Missile Defense is on alert!

The Obama Administration is putting the system on alert. Just in case North Korea launches toward Hawaii and it is actually going to hit something, the US systems are prepped to shoot a missile down.

THE Obama administration is reacting to the antici pated launch of another North Korean long-range ballistic missile, expected to fly over the Pacific toward Hawaii sometime soon, by putting missile defense on alert.

That’s a big change from last time.

Back in April, in advance of North Korea’s last missile test, the administration pretty much pooh-poohed the threat posed by the Taepo Dong launch, characterizing Pyongyang’s saber-rattling as bluster.

Even in North Korea’s launch is not aimed toward Hawaii, it could be the navigation system that fails this time, so who knows where it could end  up. It’s good to be ready.

Is the US Ready?

That Washinton Times says that, yes, our officials believe that the US can handle a missile attack.

“The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I’m very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened by a long-range ICBM that I’ve got high confidence that I could interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S. territory,” said Air Force Gen. Victor E. “Gene” Renuart, Northcom commander.

Will North Korea test a long range missile? We’ll find out tomorrow, let’s hope that they don’t and if they do that it fails.