north korea said that they launched their first hypersonic missile last year. they say that north korea has as recently as just a few weeks ago said that they re working on new missile developments for war fighting. this is the trajectory that north korea was headed in. the context here is also important. the biden administration has not had any diplomatic contact substantively with the north koreans. they have made overtures, they haven t been responded to, and i m told that u.s. officials don t plan to reach out to north korea anytime between now and march. that s because in march there s a south korean elections. u.s. and south korean officials don t think they can get anything done diplomatically with north korea between now and then. now, of course this comes as north korea continues to develop its program. we will wait to learn more from u.s. officials about what they have found in terms of this new missile launch that north korea is claiming was a hypersonic