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good evening. it is the beginning of another day. it is friday morning, 7:00 a.m., in baghdad, and throughout iraq it s also 7:00 a.m. in equakuwa as well. and military targets there will be hearing and feeling the destruction of operation desert storm. for 43 days in early 1991, the united states first war in the persian gulf was the original reality tv. day after day, millions tuned in for the operation desert storm show as u.s. military bombardments and iraqy scud missile attacks was brought live into our living rooms. thanks to cnn, the only 24 hours game in town back then for the first time in television history, an american war was beamed into homes all around the world, around the clock. the gulf war came complete with its own cast of heroes and villains. they were the correspondents whose career-defining coverage made them into household names. or in the case of nbc news ....
They ve also suggested it was a scud extended range missile and one white house official telling jim acosta that it only flew for about 55 seconds before bursting into flames and failing miserably. we ll try to figure that out in the hours to come from the experts. the important thing is the timing here, brooke. it s that a missile was launched in violation of many united nation security council resolutions. the last missile launch took place in february when president trump was meeting with the japanese prime minister in mar-a-lago. this launch is on the eve of the first ever meeting between president trump and the chinese lead leader xi jinping and a lot of people are saying it s a provocation against both of those leaders, brooke. how can it not be. ivan watson, thank you so much from seoul. let me bring in general hertling. ....
Peaked his head into my booth saying it with us a fierery cra. initially this was a kn 15. it s now clear, according to officials, that was a scud, a less sophisticated missile. that s important for a couple of reasons. number one, every time the north koreians launch the kn-15 they learn a little more and get more sophisticated in having an intercontinental missile pan scud launch is more of ooh provocation. and every time they do this, it gives the defense department an argument to both their korean counterparts and to the chinese that they re going to place more military hardware, they re going to increase the u.s. posture in south korea. and that s something that xi jinping, the president of china doesn t necessarily want to hear. i ll let you keep chatting ....
Saying we re going to do about this? on the test itself, pentagon officials are saying it was an unsuccessful test. they re confident of the assessment. initially, they thought there were reports this was a more sophisticated missile they attempted to test. it wasn t sophisticated. the kn-15, it wasn t that. it was a scud. that can put you more in the realm of this being a prov provocitation. as we know, this comes on the heels or right ahead of this meeting in mar-a-lago between president obama and president xi. white house officials seem to be escalating the rhetoric. we heard about an hour before the launch that all options are on the table. that s really what i m listening for today from president trump at the joint news conference. does he issue that threat? does he make that strong hint ....
Of flyovers. we already saw that with the b-1 flyover as part of the joint annual operations. hallie, what s concerning here at the pentagon about these tests is the consistency of them and the persistence. everyone here at the pentagon is expecting potentially more tests. they see this happen with regularity. there s some big deadlines and big dates coming up. april 15th is when the grandson, the initial founder of north korea has a birthday. what s also concerning here is every time they have a test, even though it failed, and let s be clear, this test failed moments after launch. they destroyed a vehicle next to the viewing stand. every time north korea has a launch, they learn something new. one final thought, they still don t quite know at the pentagon whether it was a scud or musudan. the scud is what we saw a couple of weeks ago. much more elementary rockets. ....