This was enough to stir U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to a Friday announcement about enhancedmissile defenses in Alaska, but the more serious rethinking is in Seoul.
We need to increase our military capability in the Western Pacific, to include our own anti-missile and anti-ship ballistic-missile capabilities as well as enhanced anti-submarine forces.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced on March 15th that the modest array of U.S. missile defenses now in place would be enhanced in the face of a growing threat from the increasingly truculent regime in North Korea.