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Mark kimet. lets start with this. its been called an icbm, believed to be potentially solid fuel. whats the deal? your thoughts? >> i think what the north koreans are trying to demonstrate that they not only have the ability to reach japan and korea but getting close to the west coast of united states. >> how big of a development is this? again, icbm and solid fuel. >> well, we have understood for quite some time that the north koreans were developing a very aggressive missile program. on one ha...

Missile? >> now chris, you know we cant talk about secret intelligence and things that might have been done, covert operations that might have happened. so i really have no comment on that, and nor should i. but i dont have any particular comment on what happened with the north korean missile. but it was a fizzle. >> jeremy, whats going on there? >> its hard to know. and i certainly dont know. im not privy to those details. ive been out of government for some time. but its possible this is bad e...

Celebrating its 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning, happy easter to those celebrating. first, north korea last night launched a ballistic missile from its base in sinpo but it exploded on the launch pad. vice president mike pence spoke to american troops at a breakfast there this morning. im joined by juan zuarte. juan, the failure, "the new york times" this morning leans hard into the idea that the failure wasnt necessarily a north korean failure but mayb...

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Posed by iran which he says could be on the same path as north korea if left uncheckled. were following news from syria where government war means are under the protection of the russian government. they moved their jets following the u.s. missile strikes that took out a portion of syrias military air fleet and were investigating questions of possible sabotage of north koreas missile program by the u.s. were a series of failed test launches the result of american cyber attacks? and more breaking...

Criticizing a red line it wasnt the rex tillerson statement but the guidance from senior administration officials is that this has to stop. they are going to play with an increasingly harder line against north korea. you have different attacks happening in those different situations. >> the clock had run out according to a senior white house official. >> the clock has run out and weve spoken enough about north korea. theres this idea, some experts say kim jong-un he feeds off the response from t...

Suggestion in terms of whether or not there was any kind of us cyber attack on their missile program. talk to someone earlier, former member of the nsc, senior advisor at the white house and said i cannot confirm or deny if there was a situation involving north korea that we had cyber attacks going on but he did mention this. even if we did, we would do everything possible to make sure that no one, including the north koreans, knew that it was us. on the other hand, i would say the smile i detec...

People. we know it is routine and annual. we are told by the lieutenant colonel in charge when they carry out the drills, they dont have a specific enemy in mind. given the tensions on the korean peninsula, this is more in the spotlight. this massive fire power seen by north korea as well. it is not what north korea likes to see. every single year when the drills happen, they becomefurii. they believe this is a dress rehearsal for invasion although the united states says they are defensive in na...

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Testing of one of north koreas more advanced ballistic missiles. they regularly do fire off some of their older missiles. its not a big concern to the united states. but that missile program has been modernizing and advancing and the u.s. has been waiting to see when they will next test one of those more modern missiles. this launch tonight came out of a place called the sempo shipyard on north koreas east coast. u.s. satellites over the last several days had noticed increased activity at that s...