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Date Time Share The White House 12:21 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi. Good afternoon. Okay. Joining us today is another member of the President’s Jobs Cabinet, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. As you all know, the Secretary was the first woman to be governor of Rhode Island, where she kick-started the state’s economy and achieved a record number of jobs and the lowest unemployment in a generation thanks to investments in infrastructure, education, and job training. As governor, she prioritized creating jobs, supporting workers, and improving the quality and availability of services in t...

news N. Korea likely to conduct more KN-23 variant missile tests to replace Scud missiles: think tank (ATTN: ADDS more comments on NK nuke, trilateral ties in last 4 paras) By Oh Seok-min SEOUL, April 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is expected to conduct more test launches of its Iskander-variant ballistic missiles in an effort to replace old Scud missiles with advanced solid-fuel ones, an expert of the state-run defense think tank said Thursday. Last week, the communist country fired two short-range ballistic missiles, believed to be an upgraded version of its KN-23 missile modeled after Russia'...

Nbc news correspondent courtney qubit covers this. what are we finding out? >> this is more work from victor kha and the group beyond parallel, a washington-based think tank. they frequently examine satellite images and look for differences in any potential for where north korea may be moving in their nuclear program, their ballistic missiles and a number of other areas. in this case they looked at the sinpo shipyard, where north korea has been trying to develop ballistic missile subs, trying to develop submarine launch ballistic missiles. they have tested some slbms, sublaunch ballistic missi...

Built by north korea. those pictures taken 48 hours after the summit collapsed. >> chairman kim promised me he's not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear -- not going to do testing. i trust him and take him at his word. i hope that's true. >> we go to the pentagon now for the latest from nbc news national security reporter courtney cubey. what exactly do these satellite images show? >> reporter: it appeared to be dormant since august of 2018. not too long after the first summit between president trump and kim jong-un last summer. since that time there's commercial satellite images that t...

On those missiles. so, the focus of his talks was the plant for a reason. i believe the president basically got it right. once we had set up a process, you could more or less quickly establish an inspection regime. >> victor still with me here in new york. and victor, so much of the work you are doing now, has to do with this. accounting for what is happening in north korea. your project, beyond parallel, s making use to the high resolution satellite images to do just that. the president is saying we have seen every square inch of north korea today. >> it's a hard intelligence target. but with...