I wonder if they could go the next step and make it fall back on Mr Kim's compound --then he'd suspect one of two things, his own people were trying to get him or-- as adversary had critically compromised his systems. Both scenarios would be equally devastating for his goals.

Scuttling them at sea is nice and all --having them go up and straight back down would present the regime with quite a problem.

That seems to be a preferable approach since space lasers would require allowing NK to build a functional missile in the first place. If it is possible to sabotage the actual design at some critical point they can be prevented from creating functional missiles at all.

It also seems crazy to me that we'd be successful at sabotage 88% of the time