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One you would roll a rocket out at sohae, it was sitting on the pad for days while they were fueling it up. you could see the workers testing things, getting ready for the launch. a pretty inefficient, slow process compared with the solid state fuel rockets that they have since developed. the chi they roll out on mobile launchers, that we've seen north korea test repeatedly in recent years. so if you're talking about cars, the missiles at sohae are like the old chevy that north korea is now taking apart but the porsche is still kfueled and ready with the keys in the ignition. >> so once they h...

Understand this has not been utilized since 2012. if that's in fact the case, then i think that we should be focusing more on what they utilized in the tests they were doing in 2015 and 2016 and 2017. one is an old type of equipment. the other is new. if they're just dismantling something that they had utilized or not in 2012, then we don't have anything here. i think that's what needs to be investigated. >> it's a fair point as will ripley reported last hour. this is where liquid fuelled rockets were tested. not the new solid fuel, which are much more difficult to detect, because they can be ...

Hit us. time is not on our side. they are marching towards that capability according to our intelligence community in the next year. or two. and the other point i want to make is that they will continue to march even past once they have that capability. they'll go to mobile launchers. harder for us to hit them. they'll go to solid fuel, which means they can launch it faster without having to refuel on the rocket pad. they'll go to submarines and multiple missiles at once. we have to decide as a policy matter how long are we going to give diplomatic and economic efforts with china and with the ...

It off. eric: in that case, do you think those party congress is over and we could see a potential missile launch or do you think of jungle disk on the message? >> keep in mind, while we haven't seen a missile launch we did just the a successful test firing where the missile didn't actually fly but if the test firing of a solid fuel engine and that is critically important because the north koreans are progressing in their capability from liquid fuel to solid fuel which means they can launch the missiles much faster and often the japanese and the south koreans get much less time in terms of war...

Conduct, money laundering and supplying technology for north korea's most advanced missiles in all probability. north korea's most advanced missiles and more advanced than what they fired off in july look like the jl submarine one. how come the north koreans have chinese-looking missiles. we need to have those answers before we start talking about war. >> one of the questions is how much of the technology that they claim to have used yesterday is homegrown? how much of it is indigenous versus that which they've brought in from other countries. >> with the detonation of what could be a hydrogen...