i mean we all have to care about you know. let s be practical north korea has nuclear weapons is the night the nuclear weapon state. the assessment is from six to twelve maybe even more nuclear weapons right and they re developing their programs they have a uranium enrichment program to build nuclear weapons they have missile systems they have the scud they have the know done they have the type of down they building the cane away which is into content and to continental ballistic missile which is a mobile missile solid fuel so it s great capabilities so north korea s persisting with a nuclear program that missile program and that the prospects of. proliferating some of that selling some of that material. north korea s nuclear program was one of kim jong il s top priorities and his son has continued it and even expanded it
the north koreans are on a pace now that would almost double the number of tests they had in 2016 under president obama. so, no one should be surprised. whether this test turns out to be a scud or intermeet yat missile or submarine missile. i am confident they will conduct future missile tests and some will be icbm. what is the strategy for kim jong-un here? caller: you asked the congressman and it often comes up, is he signaling? what is his intention? in the old days, under kim s father, jung ill, we debated about missile tests, was it a signal to domestic audience? trying to send a message to an audience? under the young son, the pace of testing increased so dramatically, basically, they
though, which is that the press covers all of this. and a lot of the public statements from public officials make it sound as if we can t effectively don t really need to worry about north korea s ballistic missile capability unless and until they can have an intercontinental missile that can reach the united states. and have accurate reentry and all of what it needs. i don t think that s the case and i think most serious students of these matters would agree that they could put a scud missile, and a scud is essentially a modern version of the world war ii and most of the countries have them. they put a scud missile on a container ship, pull into a harbor or a bay on the coast and launch it up into lower orbit, 50, 100, 200, 300 miles up into
heather: oregon police have identified the two men were who fatally stabbed friday on a train. a 53-year-old rick best and 23-year-old mr. methcy. both men lost their lives standing up against a man yelling ethnic and religious slurs against two female passengers. they tried to calm the man down when they were attacked. another victim was injured but expected to be okay. police arrested jeremy joseph christian charged with several charges including aggravated murder and being held without bail. ed: north korea launching another missile test yesterday. the missile was identified as a scud, a relatively short range surface to surface missile but
it still traveled nearly 300 miles from north korea s east coastlanding in japanese waters. we re live from the pentagon. lucas, it seems like the missile tests just keep on coming. that s right. this is the third consecutive weekend north korea has conducted a ballistic missile test going back to mother s day. mattis says it is not just missiles he is concerned about. north korean regime has hundreds of cannons and rocket launchers within range of the capital of south korea. it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. the pentagon says the scud missile flew for six minutes. a few weeks ago there was a test of a missile that traveled for 30 minutes flying a