According to David Wright, physicist and co-director of the UCS Global Security Program, North Korea’s latest ICBM — tested just days ago — has the capability to strike almost half of the largest U.S. cities, including Chicago, Denver and possibly even New York City.
…we have demonstrated our ability to fire our intercontinental ballistic rocket at any time and place and that the entire U.S. territory is within our shooting range.
…Melissa Hanham, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, confirmed the findings saying that the test showed North Korea is now capable of hitting U.S. cities such as Denver or Chicago.
Essentially, Kim Jong-Un just declared, “All your base are belong to us.”
Washington D.C. appears to be just out of range for the moment, as the missiles fly over the North Pole and enter the atmosphere over the Northwest portion of the United States. This means Miami is the farthest away from North Korea’s reach. Houston, New Orleans and other Southern cities are also on the extreme edge of potential range.
Tensions are escalating, and North Korea could launch an actual attack at any time
Kim Jong-Un is known to already possess an estimated two dozen nuclear warheads, and Natural News has previously explained why any attack on the United States by North Korea could trigger a devastating implosion of the U.S. economy. The miniaturization process to fit nuclear warheads onto missiles is child’s play for any nation that already possess nuclear capability. This means North Korea almost certainly has ICBMs right now that can deliver nuclear strikes to major U.S. cities, including Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix and so on. It is even conceivable that North Korea could launch a volley of missiles to strike multiple cities at the same time.
North Korea’s strike options also include EMP weapons which could indirectly kill up to 90% of all Americans by destroying the power grid, thrusting the United States into the 18th century in terms of technology, almost instantly collapsing the food supply, money system, water supply, medical logistics, police forces and just about everything else.
If you are not yet prepping for the possibility of a nuclear event on U.S. soil, you are living in denial.
Rumblings about a possible future attack on America’s power grid and logistical infrastructure have some politicians in a scurry trying to figure out how to prevent it. According to reports, North Korea currently operates two satellites that cross over the U.S. in what experts say are just the right patterns and altitudes for triggering an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would completely cripple the nation’s power grid.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, warns that North Korea could be planning to launch an EMP attack against the U.S. in the very near future. If successful, millions of people across North America could die, as all electronics would be instantly destroyed. The result would be no more food production, no more computers, no more clean water, and no more energy.
According to Dr. Pry, who also sits on a Congressional committee regarding the issue, the threat represents a “cyber-age version” of battleship diplomacy. What he means by this is that North Korea has positioned its satellites in such a way that either one of the other is “very close to being over the United States” at any given time, he told the U.K.’s Independent.
Kim Jong-Un threatens ‘merciless response’ to any US provocation
While North Korea’s satellite program is said to have officially began back in the 1980s, it wasn’t until about five years ago that the regime successfully launched its first observation satellite. In 2016, it launched its second, and both of these are able to make a complete orbit of the earth in about 94 minutes.
With this constant threat literally looming overhead, Dr. Pry believes that North Korea may use it as a bargaining chip should the U.S. threaten to carry out military sanctions against the nation. This is especially true now that President Trump has promised an end to the Obama-era policy of “strategic patience” with North Korea. The President has indicated that his administration will deal with the problem head-on, “with or without” China’s help.
But Jong-Un has promised his own retaliatory action, should the U.S. attempt anything against his regime. Officials in Pyongyang say their country isn’t the problem, but rather President Trump and the nation he leads.
“Whatever comes from the U.S., we will cope with it,” North Korea’s Vice Minister Han Song Ryol told the media back in April. “Trump is always making provocations with his aggressive words. It’s not the [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] but the U.S. and Trump that makes trouble … We are fully prepared to handle it.”
Dr. Pry isn’t convinced, though. He believes that North Korea’s rocket tests looked “suspiciously like practice for an EMP attack.” Plans drawn up by the former Soviet Union during the Cold War era is where Dr. Pry believes North Korea is getting its inspiration for a possible future EMP attack against the U.S. At the same time, President Trump says his administration is fully prepared to neutralize this threat.
“I have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea,” the President tweeted back in April. “If they are unable to do so, the U.S., with its allies, will!”
National Public Radio (NPR) has for years been known for its radical leftwing bias, and uninformed commentaries on foreign and defense policy by kooks from academia. But the NPR propaganda mill recently reached a potentially dangerous new low, misinforming Americans on the threat from North Korea amidst the worsening crisis with that nuclear-armed dictatorship.
On April 26, NPR interviewed Ambassador R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence, who correctly warned listeners that the biggest and most immediate threat from North Korea is its capability to perform an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack by satellite, which could plunge the entire U.S. into a protracted blackout. North Korea currently has two satellites orbiting over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with making a surprise EMP attack.
The Congressional EMP Commission, on which Ambassador Woolsey serves as senior adviser, estimates that a nationwide blackout lasting one year could kill up to 90 percent of the American people from starvation and societal collapse.
(ANP: In the only video below, Dr. Pry recently joined John B. Wells on Ark Midnight to discuss the EMP threat to America.)
NPR was not really interested in Woolsey’s warning about the North Korean EMP threat, the interviewer only commenting, “I never heard of that.” Instead, NPR was interviewing Woolsey about President Trump’s first 100 days, fishing for some negative comment from the former Trump adviser, which they did not get.
The next day, on April 27, NPR science editor Geoff Brunfield (who, according to his NPR bio, has a Master’s in science writing from Johns Hopkins University) interviewed EMP non-expert Jeffrey Lewis in a segment titled “The North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Threat, Or Lack Thereof.”
Why Brunfield would interview Jeffrey Lewis about EMP, and not the vastly more knowledgeable former Director of Central Intelligence Jim Woolsey, is explicable only as a combination of incompetence and possible NPR bias against the “politically incorrect” EMP threat.
Lewis opened the interview by laughing hysterically for nearly a minute at the warning by former CIA Director Woolsey and the Congressional EMP Commission that a North Korean EMP attack would have catastrophic consequences. According to Lewis, the 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test proves that EMP is relatively harmless because the Hawaiian Islands were not destroyed, merely damaged a little. And Lewis reassured listeners that, contrary to popular belief, cars would be little effected by EMP.
Lewis is apparently unaware that:
Starfish Prime was not an EMP test, but the U.S. accidentally discovered the EMP phenomenon during the test.
The Hawaiian Islands were not destroyed because they were at the outside edge of the EMP field, where effects are weakest, and because they are islands in an ocean, which mitigates EMP effects.
Russian EMP tests conducted in 1961-62 over land in Kazakhstan destroyed electric grids and other critical infrastructure over an area larger than Western Europe.
Modern electronics are over one million times more vulnerable to EMP than the electronics of 1962.
Over 50 years of EMP tests by the Department of Defense, most recently by the EMP Commission, prove that an EMP attack would collapse all life-sustaining critical infrastructures, including automobile transportation.
In 2010, 2011, and 2012, North Korea made a non-nuclear EMP attack on South Korea, using a radiofrequency “cannon” to impose an “electromagnetic blockade” on Seoul by threatening airline traffic, that also caused widespread blackout of radio communications and disruption of automobiles. A nuclear EMP attack would have much higher field strengths causing much greater damage over potentially an entire continent.
Why does Jeffrey Lewis not know these things? Because he is a teacher at the Middlebury Institute of International Relations at Monterey, not a former Director of Central Intelligence and senior advisor to the EMP Commission. Because, aside from a brief stint at the Pentagon as an intern, he has never served in the Defense Department or worked professionally as a military analyst for the U.S. defense or intelligence communities.
Because his degrees are in policy studies and philosophy, not in missile engineering or nuclear weapons design, even though he pontificates in his blog 38 North on these subjects, and now on EMP, as if he is a real expert.
National Public Radio’s reliance on ignorant academic national security non-experts, like Jeffrey Lewis, is symptomatic of a wider problem in the liberal mainstream media.
For example, a prominent national security reporter for The New York Times recently admitted privately, ” . . . we’re just echoing the NGO [Non-Government Organization] consensus . . . Given the military’s history of threat inflation, to do otherwise would seem to be journalistically unwise.”
The net effect of media reliance on left-wing academics for national security expertise is to seriously underestimate threats from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
The agenda of the liberal media and left-wing academics appears to be to convince the American people that it is not too late to solve threats from North Korea and others through negotiation and arms control, instead of rebuilding U.S. military and nuclear strength. They want to continue the failed foreign and defense policies of President Obama.
Appeasement is a stupid, self-defeating policy usually ending in war.
National Public Radio, for its latest misleading of the American people toward an EMP holocaust, deserves defunding by Congress.
Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security. He served in the Congressional EMP Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA. He is author of “Blackout Wars.” This story originally published here. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
(Dr. Pry joins John B. Wells shortly after the 20 minute mark of the video below)
One of the most powerful weapons in the U.S. Navy’s arsenal has arrived in a South Korean port as an aircraft carrier battle group steams towards waters off North Korea. Pyongyang has also recently been given a warning from its sole ally that it’s about to cross a line from which there is no return.
Reports on Tuesday noted that the USS Michigan, one of four Ohio-class cruise missile submarines carrying 154 Tomahawks steamed into the Port of Busan, the Washington Examiner reported, and will bolster a growing fleet of U.S., South Korean and Japanese warships in the region.
The Pentagon downplayed the Michigan’s arrival, but given the potency of the sub’s cruise missile cargo and its range, most seasoned geopolitical observers aren’t buying the “official” line.
The deployment of the sub and the U.S. naval fleet comes amid rising tensions with nuclear-armed North Korea, which has threatened repeatedly in recent weeks to lash out militarily against U.S. assets and allies in the region if any attack is launched against its nuclear facilities.
On Monday the North conducted a massive artillery barrage exercise to celebrate the birth of the country’s military, but observers also noted that it was yet another show of force by Pyongyang.
Still, the Trump administration does not appear to be intimidated. In response, the Pentagon on Wednesday is planning a rare test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which The Starnoted in a separate report is a way of sending Pyongyang a message that the United States possesses superior nuclear power and has the ability to deliver it quickly and accurately.
The last Minuteman III ICBM was tested in February, ostensibly as a warning to Russia for its increased aggressiveness in buzzing U.S. naval vessels and challenging U.S. airspace.
The White House was briefed by outgoing President Barack Obama that its most challenging threat in the near-term was North Korea, a shadowy Stalinist country that has poured scarce resources into developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them globally.
At present, most analysts do not think the North has the capability to deliver nuclear weapons to U.S. shores. But it may have the ability to mount a nuclear weapon atop a missile that can easily reach South Korea and Japan, both U.S. allies.
North Korea has held five nuclear tests over the past few years and may be planning a sixth. If it does conduct another test, that could be the impetus for Trump to order an attack that would seek to destroy the North’s nuclear infrastructure, as well as its chemical weapons stockpile, one of the largest in the world.
The saber-rattling has worried Pyongyang’s sole major ally and neighbor, China. The UK’s Express noted that Beijing has warned its neighbor that another nuclear weapons test would push its relations “beyond the point of no return.”
In addition, China warned North Korea it would be on the losing end of any conflict on the peninsula, and would suffer the most damage, including, perhaps, the end of the Kim dynasty that has ruled the country since its birth shortly after World War II.
“The game of chicken between Washington and Pyongyang has come to a breaking point,” warned an editorial in the Global Times, which is widely believed to be a mouthpiece for China’s ruling Communist party, The Express reported.
During the interview, he was asked about his intentions regarding North Korea, and while declining to get into specifics, nonetheless specifically mentioned the power of U.S. Navy submarines.
Trump and his closest national security advisors are scheduled to provide the entire Senate with a briefing on North Korea on Wednesday, which is highly unusual and almost certain to ensure there will be leaks to the media – which may be precisely what president expects and wants.
J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.
