It is an observation. Bad news is news, good news is no news. Headlines are made that way. If a cure is found for cancer, it won't be as interesting as the death of a million people. If the choice came between these two stories as top billing, which one do you think would receive it? Is there any doubt?
That's why I am skeptical whenever I hear really scary news, like a EMP device. Not that some wacko may have one of these, and even use it. But the odds of this actually being deployed in any meaningful way seems doubtful. The more likely thing would be for the Koreans to sell the technology to someone else. Or to try to blackmail the USA into paying them not to deploy it. This kind of thing has worked for them before. Why not try it again?
What can you do about such a device if it exists? All things considered, any advanced power can already make one. If someone wants to do this, it is already possible, if I am not mistaken. By Murphy's Law, therefore, if it can exist, it probably already does.
What can you do about it, then? If there are meaningful countermeasures, then that is what should be pursued. Frankly, I don't know enough to know what that might be.
If, by any chance, this is already covered, it then wouldn't be news anymore, now would it?
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