North Korean Missile Threat: Made in the USA
Posted By admin On July 3, 2009 @ 11:08 am

Kurt NimmoInfowars July 3, 2009

According to Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart, Northcom commander, the United States is ready to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch in the direction of Hawaii.
“The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I’m very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened by a long-range ICBM that I’ve got high confidence that I could interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S. territory,” said Renuart.
Intelligence analysts do not believe a missile launched from the Stalinist nation would be capable of hitting Hawaii’s main islands, which are 4,500 miles from North Korea. It is widely reported that North Korea’s missile tests are prone to malfunctions. Any warhead would be small (around 700-kilograms) and do little damage if it managed to reach Hawaii. The missile and its puny payload would likely be destroyed in the heat of re-entry. North Korea is years away from having the capability to arm a missile with a nuclear payload.
Honolulu is 7,100 kilometers from North Korea. Seattle is 7,900 and Washington 10,700.
North Korea has tested its Taepodong-2 twice. The first effort, launched in 2002, failed after 40 seconds, and the second earlier this year did not succeed in putting a small satellite in low earth orbit. The Taepodong-1 has a more consistent testing record. It has an estimated range between 3,800 and 5,900 kilometers, putting it in range of U.S. bases in Guam, Okinawa, and Japan.
“Accuracy would be problematic. The missile would be as likely to hit ocean as land,” writes the Christian Science Monitor. “Bottom line: For the moment, the chance of North Korea endangering Hawaii, or any other US territory, may be quite small.”
North Korea’s error prone and outdated ICBMs would not be possible without 30 year old Soviet technology. “With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States,” reports Fox News.