An intercontinental ballistic missile: North Korea’s “gift” to the US HANDOUT/EPA/REX/Shutterstock
The US celebrates Independence Day with a national anthem that describes the 鈥渞ockets鈥 red glare鈥 of a 19th-century battle. This year supplied the real thing: the test launch of what it described as a Fourth of July 鈥済ift鈥 to the US: an (ICBM) able to 鈥渟trike the US mainland鈥 with large heavy nuclear warheads鈥.
A missile from North Korea with the range of this week鈥檚 test, notes Joe Cirincione of nuclear think tank the Ploughshares Fund, could hit Singapore, Australia and Alaska, and…
