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A top u. S. Official just got a rare look inside north korea, u. S. Vice president mike pence traveled from south korea to the dematerialized zone. He stood just about 200 feet, some 60 meters from all the while you can see here under the gauge of north korean troops, at one point they appeared to take a picture. Here is what the Vice President had to say about the dmz and u. S. Ties to seoul and the Nuclear Programs. And im here to express the resolve of people of the United States and the president of the United States to achieve that effective, through peaceable means and negotiations. But ...

Throughout the region. Also here in the United States, prompting a tweet from President Donald Trump who said this ishs north korea has Just Launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life . Hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all. I want to bring in our International Correspondent Paula Hancocks in seoul for us and pentagon koecorrespondent Barbara Starr from the pentagon. Paula, what do we know about the launch and whats the reaction...

Is supreme in endoe pacific because of nuclear powered submarines. north korea is demonstrating a submarine launched ballistic missile can travel 600 kilometers more than 370 miles inland that's an escalation and major potential security threat when you're talking about already volatile situation and an arms race essentially that's been happening in the endoe pacific region with china and north korea making hypersonics. a test could happen within the month. that also echoed just hours ago by the japanese defense minister who is speaking publicly about this submarine launched ballistic missile....

On the european continent into eastern flank nations, we're considering that as well. >> you could speak directly to military families about what heightened alert means exactly. and even in nonmilitary families. how many of that 8,500 could be deployed if you go to the next step, what is the timeline and what should those families know and be prepared for? >> so some of the units that we are notifying today are already on what we call a short tether. perhaps some of them are on ten days prepare to deploy. so they're already in a heightened readiness posture and they're families know they could...

Nato allies. some units are already on a heightened state of readiness. i don't know of specific orders that general walters gave to increase the readiness posture of other unit in europe. i go back to a core principle here. we take our nato commitments seriously. we are going to be consulting with allies as we have been in coming days. if there are ways to bolster their capabilities to help their defensive postures, we will take a serious look at that and not all of that has to come or necessarily will come from state side. >> three quick follow-ups. does walters have the ability to