Posted on 04/10/2014 1:38:23 PM PDT by chessplayer
North Korea has the capability to deliver on its threats to carry out a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States, it has been claimed.
Dr Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, has reportedly seen a long-suppressed government report that concludes North Korea is capable of using an Unha-3 rocket to carry out an attack on the U.S..
He says the U.S. would be particularly vulnerable to such an attack, as any rocket from North Korea is likely to travel over the South Pole and approach from the south - something American missile defences would apparently be powerless to stop.
Such an attack on the U.S. would cripple the country's defence systems, not to mention cause chaos in any scenario where an electronic device is required - including road, sea and air transport, government and civilian communications and, of course, the throughout entire economic sector.
The leaked Department of Homeland Security report allegedly claims that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un already successfully practiced an electromagnetic pulse attack on the U.S. in early 2013.
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You’re right about the consequences for NORK; but, according to the EMP Commission, you’re very wrong about the number of EMPs required.
IMHO, no state will risk an EMP attack on the USA, for the reasons you mention. However, a non-state terrorist might try it. The most likely scenario being a launch from a freighter, within a few hundred miles of the coast. While the U.S.A. would probably glassify NORK, Iran, and possibly other possible conspirators (deployed nuclear subs would still be operational) — that might not suffice to deter non-state terrorists.
Retaliate and what, put N.K. in the dark like we got !!!
Have you noticed 99% of N.K. LIVES in the dark already.
/johnny
One word: Boomers (as in Trident subs). ONE could wipe out all of North Korea.
You're probably right.
I could see him rejoicing in the suffering of Americans. He'd be likely to nominate the fat little Nork creep for Nobel Peace Prize.
So the little monster riceball literally has nothing to lose?
Or is he thinking, “The Japanese attacked America & ended up getting nuked, then guess what? The Americans rebuilt their entire country & look at Japan today!”
Another Duchy of Grand Fenwick? No, too rational.
well, is this a scenario that would finally allow the federales to put us in concentration camps or otherwise severaly restrict every activity we do, then maybe its what is wanted by TPTB...
We put some pretty serious hardware in the upper atmosphere years back while testing our goodies. We could not take out anywhere near the size of the continental United States, we knocked out some lights and made a lot of stuff fuzzy on the radio, but we did not blast a 3500 miles wide diameter area.
I too used to freak at the idea of a single warhead floated up 300 miles would wipe us all out if it came up from the southern hemisphere. Fact is, it won’t. Do damage? Sure, knock out everything? nope. Beyond which, how does a non-state terrorist get a payload into orbit in the first place? They would have to work with a nation in order to do so.
We have everything to lose, the Norks very little.
We will be the overall losers.
I suppose the danger would be if they got more help from China or Iran, for example. I still wonder if the EMP hype is commiserate to the threat.
The EMP Commission has an explanation about how it would work — way to complex for me to attempt to summarize here. Suffice it to say, it is convincing.
Google “TACAMO”.
It would be a lot easier and cheaper to just shoot out a lot of transformers on the 3 grids at the same time.
/johnny
If they ever decide to do that, launch two: one for us and one for themselves. It will save us the trouble of reducing that barbarian wasteland to a radioactive barbarian wasteland.
You might be right about that — beta testing has already occurred.
The damage doesn’t have to be comprehensive — just wide spread. Whether it’s an EMP attack or bullets placed in transformers; IMHO the effects of any large-scale damage to critical infrastructure would quickly be magnified many times over by the ensuing breakdown in social order. Consider Katrina, tropical storm Sandy, etc. Now, imagine that there’s no help coming from the rest of the country, because a large part of the rest of the country is also affected.
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