that north korea says can carry a nuclear warhead hans nichols is following the story from the pentagon. warninthe u.s. it has capabilities to hit the u.s. at home but you say you ve heard something different? well, the assessment here the preliminary assessment this missile couldn t reach that far to the west coast but that s not to say this isn t a serious event. what officials here are telling me they believe this missile to be a kn-17. i won t bore you too much with the details. suffice it to say it s an intermediate range missile. it could have potential to have a nuclear tipped warhead on top of it. the important thing about it, stephanie, a successful launch and serious, what i m picking up here, throughout the morning. one other note on this, this is the first successful launch of the kn-17 and the first second excuse me launch we have had since that mar-a-lago summit and that summit where president trump met with president xi was a chance to let diplomacy breathe a little
vladivostok was a single-staged liquid fueled kn-17, the first success for the model. after three failed launches in recent weeks. he s in a state of paranoia. reporter: u.n. baz nikki haley said north korean leader kim jong-un was likely challenging new south korean president moon jae-in, as they suggested openness to talks with the u.s. while scoffing at the idea of denuclearization. if conditions are right, we ll speak with the trump administration. are you able to give up nuclear weapons? reporter: haley made clear the u.s. is not amused by the regime s provocations. having a missile test is not the way to sit down with the president because he s absolutely not going to do it. there s a lot of sanctions we can start to do whether it s with oil, whether it s with energy, whether it s with the maritime ships, exports week can do a lot of different things we haven t done yet. . reporter: in seoul, president moon convened a national
let s go back to msnbc s courtney kube, and what is the status of the u.s. armada that the united states sent to that region? so the u.s.s. carl vinson strivinson strike group is off of the peninsula, and they will generally stay south of the 38th paralle parallel, and stay off of the south korea coast as opposed to being towards the north korean coast, and presumably far enough, and a safe distance a wway from any potential projectile coming from north korea. and one thing that is also interesting is that it is seeming in the very early moment moments of the launch that it is seeming like it could have been another short or medium-range missile, and a u.s. official thinks that it may have been a kn-17, and potentially kn-15, but it is looking like a kn-17, and what that means is that it is a shorter medium-range and we
the fact that it doesn t appear to have worked, the fact that it exploded a little after liftoff, does that matter in and of itself? or is it the fact that they keep on trying, is that what s important here? as i said before, i don t think there s any such thing as failure in this program, every time he does something like this, whether it exceeds beyond his expectations or not, he adapts, and he folds those lessons in to the program going forward. if it is a kn-17, it s meant to go between 1,000 and 3,000 kilometers, obviously it fell very short of that. but we shouldn t dismiss this, every time he does it, he gets better. secretary of state tillerson did speak at the u.n. today laying out in more detail what the u.s. policy toward north korea is right now. he didn t rule out the military action but he said the goal the regime change.
single stage short to medium range missile, a kn-17. it broke up after just minutes in flight. this is the third time the north koreans have tested the missile. the last time, april 15th. it exploded shortly after launch. the launch comes just a day after president trump warned that a failure of diplomacy could mean war. there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. absolutely. reporter: just as north korea releases a propaganda video, simulating an attack on the white house and an aircraft carrier. the uss carl vinson, making its way to the korean peninsula. and at the u.n. today, secretary of state rex tillerson urged the security council to take action as soon as possible. i urge this council to act before north korea does.