For today’s test of Barack Obama, North Korea has released plans for its ballistic missile launch. McKittrick has constructed a map of the flight path.

Connecting the dots between the launch site (orange triangle) and the two danger zones where the two stages will splash (red triangles), we can see where the missle could head —- again, according to the North Koreans themselves:

They indeed plan to overfly Japan, shedding the first booster in the Sea of Japan.

Depending on the range of the missile, the trajectory is making a bee-line for Hawaii.