China Fuming At U.S. Deployment Of Anti-Missile Systems

Move is response to North Korean threats to launch pre-emptive nuclear strike

WND

byF. Michael Maloof

WASHINGTON – China has criticized the United States for deciding to deploy additional anti-ballistic missile systems on the U.S. West Coast in response to threats from North Korea to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S.

Beijing said that bolstering U.S. anti-missile defenses would only intensify antagonism between North Korea and the U.S. 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recently ordered another 14 anti-ballistic missile systems to the U.S. West Coast following recent underground nuclear tests by North Korea and then a threat to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S.

To back up their threat, the North Koreans have recently released two videos, the first showing a nuclear attack on what appears to be New York City and a second with a bull’s-eye on the White House and an explosion on the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building.

These animated displays then were following by a narrative in Korean that stated: “The White House has been captured in the view of our long-range missile, and the capital of war is within the range of our atomic bomb.”

Observers have expressed concern that while North Korea has limited missile and nuclear resources, it may opt to orbit a nuclear weapon that would be deorbited to explode a high-altitude nuclear device, sending out an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy a significant portion of an already highly vulnerable U.S. electric grid system.

North Korea – like China, Russia and Iran – is very aware of the capability of the blast from one high-altitude nuclear weapon detonating and emitting an electromagnetic pulse that could seriously cripple, if not destroy, the grid and America’s communications capability.

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