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Saying continued testing is a major crisis which looms over the peace and prosperity of the world. nbc s kelly cobiella is in seoul, south korea, following this for us. what more do we know about this latest missile test other than it was a failed attempt, correct? reporter: yes, it does appear by all accounts that this was a failed missile test launch by the north koreans. we understand from u.s. pacific command, they first detected this launch at 5:33 in the morning local time coming from a test site a few miles north of the capital, pyongyang. they say according to u.s. military officials who spoke to nbc news, they believe this was a medium-range batistic missile. they believe it may have been a type called the kn-17, possibly the same type of missile which was test-launched a couple of times already this month at the beginning of the month and then the day after that big holiday celebrating the birth of the ....
Of japan. there was a failed missile attempt that failed in north korea on april 49, another attempted mobile launch that was a successful launch, the kn-17 missile on april 4th and on april 16th, ahead of xi jinping s trip to the u.s., they attempted to launch another missile. that was a failure. this ballistic missile traveled relatively far because it landed in the waters off the japanese coast. you now have not surprisingly eight attempted missile launches by kim jong un during the trump administration. this is something we ve been waiting for given the fact that we ve seen the rhetoric from washington, president trump saying a major, major confrontation is possible with north korea, north korea with their own rhetoric in the state media and we saw the military parade. i need to clarify, the april 4th launch was ahead of the xi ....
Gets together. they do have some assemblance of information sharing between japan, united states and south korea. they look at the data. that s how they figure out exactly what happened. in this case, this is believed to be a kn-17. we saw these rolled out at the military parade on april 15th. they are believed to be a scud missile variant. they have a pointy tip and are on mobile launches. this missile, one, north korea has had trouble with tests of this missile. they are still trying to perfect it. they ve had other 17 launches that failed as well. in addition to this latest launch this morning around 5:30 a.m. pyongyang time, however this type of missile could be used as an anti-carrier missile. and given the fact that uss carl vinson carrier strike off the peninsula is north korea sending a message to the united states that they are trying to develop ....
[customer] we re dog people. [team member] everyone loves dogs. [customer] that s genius! have you ever just sat down and talked to a dog? bret: this is a fox news alert. two u.s. officials confirming to fox that north korea has tested and tested launched a ballistic missile into the sea of japan roughly about one hour ago. the missile has been assessed to be a kn-17, a former scud missile.officials believe it s been tested to target ships. the missile flew, were told, roughly 25 miles, in the air for about 20 minutes, reuters is reporting that launch appears to have failed, but again, a test launch of a ballistic missile from north korea ratcheting up tensions that were already high this week as you have the secretary of state at the ....
And now new saber rattling from russia. jennifer griffin joins us live from the pentagon. jennifer, first, what is the pentagon saying today about the latest north korean test? reporter: well, we ve learned, sandra, the u.s. intelligence community is scouring video from the north korean parade for evidence that some of those missiles on display could be fake. defense secretary mattis spoke about the test in route to saudi arabia. the leader of north korea again recklessly tried to provoke something by launching a missile. it was not an intercontinental ballistic missile. it failed on launch. reporter: the missile exploded four seconds after launch. u.s. officials are calling it a kn-17, a new designation for a type of scud missile. the pentagon is not calling it a carrier killer, pointing out that targeting ships is a hard ....