Pyongyang is a modern city, the city where Kim loves to parade his military down the street. Well over 2 million people who lack the skills to live off the land and all confined in a condensed area.
Pyongyang skyline
Even if they had the hunter gatherers skills of our ancestors, the land does not hold enough resources to replenish itself once grocery stores are depleted. A lot of trucks that are not built to MIL-STD would no longer be able to deliver food to stores. A lot of refrigerators not built to MIL-STD would no longer preserve food past a few days. Etc. etc. etc. not built to MIL-STD. A domino affect would ripple and their accustomed lifestyle would grind to a halt within days.
Their military, our military or anyone's military can be hardened, but I would say being completely invulnerable an unsafe assumption. It would be like saying we are bullet proof against solar flares.
The news keep talking about NK developing ICBMs armed with nuclear tips, however such missiles capable of reaching the edge of the atmosphere are the vehicle delivery systems needed to give EMPs the altitude necessary to distribute and amplify their pulse over large enough areas to induce cataclysms. Targeting poor farmers spread out in the countryside just does not have the effect needed to take up more than a paragraph in history books, unlike wiping out entire cities, cultural heritage sites or enough numbers of dead to be labeled an atrocity.
Pyongyang skyline
Even if they had the hunter gatherers skills of our ancestors, the land does not hold enough resources to replenish itself once grocery stores are depleted. A lot of trucks that are not built to MIL-STD would no longer be able to deliver food to stores. A lot of refrigerators not built to MIL-STD would no longer preserve food past a few days. Etc. etc. etc. not built to MIL-STD. A domino affect would ripple and their accustomed lifestyle would grind to a halt within days.
Their military, our military or anyone's military can be hardened, but I would say being completely invulnerable an unsafe assumption. It would be like saying we are bullet proof against solar flares.
The news keep talking about NK developing ICBMs armed with nuclear tips, however such missiles capable of reaching the edge of the atmosphere are the vehicle delivery systems needed to give EMPs the altitude necessary to distribute and amplify their pulse over large enough areas to induce cataclysms. Targeting poor farmers spread out in the countryside just does not have the effect needed to take up more than a paragraph in history books, unlike wiping out entire cities, cultural heritage sites or enough numbers of dead to be labeled an atrocity.