Can North Korea successfully shoot an EMP type missile at the USA with successful atmosphere missile reentry?

North Korea launched an ICBM also known as their newly upgraded HWASONG-15 Wednesday (Tuesday in the U.S.) this intercontinental ballistic missile should focus our attention on the threat of the rogue nation that could potentially launch an electromagnetic pulse attack that could wipe out the electric power grid serving millions of people in the U.S. and Canada!

Many analysts took note that the missile looked like the American Titan II, which was initially an ICBM but was then later used by the U.S. Air Force and NASA as a space launch vehicle.

The transporter erecter launcher, or TEL, has nine axles, making it one axle longer than the TEL used to launch the previous iteration of the intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korea claims to have made these trucks itself, but a lot more analysts believe they are modified versions or based on the Chinese lumber truck, the WS51200.

We've seen heavy vehicle extensions before, but this would this would be a very large step forward for their heavy vehicles industry, estimating this truck is about twice the size of an American school bus, it took the Chinese a while to figure that out! LOOK BELOW

Looking at the nose cone of the Hwasong-15 it is much blunter than that of the previous iteration, the Hwasong-14. This is likely an effort to slow down the missile slightly as it screams through the atmosphere (missile reentry), which lowers the heat inside the missile and means that the warhead doesn’t have to withstand quite as much variation in temperature during flight. HWASONG-14 LOOK BELOW

The HWASONG-15 might be an effort to overcome issues with the reentry vehicle the part of the missile that protects the warhead during launch and brings it back into the Earth’s atmosphere. This is one of the parts of the missile that North Korea has not yet proven it has mastered YET. BUT time is running out, as officials say! The size of the nose cone and reentry vehicle on the Hwasong-15, made North Korea’s claim that the missile can carry a “super large heavy warhead.” But most experts think the missile tested this week was carrying a light, mock warhead.

The Hwasong-14 and 15 missiles are likely to have carried only very small payloads, which exaggerate the range that a North Korean missile can fly, the heavier the warhead, the shorter the distance it can travel.

If the Hwasong-15 was fitted with a half-ton payload and flown on a standard trajectory, it could probably fly about 5,300 miles, meaning that a 600 kilogram (1,320 pound) payload “barely reaches Seattle.”

With its publication of photos of this huge reentry vehicle, Kim’s regime is clearly signaling that this is its ultimate goal, and he wont ever stop till it's achieved regardless of sanctions done by other countries!

The first stage of the Hwasong-15, the bottom part that propels it off the launcher, sometimes called the “booster” has two engines. There is a union of concerned scientists trying to figure out how really powerful these engines are. PIC OF ENGINE is BELOW

The second stage looks like it can carry more than twice as much propellant as the Hwasong-14, since it is longer and has a larger diameter, the combination of those two things means it really is a new, more capable missile.

These addition of two engines doubled the second stage thrust and allows the missile to reach a higher peak altitude, the HWASONG-15 missile reached a height of about 2,800 miles, or 10 times as high as the International Space Station.

The Hwasong-14 had only one nozzle, and it used four vernier engines to steer the missile. But the newly unveiled Hwasong-15 has two nozzles and no verniers. This really does suggest that the missile is steered by gimbaling, a more advanced way to control the missile.

When will Kim Jung Un be able to shoot an emp missile at the USA with successful atmosphere missile reentry? Only time will tell, and time is running out now, as Donald Trump tweets about Kim Jung UN on Twitter!