Not sure that lends merit to your proposition. Redirecting a missile launch to strike within the US would be much worse than intentionally not directing US military command in Hawaii in 1941 to prepare for an immediate strike by Japan.
It may not have been clear from my post but I appreciate your concern about the situation and your attempt to generate an action plan instead of sitting passively to see how things turn out. My post simply suggested there is probably a more effective way to use the essence of your proposition: that we could likely redirect a NK guidance system (of which I am somewhat confident, either before or after launch).
My proposal would remove the source of the problem without damage to the US, and without a serious risk of starting WWIII.
Well said, but I see a few problems.
Kim is a problem NOW. Anti-missile defenses of the types needed are not currently available, at least in the number needed, and Congress never would do anything.
Additionally, an issue I didn’t even raise. Kim does not need 10 or 100 effective missiles. One, on Wall Street would stop America. It would not “destroy” us in the WWII sense, but it would stop the business of America, and BTW, our gold is not at Ft. Knox, it is in vaults under the Federal Reserve Bank in NYC.
Take one simple industry, food. Supermarkets have 3 days of food on hand, their central warehouses have another 3. After that, it’s trains from the farmlands and ports. How do trains run, when there is no Wall Street economic system to support them, or their railroads.
That’s just one of 148 lifestyle-necessary industries.
What if that one warhead hit DC?
What about EMP?
What if Kim never launched one more missile, just announced the ability to launch a nuclear-tipped one?
I could always judge the level of crisis by the number of office lights burning overnight in the inner rings of the Pentagon and The Virginia Highway Experiment Station as I flew over them flying in and out of DCA. Tonight, there were many.