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>> what we're hearing from defense secretary mattis is articulating a policy that's been somewhat obvious on the ground now for several weeks, and that is the u.s. forces working with coalition partners will try to surround and encircle isis, and then annihilate them, and there won't be any chance for them to escape and potentially go to north america or northern europe and have a terrorist attack there. it's a little dit bit of a difference in mosul. they left a western route open. in syria and raqqah, they're trying to surround all of the villages and allow no fighters to escape so they don'...

According to our reporting. they don't see preparations around the corner. the solid fuel ones they could surprise us with. but the real dangerous one, the kn-17 does need a bit of a lead time and they're not seeing anything there. one quick thing, it doesn't have fins, so when they do bring it in, they don't have a lot of accuracy. that doesn't mean it isn't a very dangerous weapon. >> how far can it go, hans? >> 2800 miles, i believe is the theoretical range. this one didn't go that far. this only went 460 miles. but that's because they shot it so high up in the air, went up about 1200 miles...

What we learned is when it reentered the atmosphere, it looked like it reentered in tact. it was a controlled reentry. that was all one of the main obstacles that north korea had had on their missile program, on their ballistic missile program. what they did is they shot it straight up in the air. so the arc came down like this. but it was very controlled and they wanted to see if it could establish reentry and do it. it did that successfully. that's a great deal of concern, according to two military officials on the reporting to be transparent about that. it is a great deal of concern at the ...