The White House has dismissed North Korea’s threat to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States in retaliation for UN sanctions, pushing the sanctions through with Chinese endorsement.
“The United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack,” insisted White House spokesman Jay Carney, who says that the US doesn’t believe the threats are real.
It is interesting that, facing a specific threat from North Korea the administration is so quick to dismiss its validity, as officials have regularly cited hypothetical North Korean threats as the justification for extra spending on missile defense systems of dubious utility.
Though the Obama Administration appears correct in their estimation that North Korea isn’t actually going to attack, it is unclear on what they are basing their claim to be able to defend against them, since America’s missile defense system is, according to official estimates “very expensive and has limited effectiveness.”
Its those moments when the matrix flickers as they quickly shift from one lie to another that lets you know you are inside the matrix.
N. Korea is a threat that justifies spending tens of billions of dollars a year on missile defense, but hey they couldn't hit the broad side of a continent and the missile probably wouldn't work anyways, so we aren't worried about their threats, but make sure you don't sequester 'defense' because N. Korea is this evil rogue state with nuclear weapons that is a dangerous threat to us all and you must hand over more money to us immediately or we won't be able to protect you from these guys who probably couldn't hit North America.
And by the same token, North Korea knows that our Empire is powerless to do anything if NK decides to drop a nuke into some uninhabited part of South Korea.
For a nuclear war would destroy our Empire by showing the world just what a paper tiger we really are.
It's disappointing that you reference "official estimates" to your own article that omits who these officials are and that that article was really about Iran's lack of a missile capable of striking Europe or North America. That's weak, Jason.
Well, it would be weak if it were true. But it isn't. The linked article is about North Korean, not Iranian, capabilities, and it identifies the cited official (General James Cartwright, who at the time was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and the venue/context (a US Senate hearing on missile defense).