North Korea’s New Threat

North Korea’s new threat is no joke.  They have threatened to explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.  In my last book, I described the EMP effects of bomb like that and the circle is 700 miles wide.  That is a lot of ocean, and even as big at that ocean is, trying to find a place that would not disrupt some land mass might take some doing.  Second, they are going to kill a lot of fish and irradiate the water around it.  The tidal wave will be big enough to think about a long way from where it goes off.

This might be seen as progress from the last threat to blow up Los Angeles or drop a bomb in the water off the West Coast.  With the irrational government, progress is something measured by psychological profiles and not international standards of behavior.  By that standard, the North has tuned down it rhetoric, even if it is hard to see it that way.

Some day we will have to take the North at its word.  That kind of threat demands some mitigation and that is not going to come from the sanctions the UN has decided to levy.  Regime change is the only thing that can cure this kind of problem.