US missile launch, Senate meeting, and North Korea

Minuteman launching from Vandenberg

The US test-launched another missile:

In Warning To North Korea, US Releases Video Of Overnight Minuteman III ICBM Launch

April 26, 2017

… overnight the US Air Force conducted a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force base near Lompoc in California, in what was a clear signal of nuclear deterrence aimed squarely at North Korea. …

This is the statement Vandenberg released shortly after the launch:

On April 26 airmen from F.E. Warren, Offutt And Vandenberg Air Force Bases conducted an operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman Three missile. Today’s test launch used an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile pulled randomly from a silo on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, which was then transported and reassembled at Vandenberg, and launched by crew members of the 625Th strategic operations squadron aboard the U.S. Strategic Command Airborne Command Post Navy E6B Aircraft.

The ICBM was equipped with a test reentry vehicle, and traveled approximately four thousand two hundred miles to a test range near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

These ICBM test launches verify the accuracy and reliability of the weapon system, providing valuable data to ensure a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.

It also released the following video of the ICBM launch, which we are confident will be closely watched by everyone in the Kim Jong-Un administration. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-26/us-air-force-releases-video-minuteman-iii-icbm-launch

Vandenberg is very near Grover Beach, California.

Here is some information on the history of the Minuteman missile:

Development of the Minuteman began in the mid-1950s as the outgrowth of basic research into solid fuel rocket motors which indicated an ICBM based on solids was possible. …

Minuteman entered service in 1962 as a weapon tasked primarily with the deterrence role, threatening Soviet cities with a counterattack if the US was attacked. … The Minuteman-II entered service in 1965 with a host of upgrades to improve its accuracy and survivability in the face of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system the Soviets were known to be developing. Minuteman-III followed in 1970, using three smaller warheads instead of one large one, which made it very difficult to attack by an anti-ballistic missile system which would have to hit all three widely separated warheads to be effective.

Peaking at 1000 missiles in the 1970s, the current US force consists of 450 Minuteman-III missiles in missile silos around Malmstrom AFB, Montana; Minot AFB, North Dakota; and F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. By 2018 this will be reduced to 400 armed missiles, with 50 unarmed missiles in reserve, and four non-deployed test launchers to comply with the New START treaty. The Air Force plans to keep the missile in service until at least 2030. (LGM-30 Minuteman. Wikipedia, accessed 02/27/16)

The plan for this missile launch was something I heard on a local radio station. The USA likely believes that the success of this launch, compared to the failure of a North Korean missile launch earlier this month (some believe that the USA somehow sabotaged it) is sending a message to leaders in North Korea that they are foolish to attempt to fight the USA.

The US Senate was given a briefing this afternoon:

April 26, 2017

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration hosted senators for an extraordinary White House briefing Wednesday at a perilous moment with North Korea, marked by the unpredictable nation’s nuclear threats and stern talk of military action, if necessary, from the United States.

All 100 senators were invited and transported in buses for the unprecedented, classified briefing. President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, secretary of defense, top general, and national intelligence director were to outline for them the North’s escalating nuclear capabilities and US response options, officials said. The briefing team was to meet later with House members in the Capitol.

The unusual sessions don’t necessarily presage the use of force along one of the world’s most heavily militarized frontiers, and some lawmakers questioned whether the cross-Washington procession was largely show, with Trump expected to drop in on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building gathering of lawmakers. http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-briefs-entire-senate-during-a-scary-moment-of-tension-with-north-korea-2017-4

While North Korea would not ‘win’ in an all-out war against the USA, North Korea could still harm the USA. World Net Daily posted this last night:

Expert: North Korea has EMP attack capability

Hermit Kingdom threat includes potential explosion 300 miles above Earth

The American media worries about whether a North Korean missile could hit California, and sales of nuclear shelters and air purifiers that can block radiation are skyrocketing in Japan.

Yet, with a report that the U.S. government sabotaged a recent missile test, many Americans may be tempted to dismiss the threat from Kim Jong-un’s Hermit Kingdom.

But that would be a mistake.

Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst in the office of the Secretary of Defense and the author of “A Nation Forsaken,” warns North Korea already has the capability to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. …

“A recent photo showing Kim Jung-un next to a sphere said to be a nuclear device is the size to orbit,” he explained. “It is known that recent nuclear underground tests were in the low kiloton range but high in gamma rays, the type of electromagnetic energy needed to create an electromagnetic pulse to destroy the vulnerable U.S. grid system and all unprotected electronics.

“Now, North Korea has promised weekly missile launches and unless each is shot down upon launch, there is no way to determine whether the payload would be such a satellite which in effect would be a nuclear device. …

That kind of EMP attack could be launched from North Korea itself. Maloof says Pyongyang has also been working on a submarine capable of launching a ballistic missile. …

A successful EMP attack on the United States could knock out the critical, life-sustaining infrastructures that depend on the national grid, including telecommunications, banking and finance, automated control systems, petroleum and natural gas, transportation, food and water delivery and emergency services. Cascading failures of critical infrastructure could also lead to secondary disasters, including cataclysmic failure of nuclear plants. The economic and human costs would be devastating. http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/expert-north-korea-has-emp-attack-capability/#tS4sVegiyHcVR2Ah.99

It is true that North Korea could harm the USA with an EMP attack. This is something that I have warned about for years. Now, we are getting closer to the time it possibly could happen.

Consider that Jesus warned of the following:

7 But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows. (Mark 13:7-8)

We are certainly in a time of wars and rumors of wars. Issues related to North Korea, like an EMP attack, could well cause ‘troubles’ for those in the USA.

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