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Pentagon. >> this gets a perspective from south korea. paula joins from seoul. hello. >> hello natalie. well we've heard on thursday in hamburg from the south korean president moon when it comes to north korea really outlining his policy what he thinks should happen. he is proengagement, pro diplomacy, dialogue with north korea. but since that icbm launch earlier this week he had been pushing for stronger sanctions alongside the united states. but what we heard in this think tank speech was that he said if the conditions are right and if north korea looks like they want to ease sanctions -- ea...

Military solution it is going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale. >> reporter: military options have been updated for the president but the problem is unchanged. a limited u.s. strike poses significant risk. kim jong-un could quickly attack seoul, south korea, killing millions. >> we would have to be prepared to go all in meaning all out korean war. >> reporter: the u.s. does have a limited missile defense capability on land and at sea but there are questions about its reliability in some cases. >> the same situation applies even if we are to just take out one missile in mid air, that could...

Than what we've seen in the press. the big question is, have we worked through a pathway in which we understand what we're looking for as an outcome without creating a major war? after all, realize, seoul is 30 kilometers from the artillery of north korea. and if they were to test a missile and we were to respond to attack north korea and north korea, within seconds, could attack seoul, you could have tens of thousands of people dying in a very short period of time. and so this is a very -- i don't know. a very dangerous situation. >> so how do you believe the trump white house is sort of pros...

Go and incept it and we've spent $300 billion since the eisenhower era. it just doesn't work very well which is why the president ordered this effort for left of launch trying to sabotage the missiles prior to their liftoff. >> in the piece we showed that you wrote about, you cited it could be simple incompetence. doe put too much stock in the polish for them to attack california and not enough focus on what they can do right on the korean peninsula, specifically that they could attack seoul. >> they can attack seoul with both nuclear and nonnuclear assets. and this is the reason this problem ...

Launch trying to sabotage the missiles prior to their liftoff. >> the piece that we showed, that you wrote about this whole program. you cited it could be simple incompetence. the north koreans are just not that good at creating the technology they boast about. do they put too much stock in the potential for them to attack california and not enough focus on what they can do on the korean peninsula. specifically that they could attack seoul. >> they can attack seoul with nuclear and nonnuclear assets. this is the aren't problem hasn't been solved in the past 20 years. the distance between the n...