According to a classified report leaked recently, North Korea can destroy United States with Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Attack. (Photo: Reuters)
North Korea Capable Of Destroying United States With Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Attack: Report -- IBTimes
A classified report from the US Department of Homeland Security for the Defense Department, which suggests that North Korea has the capacity to launch a Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Attack to destroy the whole of Unites States, has been leaked.
The report remains blocked from release to the American public, but a copy was obtained by Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the congressional advisory Task Force on National and Homeland Security, who revealed the details of the report to WND Politics news website.
The classified report finds that North Korea could use its Unha-3 space launch vehicle to deliver a nuclear warhead as a satellite over the South Pole, to attack the US from the southern direction.
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Update #1: Kim's secret weapon: North Korea 'is capable of striking U.S. with a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack' -- Daily Mail
Update #2: DHS study: North Korea capable of EMP attack on U.S. -- WND
My Comment: There has been no response from the U.S. government on this leaked report.
3 comments:
This is bunk. First of all, you would need to have a nuclear weapon that is large enough (probably megaton range) and specially designed to enhance EM propagation. Since the NK's have demonstrated nothing more powerful than the Little Boy design, I would rate 1 as highly unlikely. Less than 5 percent.
Two, you would need a ballistic missile with enough range and reliability to have a reasonable expectation of placing a warhead in the 200-400k altitude window 5,800 miles away. I would say that this again is highly unlikely, no more than 5 percent likely.
Third, you would need to have a guidance and fuzing package that would ensure that the missile would go where you aimed it, and that the warhead would detonate at the set altitude. Again, I rate this as highly unlikely, less than 5 percent.
.05X.05X.05= .000125 percent likely.
In addition, the North Korean government, while irrational in our eyes, acts rationally in one way: Preservation of the regime. Even attempting such an attack would prompt a massive retaliation (even from THIS President), ending the regime.
So, it's a ridiculous story designed to gin up increased BMD research.
I also forgot the SM-3 carrying U.S. and Japanese warships which would most likely intercept the missile in boost phase.
I agree with you that it is highly unlikely that North Korea has an emp device. But the reason why I posted this story is that it is apparently what Homeland Security (i.e. the U.S. government) believes .... and that is the big story.
I emphatically agree with both of you.
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