N.Korea has the ability to miniaturize nuclear devices

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Where do you suppose that technology could have possibly come from?

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N.Korea likely can miniaturize nuclear device: Seoul

By Jack Kim | Reuters – Mon, 13 Jun, 2011

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has probably succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear device, South Korea's defense minister said on Monday, an advance that would in theory allow the hermit state to place an atomic warhead on a rocket.

Regional powers have for years tried -- with a mix of aid offers and punitive sanctions -- in vain to stop Pyongyang pressing ahead with a nuclear weapons program it argues is a necessary defense against a hostile United States and South Korea with which it still has no peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War.

Kim Kwan-jin offered no evidence to back his assertion but said the North had had enough time for such a development.

"It has been quite a while, enough time for them to have succeeded in miniaturization," he told a parliamentary defense committee.

If true, it would mark a key advance in the North's drive to develop a functioning nuclear weapon though that threat appears to be potential rather than actual.

It detonated nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009 but neither was considered by weapons experts to have been successful, though they say the impoverished state has enough fissile material for up to 10 nuclear weapons.

It is believed to be preparing a third test at a test site on its east coast.
The North has also been working, so far with little success,
to build a missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon across the Pacific, as far as the United States.

Talks with major powers on its nuclear weapons program have been on ice for more than two years though the North has signaled it wants them to resume.

However, both the United States and key allies South Korea and Japan have been reluctant to head back into negotiations which in the past have rewarded the North for little if anything in return.

(Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Ken Wills and Jonathan Thatcher)

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Monday, Jun. 13, 2011
SKorea: NKorea may have miniaturized nuke warhead

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea may be able to load a nuclear warhead atop a missile, though South Korea has no substantive evidence the North has the technology to do it, Seoul's defense chief said Monday.

North Korea conducted two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and is thought to have enough plutonium for at least a half-dozen weapons. But experts doubt whether the North has mastered the miniaturization technology to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile.

Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a parliamentary committee there is a "possibility" the North may have developed such a miniaturized nuclear warhead.

"I judge it's time for it to have succeeded in miniaturization," Kim said, according to a National Assembly-run webcast. "Considerable time has passed (since the two nuclear tests). Looking at other countries' cases, there is a possibility the North may have succeeded."

Kim, who was answering a lawmaker's question, said his belief is just an "assumption" and South Korea has not acquired any intelligence supporting it.
Kim also told lawmakers he believes the North's short-range missile launch two weeks ago was a test of a rocket with improved range and accuracy. "I think the North succeeded in that test," he said.

Earlier Monday, Kim's ministry submitted to the parliamentary committee a report saying North Korea has been conducting naval infiltration drills off its east and western coasts in recent days. "Chances for surprise attacks ... are increasing," Kim said, according to his office.

International talks on ending North Korea's nuclear threat have been stalled for more then two years, and in November, North Korea revealed a uranium enrichment facility that could give it another way to make atomic bombs.

The Koreas are technically still at war after the 1950s Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

Seoul blames the North for two deadly attacks last year in which 50 South Koreans were killed.

North Korea in recent weeks has threatened to attack South Korea to protest its troops' use of photos of Pyongyang's ruling family as targets during firing drills.

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We won't know til they test it, right?

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North Can Build Miniature Nukes, South's Defense Chief Says

Monday, June 13, 2011

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on Monday asserted that North Korea likely has the ability to build a compact nuclear warhead, suggesting it could place the weapon on a missile, Reuters reported (see GSN, June 10).

Kim did not offer any specifics to lawmakers for his contention except to say Pyongyang has had adequate time to master the technological hurdle. "It has been quite a while, enough time for them to have succeeded in miniaturization."

The aspiring nuclear power has carried out two nuclear tests to date and is suspected to be readying for a third detonation. North Korea is not known to have yet constructed a missile capable of reaching the United States, but U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in January said he believed Pyongyang was five years away from achieving that goal (see GSN, Jan. 11).

Multinational negotiations involving China, the two Koreas, Japan, Russia and the United States and aimed at permanent North Korean nuclear disarmament have not been held since December 2008. South Korea, Japan, and the United States have all said they would not return to the aid-for-denuclearization talks until they are assured of Pyongyang's commitment to lasting disarmament.

Pyongyang is believed to hold enough plutonium for six nuclear warheads and last year unveiled a uranium enrichment plant, which would give it a second route for producing weapons material (Jack Kim, Reuters, June 13).

The Yonhap News Agency reported that Kim told lawmakers that his opinion on North Korean nuclear miniaturization was only an "assumption" and he had no concrete data to back it up, according to the Associated Press.

"Considerable time has passed [since the 2006 and 2009 nuclear detonations]," Kim told lawmakers. "Looking at other countries' cases, there is a possibility the North may have succeeded [in miniaturization]" (Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press/Yahoo!News , June 13).

Kim said it is becoming more probable that Pyongyang would carry out an unwarranted attack on South Korea following the Stalinist state's announcement this month that it was ending all diplomatic contact with the Lee Myung-bak administration, Agence France-Presse reported.

Seoul blames the North for the March 2010 torpedo sinking of its warship Cheonan and for the November artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island. The two incidents together killed 50 South Koreans. Pyongyang maintains it had nothing to do with the first incident and has defended its actions in the second.

"The possibility of a surprise provocation with various means and methods is steadily increasing while (the North is) pressuring us with rhetorical threats," Kim was quoted by Yonhap as saying.

"There have been continuing activities in North Korea to maintain its capability to conduct nuclear tests and launch missiles," he added.

The regime has made several threats in recent days of harsh retribution against its neighbor after news emerged that South Korean troops used photographs of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his son and anticipated successor, Kim Jong Un, for target practice.

The poor state of inter-Korean affairs has undermined international efforts to reinvigorate the six-party talks. South Korea has demanded an apology for the two 2010 attacks as well as bilateral talks on the North's nuclear weapons program before it will agree to return to the multinational negotiations. Washington and Tokyo have backed Seoul's position.

"North Korea must demonstrate its sincerity toward denuclearization through concrete actions and thereby restore the trust of the international community prior to the resumption of the six-party talks," South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said at a security conference.

Kim encouraged foreign nations to categorize North Korea's publicized uranium enrichment activities as a violation of previous U.N. Security Council resolutions.

It would be "utterly fruitless" to return to the six-nation negotiations without an international understanding that the North's uranium work is not legal, the foreign minister said (Agence France-Presse/Spacewar.com, June 13).

Meanwhile, the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington in a new analysis said satellite photographs taken in the past two years of the North's Yongbyon nuclear complex show building and refurbishment work at two locations that were previously tied to reactor fuel generation.

The suspected work would have occurred following the April 2009 expulsion of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and U.S. specialists overseeing the incapacitation of three plutonium generation plants at Yongbyon. Pyongyang has claimed it started building a gas centrifuge factory at the Fuel Fabrication Facility after the foreign experts left.

"These other construction activities could be related to reactor fuel fabrication, uranium enrichment, or uranium conversion, including uranium tetrafluoride or uranium hexafluoride production," the ISIS report by Paul Brannan states. "Whatever the exact purpose, these activities show that more is going on at Yongbyon than commonly believed."

Satellite photographs demonstrate that a new roof was placed on the old Fuel Fabrication Facility sometime between August 2009 and June of last year.

Several other structures at the Fuel Fabrication Facility were built or refurbished after April 2009. A September 2010 satellite photograph shows that a new roof was added to a structure located next to the newly built gas centrifuge plant, suggesting that the building itself also underwent work (Institute for Science and International Security report, June 10).

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What a great little addition to Iran's Shahab 3, not only in the ME but just to our south in Venezuela.

With a little more help maybe they could get it suitcase ready.

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It is just a matter of time before tshtf. I know it seems like we all say this every other day. Hopefully there will be more good info posted here for the less litereate of us to learn.

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June 15, 2008
Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Design

By DAVID E. SANGER


WASHINGTON — American and international investigators say that they have found the electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist, but that they have not been able to determine whether they were sold to Iran or the smuggling ring’s other customers.

The plans appear to closely resemble a nuclear weapon that was built by Pakistan and first tested exactly a decade ago. But when confronted with the design by officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency last year, Pakistani officials insisted that Dr. Khan, who has been lobbying in recent months to be released from the loose house arrest that he has been under since 2004, did not have access to Pakistan’s weapons designs.

In interviews in Vienna, Islamabad and Washington over the past year, officials have said that the weapons design was far more sophisticated than the blueprints discovered in Libya in 2003, when Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi gave up his country’s nuclear weapons program. Those blueprints were for a Chinese nuclear weapon that dated to the mid-1960s, and investigators found that Libya had obtained them from the Khan network.

But the latest design found on Khan network computers in Switzerland, Bangkok and several other cities around the world is half the size and twice the power of the Chinese weapon, with far more modern electronics, the investigators say. The design is in electronic form, they said, making it easy to copy — and they have no idea how many copies of it are now in circulation.

Investigators said the evidence that the Khan network was trafficking in a tested, compact and efficient bomb design was particularly alarming, because if a country or group obtained the bomb design, the technological information would significantly shorten the time needed to build a weapon. Among the missiles that could carry the smaller weapon, according to some weapons experts, is the Iranian Shahab III, which is based on a North Korean design.

However, in recent days top American intelligence officials, who declined to speak about the discovery on the record because the information is classified, said that they had been unable to determine whether Iran or other countries had obtained the weapons design. Pakistan has refused to allow American investigators to directly interview Dr. Khan, who is considered a hero there as the father of its nuclear program. In recent weeks the only communications about him between the United States and Pakistan’s new government have been warnings from Washington not to allow him to be released.

Dr. Khan’s illicit nuclear network was broken up in early 2004; President Bush declared that shattering the operation was a major intelligence coup for the United States. Since then, evidence has emerged that the network sold uranium enrichment technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, and investigators are still pursing leads that he may have done business with other countries as well.

While Libya gave up its nuclear program, North Korea and Iran have not, despite intense international pressure, sanctions, and repeated offers of incentives to do so.

On Sunday, Mr. Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said that the administration remained concerned about the possibility that additional plans have been disseminated, but he did not address any of the latest revelations about the Khan network.

“We’re very concerned about the A.Q. Khan network, both in terms of what they were doing by purveying enrichment technology and also the possibility that there would be weapons-related technology associated with it,” he told reporters traveling with Mr. Bush from Paris to London on Sunday.

“That was a concern. That’s one of the reasons we rolled up the network here three years or so ago, and fairly successfully. And part of that rolling up was to roll up the network and part of it was to pursue what kind of relationship the A.Q. Khan network had to individual countries with which they are dealing.”

The existence of the compact bomb design began to become public in recent weeks after Switzerland announced that it had destroyed a huge stockpile of documents, including a weapons design, that were found in the computers of a family in Switzerland, the Tinners, who over the years played critical roles in Khan’s operation.

In May, Switzerland’s president, Pascal Couchepin, announced that more than 30,000 documents had been shredded, saying the government acted to keep them from “getting into the hands of a terrorist organization or an unauthorized state,” according to Swiss news accounts.

But American and I.A.E.A. officials say that destroying one copy of an electronic file was more satisfying to the Swiss than it was reassuring to them. It is unclear whether the Swiss knew that some of the same material had been found in other countries by I.A.E.A. investigators.

Some details of the Swiss action and the bomb design have appeared recently in Swiss newspapers and The Guardian of London and in The Washington Post on Sunday.

The Swiss have provided little information about exactly what they destroyed, but I.A.E.A. inspectors watched the destruction and American intelligence officials were deeply involved. “We were very happy they were destroyed,” one senior intelligence official said Friday. But he added that “what else is out there” remains a mystery. The Swiss destruction of the equipment came in response in the case of Urs Tinner, who has been in custody for more than four years but has not yet stood trial.

Two former Bush administration officials said they believed Mr. Tinner had provided information to the Central Intelligence Agency while he was still working for Dr. Khan, including some of the information that helped American and British officials intercept shipments of centrifuges on their way to Libya in 2003.

When news of that interception became public and Libya turned its $100 million program over to American and I.A.E.A. officials, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan forced Dr. Khan to issue a vague confession and then placed him under house arrest. Dr. Khan has since renounced that confession in Pakistani and Western media, saying he made it only to save Pakistan greater embarrassment.

It was not until 2005 that officials of the I.A.E.A., which is based in Vienna, finally cracked the hard drives on the Khan computers recovered around the world. And as they sifted through files and images on the hard drives, investigators found tons of material — orders for equipment, names and places where the Khan network operated, even old love letters. In all, they found several terabytes of data, a huge amount to sift through.

“There was stuff about dealing with Iranians in 2003, about how to avoid intelligence agents,” said one official who had reviewed it. But the most important document was a digitized design for a nuclear bomb, one that investigators quickly recognized as Pakistani. “It was plain where this came from,” one senior official of the I.A.E.A. said. “But the Pakistanis want to argue that the Khan case is closed, and so they have said very little.”

In public statements, Pakistani officials have insisted that the Khan “incident,” as the call it, is now history, and they publicly declared nearly two years ago that their investigations are over.

A senior Pakistani official, interviewed in Islamabad in April, said that the information provided by the I.A.E.A. was “vague and incomplete,” and he insisted that because Dr. Khan’s laboratories specialized in the manufacture of the equipment needed to enrich uranium, “he was not involved in weapons designs.”

But investigators have no doubt that he was the source of the digitized bomb design. “Clearly, someone had tried to modernize it, to improve the electronics,” one said. “There were handwritten references to the electronics, and the question is, who was working on this?”

The officials said that parts of the design were coded so that they could be transferred quickly to an automated manufacturing system for the production of parts.

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North Korea 'may have developed nuclear warhead for ballistic missile'

North Korea may have developed a nuclear warhead small enough to be loaded onto a ballistic missile, the South Korean defence minister said yesterday, warning that risk of another “surprise provocation” by the Stalinist regime was now rising.


Attempts to launch a ballistic missile theoretically capable of striking Hawaii ended in failure in 2009, but triggered a fresh round of UN sanctions and an a tightening of an existing arms embargo Photo: EPA

By Peter Foster, Beijing
6:13PM BST 13 Jun 2011

“It’s been a long time [since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006], so we judge that by this time (it) could have succeeded in making smaller or miniaturised versions of its nuclear weapons,” the minister, Kim Kwan-Jin, told the South Korean parliament.

The minister’s assessment of Pyongyang’s potential nuclear capabilities, which he admitted was based on “an assumption”, not any specific intelligence, far exceeds the consensus of expert opinion on the North’s level of development.

However last November the North surprised many watchers by unveiling a sophisticated new uranium enrichment facility to supplement its existing plutonium-based weapons programme which it has tested in 2006 and 2009.

Attempts to launch a ballistic missile theoretically capable of striking Hawaii ended in failure in 2009, but triggered a fresh round of UN sanctions and an a tightening of an existing arms embargo.

The North is still believed to be trying to sell weapons. According to US officials quoted by The New York Times a Korean cargo ship believed to be carrying a consignment of weapons to Burma was intercepted by a US Navy destroyer patrolling south of Shanghai.


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The South’s defence minister’s remarks come at a time of renewed tensions between the two Koreas. The regime of Kim Jong-il recently threatened military retaliation if Seoul did not punish troops who used pictures of the North Korean ruling dynasty for target practice.

After six months of relative calm, the warming rhetoric between North and South marks a re-escalation of tension from last year when North Korea was accused of torpedoing a South Korean warship in March and then shelled a South Korea island in November.

“The possibility of a surprise provocation with various means and methods is steadily increasing while (the North is) pressuring us with rhetorical threats,” Mr Kim said, adding Pyongyang had “succeeded” with a short range missile test two weeks ago.

South Korea’s government has taken a hardline with Pyongyang since its last nuclear test in 2009, cutting off almost all food and economic aid to the North and demanding that the Kim regime “demonstrate its sincerity toward denuclearisation” before any further concessions.

In the current environment experts see little prospect of a meaningful resumption of the Six Party nuclear disarmament talks, involving the Koreas, the US, Russia, Japan and China.

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Companion Thread: North Korea seeks stronger ties with Iran to fight U.S. NK Running 'Backpack Bomb' Unit

By Park Jun Hyeong [2011-11-25 21:22 ]

▲ Google Earth image of the alleged area of North Pyongan Province The North Korean military has established a new military brigade in North Pyongan Province which apparently specializes in backpack-sized tactical nuclear weapons. The brigade, which masquerades as a logging brigade, is reportedly part of the 8th Corps of the Chosun People's Army, which has jurisdiction over the province. A South Korean source close to the North Korean military told The Daily NK on Friday, "Three new brigades have been stationed within the 8th Corps." One of them, the source said, has been moved up to the border region from further south near the Daedong River to intensify security in the area. The second is Unit 125, a newly created special forces brigade, while the third is the tactical nuclear weapons brigade. The source explained, “The logging brigade looks as if it has been established to supply lumber, but actually the troops are being trained in the use of tactical nuclear weapons.” Asked whether usable nuclear weapons may have been stationed with the brigade, the source answered, “It is certainly possible.” Information has been around for some time suggesting that a tactical nuclear weapons unit had been moved into North Pyongan Province. A recent high level defector appeared to confirm the information during the process of questioning that North Korean refugees all undergo when they arrive in South Korea. On a related note, Liberty Forward Party lawmaker Park Sun Young claimed last month during an a National Assembly hearing that North Korea is operating a new uranium enrichment facility in the same area, Dongchang County. Park said the facility was completed in 2006 and that the authorities have been developing uranium-based nuclear weapons there since 2007. ▲The basic structure of a miniaturized tactical nuclear weapon in a bag (© Monterrey Institute for International Studies) 'Backpack bombs', known also as SADMs, are miniaturized tactical nuclear weapon, usually weighing between 30-50kg, light enough to be transported to their target inside a backpack. In the 1980s the US Army brought them onto the Korean Peninsula, but withdrew them along with all other nuclear weapons at the beginning of the 1990s. However, despite the seemingly alarming news, South Korean experts are cautious about suggesting North Korea has the technical ability required to equip the new brigade. Professor Lee Eun Cheol of Seoul National University’s Department of Nuclear Engineering said, "I think for North Korea to construct a nuclear bomb small enough to be loaded into a backpack would not be that hard," he said. “But what would not be so easy is to transport the device, put it together in a short period of time and detonate it, and it would be even harder to do it by remote control.” "Based on North Korea's past nuclear tests results, which were not particularly good, the technology itself does not seem to be so advanced. But if they have now brought out a 'backpack bomb' brigade, then it could be that that this technological problem has been solved to a considerable extent," he added. South Korean intelligence officials say that intelligence regarding the existence of the brigade has been received, but that they are not in a position to confirm or deny it yet. Some interesting comments about this article at Free Republic...

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North Korea making missile able to hit U.S.

Republicans press Pentagon for long-range interceptors

By Bill Gertz
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The Washington Times
Monday, December 5, 2011


(T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

New intelligence indicates that North Korea is moving ahead with building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United States, according to Obama administration officials.

The intelligence was revealed in a classified Capitol Hill briefing last month. Its existence was made public in a letter to Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta from five House Republicans.

“As members of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces …, we write out of concerns about new intelligence concerning foreign developments in long-range ballistic missile development, specifically ballistic missiles capable of attacking the United States,” the Nov. 17 letter said.

“We believe this new intelligence reiterates the need for the administration to correct its priorities regarding missile defenses, which should have, first and foremost, the missile defense of the homeland.”

Officials familiar with the intelligence said government analysts believe the missile could be a variant of North Korea’s new Musudan intermediate-range missile, first disclosed publicly in October 2010.

Other intelligence indicates that the new ICBM may be under development at a huge missile testing facility on North Korea’s western coast.

Prior to its mobile ICBM, North Korea’s long-range missiles were the pad-launched Taepodong-1 prototype, and the Taepodong-2 (TD-2) dual-use ICBM and space launcher. The TD-2 was test-launched in April 2009.

‘Direct threat’
Mobile missiles are difficult for tracking radar to locate, making them easier to hide. They also can be set up and launched much more quickly than missiles fired from silos or launchpads.

China's military recently deployed two new mobile ICBMs, the DF-31 and DF-31A. It is not known whether North Korea’s new mobile missile is based on Chinese technology. China in the past has provided missile technology to North Korea, a fraternal communist ally.

The first indications of Pyongyang’s new mobile ICBM were made public in June by Robert M. Gates, who was defense secretary at the time.

After a speech in Singapore, Mr. Gates said, “With the continued development of long-range missiles and potentially a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile and their continuing development of nuclear weapons, … North Korea is in the process of becoming a direct threat to the United States.”

The new intelligence was discussed during a closed-door briefing in mid-November for the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces and discussed in the letter to Mr. Panetta. The letter did not say specifically that the missile was North Korean, but it quoted Mr. Gates on Pyongyang’s mobile ICBM development.

The letter was signed by Rep. Michael R. Turner, Ohio Republican and chairman of the subcommittee; Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and Republican Reps. Trent Franks of Arizona, Doug Lamborn of Colorado and Mac Thornberry of Texas.

Congressional aides declined to comment on the intelligence.
Administration officials familiar with the missile data said U.S. intelligence analysts have some disagreement over the developments.

Implications for talks
The intelligence on North Korea’s progress on a mobile ICBM was disclosed as the Obama administration is seeking to restart the failed six-nation talks on North Korea’s nuclear program.

Glyn Davies, special envoy for North Korea, leaves Tuesday for talks in China, Japan and South Korea about North Korea’s nuclear program, the State Department announced Monday.

Last week, North Korea issued a government white paper that defended its April 2009 launch of a Taepodong-2 as part of a satellite development program.

Government analysts viewed the statement as an indication that North Korea may be preparing for a missile flight test.

The United Nations imposed unprecedented sanctions on North Korea after a 2009 test of a nuclear device.

Three paths
Details of North Korea’s first mobile intermediate-range missile, the Musudan, and the new west coast North Korean launch facility were made public in classified State Department cables on the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

A February 2010 cable outlining a U.S.-Russian exchange on missile threats stated that the U.S. government suspects North Korea has three paths to building ICBMs.

One is using the Taepodong-2, with a range of up to 9,300 miles, as its main strategic missile. A second way is to further develop the ranges of existing missiles like the Musudan, and last is to “use the very large launch facility that is being constructed on the west coast of North Korea to launch a very large missile,” the cable said.

The cable said the size of the facility is a concern because “it does not simply replicate other sites.”

“This facility is much larger than the Taepodong launch facility,” the cable said. “This is not to say there is evidence of a new missile system larger than the Taepodong-2 being developed, but it suggests the possibility.”

An Oct. 6, 2009, cable on North Korea’s missile program said the Musudan intermediate-range missile is based on Russia’s SS-N-6 submarine-launched missile that has a range of up to 2,400 miles.

The Musudan uses an advanced liquid propellent called unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and nitrogen tetroxide (N204) that are easier to store in missiles.

“Development of the Musudan with this more advanced propulsion technology allows North Korea to build even longer-range missiles - or shorter range missiles with greater payload capacity - than would be possible using Scud-type technology,” the cable said.

North Korea also has a new solid-fueled short-range missile called the Toksa, with a range of 75 miles, and has sold a number of shorter-range Musudan missiles to Iran, the report said.

‘Hedging strategy’
In their letter, the five lawmakers called on the Pentagon to reverse its decision to curb development of long-range ground-based interceptors in favor of European-based missile defenses against Iranian missiles. They also asked for the Pentagon’s plan for a “hedging strategy” to be prepared to counter new missile threats like the North Korean mobile ICBM.

“In view of the briefing the subcommittee received this week, we do not believe the United States can afford further delay in the release of the hedging strategy by the Department of Defense,” they stated, asking for a report on the strategy by the end of the year.

Asked about the new intelligence, Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde said the Pentagon had nothing to add to Mr. Gates‘ comments.

“Specific information related to North Korea’s development of road-mobile ICBM would be an intelligence matter, and it is our policy not to comment on intelligence matters,” she said.

A U.S. intelligence community spokesman referred a reporter’s questions about the new intelligence to the February statement to Congress by James Clapper, director of national intelligence.

Mr. Clapper stated in his prepared remarks that “North Korea’s progress in developing the TD-2 shows its determination to achieve long-range ballistic missile and space-launch capabilities. If configured as an ICBM, the TD-2 could reach at least portions of the United States; the TD-2 or associated technologies also could be exported.”

Gates‘ prediction
Mr. Gates first told reporters Jan. 11 during a visit to China that North Korea’s progress in building intercontinental ballistic missiles was turning the Pyongyang regime into a “direct threat to the United States.”

Pressed for details, he said, “I don’t think it’s an immediate threat, no. But on the other hand, I don’t think it’s a five-year threat.”

“Let me be precise,” he added. “I think that North Korea will have developed an intercontinental ballistic missile within that time frame, not that they will have huge numbers or anything like that, but I believe they will have a very limited capability.”

The Daily Beast quoted Mr. Gates in June saying, “They are developing a road-mobile ICBM. I never would have dreamed they would go to a road-mobile before testing a static ICBM. It’s a huge problem. As we’ve found out in a lot of places, finding mobile missiles is very tough.”

Richard Fisher, a military analyst with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said, “A nuclear armed North Korean road mobile ICBM would pose a spectacular challenge to the U.S.-led alliance system in Northeast Asia, as Pyongyang could severely undermine U.S. extended nuclear deterrence commitments.”

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North Korea may soon be able to strike USA with ultimate doomsday weapon that deactivates (nearly) all electronics

Wednesday, December 07, 2011
by Mike Adams

Obama administration officials have released new intelligence indicating North Korea is building mobile ICBMs that will soon be able to reach the United States. This was reported in the Washington Times, which states, "New intelligence indicates that North Korea is moving ahead with building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United States." (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...)

ICBMs typically carry nuclear warheads, and they can easily target cities on the West Coast such as Los Angeles or Seattle. But even this threat doesn't compare to the "doomsday weapon" that China or Russia could almost certainly launch right now: A high-altitude EMP weapon (HEMP for short, and I'm not joking).

High-Altitude EMP could fry the USA back into the pre-industrial age

HEMP weapons are detonated in the high atmosphere, theoretically as high as 300 miles above the ground (well above the orbits of most satellites, even). Once detonated, the energy released by these weapons interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, producing an extremely fast and powerful electromagnetic burst that rushes to the ground at 94% the speed of light, slamming everything on the ground with as much as 50,000 volts per square meter at high amps.

Not surprisingly, such a phenomenon would fry virtually every piece of electronics they touch, as today's electronics are manufactured with delicate circuitry that simply cannot withstand such extreme voltage ranges.

Instantly taken out of service would be many automobiles, televisions, cell phones, air conditioners, airplanes, radios, military electronics, and many satellites. Even more worryingly, such an attack would also take out the backup generators and control electronics for active nuclear power plants, which as we've already reported here on NaturalNews, could unleash a wave of nuclear meltdowns across the USA (http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_s...).

As Duncan Long writes on a survival website:

"A major area of concern when it comes to EMP is nuclear reactors located in the US. Unfortunately, a little-known Federal dictum prohibits the NRC from requiring power plants to withstand the effects of a nuclear war. This means that, in the event of a nuclear war, many nuclear reactors' control systems might will be damaged by an EMP surge. In such a case, the core-cooling controls might become inoperable and a core melt down and breaching of the containment vessel by radioactive materials into the surrounding area might well result." (http://www.aussurvivalist.com/nucle...)

Extensively studied by the government

This is not science fiction. EMP blasts from nuclear weapons have been extensively studied from the very first nuclear tests in the 1940's. Back then, the world didn't have much in the way of electronics, so the early effects of EMP were barely noted. But throughout the 1960's and 70's, as more testing was done, it became apparent that the electromagnetic pulse effects of nuclear detonations could be devastating.

Today, with civilization running on computers, electronics, GPS units and mobile phones, such a blast could literally fry a modern nation back into the pre-industrial age.

Well, at least back to the 1800's anyway, where the only tools you could really rely on were shovels, leather straps and shotguns. Firearms, you see, don't have electronics, so they'll be fully functional even after an EMP attack. Keep this in mind when you consider how to survive a post-EMP scenario.

Interestingly, governments openly admit that EMP attacks would wipe out all the electronics that keep modern civilization working. The Washington state Department of Health, Office of Radiation Protection explains:

When "detonated," an EMP weapon produces a pulse of energy that creates a powerful electromagnetic field capable of short-circuiting a wide range of electronic equipment, particularly computers, satellites, radios, radar receivers and even civilian traffic lights. Since EMP is electromagnetic energy traveling at the speed of light, all of the vulnerable electronic equipment in the detonation zone could be affected simultaneously.

Society has entered the information age and is dependent on electronic systems that work with components that are very susceptible to excessive electric currents and voltages. Many of these electronic systems are controlled in some way by semiconductors. Semiconductor devices fail when they encounter an EMP because of the local heating that occurs. Failure of semi-conductive chips could destroy industrial processes, railway networks, power and phone systems, and access to water supplies.

Commercial computer equipment is particularly vulnerable to EMP effects. Computers used in data processing systems, communications systems, displays, industrial control applications, including road and rail signaling, and those embedded in military equipment, such as signal processors, electronic flight controls and digital engine control systems, are all potentially vulnerable to the EMP effect.

Other electronic devices and electrical equipment may also be destroyed by the EMP effect. Telecommunications equipment can be highly vulnerable and receivers of all varieties are particularly sensitive to EMP. Therefore radar and electronic warfare equipment, satellite, microwave, UHF, VHF, HF and low band communications equipment and television equipment are all potentially vulnerable to the EMP effect. Cars with electronic ignition systems/ and ignition chips are also vulnerable.
Source: http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/rp/factsh...

A single high-altitude detonation could reboot human civilization in North America

If you still think I'm making all this up, by the way, check out the entry on Wikipedia which explains all this in much more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...

There, you'll find a fascinating map which shows something rather horrifying: A single burst just 300 miles above the Earth would cover the entire United States (minus Hawaii and Alaska) while also nailing most of Canada and Mexico as well. See that graphic here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E...

This map was created based on testimony given by Gary Smith to the US House National Security Committee on July 16, 1997.

That's right: With one relatively small nuclear weapon detonated high above the Earth, an entire modern nation could be effectively destroyed. Why? Because without electronics, you get runaway starvation, riots, fires, and a complete breakdown of law and order.

A near-instant collapse of modern cities

Imagine Los Angeles, for example, if all the water pumps went out. Imagine Chicago if food deliveries stopped. Many of the rigs on the highway, you see, would be instantly shut down with an EMP burst. Every plane, train and automobile -- except for those built pre-1980's or so -- might instantly become road kill.

Imagine police trying to function without police radios. Fire and other emergency services are wholly dependent on electronics. Deliveries of food, water, medical supplies and consumer goods are all dependent on electronics. Oil refineries, nuclear power plants, coal-fired power plants and even renewable energy systems are all entirely driven by complex electronics. All these electronics would be vaporized in a nanosecond.

And no, "surge protectors" cannot protect anything. The EMP wave moves far too fast for surge protectors to trip their own relays. So all the surge protectors get blown out before you can even blink an eye, and then the remainder of the pulse fries all the electronics that were supposed to be protected. Only those electronics specifically shielded against EMP attacks will be protected (and only the military bothers with such expensive retrofits).

As the next graphic shows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H...), such a weapon detonated even at just 100km above the surface of the planet would unleash anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 volts per square meter. This chart doesn't cite the amperage of the current, but military experiments have shown it is more than sufficient to fry all electronics that aren't specifically shielded against EMP. If you happen to be underground at the moment the pulse hits (i.e. in a subway station), your cell phone may be spared, but the cell phone towers of course will all be kaput.

Both Russia and China probably already have these weapons

North Korea is undoubtedly working on developing such weapons as a way to bomb advanced nations back to the level of low technology found in North Korea itself. But the real worry here is that China and Russia probably already have such weapons and could launch them at any time.

"The non-lethal nature of electromagnetic weapons makes their use far less politically damaging than that of conventional munitions, and therefore broadens the range of military options available," explains the Department of Health website for Washington state (http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/rp/factsh...). "Several nations, with United States at the forefront, are reported to have developed non-nuclear bombs capable of generating EMPs."

This is a game-changer. In the "old" mode of thinking about nuclear war, bombs were unleashed on targeted cities, then calibrated to detonate just a mile or two above the city in order to maximize the intensity of the nuclear burst. But with the rise of electronics-driven societies, the real weakness becomes not the brick and mortar of buildings but the delicate electronic circuits that keep civilization humming. Take away the electronics, and an advanced nation is far worse off than if it were physically blasted by a high-yield weapon. After all, a physical city can be rebuilt as long as you have the electronics to coordinate rescue operations and shipments of materials to rebuild. But if you take away the electronics, the cities destroy themselves with riots, fires, starvation and disease.

Why America is unable to stop such an attack

No doubt the strategic thinkers at the Pentagon have already realized all this. They don't talk about it much, and they certainly don't make it public, because if the public really knew the seriousness of this threat, they might utterly freak out.

You see, America has no capability whatsoever to stop some other nation from launching a nuclear device into high orbit (300 miles, say) and detonating it over North America. There is simply no military capability to halt such a missile or to block the EMP effects. Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" defense system never became a reality.

The only real way to stop such an attack is to stop pissing off other nations, and of course America can't even do that because it's running around the world interfering in everyone's business, running secret military ops in Iran right now (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw...), overthrowing national governments with CIA-funded terrorist rebels (Libya, for example), unleashing economic hit men to enslave developing nations, and basically running around the global playground like a giant bully.

This is not a way to win friends. If anything, the USA has been building resentment among other powerful nations such as China, which not only holds a shockingly high percentage of the U.S. national debt, but also has advanced rocketry technology and an ability to launch nuclear missiles into high orbit.

Both Russia and China are fed up with the U.S. mucking around in the Middle East, and nearly everyone in the Middle East is fed up with U.S. support for Israel. What all this means is that America is making enemies, not friends, and some of those enemies no doubt have EMP technology already developed that could literally "bomb" America back into the pre-industrial era.

Why the real threats have little to do with individual terrorists

As you can tell if you're getting all this, the real threats against America have almost nothing to do with lone terrorists trying to bomb a single airplane, for example. The TSA is a cruel joke. It will no more keep you safe than wishing for a magical unicorn to show up and whisk you away from danger.

Even the events of 9/11 would pale in comparison to the total devastation unleashed by a high-altitude EMP device. Beyond a few skyscrapers being leveled, imagine entire cities being zapped into a state of instant electronic death. Such an act would transform cities into death zones from which few would escape alive. (Cities are not designed to sustain life without huge inputs from outside, including food, water, electricity, fuel, raw materials, and so on. Absent those inputs, they become concrete tombs...)

See, most of the U.S. government is wasting its time running roadside checkpoints and trying to entrap gullible teens into acting like terrorists (http://www.naturalnews.com/034325_F...). What the government should be doing is figuring out how to stop acting like the bully of the world and start making economic trading partners instead of making enemies everywhere.

Why international trade is crucial for halting war

The only way to stop Russia or China, for example, from frying North America with a HEMP weapon is to make it more painful for them to lose the USA than keep it around. And that means engaging in two-way trade to create win-win economic ties that would lose a lot of money for some very rich people if bombs started going off. This strategy has worked for China-Taiwan relations, by the way, where China-Taiwan investments are now so commonplace that the two nations are strongly economically dependent on each other. The best "defense" against a military invasion, it turns out, is to have strong economic trading partners who need your nation to stick around so they have viable trading partners.

It's also effective to have your own HEMP weapons that you can unleash upon your neighbors, should they have any crazy thoughts about bombing you. "Mutually Assured Destruction," believe it or not, is actually a very wise military tactic for self defense. People may bash the apparent insanity of the idea, but it is one of the things that has kept America relatively safe for generations. If we didn't have nuclear weapons ready to be unleashed on other nations, do you really think we wouldn't have already been bombed in the 1960's during the Cuban Missile Crisis? I don't have a lot of kind words for the military industrial complex, but at the end of the day, I must honestly acknowledge the fact that the U.S. military's possession of nuclear weapons has effectively countered the nuclear arsenals of other nations.

In the same way, the most polite place in the world you will ever visit is a small town where everybody carries a concealed weapon. You'll hear a lot of "sir" and "ma'am" in polite conversation. People tend to avoid arguments for precisely the reason you might imagine: Because they're all armed. "Mutually Assured Destruction" is a deterrent to violence at both the local level and the global level. It may sound insane, but on a practical level, it prevents violence and helps keep the peace.

And that's why the USA is no doubt also working on its own HEMP weapons. Even China is extremely vulnerable to the EMP destruction of electronics. It's no longer a developing nation, you see. China left that in the dust decades ago. Today, China is a high-tech, electronically-organized nation in much the same way as the USA. Perhaps only Papua New Guinea would be completely immune to an EMP attack. Nearly all other nations (including North Korea) would be devastated by it.

Solutions: What can YOU do about this right now?

Okay, so if you're convinced that the threat of EMP weapons looms over all advanced nations today, what exactly can you do about it?

I'll answer it in three words: Go low tech.

In addition to your high-tech, electronically timed clothes dryer, have a clothesline outside so you can use the sun to dry your clothes.

In addition to your high-tech Toyota Prius that's packed with high-density electronics, have an old "beater" wagon from the 1970's sitting around in case you need it. Heck, you don't even need to keep paying the license taxes on it if you don't drive it day to day.

For every tool you have that's electronic, have a hand-powered alternative standing by: Hand saws, hand drills and other hand-powered tools are easy to come by. Don't rely entirely on electronics.

Think about low-tech items that reliably work. Duct tape. Scissors. Shovels. Quality cutlery in the kitchen. And if you can, find yourself one of those antique treadle sewing machines powered by your foot! (I've been trying to find one of these for months and can't dig one up...)

How are you gonna write things down when the electronics are all melted? You'd be amazed how many people no longer have pencil and paper, especially among the younger generation which has entirely abandoned wristwatches, too. (Their mobile phones tell them the time, you see.) Have you ever tried to MAKE a pencil? You'd be amazed how difficult it is. It's so much easier to just buy a bunch right now and have them stored away. They're cheap, and for the moment, UPS trucks still operate just fine and they'll bring these pencils right to your doorstep in a pretty brown box.

Getting back to basics

In a way, a world without electronics might actually be a far more "real" world than the one in which we live today. More peaceful... back to nature... a place where local community would mean something once again. But of course there would also be a huge price to pay for that transition in terms of lost lives in the cities where people are so disconnected from the real world that they are utterly unable to survive in it. Today's teens are so addicted to texting devices that I'm pretty sure some of them would just flat-out drop dead within 24 hours if the cell towers stopped functioning.

The good news in all this is that getting back to basics is a wise strategy no matter what threats we may be facing in the near future: Nuclear war, police state tyranny, EMP weapons, natural disasters, Earth changes, and so on. The more you can rely on your own two hands -- and simple tools that leverage your efforts -- the more likely you are to survive the next decade.

It also goes without saying that if EMP weapons are unleashed upon the world, the internet will be destroyed, meaning you won't be able to search Google to find answers like "How do I grow tomatoes?" You'll need to either have the knowledge in your head or have the physical books on your shelf which is one of the reasons why I still buy lots of physical books. They don't break, and they never have to be rebooted.

If there's one thing I've really learned in all these years of analyzing society, history and technology, it's that technology is fragile, and so are civilizations. The society we take for granted today is far more fragile than you might imagine, and the whole thing could come tumbling down in a microsecond. It wouldn't even take an act of war to make it happen: just one high-energy solar flare could accomplish much the same effect.

If you want your children to survive and prosper in our world, teach 'em the basics: How to grow gardens. How to care for animals. How to think for themselves, live off the land and resist buying into the bull being spewed by technocrats. When the electronic heartbeat of modern civilization comes to a screeching halt, all the circuit boards in the world won't help you in any way whatsoever. You'll have to save yourself. And you'd better have a little bit of gold, silver, ammo and garden tools packed away if you hope to have any real chance of making it through the transition.

Learn the skills (and gather the goods) while you still can.

[vector7]

N. Korea could miniaturize nuke warhead if it conducts 3rd nuke test: U.S. scientist


SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will be able to master the technology needed to put a nuclear warhead atop a missile if the communist regime carries out a third nuclear test, a prominent U.S. scientist warned Wednesday.

Siegfried Hecker, who was shown the North's modern uranium enrichment facility during a visit to the country in November last year, urged regional powers to stop Pyongyang from staging another nuclear test and more missile tests.

North Korea conducted two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and is believed to have enough plutonium for at least a half-dozen nuclear bombs. But the Stanford University professor and other experts said North Korea has yet to master the miniaturization technology to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile.

"If North Korea conducts a third nuclear test, that will be very risky," Hecker told a forum in Seoul. "If another of the North's nuclear tests is successful, I believe that North Korea will succeed in the necessary miniaturization within a few years.

"It is critical at this point to bring Pyongyang back to the table to stop expanding its nuclear weapons programs," Hecker said. "The most urgent step is to stop it from conducting another nuclear test and more missile tests."

North Korea rolled out the road-mobile Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile during a military parade in October last year,
Hecker said the missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

South Korean intelligence officials have warned that North Korea could carry out another nuclear test at any time, although there are no signs of preparations.

A more difficult and relatively less urgent issue is stopping North Korea from constructing large numbers of additional centrifuges, but the diplomatic objective for denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula should remain focused on the "immediate danger," said Hecker of Stanford University.

Siegfried Hecker speaks during a forum in Seoul on Dec. 14. (Yonhap)

A flurry of renewed diplomatic efforts have been underway since early this year to resume the long-stalled six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear weapons ambition.

The six-nation talks, involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan, have been dormant since April 2009, when the North quit the negotiating table and then conducted its second nuclear test a month later.

North Korea has called for an early resumption of the six-party talks without preconditions, but South Korea and the U.S. insist Pyongyang must first take concrete steps to show its sincerity, such as a monitored shutdown of its uranium enrichment plant.

On Nov. 30, North Korea announced that its low-enriched uranium production efforts are "progressing apace," raising tensions and casting clouds over efforts to revive the six-party talks.

Pyongyang claims the uranium enrichment program is for peaceful energy development, but outside experts believe it will give the country a new source of fission material to make atomic bombs, in addition to its widely known plutonium-based nuclear weapons program.

[American Patriot]

Neither Iran or North Korea are going to stop.

I don't see anything GOOD coming out of "talks" either.

[vector7]

North Korea EMP attack could destroy U.S. — now

Obama must take immediate action

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By Peter Vincent Pry

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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North Korea now has an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the United States, as demonstrated by their successful launch and orbiting of a satellite on Dec. 12. Certain poorly informed pundits among the chattering classes reassure us that North Korea is still years away from being able to miniaturize warheads for missile delivery, and from developing sufficiently accurate missiles to pose a serious nuclear threat to the United States. Philip Yun, director of San Francisco’s Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear disarmament group, reportedly said, “The real threat from the launch was an overreaction that would lead to more defense spending on unnecessary systems. The sky is not falling. We shouldn’t be panicked.”

In fact, North Korea is a mortal nuclear threat to the United States— right now.

North Korea has already successfully tested and developed nuclear weapons. It has also already miniaturized nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery and has armed missiles with nuclear warheads. In 2011, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Ronald Burgess, testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that North Korea has weaponized its nuclear devices into warheads for ballistic missiles.

North Korea has labored for years and starved its people so it could develop an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the United States. Why? Because they have a special kind of nuclear weapon that could destroy the United States with a single blow.

In summer 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 satellite demonstrates its ability to make an EMP attack against the United States — right now.

The Congressional EMP Commission estimates that, given the nation’s current unpreparedness, within one year of an EMP attack, two-thirds of the U.S. population — 200 million Americans — would probably perish from starvation, disease and societal collapse.

Thus, North Korea now has an Assured Destruction capability against the United States. The consequences of this development are so extremely grave that U.S. and global security have, in effect, gone over the “strategic cliff” into free-fall. Where we will land, into what kind of future, is as yet unknown.

Nevertheless, some very bad developments are foreseeable. Iran will certainly be inspired by North Korea’s example to persist in the development of its own nuclear weapon and ICBM programs to pose a mortal threat to the United States. Indeed, North Korea and Iran have been collaborating all along.

If North Korea and Iran both acquire the capability to threaten America with EMP genocide, this will destroy the foundations of the existing world order, which has since 1945 halted the cycle of world wars and sustained the global advancement of freedom. North Korea and Iran being armed with Assured Destruction capability changes the whole strategic calculus of risk for the United States in upholding its superpower role, and will erode the confidence of U.S. allies — perhaps to the point where they will need to develop their own nuclear weapons.

Most alarming, we are fast moving to a place where, for the first time in history, failed little states like North Korea and Iran, that cannot even feed their own people, will have power in their hands to blackmail or destroy the largest and most successful societies on Earth. North Korea and Iran perceive themselves to be at war with the United States, and are desperate, highly unpredictable characters. When the mob is at the gates of their dictators, will they want to take America with them down into darkness?

What is to be done?

The president should immediately issue an Executive Order, drafted for the White House earlier by the Congressional EMP Commission, to protect the national electric grid and other critical infrastructures from an EMP attack. The Congress should pass the SHIELD Act (HR 668) now to provide the legal authorities and financial mechanisms for protecting the electric grid from EMP. The Congress should enhance Defense Department programs for National Missile Defense and Department of Homeland Security programs for protecting critical infrastructures.

The administration and the Congress owe the American people security from an EMP Apocalypse.

Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, and served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA.

[American Patriot]

I hope they DO now. It would serve this administration right.

Fuck with the people of this country, disarm them and then see what happens. God, why are there so many people WHO CAN NOT SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING?!

[vector7]

N.Korea developing electromagnetic pulse weapons: S.Korea

Nov 04, 2013

South Korea's spy agency said Monday that North Korea was using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border.




The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a report to parliament that the North had purchased Russian electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weaponry to develop its own versions.
EMP weapons are used to damage to electronic equipment. At higher energy levels, an EMP event can cause more widespread damage including to aircraft structures and other objects.
The spy agency also said the North's leader Kim Jong-Un sees cyberattacks as an all-purpose weapon along with nuclear weapons and missiles, according to lawmakers briefed by the NIS.
The North is trying to hack into smartphones and lure South Koreans into becoming informants, it said.
It has collected information on where South Korea stores chemical substances and oil reserves as well as details about subways, tunnels and train networks in major cities, it said.
The spy agency also said North Korean spies were operating in China and Japan to distribute pro-Pyongyang propaganda.
North Korea is believed to run an elite cyber warfare unit of 3,000 personnel.
A South Korean lawmaker, citing government data, said last month that the North had staged thousands of cyberattacks against the South in recent years, causing financial losses of around $805 million.
In addition to military institutions, the North's recent high-profile cyberattacks have targeted commercial banks, government agencies, TV broadcasters and media websites.
North Korea has denied any involvement in cyberattacks and accused Seoul of fabricating them to fan cross-border tension.

[Avvakum]

N.Korea developing electromagnetic pulse weapons: S.Korea

Nov 04, 2013

South Korea's spy agency said Monday that North Korea was using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border.




The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a report to parliament that the North had purchased Russian electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weaponry to develop its own versions.
EMP weapons are used to damage to electronic equipment. At higher energy levels, an EMP event can cause more widespread damage including to aircraft structures and other objects.
The spy agency also said the North's leader Kim Jong-Un sees cyberattacks as an all-purpose weapon along with nuclear weapons and missiles, according to lawmakers briefed by the NIS.
The North is trying to hack into smartphones and lure South Koreans into becoming informants, it said.
It has collected information on where South Korea stores chemical substances and oil reserves as well as details about subways, tunnels and train networks in major cities, it said.
The spy agency also said North Korean spies were operating in China and Japan to distribute pro-Pyongyang propaganda.
North Korea is believed to run an elite cyber warfare unit of 3,000 personnel.
A South Korean lawmaker, citing government data, said last month that the North had staged thousands of cyberattacks against the South in recent years, causing financial losses of around $805 million.
In addition to military institutions, the North's recent high-profile cyberattacks have targeted commercial banks, government agencies, TV broadcasters and media websites.
North Korea has denied any involvement in cyberattacks and accused Seoul of fabricating them to fan cross-border tension.

"South Korea's spy agency said Monday that North Korea was using Russian technology to develop electromagnetic pulse weapons aimed at paralysing military electronic equipment south of the border. "

Here's a big Golitsyn Thesis confirm in my opinion; does a noncommunist regime seriously give a communist regime like North Korea's a weapon like this? No. 'Russia' is Communist-Run.

[American Patriot]

Gosh, you believe that now? Seemed like in the beginning you were a big Putin fan.... Welcome to reality.

[Avvakum]

Gosh, you believe that now? Seemed like in the beginning you were a big Putin fan.... Welcome to reality.

Thanks.

I never forgot his answer to the direct question if he believed in God, as it seemed he was cultivating the image of a pious Russian Orthodox Christian, and his reply that he; 'believed in humanity'. Nor did I forget that of all the people he said he admired the most in history he chose an enemy of Russia, Napoleon, who wasn't exactly a good guy anyway, a supreme egotist, an Antichrist. It didn't seem consistent with his image, but then again few people are consistent 100%, so I shelved the thoughts for later.

If Putin and Company could fool an old 'Zek' like Alexander Solzshenitsyn, they can fool pretty much anybody, at least for a while. When somebody talks like they have the interests of their Nation at heart, and things do appear to get better in some ways, most are prone to give anybody the benefit of a doubt at first.

But then I found and looked at how he persecutes genuine Orthodox and Russian Nationalists and encourages Eurasian and Communist thinking, and remember all the Russian clergy he lavishly supports that came not from the dissenters but from the KGB, and he stands revealed as an Antichrist Himself. To win a war he knows he needs a patriotic and devout people to weather the coming storms, then he can dispose of whatever remains after the fighting, or so he and his comrades believe.

[American Patriot]

To win a war he knows he needs a patriotic and devout people to weather the coming storms, then he can dispose of whatever remains after the fighting, or so he and his comrades believe.

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!


What was it Marx said??? Oh yeah, "Religion is the opium of the people".