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
To raising the nations debt limit . The treasury secretary says yes. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Im alex marquardt. Top defense officials are responding to north koreas Biggest Nuclear test yet with a blunt warning. Defense secretary mattis advising any threat by pyongyang against the u. S. Or its allies could draw what he called a massive military response. Mattis warning came after a meeting with the president , Vice President , and Top National Security advisers. Mattis said, our commitments among allies are ironclad. Any threat to the United States or its territories, including guam or our allies, will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely north korea. As i said, we have many options to do so. The new warning comes after north koreas claim it tested a Hydrogen Bomb on sunday. A test overseen by leader kim jongun. Pyongyang claimed the weapo
Institute. Its important to know tnote we not confirmed they have this capability but i want to bring in ian lee whos from the region reporting from there. What more you can tell us about this . Yes, overnight here in korea these pictures were released of kim jongun investigating and inspecting this nuclear missile, this icbm being installed woman hbomb. And this is significant because this is the first time that north korea is saying they have the capabilities of putting a Nuclear Weapon on an intercontinental ballistic missile, an icbm. And so release of this news, theyre also saying that they have the capabilities of doing this, reproducing this, making more, as many as they like. Which is significant because experts didnt think that they were quite at this stage yet to miniaturize a Nuclear Weapon and put it on an icbm. Let me bring in cnn correspondent Barbara Starr on the phone because we were talking about knowing that they had maybe the components of some type of Hydrogen Bomb,
Live from los angeles. We start this hour with breaking news out of north korea. Japan says pyongyang has conducted another nuclear test. The u. S. And south korea havent confirmed that yet but both say theyve detected seismic activity. The u. S. Geological survey says it was a 6. 3 magnitude explosion, and south korean Officials Say that tremor was manmade. North korea now say they will have a major announcement at 2 30 eastern time. That is in about half an hour from now. Reports of the blast come less than a day after pyongyang said it had a new Hydrogen Bomb. These images youre looking at purport to know noernt leader kim jongun inspecting the device. State media claim it can be loaded on to an intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Lets bring in will ripley, joining us from tokyo. Will, we get this word from north korean state tv that there will be a major announcement a short time from now. The expectation is that they will confirm that there was a nuclear test. Reporter thats right
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