North Korea's Tsunami bomb

North Korea's Taepodong missiles cannot reach the USA's exposed west coast, but the new longer range missile tested in May can easily hit Hawaii. That's close enough for what Kim's scientist want. According to respected Japanese military analysts North Korea is planning to use it's nuclear missiles to wipe out 17% of USA's GDP in an instant, not by a direct strike but by an indirect strike on Hawaii which can cause a landslide big enough to create a radioactive Tsunami.

"The Tsunami strike as several advantages for North Korean scientists. Firstly Hawaii is much closer to North Korea so the technology to get the missile there is less challenging than reaching Silicon Vally in a single flight. Secondly it avoids the whole problem of getting through America's Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) missile screen which is based at Vandenberg AFB, California and intended to defend against a North Korean or Chinese missile attack. And lastly, the impact is far greater for a given equivalent tonnage of TNT; North Korea's nuclear materials are still too small to build bombs in the 20+ megaton range. We estimate that 12MT is sufficient for the Tsunami attack."