"The Macy fireworks reach 1,000 feet at their peak . On Macy's 4th July , height is related to 3x the height of the Statue of Liberty." "The tallest building in HK is 2IFC, which is 1,362 feet high. The bursts at Chinese New Year in 2005 were way above all the buildings, and had a diameter of roughly the height of the building. I'm thinking the best part of 2/3 of a mile ." South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled around 1,677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles. So 5700 firework rockets @ $100 would do it, dropping off dead rockets in sequence. $ .57m .
The Korea Meteorological Administration estimated that the nuclear blast yield of the presumed test was between 50 to 60 kilotons.
"This puts TNT at $10.4k/ton: very close to the $16.8k/ton marginal cost of an equivalent energy from Mark 3 nuclear weapons ." 60ktons of TNT would be $624,000,000 .

So the total checkout is $625m for bundle of rockets and ground blast. That's good value.

So much moral certainty Killarney? And you defend it an it's truly abominable record!?

You'd think you of all bleeding hearts, would be incredibly troubled by the sheer number of emaciated North Koreans in North Korean gulags at the behest of a mass murdering monster, killing/murdering/ disappearing, just to remain in power!

It's not as if this mass murdering monster and his saner forbear, hasn't been offered far more benign solutions and power sharing reunification, with the progress and prosperity that would confer.

Along with all the technical and medical advances that would come with it! Along with protective regional autonomy!

And the very last thing China, with a problematic human rights and sovereign nation annexation record wants!

The only thing that will end this decades long nightmare for imprisoned/enslaved millions, is war!

An preferably if possible as a surprise surprise, limited surgical strike to remove this malignant power junkie, who dreams of world domination!

Preferably,before he's able to realize any part of a nightmare scenario that could literally signal/usher in armageddon?

Two thirds of the world's population, live north of the equator! And arguably, the principal ones in the cross hairs of armageddon?

If this, smiling, baby faced, brother butchering (Cain slew Abel) assassin, is not stopped, permanently!
Alan B.

Poor, old , united states. They really tried to win in 1953 and really tried with Vietnam . Then the Kim family rockets started and the window slowly closed. Herr Junker Jong-Un learned from Socialist comrade Hitler and doesn't have fixed missile bunkers. North Korea can be cooked in boiling oil but who can be sure a couple of missiles won't get to Trump land?

Is that right NNN ( AKA Alan B ) your sprung you queer C*...

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Alan B

OK. Let's destroy a country in order to save it. We've been down this road many times. One day they'll thank us, because we are the good guys.