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Today's shows that kim jong-un's engineers on a learning curve, in fact an accelerating one. jim sciutto joins us with more on that and where this all appears to be leading. what is the latest, jim? >> what's key about this test, the highest altitude test north korea has ever conducted. it went 2700 miles directly up into space, and then back down to earth. that is more than ten times the altitude, for instance, of the international space station. why is that important? because that is the arc, the flight path consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile, a missile that can go from no...

Research it and build different crafts and do tests. >> i mean we attached a parachute to like a little thingy to it from the kitchen window down to the backyard and we found place to deploy. >> we did a little altitude test because we wanted to put it up in the air and bring it down. >> the first model of it had wings and a tail fin. >> we were looking at things like how shaky it would be, how much it would be influenced by wind, things like that. it actually told us a lot. >> it's essential the aircraft rise and fall with as little resistance as possible. this will keep it stable enough to c...

Camera into space with the aid of a helium-filled weather balloon. >> it took about eight months to research it and build different crafts and do tests. >> we like attached a parachute to like a little thingy to it from the kitchen window down to the backyard and we found place to deploy. >> we did a little altitude test because we wanted to put it up in the air and bring it down. >> the first model of it was just a container with wings and a tail fin. >> we were looking at things like how shaky it would be, how much it would be influenced by wind, things like that. it actually told us a lot. ...

>> it took about eight months to research it and build different crafts and do tests. >> i mean we attached a parachute to like a little thingy to it from the kitchen window down to the backyard and we found the perfect place to deploy. >> we did a little altitude test because we wanted to put it up in the air and bring it down. >> the first model of it had wings and a tail fin. >> we were looking at things like, how shaky it would be, the -- how much it would be influenced by wind, things like that. it actually told us a lot. >> it's essential the aircraft rise and fall with as little resista...

Parachute to like a little thingy to it from the kitchen window down to the backyard and we found place to deploy. >> we did a little altitude test because we wanted to put it up in the air and bring it down. >> the first model of it had wings and a tail fin. >> we were looking at things like how shaky it would be, how much it would be influenced by wind, things like that. it actually told us a lot. >> it's essential the aircraft rise and fall with as little resistance as possible. this will keep it stable enough