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Do we want them to come back and use this runway? im sure it went back and forth for quite a long time. anyone cant comment one way or another. if we wanted to crater that where you knoww runway we would have cratered the runway. >> and you would imagine the tomahawk would crater a runway up. is it sort of -- is it too kind of localized, the target? >> it is a specific kind of war head. it is a thousand pounds. it sounds like a lot, and it is. it can penetrate a certain amount. it doesnt have th...

Experience, cant comment one way or another what it was meant to do. if we wanted to crater that run way, we would have cratered that run way. >> why doesnt a tomahawk -- you know, you would imagine the tomahawk would blow a run way up. why doesnt it crater a run way? is it too specific -- i mean is it too kind of localized, the target? >> its a specific kind of war head, its 1,000 pounds and that sounds like a lot of munitions and it is, and it can penetrate a certain amount. but it doesnt have...

Instead of secretary tillerson, what would you do vis-a-vis syria? >> i would advise we have to strike them. there has been an up tick in the last month in the use of what appear to be the use of banned weapons. so i would advocate some approach to, you know, hit their -- hit their forces. and then i would -- i would work very hard to make sure everyone knows why were doing it, including the russians. so -- and, by the way, i would go to the u.n., which i suspect the trump administration is doin...

In seoul. so, do the threats from north korea, do they rattle you or do you take them with a grain of salt? >> weve heard these threats so many times. its spring. were going to hear another threat that south korea will be turned into like a fire. weve heard it before and nothing has happened before. >> reporter: seoul is a modern metropolis of 10 million people. it hardly looks like a place under militant attack but shelters are plentiful. we sit well in range of north korean artillery. north ko...

Survival. we have to get into their heads. we have to change the paradigm. if the we change the paradigm much like against ka daffy in 86 when reagan become trip ohly and put a war head right on his own home he got the message and he turned around. we need to be serious like that, trish. otherwise as ive said for over a decade and on this network, if we dont get serious, they are going to deliver a nuclear weapon on our country. >> trish: i know youre worried about that. a lot of people are real...

Then it breaks off as it gets closer to the target. leaving you with this part of it. the front end has advanced electronics in it. break off in flight as well. exposing seeker here to help guide it to target. control system helps push it into the final impact. up there. they call all of this the kill vehicle. its range is pretty impressive. it can go down range and 16 miles high to engage target. >> tom, all that sounds good from a perspective. do they actually know how well it works. doesnt ha...

>> glad to be with you. >> shannon: so we have the sabre rattling by north korea not surprising. anytime theres a change in power they seem to need attention. theyre blaming the joint exercises in the region as the cause for their actions. youre response. -- your response. >> its nonsense. every year they complain about it. lets look at the reality, for 25 years north korea has been pursuing deliverable nuclear weapons and for 25 years in republican and democrat administrations alike weve been t...

The trajectory. it was shooted higher and learned what they need to in order to improve their program. its stillç early and i think theyll assess what theyve done. this seems to be relatively speaking a successful test asç they are on their march to a full panel of delivery systems, which strikez6$pá enemies in th region and one that will come to the u.s. mainland, missiles with a clear set of war head. >> they try to stop, north korea, successfully firing and ease. given sancans that have...

Will be able to do that somewhere within three to five years. they already made a war head with with medium range. north korea is being close to be able to hold the u.s. to ransom. >> a lot of people described north korea as perhaps the biggest threat to the united states in terms of its capabilities that you just outline. talk to us about kim jong-uns temperament. >> turnover decades, north korea has tried to develop its long range missiles and nuclear weapons. this is part of kim family daechl...

Latest provocation by north korea. arthel: military expert predict kim jong-un will have the potential capability to launch a war head that will hit us in three years. how can we prevent a nuclear armed north korea? eric: we are joined by john bolton, former ambassador to the united nations. ambassador, sanctions have not deterred kim jong-un. in the 1990s north korea was given oil and food in return for them not testing nuclear missiles. >> im not sure there is anything that will contain this r...