I think that it is very unlikely that even if they had a nuclear weapon capable of reaching our shores that they would launch it towards--why would they need to do that if they could simply put a medium-range missile on a ship and launch from that ship anywhere on our West Coast or our East Coast against which we have little defense, and for which we have little capability of determining for certain who was responsible for it?
Bartlett discusses the unlikelihood of North Korea launching a nuclear attack directly.
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