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Its Highstakes Journey Back To Earth. Final goahead. So if all goes well, well see it land back on solid ground in New Mexico within the very hour. Ill be your pilot for live coverage here. Cnn has it all happens before us. Now remember, the capsule is coming back empty, uncrewed and nasa speak. And yes, remembering it correctly, this is the same capsule that wasnt supposed to be uncrewed. It was supposed to have two astronauts coming back home in it, Sonny Williams and butch wilmore. And they are staying put on the international Space Station, as you know, in fact, therell be there until febr...

Capability to intercept the missile is far less after the reentry phase than it is between launch and exiting the atmosphere. it's not just a question of getting it early, you're capable of managbeing more accurate and can strike it after launch than when you wait for it to strike the target. >> colonel, if a missile is has already reentered the atmosphere on its way down, is the reason it's so difficult to intercept were toyota be intercepted, were it carrying shotgun of a nuclear device or something of a chemical bomb once it's come back into the atmosphere and gets taken out, the ramificati...

Then, you have the reentry phase. so the fact that it traveled as far as it did, as high as it did, is significant. the last missile they shot up hit 3500 kilometers, and that was a big launch. so from the standpoint of technical capability of this rocket, it was an improvement, and they're showing steady improvements across the board in their missile systems. >> the speed with which north korea's nuclear capability seems to be increasing, what is that due to? >> this is what is surprising, the fact they're achieving these goals so quickly. as the general said, they have already mastered these...

North korea is dirt poor. his military is not nearly as powerful as the south korean military or the u.s. he is struggling to hold this degenerate regime together and he sees nukes as his last resort, blackmail and threat. >> shannon: i get the same question when he does this about why we don't shoot them down. you've sent me notes on why it is not a good idea. >> you learn the most about their capabilities from the reentry phase. theirs tend to break apart and we find out how inaccurate they are. also, of course, shooting them down would cost us a lot of money to shoot them down. that's not t...

Because they deterred north korea from going beyond their testing to actually taking the shot at south korea or the united states territory. you have the boost phase when the enemy missile goes up, we need things in the area in korea to shoot those down. we have the exo- atmospheric phase, like the test we just stayed where we shoot it down out in space, and then we have the reentry phase where we need the same kind of stuff that we have and south korea both in hawaii and to the continental united states to shoot down the missiles that we do not get in space. so we need all three components, p...