{"id":73975,"date":"2017-11-28T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/north-korea-missile-launch-regime-says-new-type-can-hit-anywhere-in-us"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:35","slug":"north-korea-missile-launch-regime-says-new-type-can-hit-anywhere-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/north-korea-missile-launch-regime-says-new-type-can-hit-anywhere-in-us","title":{"rendered":"North Korea missile launch: regime says new type can hit anywhere in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-missile-launch-regime-says-new-type-can-hit-anywhere-in-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" class=\"\">North Korea<\/a> has claimed that the rocket it test-fired on Wednesday morning is a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] that can strike anywhere on the United States mainland.<\/p>\n<p>In a special announcement broadcast on state TV, the regime said it had successfully tested a Hwasong-15, which appears to be an advanced version of ICBMs it launched in July.<\/p>\n<p>The claim has not been independently verified, but experts had been expecting North Korea to demonstrate that it now has all of the US in range \u2013 a development that significantly strengthens its position in any negotiations with Washington over its nuclear weapons programme.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/28\/north-korea-has-fired-ballistic-missile-say-reports-in-south-korea?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/28\/north-korea-ha...SApp_Other<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has claimed that the rocket it test-fired on Wednesday morning is a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] that can strike anywhere on the United States mainland. In a special announcement broadcast on state TV, the regime said it had successfully tested a Hwasong-15, which appears to be an advanced version of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74081,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73975\/revisions\/74081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}