Posted on 06/18/2009 6:13:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
U.S. Fortifies Hawaii to Meet Threat From Korea
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions escalate between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent moves to restart its nuclear-weapon program and resume test-firing long-range missiles.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that the U.S. is concerned that Pyongyang might soon fire a missile toward Hawaii. Some senior U.S. officials expect a North Korean test by midsummer, even though most don't believe the missile would be capable of crossing the Pacific and reaching Hawaii.
Mr. Gates told reporters that the U.S. is positioning a sophisticated floating radar array in the ocean around Hawaii to track an incoming missile. The U.S. is also deploying missile-defense weapons to Hawaii that would theoretically be capable of shooting down a North Korean missile, should such an order be given, he said.
"We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west, in the direction of Hawaii," Mr. Gates said. "We are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect American territory."
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People of Hawaii, do not fear. Most U.S. officials think the missile probably can't reach Hawaii. Probably.
And, if Chia Head's going to do it, now's a good time, because within the next few years we probably won't have missile defense systems capable of protecting you.
Wonder if Hussein would consider a ballistic missile fired at Hawaii as an act of war?
Probably not.
People of Hawaii, do not fear. Should the dastardly missile actually hit you, 0bama will send a strongly worded message to the UN. You have his word on that.
Hawaii he cares about.
Palin is going to be on her own if they point their ding dong at Alaska.
How ironic if their “native son” allowed Pearl Harbor: The Sequel.
Sure miss the pre-emptive Bush doctrine. I wonder if we’ll have to mirandize the Chia pet before we shoot back?
Wonder if Hussein would consider a ballistic missile fired at Hawaii as an act of war?
Of course not, especially if it is a mile short.
From the article:
“The Obama administration, meanwhile, would have to choose whether to attempt to shoot down the missile, a technically complicated procedure with no guarantee of success. An American failure would embarrass Washington, embolden Pyongyang and potentially encourage Asian allies like Japan to take stronger measures of their own against North Korea.”
So shoot several missiles! DUH !!!!
(like that will happen! We don’t want to meddle.)
He’s going to write a very forceful letter and have a speech in the Rose garden...
He’s reading Jimmy Carter’s memoirs for inspiration....
the west ????
The superhuman Obama will deflect the missile. With “swagger”.
I think he would. An attack by NK would allow him to fully disengage from the middle east to fight the “real” enemy (which he will blame on Bush).
This is the moment he and his muslim brothers have been waiting for—a limited nuclear war between the infidels.
What if the NORKs shoot at and miss Hawaii? Will we then give them our missile technology? This may be a foolish question, but with the present occupant of the WH anything can happen.
Obama probably is hoping that Wasilla gets nuked -- Obama is probably inviting it.
Can somebody explain WHY we’re even going to let this happen?
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Only a dummy could assume that NK does not have the capability to even reach New York. Don't assume anything or we just might get our a@@ hurt.
Do we have any FReepers in South Korea?
I wonder what the locals there are saying?
Here’s what I posted on Sandrat’s thread:
So let’s say this is all a ruse, on the part of Chia Head, and we’re falling for it. I predicted to some friends the other day that the Norks would send out a suspicious boat (ala Gulf of Tonkin) that will serve as a causus belli, and sure enough they did. A worst case scenario-—NK lets fly a missile, purportedly headed in the direction of Hawaii, but it explodes 100 miles up over the Sea of Japan. Ha ha, right? But this time it’s a nuke that explodes, and sends an EMP that knocks out all of the electrical grids and electronics of Japan and South Korea, not to mention our US military . Meanwhile the Norks themselves are hiding out in their tunnels, and what little gadgetry they do have exposed is vacuum tube crap from the sixties that’s largely impervious to EMP insult.
They simultaneously loft a missile in the direction of Diego Garcia, with the same result. Then they come storming out of their tunnels and march on Seoul.
At Launch time we need to subversively transmit a Gyroscope trajectory change towards China.
End of NK problemo.
China won’t let them fire a missile at Hawaii.
I don’t know what they are worried about. All I heard on November 5, 2008 is how much the world loved us again.
Besides if it happens it is what the voters in Hawaii voted for. !@#$%%^& them.
If we still lived in America, wouldn’t we just knock the stupid thing off it’s launch pad & call it a day?
Didn’t the Dems just cancel missile defense? Why isn’t an ad running in Hawaii regarding this? Doesn’t the GOP want to win in 2010?
I don’t think the Hawaians are gonna get nuked. I think, just as did the last two Taepodong 2 missiles, this one’s gonna explode, but this time intentionally, and over the Sea of Japan. And it’ll have a nuke on it that goes ka-blooey.
Not to worry, Citizens. Your Messiah just chopped $1.4 BILLION out of our missile defense budget. Gotta buy votes with that money, even if it means leaving you defenseless against madmen with nukes and missiles.
I own a timeshare I have been trying to dump for about a year. I sure hope this doesn’t make it even more difficult to unload.
Thats one way and appreciate your post. But since NK has one of the largest standing armies in the world it seems they could just take Seoul with a conventional attack if they really wanted to. Its not like they worry about things like casualties.
So let’s take a poll in Hawaii and see how people feel about Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program now, eh?
Obama says, “Go ahead. I dare you to hit that vault with my birth certificate in it! In fact, I double-dare you!!”
It works that way if it’s designed to work that way. Everyone thinks it’s headed out 4,000+ miles, but instead it is detonated over the Sea of Japan, and the resulting EMP wreaks havoc with everyone who has anything that works with electronics. That means everyone but the Norks, who don’t have any.
I suspect Kimmy knows if he tried that, Sarah would show up at his chateau with a fish knife and cut his n*ts off.
Nothing personal in this man ~ not one thing.
"We voted for him. He won."
Cool, although I heard Obama was planning on cutting the missile defense budget and selling the hardware at a used parts auction. He’s probably invited our enemies to open the bidding.
Okay, snide comments aside, the missile defense system is derided by our enemies as an escalation, meanwhile they are busy developing and building offensive weapons. Obama thinks they’re right about our defensive platform pushing them to develop more offensive weapons capability... As if they needed an incentive to try and fulfill their dream of immolating our nation and all of our citizens in a pillar of fire.
There's a fine line between self-defense and cowering. When there's no talk of retaliation, I'd say we're cowering.
The oligarchs in Big China would like nothing better than to SEND A MESSAGE to all the several hundreds of million Overseas Chinese by letting North Korea lob a missile into Hawaii, the home of the RICHEST Overseas Chinese.
A missile lobbed into Alaska will do nothing but increase the price of China's oil and coal imports.
A vaporized Pearl Harbor, will earn a strongly worded rebuke from the White House and the UN.
Just throw a few steaks on the ground and they'll be too busy fighting over them to offer any resistance.
That would CHA with his BC problem.
Indeed.
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