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Interesting to get chinas perspective in all of this in terms of the way the containment from north korea be will go. north korea has engaged in a series of nuclear provocations over past year. in january 2016, it said it conducted an underground nuclear test claiming it successfully detonated the countrys first hydrogen bomb. >> the regime test fired a number you have ballistic missiles the most successful taking place back in june. the missile fell be 400 kilometers. in august, pyongyang had...

Welcome back to "newsroom." recapping news this hour, north korea has test fired another ballistic missile. sources report it was launched from that nations north. it traveled a little more than 300 miles, some 500 kilometers and landed in the japan known as the east sea. a u.s. military spokesman says it was either a medium or intermediate range ballistic missile. >> the latest provocation from pyongyang has been condemned by south korea and japan. shinzo abe called it absolutely intolerable. h...

Again fairly predictable they would do something like this. what are they waiting for in terms of a reaction? is it more waiting to see what the u.s. reaction would be to be this? be. >> well, i would say dprks testing of the missile this time is another violation of the united nations security council resolution. and china together with all the other major stakeholders would condemn. this violation from the chinese perspective, china is joining in full steam the sanctions imposed on dprk by the...

Tougher measures. and theyll theral probably be a u.n. resolution at some point. but if we step back from all of that which is, you know, set theater as i say, what strikes me about it is, the north koreans test, they test a missile. its not a test of an icbm, an intercontinental ballistic missile like they threatened to do. this strikes me and based on what i know about friends having conversations with north koreans as pushing a little bit but not too much and sort of waiting to see what presi...

Security council resolutions. you heard the prime minister echoing that call tonight. he also said ta during the summit with president trump, trump assured him that the united states will always come to japans defense. and said that the president and he completely share the view that we are going to promote further cooperation between the two nations and also we are going to further reinforce our alliance. after the prime minister spoke, president trump took to the podium and delivered a very br...

Protesters. take a look on the streets. security officials say seven other people people were injured in the unrest. the demonstrators were followers of a shiite cleric and protesting alleged corruption in iraqs election commission. and, of course, back to breaking news. north koreas test of a ballistic missile on saturday was just the latest of many in recent years but it was the first on u.s. president donald trumps watch. and it was done as japanese prime minister shinzo abe was on a state ...

Officials believe the test was either a medium range intermediate range ballistic missile. it traveled just over 300 miles. take a look at this map. about 500 kilometers represented by the number one red line. >> north korea has missiles that can reach, and i want you to pay special attention to the graph and why it makes people so jittery. missiles that can reach as far as line three. its striving for an intercontinental missile like you heard matt describe that can reach lines four and five. a...

>> athene fla jones, thank you. for more on north koreas missile launch were joined by matt rivers live this hour following the story. what more are you hearing from seoul, south korea? >> reporter: what were hearing from defense officials here in south korea is that this is the kind of test that they have seen many, many times before, frankly. this isnt the test that many people were expecting given what we had heard from kim jong-un in his new years day address where he talked about north kore...

So the icbm was definitely a real threat. so initially when this test first came out, we were waiting for clarification from defense officials what kind of test it was. this is just an intermediate range missile tested for a long time now even since the 1990s. a bit of a sigh of relief there. most experts will tell you if not now, its going to happen at some point. north korea will at some point attempt to test an icbm. the question is how soon will they be technologically capable of doing that....