[HomerBohn]

They may be making progress towards such a capability, but they're not there yet.

Let's wait until they've gotten 'there'. What could it hurt?

[mkjessup]

Oh I'm with you Homer, I'm all for a preemptive strike against North Korean satellites, as George Wallace said in '72, "Send 'em a message", but using the presence of two NorK satellites (that almost certainly do not contain any nuclear capability) to scare Hell out of the public can only serve to desensitize people to the threat.

Talk about it, publicize the threat potential, sure. I'd rather see us take out those satellites quietly without any fanfare and then see what Pyongyang wants to do about it.