North Korean launch-Panetta Confirms US Missile Defense Adequate To Stop a Similar Threat
News From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is drawing no “red line” for North Korea after a successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to avoid raising tensions or possibly rewarding the reclusive communist nation with too much time in the global spotlight.
Even so, Panetta said the U.S. has the capability to prevent such a strike.
“I’m very confident that American defense capabilities are able, no problem, to block a rocket like this one,” he told CNN when asked about the capability of U.S. missile defense systems.