How North Korea Could Kill Ninety Percent of American Population

An electromagnetic pulse can be a natural phenomenon or man-made. Perhaps the most common source is lightning. If you’re listening to an AM radio station, you’ll hear the static crashes. Those are harmless unless the lightning actually strikes something or someone.

The scary part is that an EMP can be generated by a nuclear weapon. If the weapon is powerful enough, and launched high enough over a country, it can destroy sensitive electronics as well as the power grid without killing a single person directly. The problem comes in its aftermath.

In destroying electronic equipment, that means that anything with a microchip or transistor including cellular phones, automobiles and trucks built since the 1970s, and computers will be rendered useless. In other words, communication and transportation will come to an end. There will be no food processed and transported, no gasoline available for those who do have working vehicles, no working hospitals, and no pharmaceuticals.

So the idea of a “prepper” surviving this only works if that prepper can live for a year or so without a source of food, fuel, medications, and healthcare, since that is the common estimate of the time required for the country to back on its feet. It also means such a prepper needs to be isolated and well-armed since starving, desperate neighbors can come knocking with less than the best intentions.

There are a number of reason to believe North Korea is well on its way to making this threat real.

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.

The knowledge that the North Koreans are working on this capability is not something just recently discovered.

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

There are things that can be done to lessen the impact of such an attack. Unfortunately, the danger is not being addressed:

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.

The U.S. has stated on more than one occasion that it had lost track of North Korean submarines:

Dozens of N. Korean submarines left their bases at both Eastern and Western coast, and can’t be located. Military are increasing their surveillance capability to track them, it is confirmed.

That accounts for 70% of (N. Korea’s) submarine fleet, which totals 70 ships. This is the largest rate of deployment since the Korean War.

Military sources said, “This is 10 times more than their normal deployment level. Dozens of them left their bases at both coasts, and we are unable to track them.”

They said, “70% of their submarine fleet is not located. We are increasing our surveillance capability to find them.”

They suspect that the unusually high level of N. Korea’s submarine movements may be for further military provocation, and raised their level of alert.

All it takes is one nuke launched above the U.S. from a submarine to cause an EMP. And our federal government has done nothing to protects us from such a threat.

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Source: The Hill, Free Republic