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Command is that it did detect a north korean missile launch. they are telling us, according to the information they've provided so far it was detected and tracked by u.s. pacific command. and at the moment, in their assessment, that the north korean missile launch happened at 11:21 a.m. hawaii time. that's about 5:21 eastern time. and 5:51 a.m. local time there in north korea. so we are talking about 2 1/2 hours ago this has happened. the launch of the ballistic missile occurring near sinpo. the missile, according to the u.s. pacific command blowing up almost immediately. and the type of missi...

Assessed. the new piece of information that we're getting from the u.s. pacific command as courtney kub said we would be getting is they are now saying the test, whatever type of missile it was, did blow up. but almost immediately. jonathan, what are you hearing? >> sinpo is the location from which north korea has attempted other submarine ballistic missile launch efforts. they've had one reasonable success by their standards last august of this particular missile. they've also done a land-based version of it and both were on display at yesterday's parade. the record here is very mixed. the mi...

Easte eastern coast line, a place called shinpo. that's significant because that's the place where they also attempt add missile launch and it failed as well. shinpo is a military area for the north koreans. what the u.s. pacific command is saying is that they're not yet sure, they're assessing what kind of missile it might have been. the exact kind, they know it failed almost immediately, not clear if it even made it off the launcher before exploding, so north korea has had two in a row famed launches out of this area called shinpo, which is also the location of their submarine base. so it's ...

To see an area where north korea would collapse, where there would be korean -- potentially korean uniufication. refugees kro s across the borde flooding in. and the u.s. would be dominant with south korean partners. of course, the other piece of this is that there's no government in south korea right now. the president was impeached a couple of weeks ago. there's an acting caretaker government. there's an election in may. and right now, the trend in politics in south korea has become affected by all of this military response, and the threats of military action as well as the north korean prov...

Undertaken with a warhead atop a missile. it just sounds to me very implausible. far too risky even for north korea. >> stand by if you can, jonathan. we have andrea mitchell. nbc news' chief foreign affairs correspondent. thank you for being here with us. you're very aware of the news at the moment. a failed missile test coming out of north korea. what are you hearing? >> well, this is all the reporting that we are getting from pacific command, that it was a failed test. a missile, short or medium range. this is not the first failed test for the north koreans. they've had a series of problems...