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EMP alert: 2 N. Korean satellites now orbit over U.S
FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN WORLD NET DAILY ^ | 4/24/2015 | MICHAEL MALOOF

Posted on 04/27/2016 1:48:50 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

WASHINGTON – North Korea now has two satellites orbiting over the United States capable of performing a surprise electromagnetic pulse attack at an altitude and trajectory that evade U.S. National Missile Defenses, a national security expert warned in an interview with Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Peter Vincent Pry told G2 Bulletin that the satellites can be commanded either to deorbit and hit a target on the ground or explode at a high altitude to create an EMP effect that would knock out the unprotected U.S. national electrical grid system and all life-sustaining critical infrastructures that depend on it.

“The threat,” Pry said, “continues to race, hare-like, at an alarming rate, compared to the tortoise pace of our preparations.”

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The satellites – KMS 3-2 and KMS 4 – are orbiting at an altitude of 300 miles, with trajectories that put them daily over the U.S. KMS 3-2 was launched in December 2012 and KMS 4 was launched Feb. 7.

At such an altitude, an EMP could impact much of the continental United States, according to EMP experts.

Get the rest of this report, and others, from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both congressional advisory boards. He also served on the congressionally mandated EMP commission and as an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Pry said that while the U.S. is aware of the satellites, it is unable to determine their payloads. The federal government hasn’t commented as much on the satellites as it has on North Korea’s ability to launch a missile capable of reaching the U.S.

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To: MeganC; MarvinStinson
"The satellites “orbit” over the US"

Perfectly accurate war to describe a geosynchronous orbit.

21 posted on 04/27/2016 2:05:34 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: MeganC

Probably short speech for saying their orbit causes them to pass over the U.S. I have never looked at the satellite track nor heard of these specifically. I have seen someone talking about it.

(as an aside)


22 posted on 04/27/2016 2:05:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: EEGator

No kidding. Getting a rudimentary Sputnik-style satellite into orbit is one thing. Miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to that size and getting THAT in orbit is something altogether different.


23 posted on 04/27/2016 2:05:48 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MeganC; MarvinStinson

“Way” to describe. Guess I’ve got “war” on my mind,


24 posted on 04/27/2016 2:06:14 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Boy, this article is taking a beating here.


25 posted on 04/27/2016 2:06:40 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Mrs. Don-o

At 300 miles, nothing is in geosynchronous orbit.


26 posted on 04/27/2016 2:06:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: All

This all sounds like unnecessary worry, from 3 mile island or the movie “The Day Afterâ”.


27 posted on 04/27/2016 2:08:07 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: PIF

“but whose orbits fly from north to south in the Eastern Pacific.”

How could any satellite in polar orbit not pass over the CONUS quite frequently? The earth rotates.


28 posted on 04/27/2016 2:08:20 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Vermont Lt
There is no strategic plan that has a positive outcome for this.

Depends entirely what the goals of the lunatic dictator are. Maybe he has decided that starvation is taking way to long to wipe out his useless subjects.

29 posted on 04/27/2016 2:08:23 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Do they have a large enough fission bomb onboard? Are they even large enough to carry a big fission bomb?


30 posted on 04/27/2016 2:09:24 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: SaveFerris; MeganC

Thanks, that’s as it may be. I wasn’t addressing that, just that a geosynchronous orbit by definition stays “over” a given spot on earth.


31 posted on 04/27/2016 2:09:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: pfflier
Sputnik was a satellite that sparked an arms race. It was nothing more than a radio transmitter but put us in fear of going to sleep "in the light of a Russian moon".

I was stationed at Fort Sheridan when this happened and they played the beep for days in the mess hall.

32 posted on 04/27/2016 2:09:46 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: Jeff Head; cva66snipe

Ping


33 posted on 04/27/2016 2:10:24 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade ("A Republic if you can keep it."- Benjamin Franklin Vote Tom Hoefling 2016 to restore the Republic)
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To: Bryanw92

No. No.


34 posted on 04/27/2016 2:10:51 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Hawthorn

>>Expected from Joe Farah?

I do expect more from Joe Farah. I expect him to overinflate news like this and then add on some nonsense about Christians needing to give up bacon or wear tassels or such. /s


35 posted on 04/27/2016 2:11:44 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: PIF
...of the Korean Satellites which do NOT traverse the Continental United States but whose orbits fly from north to south in the Eastern Pacific.

Just to be accurate, a satellite that orbits from north to south is in a polar orbit, which covers the entire area of Earth over time.

A polar orbit that stays over one region (such as the Eastern Pacific) is impossible without the expenditure of a great deal of fuel.

36 posted on 04/27/2016 2:11:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

True. 22,300 miles out (or so).

I’ve seen statements by others (not at FR) that the military would be paralyzed. The U.S. military prepared for nuclear combat with the Russkies (Dr. Strangelove) and prepared for some EMP events.


37 posted on 04/27/2016 2:12:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: steve86

Don’t know but maybe they are not in true polar orbits ... I think the poster was referring to the direction northerly to southerly but not to a polar orbit which is quite different. Maybe someone has more or better info on the orbits and a better explanation.

Most anything by NK or Iran is going to have a whole lot of bluster, photo shopping and other misleading data.


38 posted on 04/27/2016 2:14:34 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: MarvinStinson

An EMP attack on the continental US wouldn’t do a damn thing to stop our subs from turning North Korea into a molten pile of rubble.


39 posted on 04/27/2016 2:15:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MarvinStinson
Just because this particular writer is a crackpot does not mean that the risk of an EMP attack on the United States is not real, or does not need to be taken seriously.

I didn't mean to imply that.

The video you link is 74 minutes long. Could you boil it down for me? Does it mention the possibility of such an attack coming from North Korea?

40 posted on 04/27/2016 2:17:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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