Posted on 05/01/2017 12:14:36 PM PDT by rxsid
"North Korea missile explosion deliberate, experts say
By Park Si-so - Posted : 2017-04-30 13:27
The mid-air explosion of a North Korean missile on Saturday morning was deliberate, not a failed launch as claimed, South Korean government officials say.
It is believed the North was testing a warhead explosion, an essential step toward testing a nuclear warhead explosion.
"We don't believe the mid-air explosion was an accident," cable news channel YTN quoted a government official as saying. "It's believed the explosion was a test to develop a nuclear weapon different from existing ones."
The nuclear-armed isolated country fired a ballistic missile on Saturday morning from near Pukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province).
The missile climbed to 71 kilometers before exploding within North Korean territory, according to the South Korean and U.S. defense ministries.
The explosion happened two or three minutes after blast-off.
Military experts say mid- or long-range missiles normally stabilize at 20 or 30 kilometers above ground. In the latest test, the missile climbed to three times the so-called "stabilizing height, which means the chances that any internal mechanical failure caused the explosion were "very low," according to experts.
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The South Korean military has since raised the possibility that the North might conduct an "unconventional" nuclear test. This means the North's sixth nuclear test, if any, would not be underground."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/05/103_228528.html
Air Force warns of 'coordinated physical attacks' on electric grid
"Experts have suggested that North Korea, for example, is testing missiles to launch a nuclear weapon from a ship off the U.S. coast into the atmosphere where an explosion could shut off electricity for months through an atmospheric EMP explosion."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/air-force-warns-of-coordinated-physical-attacks-on-electric-grid/article/2586726 (Mar 24, 2016)
Beat me to it with the EMP reference.
A air burst at a certain altitude is what you want for an EMP attack. Precise targeting of a city center (i.e. Hiroshima) is not needed if you just want to fry the grid.
Yeah...that’s not good.
okay but they still cease to exist after the submarines are through with them.
Well daddy Trump is trying to arrange a talk with the tantruming tot.
bump
I agree. It’s a sub delivered EMP attack.
“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
“I meant to do that”
Meh. It’s California. Who cares?
Complete BS.
ahhh yes Missir brow up vely deriberate
Which, by itself, would be devastating.
Another possibility, although easier to detect (& thus prevent), a launch from a converted freighter.
It helps if the thing can at least make it to the right continent (and preferably country) for it to work properly.
Without their debit cards, Obama phones, and We services to patch up their bull wounds, thousands of Americans and several times more Mexicans would probably die.
What is? That the missile climbed to 17 kilometers prior to exploding? Or that the South Korean military believes the north could attempt an unconventional nuclear test? Or?
There's so much propaganda flying right now that no one knows what to believe.
As far as I'm concerned, every missile launch that was a flop was indeed a FLOP! They have no missile program, they have no satellite program, their people are starving and their active military are totally in the dark about the incapability's of their own and the actual capabilities of the United States and its allies.........
They're still living under a 1950's Korean war mentality that ended in a draw and figure they can still compete today when the reality is that they're still living in the 1950's while the rest of the world in the 21st century.........
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