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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on March 08, 2017, 04:56:47 AM
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North Korea could soon have the capacity to launch an attack on Hawaii that would devastate America's Pacific military bases, accelerating the need for the United States to upgrade missile defenses in the area.
The United States today relies on ground-based ballistic missile interceptors deployed in California and Alaska to protect Hawaii, but these defenses would do little to guard U.S. territory in the Pacific against a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which officials believe is nearing completion.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency in February test fired a new SM-3 Block IIA missile from Hawaii that successfully intercepted an incoming ballistic missile, but the Pentagon does not maintain a permanent missile defense installation or detection capabilities on the Hawaiian Islands.
Ariel Cohen, director of the Center for Energy, Natural Resources, and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, told the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday that the Defense Department needs to immediately upgrade the Aegis Ashore facility in Hawaii from experimental to operational to guard against North Korean aggression.
"Senior national security leaders have stated that the U.S. needs to work off the assumption that North Korea will have ICBM capabilities soon, and in this business ‘soon' could mean five to 10 years, or earlier," Cohen said.
"This question is, do we need to wait until North Korea successfully launches a test ICBM to know that they have that capacity? The answer is no … The [Aegis Ashore] is a proven system. Why would we protect our European allies before we protect the homeland?"
Pyongyang has worked for years to improve its missile capabilities, launching an unprecedented number of ballistic missiles in 2016 while conducting its fifth nuclear test in September 2016.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/north-korea-soon-launch-attack-hawaii/
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Thanks, obozo!
The weakest President maybe ever certainly emboldened our enemies.
Trump needs to address this now. The only thing maniacs like Kim Jong-Un understand is strength.
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Thanks, obozo!
The weakest President maybe ever certainly emboldened our enemies.
Trump needs to address this now. The only thing maniacs like Kim Jong-Un understand is strength.
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Trump has addressed it many times already, warning NK there will be dire consequences.
China has cut NK coal exports (NK's largest source of cash revenue) by three-fourths over Kim's murdering his brother in Malaysia.
Now Kim is refusing to allowing Malaysians to leave NK (they are essentially political hostages) because Malaysia accused Kim of murdering his brother in that country.
China is the real key player here though.
It is only a matter of time before Kim gets desperate enough, knowing the Chinese have no choice but to withdraw economic support to prop him up and his own people put him in front of an artillery cannon and pull the trigger (like he did with his uncle and others in public executions).
The world cannot stand by and play nuclear poker with a madman. Japan is getting desperate.