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What has happened here. we all but -- it's been all but confirmed that we're probably not looking at an intercontinental ballistic missile, which would have a long range with the potential to reach the united states. this is more than likely, according to some sources that we're speaking to here, a submarine launched missile because sinpo is where the north korean army has its submarine assets. so putting two and two together, they're saying this is the likelihood. again, nothing is confirmed at this point on exactly the sort of device that we're dealing with. we know that it failed almost imm...

He may try to showcase something with respect to the road mobile intercontinental ballistic missile. they may try to conduct a nuclear test, although they always have to balance that challenge with using some of the nuclear materials they want to have their for actual weapons purposes. one of the challenges with the icbm capability is they haven't test ed it. they have tested it in launching vehicles in trying to get into a space launch, but they haven't tested that road mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the united states. we don't know how far down the line they are. bu...

Or at a submarine state. this cold cannister solid fuel missile technology allows them to launch quickly because they do not have to fuel a missile with liquid propellent which takes time and allows satellite to view a missile launch. this quick launch capability is something that the north koreans have been working on and it also is in the same vein as the road mobile capability to put a missile on the back of an 18-wheeler so they can drive it around and it can't be spotted by spy satellites. it is concerning if they have the capability to put it on a submarine because a submarine could snea...

Developing that right now from what we know this was most likely a test of their submarine launched ballistic missile or a test to develop that submarine launched ballistic missile. it was on display in the parade. you may have seen. it was this sort of stubby black and white missile with an elongated nose cone being carried. multiple versions of this, several of them, which made us think this was a signal that they were intending to develop this capability further. of course as you said, the test took place at sinpo. that is where they concentrate their work on submarines and submarine launch...

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...