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1 posted on 03/30/2013 3:41:20 PM PDT by Arthurio
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No doubt they has thousands ofrockets. But I doubt they have very many missiles...and none which can reach CONUS.


2 posted on 03/30/2013 3:45:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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The chihuahua is barking as the adults conduct war games. When the games are over the chihuahua will lift his little leg on the fence and prance back and forth in victory.


3 posted on 03/30/2013 3:47:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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These people are really nuts - accusing the US of provoking a nuclear war????


4 posted on 03/30/2013 3:49:42 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (Let's not be so open-minded that our brains fall out.)
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Obama’s new personal residence is in Hawaii. When NORKs threaten his house, they risk suicide by cop.


5 posted on 03/30/2013 3:50:36 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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Yawn


8 posted on 03/30/2013 3:55:45 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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9 posted on 03/30/2013 3:55:48 PM PDT by tomkat
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Another War of Northern Aggression?


12 posted on 03/30/2013 4:02:05 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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What I want to know, is where is the nuclear football when Obama is out on the golf course? I mean, could we have a nuclear attack and the un-kim show up and take, say LA, like Peter Sellers in the Mouse that Roared? And all because our own Dear Leader was awol golfing when it happened?


15 posted on 03/30/2013 4:07:12 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/north-korea-emp-attack-could-destroy-us-now/?page=all
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Both North Korean nuclear tests look suspiciously like a Super-EMP weapon. A Super-EMP warhead would have a low yield, like the North Korean device, because it is not designed to create a big explosion, but to convert its energy into gamma rays, that generate the EMP effect. Reportedly South Korean military intelligence concluded, independent of the EMP Commission, that Russian scientists are in North Korea helping develop a Super-EMP warhead. In 2012, a military commentator for the People’s Republic of China stated that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.

A Super-EMP warhead would not weigh much, and could probably be delivered by North Korea’s ICBM. The missile does not have to be accurate, as the EMP field is so large that detonating anywhere over the United States would have catastrophic consequences. The warhead does not even need a re-entry vehicle, as an EMP attack entails detonating the warhead at high-altitude, above the atmosphere.

So, as of Dec. 12, North Korea’s successful orbit of a satellite demonstrates its ability to make an EMP attack against the United States — right now.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12944#.UTl0ild418H

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North Korea appears to have borrowed more from the Russians than the design of a Super-EMP warhead.

During the Cold War, the USSR experimented with a secret weapon, the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS), that used an ICBM like a Space Launch Vehicle to put a nuclear warhead into orbit, like a satellite. Instead of using the ICBM to lob the warhead on a more accurate arcing ballistic trajectory, flying along the shortest range to target, like an artillery shell, the FOBS lofted the warhead into a "fractional" or partial orbit, sacrificing accuracy for limitless range.

FOBS could reach any nation or threaten any target anywhere on Earth.

A Super-EMP warhead does not weigh much, and could probably be delivered by North Korea's Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, successfully tested in December 2012, against any nation on Earth. Thus, North Korea already possesses an ICBM and poses a mortal nuclear threat to the United States, and to all nations on Earth--right now.

North Korea, during the successful test of its ICBM on December 12, 2012, orbited a satellite weighing 100 kilograms (about 200 pounds). One design of a Super-EMP warhead would be a modified neutron bomb, more accurately an Enhanced Radiation Warhead (ERW) because it produces not only many neutrons but also many gamma rays. As noted earlier, gamma rays cause the EMP effect. One U.S. ERW warhead (the W-82) deployed in NATO during the Cold War weighed, including its heavy casing, less than 50 kilograms. Since the EMP attack entails detonating the warhead at high-altitude, above the atmosphere, the warhead does not even need a heavy re-entry vehicle and heat shield.

North Korea's ICBM does not have to be accurate to make an EMP attack against the United States.

The EMP field is so large that detonating anywhere over the U.S. would have catastrophic consequences. North Korea orbited its satellite around the Earth at an altitude of about 500 kilometers. The trajectory of North Korea's satellite is no accident--they deliberately aimed for and achieved this orbit and altitude, as announced before their launch.

An altitude of 500 kilometers would be ideal for making an EMP attack that places the field over the entire lower 48 United States.

North Korea's ICBM, delivering an EMP attack by means of an inaccurate satellite warhead, would likely miss its horizontal aimpoint over the geographic center of the U.S. by tens of kilometers. Bursting the warhead at an altitude of 500 kilometers would compensate for this inaccuracy by creating an EMP field big enough to cover everything. North Korea's satellite did not pass over the United States--but a slight adjustment in its trajectory would have flown it over or near the U.S. bull's eye for a high-altitude EMP burst.

Surprise Attack

The primary purpose of the Fractional Orbital Bombardments System, that North Korea appears to have borrowed from Russia, is to make a surprise nuclear attack. FOBS is stealthy as it can strike from any direction, from unexpected directions, not just from the shortest direction or by using the trajectory that would be normal for an ICBM. Because FOBS looks like a Space Launch Vehicle, not an ICBM making a nuclear attack, this disguise optimizes chances for achieving surprise.

During the Cold War, Moscow experimented with a stealthy way of delivering a nuclear attack on the United States using a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System to elude radar detection. This would entail launching an ICBM southward, away from the United States, so it appears non-threatening, and delivering the warhead like a satellite on a south polar orbit, so the nuclear attack comes at the U.S. from the south.

During the Cold War--and today--the United States has no Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radars or missile interceptors facing south. We would not even see an attack from the south coming.

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One signature of a Super-EMP weapon is that it has a very low explosive yield, just several kilotons, or even less if it is more efficient, because the weapon is converting the energy of the nuclear warhead into gamma rays.

In 2004, the Russian generals told the EMP Commission that North Korea was getting help developing a Super-EMP nuclear weapon from contractors from Russia, China, Pakistan and elsewhere, and could probably test such a weapon "in a few years." A few years later, in 2006, North Korea tested its mysterious "nuclear device" that produced an explosive yield of only several kilotons, and so was derided by the Western press as a failure--but hailed as a success by North Korea.

Independently of the Congressional EMP Commission, South Korean military intelligence several times warned their government, in stories reported in South Korean press, that Russians are in North Korea helping them develop a Super-EMP nuclear warhead. In response, the South Korean government launched projects to harden their military communications and other critical infrastructures.

In 2010, according to some reputable European analysts, radioisotope data indicates North Korea may have conducted two clandestine nuclear tests of a very low yield "nuclear device" of sophisticated fusion design. This is indicative of a weapons program that is very technologically advanced, and consistent with development of a Super-EMP warhead.

In 2012, a military commentator for the People's Republic of China told a Hong Kong journal that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.


16 posted on 03/30/2013 4:08:20 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM ("Hey, I'm just being humble. You know, like Pope Francis. Stop being a Pharisee.")
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Un out of Korea
Korea out of ... oh, wait.
17 posted on 03/30/2013 4:11:31 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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It’s not the weaponary of the NorK’s that matters, they can kick up some dust, but Mainland China is pulling this guy’s strings. China who gives DPRK everything from food to fuel, has decided to test a weak and bumbling American President by proxy. And Both Un, and the new Female leader of the south need to prove something to their people.


19 posted on 03/30/2013 4:13:23 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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A war in the mind of the eunuch, Kim Jong Un, and the minds of his effeminate officer staff, but he does nothing.


20 posted on 03/30/2013 4:15:45 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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Get your Sansung TV before they blow Korea to bits.
(It is the best picture we’ve ever, ever seen in a television)


23 posted on 03/30/2013 4:21:54 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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Nooooo!

Not the statues of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il !!


27 posted on 03/30/2013 4:32:25 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I had to check the source. I thought for a minute it was CNN, ABC or MSNBC. The reporting is about as accurate and truthful.


28 posted on 03/30/2013 4:35:37 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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ping


37 posted on 03/30/2013 4:56:53 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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44 posted on 03/30/2013 5:17:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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46 posted on 03/30/2013 5:23:17 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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We ought to cut a deal with China. We’ll keep our troops south of the 38th parallel if they intervene and stop this loon.


59 posted on 03/30/2013 6:15:08 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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Too many literal minded, including the Halfwit-In-Chief at the White Hut. In the past, North Korean threats were little more than official application forms for free Western aid. Give us, or else, something like murder and mayhem in Chicago are application forms for mo foo stams and Obamafoams, and have been, not only in Chicago, since the early 1960s.


63 posted on 03/30/2013 6:40:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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