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Respond, those are questions also being asked here among the public in south korea. they want to know and understand what the u.s. means when they say that if china doesn't handle the north korea problem, the u.s. will go it alone. they want to make sure that they're being consulted, that they're working in conjunction and in cooperation with u.s. leaders in terms of any decision made about how to deal with north korea, particularly when you hear words coming from washington like the fact that all options remain on the table and a military option could be considered. that's a very important is...

Korea has carried out in recent months? >> reporter: it didn't come as a surprise to much of the world, ivan. i can tell you that. everyone anticipated that kim jong-un could pull off a provocative action of some sort timed around the most important day on the north korean calendar, which was just yesterday. so daybreak in this part of the world, you did have this failed missile launch. officials in the u.s. are saying it appears it was some kind of medium-range missile they attempted to launch, but the whole thing crumbled just four or five seconds into it. so they're considering this a compl...

Reports, can shoot down an icbm test in its ascend phase. whether that's possible, i don't know. that's all classified material. i'm not even sure if that weapon exists in deployable form yet. if such a thing happens, obviously, yeah, a miscalculation could lead to escalation, even if both parties don't want to escalate. >> all right. martin, discussing some of the potential implications here of this ratcheting up of tensions on the korean peninsula. thank you very much, martin, for your analysis there. >> thank you. >> and i'm going to turn now to natalie and george at cnn headquarters. >> th...

Cnn's will ripley is reporting from pyongyang. cnn's alexandra field is at u.s. military headquarters in seoul, south korea. let's start with you, will. what do north korean officials tell you when you ask b about the -- about these warnings that come from the u.s. and allies in the region not to carry out nuclear tests, not to carry out ballistic missile tests, which are all, of course, banned under multiple united nations security council resolutions. >> reporter: to put it simply, ivan, they feel the united states is hypocritical. they feel the united states doesn't really have room to talk...

Reporting from pyongyang. we're going to go to matt rivers, who's in beijing right now. of course, success of american administrations have asked china to try to crack down harder on its economic trading parter in, north korea. matt, is china uncomfortable with these scenes, with these missile launches, and with the threat of nuclear tests coming from its neighbor, north korea? >> reporter: uncomfortable is a really good way to put t ivan. i think that the chinese are certainly not happy. if china wants anything, it's stability. stability means that the communist party here can retain power an...