North Korean Missiles Aimed at US?

Recently, North Korea made another bold display of its military might by launching a 'cutting-edge' anti-ship missile on the nation's east coast. The launch happened just as the United States held the last day of joint military exercises in South Korea. As expected, the North Korean's statement caused further tension with the West, especially with their neighbors in the south. This news got people asking: Are there any North Korean Missiles aimed at US territory?

Pyongyang call launches like these 'a rehearsal for invasion'. The most recent one, which Kim Jong Un himself participated in, featured new cruise missiles capable of traversing through 'dozens of kilometers'. South Korean experts note that they might be SA-2s, SA-3s, or SA-5s. While the North's leader boasts that the missiles are developed in North Korea, many suggest that they look eerily like Russian Kh-35E anti-ship cruise missiles.

Experts also suggest that the North Koreans are developing missiles with a much longer range, capable of flying as far as Alaska. Nevertheless, many question the ability of any projectile armament to carry such a heavy payload across a vast distance.

As this threat of North Korean Missiles aimed at US soil escalates, the Pentagon has urged Pyongyang to stop provocative actions that serve to aggravate the tension between the two countries. Army Colonel Steve Warren goes to the media to say this: "We urge them to stop bombing fish and begin feeding their own people."

Unfortunately for the clearly scorned North Koreans, any missile aimed at the USA and its allies would have to contend with a World Power that allots more than $700 million of its yearly budget in arms and military manpower, a considerable part of which is spent bolstering Seoul, and many of its allies.

Sure enough, it would be imprudent to dismiss the notion that there are North Korean missiles aimed at US territory, which are capable of bombing our shores. Nevertheless, as many experts suggest, Kim Jong Un's actions just might be a show of politics, targeted not towards the West, but rather to his own people.