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About what is happening north of the border. right now, we'll leave you, shep, we'll try to get some harder confirmation from the officials nature and quality, most important the quality whether this thing is working on this launch. back to you. >> shepard: greg palkot live pyongyang, north korea this early friday morning. within a matter of 15 minutes of the launch we have been assured we will know whether this test has been successful. north koreans have tried exactly this test at least twice before and each time it's been unsuccessful. words from western nations and especially the united st...

Confirms sort of where we are. that this is a big concern. it's something that we have to worry about and focus on. but it's not something that is going to be, you know, something that we have to deal with right away. >> shepard: diply -- diplomatically speaking it seems like it would give some wiggle room. >> yes. they don't have something imminent essentially that they have a dlferry system that can reach the united states. that's something that we don't have to worry about. the other thing is that the north koreans don't have the ability right now, they don't have the ability to put togethe...

Way for people to, for them to sort of market themselves in terms of what they are capable of doing. they have done this thing in the past. for another rocket launch. north korea shot six missiles, shorter range missiles in a in very tight sort of configuration which showed how well they could sort of target this. and then shot the larger range missile as well. this is a way for whomever to let them know that this is their capability and they're working on it and, again, they have shown their willingness to sell this technology and are -- will continue to do so as far as i know. >> shepard: ex...

2009 model. that's the last time the north koreans have tried an intercontinental ballistic missile launch and that failed when the third stage went. this third stage of this rocket said to be of a better grade and, in fact, with some cross pollination with the iranian rocket specialist. so there is a little bit better chance of this going off and as we have been talking about, the trajectory of this launch, completely different, not going over japan. not heading towards other areas that might be seen as a threat to the united states. it's a direct south trajectory going just off of south kore...

But it would have to go way off course to be heading towards japan as opposed to due south towards the philippines. we don't expect that to really -- those patriot missiles to really come into play even if they are going after the descent grated parts of the missile, it's unlikely they would be able to strike them. right now we will know in the next few minutes whether this was a successful launch. south korean tv reporting it has happened. >> shepard: 30 seconds ago as jennifer was speaking u.s. officials confirmed for fox news and the rest that in fact the rocket has been launched and now th...