GAME CHANGER: North Korea’s Intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking Alaska

North Korea on Tuesday said it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), prompting US experts to say the device could reach Alaska.   The launch, which came as the United States prepared to mark its Independence Day, triggered a Twitter outburst from President Donald Trump who urged China to ‘put a heavy move’ on North Korea to ‘end this nonsense once and for all’. The North has long sought to build a rocket capable of delivering an atomic warhead

to the continental United States – something that Trump has vowed ‘won’t happen’, and launch marks a new phase in the country’s decades-long weapons program. In an announcement of the missile test, North Korean officials called the launch, which leader Kim Jong-un supervised, a ‘glistening miracle’.  The missile launch prompted control specialist Jeffrey Lewis to respond on Twitter:  READ MORE