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International correspondent christiane amanpour. if this nuclear program for kim is about self-preservation the challenge for the rest of the world is try to convince him to abandon something he equates with survival. >> yeah. the challenge is a very real one but the most important thing to keep in mind, especially for you all over in the united states, is that the key development today is not just in the nuclear realm, it's in the fact that they say it's a militarized war head that they have successfully tested in order to be able to put it on an icbm and internet continental bask missile the...

North korea. north korea also saying that this weapon that they tested is specifically to perfect the kind of miniaturized war head that they would place in an intercontinental ballistic missile, the kind of icbm that they launched twice in the month of july, most recently at the end of july. also the kind of war head that could potentially fit on their intermediate-range ballistic missile, that's the hwasong-12 they launched this week on tuesday in north korea. so essentially what north korea is saying now is that they have completed their development of the kind of war head that could fit in...

Weeks? >> the next step -- just a few weeks ago the intelligence agency came out with a new report saying north korea did have the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and put it on top of a war head. photos emerged from north korea showing kim jong-un inspecting what looked like a thermonuclear device, an h-bomb. and with the report from state media saying they were ready to put this weapon on a warhead, however, the photos were from a lab, not an actual missile. the intelligence agencies have known north korea does have the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and put it on a missile. ...

Filled in, we'll be able to get a much better estimate of the yield of the device. it was higher than any device tested in the past by several times over. it looks like it's somewhere between four and ten times as large as previous tests. it may not be a staged device, a two-stage device but it's certainly much more powerful and it's a major advance. >> you talk about the power here because today's test produced a seismic event of 6.3 magnitude. so what does that tell you about how north korea's capabilities have progressed even the year? >> well, they're clearly boosting the yield of the war ...

Warhead to fit on an icbm, if that is, in fact, true, as christiane said, we are out of time. we have to deal with the reality that in very short order the north koreans will have a deliverable nuclear weapon that can reach the united states. i was not surprised by this announcement. they've been working toward this all along. it's miniaturization that is becoming the issue and they seemed to have mastered that. they talked about that a few weeks ago and have shown it to us today. >> yeah, as the world braces for the global reaction, i mean, we find ourselves at a very difficult moment because...