The big snag being, by the time they get to these sites, the missiles will be long gone, fired at their targets. There's no reason to think that Kim would just sit back and let his missiles be taken out one by one. His only card involves immediate asymmetrical escalation, and that includes against China if he perceives that they have betrayed him. Beijing isn't that far from North Korea, it wouldn't even need one of their more modern missiles to cross that distance.
Basically, as soon as you start any attack on North Korea the likelihood of the wholesale launch of DPRK missiles increases exponentially. So rather than air defence sites, I think they'll have to go for whatever missiles they can find, and then hope that the anti-missile defences of South Korea, Japan, Guam, Hawaii and the US mainland can take out whatever they miss.
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