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Encouraging japan or south korea to get nuclear weapons, driving them even closer to confrontation? >> paul: so the thing to watch now is how quickly and how firmly the chinese actually follow through on their promises. >> i think that's right. but then also kim jong un, through this threat and through his other steps, i think, is just making it harder and harder to accept that missiles are being put on launch pads in north korea aim god knows where with what god only knows under the nose cone. paul: what about this back and forth insults? the president calling him rocket man and kim jong un, ...

Intelligence? >> it is extremely difficult, virtually impossible. first we don't have an embassy in pyongyang so that limits the official diplomats or any kind of agents we might run. also just trying to blend in. obviously we stand out because of different ethnicity. also even south koreans try and run operatives, they have difficulty. different dialects, different use of words, pronunciation, the populist is suspicious of any foreigner, anyone they don't recognize. >> reporter: north koreans who talk to foreigners without permission could wind up thrown in prison camps or even executed. ther...

Moving along with their daily lives. what is the nation doing to preparing for any potential strike? >> reporter: it is doing something. ministry of defense deployed interceptor systems to southern regions of japan. they would fly over in pyongyang carries through with this threat against guam. the ministry of defense doing that in the middle of a national holiday here showing even know officials have taken a measured response to this ramping up of rhetoric in the u.s. and north korea, they are taking the threats seriously. local reports saying that the systems are in place and the launch pads...

National security incidents and how the u.s. responds to them under the commander in chief trump. in syria's case, things changed with cruise missile strikes and a retaliatory strike that would not have happened under obama lightly. with north korea, there's a whole different ball game. there is no military option and there aren't enough people or north korea observers and nuclear experts and ex-military officials who can say that loudly enough. there are no good military options. but that doesn't mean as we should say -- the pog will say they never take the military options off the table, but...

Korean major launch pads are, anything we see could be launched in advance, and we could use a regular conventional bomb to destroy the rocket. but the problem is the july fourth launch seemed to be from a mobile launcher so we didn't know where it was being set up. so that approach may be no longer valid. you could try to intercept the missile just after it was launched. and the purpose there is let's deprive north korea from seeing offensive their rocket works. deprive it of the ability to see if the missile survivors atmospheric re-entry. that's option one. it's not a big solution, but it h...