US general confident North Korean missile can be intercepted
Source: KOMO News
WASHINGTON (AP) An Air Force general says she is extremely confident the United States could intercept a ballistic missile fired by North Korea.
During congressional testimony Thursday, Gen. Lori Robinson said North Korea "can't reach our homeland" right now. Robinson told the Senate Armed Services Committee, "I'm confident, should he do that."
She was referring to North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un. Robinson is the top officer at U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado. North Korea is pushing hard to upgrade its weapons systems to cope with what it calls U.S. hostility.
Many weapons experts say the North could have a functioning nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the continental U.S. within a few years. North Korea carried out two nuclear tests last year.
Read more: http://komonews.com/news/nation-world/us-general-confident-north-korean-missile-can-be-intercepted
bucolic_frolic
(43,196 posts)Swing and a miss
grantcart
(53,061 posts)parallel with another nuclear escapade:
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What is "whoops" and how did it come to refer to one of the biggest municipal bond defaults in history?
rickford66
(5,524 posts)EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Ground-based interceptor missiles
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_national_missile_defense
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)have already sold out! Obama might have done that.
HAB911
(8,904 posts)haele
(12,660 posts)Or a bases/fleets that might be operating in North-Western Pacific? Li'l Kim has more reachable U.S. targets to the South than he does to the East.
Haele
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)....and S Korea is about to get THAAD also.