Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling

Instead of calling Kim Jong-un “Rocket Man,” some experts and military officials think President Donald Trump should be warning Americans about EMP Man, or Electromagnetic Pulse Man.

To be sure, and despite tomorrow’s much touted smoke and mirrors ballistic missile parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, where it hopes to “scare the hell out of Americans” in time for the Winter Olympics, the real danger may be an EMP attack which could kill millions through mass starvation, disease and societal collapse.

Next Explosion Is Not Only Computers and Genetics

Having testified before a Congressional Homeland Security subcommittee earlier in October, Peter Vincent Pry, a nuclear strategist formerly with the CIA, continued to warn of the devastating effects an EMP warhead could provide.

He’s not alone. Along with dozens of other intelligence officials and military personnel, they know how the warheads can explode without re-entering the atmosphere.

What’s more, an EMP warhead would make more sense given North Korea’s faulty and limited intercontinental ballistic missile carriers.

In addition to EMP warheads designed to explode hundreds of kilometers high above their targets, gamma rays are produced that generate high-frequency electromagnetic pulses which damage electronic devices.

It’s more plausible, then, that North Korea would conceal a device in a satellite and detonate it remotely via an encoded signal, or time a device to detonate on an ICBM even as it’s intercepted by U.S. missile defense systems. Because of its altitude it doesn’t have to consequently be that accurate to be effective – or deadly.

EMP Should Also Stand for Emergency Preparation

Because the U.S. can sustain a population of 320 million people only because of its modern technology, like computers, cellphones and a host of other technologically interactive or automated goods and services, an EMP warhead that blacks out just one portion of America’s electric grid would decimate the critical infrastructure necessary to support a large population. The impact on supermarkets, transportation, business and hospitals, even government, would cause mass chaos and riots.

In one scenario, for instance, food in supermarkets would be consumed within only three days. Meanwhile, not only would the 30-day food supply in regional warehouses begin to spoil, but computerized infrastructures, such as clean water or sewage systems, would collapse, leaving people to fend for themselves.

Considering how hospitals, business production and a city’s heating, cooling and energy sources function on an electric grid too, starvation, disease and societal collapse would probably ensue.

It’s Not Nice to Underestimate Kim Jong-un

Though naysayer’s claim North Korea’s nuclear tests have not yet demonstrated sufficient yield to cause damage to large areas through an EMP, the EMP Commission remains convinced the threat of an EMP attack is real – with a primitive, low-yield nuclear weapon likely to cause enormous destruction to U.S. electronic infrastructure if detonated at height.

They also warn not to take Kim Jong-un lightly. To be sure, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin just admitted he was smart and appears to continue to “outfox” Trump.

[So much for Trump, who insisted North Korea’s development of an ICBM would never happen during his presidency. Also, recall how U.S. intelligence agencies have consistently failed to accurately predict when North Korea might develop a missile capable of hitting the U.S., or the WannaCry ransom attack that’s attributed to North Korea. Meanwhile, the Hwasong-15 has a range of 8,100 miles, and a record height of 2,800 miles over a distance of 600 miles. An EMP attack would forgo risking it be destroyed on re-entry.]

Greatest Explosion May Be From Within

According to Reuters, former CIA Director James Woolsey noted nuclear weapons haven’t been used since the end of World War II, and nations which have them usually act rationally.

Given the psychological horror that’s been internalized of a nuclear holocaust, a new weapon like EMP might be considered a viable alternative.

What’s more, not only will its final impact be hard to predict, but it’s the kind of nightmarish weapon the U.S. hasn’t had a lot of “real world” experience with.

Consequently, and regarding the phrase smoke and mirrors, preparing only for a nuclear attack at the expense of an EMP warhead exploding high up in the atmosphere might be the greatest deception. Self-deception on the U.S.’s part that is.

And then there’s North Korea’s neighbor to the south: South Korea.

Dallas Darling

(Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John’s Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.WN.com. You can read more of Dallas’ writings at www.beverlydarling.com and www.WN.com/dallasdarling.)

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