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War ii, sirens are going off here. south korea fired missiles six minutes later and one failed. they tried to see if they could launch the north korean launch sites, but this is a very difficult situation out here. and the sanctions, at least so far, because there have been round after round increasingly heavy sanctions, but i can tell you, i was in pyongyang last week with more cars on the road than ever, the store shelves are full, people are or have cell phones and welcome frontics electronics and the living standards have gone up. and the north korean economy grew by 6%. will the sanctions...

And its allies. just seconds after, south korea who has been waiting for a missile launch of this kind, they launched their own missile in response, a ballistic missile they say could easily take out north korea's launch sites. this site was actually in their capitol of pyongyang. a city i woke up in yesterday, flew from the area where this missile was launched for. and pretty surreal to come from where the missile was launched and come to this country here. >> as you said you were just there, your 15th trip to the country, by the way. so there were signs that another launch was imminent, corr...

Have 0 get china to stop being so friendly with north korea. very often missiles are carried on chinese missile equipment to the launch sites. what do we know now that we haven't known over the last decades? >> well, we know that china feels threatened by this military build-up in h north korea. that china doesn't want to see a nuclear arms race where south korea has nuclear weapons and the japanese begin to talk about it. so they have a stake in stability. they have a stake in a denuclearized korean peninsula. they have a stake in a stable government in h north korea. we should give assurance...

Test. the north has moved what could be a long range missile closer to launch sites. we'll keep an eye on the dow as we head to the closing bell. let's bring in sue mi terry. she recently traveled to south korea. these are ominous times when that country may possess a hydrogen bomb now and has the capability to launch it. >> absolutely. a very powerful bomb. whether it's hydrogen or not, it's clearly five times more powerful than the bomb we dropped on hiroshima. we are stuck with limited options. preventative strike, which is obviously has risks with military option or having to live with a n...

Mattis and nikki haley are saying that enough is enough. and they're talking about military action. what could that possibly look like? >> well, katy i'll ans the good question with a caveat. it's an entirely different caveat here at the pentagon. they have options. i'll also say in terms of options, most of this comes from former pentagon officials. it's difficult to find someone inside this building to talk on the record on what those options are. that's the throat clearing. they could send up a massive amount of aircraft trying to take out both their nuclear program, their missiles, their l...