{"id":72722,"date":"2017-09-18T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/no-we-cannot-shoot-down-north-koreas-missiles"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:03:05","slug":"no-we-cannot-shoot-down-north-koreas-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/no-we-cannot-shoot-down-north-koreas-missiles","title":{"rendered":"No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea\u2019s Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-we-cannot-shoot-down-north-koreas-missiles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time national leaders speak realistically about missile defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The number one reason we don\u2019t shoot <\/strong>down North Korea\u2019s missiles is that we cannot.<\/p>\n<p>Officials like to reassure their publics about our defense to these missiles. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2017\/09\/15\/national\/north-korea-launches-missile-hokkaido\/#.WbvAba3Mw6t\">told<\/a> his nation after last week\u2019s test, \u201cWe didn\u2019t intercept it because no damage to Japanese territory was expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/09\/no-we-cannot-shoot-down-north-koreas-missiles\/141070\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer55cda&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/09\/no-we-cannot-shoot-d...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time national leaders speak realistically about missile defense. The number one reason we don\u2019t shoot down North Korea\u2019s missiles is that we cannot. Officials like to reassure their publics about our defense to these missiles. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told his nation after last week\u2019s test, \u201cWe didn\u2019t intercept it because no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}