U.S. Military Set to Intercept North Korean Ship

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

You bet they are busy out there. If Korea said they are going to fire a missile at Hawaii and they did, time to be vigilant. Imagine if they did send a missile less nuke warhead? This could get more interesting that we would like.

This move might make the citzens of Hawaii feel better, but surely North Korea is not that crazy to fire one.

The starving masses of North Korea would become the flaming masses.

I heard some disturbing news that the white house has said we can stop them, but we can't board them.

Sort of like the pirate situation, uh?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by geetrue

This move might make the citzens of Hawaii feel better, but surely North Korea is not that crazy to fire one.

The starving masses of North Korea would become the flaming masses.

I heard some disturbing news that the white house has said we can stop them, but we can't board them.

Sort of like the pirate situation, uh?

This is certainly posturing on NK part. China has the ability to bring NK to their knees over this. I'm not sure why China has not stood up. At any rate, we show equal force and posture ourselves. We have about as much intentions of lighting one off as the NK do. What I possibly foresee and huge mistake is NK lighting on off for Hawaii but manually detonating it a thousand miles out. That is a potential recipy for disaster.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I'm not sure why China has not stood up.

I presume its the old enemy of my enemy line of thinking.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

I presume its the old enemy of my enemy line of thinking.

We can say for certainty that NK is not a paper tiger. She has nukes and demonstrated that. The way NK is posturing and throws out using retaliation x100 if the US interdicts her ship seems like it is coming from a mad man. Perhaps they are very concerned this posture is coming from a mad man. China perhaps views this the same?

[Skybird]

Stop the ship and board it once it has left the six-mile-zone of NK or China.

Shoot down that test missile if it flies into Hawai's direction. Or Japan or Australia or South Korea, for that matter.

Bring a small two-liner in the smallprint of newspapers on page 27, one line for the first and one line for the second event - not more.

At least that's what I would do.

Proliferation is the biggest threat coming from NK. It shall not be allowed. Preventing proliferation by all means needed is total priority over avoiding to provoke them. That's why searching the ship should not be left to the Chinese. They might hide findings in order to play down the incident.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Stop the ship and board it once it has left the six-mile-zone of NK or China.

Shoot down that test missile if it flies into Hawai's direction. Or Japan or Australia or South Korea, for that matter.

Bring a small two-liner in the smallprint of newspapers on page 27, one line for the first and one line for the second event - not more.

At least that's what I would do.

Proliferation is the biggest threat coming from NK. It shall not be allowed. Preventing proliferation by all means needed is total priority over avoiding to provoke them. That's why searching the ship should not be left to the Chinese. They might hide findings in order to play down the incident.

Stop the ship, absolutely. UN resolutions seem to require that, and force it to the nearest port. Of course it can be inspected enroute.

As a side note UN resolutions required action against Iraq also, but when executed, it was criticized mightily. With Mr. Obama's pathological need for approval I suspect the ship will get a pass.

I think it would be better if the missile is never fired by NK. Shooting down such a missile would reveal capabilities not for the entire worlds eyes.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

Stop the ship, absolutely. UN resolutions seem to require that, and force it to the nearest port. Of course it can be inspected enroute.

As a side note UN resolutions required action against Iraq also, but when executed, it was criticized mightily.

That can be debated - and has. Not to mention the amateurish way in which the "action" was not prepared, not planned, and thus badly carried out. The result is an Iraqi prime minister taking general orders from Teheran now, and a Shia population looking for leadership from Iran. Clever!

With Mr. Obama's pathological need for approval I suspect the ship will get a pass.

Let's wait and see.

I think it would be better if the missile is never fired by NK. Shooting down such a missile would reveal capabilities not for the entire worlds eyes.

Test shots from earlier stages of the socalled star wars program have been on all major TV screens around the globe - since years. That some of them were successful, is no secret. We also think of the Patriot missiles shooting down Iraqi missiles.