If North Korea fires a missle at Hawaii....

[steelmania75]

...should we fire back?

[RT Atlanta]

1. Shoot it down

n/t

[steelmania75]

3. North Korea needs an uprising just like the one in Iran

[RollWithIt]

38. Not really possible, NK really has a "Cult" feel to it.... watch these videos

Here's the first one, it's really a Cult state. Bizarre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eni4fTTmjs


EDIT: VIDEO STARTS AT 1:00

[Deja Q]

9. Not the easiest of maneuvers, but it is quite possible.

And if NK believes that such an attempt is "provoking" them, stopping a missile by shooting it down, then they really have lost their sanity. Every belligerent act they've done and yet they claim they are the ones being provoked. How are they being provoked? Nobody's really believing their excuses.

[Birthmark]

13. It doesn't matter...

...whether NK's feelings are justified or justifiable. The only thing that matters in this situation is that those feelings are apparently real. That is what will guide their behavior.

[Indydem]

18. Bush spent enough money on that boondoggle, lets hope it works.

Though we did shoot a satellite out of space, so maybe there is a chance after all.

[northernlights]

34. weren't that satellites coordinates fed to the missile's computer?

And I think I read just a couple weeks ago that simply painting a missile white hide's it from our star wars missile. It's still pretty much a crapshoot that it'll actually hit anything that we don't have complete control over...

[Indydem]

35. Supposedly, the satellite was tracked and acquired by the same system.

The radar equipment they use to track the missles is supposed to be what they used to track the satellite.

The white thing is an urban legend. The system uses radar to track the targets. Now if someone developed a stealth missile, then they'd have something.

[billyoc]

2. Of course.

What country wouldn't? :shrug:

[GodlessBiker]

20. Yes. Bomb the capital city. No nukes.

[marmar]

4. Is Kim Jong-Il cruising the coast of Lihue in a pontoon or something?

The dog's bark is worse than its bite, methinks.

[pleah]

5. Who started the rumor that they would fire on Hawaii?

They are not going to do it.:eyes:

[KamaAina]

24. A Japanese newspaper

actually claimed that they would fire one of their Taepodong (pronounced "Type O' Dong" :P ) missiles toward us; Li'l Kim's type o' dong doesn't quite have the range to reach us. :P Sorry, guys, looks like you're stuck with me for a while.

[pleah]

31. Oh,

my, all I can think of now is Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles!:P :crazy:

:rofl:

[timeforpeace]

27. Gates issued statement saying we could handle it

so I doubt it's a "rumor" that he's just passing along.

[napoleon_in_rags]

6. No. Screw those damn Hawaiians. They're all assholes anyway.

:sarcasm:

[spoony]

11. It's the only way we're ever going to get rid...

of Dog the Bounty Hunter. :P

[KamaAina]

22. Yeah! What he said!

:sarcasm:

[timeforpeace]

29. Let's see. Is it a red state or a blue state?

[Deja Q]

7. Well, NK claims if they feel provoked they will declare total war...

Yet it's wrong (in NK's perception) for the rest of the world to say "No, to launch those missiles is an act of war" because they think they are being provoked... (telling someone not to use a big deadly weapon is not provoking them... they are already doing the provoking.)

I think there needs to be a consensus, but given NK's actions - which are extreme and not in a good way - but somebody might indeed fire back.

I'd just hope NK's leadership sees the light before they do something stupid. :(

[El Supremo]

8. We should warn them first.

Then respond in kind.

[rug]

10. Nuclear war is not simply firing back.

[Indydem]

15. Who said nukes? We have a few other types of weapons. n/t

[rug]

25. What do you think they have to shoot at Hawai'i?

[Regret My New Name]

33. probably not nukes small enough for that....

[Indydem]

36. They are just shooting a test missile. They'd be insane to actually put a warhead on it. n/t

[BootinUp]

12. yes

immediately, and self destruct it after it is stopped.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. They'll miss.

We should retrieve it from where ever it lands and ship it back.

All nice and neat.

With a note.

[foxfeet]

16. China won't tolerate much more foolishness.

In any kind of war, China would be flooded with North Korean refugees and China wants no part of that.

[-..__...]

28. They wouldn't be thrilled...

with anything that might disrupt trade and manufacturing relations with the US either (or with the rest of the world for that matter).

[DJ13]

17. ..... it would probably hit Bermuda

They dont quite have the hang of missile navigation just yet.

[Diclotican]

19. steelmania75

steelmania75

First of all, North Korea should at least trying to have a missile that can fly.. For the moment they have not that... But again a near 60 year old design with a lot of flaws is maybe not the best start to treathen the rest of the world? Even I know that it is not just building a missile and hope it could hit a target 10.000km away. But then North Korea have been getting some help - from Pakistan to build better missiles.. And that know-how is still verry opperational even that the pakistan goverment denie it everytime it comes up...

But if North Koreas leadership was so stupid that it wanted to fire a missle to Hawaii, it wil be the end of North Korea as we know it.. And I am pretty sure that the US would for the first know about it in adwance becouse it is not so easy to prepare a missile to be shoot out.. And second I guess that every nation on the flyline would use their best weapon to try blow it up.. Japan have some decent Aegis cruises, who in theory should be more than capable of blowing a missile up anytime...

Diclotican

[Arctic Dave]

21. Firing a missile towards Hawaii....So.

Do you have any idea how big the Pacific Ocean is? Where do you think all our missiles land when we test them?

[krispos42]

23. Not unless it hits.

I'm all for trying to shoot it down if it's trajectory will bring it within a thousand miles of Hawaii. If we miss and it spashes down in the water, then there's nothing to do.

If it misses but detonates a nuclear warhead, then I think that's a declaration of war and it's time for an invasion and occupation of North Korea.

If it hits and detonates... glass'em. To let such an act go without immediate nuclear retaliation it something everybody on earth would regret.

[timeforpeace]

26. Should or not, we won't.

Think about it. It could lead to worldwide nuclear war. If you were President Obama, would you push the button? Will he?

[Taverner]

30. Shoot it down, bomb their Nuke factory, or better yet, get China to do it

You know they want to

[Beacool]

32. North Korea keeps pushing the envelope like an unruly child.

They deserve a smack down and they will get it if they fire a missile anywhere near Hawaii.

;)

[neverforget]

37. It certainly won't have a nuke on it as they are a long ways from

miniaturizing a warhead to put on a missile. Then the missile has to work which is not a given with NK technology.

[ThomWV]

39. The are not firing a missle "at" Hawaii, they are firing one into the ocean

You see, if they were firing one "at" hawaii that would be an act of war.