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>> we'll get to the diplomacy in a minute but north korea may be getting ready to fuel a ballistic missile. one of the key final stages in preparing for a test launch familiar with latest information. in the past it was always speculation that north korea might conduct while a sitting u.s. president was in the region. they never thought it through on that. will this time be different and will that shape u.s. policy toward pyongyang in major way? >> north korea has a history of testing and conducting provocations around the south korean. it's different with the u.s. president being in the regio...

Around the presidents visit. what do you know? >> that's right. u.s. intelligence is now assessing that north korea appears to be beginning to get ready to fuel an intercontinental ballistic missile, which is one of the final stages before you launch one of those iv's ems. that is according to a u.s. official familiar with the intelligence. this suggests that a launch, a test launch by north korea, one of these icbms could occur very likely while president biden is here in south korea. now, president biden is set to arrive here in about 14 hours. and the test by north korea's something they ha...

Both knows what's going on and was willing to say so on national television is quite striking. since then they made him go back on tv a couple days later and say something different. and they took down the show from their online presence. so that this show is now no longer available in russia. they put something up instead. but i think this sort of thing lives on in social media, and is making the rounds in russia, and people do know the real state of what the war is. >> general, president biden has headed to asia. there's a lot of tension. the u.s. assessing north korea may be ready to launch...

Community is now seeing indicators that north korea may be in the final stages of preparing for a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, of course, a missile that could theoretically hit the united states if it ever all worked. they see these preparations under way at a test tithe near pyongyang we are told near the capital and they have been watching this very carefully because they believe kim jong-un wants to continue with his missile test program. they have seen a number of tests in recent months, u.s. intelligence has stepped up its surveillance through satellites and other...

That said, u.s. officials say they did know about this test launch in advance. they monitored it very closely. and to date, my colleagues and i -- clearly my colleagues at the pentagon. the u.s. has not detected any new or unusual movement of russian nuclear forces. but they are watching closely. and they keep repeating a message, which i heard from the acting ambassador to ukraine earlier today, about what would happen if russia were to threaten the u.s. or nato. have a listen. >> if russia steps one toe over nato, nato will respond. president biden has made that clear. and we are ready to do...