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North Korea openly threatens EMP attack for the first time, changing the game
Toronto Sun ^ | SEPTEMBER 03, 201 | ANTHONY FUREY

Posted on 09/03/2017 8:16:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

North Korea openly threatens EMP attack for the first time, changing the game

BY ANTHONY FUREY, POSTMEDIA NETWORK

The news Sunday morning that North Korea had launched what appeared to be its sixth nuclear test and most powerful one to date is troubling enough.

But a statement from the rogue regime took things to a whole new level. The North said it had tested an H-bomb that was “a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals.”

This is the first time it has publicly mentioned its interest and ability in an EMP attack, a devastating weapon that could have catastrophic consequences for North America, the West and their closer neighbours.

An EMP attack, as I detail in my new book Pulse Attack, is a nuclear detonation that occurs in the atmosphere and creates a waveform that can take down the electrical grid below.

In the worst case scenario, this wouldn’t just shut off the power for minutes or hours, but weeks or even months, due to serious damage to transformer stations and other integral elements of our power infrastructure.

This wouldn’t just mean we couldn’t turn on our laptops and televisions; it would shut down our telecommunications, transportation, water systems, our ability to get food to cities and much more.

(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emp; hydrogenbomb; korea; nkemp; nkorea; nkoutofcontrol; nuclear; prepper; preppers
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To: Freedom56v2

You’re welcome. Actually I think just as you do. I don’t think some people grasp how serious this is.

We can imagine what it will be like when Iran gears up. If NK isn’t dealt with now, it will send a message to Iran that there will be no consequences, so they might as well go for it.


121 posted on 09/03/2017 9:15:30 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: gaijin
They might have made sense if N. Korea only has small nukes. That is no longer the case. N. Korea now has a bomb with sufficient yield to make experts think that she indeed has a hydrogen bomb. That changes everything. It is now big enough for EMP attack on a wide area of U.S.
122 posted on 09/03/2017 9:20:13 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: laplata; HiTech RedNeck
You’re welcome. Actually I think just as you do. I don’t think some people grasp how serious this is.

Well, I agree. It's very serious and many millions of us will die, horribly, painfully, and alone.

I just cannot work up a give-a-shit, though.

The human race deserves 100% extinction -- we are sinful and derelict beyond all measure -- and luckily, we are likely to get that, our demise, before we develop Faster-Than-Light travel, and pollute the rest of our galaxy.

The Lord God loves us -- I have zero idea why -- and the very end-times are upon us.

Thankfully.

123 posted on 09/03/2017 9:20:46 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Little fat kid Kim is a real life super villian...

Who's about to cool to room temp very soon.

124 posted on 09/03/2017 9:21:24 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

If Kim was to be the victim of an accident, who would be the next in line?


125 posted on 09/03/2017 9:21:26 PM PDT by NorseWood
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, normally I absolutely love your sarcasm and humor. However, today is not the day and this is not the thread.

Please just stop.


126 posted on 09/03/2017 9:21:34 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: Freedom56v2
You got a choice: Go to your grave, morose and depressed; or go to your grave cracking-wise and flipping everyone the bird.

I choose the latter.

127 posted on 09/03/2017 9:21:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Freedom56v2

I am so angry at our former administrations,
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How about that dumb sh*t Congressman Fred Upton R- Mich.,whose committee should have addressed this 5 years ago and hardened America’s electric infrastructure.


128 posted on 09/03/2017 9:23:40 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Freedom56v2

Nope. Won’t stop. These are the End Times. They were spoken about in Revelations, I saw a wonderful post about it on this forum. It’s bottom of the ninth inning, baby, and I will crack-wise right until the last pitch and the last bat is swung.


129 posted on 09/03/2017 9:23:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz

As a Christian, I will not go to my grave morose or depressed...

I grieve for those who remain...

However, what if I prefer not to go to my grave right now?!?!

Perhaps I want to enjoy retirement and my grandchildren...


130 posted on 09/03/2017 9:25:16 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Hopefully, behind closed doors, we are telling China: 1) Any nuclear attack by North Korea will be interpreted as an attack by China, and will lead to a full scale retaliatory defensive strike against China along with North Korea - no debate, without question. 2) If China does not work with us to stop Kim, we will have no choice but to support the nuclear armament of Japan and South Korea. 3) We are prepared to start an all-out trade war, with immediate tariffs and draconian restrictions on imports, 4) We will view any complicity of China with North Korea as justification for immediate invalidation of all US debt to China.
131 posted on 09/03/2017 9:25:59 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Lazamataz

Suit yourself...

Just don’t crack them at me.


132 posted on 09/03/2017 9:26:06 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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To: Lazamataz

I have to agree. Things are beyond repair and no man or men can solve this terrible mess in the world. Only He will do that.


133 posted on 09/03/2017 9:26:34 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Freedom56v2
my grandkids are in the Seattle area, as is my son and his ex wife...

my dtr lives in Portland Oregon....

this is frightening...

134 posted on 09/03/2017 9:27:08 PM PDT by cherry
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To: NorseWood
“If Kim was to be the victim of an accident, who would be the next in line?”

Dennis Rodman.

135 posted on 09/03/2017 9:27:59 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

any solution that leaves Kim in charge of nuclear weapons is too dangerous to the US.


136 posted on 09/03/2017 9:29:45 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Black Agnes

Yeah those are the monsters behind chain fences at electric sub-stations. The transportation infrastructure required to transport them would no longer exist. Classic Catch 22: you desperately need the restoration of the electrical grid, but the very components you need cannot be moved into position - because you lack electricity.


137 posted on 09/03/2017 9:29:53 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: neverevergiveup

You make very good points and this could easily lead to WW III. This time the continental United States will suffer.


138 posted on 09/03/2017 9:30:41 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“An EMP attack, as I detail in my new book Pulse Attack, is a nuclear detonation that occurs in the atmosphere and creates a waveform that can take down the electrical grid below.”

Not unless, with enough NatSec notice, most likely affected grid segments are shut down first. And you think our NatSec planners do not understand that, not matter what has been said publicly??


139 posted on 09/03/2017 9:30:50 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Lazamataz

OH, and I will add that though we may very well be in the end times (please provide your credentials as a Bible scholar to indicate we are as fact), there could be a lot of hardship between now and the rapture.

I don’t think knowing Bible prophesy should mean that we laugh off an EMP attack by the Norks.


140 posted on 09/03/2017 9:31:10 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Freeper formerly known as bushwon ;))
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