With the belligerent talk and threats coming from North Korea, attention has been directed to that nation’s two satellites currently in orbit and what their function might be. While North Korea could not defeat the U.S. in a war, could they inflict serious damage to the U.S. from their satellites, or others they might choose to launch?
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission.
Speaking on this reporter’s [Aaron Klein’s] talk radio program, Pry pointed to two North Korean satellites that are currently orbiting the U.S. at trajectories he says are optimized for a surprised EMP attack.
He warned: “They are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view. So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States.
“Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down.’ Which is basically what he said. I mean, he has made threats about turning the United States into ashes and he connected the satellite program to this in public statements to deter us from attacking.”
So the question is whether those satellites actually are bombs that could be detonated above the U.S. to create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would knock out electronics over a wide portion of the country.
“I think what they are mainly going for is the unhardened electric grid,” Pry surmised. “Transportation, communications, all of the other civilian critical infrastructure that we depend upon to keep our population alive.”
What Pry is suggesting is that North Korea could be borrowing from part of a Soviet Cold War era plan to attack the U.S. with an EMP weapon.
“During the Cold War, the Russians had a secret weapon they called a fractional orbital bombardment system,” he explained. “And the idea was to do a surprise EMP attack against the United States by disguising a warhead as a satellite. Because a satellite trajectory is different from an ICBM trajectory that is aiming to go into a city.
So the whole attack would be to use deception. In this scenario, North Korea would launch a missile on a trajectory that indicated it was sending up a satellite, which it would be, except that when in orbit over the U.S. the thing would be detonated releasing an EMP.
This puts a different spin on the recent missile test by North Korea that was termed a failure.
“The April 29 missile launch looks suspiciously like practice for an EMP attack,” Pry wrote. “The missile was fired on a lofted trajectory, to maximize, not range, but climbing to high-altitude as quickly as possible, where it was successfully fused and detonated — testing everything but an actual nuclear warhead.”
If this theory is correct, then it becomes even more imperative that North Korea not develop nuclear weapons that are small enough to put on a rocket and send into space. With that thought it mind, it’s clear the U.S. intelligence services have their work cut out for them.
Source: Breitbart
N.Korea is a puppet state & fat boy Kim Jung takes his orders from his Zionist paymasters.