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Dangerous. north korea claiming it's now within striking range of the u.s. and can put nuclear warheads on this missile. >> translator: we will do test launches anytime anywhereupon the direction of the supreme leadership. >> reporter: this launch does take kim one step closer to an intercontinental strike capability. >> they fired it straight up about 2,000 kilometers before it came down, so even though it traveled only about 700 kilometers, if they had stretched it out it would have gone about 4,000 kilometers. that's getting very close to icbm range. >> reporter: analysts warn even at this ...

Again, it's nice to have on the program. we caught you frequently because you're a voice in foreign policy. what do you think of this is not an issue of f, but when they will strike the united states? >> they will have the capabilities. if they were to strike, that would be the end of north korea. on the one hand, is unacceptable, but we've dealt with unexceptional threats from other countries. there's a reason why both the bush and obama administrations chose not to make this a priority and it's because it's hard because we don't have a lot of leverage. we could ignore it, we could continue t...

That is proposal, although you did hear the defense secretary say we will be able to defeat any enemy, anywhere. >> yeah, he's talking about a flexible joint force, and you know, the flexibility comes in, the special capabilities, even the president talked about the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance capability, some of our strike capability. we never had enough for two major theaters with all the new bells and whistles we use in today's modern battlefield, so we're going to shift those anyway. the question is whether or not we're going to have enough bombers, enough surface ships and so...