State emergency planners have released their first public service announcement related to North Korea preparedness, a nonthreatening 30-second video that doesn’t specifically mention the rogue nation or remote possibility of a nuclear attack on Hawaii.

The PSA opens with Hawaii Emergency Management Administrator Vern Miyagi in a park with trees and guitar music playing in the background.

“Emergency preparedness is knowing what to expect and what to do for all hazards,” Miyagi says. “Those include hurricanes, tsunamis and, even though the probability is low, an attack or terror incident.”

Every household should have a plan and an emergency kit with 14 days of food and water, he advises. Hawaii Emergency Management encourages families to “be resilient” and “know where to go, know what to do and when to do it,” he adds.

A North Korean missile would arrive in 20 minutes, leaving little time to find ideal shelter, officials say. A 100-kiloton nuclear explosion at 1,140 feet above Honolulu would kill an estimated 155,900 people and injure 139,000, according to Alex Wellerstein, an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey who studies nuclear weapons.

That video is expected to be followed by another in early November that will talk about and include a sample of the “attack” wavering-tone siren that is planned to be tested for the first time Dec. 1.

From then on, the attack warning siren will be paired with the usual steady-tone alert tests that are conducted on the first business day of each month, state officials said. The steady-tone siren is sounded in the event of a hurricane or tsunami.

The initial PSA, which started airing Tuesday on local TV stations and is on the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website, is part of an increasing public information effort.

A state preparedness presentation for the public will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nov. 4 at Building 303 in Diamond Head Crater. The building is at the second right once through the tunnel and into the crater.

“In light of recent concerns regarding North Korean nuclear missiles and missile tests, HI-EMA will discuss what the agency is doing to prepare our state for the nuclear threat, what efforts (are) being conducted between the counties and what steps it is taking to educate the public and our community,” a release said.

The North Korean threat to Hawaii is deemed to be “low,” but the U.S. estimation of the North’s nuclear weapons program is continuously evolving with each new missile test and detonation.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo was asked at a national security forum Thursday whether North Korea is very close to perfecting the elements needed to hit the United States with a nuclear missile.

“It is the case that they are close enough now in their capabilities that from a U.S. policy perspective, we ought to behave as if we are on the cusp of them achieving that objective,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo also said it was one thing to think about how to stop North Korea from being “able to deliver a single missile along a certain set of trajectories to a certain destination,” and another to consider the North developing a “truly robust capability” to deliver nuclear weapons.

With North Korean missile advances, more of the United States — and not just Hawaii and Alaska — is believed to be in range. But Hawaii is still seen as an attractive target.

“It is closer and less well-defended than the continental U.S., and is home to U.S. Pacific Command and its five component commands,” retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Fig” Leaf, a former Pacific Command deputy commander, said in an opinion piece that ran Tuesday in Real Clear Defense and the National Interest.

“A successful attack against Hawaii would have a crippling effect on the U.S. response to North Korean aggression. It must be at or near or at the top of a list of potential targets of the DPRK,” Leaf said in a reference to North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

To learn more, visit ready.hawaii.gov.