U.S. Navy to Deploy Ships Near N. Korea

[GoBlue]

ABOARD THE USS CORONADO - In the first step toward erecting a multi-billion-dollar shield to protect the United States from foreign missiles, the U.S. Navy (news - web sites) will begin deploying state-of-the-art destroyers to patrol the waters off North Korea (news - web sites) as early as next week.



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."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=721&e=10&u=/ap/20040924/ap_on_re_as/japan_us_missile_defense

[neverforget]

1. We are on track to build a Maginot Line in the sky.......utterly useless.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Cool more ways to spend our money

uselessly

By the way, lets play a game of what if, the anti missle defense system works... (Yes a big iff)

What will the N'Koreans do? USE MISSILES?

Rolls eyes

[punpirate]

3. Well, I suppose they might first try...

... to sink or disable the floating early-warning DEW line parked off their shores.

Then fire missiles.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I was thinking of tother delivery systems

But don't mind me....

Oh and by the way, if they did not explode a nuclear weapon why all of a Sudden are we so worried?

Hmmmmmm, enguiring minds want to know

[Dangeresque]

6. Long time

We've actually been building up to this for quite some time; ship-based missile defenses have been in development for some years. But yeah, we (and the Japanese, of course) are worried, because they're nuts up there in North Korea. Better safe than sorry.

[nodehopper]

11. they are crazy and to be fair so is this administration

[punpirate]

7. Well, we've only...

... completely screwed up one country along the axis of evil, so we have to hustle along to the next opportunity to screw things up....

[banana republican]

12. Becuause Rummy when he was CEO OF ABB

Sold the Nuclear Reactors to North Korea....

[Dangeresque]

5. Success

That's the most successful kind of defense of all...one that never actually has to be *used*.

[TrogL]

8. Aren't "troop movements" seen diplomatically as a precursor to war?

Why is Dubya sabre-rattling North Korea?

[Radius]

10. NO

The NKs shot a ballistic missle over Japan, through their airspace. That is a precursor to war, nothing came of it.

The North Koreans are a parasite looking for a host.

[Radius]

9. They know which ships own them...

The ones sitting at 1500 plus feet, undetectable to them, carrying 24 trident missiles with 6 warheads per.

They know they are listening on ULF for orders that would kill everything in N. Korea.

They can't get near the fleet without starting an outright war. They have had 50 years to start a war, they are not going to start one today. IMHO

[Earth_First]

13. People want to re-select this psychotic?!

Let's send the 7th fleet to North Korea...

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