Inside NORAD & Northcom: ‘We Stand Ready To Protect America 24/7/365’

By Rick Sallinger
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – The threat of a missile attack from North Korea against the United States is heating up in terms of rhetoric and backed up by repeated test launches.
So far it is not believed that North Korea has the capability of striking the U.S. mainland, but it is moving towards that goal. Much closer to North Korea are South Korea, Japan and U.S. territories in the Pacific.
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The job to thwart such an attack falls largely t