1. It would never reach the US
2. Shortly after it was launched, NK would cease to exist.
Scare tactics from the left !!!
Y’Think The Boss.45 recalls the name..... Goldwater?????
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Read William Forstchen’s “One Second After”. It’s a work of fiction but a very engaging page-turner. You’ll learn in great detail what happens after an EMP. If I recall correctly, Newt Gingrich wrote the forward to the book.
In before the “Nork doesn’t have an EMP weapon” crowd.
Any nuke is an EMP weapon. Some are just more optimized.
One would think that there are some in the higher ranks of North Korea’s military who understand that even an indirect attack on the US like lobbing a missile at Guam would provoke an immediate and devastating response and that sending a nuclear armed missile toward the US would be suicidal. The Chinese too must be worried about little Kim pushing things too far. We could hope that cooler heads might prevail and little Kim soon gets ousted.
Folks in the inner cities may quickly die off, but the heartland...not so much.
Folks in the inner cities may quickly die off, but the heartland...not so much.
Instant Cuba.
I don’t believe it.
We should test our EMP (AKA - High Yield Nuclear Weapon) over NK.
Only problem is, it would likely affect Soul, SK and China (among others).
"Duck season"
"Rabbit season - nuke him, nuke him NOW!"
I’ve followed discussions of the consequences of an EMP attack for many years. The thought of a prolonged absence of electrical power is the stuff of nightmares and could be devastating, if doomsday scenarios plays out.
That’s a big ‘IF’, though, as it’s all theoretical, even if being based upon sound scientific principles. There have been other predictions of catastrophic events that turned out to be nothingburgers. Y2K anyone?
However, I do think it would be in our best interest to invest in the research and technology to prepare our electrical grid components for such an eventuality and ensure that it doesn’t happen to us if the potential for damage does turn out to be as severe as some say it is.
When you google this guy and understand his background you will discover that he is a genuine swamp dweller and "panel queen" who has made a nice living for himself staffing this long-running study. The concerns about EMP do not require more commissions and committees to hold expensive meetings, deliberate over expensive tax payer provided dinners and then provide their names to the cover of a report ghost written by a support staff that really has better things to do with their time.
This whinge is not about EMP but about the failure to fund this long-running boondoggle.
The extent to which EMP is a genuine concern rather than an overblown scare tactic to pry more support out of the congress for some inside-the-beltway contractors to keep up their lifestyle here in the swamp is a real question. It won't be answered by more panel queens.
And, as others have pointed out, if NK tries this, we may have a lot of other problems, but one of them won't be NK anymore.
Horse hockey.
It would be the last thing North Korea would do. They won’t win the war.
I think the danger is in the NORKs selling it to a terrorist organisation to let them do the dirty work and take all the blame while they stand by with a "not me" look on their faces....