we re looking for the range, the altitude of the launch and the types of information. what north korea does is shoot a bullet almost straight up to get as high as it can and then when it returns down to earth, you can imagine, even though it didn t go that far across theth ks becau earth because it wen so high it, it actually wen quite at far range. the scientist working on the open source indicates that it s probably around 6600 kilometers, which would put alaska in range of north korea s icbm. did we were just discussing this here with bruce bennet. what do we know about the capability in terms of nuclear, putting a furk yar tipped warhead on such of thing?
this is somebody who can work out his grandfather asked his military leaders in 1993 when there was a first nuclear crisis warks do we do if we fight the americans and relose. his father says if we lose i d be sure to destroy the earth. what good is the earth without north korea. well, he can t destroy the earth with only nuclear weapons but he can do a lot of damage. you got the chinese who want there to be dialogue. you got a new south korean president would like there to be dialogue. in talks that have happened they re not that interesting in dialogue. then you got the u.s. saying that they re looking at military options. is there a good military option? one imagines there is not. the problem is people talking about lest go do a surgical strike. we look at the surgical strike that was done at turkey with the