No, North Korea Can't Kill 90 Percent of Americans
Pyongyang isn't going to knock out the electrical grid and cause riots at the supermarket.
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By Kyle Mizokami
Mar 31, 2017
Earlier this week, the former director of the CIA penned an apocalyptic article in The Hill describing the end of American civilization. The article warns of the threat of a North Korean electromagnetic pulse attack, claiming such an attack would kill "9 out of 10 Americans."
Okay. While North Korea does pose an increasingly serious nuclear threat to the United States, the claim it could kill 300 million Americans by depriving them of electricity is not realistic.
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