there, especially his meeting with shinzo abe. >> he will address the general assembly tuesday morning in new york. i want to bring in cnn's will ripley, just back from his 15th trip to north korea. he's joining us on the phone from tokyo right now. will, certainly you were waiting for this kind of a missile test to unfold? >> reporter: we were, wolf. and we just flew out yesterday morning from the pyongyang airport which is believed to be the launch site yet again for the missile that flew over japan. remember, north korea launches their missile that flew over hokkaido also from the airport area. this is where all of the commercial flights come in to north korea but we also saw that it was for military purposes, which is they are launching from their capital shows that they