up appreciated. great to speak with you. so, after weeks of high, preparation and international concern, north korea said its attempt to launch its first military spy satellite has failed. state media reports of the missile carrying the satellite function, during the second stage of launch and then crashed into the sea. now south korea said that, you see, there it s a piece of. it pyongyang said the national space agency will investigate the failure urgently. and it will attempt another launch, soon. the launch early wednesday morning, dolton south korea as a raid sirens blasted in the capital of seoul. [sirens] and you heard. they re a situation similar, japan where 30s issued emergency alerts for the southern island of okinawa, and urged residents to take shelter. for more on all of, this we are joined by paula hancocks, who
in the region to work together with us. number five, continue the effort well u.n. security counsel toll even increase those successes working off a couple of days ago. and number 6 at the end of the day all roads to pyongyang lead through beijing. right. we ve got to put more pressure on china to help us solve this diplomatically. let s just talk militarily for a moment. the ability for north korea to wage conventional war on our allies in the south pacific exists already. particularly to hit pyongyang, to hit those 28,000 u.s. troops that are based in south carolina south korea. to hit japan. this concept of being able to hit the united states with a nuclear weapon, kim jong un has got to know that that will end in his destruction. so what is the escalation useful for for him, and what is the diplomacy that then can be used to counter that?