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Of course, covers national security in the pentagon and kevin barrett, executive editor of defense one. court courtney, let me start with you. what russia responded? >> so as you said, this occurred on sunday in california. it was basically a tactical tomahawk so the kinds of missiles that we frequently see launching from u.s. navy ships into places like syria, into libya and whatnot. this was the -- essentially the ground launch version of that. it flew in excess of 500 kilometers which is why it's the kind of missile at that range that would have been a violation of the inf treaty before the...

Here to hurt or injure anybody, they come here to make a better future for their kids. >> at last reports of the 680 people detained in wednesday's raids, more than half remain in custody. to the korean peninsula now where seoul says pyongyang fired another round of project tiles into the sea early on saturday. they were short-range ballistic missiles similar to other launches by north korea. for more on this i'm joined by cnn's ivan watson. he's reporting from hong kong. ivan? >> reporter: hi there, cyril. the two missiles were launched around dawn from north korea splashing into the sea id...

House lawn saying north korea is not happy with the military skies in that region. cnn's is there giving us details about what is in that letter he received from kim jong-un. >> reporter: that's right, let's go back to the missile launches, they took off at 5:30 in the morning. five times in the last two weeks. july 25th, july 31st, august 2nd, july 6th. and then south korea expressing concern about this saying this could rachet up tensions. and in the last 20 minute, president trump has tweeted about this, and about the letter first and foremost about the letter he received from the north k...

These are annual exercises at that happen every year. >> joining us now is ivan watson with the very latest on this. good morning to you, ivan. >> reporter: the missiles were launched around 5:30 a.m. local time. two short-range ballistic missiles, which is pretty much the pattern that we've seen for about two and a half weeks. firing on july 25th, july 31st, august 2nd, august 6th, and then this morning. now there's another key date there that's not on the calendar, june 30th. that's when president trump met face-to-face with kim jong-un on the demilitarized zone and became the first american...

Launches. short-range ballistic missiles splashing in the sea. we had missile launches on july 25th, july 31st. a few days later on august 2nd and august 6th. now this launch saturday an morning. timed with the august 6th launch was a sternly worded statement coming out attributed to a spokesman for the foreign ministry of north korea denouncing what is expected to be a new round of joint military exercises between the u.s. and what is supposed to be its close ally south korea. north korea saying that is in violation of the spirit of the diplomacy of the u.s. and south korea and north korea ha...