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Defense secretary orders missile interceptors to Hawaii because of North Korean threat
By Associated Press

POSTED: 09:06 a.m. HST, Jun 18, 2009

WASHINGTON >> The United States has positioned more missile defenses around Hawaii as a precaution against a possible North Korean launch across the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.

“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 today that North Korea might fire its most advanced ballistic missile toward Hawaii around the July 4 Independence Day holiday in the U.S.

A new missile launch – though not expected to reach U.S. territory – would be a brazen slap in the face of the international community, which punished North Korea with new U.N. sanctions for conducting a second nuclear test on May 25 in defiance of a U.N. ban.

North Korea spurned the U.N. Security Council resolution with threats of war and pledges to expand its nuclear bomb-making program.

The missile now being readied in the North is believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles, and would be launched from North Korea’s Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast sometime around July 4, the Yomiuri newspaper said.

It cited an analysis by Japan’s Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.

[Flynn’s Editorial: All I could see from this recent article is how the fear-mongers are setting-up a war, not with the Middle East, but with North Korean, an Asian nation, that could have, in my mind, nuked the corrupted puss-heads residing in Hawaii (Laie), Japan and poor South Korea, if they wanted too. I’m sensing money being moved around again per Obama’s first passage of the stimulus [fraud] bill.]