The North Koreans haven't had much luck with testing their long range, ICBM. Twice they've had to destroy the missile shortly after liftoff, although the last attempt successfully launched a satellite into space. But that doesn't mean they eventually won't stumble on to a solution and perfect a missile that could hit most of the West Coast. And that's why the Pentagon is spending a billion dollars to deploy additional anti-missile interceptors. New York Times: The new deployments, announced by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday, will increase the number of ground-based interceptors in California and Alaska to 44 from 30 by 2017. The missiles have a mixed record in testing, hitting dummy targets just 50 percent of the time, but officials said Friday's announcement was intended not merely to present a credible deterrence to the North's limited intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal. They said it is also meant to show South Korea and Japan that the United States is...(Read Full Post)