![]() It’s one thing to be able to fire a rocket a third of the way around the planet. officials genuinely know how accurate North Korea’s current rockets would be at intercontinental range. It’s doubtful either North Korean or U.S. defense establishment have long expected. It’s a strategic sea change that has been a long time coming – and which many in the U.S. With two tests of his latest Hwasong-12 ballistic missile on July 4 and 28, he looks to be on the precipice of achieving what only a handful of America’s enemies have dreamed of – the ability to hit the U.S. ![]() But it’s a lesson that North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un appears to have taken to heart. Luckily for the rest of the world, it was a capability Hitler never achieved. Had Germany gotten the bomb first, the Allies most likely would have had to sue for peace rather than risk the Hiroshima and Nagasaki-like destruction of many Western cities. They knew, however, that if they could perfect both the world’s first ballistic missiles and win the race to an atomic bomb, they would become virtually unassailable. It was the height of World War Two, and with the entry of the United States into the conflict the tide was already turning against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long-range Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) test launch in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017.
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