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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
North Korea can simply put a small nuclear warhead in a gun round and fire it a far as possible towards the south.
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No they can't. The bombs North Korea tested are huge. Like the bombs we dropped on Japan. They can't fit in any normal sized gun. They are even too big to put on a rocket. The only way they could deliver them would be by medium bomber like a Il-28 'BEAGLE'.
EDIT: Also the poorly made bomb they got wouldn't do much damage. The 2nd test they made was in the 2 kT range (By design the bomb should have been in the 20 kT range). 2 kT is sufficient to destroy a single hardened target or a moderately sided installation; for example it could mostly destroy the ROKN base at Inchon, a major airbase like at Cheonan, but it is not going to obliterate all of Seoul. Sounds great for a tactical weapon but the bombs they tested were meant to be strategic weapons.