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Voice of America (VOA) reported the following:

November 21, 2017

WHITE HOUSE — 

South Korea and Japan have welcomed a move by the United States to redesignate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism in order to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government.

South Korea’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it sees the decision “as part of the international community’s joint efforts to take North Korea to the path of denuclearization.”

“It should have happened years ago,” President Donald Trump said Monday from the White House, calling the Pyongyang government a “murderous regime.”

The move, which will be formally announced by the State Department on Tuesday, returns North Korea to the department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Currently, the only countries on the list are Iran, Syria and Sudan. https://www.voanews.com/a/north-korea-once-again-on-us-terror-list/4127943.html

World Net Daily (WND) had the following report:

WASHINGTON – In the same month that North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb it described as being capable of a devastating electromagnetic pulse attack, the congressional EMP Commission, tasked with assessing the EMP threat, was shut down indefinitely.

The leading scientists, engineers and security experts who were members of the commission, which ceased Sept. 30, had concluded that an EMP attack could disable the country’s electrical grid, resulting in mass starvation and the death of about 90 percent of the American population.

While President Trump on Monday designated North Korea a state sponsor of terror, the government at all levels is virtually apathetic to the EMP threat, contends Tommy Waller the director of special projects at the Center for Security Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. …

Waller said the need to respond to the threat is urgent.

“For the first time in military history, we have a scenario where it doesn’t take a whole civilization to overtake another,” he said.

“Hundreds of years ago, if you wanted to take over a civilization, you had to build that capability of equal or greater power of military and economic force to do it,” he said. “Because of our dependency on electricity for every aspect of our life, we now face a scenario where our civilization, the most sophisticated on earth, could be crushed if we were to lose our grid, and our enemies know that.” …

‘No cavalry coming’

Waller noted the federal government has struggled to get Puerto Rico back up to full power after the hurricane. Just 46.6 percent of the island has power as of Monday. Imagine, he said, the devastation that would ensue if the nation’s entire grid collapsed.

“If that were to happen on the mainland, with an electromagnetic pulse, there is no cavalry coming,” he said.

An EMP attack would also cripple the U.S. military, Waller said. …

The Center for Security Policy is urgently trying to get the attention of the Trump administration, urging the hardening of the critical infrastructure, but so far has failed, Waller said.

“The federal government had a very dysfunctional response to this threat,” he said. 11/20/17 http://www.wnd.com/2017/11/americans-warned-u-s-apathetic-to-emp-threat/

The US Congress is supposed to appoint a new EMP commission, but we will see what happens to it.

What has been happening to Puerto Rico should show Americans that the USA can be without power a long time. And Puerto Rico is relatively small compared to the continental USA.

A couple of months ago, Voice of America (VOA) reported the following:

September 22, 2017

Pacific test

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, who will address the United Nations Friday, told reporters in New York that Kim likely intends to carry out a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean.

Attempting to conduct an open air nuclear test in international waters would be a highly risky and aggressive act that could, at the very least, expose islands in the Pacific to dangerous levels of radiation, as well damage electrical systems in the region from the strong electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by the blast.

It could also draw the U.S. into taking preventive military action. https://www.voanews.com/a/seoul-media-say-north-korea-might-test-hydrogen-bomb-in-pacific-/4039699.html

Is there really a threat from North Korea?

Yes.

Notice the following:

September 20, 2017

Everyone agrees: an EMP attack over or near U.S., Japanese, or South Korean territory is a physical attack that would wreak havoc with communications, the power grid, and civilian physical infrastructure. …

An EMP attack would knock out a seizure victim’s cell phone, the county EMS communication center, and the communications on the EMS ambulance. It would likely fry all of the electronics on the vehicle. If the ambulance has an electronic microchip key and a fancy-superkeen electronic ignition button, it might not even start.

EMS also relies on GPS, or Global Positioning Satellite location system. An electromagnetic pulse would damage GPS receivers. An EMP’s fritzing electrons in space could impede satellite to ground signals in the area for days, even though GPS satellites orbit 22,500 miles above the Earth.

An EMP attack could damage the SCADA systems monitoring and controlling critical infrastructure such as dams, factories, water and sanitation systems, oil refineries, and natural gas pipelines.

In short, an EMP attack destroys the electronic neurons and sinews of modern society.

North Korea could choose another option for EMP, though. PJ Media contributor Charlie Martin asked me to consider the following “gray area” scenario:

What if a North Korean EMP is intended as a “demonstration”? Suppose the nuke explodes over the North Pacific in an area that, say, the geography- and technology-ignorant cable news talking heads swear is open water, thousands of miles from U.S. and Japanese territory? And they claim that the only danger at that point is Trump’s response?

The answer: a blast virtually anywhere in the atmosphere above the North Pacific would harm us. …

North Korea’s “demonstration” EMP over the North Pacific, from the Equator to the Aleutians, is actually a physical attack — potentially on inhabited islands, but definitely on critical trade and transportation routes in the sea space. Moreover, sensors and communication systems in a region critical to North American strategic defense could be temporarily dazzled or even damaged. https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/20/the-u-s-must-plan-to-counterstrike-a-north-korean-emp-attack/

As I have written for years, the USA is susceptible to an emp attack from North Korea. Over four years ago, I even warned about that over the radio (see also North Korea, Barack Obama, and EMP dangers).

Since then, the North Koreans have demonstrated that they can launch ICBMs into outer space–plus it seems to be able to ignite a hydrogen (fusion) bomb.

To put it bluntly, an emp attack could harm the USA and ultimately make it more susceptible to be taken over during World War III.

While the USA could obliterate North Korea, it is at risk of severe damage from North Korea.

A vengeful North Korea may have operatives try to detonate nuclear bombs and/or dirty bombs in the USA. North Korea may attempt to unleash chemical and/or biological weapons against the USA, South Korea, Japan, and/or Guam. Steps to prepare for some or all of this may have been begun by the North Koreans. North Korea’s leaders may well decide that if they are attacked that they should attempt to cause the most damage possible. An electromagnetic pulse weapon attack may well be involved and if North Korea detonates a hydrogen bomb above the Pacific ocean, that would seem to be a step in that direction.

Jesus spoke of a time of wars, rumors of war, and troubles prior to the Great Tribulation (Mark 13:8). North Korea already is causing troubles and rumors of war.

For at least three years, my article, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, contained the following:

There may also be wars in parts of the world that have rarely had them (perhaps, for example, even between some South American nations), as well as wars in areas that have long been especially tense (like Korea, possibly involving other Asian nations). Damascus ultimately will be destroyed and could be a signal for destruction to come for Jacob (Isaiah 17:1-4). There will likely be civil unrest and perhaps rioting in scales not seen before, including within some Western nations (such as in Europe and North America). This will lead to military leaders rising up in various parts of the world. And one European (the final King of the North) will, after making one or more false peace deals/pronouncements (e.g. Daniel 9:26-27; 11:27; 1 Thessalonians 5:3), become the final Beast leader (Revelation 13:4) and he will take over many nations (Daniel 11:39-43).

North Korea, and US President Trump’s reactions to it, are a threat to peace and seem to be related to the ride of the red horseman of war (Revelation 6:3-4).

As far as EMP risks go, earlier this year we put together a video:

 

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Electrical End of the USA?

Could problems with the electrical power grid caused by one or more electo-magnetic pulse bombs, solar flares, and/or other phenomena help weaken the USA to the point of allowing it to be taken over? Does such potential exist? If so, is this consistent with any biblical prophecies? What are some of the severe consequences that the USA would face in the event of an electrical power grid failure? Is there evidence in scripture that the USA will be taken over in the 21st century? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more.

North Korea poses a variety of threats to the USA. EMP matters are one of them.

Designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism does not reduce its risk to use emp weapons.

Terrorism will still hit the USA (e.g. Deuteronomy 32:5,25; Ezekiel 21:12; see also Why Terrorism? Is Terrorism Prophesied?)

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 21st, 2017 at 6:30 am and is filed under Prophecy.

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