Aloha: North Korea Announces Detailed Missile Flight Plan
Aloha: North Korea Announces Detailed Missile Flight Plan
In a transparent ploy to legitimize their upcoming "space launch," the North Koreans submitted plans of their ballistic missile launch to UN aviation and maritime agencies yesterday. More details emerge today as the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization releases its warning to aviators: Digging further, I found the ICAO news release (PDF) which includes the coordinates of the two danger areas where the North Korean missile will drop its booster stages and created this map: http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/imgcache/12023.png Connecting the dots between the launch site (orange triangle) and the two danger zones where the two stages will splash (red triangles), we can see where the missle could head --- again, according to the North Koreans themselves:
UPDATE: Welcome, Jules Crittenden, LGF and Campaign Spot readers. Could it actually reach Hawaii? Who knows ... but the North Koreans did recently test an ICBM engine that would put California in reach. Whether that engine will power this missile is unknown. |
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