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>> greta: they say it is more medical purposes it is -- the next step is 90, right? >> it another step that iran has taken that has placed them closer to a weapons capability. a step in a long line of steps everyone it is perhaps more politically significant than technically significant. they've chosen not to avail themselves of an opportunity that the iaea offered to refuel their reactor using international sources. >> greta: why did they need that? what was the attraction to the offer to send it out to be enriched elsewhere? >> fuel for this reactor is quite specialized. iran probably doesn'...

>> greta: they say it is more medical purposes it is -- the next step is 90, right? >> it another step that iran has taken that has placed them closer to a weapons capability. a step in a long line of steps everyone it is perhaps more politically significant than technically significant. they've chosen not to avail themselves of an opportunity that the iaea offered to refuel their reactor using international sources. >> greta: why did they need that? what was the attraction to the offer to send it out to be enriched elsewhere? >> fuel for this reactor is quite specialized. iran probably doesn'...

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Ahead. alex and ian live. dennis pingston joining us he's the professor of -- he's also the author of a book called the north korean missile program. we have a sense of north korean's weapons capability but we don't know its motivation. that's the question i want to ask you. why is kim jong-un doing this. what does he want? >> that's a very important question. so, over the past two or three decades we've watched them go through this progression to acquire these weapons. now that they have them we need to realize or remember that these weapons are not a means to an end. so how are they going to...