[RandyRep]

I heard a fellow on the Glenn Beck show yesterday call in and say that every time North Korea launches something, the US radar systems (and presumably the defense systems in Alaska) light up to track the NK missile.

He said the Chinese watch this with their own systems (including satellites) to determine ways to evade or neutralize them. I don't know how accurate this comment is, but Beck said he would investigate it.

If this is true, then China and NK are in cahoots, as most of us think they are.

China has another interest here - to let the USA spend a portion of our treasure on defense systems and on bases in South Korea. They figure, I think, that they can always get someone to give them the design and operational secrets when the defense systems are developed - just like they did with missile guidance systems in the Clinton years.

[garbageseeker]

He said the Chinese watch this with their own systems (including satellites) to determine ways to evade or neutralize them. I don't know how accurate this comment is, but Beck said he would investigate

I have heard this too.

[DB]

The other side to that is, that China does not want Japan to go nuclear.

NK is pushing Japan towards that end. And I have no doubt Japan would provide a formidable deterrent.

[Ancesthntr]

He said the Chinese watch this with their own systems (including satellites) to determine ways to evade or neutralize them.

2 can play at that game. I wouldn't doubt that we've done, and are doing, lots of that ourselves. It'd be interesting to see what the launch of a few armed cruise missiles from several subs at widely-spaced locations toward their launch pads during refueling would do in terms of lighting up their radars (not to mention the fireworks that'd be produced upon landing. Then we'll see what Mr. Kim Jong (Mentally) Il does.

[Bommer]

I heard a fellow on the Glenn Beck show yesterday call in and say that every time North Korea launches something, the US radar systems (and presumably the defense systems in Alaska) light up to track the NK missile.

He said the Chinese watch this with their own systems (including satellites) to determine ways to evade or neutralize them. I don't know how accurate this comment is, but Beck said he would investigate it.

Wow Glenn Beck investigating.....that almost means something, like Imus investigating or Bill O'Reilly.

BTW, it aint all that hard to nuetrilize this:

1) The Chinese could launch a pre-emptive EMP bomb into the atmosphere to knock out power. Only draw back is that they loose power too

2) or they could fire 10 missles at once with only 1 nuke in the lot and play the odds. You definately will destroy something either small or very very big.

Either way its a load of over-hyoed crap! A 3rd rate country like North Korea knows that in the end, if you show up to a gun fight with 5 swiss army knives hoping to kick ass while your loading your Mossberg shotgun, your going to go home in a body bag!

[ReignOfError]

I heard a fellow on the Glenn Beck show yesterday call in and say that every time North Korea launches something, the US radar systems (and presumably the defense systems in Alaska) light up to track the NK missile.

He said the Chinese watch this with their own systems (including satellites) to determine ways to evade or neutralize them. I don't know how accurate this comment is, but Beck said he would investigate it.

If this is true, then China and NK are in cahoots, as most of us think they are.

It's not proof of collusion. If anything -- a North Korean missile, a stray airliner, a satellite falling out of orbit -- lights up the DEW grid, the Chinese are watching (as are the Russians, the Indians, probably even the Japanese). I'm sure our own assets were watching the Chinese watching the launch.