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Ballistic missile launches are not uncommon. Nuclear-armed nations inform one another of ballistic missile tests, via diplomatic back channels, as no one wants to start a nuclear war by accident.
Do about it? we had an excellent layout that best place to get the missile launch is during the boost phase. missile moving very slowly. very easy to engage with lasers if they are alerted. you only have a few minutes to do it. so mostly we have focused in the department of defense on terminal phase. so as coming in as they are coming in alaska, missile defense system, will then launch and try to hit a bullet with a bullet. we can do it. frequently it doesn't work. but that's where we are right now. now, again, on civil defense, it's not that it's useless. it isn't. it should be there for sue ...
Another country, another location. >> sure. >> so those were my initial thoughts. >> hans, let's talk about capability here. been distracted by the rhetoric between the leader of north korea and our president as well, president trump when it comes to north korea nuclear capability. where is the northern program at this point in terms of their ability to launch a weapon like this? >> well, they have the range to reach the west coast of the united states with the pay load likely. we don't know whether or not they have the range to reach the east coast with a pay load. all the tests they've done,...
Another. it will have a tremendous impact on north korea. china really supplies 90% of north korea's energy. financial lifeline to the outside world. they haven't applied pressure in the past because they are worried the regime will collapse. maybe their attitude is changing. >> jeanine: if indeed kim jong un does make a decision to try to do something, i mean, i believe the president when he says you are covered. we got your back. with our military, the sophisticated technology to prevent that kind of thing from happening if he were to try to attack with an icbm. correct? >> let's be honest, ...
On north korea. china really supplies 90% of north korea'se energy. financial lifeline to the outside world. they haven't applied pressureidn the past, because they are worried the regime will collapse. maybe their attitude is changing? >> jeanine: if indeed kim jong un does make a decision to try to do something, i mean, i believe the president when he says, you are covered. we got your back. the present will be able to come up with our military and the sophisticated technology that we have to prevent that kind of thing from happening ifif you we to try to attack with an icbm. correct? >> let...