On 6/19/09, Jim Devine <[email protected]> said:
>
>> . . . . 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. * * *
>> Robert Gates . . . noted there are "some concerns if
>> [NK] were to launch a missile
in the direction of Hawaii"
>> while assuring that "we are in a good position
to protect
>> American territory." * * *
>
> 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 . . . .
. . . and so an NK launch, if one occurs, may provide the occasion for a
U.S. military test of whatever anti-missile system there may be and
(perhaps especially if an NK missile explodes on its own) maybe also an
occasion for a propagandistic claim of, "Success!!" of a so far unproven
"missile-defense" that would not be realistically refutable. comedy of errors?
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