Asia and pacific. We are chatting about the latest and most successful test from north korea to date. Can you put that launch into perspective, what does it mean for the threat facing the u. S. Homeland . Glad to. St we have seen an escalation of icbms. This is their third successful launch. When you start perfecting that technology in an icbm, the next up is to put the Nuclear Warhead on there. This is something that we see them going down this path. It is not something they just started, something they have been working on for 20 years, but it has certainly escalated under kim jongun, something the whole world news to be involved in, not just america. Host are we being continually surprised by missile launches, test, how good is our intelligence to know exactly where north korea is . Unfortunately, being such a closed society, intelligence is hard. Boots on the ground, satellites, things like that, that we can monitor the stuff, but it is hard to get people in or out of there to get
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