Posted on 03/29/2017 5:00:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given to the American people that North Korea has not “demonstrated” that it can miniaturize a nuclear warhead small enough for missile delivery, or build a reentry vehicle for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of penetrating the atmosphere to blast a U.S. city.
Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.
Indeed, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been photographed posing with what appears to be a genuine miniaturized nuclear warhead for ballistic missiles. And North Korea does, in fact, have two classes of ICBMs—the road mobile KN-08 and KN-14—which both appear to be equipped with sophisticated reentry vehicles.
Even if it were true that North Korea does not yet have nuclear missiles, their “Dear Leader” could deliver an atomic bomb hidden on a freighter sailing under a false flag into a U.S. port, or hire their terrorist allies to fly a nuclear 9/11 suicide mission across the unprotected border with Mexico. In this scenario, populous port cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, or big cities nearest the Mexican border, like San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and Santa Fe, would be most at risk.
A Hiroshima-type A-Bomb having a yield of 10-kilotons detonated in a major city would cause about 200,000 casualties from blast, thermal, and radiation effects. North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon having an estimated yield of 20-30 kilotons. The Defense Department assesses that on January 6, 2016, North Korea may have tested components of an H-Bomb. H-Bombs are much more powerful than A-Bombs and can produce much greater casualties—millions of casualties in a big city like New York.
The notion that North Korea is testing A-Bombs and H-Bomb components, but does not yet have the sophistication to miniaturize warheads and make reentry vehicles for missile delivery is absurd.
Eight years ago, in 2008, the CIA's top East Asia analyst publicly stated North Korea successfully miniaturized nuclear warheads for delivery on its Nodong medium-range missile. The Nodong is able to strike South Korea and Japan or, if launched off a freighter, even the United States.
In 2011, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lt. General Ronald Burgess, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea has weaponized its nuclear devices into warheads for arming ballistic missiles.
On April 7, 2015, at a Pentagon press conference, Admiral William Gortney, then Commander of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), responsible for protecting the U.S. from long-range missiles, warned that the intelligence community assesses North Korea's KN-08 mobile ICBM could strike the U.S. with a nuclear warhead.
And on October 7, 2015, Gortney again warned the Atlantic Council: "I agree with the intelligence community that we assess that they [North Koreans] have the ability, they have the weapons, and they have the ability to miniaturize those weapons, and they have the ability to put them on a rocket that can range the [U.S.] homeland."
In February and March of 2015, former senior national security officials of the Reagan and Clinton administrations warned that North Korea should be regarded as capable of delivering by satellite a small nuclear warhead, specially designed to make a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against the United States. According to the Congressional EMP Commission, a single warhead delivered by North Korean satellite could blackout the national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures for over a year—killing 9 of 10 Americans by starvation and societal collapse.
Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack.
Why do the press and public officials ignore or under-report these facts? Perhaps no administration wants to acknowledge that North Korea is an existential threat on their watch.
Whatever the motives for obfuscating the North Korean nuclear threat, the need to protect the American people is immediate and urgent:
The U.S. must be prepared to preempt North Korea by any means necessary—including nuclear weapons.
Launch a crash program to harden against EMP attack the U.S. electric grid to preserve American civilization and hundreds of millions of lives. This could be part of President Trump’s infrastructure modernization project.
Beef up national missile defenses. Revive President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the unfairly derided “Star Wars.” Space-based missile defenses could still render nuclear missiles obsolete and offer a permanent, peaceful, solution to problems like North Korea.
Don’t give them any ideas.
This will never happen
The book One second After already gave the world the idea.
Now they know what book to read!
“Launch a crash program to harden against EMP attack the U.S. electric grid to preserve American civilization and hundreds of millions of lives. This could be part of President Trump’s infrastructure modernization project”.
This should have the highest priority. China, Russia and India have hardened their grids have hardened their grids. We are stupid and criminally negligent not to do so.
Woolsey is one of the biggest neo-con globalists in America today. I guess he’s moved on from his last job as a paid stooge for the “green energy” industry.
Leftists would love it, tho. They despise humanity....just like Satan.
No, a single atmospheric nuke will not black out all of America, and 90% of the population would not die. This is sold by the people who want a “smart grid”. To replace the entire US power distribution system. Obama called for it.
The single largest graft filled pork project in world history. Follow the money.
Forget EMP.
Think about a plane loaded with a large H-bomb, surrounded by as much cobalt as they can fit and still have it fly.
Let it detonate at high altitude at the right spot off the west coast, and the jet stream winds would carry radioactive cobalt fallout all across the US.
The book One second After already gave the world the idea.””
It was a fascinating book.
bwhahaha! Floppy disk!
Kim Jong Un is a fat little coward as tar as his person is concerned. He’s not about to commit suicide. Look for more ego building posturing and not much else. Even though NK probably now has a nuclear capability to really put us and others through calamitous destruction.
There are plenty of ways to bring in bombs. What a joke we have for security. All they have to do is pay one of our many traitors.
Didn’t occur to them to publish this while Obama was president, or while Hillary was SOS, or while she was running for president.
And back in the cold war, all that time, all the Russians needed to wipe us out was -one- bomb. Boy, I bet they feel silly now. /s
We must preempt this overt and verbal threat against our people and country.I really do not understand the delay except we have beenso militarily weakened by democrats. I have suggested tactical nukes on 3 targets.1.leadership. 2. nuclear production and 3,. the DMZ military forces north of the DMZ. I suggest NO MERCY. In consultation.I am advised that we can do that with mega cluster bombs ( conventional) . I don’t care how we do that . After the annihilation of those targets we must invade and an occupy and turn over that desolated place to the South Koreans for unification. We must be prepared to advize China to stand down and not move or it will be the BIG NUKES for them and no more economy. Time is short!
D’oh!
Sorry. Dang.
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