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Hit the u.s. mainland. in addition to launching this missile, this is also a test for president trump who is meeting tonight with japanese prime minister shinzo abe at his retreat, his resort in mar-a-lago in florida. this is obviously a very important issue for the two leaders. which has been something that president trump has been very concerned about coming in and warned by president obama, this is going to be one of your number one national security threats. >> gordon, you'll recall during the campaign president trump then president-elect or candidate trump at the time was talking about pe...

Of talk to some people, think about these things before going public. >> as you mentioned, this was not an intercontinental ballistic missile. the range of that is typically somewhere near 5500 kilometers. this particular missile traveled about 500 kilometers. just to give that perspective to our viewers. again, officials still assessing whether this could be considered a successful launch, what kind of test exactly this was, what kind of missile this was. it's believed to be in the intermediate range when it comes to the missiles north korea has been testing in recent weeks, months, and years...

This is not a very long range missile. officials say it's bad, it's not earth-shattering. particularly in the obama administration, they were really careful to calibrate their response. this president is not someone who calibrates a response. you know, he's very fiery with his rhetoric, fiery with his tweets. and that goads north korea. i mean, they're playing a game a little bit with president trump. and i think the danger is, you get into this situation where the rhetoric escalates, and then -- north korea is very unpredictable, and you don't know what they would do. this is one 500-kilomete...

So it doesn't seem as though the white house or nsc should have been caught flat-footed. even though we're now hearing this maybe wasn't a successful test or didn't have much of a range, more smoke than fire, it's still an important first test, as we've been saying, for the trump administration. you'll remember that tweet in early january that we've been talking about where trump, then president-elect trump basically said something of a "make my day" tweet to north korea, saying north korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of t...

Himself, not answering a question he clearly heard, ana. >> let's bring in ambassador chris hill, again, significant because you, ambassador, headed the u.s. delegation to those six-party talks between 2005 and 2009, had numerous opportunities to try to negotiate with north korea. i wanted to get your reaction first to what we've learned of this missile launch. >> first of all, we don't know a lot about it. it might be a missile we've seen before. it might be something else. it might be a solid fuel missile, and that's something we're worried about because they could stand those up in a hurry ...