'I can tell you that the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
Carney added that "our recent success in returning to testing of the upgraded version of the so-called GBI (ground based interceptor), or the CE2 missile, will keep us on a good trajectory to improve our defense capability against limited ballistic missile threats such as those from North Korea. But let's be clear, we are fully capable of dealing with that threat."
The operative word here is "returning," for what Carney did not say is that candidate Obama campaigned on gutting missile defense and carried out that pledge in his first term, along the way betraying our allies and caving in to Russian demands that we limit our missile defense capabilities.
In a campaign video shown to the far left group, Caucus for Priorities, a month before the January 2008 Iowa caucuses, candidate Obama pledged, "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space." And he kept his word.
President Obama's 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency's budget. The cuts included scaling back the Airborne Laser boost-phase program, terminating the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor, canceling the expansion of those same ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, and delaying funding for interceptor and radar sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.
President Obama betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic, abandoning plans for ground-based interceptors and missile defense radars, needed to defend against Iranian missile launches.
An open microphone at a photo-op between President Obama and outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit caught Obama saying to Medvedev, "On all these issues, particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him (past and future Russian President Vladimir Putin) to give me space."
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Obama Says Missile Defense He Opposed Can Handle North Korea - Investors.com
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