U.S. Navy to deploy ships near N. Korea

[mumon]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Japan%20US%20Missile%20Defense


The mission, to be conducted in the Sea of Japan by ships assigned to the Navy's 7th fleet, will help lay the foundation for a system to detect and intercept ballistic missiles launched by "rogue nations."

Washington hopes to complete the network over the next several years.

"We are on track," Vice Admiral Jonathan Greenert, commander of the 7th Fleet, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday aboard the USS Coronado, which is based just south of Tokyo. "We will be ready to conduct the mission when assigned."

The deployment will be the first in a controversial program that is high on President Bush's defense agenda. Bush cleared the way to build the system two years ago by withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned ship-based missile defenses.



Or maybe to do a strike on N. Korea as part of an October Surprise?

[Deja Q]

1. Wow. I had no idea that THAT 'forest fire' was of such grave concern.

:eyes:

It was a nuke.

[xultar]

2. I read some where that we were going to provoke NK by conducting

naval exercises near there....

I didn't really believe it then. They were right!

Who else heard that or read that?

[Maple]

3. Not possible to intercept

Smoke and mirrors.

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=862200