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With a vertical. >> yes. >> with the ultimate goal of more of a horizontal flight. they just want to see without getting in too much trouble how high they can go. >> and they were also testing heat shielding. they need to protect the nose cone as it reenters the atmosphere. heat shielding is thought to be the last major technical hurdle for the north koreans to be able to land a nuke in the u.s. so thats why the defense intelligence agency said look, were no longer talking three or four years be...

>> molly: to wrap things up, i want to talk about the seriousness of the situation. some analysts have said they dont believe they are as close to shrinking down a nuclear warhead. on that timeline, where do you think we stand? >> about a year and a half before they were able to put a bomb on a missile, the only thing they have been able to do is figure out the heat shielding but the test on may 12th and also the one on july 4th, those were heat shielding tests because they shot it very high int...

Months because theyve got the heat shielding which they have tested and they have all the other components. they could put it together really, really quickly. >> thank you both very much. very scary. thats how much it has changed. president trump about to sit down with world leaders with this great shadow and including one, an ally that has hired someone just to look at trumps tweets and russia demanding the united states return this. it is a mlt million dollar compound. trump is considering giv...

Its neighbors. its cheaper to pay them off than it is to allow the korean peninsula to explode. thats been the formula before and it only worked as long as north korea was never really a full threat to the continental united states. that is changing. >> how close are we to it being a threat? ive heard various reports of 18 months, two years. where are you on that? >> that sounds about right. you know, if you go back just a month ago, people were saying like me three or four years. but they devel...

Establishment has always taken the u.s. as a constant and right now theyre very concerned about where u.s. policy is going. now, i think that right now were in a position where every solution going forward is going to be ugly, and so there are no-cost solutions. but at the same time, i think trump needs to be much clearer in laying out the roadmap not only to the keyes and the russians but also to our friend and allies in the region, because if theres a solution, that solution also runs through ...

Atmosphere. it only went about 410 miles or so, but that didnt matter. it went 1,300 miles into the sky and when it came back down it simulated what would happen when a war head was launched at the united states and so it looks like theyve got their heat shielding done. this is something they wouldnt know if theyve been able to do. all they need to do is add a little bit more range to their longest range missiles and they can hold us to ran some. >> how do you think that this changes any diploma...

>> i think what the north koreans are trying to say is that all of those aircraft carriers that the u.s. is bringing into position, theyre saying we can shoot down your planes. it was announced just a few days ago that the nimitz is being diverted. and you will have three aircraft carriers around north korea. theyre saying we can shoot down your planes. >> this is a third sunday weve seen a missile test. they report the weapons system is improving because of defects that they witnessed last year...

Its a hold right now. >> shepard: practically speaking, im curious to find out what will happen if they make a sixth test. even the chinese have warned them. >> the chinese have and will pose more pressure on them. the ball is in president trumps court. north korea wont get the ability to land a nuke on u.s. he has three or four years to stop them. >> shepard: where do we get that number? >> thats the number of years it would take for north korea to develop the technology, the heat shielding to ...

Heat shielding for their longest range missiles. >> youve said off camera this could feasibly hit the lower 48. >> the new one, yes. it could probably reach someplace like seattle or so. we just dont know. at this point, weve got to be concerned that they are making much more progress than weve given them credit for. >> what would north korea want from the u.s. in order to de-escalate? >> north korea wants deterrence. its unlikely that kim jong-un would give us his nuclears and missiles. but nor...

>> our understanding is, weve used cyber warfare. it could be responsible for the reason some of these have gone off course of late. what do we know? >> all we know is "the new york times" reporting. that is sort of sketchy. they didnt want to release a number of details, this is like what the united states and israel did against the iranian nuclear program. i mean, we destroyed and disabled their centrifuges. we did the same thing with their missiles. this gives us a little bit of time. four ye...