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North Korea, Iran may harbor new threat -U.S.task force


By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea and Iran may be seeking the ability to attack the United States by triggering a nuclear device at high altitude to disrupt vital computer networks, a congressionally mandated task force reported on Thursday.

Looking out 15 years, the panel said the detonation of a nuclear device above the United States "has the potential to hold our society at risk and might result in defeat of our military forces."

U.S. forces are increasingly dependent on digital networks for finding, tracking and killing their foes.

The task force was chartered by the Repulican-controlled Congress to assess the threat from a weapons-generated "electromagnetic pulse," or EMP, that could fry electronics and disrupt financial and other networks.

"Rogue states, such as North Korea and Iran, may also be developing the capability to pose an EMP threat," said the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from

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