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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Perfectly accurate war to describe a geosynchronous orbit.
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)
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.
“Way” to describe. Guess I’ve got “war” on my mind,
Boy, this article is taking a beating here.
At 300 miles, nothing is in geosynchronous orbit.
This all sounds like unnecessary worry, from 3 mile island or the movie “The Day Afterâ”.
“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.
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.
Do they have a large enough fission bomb onboard? Are they even large enough to carry a big fission bomb?
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.
I was stationed at Fort Sheridan when this happened and they played the beep for days in the mess hall.
Ping
No. No.
>>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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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