First off, what did Kim Jong Un have to do with that? I mean, other then having his father die while the military was working on this. Secondly, I assume you m

First off, what did Kim Jong Un have to do with that? I mean, other then having his father die while the military was working on this. Secondly, I assume you mean 'hit the western US' in the same way a blind hog finds an acorn. That rocket couldn't put a satellite into a stable orbit for the same reason NK's rocket program is described as a long list of failures - they can't reliably put anything anywhere after lighting the fuse. http://gizmodo.com/5968007/north-korea-satellite-out-of-control-why-this-is-very-bad-news http://gizmodo.com/5968007/north-korea-satellite-out-of-cont... So even after this, they're still not any more or less a danger then they were.