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Incompetence. now it's serious. >> yeah, unfortunately, it is deadly serious. we have to assume this is a hydrogen bomb and plan for the worst-case scenario. dollars the last step in becoming as dangerous as he can. the only thing he could do more now to make it more dangerous to the world was to have solid fuel for the rocket. right now we are dealing with liquid fuel rockets which give us a chance to see preparation for launch and give us a chance to get ourselves warned and ready to go. if he steps to the solid fuel rocket, which they claim they are also ready to do, we are in a situation o...

Intermediate range ballistic missiles which could of course hit our allies in south korea and in japan. chuck, they have been trying to perfect a couple of came builts with these missiles, including what's known as a cold canister launch. a solid fuel rocket on that missile. that prevents them from having to take a lot of time fuel the wroctv.com liquid fuel and it allows them to launch in a hurry. when spy satellites can stare down at these launch pads it gives the time. they could gain the element of surprise. had they fired one that exploded about five minutes, excuse me, several seconds af...

Nobody knows what is inside it. there's only one piece of news uns unsettling. and the other thing was that every rocket was solid fueled. the normal time it takes to fill a rocket, sometimes hours or days, if it's a solid fuel rocket, it can be fired quickly and carried on a vehicle. it can be buried in silos in the ground and therefore very difficult for us to shoot down if they ever, god forbid fired at the west. so far in terms of demonstrative technology plus the missile failure, suggests to me other than fresh paint, there wasn't a lot new in the parade. >> let me ask you then, we have a...

Cut off their coal supplies and i think they were prepared to stop shipments of natural gas as well, which would be a tremendous blow to north korea. so the response, i believe, was just to fire this missile. now, this probably was a solid fuel missile, but their ability to develop this capability has been relatively slow. in addition to that, there are probably 12 to 18 months, maybe longer, from being able to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and fit it on top of a solid fuel rocket. however, i mean, we've been talking about how concerned we are about reaching the united states and that is a conc...

>> you can speculate about that, but it would seem overkill given the other kinds of options they have and given the targets they have in south korea that you can hit with on conventional weapons. i know the nuclear reactors, there are plenty in south korea. how close is north korea to an icbm capability, this is something that people debate a lot. i think they've got a long way to go. the failed missile test yesterday was most likely of a solid fuel rocket. they've had one or two partial successes of that and that's significant and important, but most of their tests end in failure, but then a...