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Thernl is a significant move, the u.s. has been very clear, leaders have been very clear on their point they will do whatever is necessary to protect gents this north korean threat. and what we've seen on the peninsula is a ratcheting up of missile testing. more than 4 dozen missile tests in the last year. that's an acceleration of the missile testing program. there are analysts saying there are signs of evidence suggesting is we could be seeing another nuclear test from north korea. these are all moves that the u.s. and south korean counterparts are taking seriously and trying to respond to. ...

Interest mediate range missile. let's bring our viewers up to speed. tell us what we know now about this launch and why it matters so much the type of missile the north koreans fired. >> our understanding and let's be clear, it's very early, the u.s. and its partners in japan and south korea are just looking now at this projectile it seems to be an inter mediate range missile and it seems to have gone for a range about 500 kilometers. now that's not very far. this is a missile that north korea has tested before and hasn't done so well. so it is continuing -- this is a missile testing program. ...

This is not a very long range missile. officials say it's bad, it's not earth-shattering. particularly in the obama administration, they were really careful to calibrate their response. this president is not someone who calibrates a response. you know, he's very fiery with his rhetoric, fiery with his tweets. and that goads north korea. i mean, they're playing a game a little bit with president trump. and i think the danger is, you get into this situation where the rhetoric escalates, and then -- north korea is very unpredictable, and you don't know what they would do. this is one 500-kilomete...

Himself, not answering a question he clearly heard, ana. >> let's bring in ambassador chris hill, again, significant because you, ambassador, headed the u.s. delegation to those six-party talks between 2005 and 2009, had numerous opportunities to try to negotiate with north korea. i wanted to get your reaction first to what we've learned of this missile launch. >> first of all, we don't know a lot about it. it might be a missile we've seen before. it might be something else. it might be a solid fuel missile, and that's something we're worried about because they could stand those up in a hurry ...

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