from SLATE: >The Wall Street Journal leads with news that the United States is deploying >ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii out of fear that North Korea may soon >try to fire a long-range missile in that direction. Most U.S. officials don't >think a North Korean missile would actually be able to reach Hawaii, but, just >in case, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is deploying a >high-tech radar in the ocean near Hawaii that can track whether a missile is >approaching...
> A Japanese newspaper reported that North Korea is planning on launching a > long-range missile at Hawaii around July 4. Defense Secretary Robert Gates > didn't address that report, or say anything about a specific date, but noted > there are "some concerns if they were to launch a missile … in the direction > of Hawaii" while assuring that "we are in a good position … to protect > American territory." Meanwhile, in another sign of the growing tensions with > North Korea, there's word that the United States is tracking a North Korean > ship suspected of carrying banned weapons.< I'd bet that the NK missile (if it's fired) will go off course or explode in mid-air, since a small number of tests does not make an expert missile-launching system. (The same kind of misfire happens with NASA now and then.) And the US missile-defense program seems similarly unproven. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
