Greely missile site may be locked on North Korea

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^ | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 | Sam Bishop

[RightWhale]

Our military won't miss.

They can. What counts is how many missiles get through. Some will, some won't. That is what should prevent an enemy from even trying: he won't know which missiles will get through, so his military plans will be useless and what comes back will make his military plans irrelevant anyway. A further complication is that the missile defense would have to be neutralized before the main attack and that will provide enough time to make the necessary response and put an end to the threat. There will be some successful strikes; that is impossible to stop completely.

[familyop]

I wasn't aware that NK is prepared to launch more than one.

[BenLurkin]

I've got a dumb question.

If this is just a test launch -- why shoot it down?

If we are going to shoot it down -- is it really aimed at us?

[RightWhale]

If they wish to jump the shark they need launch only one. They have several if they wish to go for it, and they have 30,000 artillery tubes a day's drive from Seoul.

[RightWhale]

There is something else going on related to the conditions of ceasefire obtained in the early fifties. Nobody is worried about the missile itself but the fact of its launch in violation of the ceasefire.

[Jet Jaguar]

When it is launched, it goes over Japan. (They have done this at least twice before.)

Japan really doesn't like to have errant missiles with (who knows what) payload going over or crashing into their country.

Nor do the U.S. Forces appreciate a missile flying at them or over them. (Case in point, Misawa AB. 1998)

[Mike Darancette]

If we are going to shoot it down -- is it really aimed at us?

When civilized countries are going to test they notify the world as to trajectory and target. NK is not telling anyone anything. We are well within our rights to practice due diligence.

[Dumpster Baby]

LOL Good one!

Splash one incoming kimchee crockpot duct-taped onto the nose of a Hooflungdong II.

[BenLurkin]

Those answers help. Thanks!

[DAC22]

I think you are talking about more of a Russian / Chinese
scenario. Korea just can't launch multiple missiles, I have no worries about Mr. Ruh Roh.

[RightWhale]

N Kor can launch multiple missiles against S Kor and Japan. The N Kor ICBM capability is limited to some kind of automatic suicide-by-cop system.

[LasVegasMac]

I would like to think we have several cruise missles locked on to the launch site prepared to take the thing out BEFORE it lauches. A ounce of prevention and all that...

Remember the post from a day or so ago, showing the 3 aircraft carriers?

A poster asked, "Aren't they suppossed to have submarines with the fleet? Where are the submarines?"

Now you know! :)

[SubMareener]

Mrs. Submareener says:"We should be very diplomatic and meet them half way! .... Somewhere over the Pacific!"

[ASOC]

Thanks for posting the link to the NK photos.

IS it just me? All the statues seem to be wearing Western clothes......

[ccmay]

I don't think we want to say too much in advance of this, as a lot of our stuff is still experimental, and might not necessarily work. However, wouldn't it be great if this thing was lased into smoking lumps of metal, ten feet off the launch pad? We wouldn't confirm or deny anything, of course.

-ccm

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

N.Korea will either implode or explode within the next 10 years unless they are bailed out by S.Korea or China. The hope is they will implode rather than strike out at the US or its allies.

[Salvey]

100-story hotel in Pyongyang that could not be finished because the construction was so horribly shoddy...

Perhaps we can help with its demolition.

[Salvey]

100-story hotel in Pyongyang that could not be finished because the construction was so horribly shoddy...

Perhaps we can help with its demolition.

[halfright]

nope....he dont know.....very few do......they were prolly already there laying on the ocean floor in silence....

[NonValueAdded]

A moment of thanks for the great Ronaldo Maximus and his refusal to submit that all we could do in the face of a rogue launch was "ride it out." President Reagan, I miss you so much.