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And with more time north korea is going to refine those capabilities further. so theres a lot of urgency now to stop north korea before it can deploy a reliable icbm thats capable of targeting the united states. >> so are you saying they should accept the fact that theyre going to have this technology, theyre going to have this capability, go to the table and try and find a way to have common ground between north korea and the united states and get them to either stop developing more nuclear wea...

The countrys money goes to making sure they have the capability, mil capability, militarily to defend themselves. why not impose tougher sanctions, sanctions that would strangle the economy, so they cannot continue to do the testing they are doing right now? >> katy, youve got my vote, if you can put that in front of the u.n. security counsel and get it through. >> who would stop it? >> china would? for all of their happy talk about wanting to resolve this situation. in the end, china likes a di...

Regime that will soon have a realistic capability to strike us, japan, south korea and austral australia. >> general mccaffrey, thank you very much. were going to take a quick break, on the other side, well get more reaction from the white house, more reaction on what 2 is going on in the white house with jonathan lemire. well be back in a couple minutes.

Gain the technology to mill tarrize a nuclear warhead. they believed that north korea already had the capability to mill tarrize a nuclear warhead. its the speed with which they have been able to nminiaturize nuclear warhead. just last month, one month ago on july 3rd. they tested their first successful intercontinental ballistic missile. now they not only have the length, the distance of a missile that could hit the united states, but now, the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead that would...

We have now learned today that north korea, its believed does have that capability according to u.s. intelligence officials that spoke to nbc news and also a washington post report. reporters who saw a dia report, for more on how the white house might respond to this, im joined by jonathan lemire, ap white house reporter. we havent seen the president in a couple days, we know that president obama sat him down right after the election and said, listen, north korea is your biggest threat. hes clea...

Still with us. an msnbc military analyst. i want to get historical context here, keir was talking about the ussr firing a nuclear warhead into the air and exploding it, that sort of dramatic and tense moment that created. talk to me about the differences we were facing back then with the ussr and what were facing now with north korea. >> i think its pretty different. the russians were always smart, made collective decisions. were facing quite a different situation now. let me tell you what we ou...

So they wont be able to put that money into their nuclear testing. nikki haley was asked about that this morning. five hours later we found out they had this capability. lets go to ken delaney. what have you learned? >> a u.s. official briefed on the intelligence confirms to us the gift of this report. the u.s. intelligence community has assessed north korea has successfully miniaturized a nuclear weapon to the point it could mount that on an intercontinental ballistic missile. this is coming on...