Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

Is N. Korea really going to attack Hawaii, or Japan or anyone? Well, I don’t know, but John Feffer, from Foreign Policy In Focus, gives some rational reasons as to why the threat is not what it may seem. He addresses four myths — (1) Kim Jong Il is crazy, and North Korea is an unpredictable rogue state, (2) We really showed them at the UN, (3) North Korea is a military threat and (4) North Korea is about to attack Hawaii. Although I would not consider myself astute in North Korean history and politics, he has a good counter argument for each myth. So, I thought I would share.

Here is a small portion of the article:

Myth 1: North Korea is about to attack Hawaii: North Korea has two long-range missiles, the Taepodong-1 and the Taepodong-2. The first, likely used only for satellite launches, can maybe go 2,500 miles. But it’s never been successfully tested. The Taepondong-2 maybe could go about 3,700 miles. But it too has failed in its two tests: a quick fizzle in 2006 and a failure in the third stage this last April. Even if Pyongyang gets everything right for a possible July 4 test, it’s 4,500 miles between Pyongyang and Honolulu. As for putting a nuclear warhead on the top of it, North Korea has shown no evidence that it has the necessary miniaturization technology.

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