Trump says Rex Tillerson 'wasting his time' with North Korea negotiations

[outlawauron]

JRPGfan said:

outlawauron said:

Surely no one actually think North Korea has anything that can reach California from Pyongyang. No one really thinks that, right?

 

Honestly, I do think trying to reason with North Korea is a waste of time. Hasn't stopped the world from trying for the past several decades.

http://www.newsweek.com/california-preparing-nuclear-attack-north-korea-672018

 

"A 16-page memo issued by the Los Angeles-area Joint Regional Intelligence Center urges officials in the state to "familiarize themselves with their agency's radiological and nuclear emergency response plans," adding preparation will "reduce the number of casualties and enable effective response."

"Last week, dozens of lawmakers gathered in Hawaii for a secret meeting to discuss how they can ready for an attack. The public wasn't invited to the gathering because officials said they didn't "want to spook any of the public." Military experts say a missile could reach the island in 20 minutes if fired from North Korea. "

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/far-can-north-korean-missiles-travel/

 

"In the last two years, however, the North Korean military has stepped up its test launches of a number of new missile variants, demonstrating with the most recent launches that they can travel more than 7,400 miles.

That range is sufficient to put London - which is 5,380 miles from North Korea - within range, with Moscow, Delhi and Sydney also viable targets.

North Korea's most advanced rockets are now also believed to be able to reach virtually all of the continental United States, with only the Florida peninsula presently beyond their range."

 

Testing missiles estimated able to reach 7450 miles away.

"The Hwasong-13 intercontinental ballistic missile that was last tested in October 2016 is understood to have a range of 7,450 miles and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead."

 

 

 

How far is USA - California - Los Angeles from Pyongyang North Korea?

about 5900 miles (according to a google link).

 

So yes, North korea is able to send nukes that reach California.

Estimates are fun, but their missile tests almost always fail or way underperform what they claim to do. While Hawaii is most certainly something that could be targeted (although any missle that would take 20 minutes to land would be shot down well before it reached). There's a bunch of other problems with your post (like how an ICBM =/= nuke), but you really shouldn't given more credit than NK deserves. They're literally several decades behind the curve.