Timothy Birdnow

North Korea is threatening nuclear war. They say "the Day of the Sun" is coming.

According to Pravda

"On April 15, North Korea will celebrate the 105th anniversary since the birth of the founder of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung. This is the largest national holiday in the country, which is called the Day of the Sun. Kim Il Sung is referred to as the "Sun of the Nation" in the DPRK. In the past, North Korean leaders would test weapons on April 15.

Meanwhile, spokespeople for the South Korean Defense Ministry expressed their readiness to show resistance to "provocations of the North," which may follow in connection with the celebration of the Day of the Sun on April 15. In addition, Seoul does not exclude a possibility of either a nuclear or a missile test on the 85th anniversary of the Korean People's Army, which the North celebrates on April 25.

Reportedly, the DPRK is prepared for a new nuclear test. According to 38 North U.S.-Korea Institute, commercial satellite images of the North Korean nuclear test site in Phungeri showed activity at the northern terminal, as well as new activity in the main administrative zone and a certain number of personnel around the command center of the test site. The images were taken on April 12."

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Meanwhile Japan is evacuating it's citizens from South Korea as America's navy steams toward the Korean peninsula. Also, Kim Jong un-oh has ordered the evacuation of Pyongyang and told western journalists to prepare to leave the capital immediately.

Is war - perhaps even nuclear war - immanent?

North Korea has two missiles in development capable of reaching the continental United States - the Musudan and KN-14. And with nuclear warheads a high altitude blast could cause an EMP, taking down the power grid and plunging America into chaos. This would be far more effective than simply nuking a city. I chronicled the damgers of this in an American Thinker article back in 2006. Even if the attack only takes down the Western grid, it will still cause total chaos in some of our most productive areas - including silicone valley, our technological heartland, and the California farming communities, some of the most productive farms in the world. Oh, and without power there will be no water, so millions of people will be dying of thirst. Total chaos will ensue.

The American electric grid is divided into three major, largely independent interconnections; the Eastern, Texas, and Western interconnections. Power flows into the grid and is distributed throughout the entire interconnection. Occasionally power moves between the grids, but rarely. If something takes out the grid it may be possible to supply minute amounts of power to the neighboring grid, but more liikely it will remain out. That happened to the Eastern grid a few years ago, which was down for several days. Fortunatley the eastern portion of the U.S. has plenty of gravity-fed water and the weather was decent when it crashed. Not so in the west, where water is largley punped out of the ground or from far away reservoirs. A collapse in the Western Interconnection would be a national catastrophe'.

And one Nork missile could bring it down.

The u.S. could not survive a long term collapse in the Western grid. At best martial law would have to be declared nationwide and America as we know it would cease to exist.

I hope and pray our leaders know what the hell they are doing. I fear they are more worried about their personal power and fortunes than protecting the nation.

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