North Korea's Latest Missile Launch Could Have Hit The White House

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North Korea could now be capable of hitting the Oval Office with a missile.

A security expert said the missile North Korea launched Tuesday in its latest weapons provocation traveled far enough to attack Washington, D.C. — or, for that matter, just about anywhere else in America.

"(I)f flown on a standard trajectory rather than this lofted trajectory, this missile [...] would have more than enough range to reach Washington, DC, and in fact any part of the continental United States," David Wright, a physicist and co-director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Global Security Program, wrote on the organization's website.