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How North Korea Could Destroy The United States
Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 5, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 04/05/2013 7:10:05 AM PDT by raptor22

National Security: The administration moves an advanced missile defense system to Guam because it knows a single low-yield nuke detonated at high altitude could send America back in time a hundred years.

The announcement Wednesday by the Defense Department that it would soon deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD), a missile defense system inherited from the Bush administration, to Guam underscores the seriousness of the threat from North Korea, whose actions, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rightly said, "present a real and clear danger."

This move comes after the Obama administration reversed its previous scuttling of Bush administration plans to increase our ground-based interceptor force in Alaska and the deployment of two destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems, the Decatur and the John McCain, to the region.

Some observers dismissed it as familiar bluster when North Korea's 28-year-old raging runt, Kim Jong-un, signed an order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at U.S. targets in front of a map that included Austin, Texas, as a target.

But other observers are concerned that a specific target may not be what the possibly imploding North Korean regime may have in mind.

The three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a "package," which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be de-orbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, releasing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). That would fry electronic circuitry and the nation's power grid.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3amobama; aegis; defense; emp; ibd; kimjongun; military; missiledefense; nationaldefense; nationalsecurity; nknukes; nkorea; nkwar; northkorea; nuclearjihad; nuclearnk; nukes; peterpry; petervincentpry; preppers; pry; shtf; teotwawki; thaad; waronterror
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To: Travis McGee

“Only a fool would not recognize that, for good or ill, we are chained to our cities.”

B.S. You may be, but most of the folks in fly over country are not.


121 posted on 04/05/2013 8:20:31 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Black Agnes
If the norks do it China and Russia both have clean hands.

And of course those will be the exact statements that will come from the left. Of course, we all know better that Russia and China are quite complicit in such a scenario, but in the end, the cowards of the left will do nothing but perhaps surrender.

The proper response would be to render Pyongyang uninhabitable via a Thermonuclear warhead, and then mop up the country with conventional warfare.

If China doesn't like it and decides to "defend" their partner again, then it's time to take off the gloves and dance.

But, once again, the left will do nothing but surrender, and then this country will be in the midst of a civil war.
122 posted on 04/05/2013 8:20:41 AM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Black Agnes

“If 60 million people in a region suddenly lost ALL power, it would be catastrophic for the country.”

True, but having the capability to mount an attack and doing it are two different matters. What would NK possibly gain vs what they would lose? They may be commie fanatics but they are not insane.


123 posted on 04/05/2013 8:21:12 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Soul of the South; CodeToad

China will have huge problems to deal with if the USA is wrecked. Invading countries across oceans won’t be a realistic option for them for many years, assuming America’s collapse doesn’t drag them into their own collapse.

The American power grid and economy, the global Cisco internet system, and the communication satellites are all tied together. If one goes down hard, odds are we’ll lose them all.

Goodbye 21st Century. Hello Dark Ages.


124 posted on 04/05/2013 8:22:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Black Agnes

“How many of the technical people and engineers needed for a recovery”

Give me a break... Technical people and engineers can take care of themselves.


125 posted on 04/05/2013 8:22:15 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: babygene

So how does you having a standby gen. get the electricity up and running for the rest of the country?

It doesn’t, which is what makes your statement so ridiculous.


126 posted on 04/05/2013 8:22:38 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: PastorBooks

pong


127 posted on 04/05/2013 8:23:04 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: babygene

China needs room for its people more than it needs a market for its stuff.

Selling us stuff is just the means to get financial backing for their military expansion.

With us out of the question politically China could be the military aggressor they’ve wanted to be for the past 60+ years.


128 posted on 04/05/2013 8:23:08 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: babygene

I live in a rural area, too, and could get by for few months with no contact with the rest of civilization. My wife and I have anticipated the possibility of some disaster either here in Texas, such as a storm, or a national one such as being discussed. Just as the poster said, when ALL the power poles are down, and ALL the roads are blocked, it takes along time to recover. And add to the fact if it was a national disaster, Obama’s people would be robbing and killing everyone they could, making it even harder to repair the situation


129 posted on 04/05/2013 8:24:18 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“If 60 million people in a region suddenly lost ALL power, it would be catastrophic for the country.”

60 million people lost power in the last hurricane...


130 posted on 04/05/2013 8:24:31 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: raptor22
Sad to say but I wouldn't be surprised to learn Obama’s response to the threats is somewhere along the lines of, “just allow me enough time to finish tying up ammunition orders here at home”.
131 posted on 04/05/2013 8:25:52 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: babygene

So, you are saying you are totally ready, today, to revert to a 19th Century method of living?

You have food on hand forever, can grow everything you need, can manually pump your own drinking water, and can hold off millions of starving and hostile city dwellers, forever?

A city in normal times is like a hornet’s nest, with one or two hornets flying and out that you can see from your picnic 100 feet away. We are talking about smashing the nest open, and seeing a thousand angry hornets coming out all at once.

Starving men can walk 100s of miles drinking ditch water and eating any dead meat they can find or they can make. Including people.

You’re all set for that, and think it won’t touch you?

What, do you live on top of a fortress mountain with a hundred years of MREs, a hand-pump well and a million bullets?


132 posted on 04/05/2013 8:26:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: babygene

LOL. Ok, you’re making a joke. I get it.

Either that, or you have no experience with tech and suburbia. I’ve worked with engineers and high tech people for decades. I’ve lived in urban NYC, suburbia and extreme rural areas. It’s easy for rural dwellers to get into the ‘shire’ mentality. Most of the population of this country does NOT live in the shire. They do not have more than 3 days of food in their homes.

Most engineers I worked with lived at the drive thru. If pizza delivery stopped they’d starve. I’m being totally serious. Their fridges have like 1 can of (skunky) beer and a jar of mustard in them.


133 posted on 04/05/2013 8:26:44 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Travis McGee

I just want to know how he’s going to fuel that generator after all the local supplies of gas are gone.

And keep any wandering hungry people from hearing it. And echo-locating the supplies of food and other sustenance the sound of that generator promises...


134 posted on 04/05/2013 8:29:01 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

There is much closer and easier territory for China to take than the USA. New Zealand, for example, is a low-hanging apple ready to be plucked anytime. Borneo, the Philippines and lots of other places would be invaded before the USA. For that matter, they could simply colonize Africa much more easily than invading a down but still dangerous USA. A China invasion is about #300 on my worry list.


135 posted on 04/05/2013 8:29:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Black Agnes
Which is roughly the altitude of the satellite the norks launched in Dec ‘12.

Our most modern 1MT warheads weigh about 1,100 kg. The older multi-megaton bombs weighed over 4,000 kg.

The NK payload was just 100 kg.

136 posted on 04/05/2013 8:29:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Travis McGee

“You’re all set for that, and think it won’t touch you?”

I didn’t say it wouldn’t effect me. I said we’d make it...


137 posted on 04/05/2013 8:30:40 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Travis McGee

I hope you guys are right. And it would be a signal for China to move, aggressively, in the entire Pac region.

Lots of excellent farmland in New Zealand. And the carrying capacity would be hundreds of millions of people. After the New Zealanders currently there were exterminated...

And who to stop them?


138 posted on 04/05/2013 8:30:45 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: PapaBear3625

How much payload does it take for an advanced EMP weapon?


139 posted on 04/05/2013 8:31:28 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Travis McGee

Either that, or he’s planning on being one of the marauders. He doesn’t prep anything but ammo because he’s planning on taking other people preps.


140 posted on 04/05/2013 8:33:37 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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