Posted on 04/05/2013 4:13:35 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
(Reuters) - North Korea has asked Russia to consider the possibility of evacuating staff from its embassy in Pyongyang due to increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula, a spokesman for the Russian embassy said by phone from Pyongyang on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
The British Embassy has also been warned to leave.
and this bit of trivia...
12.02 The Guardian tells us that we should be worried about April 5 - and the number 9.
Jang Jin-sung, editor-in-chief of New Focus international, claims that the number is leading Kim Jong-un’s actions. It can be seen in the founding date of DPRK (September 9 - or 9/9), while Kim Il-sung’s personal bodyguard corps was named 963.
The country’s first nuclear test took place on 9 October 2006. The second long-range rocket launch was on 5 April 2009 (5+4=9 and nine of 2009, double nine). The next one was successfully launched on 12 December 2012 (1+2+1+2+1+2=9). There was a nuclear test on 12 February (20)13 (1+2+2+1+2=9). A recent North Korean propaganda video released on YouTube, in which the east coast of the US is consumed in a “sea of fire”, features a rocket labelled No 9.
So, it all adds up. Three generations of the Kim family seem to have been fixated on nines. In the current climate this suggests that we should all be on our guard today, Friday 5 April (5+4=9). If we make it safely to Saturday, the world is probably safe from a nuclear attack until the 14th or, perhaps, the 23rd.
Kim il Sung’s 101 birthday is April 14.
And this was posted today:
David Cameron: North Korea nuclear strike could hit UK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3004395/posts
What does he know that we don’t?
Has Kim been consulting with Calypso Louie?
Whatever the real situation is, it may be too late for him to back down quietly as if nothing happened. If he does, he may become political non-entity. He has to get something out of the latest escalation of events. To show others that he braved international pressure and prevailed.
There is already a report that nationwide war emergency alert is petering out. People have to go back to work and make a living. In seriously impoverished country like N. Korea, the state does not have enough resources to keep people in bunkers and emergency stand-by indefinitely.
You are right.
I feel compelled to say we have an apologist for a president and commander in chief. If we are attacked he will probably say we deserved it for starving those poor people.
Could a microwave save your electronics during an EMP attack?
http://io9.com/5902325/could-a-microwave-save-your-electronics-during-an-emp-attack
Just saying...
Pray, people, pray.
He is third generation of a culture which has used the ugly American as a scapegoat to prop up their power. They hate America to the core of their being.
From the link..."In fact, North Korea and Iran imperil the political and economic gains made by Mankind since the Enlightenment"
I can't help thinking 'I hope that's hyperbole'
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/understanding-north-korea-and-iran?f=must_reads#ixzz2MBnGqAqR
dicomforting.=diScomforting
North Korea doesn't have the technology to do this. They don't have a reliable vehicle that can get here, and they can't yet put a nuclear tip on a missile anyway.
At this time there is virtually no chance your scenario could play out.
This is almost certainly just more bluster. North Korea is just trying to raise the temperature and sense of crisis, and in a few weeks they will claim the US and South Korea backed down. It's how this criminal government does internal politics.
I can’t help wondering if NK struck some sort of deal with China.
Make a big blustery show, get into a scuffle with the U.S. Worse case, you lose some soldiers - more food for the rest. Pretty darned unlikely that the U.S. is going to push things once NK decides to back off (at what point that happens is the big question). Whatever happens, there’ll probably be a huge humanitarian crisis, even if also for show.
In return, while the U.S. and the rest of the world is distracted with NK, China can absorb Taiwan without a fight.
Interesting and a bit scary too. Two things, 1 the effects of an EMP attack are not really well known. Could be terrible or not so much. 2 the article states that the NK satellite does not or did not pass over the USA but if it is in a polar orbit it will at some point in time pass over every point on Earth including the USA so I am confused about that. I do not understand why we have not hardened our grid as a precaution. An EMP attack may or may not happen but a huge solar flare will happen. The grid needs to be hardened.
If they can put a satellite into orbit they can put a plutonium bomb into orbit. Plutonium bombs weigh a lot less the Uranium bombs.
norks do not have that technology and they have no way to get it over any area within the USA to detonate it.
Why do we keep insisting on underestimating our enemies capabilities, especially given our intelligence services have been caught completely by surprise so many times? We never, never learn no matter how many times we are hit over the head.
They will probably try to detonate an EMP device to put the States in darkness for a few weeks or months.
More like years. It would take the surviving population decades to crawl back into the modern world.
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