administration. professor, this intercontinental administration. professor, this intercontinental ballistic - intercontinental ballistic missile that north korea displayed, or tested rather, missile that north korea displayed, ortested rather, in march, for the first time since 2017. just briefly take us through the capabilities of this missile. this missile. the weapons analysts this missile. the weapons analysts are this missile. the weapons analysts are divided, - this missile. the weapons analysts are divided, but| this missile. the weapons| analysts are divided, but it this missile. the weapons i analysts are divided, but it is the right time to make this kind of posturing after the special day. the country is in humanitarian crisis and its people are starving, but in terms of the weapons capability, i don t think kim jong un is confident to do another test. jong un is confident to do anothertest. it jong un is confident to do another test. it doesn t seem to be ready now.
un himself saying he wanted tactical nuclear weapons. on his wish list. what it means, could be put nuclear warhead to be put on shorter range missile. which we know north korea has many. could also be a lower yield and means they will be able to use them shorter range, far quicker and more efficiently on the front lines of any potential battle. this is something kim jong un has said he would like to master. he wants this weapons capability. fact that he was there at a shorter range weapons launch shows that this is significant in his mind. and why the uptick in number of tests? also with north korea timing is often relevant, why this test now? reporter: very significant time in the north korean calendar. last friday you had 110th anniversary of the birth of his
calls the projectile a hypersonic missile. south korea military says the projectile was more advanced than the weapon the north koreans tested last week, which the regime claimed was also a hypersonic missile. if true, north korea may have tested hypersonic missiles three times in recent months. these missiles if equipped can reach seoul in less than a minute. reporter: what makes hypersonic missiles and the glide vehicles they send off so dangerous is that they could fly as fast as 20 times the speed of sound and are more maneuverable in flight than other missiles. these hypersonic missiles would be less vulnerable to missile defense based in the region, could make conventional forces and bases more vulnerable to north korean attack. reporter: the dictator passed tenth anniversary of his ascent to power, and little doubt what his rule meant for north korea weapons capability. are they more dangerous?
this real disagreement between biden telling zelensky prepare for impact and zelensky insisting that an attack from russia is not imminent. is zelensky wrong? is biden wrong? what do you think? well, let s hope president zelensky is correct. certainly everything that we have seen and what has certainly been publicly reported indicates that russia is amassing huge and significant troop numbers, including weapons capability that would give them the ability to invade and to take ukraine. one thing the administration has done correctly is they have made clear that there would be swift and very strong sanctions on putin and upon russia for doing so. the other aspect of this is that the administration has been clear that they re not going to bargain away the sovereignty of ukraine as russia has made demands that were unreasonable. the administration stood up to those and said that they are not going to make statements that would diminish ukraine as a
probably take that area in about a week. and the reason i m saying a week and not a matter of hours or days is because there is a ukrainian army, they are very well quipped for what they need to do, which is slow the tank assaults down, using u.s. javelin anti-tank missiles, u.s. stinger missiles and their own weapons capability. but with regards to taking the capital of kyiv, the study that we ve done shows they have have to invade on three axes, one straight down from belarus through the chernobyl nuclear reserve, but they have weapons and vehicles that could bring them to the west headed down and coming in from the west around kyiv. and then they would have to break through the northern