[TMSuchman]

I can not think of a better "real world" test of the anti-missle 747 air craft! Let's hope that they can shoot straight!

[Dark Skies]

Very thin ice...walk out on it and see what happens.

Nuclear weapons and ICBM's require a response...death is no great shame, but life that seeks to destroy others is indeed a shame. And it will be ended soon.

[LibWhacker]

What do Freepers think the "harsh" American response will be if N. Korea launches it? Hard for me to believe we'd be restricted to whining to the UN about it. OTOH, anything less than a military strike on one or more of their missile (or nuclear) sites doesn't seem to me to qualify as being particularly harsh.

[garbageseeker]

This is an extremely provocative act against the United States. This the more reason why we should develop an ABM screen.

[garbageseeker]

Ping

[Thombo2]

Kim keeps pushing the envelope.I think this is more for his ego than anything else.What's he hope to accomplish?

[ANGGAPO]

I hope that we are to going to hold still for intimidation by Kim. However if it's not pointed in our direction it would appear that he would be in safe territory. We did it and aimed off of the coast of of South Africa, in mid Atlantic. Shooting over Japan is another bucket of fish however. Perhaps we should take it to the UN. ;-)

[AdvisorB]

If only we would have had a Jacksonian in the White House instead of Lyndon Baines Johnson when the North Korean "great leader" seized the US Intelligence ship the Pueblo in the Sea of Japan beyond nk's 12 mile limit. Let's face it, we're in the current state of affairs because we didn't have the temerity to face these lunatics. And now we have lunatics with nukes. Let's hope we don't make the same mistake with the little totalitarians in teheran.

[Reaganesque]

Why don't we schedule a simultaneous test of our Aegis based anti-ballistic missile defense system and shoot it down? The Airborne Laser System is supposed to be ready for testing, why not use a live target? It would send a loud message to N. Korea and many other countries trying to develop ballistic missile tech.

[finnman69]

Big question, is if they fire it which way does it go? It's going over someones land.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651263/posts

CNN is just now hearing about this? Seems like they might be a willing propaganda tool....

[sonsofliberty2000]

Stern response? Hoping for more than finger wagging and toungue lashing.

[rottndog]

The story just lead off the ABC news on the radio. I'm not staying up 'til midnight tonight.

[Sabramerican]

Whether real or a bluff, this is in reaction to the Administration's overture to Iran.

Iran, as far as we know, doesn't have nukes yet, and yet we are bending over to be nice to them.

North Korea wants to be noticed and get in on some of the goodies too. And they are letting us know that they already have nukes.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I hope the launch window is within the next 3 hours.... I can't afford to stay up all night again!

[A Troop 1-14 Cav]

(The United States plans to join Japan in a sharp response if the test goes forward.)



I bet we sens them a testy letter. It might even have a "heck" or a "damn" in it.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Use this test for an operational firing drill. Let them launch, then we shoot it down and say nothing. Missiles are a game that two can play. There used to be a saying - Muck with the Bull, get the horns. And if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

[Syntyr]

I say we send him a couple of our Tridents to test launch. Here Kim catch...

Too bad as I understand it they are no longer MIRVd.

[clintonh8r]

A preemptive strike is in order.

[The Lion Roars]

And in related news

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm

Doves, such as Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called for a peaceful settlement of the current confrontation, by offering food, energy and other humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken country, while urging the North to give up its nuclear ambitions.

Rep. Markey also said the North should return to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the U.S. should make a nonaggression pact with the communist North.