North Korea’s nuclear test shows gaps in missile defense

North Korea launched a salvo of four missiles on Sunday night, potentially telegraphing a “saturation attack” intended to defeat US, South Korean, or Japanese missile defenses.

The missiles sputtered out, landing in the waters close to Japan’s coast without doing any damage, and the US and South Korea quickly responded by agreeing to deploy one of the world’s best missile defense systems, the Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense.

After a February 12 missile test, which demonstrated its own scarily improved capabilities, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that the launch posed a “grave threat to our national security,” but that the US was “capable of defending against a North Korean ballistic missile attack.”

 

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