Scenario: Here’s What Happens if North Korea Launches a Nuclear Missile
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Scenario: Here’s What Happens if North Korea Launches a Nuclear Missile
As tensions between North Korea and the United States and our allies have been on the rise due to the communist country’s threat of nuclear weapons, several countries have implemented response plans to deal with a potential missile launch.
If North Korea does manage to launch a missile, or even multiple missiles, various systems would go into action to try to destroy them they can reach any targets.
The U.S. has ground-based midcourse defense systems, intended to intercept any incoming ballistic warheads while they are still in space. These systems have been placed in both Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
U.S. allies South Korea and Japan also have tiered missile defense systems, as well as the support of high-tech U.S. warships, according to The Daily Caller.
After North Korea fired four missiles into the Sea of Japan in early March 2017, the U.S. began the process of deploying a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to South Korea, the BBC reported.
Known as THAAD, this defense mechanism employs kinetic energy to destroy short and medium-range ballistic missiles near the end of the missile’s flight. It has a range of more than 650,000 feet and can reach an altitude of more than 492,000 feet.
Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation who specializes in Korean and Japanese affairs, told The Daily Caller that THAAD was “better than anything” South Korea currently had or could obtain for decades.
“It is imperative that we deploy it to augment the defense of Korea and the U.S. forces deployed there,” Klingner said.
But, the defenses don’t stop there, as several destroyers from the U.S., Japan and South Korea have been situated near the South Korean coast equipped with the Aegis missile defense system, according to CNN. The Aegis system can track and destroy multiple missiles simultaneously, according to The Daily Caller.
Meanwhile, Japan has Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-2 and 3 systems, which provide detection, track and engagement of short-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, according to The Daily Caller. The Japanese have also employed SM-3 interceptors, ship-based missile systems capable of intercepting short-to intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
While these defense systems and mechanism cannot completely guarantee protection from a nuclear missile launch, it could help Americans sleep a little better at night knowing that we — and our allies — have the world’s best defenses ready to go.
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