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Heart of alaska's frontier at ft. greeley. the heavily armed battalion is in a landscape frigid even in summer, the tip barely revealing what lees underneath. we're allowed underground. >> this is what would be launched to intercept any threat coming in to defend the homeland. >> the key piece of equipment is right here? >> reporter: the kill vehicle is right there. >> reporter: the kill vehicle to take down any potential missile comes to the u.s., including from north korea which the u.s. could face in the future. here's how it works. north korea launches. >> we are engaging the threat at thi...

Missile silos, dotting a landscape frigid even in late summer. the tip barely revealing what lies beneath. we're allowed rare access to bring you up close to america's ground-based missile intercepters or gbis. >> this is what will be launched here out of fort greeley to intercept any threat that's coming into the defended homeland. >> reporter: the key piece of equipment is right here. >> the kill vehicle is right there towards the top. >> reporter: the kill vehicle to take down any potential intercontinental ballistic missile coming to the u.s., including from north korea, which the u.s. cou...

Shield, the last and only protection against an incoming north korean nuclear missile. housed deep underground in the heart of alaska's wilderness, about 150 miles north of fairbanks. the heavily armed batalion dots a landscape frigid even in late summer. the tip barely revealing what lies beneath. we're allowed rare access to bring you up close to america's ground base missile interceptors. >> this is what will be launched here to intercept any threat coming in to the homeland. >> the key piece of equipment is right here. >> the kill vehicle is right there towards the top. >> the kill vehicle...

Launched intercontinental ballistic missile 1700 miles into space. the missile was in the air for 3 seconds. the second test on july 28th flew even higher it went 2300 miles into space and flew for 45 minutes. it was the longest and farthest test in the history of north korea's regime. what's note worthy, jon, nsa's international space space station orbits the earth 2250 miles above the earth. these are going 1,000 miles higher than that orbit, jon? >> jon: u.s. has antimissile systems. can the u.s. knock those north korean missiles out of the sky? >> well, jon, the results have been mixed. bu...

President moon expressed, or he has questioned at least in part the deployment of the missile defense system? >> he has indeed. that is something that the diplomats in conjunction with south korea, we should spend a lot of effort so that the president moon understands that that's ballistic missile defense technology in all of its components, the fad, the shore, the afloat, the ground-based missile defense, the ground-based interceptors in alaska, with the redesign kill vehicle, all of those components are critical to the protection of both south korea and the united states. they do not provoke...