It is expected that North Korea may launch a rocket over the Pacific Ocean by the end of the week. Anticipating this, Anticipating this, two U.S. Navy destroyers, including one that is capable of intercepting missiles, were moved out of a South Korean port Monday. This, although U.S. officials have said there is no plan to strike the North Korean rocket, is as clear a signal on thwarting any move by North Korea as it could be.
While the Obama administration hopes to restart talks with North Korea to convince them on abandoning its nuclear weapons program, North Korea is seemingly launching a missile launcher into space.
North Korea insists that the launch is intended only to put a civilian satellite into space. But U.S. officials say Pyongyang’s real goal is to test intercontinental ballistic missile technology that could someday be used to carry a warhead and possibly reach the U.S. coastline.