Obama says US is prepared for North Korean attack

US President Barack Obama says America is "fully prepared" for any action by North Korea.
Pyongyang has declared itself "a proud nuclear power" that would hurt the US if provoked.
The White House has increased its protection for Hawaii amid speculation that North Korea is preparing a long range missile test in the direction of the Pacific island - possibly on July the 4th.

• He has a plan. That's good. The President has a reputation for diligent and ruthless planning. Still, I'd like to read that he said. "If North Korea sends a missile into American airspace, We will accept it as an act of War and destroy both it and the base that it came from." I am also uncomfortable that we only have 1 ship in hostile waters. I'm sure there is a back up there somewhere but 1 destroyer cannot face down North Korea while being shadowed by a Chinese sub.
• I left a Communist Country when I was 20, in 1957. . I also did my military service in their ROTC and I finished with the highest possible rank! I am still terrified by their attitude towards nuclear warfare. I had several North Korean students in my University Dorm. They were normal just like me. It is their leadership where the problem is. We simply can not permit North Korea to have Nuclear Weapons. They must be destroyed but without using any of our own, by conventional means.
• I think the US has no choice but to accept North Korea as a nuclear power, unless it is prepared to wipe North Korea off the map, which does not seem like a viable option. However, a shrewd US negotiator should try to pursuade the North Koreans that it is not in their best interest to sell nuclear technocology to radical governments in the Middle East on the basis that this technology could someday be used against North Korea, itself. I agree that such negotiations would be very difficult.
• Our "president" has no plan. He also has no clue other than what his advisors and teleprompters tell him. Sit back and if/when they launch at the USA, we should attack with all we have and remove North Korea from the map. This dictator has extreme psychological and mental issues and needs to be removed before it happens. Send in the Special Forces and remove him now.
• What's North korea ever done to harm the US?.....No I can't think of anything either .So why are people talking of blasting the place from the face of the earth? I know that the're big on synchronised dancing but so is' America's got talent' and noone is suggesting that they are nuked....or maybe you' got a point.
• North Korea has the apparent character of an immature bullying insane child. The psychotic bravado expressed in "proud nuclear power that would hurt" is only counterable with uncertain announcements from the USA to the effect "Ummm, well, OK. But we're ready to counter you if you do something stupid, OK?". I believe that the U.S. near-term response is appropriate given the type of mentality that we're seeing. The long term response is to starve the current North Korean regime into oblivion.
• hey there guys. i'm a little new to blogging but, larry278?!? I think you misspoke when you said the U.S. would "try" to do to n. korea but if n. korea is really crazy enough to even launch that missile close to hi. on independence day i doubt that we would even use the word try. we would probably show them our biggest fireworks. right in their front door. cockiness and provocation are the two main ingredients to get your a$$ handed to you on a silver platter with A1 on the side.
• North Korea may be making hollow threats, and I mean, a tiny country with 10 million people is hardly going to beat the UN and US. If they attack theyll just make it worse for themselves, even if theyre successful. Kim Jong Il has no idea what he's doing, maybe he's mad. If he thinks he's a pround nuclear power, just look at Russia, France, USA and China!
• So called 'GOOD USA historical president Obama', as if Middle east mess and the wildly out of control recession is fixing itself and millions of dollars worth destruction historical sites in babylon-IRAQ and afganistan and now funded by US war on the taleban in pakistan, families mourn and missing their life in this world!provoking north.k is heartbreaking! were is the help in that! doesnt matter who kills who ! no one wins! life will die! you and me as witness will grief. its unreal!!!!
• It's kind of funny that everyone thinks North Korea is making hollow threats. If North Korea attacks us, or any of our allies, we are going to war, and that is a definite. And there is plenty of speculation about Kim Jong-il wanting to die, and everyone knows he doesn't care about his people - he's just brainwashed them! Those people are so indoctrinated that they call him dear leader when he doesn't do a damn thing for them! They'll fight back, but in the end, retaliation is what he wants.