A “WHAT IF” NORTH KOREAN ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR TEST SCENARIO:

PJ Media contributor Charlie Martin asked me to consider the following “gray area” scenario:

What if a North Korean EMP (electromagentic pulse) is intended as a “demonstration”? Suppose the nuke explodes over the North Pacific in an area that, say, the geography- and technology-ignorant cable news talking heads swear is open water, thousands of miles from U.S. and Japanese territory? And they claim that the only danger at that point is Trump’s response?

My reply includes a map exercise.

RELATED: From 2013, a report that North Korea was seeking non-nuclear EMP weapons. See the October 23, 2013 post: “…South Korean intelligence also warns that North Korea is using Russian technology to develop EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) weapons.”