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Korean war. we're not going to start that war ourselves. what we could consider is more specific strategic attacks, for example, against a long-range icbm with liquid fuel if we can see it being fueled before launch. that's a big "if" because north korea is working on a wide range of solid fuel missiles. we have to int intercept this in the sea of japan. that may or may not work. the north koreans may or may not see it as a challenge that they have to circumvent by launching in a different direction, for example, but it's got its own perils. the real option is to convince china to help us. two...

Coincidence. they announced this rocket engist test that they were meeting with the chinese president. this technology is concerning because it shows the continued advancement of north korea's missile program leading them to their end game is is a nuclear war head. >> so what are we to know about this new technology? >> we know that north korea is creating a more sophisticated weaponry. the big thing they are doing now that's different from the past is they switched to solid fuel. this allows missiles to be ruled out and laurvelged with short notice. we know north korea has a number of missile...

Back even ten years ago when missiles have flown over japan and, you know, essentially putting within striking range millions of people here in tokyo, more than 50,000 u.s. troops are stationed here in japan and so here in tokyo, the prime minister was speaking with lawmakers and he said that they believe this is a new level of danger from north korea because even though there have been missiles launched before, what we've seen over the last few years has been very rapid progress in this missile development, more advanced type of missiles, the solid fuel missiles that can be launched without m...

Solid fuel, and that gives a couple different strategic advantages to the north koreans. it allows the missiles to be more mobile. they don't have to be put into mace, a place, and it also of allows them to be launched faster. it's not to the level of a nuclear weapon test and it's not an intercontinental ballistic missile, something pyongyang is working on as we speak. >> matt, thank you for the report. >> so let's go to steven jung. we haven't heard from beijing yet. we do expect to hear from them soon. when they talk, what are they likely to say? >> reporter: well, rosemary, they're likely ...

White house. donald trump and the japanese prime minister were sitting down to their wedge salads when they learned of this launch, according to the reports out there. if this was intended to provoke donald trump into a bellicose reaction, the north koreans failed on that end. but there is reason to be concerned, this missile as we understand flew farther than previous north korean tests, over 300 miles before dropping into the sea of japan. it's also reportedly the first time the north koreans claimed to have used something called solid fuel. if that's true, that's a pretty big step forward b...