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Attack on washington on the white house on the capitol and what appeared to be the uss carl vinson and around 5:30 local time, the time when north korea usually conducts tests like, reports of the kn-17 ballistic missile fired and traveling several hundred miles, we don't know the exact distance yet, we will get more intelligence as u.s. and south korea and japan measure data, this is off the waters of japan. it appears after failures, this ninth launch attempt by kim jong-un is a success. of course now the question, what will the u.n. security council do after that big meeting chair by secret...

That's it. this is the fourth -- actually the ninth north korean missile launch since president trump took office. four of those missile tests have failed, and it comes just after he warned of a potential major conflict with that country. nbc's kelly cobiella joins us now from seoul, south korea. kelly, what's the story? >> reporter: well, chris, u.s. pacific command said they first got wind of this missile launch at about 5:33 this morning local time. they said that's when the launch happened. that would be 6:33 p.m. eastern time. they say the missile was fired from the southwest part of the ...

Asked about north korea's latest test. >> the leader of north korea again recklessly tried to provoke something by launching a missile. it was not an intercontinental ballistic missile. it failed on launch. >> the missile exploded four seconds after launch. u.s. officials are calling it a kn-17, a new designation for a scud missile. the pentagon is not calling it a carrier killer. targeting ships is a hard technology to perfect, but that is pyongyang's aspiration. no images exist of the new missile. i'm told this is a single stage liquid-fueled missile. we've learned that the intelligence comm...

Mattis leaves for a weeklong trip to the middle east that will include stops in saudi arabia, israel, egypt, and the horn of africa. fox news has learned from well-placed defense sources the type of medium-range missiless that north korea tried to test this weekend with a new kind of scud known as a k ends atsi scud known as a kn-17, a single stage liquid fuel missile. officials here are not commenting when asked if u.s. cyber command had any role in causing the lunch to fail. it's notable that 88% of the intermediate range lucid on missiles that north korea hadin tried to test since a year ag...