North Korea Missile Threat Brings Back Talk of ‘Star Wars’ Defenses

January 31, 2018

VOA:

Scientists and American space agency officials led efforts by the United States to develop a space-based missile defense system in the 1980s.

Now, those same individuals are urging the U.S. government to re-start work on the anti-missile program. They say it could help answer nuclear threats from North Korea and other rogue countries.

North Korea’s nuclear activities have become a security concern to the government since the North began testing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

There were false reports of a North Korean missile attack on Hawaii earlier this month. North Korea says its missiles have the ability to reach the U.S. mainland…

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