Posted on 06/19/2006 8:47:38 PM PDT by edpc
The Pentagon activated its new U.S. ground-based interceptor missile defense system, Bill Gertz reports in Tuesday's WASHINGTON TIMES, just as officials announced that any long-range missile launch by North Korea would be considered a "provocative act."
Poor weather conditions above where the missile site was located by U.S. intelligence satellites indicates that an immediate launch is unlikely, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
However, intelligence officials said preparations have advanced to the point where a launch could take place within several days to a month.
Two Navy Aegis warships are patrolling near North Korea as part of the global missile defense and would be among the first sensors that would trigger the use of interceptors, the officials said yesterday.
Gertz reports: The U.S. missile defense system includes 11 long-range interceptor missiles, including nine deployed at Fort Greeley, Alaska, and two at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The system was switched from test to operational mode within the past two weeks, the officials said.
Heheheheh. Joint exercise. That's funny. :)
Yeah I'm so scared of all the horrible things that North Korea can do to us. What are they going to do? Trot out the U.S.S. Pueblo with some 70s era SSMs and throw a couple dozen poorly maintained MiG-25s and SU-23s at us? North Korea is a paper tiger, and Kim Jong-Il knows that even better than we do. He doesn't even have the resources to take care of his peopel in peace time, much less have the fuel, munitions, and food to sustain a prolonged full scale conflict with us, South Korea, Japan, and whoever else would get into it with us against them. There isn't squat they could do if we shot their p**s pot missile down. Bush could literally give Il the finger via cable TV and tell him "send up anymore, and we'll drop them too you little mongaloid looking toad." and all Il could do is yell and threaten.
I'd rather see it surreptitiously fried by a big laser - and then catastrophically failing at launch.
Five decades into research and billions of dollars into ABM's is culminating into this. It would be rather interesting and fascinating to see the results.
I hope the SOB veers off course and heads towards the US....then it would be the perfect excuse to take out "The Sun"....
Thanks much Stonewall. :) I'll enjoy reading that.
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Yep. The current situation is a 'cease fire agreement', not a peace treaty.
I agree.
Your right. They only signed an Armistice not a peace treaty.They signed that Armistice in 1953. Technically, we are still at state of war with North Korea.
What I'm anticipating happening some day, is these little terrorist states like NK and Iran as they continue to play with the nuclear Genie, one of them accidentally detonates a nuke in their own countries killing millions of their own people, like islamo-fascist homoside bombers routinely kill themselves with their own bombs when they detonate prematurely either while being assembled or while on the way to the target, killing only the terrorist bomber and their associates. One day, one of these rogue nation nukes might just go off in their faces, and an accidentally detonated nuclear device and spoil your whole century.
KJI doesn't care about his people but maybe he'd like to start a war between the US and everyone else. The conflict has to start somewhere and who says he has to finish the fight? His people are starving anyway...so what if they get killed. (/sarcasm)
Liquid oxygen has a tendency to blow up if you do not have the right mixture.
Aren't we technically still at war with the buggers anyway?
"Yeah I'm so scared of all the horrible things that North Korea can do to us. What are they going to do?"
Not much, beyond vaporizing the entire city of Seoul and our servicemen there. But that's a pretty big deal to some of us.
Well, then, they will have to declare "Double Secret War".
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