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Developing stories like this as an on going expert. thank you for being here. couple things were different about yesterday that we noticed. one was the timing and this 2.5 months or so of silence. and then the other information that came almost simultaneously during the day with an icbm, and that was that they could be farther along with developing nukes than we had been previously told. >> well, you know, i wouldn't try to psycho analyze north korea when it comes to the pace or timing of their tests. sometimes it has symbolic value. sometimes it's probably due to scientific or technological r...

Between the white house and south korea to destroy that alliance. >> kim jong un, we've got to remember the core goal of his regime is to -- the destruction of the south korean state. i'm concerned that when he becomes confident in his arsenal, he's going to blackmail the united states to break our mutual defense treaty with south korea and get our 28,500 servicemen and women off the peninsula so he can then take over south korea. >> ahead of the tests, north korea released photos of kim jong un inspecting when he claimed to be a thermonuclear weapon small enough to fit on an intercontinental ...

Say with any sense of complete accuracy, but i do know that they're moving at a very rapid pace, they're reaching a point where it's much more powerful that is no longer heiroshima level bomb, but hydrogen bomb, thermonuclear weapon capacity. the whole agenda now has to be telescoped in time frame so that we go to the negotiating table, that we get the chinese, the russians and others to impose crippling sanctions and then we try to negotiate quickly. because otherwise kim will get that capacity, and i think at that point it will bemuchmore difficult for him to give up that capacity. >> and s...

Sixth nuclear test. >> it does look like it was a sixth nuclear test. the magnitude was higher than previous tests. earlier tonight north korea released photographs of what it said was a two-stage thermonuclear weapon, an advanced system. it said the warhead could fit in an icbm. in fact, that it was loaded into an icbm they say is capable of reaching the continental united states. we can't verify all of the details they released in the statement. this appears to have been a very large test. they have boosted the yield of their weapons. we need to take that capability seriously. >> take it ser...

Steps to take next. what the president and his national security team are worried about in these photographs that north korea released last night. let's go to those. it's kim jong-un taking a look and reviewing along with his chief scientists what is reported to be a missile-size thermonuclear weapon. a hydrogen bomb that can be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. there is no way to tell if it's just a mock-up. the test that measured 6.3 on the richter scale lends credence to the fact that north korea has developed a nuclear capability.