North Korea: Long-Range Rocket Could Hit U.S. - Physicists

July 1, 2009

MIT professor Theodore Postol and David Wright, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the long-range rocket North Korea launched in April could be converted into a ballistic missile with a range of 6,200 to 6,500 miles, allowing it to reach Alaska, Hawaii, and half of the lower 48 states with a payload of 1 ton or more, Yonhap reported July 1, citing an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The physicists also compared the design of the North Korean rocket and designs developed by China, Russia and Iran, and concluded that “it’s extremely unlikely that these technologies were indigenously produced by North Korea.”

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