[Occupymendocino] President Trump Deserves World Encouragement to End the Korean War

[Lewallen]

President Trump Deserves World Encouragement to End the Korean War

--by John Lewallen <www.avoidingnuclearwar.com>

                President Trump deserves the enthusiastic support of
everyone for his stated intention to declare an end to the Korean War at his
Feb. 27 meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. The raw fact is that
two major nuclear-armed powers, the United States and North Korea, are at
war, a relic of the Cold War with no basic conflict of interest between the
two nations today. This ongoing war in 2017 nearly led to a North Korean
high-altitude nuclear explosion which could damage or destroy the electronic
central nervous system of modern civilization worldwide, no matter where
above the Earth the blast happens.

                There are some presidential decisions which are essential
for human survival no matter who is president, and ending the Korean War is
one of them. North and South Korea are eager to end the war which began in
1950, and are opening many avenues of cooperation. We all became safer on
June 12, 2018, when President Trump and Kim Jong-Un began talks based on
their common interest in "peace and prosperity," ending a  dangerous
exchange of attack threats between the two nations.

                The peace talks began after North Korea tested a powerful
H-bomb underground on Sept.3, 2017, immediately announcing that it could now
make a high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. This was
shortly followed by Kim Jong-Un's threat to make the first high-altitude
H-bomb explosion since the 1960s. Such a blast, if done in space above the
Earth's atmosphere, would destroy unprotected computer chips on Earth, in
space, and in the atmosphere over a huge area with unpredictable worldwide
consequences.

                Today there is a "New Face of Nuclear War," nuclear EMP
warfare, which will be discussed for the first time ever in the United
Nations at a workshop on April 29, 2019, to which I have been invited to
make a presentation. I've been studying and writing about nuclear EMP for
several years. I believe President Trump's strategy of long-term peace talks
with North Korea are saving us all from a very real risk of nuclear EMP war.


Simply stated, the entire world civilization is now completely
interconnected and dependent on a computerized electronic network, which is
vulnerable to the EMP which would be generated by a high-altitude nuclear
explosion of any size. A strong EMP explosion about 200 miles up could
destroy electronic civilization nationwide below the blast, also destroying
satellite electronics in line of sight, and "super-charging" the Van Allen
Belt in space with damaging electrons which persist for years. It's a
suicidal and omnicidal use of nuclear bombs, threatening to destroy the
electronics on which we all depend, without initially hurting anyone.

Fortunately, a dedicated group of nuclear weapons scientists acting as the
Congressional EMP Commission <www.firstempcommission.org> have been studying
and warning the nation about nuclear EMP for years. They were able to go
directly to President Trump in 2017, cutting through the denial,
disinformation, and coverup which still are confusing the public and
preventing us from using all our powers and talents to deal with this basic
danger.

                With North Korea, Trump is doing the right thing, ending
attack threats and stopping mock invasion "war games" on the Korean
peninsula. Ending the Korean War is essential to achieve the U.S. goal of a
de-nuclearized Korean peninsula. It may also save the world from the
unimaginable catastrophe of nuclear EMP warfare. 

Tragically, the U.S. has been increasing nuclear threat confrontation
against other nations, especially Russia and China, increasing the risk that
the U.S. might suffer nuclear attack either by an accidental launch or a
deliberate pre-emptive nuclear EMP strike by a nation fearing that a
crippling U.S. first-strike against them is imminent. If Trump acts now to
reduce nuclear threats against Russia and China, I really will sleep a lot
easier, and President Trump truly will deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.  

 

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