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It's a hold right now. >> shepard: practically speaking, i'm curious to find out what will happen if they make a sixth test. even the chinese have warned them. >> the chinese have and will pose more pressure on them. the ball is in president trump's court. north korea won't get the ability to land a nuke on u.s. he has three or four years to stop them. >> shepard: where do we get that number? >> that's the number of years it would take for north korea to develop the technology, the heat shielding to put a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. they have nukes for intermediate range missiles t...

It would not be like any of the recent conflicts the united states has been involved in. i'm wondering, general, we know the u.s. sent a naval strike force, "uss carl vinson." if north korea connects another nuclear test, what options will the u.s. have in its ability to respond? >> first of all, bear in mind that north korea has conducted five tests to date over the course of the last six years or so. a little more than that. this sixth test will not immediately see a response from the united states. that's my estimate. they've done that before. we've assessed it before. we'll see what this l...

Detonation site would essentially be an act of war. we may preempt in other ways. you know, we could use -- we could use some type of stealth, cyber, but i don't see us sending cruise missiles, if you will, to strike a nuclear site. but i will say this, if they detonate that sixth weapon, this is the first time they've developed a weapon that is militaryized. it's no longer an experiment. it's now a nuclear weapon that is beginning to take -- to be built to fit on the top of a missile. this sixth test, if it goes off and if it's successful, will essentially be from a military standpoint, will ...

I think they sensed the combination of, you know, they've already started to back off a little bit, you know, at the u.n. and other wholesale cart blanche backing of north korea and i do think they've gotten the message. what they'll do i'm not sure, but i think from a diplomatic standpoint this is really a pivotal point as the general said, the sixth test. it's gotten to a critical point where the chinese -- this was a chinese province a thousand years ago. they own this. and they've got to step up and take action to prevent what would be a very devastating, you know, on the korean peninsula....

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