Kim missile ‘can target’ San Diego

Seoul – North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)is “likely” to be able to deliver a 500kg warhead to San Diego within two years, a US monitoring group said yesterday, after its launch sparked global alarm last week.

The isolated, nuclear-armed state’s first successful ICBM test was described by leader Kim Jong-Un as a gift to “American bastards”.

The Hwasong-14 missile is currently estimated to have a range of 7 000km to 8 000km – enough to reach Alaska or Hawaii – aerospace engineer John Schilling wrote on the respected 38 North website, a monitoring project.