Now they ran these images that youre looking at on your screen. They ran these pictures purpo purporting to show north korea leader kim jongun expecting the device. Lets go to straight to seoul south korea. Bring us up to speed with the latest as youre hearing it. I know the South Koreans were holding a National Security Council Meeting. Thats right. The meeting is still ongoing. That meeting convened about half an hour ago. Were also hearing that the south Korean Military has been put on a higher state of alert. Theres also more surveillance taking place right now of north korea. That according to the joint chiefs of staff. Theyre just analyzing what took place in that northeastern corner of north korea, where weve known that Nuclear Tests have taken place in the past. This one, according to the United States geological survey, a magnitude 6. 3, which is, according to the earthquake scale ten times larger than the test that took place just last year in 2016 was a 5. 3. Now we cannot c
large they say this explosion was. if this is what they claim was an h-bomb, how big was it. north korea had said they have the capability oproduce warheads that are significantly larger than anything we ve seen them test before. we ll let you go as you just completed your 14th trip to north korea, i ve got to ask you about the propaganda value of such a test if indeed it is confirmed it was a nuclear test. talk to me about the value domestically for kim jong unf fr him to have done such a thing. it s huge. not only do they gain scientific knowledge from these test, but i ll give you an example. we were down at the central train station late last week. one day after the rest of the world knew that missile was launched over northern japan. for all of tuesday, north koreans went about their day with no idea this happened. and right now, it s sunday. the only day off in north korea.