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Todays shows that kim jong-uns engineers on a learning curve, in fact an accelerating one. jim sciutto joins us with more on that and where this all appears to be leading. what is the latest, jim? >> whats key about this test, the highest altitude test north korea has ever conducted. it went 2700 miles directly up into space, and then back down to earth. that is more than ten times the altitude, for instance, of the international space station. why is that important? because that is the arc, the...

Yearser so of missile testing by the north koreans, this is on track with what we have been seeing. its a 19, 18 a year. 20 a year. this would be the 209:and we are in december? >> thats right. i mean, for the year -- but keep in mind, this calendar year, from february until september, we were seeing launches every several weeks. so they were really ahead of schedule. and theres all kinds of analysis about why that was. some u.s. officials who i spoke with said that, you know, once north korea a...

In this case only traveling about 1,000 kilometers before splashing down in the sea of japan. thats part of the reason they were able to say while tracking it it posted no risk to japan. any of the other allies in the region. or any u.s. territories including guam or the continental united states. but given this long pause north korea had done in missile testing, this sophisticated icbm or they call it km 20 showing they had been preparing making a launch of this missile. theyll be assessing to ...

Which is not a word i usually apply to him, but to try to get china to help out to north korea, and i hope thats the message throughout the trip. i think that he is very mixed in terms of the way he feels. he always does bring up the trade issues. he did that in south korea also. i think that that is, in his head, the major issue he wants to deal with is to, quote, fix the trade. in the meantime he has to deliver other messages. >> lets talk about. what do you think the upshot will be of the 12-...

Repercussions, this trip complex for donald trump but again trump and president moon jae-in in lockstep, trump saying china is trying hard when it comes to north korea and hoping russia will be helpful too, trump plans to meet president vladimir putin in vietnam. north korea watching all this. it has been relatively quiet. no missile testing in the past seven weeks. moon jae-in says of north korea make the right choice south korea will ensure it a bright future. south korea is beefing up its sel...

Against north korea. what is important, sandra, is that these drills, one of the locations a place where north korea has been launching missiles from. this as the state news agency of the kim jong-un promising today more satellite launches in its so-called space program. we were in north korea for one of these rocket launches this space program widely seen as a cover for the banned missile testing. >> sandra: what else has secretary mattis said over the weekend? >> he wrapped up a trip to asia i...

Know what hes going to do next, but i dont think hes suicidal. i think theres going to be an end game on his part, and i think hes waiting until hes able to say i have my maximum nuclear capacity, i can hit the united states now. hes waiting to be able to do that, and then hell negotiate. thats my hope, and thats what i think is happening. >> well, you make a great point about we dont know exactly whats been taking place over the last couple weeks, and that is a serious point about their missile...

Doesnt that encourage iran to do more missile testing, because the implication is this country wants to go to war with us so we better have missiles tested and ramp up our military activity because the country wants to invade us, and they did invade our neighbor. >> on a separate track, you continue to work on the issues david raised which are real problems but dont take apart something better than the alternative on the nuclear stuff. one of the things striking to me, when you look at secretary...

It was to radically increase the military budget, and they have become more adventurous in yemen and in syria and also with a program of missile testing. missiles are not part of the deal. generally, iranian behavior outside of its borders is not part of the deal, and so when you see the consequences of the deal is to empower iran to act worse in areas outside the deal, and so everything outside the silo, those things are just going as badly as we feared in 2015. >> isnt it likely, then, the log...

>> this may not be the worst thing. theres only one thing that concerns me about it, so let me back up. theres a lot of problems iran caused in the region, and they still maintain a weapon smuggling operation, and also missile testing, and that could be a problem in getting to a full weaponized nuclear program. heres the one interesting thing. the only concern i have, this might get europe engaged to help on the missiles and the trouble in the middle east, and he may not be able to control the m...