though, which is that the press covers all of this. and a lot of the public statements from public officials make it sound as if we can't effectively don't really need to worry about north korea's ballistic missile capability unless and until they can have an intercontinental missile that can reach the united states. and have accurate reentry and all of what it needs. i don't think that's the case and i think most serious students of these matters would agree that they could put a scud missile, and a scud is essentially a modern version of the world war ii and most of the countries have them. they put a scud missile on a container ship, pull into a harbor or a bay on the coast and launch it up into lower orbit, 50, 100, 200, 300 miles up into