COLORADO SPRINGS | U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock
down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is
expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S.
territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The
Washington Times.
"The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense
capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I'm
very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened
by a long-range ICBM that I've got high confidence that I could
interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S.
territory," said Air Force Gen. Victor E. "Gene" Renuart, Northcom
commander.
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