The military used what it calls “Standard Missile-6″ weapons to take out the ballistic missile target, tracking it on radar aboard the ship first. “We will continue developing ballistic missile defense technologies to stay ahead of the threat as it evolves,” Greaves said. The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2017Mattis, asked Wednesday morning at the Pentagon whether there are no diplomatic solutions when it comes to North Korea, indicated that there still are. A day after North Korea launched a missile over Japan, Tokyo Bureau Chief Anna Fifield answers one of the questions she gets most often about North Korea: "Are we going to war?"

Source: Washington Post August 30, 2017 15:06 UTC