The Rogue Warrior series mixed reality with fiction long before I snuck aboard, and Dick still goes to great lengths to make sure the "real world" factor is high. So it wasn't exactly a surprise to see that developments in Korea are paralleling . . . kind of . . . the plot of the next book.
There are a lot of instances, though, where things have to be fictionalized not because they'll make a better story that way, but because people just won't believe real life. In Rogue Warrior Vengeance, for example, all of the scenarios involving Homeland Security are based on real life. Some of the failures, however, had to be fictionalized to make things seem more difficult than they really were . . . because . . . people would have a shit fit if they knew how easy it really is to cause major mayhem.
So read the book now and be afraid; be very afraid.
And yes, we do back off on the details and in some cases use misdirection to protect "the family jewels." You won't find the precise directions for constructing a nuke in any of the books. For that you have to go on the internet . . .
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