Concern over North Korea grows

With the tensions in Washington mounting over North Korea’s missile capabilities and the fluffy rabid pot bellied pig, Kim Jong-Il gleefully pressing all the buttons in his attempts to bring America into a direct confrontation, one must wonder just where this may or will lead to.

Presently America has eight Aegis-equipped ships stationed in Japan’s port Yokosuka, the Aegis technology, is geared toward tracking and shooting down enemy missiles. The USS Mustin, a highly advanced 509-foot ship carrying surface-to-air missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles recently joined the 7^th fleet, which makes its home in Yokosuka. In August, the fleet will be joined by the USS Shiloh, which last month demonstrated its ability to shoot down missile warheads in a landmark test off Hawaii.

This growing presence of anti-missile capability must relieve some of the mounting tension and concern within Japan, add to this the unpublished nuclear capabilities of our submarine fleet cruising under the ocean’s waves and they should be more relaxed over this issue.

One would assume that all of this technology would lead any leader of a country to be a bit concerned. Any leader except our fluffy rabid pot bellied pig, Kim Jong-il that is, he is no doubt busy playing the game battleship with his fleet commanders and thinking of new ways to augment his missiles capabilities to reach America.

Published reports and comments coming from the White House demonstrate their desire not to be drawn into a one on one battle with North Korea, while leaning towards an international solution to the current crises. We can only hope that North Korea will play along with this scenario and the pot bellied pig comes to his senses, realizing that yes, he can send a nuclear missile at America, but the devastation that would be launched at North Korea would not worth the effort.