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4. Chauvinism To show excessive fanaticism or partiality towards a group while being prejudiced or hostile against another one. Named after a French soldier, Nicolas Chauvin, who was a fanatic and blindly devoted Bonapartist.

According to the legend, Chauvin was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars and received a meager pension to live on. After Napoleon’s abdication, he stayed blindly devoted to his cause despite the unpopularity of Bonapartism during Bourbon Restoration of France. This extreme devotion by him, in spite of neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of this word. Since then, the term chauvinism evolved to mean fanatical devotion towards a group and hostility against others, and in contemporary English to mean a stance that people of one gender are better than those who belong to the opposite gender.

3. Sideburns Part of facial hair grown on either side of the face as a continuation of the hairline but shaved over the chin. Derived from the last name of Ambrose Burnside, an American soldier, inventor, and industrialist, who wore such a style of facial hair.

Ambrose Burnside was popular both in army and politics, and he maintained his relationships by remembering everyone’s name and smiling a lot. However, he was not that popular when it came to military and was thought not suitable intellectually and emotionally to take up high command. He was also noted for his unusual facial hair which continued from his hairline and joined his mustache, but with the chin clean-shaven

2. Bowdlerize To remove material considered improper or offensive, but often making the source less effective. Named after Thomas Bowdler who published an “appropriate” version of Shakespeare meant for women and children. The Bowdler’s The Family Shakspeare was first published in 1807 and contained 24 of the plays with the censorship done by his sister Harriet. The spelling “Shaksspeare”, that was used by Bowdler, was changed in the later editions during the mid 19- century to “Shakespeare”. Though these censored editions were criticized for being a negative example, Bowdler’s editions made it easier for Shakespeare to be taught to wider and younger audience.

In 1997, the idea of using the name of the king of Denmark was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that allowed mobile phones to communicate with computers. He was reading a book called The Long Ships, by Frans G. Bengtsson, which is a historical fiction about the Vikings and King Harald Bluetooth, and got the idea that Bluetooth technology does just what the king did, unite the communication protocols into one universal standard. The logo for Bluetooth is a merging of two Nordic runes that are actually Harald’s initials.

English is a language that is rich in eponyms, words that are derived from the names of people who are fictional, mythical or real. These words could represent philosophies, adjectives, discoveries, inventions, places, objects, etc. and the people they were named after often have interesting stories. Here are 25 such great words derived from names of people whose stories are so peculiar and significant that they left a long-lasting impression on the world.

1. Bluetooth
A wireless technology used to connect devices. Named after the King of Denmark and Norway, Harald Bluetooth, who united clashing Danish tribes into one kingdom in the 10th century.

10. A Brazilian man died when one night while sleeping alongside his wife when a cow fell through their corrugated roof and landed on top of him.

The cow was believed to have escaped from a nearby farm, climbed a hill, and then onto the house which stands next to the steep side of the hill. The house had a corrugated roof, and it gave way under the weight of the one and a half ton cow which then fell on 45-year-old Joao Maria de Souza. He was then taken to a hospital as he had a fractured leg but no other obvious injuries. However, he died of internal bleeding while still waiting to see the doctor.

9. In 1989, a convicted murderer who avoided the electric chair died of electrocution on his toilet when he bit into the wire of his earphones while trying to connect it to his TV.

In 1983, a 22-year-old man named Michael Anderson Godwin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Central Correctional Institution in South Carolina. An earlier verdict for his crime was to have him electrocuted, but it was overturned on appeal. Six years later, he was sitting on his toilet apparently trying to connect his earphones to his television set when he bit into the wire and was electrocuted to death.

8. Three people died inside a flight simulator in a flight safety building at the Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, Kansas, when a real plane crashed into it.

The 53-year-old pilot, Mark Goldstein, was a retired air traffic controller who had been recognized for his safety efforts by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. He later became a contract pilot and was ferrying this plane from Wichita to Mena, Arkansas when the plane lost an engine during takeoff. The two- story building of the Flight Saftey Cessna Learning Center at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport had around 100 people in it at the time of the crash. Three people who were in the flight simulator at that time were found dead along with the pilot whose body was found on the roof.

7. In 2002, a man was thrown down into an 18-foot-deep manhole during a fight. The tunnel had hot water and steam of over 300 degrees F which cooked him through while he was still alive.

In December 2002, a man named Michael Wright, thinking his bartender friend, Sean Doyle, was hitting on his girlfriend, got into a fight with him. According to witnesses, Wright then threw Doyle down an open manhole as he was screaming, “No, don’t break my legs!” The manhole was 18 feet deep and, unfortunately, boiling water was pouring into it from a broken main. Doyle was reaching up and screaming for help. As the temperature in the tunnel was at least 300 degrees F (148 degrees C), the paramedics could not climb down to give help for four hours. By the time they could get him out, he was dead and his body temperature was 125 degrees F (52 degrees C). His skin had peeled off and his internal organs were cooked through. As he had no head trauma or other injuries, he was thought to have been fully conscious while he was boiled to death.

6. A man who survived to suffer from PTSD after the burning and sinking of a ship in 1871, died 41 years later when, finally overcoming his fears and nightmares, he sailed again on RMS Titanic .
Ramon Artagaveytia of Uruguay was one of the 65 passengers to survive the fire and sinking of the ship America on December 24, 1871, carrying 164 passengers. He escaped by jumping off the ship and swimming for his life. According to a letter he wrote to his cousin, Enrique Artagaveytia, he suffered from nightmares and woke up in the middle of the night hearing screams of: “Fire! Fire! Fire!” Even during the simplest of trips, he would stand on the deck wearing his lifebelt out of fear. On April 10, 1912, he boarded the Titanic. In one of his letters, he expressed the assurance he felt because they had wireless telegraph on board. He felt that unlike the time nobody could see their light signals when America sank, they could communicate with the whole world instantly. However, the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, and Artagaveytia was one of the 1,500 who died.

5. After hearing a scream, a man in Florida ran to his brother’s bedroom to find the entire room swallowed by a 30-foot-deep sinkhole along with the brother. They were never able to recover the body.
In 2013, the bedroom of a one-story, 1970s house in Seffner, Florida, a Tampa suburb, collapsed into a sinkhole 20 to 30 feet across and almost 30 feet deep, taking a man named Jeff Bush along with it. His brother, Jeremy Bush, tried to rescue him by digging into the rubble until the police came and pulled him out as the floor was still collapsing. The rescuers couldn’t go into the sinkhole as it was still too dangerous. Though it started as a rescue operation, it soon became a search for the body as the monitoring equipment did not record any signs of anyone alive. However, they could never find a body.

4. After a plane crash-landed in San Francisco, a 16-year-old girl survived only to be run over and killed by one of the rescue fire trucks.
On July 6, 2013, Ye Mengyuan was traveling on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 with a group of 35 teachers and students from Jiangshan, China to California when the accident happened. After the plane crash- landed and caught fire at San Francisco airport, Mengyuan was flung out of the plane. She died of multiple blunt injuries after being struck by one of the aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicles. She was lying on the ground and possibly covered in foam which was being sprayed on the plane to douse the fire when it happened.

3. A Thai woman accidentally slipped on mud, grabbed a live wire and was electrocuted to death. The same day, her sister was showing her neighbors how it happened, slipped in the mud, grabbed the same live wire and was also electrocuted death.
In April 1991, in a rural area located 60 miles north of Bangkok, 57-year-old Yooket Paen was walking in the farmyard when the accident happened. Her 52-year- old sister, Yooket Pan, was showing her neighbors later in the day, how the accident happened, and she herself underwent the same set of events which led to her death the same way.

2. A man in Arizona died while shooting a 26-f00t-high saguaro cactus to topple it over. A 500-pound arm of the cactus fell on him crushing him to death.
In 1982, David Grundman and James Joseph Suchochi went to the desert two miles north of Arizona’s Highway 74, west of Lake Pleasant. At first, Grundman shot a small saguaro so many times that it fell down to the ground. He next took on a 26- foot-high saguaro, which was estimated to be at least a hundred years old, and that led to his demise. Saguaro cacti live for up to 150 to 200 years. Some are known to live up to 300 years as well. They grow up to 60 feet and can weigh as much as eight tons (16,000 pounds). The arm of the cactus that fell on Grundman weighed 500 pounds

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Death comes to everyone and everything in time. There are several reasons people die – disease, old age, murder, and accidents. Though we are well aware of how frequently people die, we always find ourselves shocked when we do hear about someone’s death or see someone die. Even though no death could ever be considered lucky, some people’s deaths are worse than others, especially those who could have just avoided their fate by inches. Here are some people who died the unluckiest deaths.

1. In 1985, a New Orleans man drowned at a pool party attended by over a 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings.

The party was hosted by the city’s lifeguards at the New Orleans Recreation Department Center to celebrate a summer season with no drownings, a first back then. It was held at the end of July that year when most of the city’s recreation centers were closed. The party was attended by around 200 people, half of whom were lifeguards. After the party was finished, four lifeguards who were cleaning the pool found the fully clothed body of 31-year-old Jerome Moody at the bottom of the pool’s deep end.

There are increasing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem, the fate of which is one of the most contentious issues in the Israel-Arab conflict.

Christian, Islam and Judaism, the three religions which trace their shared origins back to the biblical figure of Abraham.

Jerusalem - its name resonates in the hearts of Christians, Jews and Muslims alike and echoes through centuries of shared and disputed history.

Known in Hebrew as Yerushalayim and in Arabic as al-Quds, it is one of the oldest cities in the world. It has been conquered, destroyed and rebuilt time and again, and every layer of its earth reveals a different piece of the past. While it has often been the focus of stories of division and conflict among people of different religions, they are united in their reverence for this holy ground.

At its core is the Old City, a maze of narrow alleyways and historic architecture that characterises its four quarters - Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Armenian. It is surrounded by a fortress-like stone wall and home to some of the holiest sites in the world.

Each quarter represents its own population. The Christians have two, because Armenians are also Christians, and their quarter, the smallest of the four, is one of the oldest Armenian centres in the world.

It is unique in that their community has preserved its own particular culture and civilisation inside the St James Church and monastery, which comprises most of their section.
The church

Inside the Christian Quarter is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a significant focus for Christians all over the world. It is located on a site which is central to the story of Jesus, his death, crucifixion and resurrection.

According to most Christian traditions, Jesus was crucified there, on Golgotha, or the hill of Calvary, his tomb is located inside the sepulchre and this was also the site of his resurrection.
The church is managed jointly by representatives of different Christian denominations, mainly the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, Franciscan friars from the Roman Catholic Church and the Armenian Patriarchate, but also by the Ethiopians, Coptics and Syrian Orthodox Church. It is one of the main pilgrimage destinations for millions of Christians worldwide who visit the empty tomb of Jesus and seek solace and redemption in prayer at the site.

The mosque

The Muslim Quarter is the largest of the four and contains the shrine of the Dome of Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque on a plateau known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary..
The mosque is the third holiest site in Islam and is under the administration of an Islamic trust called the Waqf.

Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad travelled here from Mecca during his night journey and prayed with the souls of all the prophets. A few steps away, the shrine of the Dome of the Rock holds the foundation stone, where Muslims believe Muhammad then ascended to heaven.

Muslims visit the holy site all year round, but every Friday during the holy month of Ramadan, hundreds of thousands of Muslims come to pray at the mosque.

The wall

The Jewish Quarter is home to the Kotel, or the Western Wall, a remnant of the retaining wall of the mount on which the Holy Temple once stood.
Inside the temple was the Holy of Holies, the most sacred site in Judaism.

Jews believe that this was the location of the foundation stone from which the world was created, and where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Many Jews believe the Dome of the Rock is the site of the Holy of Holies.

Today, the Western Wall is the closest place Jews can pray to the Holy of Holies.

It is managed by the Rabbi of the Western Wall and every year hosts millions of visitors. Jewish people from all over the world visit this place to pray and connect to their heritage, especially during the High Holidays.
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Two Israeli policemen have been killed and a third wounded in a shooting attack near a sacred site in Jerusalem.

They were shot by three Israeli Arabs close to the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary).
Police chased the attackers into the site and shot them dead.

There has been a wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings of Israelis predominantly by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since late 2015.
Two of the previous attackers were Jordanians. Police say the three men who carried out Friday's attack were aged between 19 and 29 and came from the northern Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm. Israel's Shin Bet security agency said that they were not previously known to the security services.

Police say the gunmen opened fire as they made their way from the Temple Mount/Haram al- Sharif towards Lions' Gate, an opening in the Old City walls about 100ft (30 metres) away. The attackers were then pursued back to the compound, where they were killed. Mobile phone footage showed at least one of the attackers in a confrontation with members of the security forces in the holy site before being shot.

The two policemen who died of their injuries in hospital were named as Advanced Staff Sergeant Major Kamil Shanan, aged 22, and Advanced Staff Sergeant Major Hail Sattawi, who was 30. They were Druze from Israel's northern Galilee region.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was "a sad day in which our Druze brothers pay the heaviest price in our joint mission to protect the security of our country. I salute them and their heroism".

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack in a phone call to Mr Netanyahu, the prime minister's office said. Mr Netanyahu has previously accused the Palestinian leader of failing to denounce such attacks.

In the wake of the incident, police sealed off the site to search it for weapons. It is the first time in decades that the compound, which contains the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, has been closed for Muslim Friday prayers, which normally draws thousands of worshippers. The site is administered by an Islamic authority (Waqf), though Israel is in charge of security there. Police are investigating how the attackers managed to smuggle in a handgun, sub-machine gun and knife.

'Red lines'

The Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif is the holiest site in Judaism and third holiest in Islam and is one of the most politically sensitive sacred places in the world.

It is located in East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war. Israel considers the entire city its sovereign capital, while Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of their sought-after future state. Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the attack was "a serious and severe event in which red lines were crossed", adding that security arrangements in and around the site would be reviewed.

No group has said it was responsible, though the militant Palestinian Hamas movement, which runs the Gaza Strip, praised the attack as a "natural response to the Zionist ongoing crimes". Growing toll

The shooting comes weeks after an Israeli policewoman was killed in a knife and gun attack outside the Old City by three Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.

Forty-four Israelis and five foreign nationals have been killed in nearly two years of such attacks. At least 255 Palestinians - most of them attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, news agencies report. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.

Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40604452

DWINDLING RESOURCES
The new tech and devices that characterise the 21st Century all require rare earth metals to make – an average smartphone has over 60 “ingredients”. That’s putting a strain on the planet’s natural resources: in China, where 90% of the world’s rare earth metals are found, it’s estimated that its mines will run out in the next two decades – and good substitutes for those materials are hard to come by.

SETTLING OTHER WORLDS
How will space tourism companies make sure their activities are safe? How will we find ways to send humans to Mars or another planet to live there, as Stephen Hawking has urged us to figure out ? Space travel might seem like the domain of space agencies and billionaires today, but as it becomes more accessible to everybody else, a whole host of new challenges will emerge. Outer space is increasingly looking less like the final frontier and more like our backyard, and with more money being shelled out to get humans up to the inky abyss than ever before, the logistics, safety and diplomacy behind the challenge all demand serious consideration.

NEW GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS
The past year has seen a complete upset of our geopolitics’ fragile balance. That could make the global stability of the next couple of decades a complete question mark. North Korean missile launches. Thousands of refugees crossing borders to flee turmoil. Hackers meddling in other nations’ elections. Rising nationalist sentiment worldwide. Headlines in 2016 (and so far, 2017) have been dominated by never-ending political drama that’s been fuelling a ‘geopolitical minefield’ and an ‘unprecedented geopolitical shift’ – whether it’s managing unpredictable North Korea, the plight of Syrian refugees, or Britain’s transition from the European Union. Throw in widespread hacking, nuclear missiles and other dangerous technology, and it’s easy to see why maintaining basic diplomacy becomes vital.

SAFE CAR TRAVEL
Despite all the rapid urbanisation and talk of bullet trains and fantastical technology like the Hyperloop coming to the fore, the car isn’t going anywhere – and in fact, in the next couple decades, there will be even more of them on the road. Driverless car technology is swiftly rolling out, with major tech companies and automakers aggressively seeking to debut human-free vehicles in coming years. But in addition, the sheer number of cars – self-driving or not – is going to skyrocket, studies show. In countries like China that are seeing a growing middle class , the environmental and infrastructural needs that an increasingly road-faring population demands is going to be a grand challenge. How do we ensure safety, fight pollution, and make sure driverless cars aren’t a menace on the road?

LOST CITIES
You don’t need to look very hard in a place like Miami to see how cities are changing in the 21st Century – rising sea levels are gradually making some of them disappear. Fuelled by climate change, not only are floods becoming more common in the streets, but the changing weather patterns have also influenced building design. Aside from more seawalls, the city is requiring all new buildings be built with their first floor built higher. But that’s all a sticking plaster – if current trends continue, we may have to come to terms with losing whole swathes of cities, islands and low-lying regions such as Bangladesh. The economic impact to regions will be profound, and climate refugees could become the norm. Pressure is already growing on cities, as urban populations grow. If climate change forces mass migration, then existing infrastructure, services and economies may be stretched to breaking point.

THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media has complicated the way we communicate for the better part of a decade. And it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, given that most people get their news from it now . That’s before we even get into the mess of online harassment, as well. What might social media look like in 30 years, and by that time, what are some threats it might pose? A world with no privacy, for one. That’s one problem we’re already seeing. And besides weathering away our sense of and desire for anonymity and privacy, social media brings with it the many problems of cyberbullying too. Many charities and non-profit organisations across the world have mobilised in the fight against internet trolls , but it’s an open question about whether law enforcement agencies and the social media companies can fix it or whether it will get worse. Then there’s also the problem of our information diet to consider: if the status quo of ubiquitous fake news remains, how will that shape how people see the world? If individuals spend months, years, even decades of their life exposed only to unreliable news sources, it does not augur well for civilised society and debate. That said, given how fast social media has arrived in the world, an optimist may suggest that those problems could soon be resolved. In 30 years’ time we may be dealing with social media issues that we’ve not even considered yet. After all, Facebook is only 13 years old.

Editing genes, ageing populations, rising sea levels… the world is moving faster than ever. What will those trends mean for our society over the next 30 years?
Here are just some of the potential big issues of tomorrow:

GENETIC MODIFICATION OF HUMANS
Debates among scientists started roaring last year over a new technology that lets us edit human DNA. It’s called Crispr (pronounced ‘crisper’) and it’s a means of altering people’s DNA to carve diseases like cancer out of the equation. Sounds great, right? But what if takes a dark ethical turn, and it turns into a eugenics-esque vanity project to churn out ‘designer babies’ , selecting embryos that produce babies that will have a certain amount of intelligence or that have certain physical characteristics? While it’s still not widely used enough to be considered a current “grand challenge”, this is an up-and-coming advancement whose wide- ranging repercussions we need to be prepared for – and it’s all the more reason to ensure ethicists have a seat at the table at every laboratory, university and corporation that might be itching to alter our DNA. “Proper reflection on what about us we might want to preserve takes time – it should draw on a wide range of perspectives about what it means to be human,” Nicholas Agar, professor of ethics at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, told BBC Future Now earlier this year. “It’s difficult to set aside this time for ethical reflection when new technological possibilities seem to be coming thick and fast.”

A MORE AGED POPULATION THAN EVER BEFORE
We won’t just be wrestling with the fact that the world’s population is exploding – but people are living longer than ever, too. Which is great – but all those senior citizens are going to require care. In fact, the number of centenarians will increase more than 50 times – from 500,000 today to over 26 million by 2100 . From the UK to Japan to China , societies with large numbers of people over 65 will become more common. In the next couple of decades, as that increase starts to happen, we’ll need better care for the elderly (Japan is even eyeing robots ) and perhaps policies to allow more immigrants to try and make up for ageing workforces and in some cases, declining birth rates.

A Texas man who found himself trapped inside
a cash machine slipped "help me" notes through
the receipt slot.


The man, who police say was working on a
renovation of the bank, left his phone in his
vehicle before getting stuck in the drive-thru
ATM's vault.


The unnamed workman was freed after shouting
to ATM users, who continued withdrawing cash
throughout his ordeal on Wednesday in Corpus
Christi.


Police thought it a hoax before kicking in a door
to withdraw him.
"Sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming
from the machine, so we're all thinking this is a
joke, it's gotta be a joke," said police officer
Richard Olden.


One handwritten note slipped by the trapped
man to a customer said: "Please Help. I'm stuck
in here, and I don't have my phone. Please call
my boss." The message included the employer's
phone number.


The man was freed after spending more than
two hours inside the Bank of America machine.
Officer Olden told local media: "Everyone is
okay, but you will never see this in your life, that
somebody was stuck in the ATM, it was just
crazy."

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The US has said that it will use its "considerable
military forces" on North Korea "if we must".
Describing the North's latest missile test as a
sharp military escalation, the US ambassador to
the United Nations said the US will table a new
resolution against Pyongyang.


Ambassador Nikki Haley also threatened to use
trade restrictions.
The missile launch, the latest in a series of
tests, was in defiance of a ban by the UN
Security Council.
North Korea's actions were "quickly closing off
the possibility of a diplomatic solution," Ms Haley
said.


"The United States is prepared to use the full
range of our capabilities to defend ourselves,
and our allies," the US ambassador told the UN
Security Council, meeting for an emergency
session to discuss the test.


"One of our capabilities lies with our
considerable military forces. We will use them, if
we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that
direction".
North Korea's actions were "quickly closing off
the possibility of a diplomatic solution".
The French ambassador told the council that
France also favours a new resolution on North
Korea, which would tighten sanctions.


Russia, which condemned the test, said the
possibility of using military measures "should be
excluded".
Earlier, Donald Trump criticised China for its
trade with North Korea.


Ms Haley, who said she had discussed the issue
with the president, said the US could cut off
trade with countries which continued to trade
with North Korea in violation of US resolutions.


"We will look at any country that chooses to do
business with this outlaw regime," she says.
Mr Trump has arrived in Warsaw, ahead of his
trip to Hamburg for the G20 summit of
developed nations, where he is due to meet
Chinese President Xi Jinping for the second time.
The US president held talks with China's leader
Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida in
April.


After those talks, Mr Trump hailed "tremendous
progress" with China , but on Wednesday the US
president tweeted: "So much for China working
with us - but we had to give it a try!"


Why have US-China relations soured?


There's little doubt the honeymoon between
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is over.
The administration is frustrated that China isn't
doing more to put the squeeze on North Korea.
Beijing is angry about recent moves taken by the
White House, including sanctions on a Chinese
bank for doing "illicit" business with Pyongyang,
and a $1.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan.


In one way this tension is neither new nor
surprising - previous American presidents
encountered similar resistance from Beijing,
which is determined to prevent chaotic upheaval
in North Korea. But the stakes are higher
because Pyongyang's nuclear weapons
programme is becoming more of a threat.


Mr Trump might respond by imposing more
sanctions on Chinese banks and front companies
that deal with North Korea. But some Asia
experts say China would be readier to increase
economic pressure on the regime if the US took
up Beijing's push for negotiations to deal with
the crisis.


What has North Korea said?


Tuesday's launch was North Korea's first-ever
test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM).
State news agency KCNA quoted leader Kim
Jong-un as saying the test was a "gift" to the
Americans on their independence day.
The report warned of the possibility of more
tests, saying he had ordered officials to
"frequently send big and small 'gift packages' to
the Yankees".


Pyongyang said earlier the Hwasong-14 ICBM
had reached an altitude of 2,802km (1,731 miles)
and flew 933km for 39 minutes before hitting a
target in the sea.


Have North Korea's missile tests paid off?


North Korea, it said, was now "a full-fledged
nuclear power that has been possessed of the
most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket
capable of hitting any part of the world".


What is an ICBM?


A long-range missile usually designed to
carry a nuclear warhead


The minimum range is 5,500km (3,400
miles), although most fly about 10,000km or
more


Pyongyang has previously displayed two
types of ICBMs: the KN-08, with a range of
11,500km, and the KN-14, with a range of
10,000km, but before 4 July had not claimed
to have flight tested an ICBM. It is not clear
what differentiates the Hwasong-14


What now for Washington?


By bringing Alaska within range, the new missile
test is an unambiguous game-changer in both
symbolical and practical terms.
US territory (albeit separate from the contiguous
continental US) is now finally within Pyongyang's
cross-hairs.


For the first time a US president has to accept
that the North poses a "real and present" danger
not merely to north-east Asia and America's key
allies - but to the US proper.
President Trump's weakness lies in having
overplayed his hand too publicly and too loudly.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40513334

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