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Japan, and south korean trilateral alliance is for the pacific. it will be interesting to see how and when the national security council responds. >> we're monitoring president trump's twitter feed because we often know he likes to respond there first, we haven't seen anything yet. elise, this launch we do know was anticipated for some weeks. the warning by north korea back on january 1st that it is soon to having an intercontinental ballistic missile ready to go. and again, we can confirm that this was not an intercontinental ballistic missile, but it is the first launch of a north korean mis...

Interest mediate range missile. let's bring our viewers up to speed. tell us what we know now about this launch and why it matters so much the type of missile the north koreans fired. >> our understanding and let's be clear, it's very early, the u.s. and its partners in japan and south korea are just looking now at this projectile it seems to be an inter mediate range missile and it seems to have gone for a range about 500 kilometers. now that's not very far. this is a missile that north korea has tested before and hasn't done so well. so it is continuing -- this is a missile testing program. ...

Want to negotiate with north korea until it's ready to give up its nuclear program and some people think they delayed themselves into a very substantial north korean nuclear and missile program. they don't have the luxury of continuing to delay this any longer. demanders in the pacific have said that north korea could have an icbm within a year and as they continue to perfect their nuclear capability, that's a very dangerous trajectory. >> thanks to both of you for the information. again, just to recap what we're learning this evening here in the u.s., overseas this ballistic missile test happ...

From overseas. now confirmed, a launch of a missile, some kind of ballistic missile from north korea. our white house correspondent athena jones is in south florida where president trump is playing host to the japanese prime minister this evening. with us, retired general hertling. athena, you're learning that the president has been briefed. >> reporter: that's right, ana, the president has been briefed about this north korea missile launch. and as you said, we saw video just a short while ago where you could clearly hear the press pool that closely follows the president's every move, as close...

Give an indication. the north koreans have often filed these launches toward the sea of japan. the accuracy of their weapons just are not very good. they aim and shoot and don't care where they land. they're trying to get distance. they're trying to read things like does the missile fall apart. they may have been testing some type of heat shield on the reentry vehicle. they may have been testing whether or not the missile could withstand g's. it could have been a weighted payload, not a nuclear payload, just to see how the missile reacted when something was placed on the top of it. i'm not a m...