{"id":26637,"date":"2017-10-09T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2017-10-09T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:01:57","slug":"south-koreas-new-blackout-bomb-can-paralyze-the-norths-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26637","title":{"rendered":"South Korea’s New “Blackout Bomb” Can Paralyze The North’s Power Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Korea’s New “Blackout Bomb” Can Paralyze The North’s Power Grid<\/a><\/h3>\n
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US and South Korean officials are nervously watching to see if North Korea follows through with its threats to carry out another nuclear test \u2013 or to fire a rumored long-range missile capable of accurately striking the west coast of the US into the Pacific \u2013 in celebration of the Oct. 10 anniversary of the Communist Party\u2019s creation. Meanwhile, the Telegraph <\/a>reports that South Korea has developed a new weapon to hobble the North\u2019s infrastructure should an armed conflict erupt on the peninsula. Given that it’s almost daybreak in North Korea, such a test could happen as soon as Monday night, Eastern Time.<\/p>\n

The weapon is a graphite bomb \u2013 otherwise known as a \u201cblackout bomb\u201d – which South Korean officials say will be capable of shutting down North Korea\u2019s entire power grid.<\/strong> Blackout bombs were first used by the US in Iraq in the 1990 Gulf War and work by releasing a cloud of extremely fine, chemically treated carbon filaments over electrical components. The filaments are so fine that they act like a cloud, but cause short circuits in electrical equipment.<\/p>\n

As News.com.au<\/a> points out, North Korea tends to celebrate the Oct. 10 holiday with military parades and aggressive rhetoric. But this year’s festivities could include new provocative weapons tests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kim regime usually uses these sorts of occasions to demonstrate some show of strength \u2014 in this current climate a missile test is a likely result,\u201d says Dr Genevieve Hohnen, lecturer in politics and international relations at Edith Cowan University.<\/p>\n

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The Telegraph <\/a>reports that the South developed the bomb to minimize civilian casualties in the North should a conflict erupt. In a statement to Yonhap, a military official said the South Korean army could assemble a blackout bomb at any time. The weapon was reportedly developed by South Korea’s Agency for Defense Development.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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South Korea’s New “Blackout Bomb” Can Paralyze The North’s Power Grid US and South Korean officials are nervously watching to see if North Korea follows through with its threats to carry out another nuclear test \u2013 or to fire a rumored long-range missile capable of accurately striking the west coast of the US into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16391,16390,2006,1574,740,4318],"class_list":["post-26637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-blackout-bomb","tag-graphite-bomb","tag-north-korea","tag-power-grid","tag-south-korea","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26638,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions\/26638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}