In view
of the missile test by Kim Jong-un last December (“Onesmall step for Kim Jong Un”; CNN News; December 13, 2012), newly appointed secretary of
Defense Chuck Hagel announced to boost missile defense system that the Obama
administration cut in the first term (US to boost nuclear missile defence tocounter N Korea; BBC News; 16 March, 2013). See the map below. Now, US territory Alaska is
within the range of North Korean missile.
The
threat of North Korea has grown to the level of the Pearl Harbor attack. The Fordow
incident (“North Koreans among 40 dead atIran nuke plant”;WND; February 3, 2013) indicates the fear posed by the
Axis of Evil primarily constituted of North Korea and Iran. How do we manage dangerous
ambitions of both nuclear rogues?
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