“This is about as close as we can come to an end-to-end test of our long-range missile defense system … I don’t want to ask the North Koreans to launch against us. That would be a realistic end-to-end test. Short of that, this is about as good as it gets with respect to that.” — Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, head of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), said Sept. 1 during a Defense Department briefing.

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