North Korea May Fire Missile Towards Hawaii!

Posted on June 18, 2009

The United States has positioned additional missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean missile launch. Read more on the possible missile towards Hawaii below. Scary!

The U.S. is getting ready for the possible missile launch towards Hawaii, which sounds very scary and would be a huge slap in the face to the United States.

“We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii,” Gates said.
Gates told reporters at the Pentagon he has sent the military’s ground-based mobile missile system to Hawaii, and positioned a radar system nearby. Together the systems theoretically could detect and shoot down a North Korean missile if it came to that.

“Without telegraphing what we will do, I would just say … we are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect Americans and American territory,” Gates said.

A Japanese newspaper reported on Thursday that North Korea might fire its most advanced ballistic missile toward Hawaii around the Fourth of July holiday. The new missile launch would not be taken lightly to the international community, that punished North Korea with new U.N. sanctions for conducting a second nuclear test on May 25 in defiance of a United Nations ban.

North Korea spurned the U.N. Security Council resolution with threats of war and even pledging to expand its nuclear bomb-making program. The missile being made ready is believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles. It reportedly would be launched from North Korea’s Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast near July 4, Independence Day in U.S., the Yomiuri newspaper said.

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