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Way but fired up and really, really feeling that movement again. >> quickly, ishaan, doubling back to north korea, what is the worst case scenario here? what capacity does north korea have and could they feasibly hit the united states? we talked a couple hours ago they could easily hit the lower 48. >> well, they showcased today a couple of missiles in their grand military parade that potentially could have the capacity of reaching the united states, but the real worst case scenario everyone is worried about for a long period of time is a steady escalation that leads to a situation where the n...

Detonations. they're about to have a sixth one. they also have three missiles that can reach the lower 48 states. they just can't make a nuke to them, but the that's about four years down the road. houf however, they have made a nuke to t one missile and that ca threaten the region. of course they have the fourth largest military in the world which threatens south korea with conventional arms and chemical and biological agents. >> yeah. and the trump administration has made a big deal about trade. donald trump said a great friendship was formed with his mar-a-lago meeting. but what actually is...

>> our understanding is, we've used cyber warfare. it could be responsible for the reason some of these have gone off course of late. what do we know? >> all we know is "the new york times" reporting. that is sort of sketchy. they didn't want to release a number of details, this is like what the united states and israel did against the iranian nuclear program. i mean, we destroyed and disabled their centrifuges. we did the same thing with their missiles. this gives us a little bit of time. four years from now, the north korean will have three missiles that will hit the lower 48. they already h...

Just to their neighbors but to the united states? >> well, at present north korea has three missiles that can reach the lower 48 states. they have not been able to make a nuclear weapon to them yet, but that's just a matter of three, four, maybe five years. because they already are able to mate a nuke to their intermediate-range missiles. north korea has identified the u.s. as its primary adversary. i'm not so sure that's what they really believe but their propaganda says that. we see all these videos of washington, d.c. going up in smoke. we now have to take this seriously because you have a ...

That means that they can fire it off and we would have little notice. >> jenna: i'm just looking at the video, and the significance come i want our viewers to see it. but i would like to put up the map of where it took place. i think that is also significant. the launch took place close to china, then went directly into the sea of japan. but not necessarily in japanese waters. if the trajectory was different, our viewers can clearly see that it could go into south korea very easily paid what about the distance that this missile traveled? >> it has a range to hit tokyo, all of south korea, on t...