When was the last time you remember our military doing an emergency deployment or redeployment of forces within the USA to protect citizens from attack by a foreign nation?
I guess this Star Wars stuff that President Barrack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have so long opposed is starting to come in pretty handy.
The Pentagon announced Friday it will spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to an Alaska-based missile defense system, responding to what it called faster-than-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles.
Our new Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says,
… 14 additional interceptors will be installed at Fort Greely, Alaska, where 26 already stand in underground silos, connected to communications systems and operated by soldiers at Greely and at Colorado Springs, Colo.
This is in addition to,
a previously announced Pentagon plan to place an additional radar in Japan to provide early warning of a North Korean missile launch and to assist in tracking its flight path.
Apparently President Obama remains unconcerned about Eastern Europe and threats posed by Russia and Iran,
A portion of the $1 billion cost of the expanded system at Fort Greely will come from scrapping the final phase of a missile defense system the U.S. is building in Europe, Hagel said. The system in Europe is aimed mainly at defending against a missile threat from Iran; key elements of that system are already in place.
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The only way the NorKs could hit the USA with a missile is if the Chinese sold/gave them the required missile.
The threat on the west coast is from China, not the NorKs.
A nuclear war with China would be epic.
Trading partners do not war. Nothing to worry about in that regard with China. They need customers.
The domestic Chinese market will be larger than the US market for most every commercial product in the next few years, if not earlier. The number of new automobiles sold in China will be greater than the USA this year, and the largest market in the world.
Perhaps they are helping to finance all the expansion by selling missiles to NorK. Or Iran. Or both.
You can give things to North Korea, but you cannot sell them anything because they have no money to pay for it and nothing anyone else wants.
They have all that money they dont spend on food.