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What i will say, ivan, and ive always experienced this based on previous failed launches, is they will try again. we dont know when, but we know that april is a very important month. of course, yesterday, as alex mentioned, was the say of the sun, north koreas most important holiday. but there are other major events coming up later on in the month. theres a major military anniversary on the 25th of april. in fact, the united states believes there could be some sort of provocative act between the...

>> hello to you, ivan. at cnn world headquarters in atlanta, im natalie allen. >> and im george howell. the vice president of the united states mike pence has arrived in south korea. hell be celebrating easter with u.s. and south korean troops. pence was briefed on north koreas failed missile launch while he was en route from the united states. aides to the vice president say he has been in contact with president trump about that failed missile. voters in turkey are heading to the polls. the...

The "uss carl vinson" aircraft carrier strike group. its meant to be there as a deterrent against provocative actions. its raised the tensions here on the peninsula as many wonder and ask what the u.s. would do. this is not considered by washington to be a provocation that merits any response, ivan. >> all right. thanks, alex. i want to move north of the demilitarized zone to will ripley, whos live from pyongyang. will, has the regime acknowledged at all this missile launch? are you hearing any ...

Respond, those are questions also being asked here among the public in south korea. they want to know and understand what the u.s. means when they say that if china doesnt handle the north korea problem, the u.s. will go it alone. they want to make sure that theyre being consulted, that theyre working in conjunction and in cooperation with u.s. leaders in terms of any decision made about how to deal with north korea, particularly when you hear words coming from washington like the fact that all ...

Korea has carried out in recent months? >> reporter: it didnt come as a surprise to much of the world, ivan. i can tell you that. everyone anticipated that kim jong-un could pull off a provocative action of some sort timed around the most important day on the north korean calendar, which was just yesterday. so daybreak in this part of the world, you did have this failed missile launch. officials in the u.s. are saying it appears it was some kind of medium-range missile they attempted to launch, ...

Reports, can shoot down an icbm test in its ascend phase. whether thats possible, i dont know. thats all classified material. im not even sure if that weapon exists in deployable form yet. if such a thing happens, obviously, yeah, a miscalculation could lead to escalation, even if both parties dont want to escalate. >> all right. martin, discussing some of the potential implications here of this ratcheting up of tensions on the korean peninsula. thank you very much, martin, for your analysis the...

Cnns will ripley is reporting from pyongyang. cnns alexandra field is at u.s. military headquarters in seoul, south korea. lets start with you, will. what do north korean officials tell you when you ask b about the -- about these warnings that come from the u.s. and allies in the region not to carry out nuclear tests, not to carry out ballistic missile tests, which are all, of course, banned under multiple united nations security council resolutions. >> reporter: to put it simply, ivan, they fee...

Reporting from pyongyang. were going to go to matt rivers, whos in beijing right now. of course, success of american administrations have asked china to try to crack down harder on its economic trading parter in, north korea. matt, is china uncomfortable with these scenes, with these missile launches, and with the threat of nuclear tests coming from its neighbor, north korea? >> reporter: uncomfortable is a really good way to put t ivan. i think that the chinese are certainly not happy. if china...