South Korea has also developed an advanced electronic device that can be deployed in times of war.
Posted on 03/09/2011 5:36:03 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea Nears Completion of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb
N. Korea Disrupts Current Military Maneuvers With Russian Device To Jam GPS
By JOOHEE CHO
SEOUL, South Korea, March 9, 2011
North Korea appears to be protesting the joint U.S. and South Korean military maneuvers by jamming Global Positioning Devices in the south, which is a nuisance for cell phone and computers users -- but is a hint of the looming menace for the military.
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The North is believed to be nearing completion of an electromagnetic pulse bomb that, if exploded 25 miles above ground would cause irreversible damage to electrical and electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, radio and radar, experts say.
"We assume they are at a considerably substantial level of development," Park Chang-kyu of the Agency for Defense Development said at a briefing to the parliament Monday.
Park confirmed that South Korea has also developed an advanced electronic device that can be deployed in times of war.
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South Korea has also developed an advanced electronic device that can be deployed in times of war.
Yay /sarcasm
Alas, if only we and the brutally imperialist South Korean regime would give the DPRK what she truly wants and deserves — food, money, recognition as a peace-loving state and luxury trinkets for her Dear Leader — these defensive measures would stop, along with the DPRK’s attempts to develop nuclear weaponry for peaceful purposes and trade with other equally peaceful nations and misunderstood freedom seekers. /sarc off
This is bad news if true, folks.
North Korean nukes go pop, their missiles fall into the sea, but a nonnuclear EMP bomb.... don’t even think yet about the Norks deploying one against the ROK. Even they know the South would launch an instant Mad Minute across the DMZ and make the rubble bounce after that.
What if the Norks announce they are prepared to produce the EMP weapon in quantity, for sale to anyone with ready cash?
Imagine the Nork EMP bomb in the hands of absolutely anyone who hates the U.S.
What if.....
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A nuclear EMP, however, is more likely in their case. Fortunately, their nuclear tests to date have been less than spectacular.
As I recall, a basic atomic bomb creates a tremendous EMP, and a multi-stage thermonuclear bomb actually dampens it.
Detonating such a bomb at 25 miles would probably not create EMP effects over a wide area because the atmosphere is still quite dense at that altitude and would tend to damp out much of the effect.
Now if you were able to boost that same weapon up a couple of hundred miles, well clear of the atmosphere, it would create what’s known as the Compton effect, because the Gamma radiation from the weapon hits atoms in the lower atmosphere and fires their electrons straight down at something like 90% of the speed of light. Those electrons wreak havoc on anything that it can induce a current in, like any non-hardened electronic device.
Some of the missile tests Iran has conducted over the past couple of years have been identified as potential tests of an EMP weapon because of their flight profiles. Any collaboration between the NORKS and Iran could lead to this.
“Now if you were able to boost that same weapon up a couple of hundred miles, well clear of the atmosphere, it would create what’s known as the Compton effect, because the Gamma radiation from the weapon hits atoms in the lower atmosphere and fires their electrons straight down at something like 90% of the speed of light. Those electrons wreak havoc on anything that it can induce a current in, like any non-hardened electronic device.”
Wouldn’t such a weapon have to be nuclear, since there wouldn’t be enough oxygen to support conventional high explosives?
If the Norks have such a weapon then it is time to erase their government. Such a country can blackmail even their “host” patron countries such as China. Since we could also blame China by extension for allowing the Norks to “set one off”, it may be in China’s interest to quash its ally’s plans.
What BS. These losers developing something very high tech? RIGHT, they can’t even make their baby nuke go bang. How the hell would they be able to get anything up 25 miles elevation???
Any group or country that would give these chia-pets a dime for anything deserves the screwing they get.
you beat me to it ;-)
Hang on to those “pre-electronic” cars/trucks/motorcycles folks...you’re gonna need’em...
And, coming up next...
A contest to see who can throw a fried “I-Phone” the farthest.
I’m assuming an explosion that produces energy that is absorbed by a large value high current inductance coil device and then releases a “pulse” at the coil’s saturation/disintigration point!
Super large value high capacity “precharged” capacitors(like the energy storage units power companies use to store energy to control energy surges during peak demand) could supply the same type of energy into a low frequency inductance circuit without the need of explosives. So I guess it depends on the designs the Nork are using!
Military equipment will (generally) have shielding. Civilian stuff will be cooked.
“Lights out” by David Crawford is another book using this scenario. I think it’s more detailed in the problems created by an EMP and I prefered the writing style.
This is “protesting”?
I think I understand what you’re saying, but are you describing something that can be boosted on a missile??
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