>> any thing from the pentagon what their response would be? >> in the past the pentagon has always tried to stress the three allies involved here, japan, south korea and the u.s. almost every response has been to make sure to include assets from all three, whether that's fighter escorts, bringing in bombers from guam, flying them right up to north korea's border or in some case having south korea fire rockets the exact -- they fired them in the ocean, but the distance matters and the distance they fire them into the ocean is the exact distance from those launchers to pyongyang, the capital of north korea. so look for that kind of response. but i don't think they'll formalize that until there actually is a test. and then of course they need to ascertain whether or not the threat is a test, right. the first thing that happens within minutes of a launch. they see this missile going up in the air and they make the decision whether or not to shoot it down. because within minutes, they'll have a sense of where it's heading and that's a difficult call to make. >> hans nichols for us at the pentagon with that developing story. hans, thanks. meanwhile, a young man in