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Pastimes : Guns and Weapons
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To: American Spirit who wrote (137)6/22/2006 3:32:41 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 149
 
So far not a single SDI test has succeeded.

Not true, and even if it was it wouldn't support your broad categorical statement about missile defense.

NK's missile technology is primitive.

Yes it is. But that fact is largely irrelevant. The Germans at the end of WWII were already starting to design an ICBM. They never built one, but if the war had lasted another few years they likely would have. The R-7 Semyorka (1st Soviet ICBM) was tested in 1957, the Atlas (1st American ICBM) in 1959. They where primitive but they had a long range. The North Korean missile would probably be similar primitive, not particularly accurate, probably not MIRVed, and in general much less capable than say an MX Peacekeeper missile, but it would have the range to hit North America.
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