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Test case.(NORTH KOREA)(testing long range missiles)
WHY would North Korea prepare to test a long-range missile in plain sight of U.S. satellites and the world? There is much head-scratching over that, but it really shouldn't be a mystery. Aggressive and erratic behavior is pretty much what the North Korean economy is based on. It is what has allowed North Korea to extort aid from the rest of the world as a prop to its criminal regime.
The proper response is to make it clear to the Norks that we aren't playing that game anymore. That means eschewing the Clinton approach of shoveling help to Pyongyang in the hope of ending provocations. It also means using our missile-defense system against a North Korean launch, should it come to that.
The Taepo Dong-2 missile has the range to reach at least Alaska and Hawaii, and the gravity of North Korea's having this technology should go without saying. There is a wide expanse of ocean where such a test launch could fall harmlessly, but, on the other hand, the missile could be directed toward U.S. territory. If that does happen, the Bush administration would be in the odd position of taking a lunatic regime's word for it that a missile heading toward us was innocently intended.
Such a position is intolerable. If a North Korean missile--even an unarmed one--comes within the performance envelope of our nascent missile-defense system, we should try to shoot it down. We currently have eleven ground-based interceptors deployed at two sites in Alaska and California. ...
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