North Korea's missiles have a range of starting from 150 kilometres to upwards of 10,400 kilometres.
In another belligerent act of defiance, North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday at its Punggye-ri test site.
Even before a formal announcement came from Pyongyang, Japanese and South Korean meteorologists had figured out what the hermit nation was up to after a shallow earthquake was detected near the test site.
The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 6.3 on the Richter scale – this was around 10 times more powerful than what had occurred during its previous detonations.
A report by North Korea’s state-run news agency KCNA later said that its hydrogen bomb test was "true to the Workers' Party of Korea's plan for building a strategic nuclear force".
North Korea’s hunger for power is evident and it does have nuclear weapons in its arsenal. But how dangerous is the threat?