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Launcher, providing yet another challengehe for the u.s. correspondent kevin corke has the breaking details and reaction tonight from the white house. good evening. >> happy independence day to you. you are right. a dramatic day at the white house. senior trump administration officials seem to be considering their options in dealing with north korea in response to that provocation. this is very interesting, when you consider the administration has long talked about what it might do should north korea finally be able to reach u.s. oil. of course, they are looking for a true response to the late...

What they're looking at is exactly how far they can reach with this missile. now we just heard from the joint chiefs of staff here in south korea, they said that they are still analyzing data. at this point they don't accept that it is an icbm but they don't deny it either. clearly a lot of work is going in right now, analyzing satellite data, the radar, trying to figure out exactly what the missile was. north korea say kim jong-un signed the order himself. he was there at the test site and thought it was a great success. to give you the figures, the altitude was about 1700 miles high further ...

And japan on sunday about how to deal with north korea, and ahead of the g-20 summit later this week. according to u.s. pacific command there was a land-based missile that was fired from near panghyon airfield. it flew for about 37 minutes. japanese officials say the missile may have landed in waters claimed by japan as its exclusive economic zone. the u.s. and south korea and japanese officials say the missile reached an altitude of 1500 miles, which would be longer and higher than any other similar test previously reported. it covered a distance of almost 600 miles. u.s. and south korean off...

Chris christie tries to move past his beach day controversy, signing a budget deal that ends a government shutdown and reopens all state parks and beaches today. we have this all covered. first, let's deal with north korea. we'll go to paula hancocks live in seoul, south korea, for the latest. paula? >> reporter: well, john, this is certainly a significant announcement from north korea. they have said it is an historic event for north korea, a successful testing of an icbm, an intercontinental ballistic missile. we've just heard from south korea's joint chiefs. they said they are still looking...

Mobile launcher, providing yet another challenge for the u.s. kevin corke has that breaking details and reaction from the white house. >> happy independence day and a dramatic day at the white house. trump admitted officials, whenu consider that administration has talked about what it might do should north korea finally be able to reach u.s. soil. of course now they're looking for a true response to the latest missile provocation from pyongyang. it was a historic first for the rogue regime. for little more than a half an hour, and intercontinental ballistic missile fired from north korea blast...