Coastal city of sinpo, home to north koreas submarine base, u. S. Pacific command saying it was a failure, almost immediately after launch. And what i have experienced in the past when im inside this count country, its never reported in the statecontrolled media. Of course a successful launch would be a lead story with pictures of the north Korean Leader overseeing the event. Given that this appears to be this test appears to be a failure, probably most north koreans, the vast majority, will never know that it happened, ana. And, will, explain the difference between this failed launch and an actual nuclear test. Reporter so north korea has conducted a number of Missile Launches since the beginning of last year, three dozen missile tests. Its fairly easy for north korea to fire these. They probably dont have a warhead inside the trajectory, has them falling in the waters off the korean peninsula. There was a simultaneous missile
launch last month where three missiles landed within 200 n
i m sure of that. bob, could north korea launch some kind of a nuclear test now after this failed missile launch to save face? yes, i do, ana, and i think they will. as the president goes on about taking on north korea with or without the chinese, the north koreans, normal reaction will be to keep going and keep going stronger and we will continue launching nuclear weapons. our problem is, and i keep on going back to this is absence of intelligence. we do not have sources in north korea. it all has to be done remeetly from satellites. their army is quite remarkable. it can move divisions without us detecting them until the last minute. so whether they will or not is a supposition on all of our parts but my guess is as long as the rhetoric stays the way it is, they re going to set up a
test was in september of 2016. meantime this year there still has been a lot of activity of these missile launches that we ve seen. in fact, this would be the fifth missile launch attempt just since february. and what we re learning about this latest missile launch that failed is the u.s. defense official now telling us that early indications is that this failed missile was not an intercontinental ballistic mi missile. general hertling, what s your take on that information? what we saw in the parade today, both the cia and the dia analyst, defense intelligence agencies, are looking at the films and the satellite imagery from the parade today. there were a couple of key items that occurred in the parade, one was a longer missile that went through the parade longer than the kno-8 and kno-14. it was brabd new. it was the first time they showed submarine launch ballistic missile.
we have been continuing to follow this news out of north kor korea. a missile that failed. it failed almost right after in the city of sinpo. a military parade, on a major holiday there celebrating the birth of the founding father in which they displayed all kinds of missiles or at least mock-ups of missiles including what they say is an intercontinental ballistic missile. we ll continue to follow this and be right back with more information. it s league night!? saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin up the country. bowl without me. frank. i m going to get nachos. snack bar s closed.
the mood is optimism that the united states were to take military action against north korea that they could respond in force and potentially, you know, use these weapons. so, jamie, i m wondering for you when you look at what we see in that military parade and then we learn that they ve done this launch of a missile that failed thankfully, why do you think they would have done a missile launch should they have had the capability of doing a nuclear test instead. because they were under a lot of pressure. president trump certainly has raised the temperature in the region. china has put a lot of frepress on north korea. and there was a risk. if they did take if they did have a nuclear test this time, they didn t know what was going to happen and there was additional variability. if they did nothing, the story on monday would have been that they did nothing. kim backs down and that would have weakened him. this was really the pour ij is just right kind of position by