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Heres north korea up here, south korea. the two capitals. lets say north korea in fact launch a missile, and it went out over the pacific and over japan. what happens? >> well, tom, instantaneously whats going to occur, is the telemetry of that missile will be tracked, what the arc of the flight looks like and what the intended target would be. instantaneously, we would pick this up. by sea, by ground, by air and by space. it ipt great target system. the japanese even have a cruiser part of this...

Happens? >> there will be a tracking. the telemetry of that will be tracked. well identify where the launch is, what the arc is. >> we would know within seconds? >> instantaneously we would pick this up by sea, ground, air, space. this integrated target system. the japanese have an aegis system. >> if it went out there and it was not headed towards any target. it went to sea, as north korea said, would there be any response? >> there would be no kinetic response. we would not fire back. if we kn...

Launch a missile, and it went out over the pacific and over japan. what happens? >> well, tom, instantaneously whats going to occur, is the telemetry of that missile will be tracked, what the arc of the flight looks like and what the intended target would be. instantaneously, we would pick this up. by sea, by ground, by air and by space. it ipt great target system. the japanese even have a cruiser part of this integrated radar system. >> if it was not headed to a target, but went to the sea, a t...

Overtime, what appeared to be homegrown plots did wind up having some kind of a contact back to what we call core al qaeda. right now i would say this seems to be on the less sophisticated end of this scale, so i understand where the mayor is coming from, but i caution its too soon to make a definitive conclusion. >> and mr. secretary, last thing, when you were in this job and thinking about this threat, whether its domestic terrorism or a large scale or small scale attempted attack, internation...