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The carrier toward the korean peninsu peninsula, he can't back down now particularly if the next step is a successfully nuclear launch. i think the united states has to be clear to china that this is a problem that the chinese won't solve and i think that means some type of chinese style communist regime in north korea that we're willing to accept and i think we have to make clear that we know longer insist on a united peninsula because frankly it's not what the united states really can achieve. it's not what south korea or japan actually want and most importantly it's not what china will ever...

Saying it's insignificant. i think it feeds into the embarrassment over a failed launch, which comes on the heels of the enormous display and the thousands of people watching the parade and the indoor ceremony on the eve of that parade. it rubs salt in his wound for having a failed launch. we don't know what kind of launch, but you've seen the reporting it was certainly not a long range missile. short range or medium range missile possibly sea launched. they are making progress. they are certainly having multiple tests in the past year. so there's no question they are trying to move ahead. i t...

Happily and certainly noted by north korea. so you've got the carl vincent and the carrier group and destroyers each with capability sea launch missile capability. you have japan and south korea. the accelerated deployment of more sophisticated u.s. missile defense sent to south korea, not yet operational. you have a lot that's been irritating to the chinese and north koreans, but necessary from a defense posture. they are not taking any kind of military action tonight. there could be some sort of show of force from our assets in the region, the naval assets, but the -- ignoring it by the whit...

Andrea was noting it's not a significant event in terms of a departure from north korea's approach in recent months. they have launched a similar solid fueled launch short or medium range missile. this is not, we should underscore, not the intercontinental ballistic missile launch, nor is it the nuclear test that most people feared because of course the main national security threat against the united states would be to take a miniature nuclear weapon and north korea does have about 20 bombs worth of material, miniaturize it on a warhead and put it on top of a intercontinental ballistic missil...

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