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Temporarily grounded some u.s. flights on the west coast. cnn's brian todd is joining us right now. he he's got new details on these latest missile launches by kim jong un's regime. what are you learning? >> tonight, kim jong un is continuing his aggressive push to ramp up missile capability and keep the u.s. and its allies on edge. tonight, pentagon officials say the two missiles kim jong un's regime test fired today from a rail car were, quote, ballistic in nature. this is north korea's third missile launch in two weeks. the previous two, in recent days, were what pyongyang claim were succes...

We continue to strengthen our military and deter conflict in order to advance america's interests. we will do this first by building a more lethal force, increasing readines readiness ad modernizing for the future. eric: that's the new defense secretary on iran, explaining how the u.s. is responding to the groanin growing iran threat. earlier this week, the u.s. said the regime test fired a ballistic missile in defy yanksf the iran nuclear deal. as a result of tighter sanctions, tehran will continue to ramp up be lidg up beligeran.

Advisor and then we'll talk. >> the threat is much more immediate now and so it's clear that we can't repeat the same approach, failed approach of the past. the president has directed us to not do that. and to prepare a range of options, including a military option which nobody wants to take. >> why is the threat more immediate? >> because every time kim jong-un and his regime test, whether it's a nuclear test or a missile launch, they learn. they advance their technology, advance their programs and we were saying this before the trump administration in the winning months. they continued to ge...

Listen to the national security advisor and then we'll talk. >> the threat is much more immediate now and so it's clear that we can't repeat the same approach, failed approach of the past. the president has directed us to not do that. and to prepare a range of options, including a military option which nobody wants to take. >> why is the threat more immediate? >> because every time kim jong-un and his regime test, whether it's a nuclear test or a missile launch, they learn. they advance their technology, they advance their knowledge, they advance their programs. and we were saying this even be...

Development programs. last june the regime test fired an intermediate range ballistic missile called the musudan. it flew about 400 kilometers before landing in the sea. in august, poyongyang had its most successful test firing of a submarine launched missile. then north korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test to da date. in february this year, pyongyang fired a new ballistic missile, the kn-15, that traveled some 500 kilometers. last month, the regime fired four ballistic missiles eastward and three of them landed within 200 nautical miles of japan's coastline. on april 5th, less than ...