North Korea’s Missile Went 10 Times Higher Than The International Space Station…

North Korea launched another ballistic missile Tuesday. According to Pyongyang, it was a ~new~ missile, which they call the Hwasong-15. North Korea claims it could hit the US mainland.

The possibility that the INSANE NATION could hit the US mainland? Holy crap.

To make matters worse, there’s this. North Korea’s missile flew “10 times higher than the International Space Station and twice as high as any satellite in low-earth orbit.”

Reaching an altitude of around 2,800 miles above the Earth’s surface, according to South Korea, it crashed down in the Sea of Japan around 600 miles away from where it was fired.

“It went higher, frankly, than any previous shot they’ve taken,” Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters at the White House.

Secretary Mattis on North Korea's ICBM launch: "It went higher than any previous shot they've taken. It's a research & development effort on their part, to continue building ballistic missiles to travel anywhere in the world." pic.twitter.com/vGE1OtNF0S

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 28, 2017

Some experts believe that if North Korea aimed the rocket at a lower angle, as it would in an attack scenario, this range could be stretched to some 8,100 miles — theoretically putting the entire East Coast in range.

“If we extrapolate this test we think it would give North Korea the capability to reach Washington, D.C.,” according to John Nilsson-Wright, a senior research fellow at London’s Chatham House think tank.

That's quite the trajectory pic.twitter.com/vQWWATN8Wc

— Scott LaFoy (@wslafoy) November 28, 2017

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOO. That’s incredibly chilling.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton thinks we need to be nicer to Kim Jong-un.

She said Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping need to soften their posture instead of relying on ‘bluster’ and ‘personal taunts’ to motivate North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un, according to Bloomberg.

In her keynote remarks during Caijing magazine’s annual conference, Clinton warned of the possibility of all-out nuclear war if the U.S. doesn’t pursue gentler diplomacy.

I can’t. I absolutely can’t. This is beyond stupid. How can you say that? If we’re nicer, Kim Jong-un will stop launching missiles?

I’m so glad she’s not POTUS right now.

h/t NBC