comes to missile tests hike this. the altitude was 2,802 kilometers. the distance 930 chomteres, that s pretty much in keeping what we have heard from the japanese and south korea and the united states side as well. they call it the 14. just a couple months ago they had a 12 which was slightlyless in altitude and distance. as far as north korea is concerned they have successfully tested appear intercontinental blah listic missile. kim jong-un was at the test site today and oversaw this test. this is what we have been hearing from experts as you ve been saying swell, the altitude, the distance and time the u.s. pacific command, for example was tracking this particular missile would have suggested that that was possible and what we are also hearing from north korea is
to be played, a role of mediator in trying to bring these tables to the party, not just japan, china, the u.s., sork but also russia as well. also highlights the difficulty japan faces in challenging this threat on its own. because there have been so many missile launches over the last several months. michael. and, yeah thanks for that. let s go to andrew stevens now in how long congress. the u.s. president trump spoke with xi before this happened. they had a different view of wording of how those talks with. the chinese expressing some concerns about the relationship. how might this play into that especially with the g 20 coming up with north korea is going to may very heavily? well, china has said first and foremost it does want to
what do we foe about that? so, in the open source we don t have perfect information on this. in march of 2016 they showed us several photographs of kim jong-un standing behind a large observ or b. unfortunately we can t use our x-ray vision to determine what was inside of that if anything. after five successfully nuclear test it s not unseemingly to think that it s possible they have made a exact nuclear warhead, and that there were some details of that particular silver ore b that seemed realistic. so no, we don t foe whether they have warhead that fits on a missile but it s to the point where i think we probably have to start behaving from a policy standpoint as though they do. simply because it s too risky not to. when you watch, as we all do,
flown it very high so that they can test the range of the missile. if they were to shoot it on a norm trajectory t probably going out 6,000 or so kilometers. by definition, anything over 5500 chomteres is an ibcm. yeah i think paula hancock is on the line. what are you hearing? well, michael the announcement just come through from north korean television announcing that north korea has successfully tested an icbm, an intercontinental. they say it was a success. this icbm test was ordered directly by kim jung un. a little earlier you say a photo of kim jong-un signing something. we ve seen in the past he has been signing orders when it
usually when north korea announce these major announcements. what we re hearing from the south korean president, he said the military here in south korea says this is a possible that what north korea fired this morning was an icbm. this would be significant as this is what concerns washington the most, the fact that it could be a missile that s potentially would hit mainland, united states. it s also something that north korea has said for sometime that it wants to be able to do. this is the end goal or at least towards the end goal for north korea. kim jong-un himself saying he wants to hit. what we re hearing from the figure point of view the joint chiefs of staff says it flew 930 kilometers. they believe the also attitude