[Skybird]

Without giving further source information, a German newspaper today referred to "an American expert" who should have mentioned this theory: the recently started NKorean satellite from all beginning on did not emit any signals, communication or otherwise. Usually it is described as being a technical malfunction, a failed experiment. But the satellite is big enough to hold a 10 kt nuclear warhead. The "American expert" also explained that 10 kt are almost optimal to cause an EMP that would have sufficient energy to hit a whole hemisphere of the globe and knock all electronics, computers, comm systems out. That"American experts" also should have said that the satellite currently passes the American region in direction from south to North - and that the American early warning radar detection for space observations towards the south of the US is weak, since the primary defences are oriented to other other directions. If this "American expert" exists and said these things, than he seemed to imply that the NKoreans could sneak in a stealth attack by lowering the orbit during its south-to north approach on the US, bypass any possible satellite defence systems, and detonate for an EMP at lower altitude over the centre of the US.

I am undecided on what to make of this story and currently form no opinion on it, I only take note of it. But something like this certainly is a much more likely scenario to attack the US than to assume somebody launches ICBMs at it, especially when the attacker has technological short legs only to run on.

If the story would be real and the claims hold ground, this satellite must be taken out. Immediately. No matter the costs, no matter the effort, no matter the political fallout. Accepting a knife at your throat with the knife held by a desperate, irrational megalomaniac nutjob who has lost contact with reality and is desperately craving for attention and imagines that his survival is at stake, is no option.