Beijing’s defense scientists have made dangerous predictions about North Korea and America amidst the ongoing tension in America and China. The research team says that North Korea has such a powerful ballistic missile that it can wreak havoc on American soil in just 33 minutes. This warning of China has come to the fore at a time when military exercises are going on between the US and South Korea and North Korea has also threatened America with consequences. The ballistic missile that China’s defense team has talked about was recently released by North Korea near the Japan border. It is a nuclear weapon capable missile.
According to Chinese defense experts, the North Korean missile could reach Central America in 1,997 seconds, or about 33 minutes, if the US missile defense network fails to intercept it. According to an article published in the South China Morning Post, in this research, North Korea’s Hwasong-15 has been talked about, North Korea fired this missile for the first time in the year 2017.
The Chinese team, led by Tang Yuan of the Beijing Institute of Electronic Systems Engineering, said it is a two-stage, nuclear-capable missile with an effective range of 13,000 km (8,077 mi), which is “enough to hit the entire US soil”. ” Is.
Research published by Tang and colleagues on February 15 in the Chinese-language journal Modern Defense Technology claims that the Hwasong-15 missile originated from Sunch’on, a city in South Pyongan province in central North Korea. Its target is Colombia in the Central American state of Missouri.
According to the Chinese team, the US missile defense headquarters would receive the alert approximately 20 seconds later. The first batch of intercepting missiles will take off from Fort Greeley in Alaska within 11 minutes. If those fail, another wave of interceptors will be launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Although there has been no statement from the US on this research released by China’s Defense Ministry, this Chinese research has come at a time when South Korea and the US Army have shared maneuvers. On this maneuver, North Korea had also threatened America to face the consequences.
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