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It takes to defend our homeland, our allies. and i think that yesterday the admiral in charge of the pacific command, admiral locklear, told congress that of course they would take defensive action if they saw any missile headed in a hostile manner toward allies or u.s. bases in gu all. but he would not suggest shooting down any missiles in inhabited areas, in other words, not targeted in anger. >> what happens, fareed, if they do launch not just one or two, but multiple missiles, and they all go into the pacific ocean, they fly over japan, land if the water. then what is this. >> that's preci...

Received their liquid fuel even though the u.s. has no way to confirm that information on the ground, the military is sending a clear message to kim jong-un. it's not when you launch the moussadan missiles, it's where. if it flies out over the water, they do not want it shot down. >> i would not recommend that. if we have any predetermined imw, we should have a good sense of where it's aimed. >> reporter: if it's aimed over land in japanese territory, interceptor missiles could intercept it. >> if it's at our allies, i would say we should intercept it. >> reporter: this was like the tests when...

They have a mutual interest in stopping this behavior by kim jong-un. i'm also told it's probably publicly known that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is heading over there and so will the head of the cia. the idea is to, quote, have a deep dive into beijing and have everyone try to convince the top leadership in beijing that they hold the key and that it's in their interest as well as everybody else's interests to get this brought back from the brink. you know, again, while they know and jay carney said just a couple of minutes ago this is the way for north koreans to step back, the ...

Missile test. south korean officials say that launch could come any day. north korea officials are warning foreigners in the south to leave the country because of the threat of nuclear war in the region. while the white house is dismissing that, quote, unhelpful rhetoric. the pentagon is preparing to intercept any missile that threatens u.s. forces or american allies. >> i believe we have the credible ability to defend the home land, to defend hawaii, defend guam, to defend our deployed forces and to defend our allies. >> during his testimony, admiral locklear was pressured to get china more i...

Japanese territory, interceptor missiles could be used to destroy it. >> i would recommend action if it's aimed ought our allies. >> reporter: this launch could be different from previous tests when the u.s. had significant indications on what was about to happen before liftoff. >> to understand the direction of a launch, where it was at. >> reporter: u.s. radars will calculate their trajectory of north korea's road mobile missile. but admits the u.s. won't know as much as soon. >> we're probably looking at being able to see it being if a general location, and ten to sense a launch. >> reporte...