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Himself in a central role in this very dangerous country, a foe not to be underestimated. eric. mark: gregal -- eric, gregal rot, thank you. greg talcott, thank you. arthel: doug mckelway is in washington, what do we know about this new missile displayed at today's parade? >> reporter: there were a couple of erroneous reports today that the missile had been launched. that turned out not to be true, but it highlights the risks of misinformation in this hair-trigger atmosphere. it is the new subhama lean-launched -- submarine launch icbm that was one of three new solid fuel missiles debuted in t...

Still in the early stages of development on that particular technology. now the other big concern among analysts is solid fuel. solid fuel for missiles would allow north korea to fire quickly without loading liqui fuel first. that fueling allows satelliteo capture exactly what north korea is doing. sort ofs giv gives analysts a h up. it would give them quicker launch abilities and launch without anyone getting a head's up yet. it appears from the hardware in today's parade, they are working on that technology as well. thomas. >> kelly, we saw the vice president mike pence and his wife arriving...

Submarine launched ballistic missiles. they already have solid fuel, road mobile launchers. north korea is actually a desperately poor country with a primitive armed forces which by the way active and reserve is 25% of the entire population. maybe 25% of gnp on defense. but now they have got 15 nukes. i'd be less concerned about this weekend and the thought that an irrational preemptive strike would take place on north korean nuclear facilities. i'm sure we are not going do that. but i am concerned about the fairly short period of time five, ten years we will be at great risk. >> david sanger,...

That's unclear. most analysts agree that they are in the somewhat early stages, but they're making progress. then there was another interesting thing of note today, including solid fuel. suggestions that perhaps they were showing off this technology which would allow north korea to fire missiles quickly without loading liquid fuel first. that's usually an indicator via satellite that they're about to make a launch that allows those watching north korea to get an early heads up before north korea test launches. if they develop solid fuel, they would be able to launch without that early detectio...

With the upcoming summit tweet presidents trump and xi scheduled for later this week. this was an intermediate-range ballistic missile. second one launch this year. it differs from last year because of the way these missiles are being launched. there's progress being made because these missiles use solid fuel. that allows them to launch from the back of a truck. that makes them mobile and easier to be hidden and it makes them harder to track because they can be launched with much shorter notice. progress being made. however we should note this is not an intercontinental ballistic missile. it c...