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Third. yet those sanctions will take a long time to even start to take effect. north korea, now months away from having this kind of a weapon, wolf. a weapon they never had before. this is truly unprecedented. always a lot of conventional weapons, can do damage on the korean peninsula. believe to have chemical weapons as well but never until now and icbm take a miniaturized nuclear warhead and potentially threaten the mainland of the united states. >> a huge, huge development. if, in fact, this report in the "washington post" is accurate citing the defense intelligence agency's last assessment...

That's required to protect that nuclear warhead and when it reenters. you know, and the north koreans are good engineers. they'll figure this out. so i think we would be foolish to underestimate them. and i think we've all been taken a little by surprise been how fast and how effective this program has been, and i do agree with cedric, that no matter what we promise the north koreans, they're not going to give up this program. this is their ace in the hole. this is their deterrent capability. this makes them not just a third world country. >> yeah, it gives them the protection, the insurance t...

>> reporter: wolf, a think it's no surprise that north korea has been moving in that direction. u.s. officials have been talking about some time they're working on mastering that miniaturization to fit a nuclear warhead on a long-range intercontinental ballistic mi l missile. that's the scariest part of this. it emphasizes a need for a solution as everybody has been saying, a military solution is really the last option, and that's why secretary of state rex tillerson is in asia right now. he just wrapped up meetings with china, with russia, with north korea, south korea and japan. about trying...

Warhead, andif this vort true, and like we're all assuming it is, then we have a significant game-changer here. the intelligence community often is guilty of mirror imaging what it sees in its own society, and in things that it expects to happen, and sometimes we don't look very well at things that are surprises, frankly. so that's the big danger here. i think in this particular case, this dia assessment is probably pretty close to being accurate. >> yeah. pretty shocking, too, when you think of the timeline. how quickly all of this has unfoldaled. i want all of you, all of our cnn military an...

Then north korean officials is speaking confidently about their country's nuclear program. remember, kim jong-un, a national priority to become a full-fledged nuclear power. for a long time outside observers thought north korea was many, many years away from achieving that and yet now here we are with the likelihood according to u.s. analysts that north korea's claims have now come to light. they are in possession of a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile according to these who studied the capabilities of the two launched in july could strike any...