[dingaling]

1. On paper the Trident D-5 can hit North Korea whilst the SSBNs are sitting in dock in Washington state.

That's probably an unrealistic range with a useful payload, but there's certainly no need to cross the Pacific.

2. "As of 2016, nine Trident-armed submarines are deployed in the Pacific and five in the Atlantic."

[nikdaheratik]

1. Yes, but they would still need to cross further into the Pacific if they wanted to reach NK without passing over Russia. The slides showed more or less the issue with the angles needed for that.

2. You may be right, I'm not an expert on deployment locations, of course a source would still be nice.