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White house, it will become even stronger, and countries like north korea will not be allowed to threaten them in countries like china have to act differently. its about reassurance, its about economics, its about making sure our alliances and our partnerships are stronger than ever. >> sean: ive always had, ambassador, there are not a lot of good options here, because we dont know what is on the launching pad. we dont know what that missile is carrying, and if we dont know, that represents an e...

In fact, north korea has thousands of rockets and artillery pointed here. if the north korean regime feels threatened, feels its being driven from power, it can and experts say it probably would destroy seoul. the south koreans, the 25 million people living in this city, cant do much about it. theyre stuck between kim jong-un on one side, who is determined to have a nuclear weapon program, and president trump, who wants to take it away. you can imagine how it makes people pretty nervous here, es...

Says he wanted to fly to the moon he was fascinated by the moon. well hes not the only one swiss scientist daniel noirish wanderer might not have flown to the moon but he does send satellites into orbit. we made him near kyin the capital of french guiana the european space agency conducts launches from the spaceport in kourou. this is mission control at the e.s.a. space center in french guiana. its a tense moment for daniel. as one of the directors of e.s.a. the european space agency hes respons...

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Action. if they see another missile launched on a launch pad or on the back of a wheeled vehicle as we saw in the images today, the trump administration will have to decide whether to strike that preemptively. of course that could spark a wider war on the korean peninsula. >> colonel, what do you think is the most likely next step? >> i think its to squeeze china. china is the linchpin, anything we can do to get china to put some pressure on north korea is going to be termed much less scary than...

Told by u.s. officials, pentagon and intelligence officials that it was a medium range ballistic missile. they did not realize immediately this was the first icbm, a two-stage missile which was capable if the trajectory were flattened out of reaching alaska at least. it went more than 1700 miles out into space. that is way farther than our orbiting space station. and it was really unexpected. they expected a missile test but they did not expect one that included an icbm. that was not foreseen. a...

>> dana, u.s. defense officials say this is not a missile they have ever seen before. its so new the pentagon doesnt even have a name for it. it was fired from a launch pad not used by north korea in the past. to get a today, nikki haley pue world on notice. >> the united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. one of our capabilities lives with our considerable military forces. we will use them if we must, but we prefer not to have to go ...

17 liquid fueled missing which u.s. satellites had seen evidence was being prepared for launch, its well known to u.s. intel but at some point, the north koreans attached a second stage atop the missile. what does that tell you about how advanced their program is. >> this is a very serious weapon. this is a sophisticated two-stage mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that from north korea can strike singapore, australia, or alaska. its a mobile missile, meaning it was brought to a pre-fixed...

Options, military as well, to defend itself and its allies, but prefers other options. so she seemed to be taking a step back from what president trump said back in april when he said that we could have a major, major conflict with north korea. then on may 28th, on cbs, defense secretary mattis said that would be catastrophic. they seem to be pulling back from threatening military action which is the worst of all possible choices. probably because not only with the -- would the reaction be so ca...