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Kim Jong-Un calls missile test 'gift' to 'American bastards'
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The US and South Korea have staged an anti-ballistic missile test in response to North Korea's unprecedented intercontinental missile launch yesterday, which leader Kim Jong-Un described as a "gift" to "American bastards".

The United States Army and the South Korean military said in a statement the joint exercise was to counteract the North's "destabilising and unlawful actions."

The drill used the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), and the Republic of Korea Hyunmoo Missile II, and fired the test missiles into waters off the South Korean coast, CNN reports.

Meanwhile, Kim Jong-Un has told Pyongyangs official news agency yesterdays missile test was a "gift" to "American bastards" for Independence Day.

After personally overseeing the launch, the Korean Central News Agency reported, "he said American bastards would be not very happy with this gift sent on the July 4 anniversary".

Breaking into peals of laughter, it said, he "added that we should send them gifts once in a while to help break their boredom".


The Korean Central News Agency quoted leader Kim Jong-Un as having inspected the Hwasong-14 missile and "expressed satisfaction, saying it looked as handsome as a good-looking boy and was well made".

North Korea's successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic test missile, that experts believe can travel more than 6700km, brings parts of Australia into range for the rogue nation.

North Korea's state media said yesterday's launch sent the Hwasong-14 933km to an altitude of 2802 km over a flight time of 39 minutes.

US missile analyst David Wright said that would give it a potential range of over 6700km, which would in theory have the capability of striking northern parts of Australia, including Darwin and Cairns.

Mr Wright said the available figures implied the missile had "a maximum range of roughly 6,700 km on a standard trajectory".


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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said today North Korea needs to be sent a message and that "all options" have to be considered.

"This is a serious escalation of North Korea's ability to threaten nations even further afield than its immediate region," Ms Bishop told Sky News from Grenada in the Caribbean today.

"The concern is now that North Korea will master the technology to mount a nuclear warhead on such a weapon."

"The regime must get a global message that its behaviour is unacceptable.

The US government has said "all" options are on the table to deal with North Korea and Ms Bishop said that includes military options.

"Of course, there would have to be a risk assessment of that," she said.

"It would mean assured destruction of North Korea if it were to be so provocative and foolhardy as to seek to dump a nuclear payload on the United States."

"All options have to be considered to ensure that we can keep our region safe."



The meeting is expected to take place tomorrow.

The launch came as Americans prepared to mark Independence Day and it sparked a Twitter outburst from President Donald Trump who urged China to act to "end this nonsense once and for all".

The North's possession of a working ICBM -- something Trump had vowed "won't happen" -- represents a milestone for the communist regime.

It could also radically alter the calculus for countries seeking to thwart the military goals of the isolated state.

China and Russia called for a moratorium on further missile and nuclear tests by Pyongyang after a meeting between leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Moscow. They also called for a simultaneous suspension of large-scale US-South Korea military exercises.

"The opposing sides should start negotiations and affirm general principles of their relations including the non-use of force, rejection of aggression and peaceful coexistence," the joint statement said.

Trump has been pinning his hopes on China -- North Korea's main diplomatic ally -- to solve the crisis, but troubles have escalated since the US leader took office in January.

There are still doubts whether the North can miniaturise a nuclear weapon to fit a missile nose cone, or if it has mastered the technology needed for it to survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

But since Kim came to power there have been advances including three nuclear tests and multiple rocket launches.

In response to the launch but before the announcement, Trump asked on Twitter: "Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?"

The United Nations has imposed multiple sets of sanctions on Pyongyang, which claims that it needs nuclear arms to defend itself against the threat of invasion.

The European Union said yesterday that it may consider further sanctions against the North, having last month expanded a blacklist.

US Pacific Command confirmed the test and said it was a land-based, intermediate range missile that flew for 37 minutes before splashing down in the Sea of Japan, adding the launch did not pose a threat to North America.

Moscow's defence ministry called it medium-range. But Tokyo -- in whose exclusive economic zone it came down -- estimated the maximum altitude to have "greatly exceeded" 2,500 kilometres, prompting arms control specialist Jeffrey Lewis to respond on Twitter: "That's it. It's an ICBM. An ICBM that can hit Anchorage not San Francisco, but still."

Antoine Bondaz, an analyst at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, said the launch was a "humiliation" for Trump after his repeated attempts to get China to rein in Pyongyang, adding that greater missile ranges were probably possible in future tests.

"If you change the initial angle of fire, you could reach a range of 6,700 km. Ballistics is like throwing a rock: the farther you want to go, the lower the angle of fire," Bondaz added.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters: "This launch clearly shows that the threat has grown."

The US, Japan and South Korea will hold a summit on the sidelines of this week's G20 meeting, he added. "Also I will encourage President Xi Jinping and President Putin to take more constructive measures."

South Korea's President Moon Jae-In warned the North against crossing "the bridge of no return."

Washington, South Korea's security guarantor, has more than 28,000 troops in the country. Fears of conflict peaked earlier this year as Trump's administration suggested military action was an option.

There has also been anger in the United States over the death of Otto Warmbier, an American student detained in North Korea for around 18 months before he was returned home in a coma in June.


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i reveived a bit of this information from the 9 news website
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This is exactly why another war could begin
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