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North korean television showed kim jong-un signing the order tuesday. he wrote test launch is approved taking place at day break, fire with courage for the party and country. president trump tweeted just spoke to president xi of china concerning the provocative actions of north korea. additional major sanctions will be imposed on north korea today. in situation will be handled. the u.s. treasury department imposed more sanctions just last week targeting north korean shipping firms and chinese co...

Launch, whether theres harmful intent or not. even if a test launch. weve got that capability to take that missile out in midcourse, and were going to do so. so i think that that would be appropriate, but it is -- >> you think thats the next step for the u.s. to try to deter this behavior, just go ahead and knock down one of the missiles during one of their tests? >> i think that would be an appropriate response. >> and do you think that would escalate things further, though? would it trigger th...

More. this becomes as world leaders have started to arrive in new york city. north korea will certainly be high on the agenda after the test launch of a second list ballistic missile friday over japan. kristin, good evening. what did we expect the president to see to his address on tuesda tuesday. >> north korea will be front and center along with the recent terror attack in london. they predict president trumps speech on tuesday will be a strong speech that puts america first. >> the speech is ...

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Months and during the campaign said was going to be a primary focus for him when he came here into office. he said he signed it for the, quote, sake of national unity, but notably none of this took place on camera, so there is no sort of public documentation of it. there is not some headline photo to show the russians that, hey, were cracking down on you right now, which people are making note of on this day. and beyond that, we still havent heard from the president, as you noted, about the fact...

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Sanctions on north korea itself. the u.s. has been encouraging other countries to try to limit their diplomatic engagement with north korea. john? >> michelle kosinski at the state department for us, thank you so much. digging deeper now, tom foreman has the facts and figures. tom, what does this test launch tell us about kim jong uns capabilities. >> what this tells us, john, is that the north koreans are going full steam ahead. they are on course to have a record number of missile tests this...

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And japan on sunday about how to deal with north korea, and ahead of the g-20 summit later this week. according to u.s. pacific command there was a land-based missile that was fired from near panghyon airfield. it flew for about 37 minutes. japanese officials say the missile may have landed in waters claimed by japan as its exclusive economic zone. the u.s. and south korea and japanese officials say the missile reached an altitude of 1500 miles, which would be longer and higher than any other si...