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Nuclear device, it would be very, very unlikely that it is at this stage miniaturized. there is a lot more testing that would have to be done. that said, u.s. intelligence has been caught by surprise that the progress, the recent progress under this north korean leader in their ability to make advances on the missile technology. they have not yet made similar ad advancement that the u.s. knows about. being able to get a war head that has the ability to be placed on one of these missile that now ...

Recent test over northern japan was not only that they chose to have the missile fly over japan which is the first time they have done that and before that, their missile test had gone into the pacific but the trajectory was a more traditional trajectory and they were showing off again the range. in terms of war head, we have no evidence. no evidence at all that they have either done a nuclear test that is a hydrogen test or that they have actually made so many advances that they not only have a...

All fears. you know, what weve been looking at over the past several months, over the past years are these two -- these two technologies that the north koreans are developing, one is the war head and the other is the delivery system, the intercontinental ballistic missile. now we find they actually have both. if what theyre saying today is true, then we are no longer in this position of being able to wait until their technology gets there. we kicked the can down the road saying, well, theyre not...

That thats what theyre doing. we wouldnt know whether they could do that without being able to sample the air around the nuclear test site, without a great deal more information. we do know that north korea had been es xcavating the site. we know they were procuring thermonuclear fuel to help fuel one of the weapons and we know they were building their new generation of missile to carry heavy war heads with potentially higher yield. we knew a test was coming but were not sure what the characteri...

Continuing to develop, continue to go hord -- yes, you do? >> thats bad for everybody, the other is that kim doesnt have the capacity to attack the united states. we can achieve both of those goals. melissa: how? >> changing the regime or starting world war iii. between nuclear conventional deterrence and missile defense we can check any nuclear threat against the united states. we can check any escalation from mid or lower level and heavy containment will work because the sanctions are going to...

This is our people. we have military facilities there. we have thousands of soldiers there. they have a governor who is a proud american citizen. so i dont view ignoring guam as viable because any attack on guam is an attack on united states of america. >> of course it is. >> so i think his base would understand that and not default -- >> just for the record, guam was threatened after the president said if you make any more threats ill incinerate your country. this didnt begin with guam. it bega...

Of threat, not action but words. its just not a clear way to do things. >> its interesting though that despite the presidents rhetoric, it seems from all the reporting that u.s. military posture in the region has not changed. its not as if u.s. personnel are being withdrawn, as if marines are being loadedn to vessels. it doesnt seem to be a -- >> you wonder whether all the wires are connected here. from the presidents lips to our diplomats to our military people on the ground. and i just worry a...

And mr. kim better get their act together. kim should be very, very nervous. so, while many are saying the rhetoric is talking down the stock market and people are on edge, the president of the united states said, look, over the last 25 years, past presidents have done all sorts of diplomatic things, where are we now? whats interesting is apparently and we heard on this the radio yesterday. i looked it up and apparently its true. it was three years ago that the obama administration knew that the...

Testing are getting longer and longer range which does mean their ability to hit farther flung targets could potentially at least be advancing if these longer range missiles theyre testing could survive reentry and hit the target and be loaded with a war head and all of that stuff. all of this stuff in terms of them testing missiles and stuff, this has been happening granlly over time. what happened in the last couple of days that made the u.s. government, the president start threatening war in ...

Security issue here. you have a president who has been speaking repeatedly about the need to build up defenses in south korea because of the mounting threat but i bring up the point that they use this term not helpful because it speaks to the frequency with which they hear these kinds of threats from north korea, threats of attack, threats of retaliation. so to some extent they know how to handle threats from kim jong-un. yes, it does raise their level of concern, it does prompt the government t...