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U.S. on alert for nuclear blast overhead
WND ^ | 4/1/13 | F. Michael Maloof

Posted on 04/01/2013 10:16:00 PM PDT by chemicalman

WASHINGTON – U.S. officials quietly are expressing concern that North Korea could use its “space launch vehicle” to explode a high-altitude nuclear device over the United States, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy major portions of the U.S. electrical grid system as well as the nation’s critical infrastructures.

The concern is so great that U.S. officials who watch North Korea closely are continually monitoring the status of the North Korean “space launch vehicle,” whose status could suggest a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States.

They are aware of the three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a “package,” which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be deorbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, creating an EMP effect.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: emp; empattack; nknuclear; nkwar; northkorea; usa
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1 posted on 04/01/2013 10:16:00 PM PDT by chemicalman
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They’d probably hit China by mistake.


2 posted on 04/01/2013 10:18:09 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: chemicalman

SDI: Ronald Reagan was right.


3 posted on 04/01/2013 10:19:36 PM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: chemicalman

Would it hurt teleprompters?


4 posted on 04/01/2013 10:19:47 PM PDT by funfan
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To: chemicalman

if it were not april fools i’d’say this could be the false’flag obama’wants.


5 posted on 04/01/2013 10:19:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: chemicalman
Here comes Five O'Clock Charlie....


6 posted on 04/01/2013 10:21:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s April 2.

He’d love another false flag.

Funny how this crap never happens when a Republican is president.


7 posted on 04/01/2013 10:21:48 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: chemicalman

US Navy shifts destroyer in wake of North Korea missile threats
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/31/17543980-us-navy-shifts-destroyer-in-wake-of-north-korea-missile-threats?lite

China mobilizing troops, jets near Korea
http://freebeacon.com/border-patrol/


8 posted on 04/01/2013 10:24:13 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: chemicalman

The freeloaders can kiss their ObamaFoams goodbye. EMP-America is finished.


9 posted on 04/01/2013 10:26:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“The freeloaders can kiss their ObamaFoams goodbye. EMP-America is finished.”

Why do you say that? The strong would do fine, and the weak are just a drag anyway.


10 posted on 04/01/2013 10:32:21 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: babygene

It’s ok...One of the targets is Washington DC.


11 posted on 04/01/2013 10:34:07 PM PDT by chemicalman (The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
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To: chemicalman

Talk of an EMP has been going on a long time. But it never occurred to me that it could come from North Korea.

But with the USS McCain in the area I doubt they could get a missile very far.


12 posted on 04/01/2013 10:40:48 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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Can you imagine us getting rid of all of our nukes and trusting nutcases to get rid of theirs?


13 posted on 04/01/2013 10:42:03 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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Washing Machine Charlie

14 posted on 04/01/2013 10:43:44 PM PDT by Wiggins
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NK missile parts in Alaska?

http://able2know.org/topic/4901-1

From 2003

The warhead of a long-range missile test-fired by North Korea was found in the U.S. state of Alaska, a report to the National Assembly revealed yesterday.

``According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska,’’ former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. ``Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.’’

The report was the culmination of monthlong activities of the Assembly’s overseas delegation to five countries over the North Korean nuclear crisis. The Assembly dispatched groups of lawmakers to the United States, Japan, China, Russia and European Union last month to collect information and opinions on the international issue.

The team sent to Japan, headed by Rep. Kim Hak-won of the United Liberal Democrats, reported, ``Nakayama said Washington has come to put more emphasis on trilateral cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the United States since it recognized that the three countries are within the range of North Korean missiles.’’

According to the group dispatched to the U.S., American politicians had a wide range of opinions over the resolution of the nuclear issue, from ``a peaceful resolution’’ to ``military response.’’

Doves, such as Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called for a peaceful settlement of the current confrontation, by offering food, energy and other humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken country, while urging the North to give up its nuclear ambitions.

Rep. Markey also said the North should return to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the U.S. should make a nonaggression pact with the communist North.

Hardliners, however, warned that the North’s possession of nuclear weapons will instigate a nuclear race in the region, provoking Japan to also acquire nuclear weapons. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican, said the U.S. might have to bomb the Yongbyon nuclear complex should the North try to export its nuclear material to other countries.

Over the controversy concerning the withdrawal of U.S. forces stationed here, most American legislators that the parliamentary delegation met said U.S. troops should stay on the peninsula as long as the Korean people want, the report said.

URL: http://able2know.org/topic/4901-1


15 posted on 04/01/2013 10:45:26 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: chemicalman
Don't think the Norks have a warhead capable size/weight wise yet.........Unless somebody gave one to them.
16 posted on 04/01/2013 10:48:59 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Terry Mross

Can you imagine us getting rid of all of our nukes and trusting nutcases to get rid of theirs?


That’s what obama wants to do.


17 posted on 04/01/2013 10:50:00 PM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: chemicalman

Just as long as they don’t screw with FR!


18 posted on 04/01/2013 10:50:26 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: chemicalman
5 O'Clock Charlie ("Suicide Is Painless")
19 posted on 04/01/2013 10:53:40 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: chemicalman
Op-Ed: Underestimating North Korea and Iran
20 posted on 04/01/2013 11:14:11 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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