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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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1 posted on 09/03/2017 8:16:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

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2 posted on 09/03/2017 8:17:05 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Tilted Irish Kilt; Kartographer

Prepper ping.


3 posted on 09/03/2017 8:19:57 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We’re stuck with nuclear NorKs. Thx Clinton, Bush 43 & Obama.

Next up: Iran


4 posted on 09/03/2017 8:20:26 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Every 24 hours we wait to take this guy out, is 24 hours closer to a devastating attack on the United States or one of our allies.

To hear that threat and not take action, would be very problematic IMO.

It’s time.


5 posted on 09/03/2017 8:21:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

In before the “they don’t have an EMP weapon” crowd. Any nuke is a potential EMP weapon.


6 posted on 09/03/2017 8:22:19 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Az Joe

Both solidly backed by the Russians and ChiComs.


7 posted on 09/03/2017 8:22:54 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Suicide is what fat boi seems to want.


8 posted on 09/03/2017 8:23:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Az Joe

I don’t think we are.

There’s time to take him and his nuclear program out, his missiles too.

If we wait now, we will be. And if so, Trump will bear part of the burden for allowing Kim to have them.


9 posted on 09/03/2017 8:24:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
EMP raises the time honored strategy of taking out command and control to apocalyptic levels.
10 posted on 09/03/2017 8:25:14 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I agree. I’m starting to see ‘moving Red Lines’.
I hope it’s just an illusion.
We are reaching a point where Kim will do something very much ‘in your American faces’, where his aggression and culpability can no longer be in doubt. If that’s what Trump is waiting for, that makes for a very dangerous waiting game.


11 posted on 09/03/2017 8:25:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: bigbob

In before the “they don’t have an EMP weapon” crowd. Any nuke is a potential EMP weapon.

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You are correct.


12 posted on 09/03/2017 8:25:51 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

In an earlier age, this kind of threatening would be dealt with swiftly and very harshly.

We’ve come a long way, I guess.


13 posted on 09/03/2017 8:26:29 PM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

don’t anybody tell the NORKS about Corbomite.


14 posted on 09/03/2017 8:27:10 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: TigerLikesRooster

read One Second After


15 posted on 09/03/2017 8:27:12 PM PDT by fulltlt
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To: DoughtyOne

I’m not seein it. How?


16 posted on 09/03/2017 8:28:32 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: lee martell

I agree.

We have his latest test causing a magnitude 6.3 disturbance.

Then this morning we have him threatening an EMP attack.

IMO, that’s all we need.

We are under no mandate to allow our nation or allies to be seriously attacked before responding.

If China or Russia don’t like it, we’ll have to deal with them sooner or later anyway.

Time to man up.


17 posted on 09/03/2017 8:28:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Kim is moving very fast, on his developments.

(with help, it would seem. From why, don’t exactly know)

But he is very rapidly reaching the “America must act” point.

It seems to this poster.


18 posted on 09/03/2017 8:30:10 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

China is really rattling the sabres with its attack dog (the one it is providing all these warheads and missiles).

They aren’t fooling anyone. “Plausible deniability” may get you over in diplomatic cocktail parties, but not when bodies are getting stacked. Remember how attitudes changed after 9-11? That would be nothing.

What is good for the goose, is good for the gander - many more would die from a similar EMP over the Chinese industrial heartland. Rural villagers would have a higher survival rate, but fewer technical skills for the long term aftermath.


19 posted on 09/03/2017 8:31:28 PM PDT by BeauBo
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NORK "What dey mean by EMP attack"?
NORK 2 :"That means we all lose electricity"
NORK "What is this electricity you speak of"?
20 posted on 09/03/2017 8:31:59 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I bought a house on a one-way street that's also a dead end and now I can't leave.)
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