Kim rocket ‘could hit Chicago’
A ROCKET fired by North Korea yesterday could have reached Denver or Chicago, said US experts.
The intercontinental ballistic missile landed in the sea 88 miles off Japan. North Korean officials claimed it hit an altitude of about 1,865 miles – 124 miles higher than one launched earlier this month.
But US experts say the range would have been much more, had it been launched on a normal trajectory. They said the missile could have reached Denver and perhaps Chicago. It was the 14th ICBM tested this year by the rogue state led by dictator Kim Jong-un.
Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said: “We remain prepared to defend ourselves.”
The launch follows a threat from North Korea to “annihilate” America, days after top US general Mark Milley said: “North Korea is more dangerous as weeks go by.”
The big fear is Jong-un will build a nuke small enough to fit a missile.