s technical capabilities, including its maximum range.
As a reminder, Wright's calculations showed that the ICBM could have a range 10,400 km (6,500 miles), not taking into account the Earth’s rotation, which if added would increase the range of missiles fired eastward. And, calculating the range of the missile in the direction of some major US cities gives the approximate results in Table 1, which showed that Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago appear to be well within range of this missile, and that Boston and New York may be just within range while Washington, D.C. is just out of range.
Melissa Hanham, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, confirmed the findings saying that the test showed North Korea is now capable of hitting U.S. cities such as Denver or Chicago.
Also on Saturday, Kim said the test was a “serious warning” to the US, which has been “meaninglessly blowing its trumpet” in threatening Pyongyang.
In response, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that "as the principal economic enablers of North Korea’s nuclear weapon and ballistic missile development program, China and Russia bear unique and special responsibility for this growing threat to regional and global stability." He added that even as the US seeks a peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Tillerson said, “we will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea nor abandon our commitment to our allies and partners in the region.”
In a late Friday statement from the White House, Trump rejected North Korea's claims that its nuclear program is designed to prevent an attack by the U.S. or other, saying it had the “opposite effect.”
“By threatening the world, these weapons and tests further isolate North Korea, weaken its economy, and deprive its people,” Trump said.
China also responded to the launch, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang saying in a Saturday statement in the People’s Daily newspaper that Beijing also opposes North Korea’s launch and its violations of Security Council resolutions, while calling on all parties to show restraint.
As Reuters subsequently reproted, Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed “military response options” in a phone call with his South Korean counterpart, his spokesman said in an emailed statement that didn’t elaborate. While Trump hasn’t ruled out a military response, Dunford warned in June that an armed conflict with North Korea would leave the millions of residents in Seoul, South Korea’s capital, to face casualties “unlike anything we’ve seen in 60 or 70 years.” This month he told a security conference in Colorado that “what’s unimaginable to me” is allowing the capability for “a nuclear weapon to land in Denver, Colorado.”
Shortly after the North Korean launch, the US and South Korean militaries responded with their own display of military strength, firing live surface-to-surface missiles from rocket launchers, amid renewed tension on the peninsula. Videos posted by the South Korean Ministry of Defense showed the US-made Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, as well as its own Hyunmoo Missile II.
The missiles hit the East Sea on Saturday morning, where North Korea’s ballistic missile is believed to have landed, as part of a live-fire exercise to demonstrate its “precision firing ability,” the US 8th Army said. US Forces in Korea said two missiles were fired from the ATACMS along with two Hyunmoo system missiles. The ATACMS is a Lockheed Martin surface-to-surface missile, with a range of 160km that can be fired from a range of rocket launchers.
The South Korean ministry said it was responding “to provocations of North Korean ballistic missiles.” “The systems can be rapidly employed to provide deep-strike precision capability, enabling the ROK-U.S. Alliance to engage a full array of time-critical targets under all weather conditions,” the 8th Army said on Facebook.
South Korea also said it would deploy four additional THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense] anti-missile launchers after North Korea’s test. The THAAD deployment had been delayed after South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered an environmental assessment. Meanwhile, China on Saturday said it had grave concerns about the possibility of more Thaad launchers in South Korea. It called on the U.S. and South Korea to stop the deployment, saying the launchers hurt the strategic balance in the region.
Winning: U.S. Crushes All Other Countries In Latest Obesity Study
=====================================
1. THE US UNDER ALL ROUND COLLAPSE PREACHES DEMOCRACY FOR LAND GRABBING.
2.. PREACHES IMITATION CAPITALISM FOR CURRENCY MANIPULATION.
3. PREACHES CULTULAL HOOLIGANISM IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM.
4. PREACHES HEALTH WHEN OBESITY IS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER.
5. PREACHES REGIME CHANGE TO OTHERS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES ARE SLAVES OF THE ACT OF 1871 AND CENTRALIZED BANKING.
=====================================
Tyler Durden's picture
by Tyler Durden
Jul 26, 2017 9:25 PM
When President Trump promised last fall that under a Trump administration America would "would win so much you'll get tired of winning," we suspect this is not what he had in mind. According to the latest international obesity study from the Organization For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), America is by far the fattest nation in the world with just over 38% of the adult population considered 'obese.'
Here are some stats from the OECD's latest study courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
- In 2015, an estimated 603.7 million adults and 107.7 million children worldwide were obese. That represents about 12 percent of all adults and 5 percent of all children.
- The prevalence of obesity doubled in 73 countries between 1980 and 2015 and continuously increased in most of the other countries.
- China and India had the highest number of obese children. China and the U.S. had the highest number of obese adults.
- Excess body weight accounted for about 4 million deaths — or 7.1 percent of all deaths — in 2015.
- Almost 70 percent of deaths related to a high BMI were due to cardiovascular disease.
- The study finds evidence that having a high BMI causes leukemia and several types of cancer, including cancers of the esophagus, liver, breast, uterus, ovary, kidney and thyroid.
- In rich and poor countries, obesity rates increased, indicating "the problem is not simply a function of income or wealth. Changes in the food environment and food systems are probably major drivers. Increased availability, accessibility, and affordability of energy-dense foods, along with intense marketing of such foods, could explain excess energy intake and weight gain among different populations. The reduced opportunities for physical activity that have followed urbanization and other changes in the built environment have also been considered as potential drivers; however, these changes generally preceded the global increase in obesity and are less likely to be major contributors."
Of course, obesity in the "fast food nation" is hardly a new epidemic though the rate of change is fairly staggering.
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama's crusade against childhood obesity didn't seem to work all that well...
But that "Turn-ip for what?" video was so clever...shocking it was ineffective.
Finally, for all of you who will undoubtedly sign up for a brand new gym membership as part of your New Years resolution to shed the extra pounds in 2018...you might as well just give up now because the OECD predicts we're all just going to get much fatter over the next 15 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgeWu2XGjvE: U.S. Crushes All Other Countries In Latest Obesity Study
=====================================
1. THE US UNDER ALL ROUND COLLAPSE PREACHES DEMOCRACY FOR LAND GRABBING.
2.. PREACHES IMITATION CAPITALISM FOR CURRENCY MANIPULATION.
3. PREACHES CULTULAL HOOLIGANISM IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM.
4. PREACHES HEALTH WHEN OBESITY IS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER.
5. PREACHES REGIME CHANGE TO OTHERS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES ARE SLAVES OF THE ACT OF 1871 AND CENTRALIZED BANKING.
=====================================
Tyler Durden's picture
by Tyler Durden
Jul 26, 2017 9:25 PM
When President Trump promised last fall that under a Trump administration America would "would win so much you'll get tired of winning," we suspect this is not what he had in mind. According to the latest international obesity study from the Organization For Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), America is by far the fattest nation in the world with just over 38% of the adult population considered 'obese.'
Here are some stats from the OECD's latest study courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
- In 2015, an estimated 603.7 million adults and 107.7 million children worldwide were obese. That represents about 12 percent of all adults and 5 percent of all children.
- The prevalence of obesity doubled in 73 countries between 1980 and 2015 and continuously increased in most of the other countries.
- China and India had the highest number of obese children. China and the U.S. had the highest number of obese adults.
- Excess body weight accounted for about 4 million deaths — or 7.1 percent of all deaths — in 2015.
- Almost 70 percent of deaths related to a high BMI were due to cardiovascular disease.
- The study finds evidence that having a high BMI causes leukemia and several types of cancer, including cancers of the esophagus, liver, breast, uterus, ovary, kidney and thyroid.
- In rich and poor countries, obesity rates increased, indicating "the problem is not simply a function of income or wealth. Changes in the food environment and food systems are probably major drivers. Increased availability, accessibility, and affordability of energy-dense foods, along with intense marketing of such foods, could explain excess energy intake and weight gain among different populations. The reduced opportunities for physical activity that have followed urbanization and other changes in the built environment have also been considered as potential drivers; however, these changes generally preceded the global increase in obesity and are less likely to be major contributors."
Of course, obesity in the "fast food nation" is hardly a new epidemic though the rate of change is fairly staggering.
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama's crusade against childhood obesity didn't seem to work all that well...
But that "Turn-ip for what?" video was so clever...shocking it was ineffective.
Finally, for all of you who will undoubtedly sign up for a brand new gym membership as part of your New Years resolution to shed the extra pounds in 2018...you might as well just give up now because the OECD predicts we're all just going to get much fatter over the next 15 years.
What they,
the undercover journalists, are not
telling:
1. N.Korea is the worlds fastest growing economy at a rate
of 9%.
2. Salaries
have increased between 250% to 1200% over the last 10-years under Kim Jong and
the N.Koreans Love him. So your press
owners use their undercover journalists to make you hate him, since they own
the press.
3. N.Koreas technology is second to none.
4. N.Korea is rich in gold and minerals.
5. North
Korea is debt free and generates growth and jobs.
6. The US,
EU, Japan, China and S.Korea are debt ridden. Will never generate jobs nor
growth.
Sorry
you hate the successful because you have failed.
DUE TO DELAY IN WEATHER CONDITIONS, NORTH KOREA LAUNCHES ITS FIRST INCONTINENTAL MISSILE WITH A 5000-MILE RANGE. PRODUCTION AND FURTHER DEVELOPEMENT IS A ROUND THE CLOCK ACTIVITY. NUCLEAR TESTS WILL BE A NATURAL SUBSEQUENCE.
============================================ WORLD NEWS | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 8:53am EDT
North Korea appeared to use China truck in its first claimed ICBM test
The intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 is seen in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July, 4 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
The intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 is seen in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July, 4 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
By James Pearson and Jack Kim | SEOUL
North Korea appeared to use a Chinese truck originally sold for hauling timber to transport and erect a ballistic missile that was successfully launched on Tuesday, highlighting the challenge of enforcing sanctions to curb its weapons program.
North Korea state television showed a large truck painted in military camouflage carrying the missile. It was identical to one a U.N. sanctions panel has said was "most likely" converted from a Chinese timber truck.
Since 2006, U.N. sanctions have banned the shipment of military hardware to North Korea. But control of equipment and vehicles that have "dual-use" military and civilian applications has been far less stringent.
The vehicle was imported from China and declared for civilian use by the North Korean foreign ministry, according to a 2013 report by the U.N. panel. Tuesday's launch was the first time the truck had been seen in a military field operation in pictures published in state media.
China, North Korea's largest trading partner and its sole major ally, is under increasing pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said Chinese efforts to rein in North Korea's weapons programs have failed.
The truck had been previously on display at military parades in 2012 and in 2013 carrying what experts said appeared to be developmental models or mock-ups of North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Images on the North Korea's state television showed soldiers working on the vehicle mounted with a missile, which was then erected and off-loaded ahead of the launch at a hillside location. Leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test.
The transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) is a vehicle designed to move a ballistic missile and stand it upright, allowing for a mobile system that makes surveillance difficult for spy satellites.
In its 2013 report, the U.N. panel of experts said the features of the vehicle in the 2012 parade exactly matched those of a vehicle sold by China's Hubei Sanjiang Space Wanshan Special Vehicle Company.
DELIBERATE BREACH?
The company is a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a state-owned company that makes the Shenzhou rocket as well as missiles.
A company manager reached by telephone declined to comment citing the sensitivity of the issue.
China submitted to the U.N. panel a copy of the end user certificate provided by the North stating that six of the vehicles were being imported for the purpose of transporting timber.
The panel said it "considers it most likely that the (North) deliberately breached" the certificate and converted the trucks into transporter-erector-launchers.
RELATED COVERAGE
Russia calls North Korea missile launch breach of U.N. resolution
This year, North Korea used another Chinese-made truck model to tow submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) at a military parade on the 105th anniversary of the birth of state founder Kim Il Sung.
Last year, state media published photos showing Chinese-made trucks being used in a new North Korean mobile rocket artillery system.
Both vehicles showed the logo or had markings specific to the Chinese company Sinotruk.
A Sinotruk sales official said in April he was not aware the company's trucks were used in the military parade.
North Korean state media has in the past released images of Sinotruk chassis and cabins related to construction or mining.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, after the launch, it was opposed to North Korea contravening rules laid out in U.N. Security council resolutions. China was working hard to resolve the issue and urged all sides to meet each other half way, it added.
(Writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Bill Tarrant)
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
NEXT IN WORLD NEWS============================== ===================================== North Korea Launches Its First Ever ICBM, "Can Reach Alaska"
Tyler Durden's picture
by Tyler Durden
Jul 4, 2017 7:35 AM
15
SHARES
TwitterFacebookReddit
There was something different - and symbolic - about last night's North Korean ballistic missile launch which not coincidentally took place on US Independence Day, because shortly after the event, North Korea announced it would have an important announcement to make. This time it did not disappoint, when the country declared that it had successfully tested its first intermediate-range intercontinental ballistic missile which flew for a record time/altitude for the rogue state, and is seen as a "watershed moment" in its push to develop a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the mainland United States.
North Korea, it said, was now "a full-fledged nuclear power that has been possessed of the most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket capable of hitting any part of the world". The ICBM would enable the country to "put an end to the US nuclear war threat and blackmail" and defend the Korean peninsula, it added.
In a statement the North's Academy of Defence Science, which developed the missile, said it reached an altitude of 2,802 kilometres and flew 933 kilometres, calling it the "final gate to rounding off the state nuclear force".
There are still doubts whether the North can miniaturise a nuclear weapon sufficiently to fit it onto a missile nose cone, or if it has mastered the technology needed for it to survive the difficult re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
As Citi said, "the move is highly provocative and it is difficult to imagine that the date chosen was in any way coincidental (NK did the same in 2006 and 2009)... the enormity of this latest crisis is, as yet, difficult to gauge."
North Korean state TV released photos of the purported ICBM test launch
Speaking to AFP, US experts said the device could reach Alaska, while the July 4 launch triggered a late evening Twitter outburst from President Trump who urged China to act to "end this nonsense once and for all" and asked on Twitter: "does this guy have anything better to do with his life?"
State TV said the launch was overseen by leader Kim Jong-un
David Wright, a physicist with the US-based Union of Concerned Scientists, told the BBC that if the reports are correct, this missile could "reach a maximum range of roughly 6,700km on a standard trajectory". That range would allow it to reach Alaska, but not the large islands of Hawaii or the other 48 US states, he says. It is not just a missile that North Korea would need, our correspondent adds. It must also have the ability to protect a warhead as it re-enters the atmosphere, and it is not clear if North Korea can do that.
More importantly, the North's possession of a working ICBM, something that Trump has vowed "won't happen", will likely force a fundamental recalculation of the strategic threat posed by the isolated, impoverished state, and prompted an early selloff in South Korean assets. It will likely require more than just a verbal response from the White House.
The "landmark" test of a Hwasong-14 missile was overseen by leader Kim Jong-Un, an emotional female announcer said on state Korean Central Television. The rocket was "a very powerful ICBM that can strike any place in the world", the announcer said, and "a major breakthrough in the history of our republic".
The broadcaster showed his handwritten order to carry out the launch, and pictures of him looking on with binoculars, then grinning in celebration and clenching his fist.
While Pyongyang appears to have made progress, experts believe North Korea does not have the capability to accurately hit a target with an ICBM. Other nuclear powers have also cast doubt on North Korea's assessment, with Russia saying the missile only reached an altitude of 535km and flew about 510km. Nonetheless, the country has made great progress in its missile capabilities since the ascension to power of Kim, who has overseen three nuclear tests and multiple rocket launches.
The United Nations has imposed multiple sets of sanctions on Pyongyang, which retorts that it needs nuclear arms to defend itself against the threat of invasion.
* * *
US Pacific Command confirmed the test and said it was a land-based, intermediate range missile that flew for 37 minutes before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, adding the launch did not pose a threat to North America, while Moscow's defence ministry called it medium-range in a statement to Russian news agencies.
But Tokyo - in whose exclusive economic zone it came down - estimated its maximum altitude to have "greatly exceeded" 2,500 kilometres, prompting arms control specialist Jeffrey Lewis to respond on Twitter: "That's it. It's an ICBM. An ICBM that can hit Anchorage not San Francisco, but still." Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters: "This launch clearly shows that the threat has grown."
The US, Japan and South Korea will hold a summit on the issue on the sidelines of this week's G20 meeting, he added. "Also I will encourage President Xi Jinping and President Putin to take more constructive measures."
South Korea's President Moon Jae-In, who backs both engagement with the North to bring it to the negotiating table and sanctions, and met Trump for a summit in Washington at the weekend, warned the North against crossing a "red line". "I hope North Korea will not cross the bridge of no return," he said.
* * *
All eyes are now on whether the US will retaliate: Washington has more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to defend it from its communist neighbour. Fears of conflict reached a peak earlier this year as the Trump administration suggested military action was an option under consideration. There has also been anger in the United States over the death of Otto Warmbier, an American student detained in North Korea for around 18 months before he was returned home in a coma in June.
Trump has been pinning his hopes on China, North Korea's main diplomatic ally, to bring pressure to bear on Pyongyang, And while recently Trump declared that Beijing's efforts had failed, but returned to the idea on Twitter following the launch: "Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"
Meanwhile, Beijing called all parties to "keep calm and exercise restraint" following the latest test. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China was opposed to North Korea going against clear UN Security Council resolutions on its missile launches, and hit back at Trump, saying it had made "relentless efforts" on North Korea.
WASHINGTON DC,A KHAZARIAN
HIDEOUT!THE DEEP STATE REGIME CHANGE IN THE US AND THE RETURN OF CONSTITUTIONAL
MONEY & RULE IS IMPERATIVE, AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE!A MERE 1-MILE BY 400-FT (177/2-KM) TERRITORY
OF WASHINGTON DC CONTROLS MOST OF THIS CONFINED WORLD
