How North Korea Could Cripple the U.S.

This article was in today's Wall Street Journal;

North Korea needs only one ICBM capable of delivering a single nuclear warhead in order to pose an existential threat to the U.S. The Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse Commission, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission and several other U.S. government studies have established that detonating a nuclear weapon high above any part of the U.S. mainland would generate a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse.

An EMP attack would collapse the electric grid and other infrastructure that depends on it—communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water—necessary to sustain modern civilization and the lives of 300 million Americans.

EMP effects can be made more powerful and more catastrophic by using an Enhanced Radiation Warhead. This is a low-yield nuclear weapon designed not to create a devastating explosion, but to emit large amounts of radiation, including the gamma rays that generate the EMP effect that fries electronics.

The EMP Commission warns that, "Certain types of relatively low-yield nuclear weapons can be employed to generate potentially catastrophic EMP effects over wide geographic areas, and designs for variants of such weapons may have been illicitly trafficked for a quarter-century." An EMP attack could plunge our electricity-powered civilization into a blackout lasting months or years.

Here;  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578455451910706908.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Holy black out!!  What would happen to our country if it went without electricity for months or years?  Riots, crime, no water, no food, no one getting to jobs, no access to bank accounts or financial markets....the entire country would look like an Armageddon battlefield within a week.

The article goes on to say that NK has shown the ability to launch missiles and satellites over the South Pole...meaning that any missile they launch at us could come from the south...and we have NO MISSILE DEFENSE to defend ourselves from a southern attack.

I can tell you one thing for sure....if this did happen, Americans would forget about American Idol, the NFL, the NHL, the NBA, The Voice, new stadiums, Cancun vacations, road trips to the Black Hills, new snowmobiles, bigger houses, new pick up trucks and basically 99.9% of the things that Americans currently believe to be "important".

I can tell you another thing for sure...if this did happen, Americans would start calling out to God to help them or even to save them.

We humans don't want or believe we need God when the blessings are sitting in every Walmart all over the country...so maybe the BEST THING for our ETERNAL HEALTH would be for NK to wipe out America and send us back into the stone age?  Maybe then we would seek the Lord before the trumpet blows?  Maybe then millions of Americans will realize they need a Savior and will accept Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom?

If we knew this would happen....shouldn't we, as a church, be praying for hardship to come to America so that people will wake up and accept Christ before their chance is eternally lost?