Pentagon to beef up missile defense in response to North Korean threat, sources say

The Pentagon is beefing up the nation’s missile defense in the wake of provocative nuclear threats from North Korea and is set to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors at missile silos in Alaska and California, congressional and U.S. officials tell Fox News.

The extra interceptors on the West Coast, designed to counter attacks from an intercontinental ballistic missile, would bring the total number of interceptors to 44, a plan originally proposed by the Bush administration.

President Obama stopped the deployment of the additional interceptors when he took office in 2009, leaving the total number at 30.

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