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Cnn has learned the south dakota like others in the virginia class will be able to launch tomahawk missiles, gather intelligence and deploy navy s.e.a.l.s. >> we want to verify that or if we want to verify the north koreans have telling us something, we want to necessarily have someone who can put eyes on the ground, eyes on target, to verify that. it is a highly dangerous mission. >> reporter: in what would be a cold war style cat and mouse game with north korean submarines, experts say, the stealth capability of stubs like the south dakota could make the difference between life and death. >>...

Missiles. for kim jong-un, it's a dangerous new weapon to worry about. >> may god bless her and saul ta sail in her. >> a 360 foot long 8,000 ton menace that could face off with kim jong-un. behind that scaffolding, america's newest fast attack submarine, the uss south dakota. it's a virginia class sub like this and will be ready to enter the fleet by late next year with stealth capability. >> it's one of newest and quietest ships we have in the world today with regard to submarines. >> if it deploys in the pacific, the south dakota will likely at some point sail near the korean peninsula to c...

Launch intercontinental or some level of ballistic missile that could be nuclear tipped. >> kim has already test launched missiles from a submarine. recent imagery shows a sub undergoing what could be some important upgrades. cnn has learned the south dakota, like others in the virginia class, will be able to launch tamme toma hawk missiles and deploy navy s.e.a.l.s. they could be deployed in a situation where we don't trust the other capabilities of intelligence gathering. we want to verify that or if we want to verify the north koreans are telling us something, we want to necessarily have so...

The those are all fighters and bombers with stealth capability. >> that's right. when we talk about north korea, we're always talking about conventional war versus nuclear war. there are important matters to discuss on that front. is there a pentagon response in what are people at the pentagon thinking about this endless small pro vags. it doesn't top north korea can't win a nuclear war or conventional war against u.s. allies, but think keep doing it. >> they would say they're incremental advances toward a final goal. they demonstrated part of the goal that they can hit guam. the other questio...

South korea, seoul, china, japan before we actually kick the sights out? is that a real worry and concern? worst-case scenario, how many dead are we talking about? >> their trump card for lack of a better turn the kim jong un has is his artillery. thousands of pieces and thete rockets that are aimed at soul, a city of 25 million plus peopl people. so imagine artillery raining down on a city like manhattan. i'm not confident, what this would look like is essentially our stealth capability, the cyber, the electronic warfare going in early to take down the air defenses so that we then have the fo...