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Of kim looking at a design of what experts say is a previously unseen type of missile. a poster of it on the wall say it's the pukason g3. >> what they unveiled is a three stage missile presumably solid propelled and it's capable of reaching the entire united states or presumably so. we just don't know how large it is at this point. >> reporter: experts say the north koreans could be several years away from deploying this missile, but when he does have that capability, kim will be even more dangerous. solid fuel missiles, experts say, are faster to deploy, can be driven to a launch point and f...

Korea and russia. in north korea there is no single launch point in the country that's more than 100 miles away from the ocean. so we have the ability even with the missiles we have today to shoot down north korea icbms in the vulnerable stage, the launch or boost phase, we can do that today with current technology to assurance close to 95 or 99%. we haven't done it yet. if i have any criticism of every administration going back to the jimmy carter era, we have failed to build an effective ballistic shield because we never believed that the north koreans would be capable of building an icbm. >...

So long. within the campaign it was kept quiet this time which was different than 2008 because people were worried they would be punished if they leaked and had some of that come out. we go through in this book literally from the launch point all the fighting that was going on internally. all of the dysfunction that was going on. through election night, she believed she was going to win and this incredible, stunning, heartbreaking for her defeat. >> she couldn't even come out to face everyone. >> that's right. and it took president obama calling her and urging her to concede to donald trump fo...

East sea, also known as the sea of japan. this comes just on the heels of the north koreans issuing more stipends against the joint u.s. south korea military exercises going on here. we were on some of those exercises yesterday. theyontinue torain together for eventualities here including a lot of what we saw was dealing with the possibility of weapons of mass destruction. now, we can tell you that that missile would have been tracked at the air operations center at osan air base. it's about a 10, 15-minute walk from where we are. it is underground. it is very secure. we had rare access there ...

Been part of their psychology and part of their targeting profile for quite some time here. >> fred are people right to think that perhaps africa is becoming something of a hot bed for terrorism, and the countries there where government is weak and not really in control of the country. not in control of large swaths of the country, becoming a strong locust for terrorists? >> the area certainly has been a hot bed of insurgent and terrorist activity. u.s. forces are operating to try to get a handle of it. when you look at kenya and somalia, and this was close to the border between the two countr...