February 8, 2016
North Korea has launched n intercontental ballistic missile in order to put a “satellite” in orbit, or so they say. Such a missle is capable of orbiting a device that could detonate a nuclear weapon more than 100 miles over the United States, creating an electromagnetic pulse that could destroy America’s electrical grid system, a former director of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative said in a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Former Ambassador Henry Cooper – who was President Ronald Reagan’s chief representative in the “Star Wars” initiative negotiations with the Soviet Union and SDI director under President George H.W. Bush – said North Korea has launched its Sohae satellite complex on a southern trajectory, which they say is to be only a test.
Cooper told G2 Bulletin the United States lacks sufficient anti-ballistic missile defenses in the southern part of the U.S., especially if the satellite turns out to be a nuclear device that could orbit above the U.S. and explode at a high altitude, affecting the lives of all Americans.
He said it would be difficult to distinguish a test from an actual attack, and the best way to counter such a threat to the U.S. homeland is to knock out the missile at the time it begins its trajectory over a southern polar route. But he acknowledged such an action would be politically unpalatable. It turns out to be the case. The launch is done.
Now it comes out that not one, but two “satellites” were placed in orbit. This has brought the United Nations to its chambers as even it recognizes this as a threat to the world.
If the North Korean satellite turned out to be a nuclear device and is detonated over 100 miles above the U.S, it could destroy all life-sustaining critical infrastructures that rely on the national grid, potentially leading to the death of most Americans within the following year.All grid-dependent systems could suffer, including food- and water-supply chains, fuel-supply systems, communications, banking and finance.
“It’s long past time to counter this threat,” Cooper said.
Will the largely toothless U. N. now do something? I doubt it.
Gerry Almond