IS IT TIME FOR OBAMA TO TURN HIS ATTENTION TO THREATS FROM NORTH KOREA?

Come on ,Jughead can only f**k up one country at a time,right now hes busy with us.

OBAMA is no jughead. he is deliberately trying to ruin the free enterprise system and bankrupt this Country, so his friend Sorros and his commie friends can have free reign!

Far from deterring missile proliferation, the U.S. and allied missile defense system is in danger of being overwhelmed. It is far cheaper to build more missiles to swamp defenses than it is to put in place costly interceptors, sensors, and command-and-control networks to counter the missiles.

By the end of 2009, there are scheduled to be a total of 864 interceptors in the U.S.-led missile shield. However, the U.S. military calculates that there has been an increase of more than 1,200 additional ballistic missiles in the past five years, bringing the total outside the U.S., NATO, Russia and China to over 5,900. Short-range missiles (150-799 km) make up 93 percent of this total while medium-range missiles (800-2,399 km) comprise six percent.

Many of these missiles are within range of U.S. forces and bases in Northeast Asia and the Middle East. North Korea alone has deployed over 600 short-range missiles and possibly as many as 320 medium-range missiles. The former can strike the whole of South Korea, while the latter can reach much of Japan. Armed with conventional high explosive warheads or chemical weapons and fired in salvos or mixed groups, they would be very difficult to counter and cause havoc for a civilian population.

The big fear, of course, is that with more testing and time, North Korea will be able to develop reliable long-range missiles and arm some of them with nuclear warheads as the ultimate guarantee of survival for the regime in Pyongyang. It is significant that in their meeting in Washington on June 16, Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak issued a joint statement that, for the first time, spelled out in writing that America was extending the protection of its nuclear umbrella to South Korea.

Ultimately, the only deterrent likely to prevent Pyongyang using missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction is the knowledge that the counter-strike from the U.S. and its Asian allies would annihilate the North Korean regime.