This is a CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at Gordon G.

Chang and we're very pleased to be joined by Rick Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center

who's going to help me understand a story he's posted about something called

a tell North Korean tell many many of them, perhaps 250, perhaps a thousand, the numbers move around.

What is it tell and where did it come from?

Because it looks sinister.

Rick, a very good evening to you.

What does it tell, what is it for, and where did these come from?

That North Korea wants us to see them all at once as if it's a lineup of tractor trailers. Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Good evening, Gordon. A tell, a transporter erector launcher

launcher is a, usually a mobile platform that propels itself but also carries a

missile or a cruise missile that it then can stop and launch.

The design of a tell is, very much requires knowledge of the missile that it carries because for example a solid fuel

missile if it is not cushioned enough it doesn't have the right suspension can generate a

hairline crack in the solid fuel rocket which which turns that rocket from a missile into a bomb.

It'll just explode once you ignite it.

But North Korea has,

as of the last 24 hours displayed in front of dictator Kim Jong-un and about

three to five hundred of his closest friends.

250 new newly manufactured tells

for a new North Korean short-range ballistic missile called the Hossong 11 D or Delta.

And this is the big news.

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