An intercontinental ballistic missile: North Korea’s “gift” to the US HANDOUT/EPA/REX/Shutterstock
The US celebrates Independence Day with a national anthem that describes the ārocketsā red glareā of a 19th-century battle. This year supplied the real thing: the test launch of what it described as a Fourth of July āgiftā to the US: an (ICBM) able to āstrike the US mainlandā¦ with large heavy nuclear warheadsā.
A missile from North Korea with the range of this weekās test, notes Joe Cirincione of nuclear think tank the Ploughshares Fund, could hit Singapore, Australia and Alaska, and…
