How safe is USA ? North Korea already test the war head found in Alaska?

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http://times.hankooki.com/cgi-bin/hkiprn.cgi?pa=/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm&ur=times.hankooki.com&fo=print_kt.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/190606mocknuked.htm
http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n1780.cfm

Answer 1

I would agree that we're fairly safe from this launch. My concern is this quote:
"North Korea as a sovereign state has the right to develop, deploy, test-fire and EXPORT a missile," he said. "We are aware of the U.S. concerns about our missile test-launch. So our position is that we should resolve the issue through negotiations."

He said EXPORT, right out in the open like that? To whom? Is he talking about Iran? Pakistan & India already have longer range missiles. Iran can already hit eastern Europe, if North Korea sells them this they could hit western Europe, then what do we do? What if they accidently leave a warhead attached or send over some scientists? I'm very concerned with the meanings that word brings.

In the short-term this is just backmail to get stuff from us.

Answer 2

Your sources are interesting; however, North Korea claims not to have test fired a missile since 1998. I am not sure where the reporting of a test firing in 2003 came from. Even if the Taepodong 2 is capable of hitting Alaska, which is questionable at best due to problems with targeting software on the part of the North Koreans, the US has Aegis Destroyers off the coast of North Korea, as well as land based ballistic missile defense capability able to shoot down incoming missiles before they cross US airspace (see below for current measures in place).

Missile defense remains a work in progress. For example, a highly sophisticated X-band radar is being towed by sea from Hawaii to Adak, Alaska, which sits some 1,200 miles southwest of Anchorage. Once activated, it will discern between decoys and warheads as small as a baseball, and keep a watchful eye on inbound traffic from Beijing and Pyongyang.

Elsewhere on the high seas, May saw the Navy fire an SM-2 anti-missile missile from the deck of an Aegis cruiser and kill an inbound threat in its terminal phase (the final few seconds of flight). "It was the first sea-based intercept of a ballistic missile in its terminal phase," according to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

Likewise, the MDA scored a land-based success in May, when rocketeers at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico test-fired a high-altitude interceptor missile designed to seek out and destroy inbound threats in their final minute of flight.

In the skies, the Airborne Laser -- a missile-killing laser mounted on a 747 that can loiter outside enemy territory and destroy a missile long before it threatens American soil -- continues to hit its marks. Ground-based testing of the laser was completed in December, with a new round of flight-tests scheduled for this coming fall, all building toward a full-blown missile-intercept above Edwards AFB sometime in 2008.

Answer 3

The quality of your links is questionable.
I ran search for ...north korean warhead+alaska.....
first two pages of results yields no mainstream source.
Only fringe sites and blogs.

Answer 4

The problem with the stories above, is that they all quote N Korea.

Answer 5

believe me, we are safe. North Korea wouldn't dare attack us. They know that if they do, hell will be raining down from the sky.

Answer 6

OH, DON'T WORRY IT IS VERY SAFE!!