The Huffington Post is reporting that North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, possibly even over the Fourth of July holiday. The report originated from the top-selling newspaper in Japan, the Yomiuri Daily. No government officials or U.S. military officials have confirmed the report.
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The report states that a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles, would be launched from North Korea’s northwestern coast. The report indicates that the missile could fly over Japan, and then continue toward Hawaii. The missile likely would not reach Hawaii, but the action would be a clear provocation against the United States.
It would also be a direct challenge to Barack Obama, as Hawaii is his home state.
Tensions between North Korea and the United States are already high after North Korea conducted its second nuclear test on May 25, and launched a series of missiles into the sea. The U.N. condemned the actions and imposed additional sanctions on North Korea.
A missile launch toward Hawaii would be a clear message to the United States and the world. North Korea is trying with all its might to obtain weapons that can threaten the United States and its neighbors and will continue to do so no matter what economic or diplomatic pressures are placed on it.
The question for Obama, if this report is true: Now what? Will North Korea become his Cuban Missile Crisis? Will he have to face down Kim Jong Il with the threat of war, as Kennedy did with the Soviet Union?
June 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Screw Obama, I’m here now.
I dare him. Weve got more military installations per square mile than any other state. We are the power house of the pacific buddy. But hey, this thought has often crossed my mind and wondered why the MSM never mentioned this. Of course were an ideal target, which is probably why the anti missle programs weve had (past tense) were being tested here in the isles off of Kaui, closest to N. Korea. If were going to nail his dong its gonna be from here.
June 18th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Mickey,
Obama is one of you guys. Remember he was born in Hawaii so he won’t let more then 2 or 3 missles land until he puts his foot down and tell North Korea to knock it off or he is going to get really really mad.
This is why we need a grown-up in the White House.
June 18th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Obama needs to take a page out of Kennedy, Reagan, and (yes, argh) Hillary Clinton.
He needs to say that if a missile that threatens U.S. territory is fired so it can land in or around U.S. territory, the U.S. will respond with annihilation.
North Korea needs to understand that the United States has the capability to kill every man, woman, and child in North Korea. They have to understand that we have a President who is willing to use that capability if a missile threatens the United States.
Hillary had the balls to say that Iran would be annihilated if it threatened the U.S. Obama needs to step up his rhetoric. Instead of saying he is “deeply concerned” etc., he needs to say flat out, we are country that can and will kill your entire population.
That is the only way to speak to North Korea.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I’m sure we have the whole Pacific submarine fleet moving into stratigic positions.
I’m not sure what the right move is on this one, but I think it would be a nice slap in the face to North Korea if we blow it out of the sky the second it gets over international waters…making sure we get it on some kind of video so we can broadcast it to the world on the six oclock news. Basically showing it as a useless weapon, and that we will not even hesitate to protect those who need protecting.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:26 am
George
Hes not one of us. He just went to school here for a few years. A snotty elite liberal school too which I attended at the same time in the summers. Bunch of arrogant upity little clicks who thought their sh*t didnt stink.
I’ll bet he doesnt even remember how to get from one side of the island to another or the difference between a manapua and musubi.
If he’d at least been involved in out politics at one point or another maybe he could say that.
Hell, I was more involved with politics here at 16 than he ever was. My dad and I smoked a joing with Neil Abercrombie while Obamas balls were supposed to be sprouting.
Anyway, I live about 2 miles from Kaneohe MCAS.
Pray for me ?
June 18th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Sorry, that was “joint” nor joing.
Yea, Abercrombie was our district rep in the 70s
June 18th, 2009 at 11:44 am
DMK, I don’t think we should just shoot it down. If someone throws a punch at you, you don’t just block it and forget about it. You have to hit back so they don’t try it again.
I think if they shoot a missile into our territory, we have to shoot back, tenfold, aiming at all their ballistic capability, and taking out their Dear Leader, if possible.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Hah, sweet Micky, Abercrombie went to the same school as I did (Union College in Schenectady, NY).
I would have smoked a Jay with him too, but he graduated, oh, 24 years before I was born.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I.R.,
Thats the other way to go, but the block and walk away would be very Chuck Norris of us…
June 18th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Yeah, Abercrombie was a full blown political hippie in those days. Hair down to his butt, huge beard, leather sandals, drove a checkered cab from NYC with his pc on the side.
My dad ran one of the top attractions in the state and I guess he was shmoozing Abercrombie so the place could get a liquor license. He’d invite him up for dinner sometimes and we’d sit around and listen to Miles Davis, Black Sabbath and get stoned with Abercrombie.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Are you guys kidding ?
I’ve studied martial arts for 40 years and if someone launchs a nuclear weapon at you traditional philosophy applied would probably dictate that you clean his fricken clock !
Chuck stands for a lot of great things but Bruce Lee was the man ! Jeez, is the mid life crisis showing yet ?
June 18th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I think Obama is a good speaker.but not a good leader for our country he dosent have enough honest experince. and seems to know nothing about our military soilders. WE ARE IN FOR A WORLD OF SH*T. Us America’s black and white will have to come together and pull ourselves through this. our President is to worried about the fashion show of things.THIS is a SERIOUS JOB!!!!! not a fashion show.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Seriously, mickey. Gates is looking like such a wimp for saying “We are ready to shoot down the missile.”
Reagain would’ve said, “We’re ready to shoot down the missile, AND we will bury you and spit on your grave if you try it, you little tiny worthless troll.”
That’s how a man speaks.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Yeah Iggy, even Bush would of told em to bring it on.
Our local commanders were on the news last night letting everyone know that were ready. They couldt get too specific but were kind of giggling at the thought a missle getting thru.
Still, its freaky. We didnt have sh*t like this happening on Bushs watch.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:52 am
The missile will be taken out of the air asap. but the united states will not launch a full counter assault instead it will talk to world leaders and prepare for defense. united states have nuclear weapons but they wont use it unless something really crazy happens. like north korea blowing a nuke near us. and even then i am pretty sure the us will instead use tatctical missiles and destroy all of north korea missile launch sites.
June 19th, 2009 at 9:28 am
this is what we need to do. we need to let north korea know that if they shoot that rocket anywhere near the direction of not just the US but our allies, then we will shoot everything we have at them. think about it this way. If we tell them exactly what is going to happen, then the world can not be mad at us for killing everything in sight. If we just say, well, we dont know what to do, then the world will blame us for killing a whole bunch of innocent. when you were a kid, and you knew exactly how bad the punishment would be, you wouldnt dare to do whatever it is that you would get punished for, but if you werent sure, and figured you could possible do it without getting in too much trouble, you were all about it.
June 19th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Mutually Assured Destruction anyone?
June 19th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Nah.
At this point ( hawaii being my home might have something to do with it) i’d just clean his clock. Enough is enough already. For the last 50 years weve been tested by this country, watched break every rule in the book, try to sell arms to Syria and Iran, sell counterfeit American currency, deal drugs, vilote human rights on a horrific scale, test nukes, fire missles, make verbal threats of retaliation for trying to enforce international law and on and on and on.
Man, if these guys get away with something terrible no one and I mean no one can say a damn thing us being called complete f*cking idiots for letting them get away with it.
In real life context between one man and another if someone had as much against him as Kim does by now his a$$hole would of been re upholstered a long time ago.
I say we fly over there right now, no more waiting, no more diplomacy and put the fear of God in his heart. Not rattle his cage but destroy it.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I will end the conflict like this.To the pople of NK. if you like to became ballistic or nuclear I would show you what’s next!!!
I will talk with all the super powers all of them and then I WILL DETONATE A HUGE NUKE NEAR THE KOREAN PENINSULA SO POWERFULL THAT EVERY BODY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH WILL SAKE TO DEAD!!!
and that will be the end of the rethoric bullsh1t”
thanks
June 19th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Obama this Obama, people just got to say negative thing about Obama. You DUM DUM fail to realize this, N Korean’s are starving and they are scared, they need food. The more sanction we put on them, the hungrier they get. N Korea might want to fight a war but will they win? HELL NO. They just need a way to get rid of some of there people and blame it on the U.S.
I’m sure we will help them if they continue there suicidal ways.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:32 am
First, the North Korean government is a criminal regieme that commits many many crimes by the standards of the rest of the civilized world. We should take it down once and for all. IF you notice they survive mainly by the protective skirts of china and blackmail in various forms. Kim Jong 11 is a criminal every bit as bad as saddam hussain ever was and now its loudly going nuclear and building icbm.s and publically threatening nuclear war. It would be our natural course to simply take it down. In the end the north korean people would be freed from a sadistic criminal dictatorship as well.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:03 am
We are not going to anything even if a missle is fired other than talk. We may talk about pulling troops out of iraq and sending them to korea, however, all our power is just for show, a preventative measure. N.Korea knows we could completely destroy them 100 times over, but obviously they do not see the same things we see. Do they want us to get involved in a nuclear attack or another Korean war because they see a weakness in us. If you were a country that did not like america now would be one of the best time to attack, these attacks are partially responsible for situation in america today. I personally do not believe we will completely eliminate our problems by nuking part of N.Korea and we CANNOT nuke all of it because they have neighbors which I am sure they are aware of that to. That means we will have another urban battlefield we cant win, we can only delay the enemy, can we survive this economically? Maybe that is what they are counting on.
June 21st, 2009 at 9:42 am
The US has maintained the ability to use nuclear weaponry for over 1/2 a century, but hasn’t. Shouldn’t the decimation seen in WWII serve as a deterrent against provocation? Apparently, sanctions don’t bother NK, and their “leader” invokes blind faith and total devotion. Dead I’d dead, regardless of what kind of missiles are used. Hopefully, no nation will ever again use the nuclear variety.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Very, Very simple, if North Corea lunch a Missile in the direction of Hawain Islans, even if they short in 500 miles, I wil Strike Corea with Nuclear Power, for them to know, that blackmail is not longer permited and acepteble on the world,for estupid Dictaitors, that opresse their people with humger and repretion!!!!
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
North Korea has nothing to lose. The wars are bad for people and good for the economy. However, Mickey all Hawaii has is its tourism industry and if there is a missle stuck into one of the hotels in
Waikiki, the fat and dumb Hawaiians wont buy their spam and pakalolo.