Everyone is getting whipped up by the media and Trumps tweets, calm down. This hysteria is nonsense and downright dangerous.
Too many headline readers are completely ignorant of the NK capabilities. NK must be having a big laugh at all our headlines.
The most powerful NK missile, only in theory, could reach about Kansas City, with no payload bigger than a jar of kimchee.
They would have to have another missile stage added on to provide more fuel in boost.
Their best missiles so far are all truck launched. They dont have a truck big enough for a bigger missile. If they did, a bigger heavier missile would get damaged joyriding around NK.
They would have to go to a silo launch with onsite liquid fueling. Thats what every other nuclear power does that wants nukes delivered.
NK has no silos, if they did we would know. Also, all of their orbital apogee missiles have burned up on re-entry, they dont have adequate heat shields, yet.
Lets all calm down.
Are you suggesting we wait for all those elements to be in place before we act forcefully?
Or before we notify them of the consequences of developing a nuclear strike threat to the US mainland?
No. We should confront this situation now. And we should do so stridently and clearly.
Remember, Iran and others are watching.