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But it also destabilizes our allies around the world. >> i want to go back to adam for a second. he's still with us from d.c. i want to ask him, adam is a senior fellow with certain for american progress. let me give you a full introduction once again, adam. to that point, is now the time for more fierce rhetoric from this administration, do you want to see more of that? would that have any positive effect if indeed this was a sixth nuclear test? >> there's no evidence that american rhetoric affects north korea's propensity to test whatsoever. throughout the spring donald trump and his adminis...

On north korea, any pressure that china puts on north korea is going to have the desired effect. this is north korea's primary objective is to develop this deterrent capability and they're going to do it regardless of what it costs them, because they believe that once they do that, then they will have leverage against any kind of sanctions or pressure from the outside. so you know, they're going to be playing a long game. i don't think china will do much for us. they macon dem the test, but i don't think this is going to be a game changer. >> i want to be clear when it comes to the situation o...

Intercontinental ballistic missile. that's something experts thought north korea was months if not years away from achieving. but now according to state media who showed pictures of north korean leader kim jong-un at their nuclear facility inspecting this nuclear bomb and how it would be put on an icbm, that's very significant because previously we knew north korea could strike the region and could strike the united states with a missile. but they hadn't been able to put a nuclear device on the missiles. now they say they are capable of doing that. that comes as what appears to be a test of a ...

Deterred. the implication is that he would want to strike before north korea really consolidated this icbm capability. those statements are not helpful. they have not kept north korea from testing and i see no rejoon for doing so in the future. all they do is manufacture a dries sis, to try to ramp up the pressure and north korea just feeling it. >> adam, talk to us about the propaganda value, if you will, of such a test. within north korea itself, the value to kim jong-un. >> as you heard from the reporting, north korean citizens are enthralled by these nuclear tests and missile tests. each o...

How the richter scale works every point up is ten times for powerful. that's not to say whatever caused this earthquake is ten times more powerful than the last one. it just says according to the richter scale this earthquake is ten times more powerful than the previous one in 2016. so that's something to give the experts insight into what exactly happened. but we are also monitoring north korean state television. they usually come out fairly quickly with some celebratory statement saying they have carried out a nuclear test. so we are watching closely to see when and if they do that. but righ...