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Concerns Grow Over Potential EMP Attack on the US; Electrical Grid Left Vulnerable
Seen here are North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his military chieftains as they examine was a miniature nuclear warhead in their arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. North Korea also specifically mentioned the possibility of a electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack. Such a strike would involve detonating a bomb in the atmosphere, instead of firing a long-range missile at a major U.S. city.
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orth Korea said on Tuesday it had addressed a recent “gift package” to the United States and that more would follow, according to a Reuters report. Han Tae Song, the ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the U.N. in Geneva, was addressing the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament two days after his country detonated its sixth and largest nuclear test. “The recent self-defense measures by my country, DPRK, are a gift package addressed to none other than the U.S.,” Han told the Geneva forum. “The U.S. will receive more gift packages from my country as long as
it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK,” he said. Prior to the veiled threat of nuclear annihilation, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “begging for war,” and warned that the United States does not have unlimited patience. “His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war,” Haley said. “War is never something the United States wants; we don’t want it now, but our country’s patience is not unlimited; we will defend our allies and our territory.” Haley spoke at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council called after North Korea conducted its sixth
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nuclear test on Sunday. Pyongyang claimed it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that can fit onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
“War is never something the United States wants; we don’t want it now, but our country’s patience is not unlimited; we will defend our allies and our territory.” – Ambassador Nikki Haley International experts have not confirmed that, but say it was larger than any previous North Korean nuclear test. For the first time, North Korea also
specifically mentioned the possibility of a electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack. Such a strike would involve detonating a bomb in the atmosphere, instead of firing a long-range missile at a major U.S. city. "The EMP burst’s objective is to saturate the US power grid underneath it with energy flowing into the wiring. The goal is to burn out a portion of the three hundred or so high voltage transformers that link the US together as an industrial age economy. By burn out, that means causing the melting of the transformer cores rendering them useless, " wrote Huffington Post contributing writer Dennis Santiago on Monday. An EMP can be described as a high-intensity burst of electromagnet-
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ic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles. In an attack of this kind, these particles interact and send electrical systems into chaos in three ways: First, the electromagnetic shock disrupts electronics, such as sensors, communications systems, protective systems, computers, and other similar devices. The second component has a slightly smaller range and is similar in effect to lightning. Although protective measures have long been established for lightning strikes, the potential for damage to critical infrastructure from this component exists because it rap-
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