fire their missiles straight up and they do that so they don t fly over japan. and so we see how far that missile would have flown. but we start modelinging the missile, how big it is, how much it weighs and how far powerful an engine it is. it looks a lot more like it could hilt l.a. or perhaps new york than just alaska. so the icbms are they capable of delivering nuclear armed weapons? oh, yes, yes, the thing about nuclear weapons is they re smaller than conventional explosives, so if a missile could carry a few hundred kilograms less than 1,000 pounds then it s going to have no trouble delivering a nuclear weapon. so right now you think north korea is capable of firing a nuclear weapon and hilting