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North Korean missile in upright firing position

Sensretractor · 2013-04-11T11:57:48Z

(CNN) -- North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position, feeding concerns that a launch is imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday.This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region.In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that "war can break out any moment."National Security: The administration moves an advanced missile defense system to Guam because it knows a single low-yield nuke detonated at high altitude could send America back in time a hundred years.The announcement Wednesday by the Defense Department that it would soon deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD), a missile defense system inherited from the Bush administration, to Guam underscores the seriousness of the threat from North Korea, whose actions, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rightly said, "present a real and clear danger."This move comes after the Obama administration reversed its previous scuttling of Bush administration plans to increase our ground-based interceptor force in Alaska and the deployment of two destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems, the Decatur and the John McCain, to the region.Some observers dismissed it as familiar bluster when North Korea's 28-year-old raging runt, Kim Jong-un, signed an order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at U.S. targets in front of a map that included Austin, Texas, as a target.But other observers are concerned that a specific target may not be what the possibly imploding North Korean regime may have in mind.The three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a "package," which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be de-orbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, releasing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). That would fry electronic circuitry and the nation's power grid.This concern recently has been reinforced by a little-publicized study released in May 2011, titled "In the Dark: Military Planning for a Catastrophic Critical Infrastructure Event," by the U.S. Army War College that said a nuclear detonation at altitude above a U.S. city could wipe out the electrical grid for hundreds, possibly thousands, of miles around.The satellite launched by Pyongyang coincided with a third round of nuclear tests described as a "nuclear test of a higher level," most likely referring to a device made from highly enriched uranium, which is easier to miniaturize than the plutonium bombs North Korea tested in 2006 and 2009, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea.Such an EMP device would not have to be particularly high yield. It would not be designed to create a big explosion, but to convert its energy into gamma rays, that generate the EMP effect.In the summer of 2004, a delegation of Russian generals warned the Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Commission that secrets had leaked to North Korea for a decisive new nuclear weapon — a Super-EMP warhead.Any nuclear weapon detonated above an altitude of 30 kilometers will generate an electromagnetic pulse that will destroy electronics and could collapse the electric power grid and other critical infrastructures — communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water — that sustain modern civilization and the lives of 300 million Americans. All could be destroyed by a single nuclear weapon making an EMP attack.A Super-EMP attack on the United States would cause much more and much deeper damage than a primitive nuclear weapon, and so would increase confidence that the catastrophic consequences will be irreversible. Such an attack would inflict maximum damage and be optimum for realizing a world without America.Both North Korean nuclear tests look suspiciously like a Super-EMP weapon. A Super-EMP warhead would have a low yield, like the North Korean device, because it is not designed to create a big explosion, but to convert its energy into gamma rays, that generate the EMP effect. Reportedly South Korean military intelligence concluded, independent of the EMP Commission, that Russian scientists are in North Korea helping develop a Super-EMP warhead. In 2012, a military commentator for the People’s Republic of China stated that North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.A Super-EMP warhead would not weigh much, and could probably be delivered by North Korea’s ICBM. The missile does not have to be accurate, as the EMP field is so large that detonating anywhere over the United States would have catastrophic consequences. The warhead does not even need a re-entry vehicle, as an EMP attack entails detonating the warhead at high-altitude, above the atmosphere.So, as of Dec. 12, North Korea’s successful orbit of a ...

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12/04/2013 6:18 am

Considering China wants the south china seas that Japan has declared their's, why not use NK as China's pawn to instigate some confrontation. China has allowed "tourist" boats to visit those seas. Nice stepping off point.

Do we then eloborate on NK's "possible" coloboration with iran (vs. Isreal) in an attempt to make another front for the US, stretching its resources. Or make that another thread. lol.
Or would that become a "conspiry" thread that is no longer allowed on IPN. : )

IPN has sorted out its policy on "conspiracy" and those threads are allowed on the Fringe board, check it out. However I think what you are proposing belongs right here. I think an exploration of possible events is very relevant for today's preppers.

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12/04/2013 6:25 am

Most certainly...
NK's nuclear ambitions and capabilities are confirmed fact, no conspiracy stuff there!

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Topic starter 12/04/2013 8:16 am

Thanks.

I think we should be well aware of the current news and how it could affect our future. These NK's are well worth watching. Between this and the current probability of an X-Class flare (after the M6 "almost X" yesterday) you just never know when you should run out and grab that last prep you've been meaning to splurge on - it could be today. I was just getting the word out and trying to draw attention to what is honestly a very real and present danger.

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12/04/2013 9:46 am

Im sure Russia wont have a problem supplying China and NK with fuel plus... considering Putins actions in "de-americanizing" his country and reinstating laws that opress the population.

keep in mind as well, Germany's grip (financially) on most of the EU. Now there's a loose card. That could handcuff a lot of the US's allies.

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