North Korea Doesn’t Need an Accurate Guidance System to Cause Severe Damage to U.S.: He Just Needs to Get His Missiles Above the U.S. Mainland and Then Detonate the Bombs While They’re Still in Flight and EMP Will Do the Rest

The North Koreans don’t need to hit any American cities with their nukes to cause substantial damage to the U.S. infrastructure.    All the little runt needs to do is get his missiles above the U.S. and then detonate them at high altitude, and the resulting electromagnetic pulse will do the actual damage.

I don’t know what kind of altitude is needed to achieve maximum effect; the military types are better at answering these kinds of questions.  The only thing they may be missing is a way to have the warhead survive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to get to the correct altitude to detonate.

North Korea’s weapons yields are estimated to be between 5 and 30 kilotons so far.  These are more suited for battlefield use, unless one is trying to put an enemy’s home territory at risk in a rush.  The North Koreans are definitely in a rush to put the U.S. within ICBM range.  

I think war is inevitable, unless one of North Korea’s generals puts a bullet into Little Kim’s skull.   He really needs to be in the Hague to answer charges of crimes against humanity for what he’s done to his own people.

He probably won’t survive a conflict with the United States.   But how much damage could he do to his neighbors and to us before he goes away?