I wonder if they do another test launch if we shouldn't demonstrate our own capability swatting it away as depicted above.

yeah go back into North Korea I would think that this quote would be very appropriate."Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." {George Santayana} Jackasses should leave well enough alone. We screwed up in Vietnam OOPS The COMMUNIST state of Vietnam, Afghanistan after Russia got their heads handed to them. The US government is pathetically stupid on both sides.

gut;1422975 wrote:I wonder if they do another test launch if we shouldn't demonstrate our own capability swatting it away as depicted above.

Unless you are pretty sure how the DPRK will respond to a shoot down, I would not risk it. Why give them more ammo to act wreckless? Who is to say they won't sink another ship as a result of us taking out a missile?

Acting with restraint is the proper course, and avoiding escalation with a regime we know nothing about.

Also, what if the missile interceptor misses? What then?
More questions with firing to destroy and intercept than not firing.

ptown_trojans_1;1423080 wrote: Also, what if the missile interceptor misses? What then?
More questions with firing to destroy and intercept than not firing.

While my response was rather tongue-in-cheek, that's really the biggest issue I was thinking of.

It's clearly not a black & white solution. Maybe the lessons from history are screw the nation building and just rain some pain. I don't think you can make security subservient to nation building, i.e. that we can't occupy shouldn't prevent action.

I mean, are we 100% certain if they launch that's it's just a test and not carrying a payload (rhetorical question)? We can look at the debate over guns in this country right now, and maybe that lesson is proliferation is a really, really bad idea.