North Korean missile test

A video has recently surfaced on YouTube which shows Donald Trump being interviewed by the late Tim Russert of NBC back in 1999.
In the interview, Russert asks Trump about North Korea’s weapons programs. Trump then lays out the very crisis scenario now transpiring between the US and North Korea, and how he would deal with it, were he president.
Like many interviews with Trump on political issues over the years, it reveals a remarkable consistency in the man’s thinking and positions over the decades – a far cry from the MSM caricature of Trump as flip flopping and reckless.

On Tuesday the US and South Korea held a joint military exercise which included firing ATACMS missiles into the Sea of Japan.
Washington and Seoul called it a response to the launch of what the North Korean government claims to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.
They launched an “ATA…what?” you may ask.
In full, it’s the “Army Tactical Missile System,” and can deliver a 500 lbs (225 kilo) warhead up to 180 miles (290 km).

Both the US and Russia say that the Hwasong-14 missile which was launched today is of intermediate range, and is not as North Korea claims an intercontinental ballistic missile (“ICBM”).  It seems that whilst the missile can cover all of Alaska it does not have the range to reach the rest of the continental United States.