Secretary of Defense Reverses His Decision to Defend Hawaii with Full U.S. Capability

U.S. Newswire, June, 2009

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Mike Terrill of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, 1-602-885-1955

WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, announced today to the MDAA members that the United States is prepared to fully and completely defend Hawaii if the expected ballistic missile test by North Korea overflies Hawaii later this month or the first part of July. He gives credit to the last Administration for the deployment of assets, and he applauds the Administration of President Obama for taking action to use those missile defense assets if necessary.

In April of this year when the North Koreans conducted their long- range missile test,...

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