North Korea developing 'electromagnetic pulse weapons'

AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 11/4/13

[Kartographer]

I would say that the best way to handle it is to hope they don’t have the technology or the means to delvolope it and plan as if they do.

[GeronL]

Meanwhile NK still can’t feed its population

[GeronL]

Check out this article

http://news.yahoo.com/insight-won-money-north-korea-experiments-exchange-rates-210211711—business.html

There are some interesting tidbits there

[Kartographer]

"Meanwhile NK still can’t feed its population."

Why bother feeding what is essentially cannon fodder?

[driftdiver]

I believe the objects up there are too small for a nuclear weapon. If I recall correctly the size is no more than 65lbs.

[TangoLimaSierra]

They’ve already put an object in orbit over the South Pole and over us that could avoid any anti-missile technology and paralyze one coast.

Nork tracker

Here's the link if you want to see when it'll be over your house.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Exactly. How do we counter-attack and nutralize cement?

Right. We could drop leaflets to let them know we EMP'd em.

[Hardraade]

We know what emp devices are. The stuff that’s out there, and which was used by the US against Serbia more than 25 years ago, is not nuclear pumped. Not nuclear pumped has very limited use.

To get nuclear emps, you have to get a device small enough to get it in orbit. All NK seems to have been able to, so far, is gigantic fizzles - maybe not even true nuclear explosions.

And no, the emp device does not lend itself very well to improvisations in materials.

[Kartographer]

It’s nice to be sure.

[struggle]

They completely lost control of the satellite as well. They need at least one more confirmation launch. Also, if the launch has a nuclear signature, the Air Force could have used the YAL if Obama didn’t destroy funding for it.

[SunkenCiv]

NKorean naval vessel sank last month, reports say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3087432/posts

[Ghost of SVR4]

I hope what you heard is true. It doesn’t take much for an EMP, a couple kiloton’s. Now, that won’t lay waste to all of our land, but a few state’s will be in the hurt locker for certain and that would be enough to economically cripple us.