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People are being told to prepare for this major announcement coming up, and so if we were still in north korea we would see what we saw just a few days ago when we were there for the announcement of the missile launch. students, grandparents, parents all gathered around televisions watching and likely cheering to the news that north korea has conducted this apparent sixth successful nuclear test, just one year after their fifth nuclear test. also note worthy, isha, last year the earthquake created by the north korean nuclear test was 5.3 magnitude, this year believed to be a 6.3 magnitude. so a significantly more powerful explosion. sniffer planes have been sent from japan. according to cnn s barbara starr she says this quake was detected at least 30 global seismic monitoring locations in different locations around the world. so a major explosion, a major ....
Just explain to our viewers how significant this moment is. i mean this measured 6.3 according to the usgs. the last nuclear test that north korea did last year measured only 5.3. reporter: yeah, and that s a magnitude of 10 times when you go from 5.3 to 6.3. it isn t just one up the scale, it is a ten times scale. so from what we re hearing from the south korean meteorological agency, is saying that that s a ten times more powerful earthquake than it was last year. so you can translate that to saying that explosion was ten times more powerful, although we ll have to wait to hear from the experts if that in fact is the case. but it is a very worrying development that they are continuing to make more powerful nuclear weapons. but, you know, the one interesting thing too we heard from the north koreans earlier today was the fact that their ....
Military situation on the korean peninsula, and along with top advisers decided to order his scientists to go ahead with the nuclear test. north korea confirming it was at the punggye-ri site, that 6.3 magnitude earthquake that was detected, also a second earthquake 4.6 that was detected about eight minutes later. north korea saying that the nuclear test went off flawlessly. they said specifically radiation has not been released into the environment. there is concern about that because of the fact there was a secondary seismic event, leading some analysts to wonder if there was some sort of a tunnel collapse at the punggye-ri nuclear test site, because what north korea does is deton ate the weapons very deep underground and the explosion is so massive these earthquakes are felt all over the world by dozens of seismic monitoring stations around the world, detected this event during the afternoon hours of sunday in ....
Launched intercontinental ballistic missile 1700 miles into space. the missile was in the air for 3 seconds. the second test on july 28th flew even higher it went 2300 miles into space and flew for 45 minutes. it was the longest and farthest test in the history of north korea s regime. what s note worthy, jon, nsa s international space space station orbits the earth 2250 miles above the earth. these are going 1,000 miles higher than that orbit, jon? jon: u.s. has antimissile systems. can the u.s. knock those north korean missiles out of the sky? well, jon, the results have been mixed. but in late may the u.s. launched a kill vehicle which knocked out intercontinental ballistic missile in space. the interceptor was launched at air force base in california. noteworthy just a month later in june a ballistic ....
Include limits to the president s ability to lift sanctions without congressional approval, which is an obvious set back for donald trump. last year both trump and putin said sanctions were at the heart of the bitter relationship between the two countries. joining me now on set. samantha power. she also served at the treasure democratic. you have been going through this actual bill and i think what s note worthy. you ve even given me notes on it. is that congress is not just talking about the content of the sanctions, but they re designing it so that the president can t get himself out of them. right. absolutely. so part of it is that they re codifying some of the sanctions into law. right. which is a distinct which is very distinct from an executive order. right. a president can implement and withdraw an executive order very easely. for context on russia. ....