Report: North Korea preparing for missile test

MSNBC.COM ^

[Nothometoday]

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea loaded booster rockets onto a launch pad and moved about 10 fuel tanks to a launch site in preparation to test-fire a long-range missile that could reach as far as the U.S. mainland, a newspaper reported Saturday. South Korea and the United States made the assessment after analyzing satellite images, the Chosun Ilbo reported, citing an unnamed high-level South Korean government official. On Friday, a U.S. government official said Pyongyang was accelerating preparations for testing the missile.

[Nothometoday]

I hope I posted this right.....I felt it was important news.

[Jeff Head]

When they test their new ICBM, we should have a live test of our new BMD (Ballistic Missile Defense) off one of our AEGIS cruisers in the Sea of Japan and...shoot it down over international airspace.

[grey_whiskers]

Jeff,
Normally I love your stuff, but this time I disagree.

Anti North Korea, anti-Usual Suspects Sarcasm Torpedo^TM ARMED. FIRE!!

Let's use some of our high-tech wizardry to reprogram the missile in flight so it hits one of the following (you choose which one):

a) Beijing
b) Tehran
c) Damascus
d) Mecca
e) Hollywood

[Jeff Head]

I think it would be an excellent test/demonstration of the AEGIS/SM-3/LEAP system should the N. Korean missile be shot so as to overfly Japan or international airspace. Would send a message to all belligerents.

Of course, reprograaming it in flight to turn and target their own assetts would send just as powerful a message...perhaps more so.

I would love to be a fly on the wall in Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran, or Moscow for that matter in either scenario! Hehehe.