Japan may have no choice but to shoot down the next North Korean missile test

When North Korea fired a missile over Japan on Tuesday, it violated the island nation's sovereign territory and defied the United Nations. And if Japan doesn't do anything about it, experts say Pyongyang will most likely walk all over it.

North Korea has reached a point with its long-range missile tests where it needs to fire them on normal trajectories, which means flying over Japan.

The North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles flew almost straight up in the air and landed only a few hundred miles away during the test, though they're meant to travel thousands of miles. (<-- what? -my comment)

Now North Korea needs to find out how to guide the warheads when they're flying at something.

"There is a technical imperative for conducting this test," Mike Elleman, an expert on missiles at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told The Washington Post. "They want to be able to look at reentry dynamics and how it performs on a more normal trajectory."
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Given North Korea's need for these kinds of tests over Japan, if Japan doesn't respond strongly enough, it can only expect the tests to continue.

"In a way, it's kind of a trial balloon," Elleman said. "If we overfly Japan, what happens? If the blowback isn't too significant, they will feel more comfortable with launching a Hwasong-14 to a good distance to validate its performance on a normal trajectory."

Tal Inbar, the head of the space research center at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, tweeted after the launch: "NK missile flight over Japan is an Archimedean point for the US. No REAL ACTION — and we will see more missiles on the same path soon."

(yahoo news feed)
 
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noise said:
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What makes NK think that it needs to defend itself ?

Maybe it should sign the NPT like Iraq , Libya , Syria and Afghanistan ?


How about Japan leases NK a base on its southern coast for harmless testing out to sea ?
Japan knows a bit about not having a nuclear defence after all.
 
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moon2012 said:
I'm aware that you're the forum idiot- but invading a sovereign nation's airspace with any nuclear-capable vehicle is a provocation. The fault- as you may or may not come to understand over time- is with the instigator. NK, no doubt, is well aware of what happened to the non-nuclear nations of Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq and others .
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Which is what NK is doing to Japan, correct?
 
moon2012 said:
What makes NK think that it needs to defend itself ?

Maybe it should sign the NPT like Iraq , Libya , Syria and Afghanistan ?


How about Japan leases NK a base on its southern coast for harmless testing out to sea ?
Japan knows a bit about not having a nuclear defence after all.
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Where did you come up w/ that?

Let them fire into china or russia, his buddies.:dunno:
 
moon2012 said:
Correct. NK is doing just as the US does. Nobody punishes the US. The example has been set.

Hypocrites - line up here.
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The US nor anyone else is sending bombers or missiles over NK that I have read, have you??

NK sent them @ Japan & over Japan....... Since the USA is taking responsibility for their defense, what should the USA & Japan do about it??
 
Bill said:
The US nor anyone else is sending bombers or missiles over NK that I have read, have you??

NK sent them @ Japan & over Japan....... Since the USA is taking responsibility for their defense, what should the USA & Japan do about it??
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The US overflies Syria illegally every day. The US actually fired 59 nuclear-capable Cruise missiles into Syria illegally in one shoot. If you're going to stand on the law you must be consistent.

I'm certainly not going to side with a bunch of hypocrites just because NK offends Japanese airspace.
 
Bill said:
The US nor anyone else is sending bombers or missiles over NK that I have read, have you??

NK sent them @ Japan & over Japan....... Since the USA is taking responsibility for their defense, what should the USA & Japan do about it??
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correct.nothing over NK.. here is the closest i've found.

Two U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers on Saturday flew near the Korean Demilitarized Zone in a show of force just days after North Korea conducted the first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit Alaska.

The two B-1 bombers flew 2,000 miles from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam to conduct a precision strike training exercise with South Korean fighter jets. The bombers were also joined by Japanese fighters during their flight.

The Air Force, in a statement, called the mission a "demonstration of the ironclad U.S. commitment to our allies."

The bombers, which can carry 84 500-pound bombs, fired releasing inert weapons at the Pilsung Range. The mission took 10 hours, according to the statement.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...y-near-north-korean-border-in-show-force.html
 
moon2012 said:
What makes NK think that it needs to defend itself ?

Maybe it should sign the NPT like Iraq , Libya , Syria and Afghanistan ?


How about Japan leases NK a base on its southern coast for harmless testing out to sea ?
Japan knows a bit about not having a nuclear defence after all.
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i totally get that. it's a very real reason for NK not to give up nukes.

However with their threats against the USA ( unlike the others you mentioned)- and with the very real question of whether lil' Kim is a rational state actor or not / it's also in the real defense interest of the USA to work with our allies to stop his ICBM program
 
You really think that Fox news transmits accurate accounts ?

I'm of the opinion that NK is already in a position to protect its defence program. We should have butted out and allowed the peninsular to be Korean.

noise;
i totally get that. it's a very real reason for NK not to give up nukes.
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You bet- although I'm a committed anti-nuclear activist.
 
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