If I was a Nork, I’d be targeting Pearl Harbor, Long Beach, San Diego, the tar sands area in west Canada and the oil infrastructure in Alaska, and maybe a few nuclear reactors in California.
But then again, I’m not a Nork, and I doubt they’d be that savvy.
It is unlikely that they currently have enough nukes and missiles that can reach that far. Indeed I doubt if they launched against us now that they would have more than a few most of which would fall into the sea, the rest of which we have a good chance of shooting down with Bush’s missile defense system.
Realistically thou we have already passed the point where we can confidently protect our States 4 to 6 years ago, and are in the next 4 to 6 years going to pass the point where we can protect much of our country at all from North Korea’s Nuclear blackmail.
That said as long as the regime fears our nuclear retaliation they are not likely to press the button that will end in their own destruction until such time that they are collapse otherwise. Unfortunately for north Korea that is a almost constant compassion due to incompetent Communist leadership which the government attempts to forestall by blackmailing its neighbors for external materiel support.
Its hard to imagine them not using the nukes as a bargaining chip effectively making us a tributary state or just selling them to a terrorist for cash to keep themselves afloat longer, all the while they build more.