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January 28 when it was called a dumb de. th is something that the austraans really wanted to have happen. what occurre was the vice president said that because of the importance of the strategic relationship, that deal is going to go through. >> all right. well, sara james, thank you very much. let's talk more about the vice president's trip abroad and the u.s. policy on north korea. jonathan pollack is an expert with the brookings institution and former professor at the u.s. naval war college. thank you for joining me. i wanted to start right in on this. how serious is the u.s. taking these n...

Surely upset the united states and surely upset the chinese as well. >> gordon, i want to add somebody to our conversation. we bring in jonathan pollack from the brookings institution, interim south korean studies chairman. thanks for joining gordon and myself. what are you hearing in terms of what has just happened in terms of this missile launch that we're hearing from the associated press that has not been completed successfully? let me add another piece of information that we're getting in from our producer courtney kube. she is saying that u.s. pacific command did detect a north korean mi...

Assessed. the new piece of information that we're getting from the u.s. pacific command as courtney kub said we would be getting is they are now saying the test, whatever type of missile it was, did blow up. but almost immediately. jonathan, what are you hearing? >> sinpo is the location from which north korea has attempted other submarine ballistic missile launch efforts. they've had one reasonable success by their standards last august of this particular missile. they've also done a land-based version of it and both were on display at yesterday's parade. the record here is very mixed. the mi...

Perspective it's a big plus. >> reporter: i'm going to draw your attention, bret to some reporting we saw tonight from the "wall street journal." the paper reporting that jonathan pollack, the famed israeli spy convicted back in 1985 would soon be released from custody. but senior administration officials are pushing back very forecefully on that telling us tonight that no such release is imminent. bret? >> kevin corke traveling with the president in nairobi tonight. kevin, thank you. a look tonight at just how aggressive china is becoming in its silent war against america. it is a war fough...

Perspective it's a big plus. >> reporter: i'm going to draw your attention, bret to some reporting we saw tonight from the "wall street journal." the paper reporting that jonathan pollack, the famed israeli spy convicted back in 1985 would soon be released from custody. but senior administration officials are pushing back very forecefully on that telling us tonight that no such release is imminent. bret? >> kevin corke traveling with the president in nairobi tonight. kevin, thank you. a look tonight at just how aggressive china is becoming in its silent war against america. it is a war fough...