This is CBS I In The World.

I'm John Batsur with Gordon Chi, my colleague and co-host, looking at North Korea and what

if.

We welcome Bruce Bechtel, the author of several books to tell us what if in the days of the

past, the last days of Kim Jong-il, Red Rogue, Defiant Failed State, North Korea Regional

Security and the Kim Jong-il on air, let's go to that because the ICBM tests have become

not quite routine but regular over the years as provocations from North Korea.

Right now the question is what about those ICBM tests in North America?

We recently went through the episode of the surveillance balloon that caused a diplomatic

break that may or may not have been mended at this point, shooting down the surveillance

balloon off the coast of Carolina.

Carolina is after it had crossed Canada and the United States, especially critical bases

in the United States.

Now we come to an ICBM test.

Bruce, a very good day to you.

Thank you for this.

In the event that the ICBM test goes farther than is expected from the previous events.

And threatens not only Hawaii's territory, not only Guam's territory, not only Alaska's

territory, but according to the arc or the mechanisms is inbound from North America.

What happens, Bruce?

And have we ever come close to that?

What happens?

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