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Third. yet those sanctions will take a long time to even start to take effect. north korea, now months away from having this kind of a weapon, wolf. a weapon they never had before. this is truly unprecedented. always a lot of conventional weapons, can do damage on the korean peninsula. believe to have chemical weapons as well but never until now and icbm take a miniaturized nuclear warhead and potentially threaten the mainland of the united states. >> a huge, huge development. if, in fact, this ...

Thats required to protect that nuclear warhead and when it reenters. you know, and the north koreans are good engineers. theyll figure this out. so i think we would be foolish to underestimate them. and i think weve all been taken a little by surprise been how fast and how effective this program has been, and i do agree with cedric, that no matter what we promise the north koreans, theyre not going to give up this program. this is their ace in the hole. this is their deterrent capability. this m...

>> reporter: wolf, a think its no surprise that north korea has been moving in that direction. u.s. officials have been talking about some time theyre working on mastering that miniaturization to fit a nuclear warhead on a long-range intercontinental ballistic mi l missile. thats the scariest part of this. it emphasizes a need for a solution as everybody has been saying, a military solution is really the last option, and thats why secretary of state rex tillerson is in asia right now. he just wr...

Warhead, andif this vort true, and like were all assuming it is, then we have a significant game-changer here. the intelligence community often is guilty of mirror imaging what it sees in its own society, and in things that it expects to happen, and sometimes we dont look very well at things that are surprises, frankly. so thats the big danger here. i think in this particular case, this dia assessment is probably pretty close to being accurate. >> yeah. pretty shocking, too, when you think of th...

Then north korean officials is speaking confidently about their countrys nuclear program. remember, kim jong-un, a national priority to become a full-fledged nuclear power. for a long time outside observers thought north korea was many, many years away from achieving that and yet now here we are with the likelihood according to u.s. analysts that north koreas claims have now come to light. they are in possession of a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could fit on an intercontinental ballistic mi...

Intercontinental ballistic missiles that can fire at targets some 5,000 miles away. potentially attack the u.s. guidance systems, targeting. still have a lot of work to do on that, and the warhead on the front end. that miniaturized warhead that would have to be small and light enough to be inside a missile. there are technical challenges ahead for the north koreans. they need to work by all accounts on their targeting, and in specifically on whats calmed re-entry. when you fire one of these bal...