West Coast mystery missile may be North Korean

by Terrence Aym

"A shot over the bow," is what some in America's intelligence community are whispering under the stunned media's demands for answers.

And if the United State's Navy is telling the truth, heads will roll among some of the Pentagon's brass for permitting a foreign enemy vessel to breach U.S. sovereign territory and send a chilling message to the American government.

Make no mistake. The missile, launched approximately 35 miles from the city of Los Angeles and north of Catalina island about 5 PM PDT, came from an offshore submarine.

Watch video report here: VIDEO

Perhaps the navy had an accidental missile launch? Well maybe. If so, they will not be able to continue to cover up the mishap for very long.
But another more frightening scenario is being discussed by insiders at Homeland Security and the super-secret National Security Agency: North Korea has rattled its saber again—this time with a very, very large missile launched from a Sang-O class sub modified to carry a missile or towing a missile launching sea sled. A sea sled missile launch platform was first perfected by Nazi Germany in WWII and planned for use in the closing months of the war against New York and Washington, D.C.

The missile, called by one expert as "big enough to be an ICBM," lit up the western skies and emitted a long, thick plume on its way towards the stratosphere. That same expert asserted the missile was too big to be a Tomahawk. He speculated it might be a USN "demonstration" of our power to China.

With all due respect, that supposition is ludicrous.

Unconfirmed reports filtering in claim the missile harmlessly splashed down in the northwest Pacific.

North Korea's race for longer range missiles

Iran, partnered with North Korea, is working on upgrading its own missiles. They seek a new class with more accuracy and greater effective range. Their goal is to wed nuclear warheads to long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (LRICBMs). Although the U.N. and most Western powers know this, they are only making halfhearted attempts to prevent it.

Yet North Korea is almost there. Tweaking the Western powers—and the United States in particular—the generals in Pyongyang dubbed their newest class missile the"Los Angeles" rocket. Of course they are implying that they intend (if given half the chance) to mate their growing nuclear arsenal with perfected missiles and threaten the U.S. West Coast.

Read recent North Korean article boasting they have mated missiles with submarines: "North Korea Develops a Submarine Missile With Shooting Range 2,500km"

Maybe they are behind this?

North Korea is at war with U.S.

Most Americans have heard of the Korean War. Many are not aware, however, that the war never ended—and many more don't know that South Korea has never signed the 1953 Armistice.

Like a simmering pot, the Korean conflict has been on the verge of boiling over for many years and, in the past several months, the heat has been ratcheted up. During the past year the political stew in the pot has again reached the boiling point. The sinking of the South Korean naval vessel, Cheonan, in the Yellow Sea by a North Korean mini-sub that launched an unprovoked torpedo attack has lit the fuse on a possible resumption of an all out war.

North Korea has already reaffirmed it's at war with the United States

During 2009, dictator Kim Jong-il announced that his country no longer would abide by the Armistice that was suggested by India and agreed to by the United Nations, U.S., Russia, China and North Korea in 1953. South Korea never signed the agreement.

Earlier in 2010, the North Korean government threatened the United States and South Korea with "unpredictable strikes."
This west coast missile launch may well be an unpredictable strike calculated to strike fear into the U.S. government without actually attacking anything...in other words an action just short of starting WWIII.

globasecurity,org writes: "Submarines, most of which are of the 20-some Romeo-class, are outdated and slow, but they are sufficiently capable of blocking sea lanes. These vessels could attack ROK surface vessels, emplace mines anywhere within the ROK maritime territory, or secretly infiltrate commandos into the South."

Latest military estimates conceded that some satellite imagery has led to speculation that the rogue country has wed missiles to some of their submarines.

"Continuing to build attack warships, North Korea has tried to enhance its naval capabilities through developing new ground-to-sea missile systems, such as extending the striking range of the Silkworm missiles." Globalsecurity.org notes, "North Korea also deploys 80-95 km-range ground-to-ship Samlet and Silkworm missiles on both east and west coasts. Silkworm missiles, deployed in the forward area, are able to launch anti-ship attacks as far as Tokjok-do in the Yellow Sea and Sokcho and Yangyang on the east coast. Coastal defense artillery includes 122-mm, 130-mm, and 152-mm systems."