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That north korea has a point when it talks about being sandwiched in between super powers of china, russia, and the u.s. it wants its own nuclear arsenal. >> and even since 1964, maybe even earlier. then north korea was under the soviet nuclear umbrella so they had all the nuclear weapons they ever need. what they see now is that china is a friend, some sort of a hostile one. so you have a situation where you have a militant regime which wants a deterrent. they end up doing things which are aggressive. and of course they want to protect themselves and make sure they're not subject to retaliati...

Serious. i just don't believe it is. north korea is still years away from the ability to field a missile with a nuclear warhead that could hit the united states. >> you just heard chris lawrence report they don't think the new missile defense system would be in place until 2017. would the north koreans have a missile capability with a nuclear warhead ready for use against potentially the united states by 2017? >> highly unlikely. they've been making fits and starts in this in their missile technology. they've tried three times to launch a long-range missile. they just succeeded for the first t...

Welcome to "way too early," a few hours ago north korea's state media reported the country detonated a nuclear device. a test that seems to been timed to coincide with president obama's state of the union address this evening. this adds a new dynamic to the president's speech in which he was planning to call for a reduction in america's nuclear arsen arsenal. the underground test was the most powerful to date. if confirmed this would mark north korea's third nuclear test since 2006 and the first since kim jong un took over the country. the test follows tightened sanctions imposed by the united...

Of north korea. the regime has made good on its promise and its threat to up its missile program. now successfully launching a long range rocket. here you see fireworks and a parade set up to sell operate the launch. this move is setting off urgent alarm bells on the region and here at home. we have former deputy vice president for national security affairs. steven, good good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: you told our producers this demonstrate ad significant leap in its long-range missile capability, meaning north korea. explain. >> correct. as you rightly noted when we last di...

Korea. bill: steven yates, sir, good morning and welcome back here to america's newsroom. it's been some time since we talked about this issue. now it's back and on the plate. >> any time you are dealing with long range missile capability it will be a concern. we have thousands of troops stationed in japan and korea. there is talk of being able to reach los angeles or the western coast. no north korean test so far has reached that near abroad. bill: what would korea want to prove with this launch? >> always dangerous to try to climb into the mind of a north korean leader. but there would have ...