{"id":31258,"date":"2018-02-19T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31258"},"modified":"2018-02-19T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:30:04","slug":"the-emp-threat-how-it-works-and-what-it-means-for-the-korean-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31258","title":{"rendered":"The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauldineconomics.com\/this-week-in-geopolitics\/the-emp-threat-how-it-works-and-what-it-means-for-the-korean-crisis\">The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"date\">\n<\/header>\n<p>Before we begin with this week\u2019s installment of <em>This Week in Geopolitics<\/em>, I want to draw your attention to the 2018 Strategic Investment Conference. Last year at the SIC, I said the United States would likely launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea. I failed to anticipate the level of opposition from South Korea, which would bear the brunt of the casualties in such an attack. Without South Korea\u2019s support, the US reconsidered its position. No attack came.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I would like it if GPF were right about everything. Our track record is pretty good, but in this case, we were wrong. Still, I view this as the reason the SIC is such a valuable conference. The SIC\u2019s greatest asset is how it brings together thinkers with profoundly different viewpoints to discuss the most important issues in the world today\u2014people who aren\u2019t afraid to tell you what they think, or to admit when they were wrong. I\u2019m honored to be speaking once more at the SIC, where the theme for the year ahead is \u201cCrossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, the world is at a crossroads. The post-2008 financial crisis \u201crecovery\u201d has not curbed speculation or reduced inequality. It has not halted the rise of political instability in the world\u2019s most important countries. As Europe celebrates what 10 years ago would have been meager growth rates\u2014and as the US celebrates sky-high stock prices one day only to watch them fall the next\u2014the world stands on a precipice where the choices seem to be imminent chaos or delayed crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis Before we begin with this week\u2019s installment of This Week in Geopolitics, I want to draw your attention to the 2018 Strategic Investment Conference. Last year at the SIC, I said the United States would likely launch a pre-emptive attack on [&hellip;]<\/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":[4022,1914,4218,7758,2006,2583,18718],"class_list":["post-31258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-electro-magnetic-pulse","tag-emp","tag-george-friedman","tag-mauldin-economics","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-phillip-orchard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31258","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=31258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31259,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31258\/revisions\/31259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}