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Leave, but folks did and to the extent that they did, its -- north cree has a well-known history of retaliating against diplomats and other north koreans who try to leave the regime by punishing family members and associates, sending them to labor camps and sometimes killing them. thats a really real fear that they cannot admit or else they would be risking their own lives and the lives of their family. eric: officials have said that kim sent out assassination squads. we saw what happened to -- ...

Overreact. well take a measured response and make sure we dont close the door to diplomacy. >> he wouldnt say if the new images could one day launch a nuclear missile and change the u.s. militarys calculus. the images appeared when kim jong-un visited the shipyard and stood in front of a modified 1960s era submarine to one day fire a ballistic missile. while north cree has not test add long range missile since 2017, the seven launches of short range missiles have allowed japan and south korea an...

Stipulated to. they cannot engage in missile testing or nuclear testing and cant object to the planned military exercises. >> you dont want to sit down with the leader of north cree and give him that victory unless you put the ground work in. unless your diplomats have negotiated things. what does this do to our alliances? what does it do to nonproliferation? dozens of meetings that need to happen before this. >> the u.s. still does not have an ambassador to south korea nominated by the presiden...

Kislyak and i think more will unwind out of that as we get more details. >> you know general flynn, what do you think? >> i couldnt agree more. i think dave sid right. we will see where this ends. where it goes. >> it is going to be intriguing week, i think. were getting ready for it. all right, everybody stand by. just ahead. north cree yeah missile launch. too close for comfort for an ally. will laptops be banned from all international flights in and out of the united states? new hints from ...

America and its allies most tonight is how close kim is getting to having a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the continental u.s. realistically how close are they to having that capability? >> they could be close. they have tested a lot of constituent parts of an icbm and tested a lot of different technologies. kim has said that they are going to try to do it this year. the next four years that could be the case. >> reporter: kims latest test-firing comes on the east of chinese presiden...

Vinsons training routine, part of annual military exercises involving tens of thousands of americans and south korean troops. north korean has vowed a merciless response if the u.s. carrier violates the sovereignty of the regime. this is as rex tillerson goes to asia where he will visit south korea, japan and china with north cree at the top of the agenda. previewing the trip, a state department spokesman outlined the secretarys thinking. >> what are the next steps to put pressure on the regime,...

Our staff has top secret clearance. if you spin up a special prosecutor, youll have six to eight months getting staff, clearance, getting the relationships. a two-year process to do what we started three months ago. so it would be much faster for us to get the to the facts with the people that know how to get to the documents and have clearance for those documents. again, its a nonpartisan committee that we work with. let us get the report out there and let people see it. >> shepard: and north k...

On israel or the issue with iran. and others believe because he did not work in the department of defense, that this would be a novel start for a man like this because it hasnt been done that way before. had he worked at the pentagon or dod would your position be different? >> no. actually the, there are other issues too. the global zero movement, are you aware of that? that say we want a world without, without nuclear and yet, we have right now iran developing those capabilities, north cree dev...

Officials here say it is fitted with solar panels and high definition camera to take images of the earth from orbit. the shiny satellite isnt sparking international condemnation. instead, this is. north cree korea calls this a t stage rocket, with enough liquid force to carry a thousand-pound payload. this is what u.s. officials are concerned about. north korea says this rocket is strictly for scientific purposes but u.s. officials worry it could be converted into an intercontinental ballistic m...

Nuclear weapon or radiological elements they could use in a dirty bomb be i am sure the north koreans would be happy to sell it to them. jenna: are you concerned about that now? >> im very concerned that north korea, which is the worlds biggest proliferator of missile technology would be happy to be the worlds biggest proliferator of the nuclear technology as well. what this demonstrates is you can not stovepipe weapons of mass destruction. this is not a northeast asia program. it is not an iran...