Oh, little Kim
He really should stop before someone gets hurt:
North Korea has threatened to launch an electromagnetic pulse attack that could shut down the United States power grid causing months of blackouts that could bring society to a halt, with rampant crime and social chaos.
Experts say the threat posed by an EMP the side effect of an atmospheric nuclear detonation is significant, and New England is particularly vulnerable.
You do have plenty of food and water, don’t you?
September 5th, 2017 at 5:12 pm
New England may be vulnerable to EMP generically, but it seems to be well out of range. That assumes he wouldn’t use a submarine launched missile. That’s a scary option, but also one that the US Navy can readily defend against. I hope that they have standing orders: tail all NK subs, and if any come within 2500 miles of any US territory, sink it immediately without warning.
It also occurs to me that EMP would make an ideal threat against NK. The reason is that only Kim’s elite friends would suffer — the NK peasantry that he keeps half starving would be unaffected. And it may be that a lot of his military electronics isn’t particularly EMP-proof.
September 6th, 2017 at 12:09 am
“society to a halt”
Wait, if we get hit with an EMP people are going to stop living together in more or less ordered community united together under a common bond of nearness and intercourse?
And if there is going to be rampant crime, aren’t we glad we don’t have “smart” guns? We have EMP hardened guns to check the crime and restart society.
You know they are just ramping up the rhetoric when a critical reading reveals such foolishness. No doubt bad things would happen, but society would continue, only on foot, without electricity and with a rough patch as society adapts to the local rather than global.
September 6th, 2017 at 8:33 am
An EMP attack, that will do more than give you a little bit of static on your wireless devices, is like those miniature thermite capsules that they implant in your carotids that explode after a certain period of time unless they’re neutralized with ultrasound after you’ve rescued the President from New York City. Science fiction.
September 6th, 2017 at 8:44 am
I’d think the lib-tards would appreciate that. It’d sure cure all that man-made global warming they’re causing up there.