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Yokosuka, Japan (TRN)-- The United States has deployed the aircraft carrier George Washington and its Strike Group to take up station near North Korea in advance of a planned ballistic missile launch by that nation toward Hawaii. The missile launch is scheduled for July 4.
North Korea revealed it intends to conduct yet another missile test, this one an intercontinental ballistic missile which they say they will fire "toward Hawaii."
Secretary of Defense William Gates has since ordered the deployment of U.S. Missile defenses to Hawaii. Those defenses, part of the "Star Wars" system created under President Ronald Reagan, can intercept and destroy the North Korean missile if it threatens Hawaii.
North Korea has stated they will respond with military attacks against South Korea and Japan if any of their missiles are shot down by an outside country.
Originally posted by Common Good
North Korea is getting really brave these days,
This man is a loon, and I wish he would just think about his people more than he does the United States and South Korea. He in my opinion, is endangering the lives of North korea who have absolutely nothing to do with his temper tantrums, but in the end, they will be the ones who pay for it. Its really sad.
I have no doubt that this man is serious with the words he says, eventhough he is notorious for just talking Shiiiiiet, I think deep down he truly means what he says and that he will do just what he says he is going to do.
Originally posted by Daz3d-n-Confus3d
It appears to me that Obama's camp is trying to give us the illusion that this is like the Kennedy missile crisis. Trying to get those approval ratings back up.
Originally posted by Daz3d-n-Confus3d
Not in on it, more like secretly provoked by challenging him and his ego. Not hard to get a psycho to do something crazy.
Originally posted by debris765nju
North Korea might just tuck one of their Nukes aboard a surface ship
Originally posted by Daz3d-n-Confus3d
It appears to me that Obama's camp is trying to give us the illusion that this is like the Kennedy missile crisis. Trying to get those approval ratings back up.
Originally posted by SKUNK2
How come this is the only news source reporting a carrier battle group is being deployed near N.korea??
I know why!!! Because it is BS...
Originally posted by SKUNK2
How come this is the only news source reporting a carrier battle group is being deployed near N.korea??
I know why!!! Because it is BS...
A successful test would prove a huge boost at home to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, whose illness last year - widely thought to have been a stroke - has raised questions over his grip on power.
"This administration - and our military - is fully prepared for any contingencies," Mr Obama said in an interview to be aired by CBS television on Monday.
Asked if Washington was warning of a military response, Mr Obama said no.
He added: "I don't want to speculate on hypotheticals. But I do want to give assurances to the American people that the T's are crossed and the I's are dotted."
Meanwhile, a US naval vessel is tracking a North Korean ship believed to be heading for Burma via Singapore.
South Korea's YTN news reported, citing intelligence sources, that the ship was suspected of carrying illicit weapons in violation of sanctions agreed under a new UN resolution.
China and Russia - the country's traditional allies - approved the sanctions earlier this month, and called for North Korea to return to international talks on its nuclear programme.