North Korea in new threat: Kim Jong-un could WIPE OUT power grids, experts warn
NORTH Korea could launch a catastrophic attack with the ability to wipe out power grids and grind modern civilisation to a halt, it has been warned.
By LEVI WINCHESTER
Express.co.uk
Sun, Feb 21, 2016
The secretive state is no stranger to issuing threats over its apparent nuclear arsenal, with dictator Kim Jong-un boasting that his country conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test just last month.
But now a think tank has warned that the Asian country could launch an attack on the high voltage transmission lines that comprise the US power lattice – with the possibility of shutting down major electronic systems and plunging civilisation into darkness.
The possibility of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, where a nuclear device is programmed to produce an electromagnetic wave with such force to destroy electronic systems, has plagued mankind since the Cold War, according to the Center for Security Policy.
However fresh fears have emerged that North Korea could be the one to launch such an attack following its hydrogen bomb claim and its firing of a rocket just days ago.
Henry Cooper, a director at the think tank Foundation for Resilient Societies, said: “The technology of building a super EMP weapon is understood and at least by circumstantial evidence… the North Koreans know how to do it.”
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