There's no question that North Korea has nuclear bombs, and that is has missiles that place the U.S. mainland, South Korea and Japan within striking distance. But how immediate is that threat?
What to Know About the Range and Capabilities of North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
North Korea said it had launched a Hwasong-15 inter-continental ballistic missile on Saturday to verify the weapon’s reliability and combat readiness of the country’s nuclear forces. It’s one of three kinds of ICBMs the country has developed, along with the Hwasong-14 and Hwasong-17. All three are all liquid-fueled, and North Korea has portrayed them all as nuclear-capable.
A South Korean biennial defense document released last week said that it’s not clear whether the missiles can survive re-entry, because all of North Korea’s ICBM tests have so far been made on high angles. North Korea has so far performed six underground nuclear test explosions to manufacture warheads that it can place on missiles. Outside estimates on the number of North Korean nuclear warheads vary widely, ranging from 20-60 to up to about 115.
The North described its sixth nuclear test, in 2017, as a detonation of a thermonuclear bomb built for ICBMs. It created a tremor that measured 6.3 on the Richter scale, and some studies put its estimated explosive yield at about 50 to 140 kilotons of TNT. In comparison, the pair of atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II — which killed a total of more than 210,000 people — yielded explosions equivalent to about 15 and 20 kilotons of TNT, respectively.
The so-called “tactical” nuclear weapons include what North Korea calls “super-large” 600-millimeter multiple rocket launchers that it tested Monday. South Korea describes the weapon as a short-range missile system.
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