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N. Korea threatens US; world anticipates missile

AP – South Korean war veterans wave national flags during a rally denouncing North Korea's nuclear program …

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By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.

Off China's coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for anunderground nuclear test last month.The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.

"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," the official Korean Central News Agency said.This is interesting considering North Korea is threatening to fire missles aimed at Hawaii-  The Obama administration's changes in the  defence budget   include-     Major Anti-Missile SystemsScrapped Several major weapons systems that the different armed services, and of course the big defence equipment manufacturers, have been pushing for over the years have simply been scrapped, either in the development phase itself or in terms of further production. Most of these were high-technology advanced or even futuristic systems designed for total dominance over all possible adversaries beyond their foreseeable capabilities well into the 21^st century.

Advanced missile or anti-missile systems have taken a major hit. Funding for the Missile Defense Agency has been cut by $1.4 billion or about 15 percent and at least one major programme has been eliminated.-D. Raghunandan Delhi science forum      

Didn't the tax payers have to hand over that money to bail out failing car companies and all the pork-earmarks like turtle bridges  in the stimulus package-  If you had asked me I would have gone for the missle defence and I am thinking the people of Hawaii would agree!