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Is serious about the preemptive attack against north korea. we are not living our lives under north korea threat from a crazy man in north korea and if there is a war to stop this threat it will be in china's backyard not america's backyard. hi needs to deliver the message to the chinese without any equivocation and i think he has. >> martha: senator graham, good to talk to you tonight. thank you very much, sir. what are the military options? here now general jack keene, fox news military analyst. we talk about the technology we would have to shoot a missile down if they were to do that. do we...

We're going to try and get what's called intelligence and warning, i and w to determine are they getting the missiles ready, are they fuelling them up, where do we think they're going to be shooting them, where do we think the target is going to be. from that, we make an assessment. at this point in time, i think the response should be, if they're going to aim and argument guam and they have as much as said so, that we need to prepare to shoot that missile down, regardless of where it goes. any missile leaving the north korean peninsula at this point has to be considered a threat to the u.s. o...

Testing surface-to-surface missiles which can travel up to 200 200 miles. seoul is 35 miles from the dmz. north korea has thousands of artillery units pointed at south korea's capital. south korea released a video simulating an attack on north korea. when asked why the pentagon did not shoot the missile down, a pentagon spokesman said the u.s. military did not employ an elaborate missile defense shield because it did not threaten the u.s. homeland. what worries u.s. officials is this two-stage missile was able to reenter the earths atmosphere and now has the range to hit alaska. the u.s. has d...

Sent this missile down in uncharted territory. perhaps 15,000 feet? >> it's very deep. we've searched for airplanes that deep before with success. and it's a really laborious task. because it's so slow going. it took about two years to find the wreckage of airfrance on the bottom of the atlantic. and i don't suppose that it's going to be a very quick process here with malaysia air 370. but it's something that i'm confident that we will find. i think these are definitely the pingers that we've been hearing. and i think that we've got an approximate location for the wreckages. i think it's only ...

Are told from multiple sources. but they are watching for it. so if there is a launch, u.s. satellites would very quickly, within seconds, pick up that heat signature, the infrared signs of a launch. they would then begin to be able to quickly calculate a missile's trajectory, its flight path. where it's headed and its aim point. the target it is aimed at. what we know is that the u.s. procedure is military agencies, intelligence agencies, will all be in instant communication as this trajectory and target would be plotted. they would be able to calculate whether that missile, in fact, is heade...