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Protesters. take a look on the streets. security officials say seven other people people were injured in the unrest. the demonstrators were followers of a shiite cleric and protesting alleged corruption in iraq's election commission. and, of course, back to breaking news. north korea's test of a ballistic missile on saturday was just the latest of many in recent years but it was the first on u.s. president donald trump's watch. and it was done as japanese prime minister shinzo abe was on a state visit to the united states. >> the timing very important. south korea believes it was a row dong ...

Officials believe the test was either a medium range intermediate range ballistic missile. it traveled just over 300 miles. take a look at this map. about 500 kilometers represented by the number one red line. >> north korea has missiles that can reach, and i want you to pay special attention to the graph and why it makes people so jittery. missiles that can reach as far as line three. it's striving for an intercontinental missile like you heard matt describe that can reach lines four and five. all of in this graphic, this map very important. what we want to know is do pyongyang's missile adva...

>> athene fla jones, thank you. for more on north korea's missile launch we're joined by matt rivers live this hour following the story. what more are you hearing from seoul, south korea? >> reporter: what we're hearing from defense officials here in south korea is that this is the kind of test that they have seen many, many times before, frankly. this isn't the test that many people were expecting given what we had heard from kim jong-un in his new year's day address where he talked about north korea taking the final steps necessary to be able to test a long-range missile, the kind of icbm, i...

So the icbm was definitely a real threat. so initially when this test first came out, we were waiting for clarification from defense officials what kind of test it was. this is just an intermediate range missile tested for a long time now even since the 1990s. a bit of a sigh of relief there. most experts will tell you if not now, it's going to happen at some point. north korea will at some point attempt to test an icbm. the question is how soon will they be technologically capable of doing that. >> i'm interested to hear from you, as you said, this wasn't the kind of missile launch they were ...