That’s a real act of war.
Imagine if NK landed a missile a couples mile or so off Hawaii shores?
This is no different.
The Exclusive Economic Zone is not the same as territorial waters. It’s still international waters and can extend to 200 miles from shore.
Looks like North Korea has an ICBM. If they put a thermonuclear warhead on it, then North Korea could do an EMP (Electro Magnetic Propulsion) attack above the U.S. that would knock out the entire electrical grid system.
It would not matter if your electronics are plugged in or not. They would all be destroyed. It would take years to rebuild it.
Within a 7 days all the food in the grocery stores would go bad. Within 3 to 4 weeks there would be chaos in the streets. Certainly in the cities. They would be death traps. P
Hopefully, measurements are being accelerated to protect the grid. It is my understanding that this is taking place per President Trump order. President Obama never did it.