Transcript for Dangers and implications of North Korea hydrogen bomb

For more on this let's bring in our military analyst Steve ganyard. Steve, good morning. As simply as you can, can you explain the difference between the atomic bombs that the north kraeps have tested previously and this new bomb. I think the easiest way to think about it, think about a firecracker, that's what their original atomic bomb was and what we saw yesterday was a whole stick of dynamite six types more what we yesterday was six times more than what they had previously done and eight times more than what the U.S. Dropped on Hiroshima. Once they perfect it it will be ten times larger and more capable than their original atomic weapon. Okay, so that's all pretty horrifying. Now there's talk of another missile launch coming soon, perhaps. How significant a provocation would that be? I think we look at it both as a provocation and how deliberate Kim is being in developing his nuclear weapons program so we know that the last launch went over Japan. If he really wanted to stretch the legs of his icbms he'll need to do them again and put it between Alaska and Hawaii to demonstrate the range. It continues to be a developmental program to have a credible, capable and reliable means to hit the continental United States with a nuclear weapon. There are many who feel the U.S. Doesn't have any viable military options here. That's starting a war in the Korean peninsula and would be too costly in terms of human life but is living with a nuclear North Korea or a north Korea that could hit us with a nuke, is that really tenable? Can't they just hold us hostage indefinitely in this case? Dan, I think one of the things to think about, yesterday we saw the demonstration of a thermonuclear device so any kind of preventive attack could involve eventual the exchange of thermonuclear weapons so we'll have to learn to live with a nuclear North Korea but also need to be able to stop them on their pro-live Riggs of wmd. Steve ganyard with some unsettling news on this Monday morning, thank you.

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