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That war head so it can survive reentry, the friction and the heat of coming back into the atmosphere. firing an icbm 3,000 miles into the air and having it land quite close to the japanese territory sends a message. it sends that they are continuing to test their icbms. it sends a message to the united states. it also significantly sends a message to china. just a week ago there was a very high level envoy sent from china to north korea. it seems that that envoy didn't -- that ambiguous didn't go as successfully as one might have hoped when you have just a week later north korea firing an icb...

Blunt and frankly also very refreshing. it's important for the american public to understand the types of safeguards, the types of security measures we put around our nuclear arsenal and our nuclear strike capabilities. >> reporter: commanders continue to say the obligation is on them to not obey an illegal order. >> it might surprise you if i told you i have been in situations in combat where we have had to take orders that were given to us and go back to our commanders and said, the lawyers said this might not be legal to do these things. >> reporter: all of this taking on considerable urgen...

Our commanders and say the lawyers say this might not be legal to do these things. >> reporter: all of this taking on more urgency because the u.s. intelligence community and the south koreans believe it is possible, sometime in 2018, the north koreans will have the ability to launch a long-range missile with a war head on top that could be aimed at the united states. jim. >> this is becoming a critical issue. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you very much. i want to get back to the congressman. how troubling is it to you that a top general in this capacity has to answer to these fears of ...

Saying, okay, let's begin to get serious about talking about these issues that are controversial, meaning their ballistic missile program and war head program and begin doing something, probably communicating through china that it might be willing to do that. i don't think we're there yet, but it could split either way, and a lot of people, i was just talking to a bunch of asian security analysts who see this trip to asia as one where on the whole trump communicated that he's not going to engage in first strike activity, and he seemed a bit more mature that many people might -- they worry abou...

Energy aid to north korea. fast forward 20 years in 2014 and have you president obama saying is he not afraid to use military might. and now we are dealing with the problem of intercontinental ballistic missiles. here is the issue in 2013 we knew they had nuclear capability and they could make a war head. we should have done something then because we didn't have to deal with the ballistic missile. now we do. i completely agree with the trump agenda, the president's agenda. steve: of course right now why are in the diplomatic phase where it should be great if the country of china would help us ...