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Got a christmas gift for you, everybodys preoccupied about impeachment, theyalk about me. do you think it could be serious this time? is this real bite behind this threat? >> if he follows through with it it could be an incremental increase in his missile capability. i dont think hell take the big step of resuming tests of nuclear weapons themselves. i think there would be an awful lot of bite and not just bark and that would put him much more on the defense because the chinese would not want th...

Site. give us the latest where we stand with regards to negotiations. >> what negotiations? >> exactly. >> there are no negotiations. >> next question. >> and -- >> and i mean america has left kind of begging for negotiations. and pretty stunning position for the u.s. to find themselves in. in terms of the missile tests. we havent really been watching, but they have been continuing to conduct missile tests. short-range missile tests. admittedly. maybe around 25 this year. so kim jong-un, from on...

Jong-un sending a thanksgiving message to president trump launching two projectiles overnight. the launches part of an uptick in weapons testing, increasing tensions on the peninsula and complicating the relationship between north korea and the united states. cnns analyst rear admiral john kirby is here. is there significance behind the timing of the launch? >> you hit it there in the intro. did it on thanksgiving holiday. not unlike them to signal displeasure with the state of the u.s./north ko...

Could potentially hit the united states. and experts are alarmed tonight over the ramping up of kims submarine-launched missile capability in recent weeks and the north koreans attempts to hide those efforts. satellite photos show new activity at a ship yard and there are pictures of kim inspecting an enormous subunder construction. it will likely carry nuclear-tip id missiles and could give the dictator the element of surprise against his enemies. >> a land-based missile you can follow it aroun...

That this is about validating their missile capability and by the way, they were testing rockets this past week. more rockets on the ground. rocket engines for new capabilities. so, theyre not backing down. it appears theyre going to continue to push as hard as they can in spite of the fact that our strategy, and i dont think its a coherent strategy, is about deterrents and keeping economic pressure on that. neil: colonel, while you have you here, in moscow, its dicey where police arrested thus ...

Missile program and is determined to maintain a robust missile capability. how do you read this? >> the reaction has been overrated. iran ever stopped testing missiles after the july 2015 attempt. and the agreement was agreed to in 2015. this is a fairly unsophisticated, inaccurate missile. i dont think it indicates iran, not a plea for negotiations, an act of defiance. i dont think we should read too much into it. shannon: the other signatories were out obviously, and to talk -- released from t...

First for a second. this is one where the south koreans are saying now that the north koreans launched two missiles, short range ballistic missiles that they believe went further than initially assessed. so thats going to be a concern. what kind of improvements in precision and guidance are the north koreans making in this missile? its a missile that they believe and the u.s. does not disagree with them, may have russia origins. so again, the missiles that north korea fired may not have been par...

And this was launched inside iran, it landed in iran. so this test firing itself was not a threat. but, and its a huge but, this is iran doing the very same thing, improving the range and guidance on its ballistic missile inventory. president trump has wanted these missiles included in any future restrictive negotiation with iran about the nuclear weapons program. these kinds of missiles, right now iran has not agreed to any of that. and this again, much like north korea, a message from tehran w...

Negotiation table something in exchange for easing of sanctions, which is what north koreans want. >> ambassador sherman, you made the point online there being a difference between theatrics, which you say this might be, if he meets kim jong-un at the border itself, and real denuclearization and some real policy. have we not had any progress done with north korea? >> not particularly. the president always says that north korea has stopped testing and its true, they havent done a nuclear test, bu...

Capability of doing this. even if it wasnt the iranian revolutionary guard corps soldiers, it would be a militia, for instance, they energize. we see that everywhere, too. the idea, and i have seen this on conspiracy theories already, that the united states instigated is, is you have a typical conspiracy theory crowd, but this is pretty cut and dry. >> on how to respond, i saw you say yesterday if push comes to shove, you said the u.s. navy would push, shove, stomp, and destroy them in a heartbe...