[JeffersonRepublic.com]

[That's exactly what I was thinking. NK is supposed to test fire a missile...what if they armed it and launched it at the battle group? Not much of a chance they'd do that, but...why give them such a fat, juicy target?]

Blahahaha! NK wouldn't try to sink a few Navy ships with a nuke. If they did, their country would be a glowing pile of glass... they know this.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The advantage of the carrier task force(s) is that they Can move from an aimpoint to a miss point very very quickly.

Assume a max speed of 40 knots - and they can go quicker in an emergency. It takes about a half hour for a missile from NK to land in the southern/mid pacific Pacific area, so you'd get a half-hour warning, 2 minute message and transmit time, and be (more than) 20 nautical miles from the (previously assumed) aiming point - which would be about 10 miles in front of the photo-op position anyway - since the KN's would have to aim for a moving target.

Biggest problem would be finding out that the damned KN fire control and missile flight ops and missile recovery and ballistic re-entry calculations stunk and they accidentally missed the real target and landed on you as you tried to evade the original intended target position!