NK's lights-out game.....It could happen

This is a terrifying scenario that's becoming all-too-possible. Lord come quickly.

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N. Korea's Lights Out Game - It Could Happen


Even a small, relatively crude nuclear device
detonated above the Korean peninsula would generate an EMP with field
strength well above 10 kV/m, ensuring wholesale destruction of
unprotected electronic systems.
From Mark Langfan



In
August 1994, Tom Clancy published the novel “Debt of Honor” whose
climactic end featured an embittered Japan Air Lines pilot, Captain
Sato-driven mad by the death of his sons and brother by America- who
slams his 747 into the US Capitol building during a joint session of
Congress, and murders almost the entire US presidential line of
succession. No precautions were ever taken by the United States
government to prevent such an open-source, well-publicized type of
attack by a renowned master of thriller fiction. Seven (7) years later,
in 2001, teams of murderous psychotic Islamic terrorists hijacked a
series of planes, and slammed them into the Pentagon and Twin Towers
murdering thousands of innocent US civilians.

In November
2005, Major Colin R. Miller USAF (Active) published his US Air
University thesis entitled “Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Threats in 2010”
whose climactic thesis predicted that North Korea might use a nuclear
EMP bomb to destroy the US and South Korean technological military
advantage and “level the playing field,” and then occupy South Korea in a
conventional-follow-on blitzkrieg attack. No precautions were ever
taken by the United States government to prevent such an open-source,
publicized type of attack by a respected active US Air Force officer.
Eight ( years later, in 2013, and with three nuclear tests under the
North’s belt, the new murderous psychotic dictator “Supreme Leader” or
“Marshal” Kim Jong-un has promised a nuclear attack against America, and
on last Friday, March 15, 2013, the Ides of March, stated “prepare for
war.”
To be exact, in 2005, then-Major, now-Colonel Colin R. Miller USAF stated:
“Even
a small, relatively crude nuclear device detonated above the Korean
peninsula would generate an EMP with field strength well above 10 kV/m,
ensuring wholesale destruction of unprotected electronic systems. The
first-order effect on coalition forces would be a command, control, and
communications (C3) blackout. The EMP would permanently destroy most
computers and displays at the joint task force headquarters and combined
air operations center and would wipe clean critical magnetically stored
data. Radio, satellite, and cell phone communications would be
permanently shut down, as well as wire line telephone systems relying on
microprocessor control.”
I must emphasize that this is
not a fictional story as is the one by Tom Clancy, but is an open-source
2005 thesis written by an active United States Air Force colonel who
stated that a North Korean nuclear bomb could black out all of America’s
fielded defense “unprotected” electronics. You don’t even need to read
what Maj. Miller’s “second-order” and “third-order” effects of a
decapitation North Korean EMP blast against South Korean and US forces
would be to understand the unmitigated and irreversible loss US forces
would suffer in such an EMP attack.

Since Maj. Miller wrote
his 2005 thesis, North Korea has successfully tested three nuclear bombs
with steadily increasing kilo-tonnage (2006-1kt, 2009-5kt, 2013-7kt).
North Korea’s latest test on February 12, 2013 was reported by South
Korea to be between 6 to 7 kilotons. By contrast Hiroshima was about a
16 kilotons. The difference between a Hiroshima-type nuclear explosion
and an EMP-type nuclear explosion is, 1: the Hiroshima “Little Boy”
nuclear bomb was detonated at a little less than one (1) kilometer above
the ground and killed 90,000-166,000 people, 2: a North Korean EMP
nuclear bomb would be detonated at 40-50 kilometers above the ground and
wouldn’t kill so much as a single bird in the actual nuclear explosion.
So ironically, a North Korean EMP nuclear decapitation first-strike
would actually kill fewer people than a regular North Korean
first-strike conventional missile attack

Further, the US
Defense Threat Reduction Agency & USSTATCOM Center for Combating WMD
stated on their open-source website that, “While a blast of [EMP]
radiation might not do anything to properly protected troops, it would
“fry” anything electronic: laptops, sensors, our highly computerized
planes, even a simple cell phone.” Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s father,
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il, was a total James Bond fanatic. And, in
1995, an EMP circuit-frying nuclear device was the featured futuristic
weapon de jour in the James Bond movie classic “Goldeneye.” North Korea
also stated that its recent February 2013 nuclear test used a
“miniaturized device” which very likely was intended for a AC-130
missile warhead.

Additionally, North Korea has tested its
middle-range missiles trajectory directly south over South Korea that
would be the exact trajectory to be used in an EMP attack. North Korea
only needs a short to medium range rocket to reach an altitude 50
kilometers above South Korea where the EMP bombs would be detonated. An
EMP at that altitude would fry all of the US and South Korean hi-tech
weapons’ systems. North Korea would only need an intercontinental
ballistic missile if it wanted to hit the continental United States with
an EMP nuke. So, North Korea absolutely now possesses the minimal
ballistic capabilities necessary to deliver an EMP above South Korea.
First
and foremost, if anyone thinks South Korea or the United States has a
defense against a North Korean EMP first-strike attack, think again. Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, reported the following story entitled “S. Korea defenseless against N. Korean electronic attack” on Sept. 20, 2011:
“SEOUL,
Sept. 20 (Yonhap) -- Major military facilities in South Korea,
including the defense ministry, are defenseless against potential North
Korean electronic attacks, reports showed Tuesday.
According
to the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and the Defense Acquisition
Program Administration (DAPA), no technology exists in South Korea that
can fend off electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bombs from North Korea. The
two agencies submitted reports to Grand National Party (GNP) lawmaker
Chung Mee-kyung during the annual parliamentary audit into defense
agencies.
EMP bombs are known to jam and damage high-tech defense systems, such as radars and communication networks.

The
defense ministry and the new headquarters for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(JCS), currently under construction, are supposed to be protected from
EMP attacks, but reports said they can only defend less-damaging
electromagnetic interference (EMI). So, there is no defense against such
an attack.”
Well, since this September 2011 report,
Obama’s been very busy gutting missile defense, excoriating Israel to
retreat to the 1967 Auschwitz lines, and slashing the US defense budget,
so any hope of a new South Korean/US defense against an EMP attack can
be forgotten!!!
Second, the problem is that since the Cold War
ended (beginning with President Clinton) almost all of the US hi-tech
weapons systems were built with unprotected electric circuits to save
money!! So, the entire US electronic defense of South Korea is worthless
against an EMP decapitation attack, followed on with a conventional
attack. In the face of an EMP attack, the older the mechanized armor,
the less modern electronics the weapon-systems have and therefore the
less susceptible to an EMP attack. Perversely, this militarily
dramatically favors the North Koreans who currently have in service over
4,000 main battle tanks with non-electronics-based transmissions that
were built mostly before 1980. Therefore, a North Korean EMP bomb would
turn these otherwise worthless hunks of scrap-metal into infinitely
valuable mobile pincers worth their military weight in diamonds.
Conversely, US satellites, command and control, intelligence,
chain-of-command communications to the Pentagon, and virtually
everything else built after 1990 would be irreparably burnt out.
Third,
as of 2013, the Korea People’s Army (KPA), with 9,495,000 active
(1,100,000), reserve (8,200,000), and paramilitary personnel, is the
largest military organization on earth. Facing this behemoth is the
Republic of Korea’s Armed Forces (ROK Armed Forces) with a total
manpower of 3,600,000 comprised of 639,000 active and 3,000,000
reserves. In addition, the United States fields a total active strength
of 28,500 men comprised two-thirds army and one-third Air Force. The
relative orders of battle in a North Korea EMP onslaught would be
gruesome for South Korean and US forces. Given the North would have had
the element of surprise, the North would have mobilized its reserves to
just a point where it wouldn’t have “tipped its hand.” Conversely, in a
KPA EMP attack, the South’s ability to mobilize would be destroyed in
the first 2 nanoseconds of the battle by the EMP blast. How do you “call
up” your forces if all the cell phones have been “fried” and your
computers wiped out??

Hence, the North could very possibly
field a 3,000,000 man army at the H-hour of an EMP decapitation attack
with an additional pre-ordered, post-EMP strike mobilized force of
5,000,000 at H+ day 3, and 8,000,000 mobilized men at H+day 5. Facing
the 3,000,000 North Koreans striking southward with blitzkrieging
armored units would be a South Korean Force of at best 650,000 men
unable to communicate with each other and with weapons that very likely
won’t function. To leverage-up the order of battle and piercing effect
of the KPA attacking forces, the North Koreans would have actively
pre-planned to manage millions of South Korean and US POWs.
Fourth,
within 36 hours of H-hour, the rapidly advancing North Korean units
would have taken prisoner 100,000’s of living South Korean soldiers and
upwards of 25,000 living US soldiers. Therefore, Marshall Jong-un would
have tens of thousands of living US soldier-hostages before Washington
DC even knew what had happened. This is because at present there is no
known, or deployed system to detect an EMP blast. Such a possible EMP
detection system would envisage a matrix of widely dispersed
continuously pinging “fused” nodes which would burn out in an EMP
attack. Such a pinging matrix would enable an emergency post-EMP
launched satellite to detect a silhouette pattern of un-blown pinging
fuse nodes outside the EMP burnt-out area.

Fifth,
no one should forget that North Korean instructors, not Iran,
successfully trained Hezbollah fighters in guerilla warfare tactics
around 2004, prior to the Second Lebanon War. Therefore, North Korea’s
very core military doctrine is one of a surprise attack. Also, given the
history and current world events, Iran, Hizbullah, Syria, and North
Korea are strategically and tactically inseparable. Therefore, Assad’s
genocidal use of chemical weapons may be presaging, or a simultaneously
distracting military event. Hence, if Assad uses chemical weapons
against the Syrian Sunni rebels, expect North Korea to take advantage of
the resulting hysteria, or vice versa.
FACT:
25,000 living
US POW hostages in the hands of supreme leader Kim Jong-un, would be an
absolute North Korean check-mate defense against a US nuclear
counter-strike.
So, in short, while tooling about the Middle East,
or confabbing with the master-blaster, Jay-Z, President Obama would be
well advised to keep his full attention on the Korean Peninsula. For, by
the time it took the Benghazi terrorists to start their attack against
our Consulate to the time 4 Americans (including our Ambassador) were
murdered, North Korea could have 25,000 living US POWs as hostages. Such
a North Korean EMP attack wouldn’t be the start of a war, it would be
Lights-out/Game-over war in favor of North Korea at the very first
nano-moment it begins.
Or just, maybe, the Supreme Leader Kim
Jong-un just wants an Obama personal invite for hoops, NCAA “March
Madness” bracket-frolics, and an ice-cold brewski at the White House
tennis court-cum-basketball court? But, instead of welcoming Kim Jong-un
as a US Commander-in-Chief, Obama might be forced to bow to supreme
leader Kim Jong-un as the US Surrenderer-in-Chief. And, Obama’s
self-imagined, hoped-for, spot on Mt. Rushmore might soon be pre-empted,
and instead, sport the sculpted face of the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
For more information on EMP please visit www.marklangfan.com/fizzlekriegfirstdraft.pdf