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Here is a site that talks about why you would want to detonate them at altitude, and why the ones we fired were actually detonated that way.

The altitude, if I understand correctly, that is optimal for a nuke increases in direct proportion to the yield of the nuke. Higher the yield, higher the altitude for optimal effect.

Considering that a 120 kilo nuke (what we infer NK has), is about 10x the power of the nukes used on japan last time, the altitude for optimal effectiveness would be seriously high, basically meaning you would actually not see any reduction in effectiveness by detonating it at any height pretty much, in fact the higher the better.

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/12/06/trouble-airbursts/
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