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Spectacular public failure. the danger is, how will the south koreans and the japanese react. it's all right for us to look at this as a superpower 10,000 miles away. japan is close by, south korea is right there. if they start looking at this and saying, we can't keep relying on the united states for the security umbrella, for this nuclear umbrella, we have to do something, remember, these are very advanced countries. japan in a sense is a few months away from a nuclear bomb, just because they have such a sophisticated nuclear industry. south korea could get one very easily. what we're trying...

Sophisticated nuclear industry. south korea could get one very easily. what we're trying to do is reassure the japanese and south koreans that, look, we can take care of your security, don't worry, we have the capacity to do what it takes. without getting into all kind of mano-a-mano tit for tat with north korea. >> christiane, do you have a sense of how good u.s. intelligence on north korea may be? i'll tell you, i've heard that the united states has very good reconnaissance satellite photography, communications, electronics intercepts, but not necessarily a good sense of what's going on with...

Farouq, led the religious advocacy. though the two joined al qaeda, i were still -- they were still american citizens. neither terrorist was specifically targeted here nor did u.s. intel knew that they would be there on the scene. the administration says that the operation, though, was fully consistent with u.s. guidelines. we begin our special hour of coverage with nbc's chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. a lot of questions. what's the latest that you can tell us? >> reporter: absolutely. you know, and as the president said today they launched these air strikes against these comp...