[Responsibility2nd]

Not bunk?

You believe some fat kid with a bad haircut and 1970’s technology will kill 90% of us Americans?

Yeah. Ping me when THAT happens.

(rolls eyes)

[Responsibility2nd]

You believe some fat kid with a bad haircut and 1970’s technology will kill 90% of us Americans?

Uh oh. Lil Kimmie has upgraded his technology...

[RFEngineer]

Ok, you’re a tough customer.

Nk has nuclear devices. It has rocket tech sufficient to polar orbit a satellite

It shares tech with Iran.

An EMP can be caused by even a small nuclear device. It need not even be accurate.

Do not assume NK is completely incompetent.

They aren’t.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Actually 1950's and 1960's technology.

90% of Americans dead? Probably not. But, if you bring down even a portion of the grid for any length of time it means no gasoline, no communications, no cold food storage, no food delivery, no fresh clean water, etc. etc. The longer it lasts and the more people effected, the more deaths there will be.

West of the Mississippi and especially the West Coast would be particularly exposed to such an attack from North Korea. I would not laugh it off. It is the cheapest, lowest tech, and best way to attack the USA and inflict mass casualties and damage.

[Ancesthntr]

“You believe some fat kid with a bad haircut and 1970’s technology will kill 90% of us Americans?”

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People made fun of Hitler’s appearance, too. Fat lot of good it did them when the Wehrmacht rolled in.

EMP was, FYI, discovered back in the early 1960s. Google “Starfish Prime” to find out the facts.

Here are some other facts: Any nation that can build nuclear weapons, and which can orbit a satellite (the Norks can and have done BOTH), can launch an EMP attack on any location on the entire globe. Also, the technology for enhancing the gamma ray production of a nuclear weapon is not all that sophisticated or difficult to master - if you’ve already got the smarts and equipment to build a nuke in the first place. Get out of your mind the silly and uninformed opinion that a huge (or YUUUUGE) nuclear explosion is necessary to a successful EMP attack. The simple fact is that fission weapons (i.e. A-bombs) are FAR more efficient at producing the types of EMP that would be devastating to a modern society than fusion weapons (i.e. thermo-nuclear devices or H-bombs).

Get informed FIRST, then deliver your skepticism. Until then, you’re just another ignorant victim of normalcy bias.