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It was medium range, officials are kind of on edge and they arent sure where this is going to go next. theyre tracking it with reconnaissance capabilities across the peninsula. you saw the release by pacific command immediately saying they tracked it. it was off the launch pad and then exploded thereafter. they will have aircraft and satellite overhead. they will be tracking from radar to ships at sea and will have intelligence sources watching this and the focus is certainly going to be on sinp...

Coastal city of sinpo, home to north koreas submarine base, u.s. pacific command saying it was a failure, almost immediately after launch. and what i have experienced in the past when im inside this count country, its never reported in the state-controlled media. of course a successful launch would be a lead story with pictures of the north korean leader overseeing the event. given that this appears to be -- this test appears to be a failure, probably most north koreans, the vast majority, will ...

. we are following breaking news right now. north korea apparently attempting to do another ballistic missile test of some sort. we have very few details at the moment. but what we have confirmed from south korea is that this test failed. i want to bring in right now barbara starr joining us on the phone with some new information. barbara, what can you tell us? >> reporter: good evening. the u.s. pacific command in hawaii has issued a statement saying that it detected and tracked what they say...

Surely upset the united states and surely upset the chinese as well. >> gordon, i want to add somebody to our conversation. we bring in jonathan pollack from the brookings institution, interim south korean studies chairman. thanks for joining gordon and myself. what are you hearing in terms of what has just happened in terms of this missile launch that were hearing from the associated press that has not been completed successfully? let me add another piece of information that were getting in fro...

Cooperate, the president says other allies will join together with the u.s. to try to prevent kim jong-un from expanding its nuclear capability, especially the u.s. concern is predictions that over a horizon of two to four years he might have the ability to deliver a payload that could be nuclear to the west coast of the united states. y in nor grave threat is for the neighbors in the region and the forces who have long been stationed there. thats where president pence is scheduled to go. face-t...

Command is that it did detect a north korean missile launch. they are telling us, according to the information theyve provided so far it was detected and tracked by u.s. pacific command. and at the moment, in their assessment, that the north korean missile launch happened at 11:21 a.m. hawaii time. thats about 5:21 eastern time. and 5:51 a.m. local time there in north korea. so we are talking about 2 1/2 hours ago this has happened. the launch of the ballistic missile occurring near sinpo. the m...

Assessed. the new piece of information that were getting from the u.s. pacific command as courtney kub said we would be getting is they are now saying the test, whatever type of missile it was, did blow up. but almost immediately. jonathan, what are you hearing? >> sinpo is the location from which north korea has attempted other submarine ballistic missile launch efforts. theyve had one reasonable success by their standards last august of this particular missile. theyve also done a land-based ve...

Easte eastern coast line, a place called shinpo. thats significant because thats the place where they also attempt add missile launch and it failed as well. shinpo is a military area for the north koreans. what the u.s. pacific command is saying is that theyre not yet sure, theyre assessing what kind of missile it might have been. the exact kind, they know it failed almost immediately, not clear if it even made it off the launcher before exploding, so north korea has had two in a row famed launc...

To see an area where north korea would collapse, where there would be korean -- potentially korean uniufication. refugees kro s across the borde flooding in. and the u.s. would be dominant with south korean partners. of course, the other piece of this is that theres no government in south korea right now. the president was impeached a couple of weeks ago. theres an acting caretaker government. theres an election in may. and right now, the trend in politics in south korea has become affected by a...

Undertaken with a warhead atop a missile. it just sounds to me very implausible. far too risky even for north korea. >> stand by if you can, jonathan. we have andrea mitchell. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent. thank you for being here with us. youre very aware of the news at the moment. a failed missile test coming out of north korea. what are you hearing? >> well, this is all the reporting that we are getting from pacific command, that it was a failed test. a missile, short or mediu...