The U.S. deployed two missile- interceptor ships from South Korea on Monday, days ahead of a North Korean rocket launch seen by many as a test of its longest- range missile.The two U.S. destroyers were on a mission believed to monitor the North's rocket launch.The ships are equipped with Aegis radar, a system that enables the vessels to locate, track, and shoot down missiles.
South Korea and Japan also dispatched missile destroyers to monitor the launch.
This is in slight contrast to Defense Secretary Robert Gates' comments this past weekend. Gates said on "FOX News Sunday" that he doesn't believe North Korea has the ability to launch a missile with a warhead that can reach Hawaii, Alaska, or the Pacific Coast. And he said, he "didn't see the U.S. taking any steps to shooting down a missile." He also said that the U.S. would be, "unprepared to do so."
Well we better get "prepared to do so" because it's obvious that Kim Jong-Il and North Korea are "prepared" to execute their own agenda, now or later.
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