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About what is happening north of the border. right now, we'll leave you, shep, we'll try to get some harder confirmation from the officials nature and quality, most important the quality whether this thing is working on this launch. back to you. >> shepard: greg palkot live pyongyang, north korea this early friday morning. within a matter of 15 minutes of the launch we have been assured we will know whether this test has been successful. north koreans have tried exactly this test at least twice before and each time it's been unsuccessful. words from western nations and especially the united st...

Internal consumption in north korea than anything else. that the new leader of that country is trying to say to his people, i'm in charge. i'm getting this done. if they leave out the pesky little fact that we have now confirmed that this mission launch failed, well, he may have a victory there because you can't learn anything except what state media tells you in north korea. >> yes, that's correct. i think the north koreans are going to tout this as a success no matter what. >> shepard: jennifer griffin, do we expect to hear anything from any officials at any level tonight? >> i don't expect ...

2009 model. that's the last time the north koreans have tried an intercontinental ballistic missile launch and that failed when the third stage went. this third stage of this rocket said to be of a better grade and, in fact, with some cross pollination with the iranian rocket specialist. so there is a little bit better chance of this going off and as we have been talking about, the trajectory of this launch, completely different, not going over japan. not heading towards other areas that might be seen as a threat to the united states. it's a direct south trajectory going just off of south kore...

Really make this ballistic missile technology worrisome, that has been a problem in the past. we don't know at this point at which phase this test may have failed. but, again, there are initial indications from u.s. officials that from what they are seeing, it looks like this launch may have failed. >> philip yun still on the line with us. do we have a sense yet, does our intelligence community have a sense of how to deal with kim the younger if you will, this new leader in north korea versus the tactics taken with kim jong il, his predecessor? >> you know, i said before that right now at this...

Splash down we will get an idea where the failure was in this rocket. all of this stuff is important. because all of this sends messages to those who might want to buy this technology. for instance, and just as for instance, if some rogue nation or some rogue group wanted to launch something nuclear to cause harm in this nation or anywhere else, had this succeeded, they would be able to say all right, we'll take two of those. if it failed on the third stage less use for it if it failed in the second stage the n bleggens have a long way to go. fox news has confirmed have a senior u.s. official ...