Transcript for Analysis of North Korea's missiles and their potential to reach the US

Let's bring in now retired Marine Corps colonel and ABC news contributor Steve tenure who served in the Pentagon as a and also as a fighter pilot Steve is in Washington Steve good morning let's talk about the new missiles that North Korea. Unveiled what appears to be in ICBM and injure continental ballistic missile and also some. Submarine missiles do we think these are actually operational. Some of them are some of their our our Dan I think the submarine missile we saw AA test earlier in the year quite concerning because submarine can hide in and you can put dot off the coast to be their careers and the larger missiles are the ones that are most concerning and these are the Intercontinental ballistic missiles they could conceivably reach the US. First time we've seen them the number of missiles in the capability on display here is quite disturbing. And in terms of retaliatory. Military action Steve DOS now has what could be a game changer what can you tell us about fat. Pollen there's there's a new missile or a new capability that the US has that's based around high power microwaves at the first of electromagnetic energy the same thing you would find in a nuclear weapon. But they've been able to put this in a stealthy cruise missile it's not talked about it much because it's brand new but it is a tool that the president would have. The idea here being that of this electromagnetic pulse would fly over an area such as where the north Koreans would be connecting a nuclear test. And it witty send this microwave energy into the ground it would be absorbed by the thing that was electrical we go into the ground and fry everything underneath. Nobody gets hurt just everything stops working that is uses electricity so we'll watch for that because that's something new the president trump would have in his quiver Steve given that. North Korea did nuclear tests twice last year I believe what is new here in our the increased tensions were seeing right now. Due to North Korea or due to prompts tough top. Would there's not much new here because Kim Jung and go and continues to ramp up the pressure continues to move. Towards not only a nuclear capability but the means to deliver that's what we're seeing here. He's getting missiles that can travel farther distances and one of the missiles we saw today could actually potentially reach the United States. That's what's most disturbing. So we've had democratic presidents and end Republican presidents that have kicked this problem down the road for twenty years but we're getting that point where the north could now threatened directly. The US homeland which is why it seems president from. Is taking this up problem head on unsettling steadily Steve thank you very much.

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