![]() ![]() ![]() The DEFON system was implemented in November of 1959 after the construction of NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, the people in charge of monitoring and intercepting external threats to the United States) with five (5) levels of Defense Ready Condition that goes a little something like this:Īt DEFCON 5, we are at peace. In fact, I praise this move as it was a sensible, prudent thing to do.įor those of you - mostly my readers in the United Kingdom - who don’t understand our defense levels, a little history is in order.ĭEFCON is an acronym for Defense Ready Condition, DEFCON is what the Pentagon uses to indicate the level of threats the country faces from other nations, which then determines readiness for any potential response and I’ve been told you lot on the other side of pond don’t actually have something like this. I don’t begrudge my President or my Pentagon going to DEFCON 2 after Vladimir Putin decided he was going to put his nuclear forces on alert. Well, I noticed because it’s something of a hobby of mine to keep track of our military (being a former Navy man) and it’s readiness levels.īasically, it lets me know what kind of day I’m going to have.īut, again, hardly anybody noticed this monumental event with the exception of a political website in New Zealand. “If you wanted to win a New Korean war,” added Pry, “one of the things you would certainly consider doing is taking out the United States homeland itself.In fact, we were exactly one DEFCON level away from World War III. I mean, he has made threats about turning the United States into ashes and he connected the satellite program to this in public statements to deter us from attacking.” ![]() “Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down.’ Which is basically what he said. So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States. He warned: “They are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view. Pry was referring to the KMS 3-2 and KMS-4 earth observation satellites launched by North Korea in April 2012 and February 2016 respectively. “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” is broadcast on terrestrial radio on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia and online. at trajectories he says are optimized for a surprised EMP attack. Speaking on this reporter’s talk radio program, Pry pointed to two North Korean satellites that are currently orbiting the U.S. ![]() Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission. homeland via an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.ĭr. TEL AVIV – While the international community and news media focus on North Korean missile tests and the country’s nuclear program, one expert warned on Sunday that North Korea may be secretly assembling the capability to take out significant parts of the U.S. ![]()
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