"I don't see any evidence that Hawaii is in more danger now than before the last TD-2 launch," said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation.
It took North Korea about 12 days to complete ground preparations before the April launch of a Taepodong-2, roughly equivalent to a U.S. Titan missile.
If North Korea does launch a long-range missile from its new Dongchang-ni site on the west coast, it could be placed on a southeast trajectory toward Hawaii.
However, the only three long-range missiles fired by North Korea so far have fallen well short of the 4,500 miles required to reach the chain of American islands.
The North Korea missile launched in April traveled just under 2,000 miles before falling into the Pacific. That was about double the distance traveled by a similar missile launched in 1998. North Korea also launched a missile in 2006 but it fizzled shortly after take off.
Guys, this is just fear mongering. They did this with Iraq. We know that they are fear mongering. We should always be cautious. But we don't need to make stuff up about North Korea.
What do you think about this? People should have a right to know the truth about their capabilities. We don't need to lie about North Korea... why would people at the top lie? Unless they're hiding something?
wire.antiwar.com
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[edit on 20-6-2009 by Frankidealist35]
[edit on 20-6-2009 by Frankidealist35]
