Obering: missile threat from Iran and North Korea is real

The threat of Iran and North Korea developing and testing ballistic missiles is real and it keeps growing, the chief of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency Henry Obering said on Wednesday at a seminar on Czech-U.S. cooperation in missile defence. General Obering said that the process of extending the US missile defence shield to Central Europe, with a radar base in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland, must start as soon as possible in view of the increasing missile threat from Iran. The Czech Republic has been negotiating with the U.S. on the possible stationing of a radar base on its territory for nearly a year, but the country has not yet made a firm commitment to host the base.