05 April 2013 (04:40 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

In an announcement that is initially surprising to many analysts, The U.K.’s Prime Minister David Cameron said the DPRK can hit Britain with nukes: “North Korea does now have missile technology that is able to reach, as they put it, the whole of the United States and if they are able to reach the whole of the United States they can reach Europe too. They can reach us too, so that is a real concern.”

Cameron is coming under criticism for the statement, but he’s correct.

I looked at flight distance, the routes airliners use to fly from Korea to England.  Estimate flight duration is 8891 kilometers (5527 miles).  This is within the range of the DRPK’s new KN-08 ICBM, which North Korea claims can reach 10000km (6213.7 miles).  This means most of Europe is within range.

U.S. analysts doubt the DPRK’s claims about their new KN-08 ICBM.