Kim inspecting defense detachments in an undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on May 5. KCNA/ via REUTERS
Alex Lockie, Business Insider: The US had a clear shot at killing Kim Jong Un on July 4 — here's why it didn't strike
When North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile in the early-morning hours of July 4, US military and intelligence personnel watched for a full 70 minutes, a source told The Diplomat's Ankit Panda.
During that time, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smoked cigarettes and strolled around the launchpad under the US's gaze.
The US knew North Korea was in the final stages of building an ICBM after a recent rocket-engine test. The US knew North Korea liked to test missiles on the American Independence Day to send a message. The US knew this missile was different from any it had seen before, and the US knew it could destroy it with a variety of precision-fire platforms in the region. Importantly, the US also had Kim in its crosshairs for over an hour — and did nothing.
Those facts speak volumes about the security climate in the Koreas.
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WNU Editor: An interesting theory .... but North Korean leader Kim Jong-un does not strike me as someone who would even listen "to such a message".
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"n the U.S. media — not to mention, U.S. president Donald Trump — expected Pyongyang’s ICBM test to succeed. “North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S.,” Trump tweeted in January 2017. “It won’t happen!”
It did happen. Many previous North Korean missile tests — often involving smaller, medium-range rockets — dramatically failed, with rockets exploding shortly after launch or fizzling out mid-flight. But the Hwasong-14 ICBM apparently performed flawlessly."
http://warisboring.com/but-it-shouldnt-have-done-so/
"As the small but significant successes piled up, Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear-weapons expert at the James Martin Center, warned that North Korea’s ICBM might actually work. “They’re showing off all the associated technologies you need for credible deployments,” Lewis told The New York Times in April.
His warnings mostly fell on deaf ears — and that, in part, contributed to the general sense of surprise and shock when North Korea finally pulled off its ICBM test. Was America caught off guard? “Given how hard it was to persuade other people this was coming, I’d say yes,” Lewis told War Is Boring."
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