Expert warns North Korea capable of surprise EMP attack
2 satellites with nuclear capacity now orbiting over U.S.
2 satellites with nuclear capacity now orbiting over U.S.
WASHINGTON – North Korea now has two satellites
orbiting over the United States capable of performing a
surprise electromagnetic pulse attack at an altitude and trajectory that evade
U.S. National Missile Defenses, a national security expert warned in an interview
with Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Peter Vincent Pry told G2 Bulletin that the satellites can be
commanded either to deorbit and hit a target on the ground or explode at a high
altitude to create an EMP effect that would knock
out the unprotected U.S. national electrical
grid system and all life-sustaining critical infrastructures that depend on it.
“The threat,” Pry said, “continues to race, hare-like, at an
alarming rate, compared to the tortoise pace of our preparations.”
The satellites – KMS 3-2 and KMS 4 – are orbiting at an
altitude of 300 miles, with trajectories that put them daily over the U.S. KMS
3-2 was launched in December 2012 and KMS 4 was launched Feb. 7.
At such an altitude, an EMP could impact much of
the continental United States, according to EMP experts.
Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and
Homeland Security and director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, both
congressional advisory boards. He also served on the congressionally mandated EMP commission and as an
analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.
Pry said that while the U.S. is aware of the
satellites, it is unable to determine their payloads. The federal government
hasn’t commented as much on the satellites as it has on North Korea’s ability to launch a
missile capable of reaching the U.S.
The development comes at the same time North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un has ordered his rocket forces to prepare for a nuclear attack on the U.S. The communist regime
has released videos depicting nuclear attacks on Washington and New York City.
North Korea, meanwhile, is
preparing for its fourth underground nuclear detonation. Pry said it’s really a
hydrogen bomb with a purposefully low yield designed to emit more gamma rays
for an EMP effect rather than for physical destruction on
the ground.
‘Biggest existential threat’
Pry spoke to G2 Bulletin after his recent testimony to Canada’s Security and Defence
Committee on the “biggest existential threat that our civilization faces right
now,” an EMP attack.
He said, however, that the fix is relatively simple and
inexpensive.
China and Russia, along with North Korea, already possess the
ability to launch an EMP attack that could shut
down indefinitely such life-sustaining critical infrastructures as
communications, transportation, finance, the delivery of water and food,
sanitation, medical equipment, emergency services, and oil and natural gas
pipelines.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/emp-alert-2-n-korean-satellites-now-orbit-over-u-s/#QSsPrB3JKuZPB4jP.99
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