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North Korean leader stresses 'Military First' policy

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    Military undeterred after failed rocket launch

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We'll just hours after a failed rocket launch North Korea's new leader is signaling that just like his father.

The military is his priority state media is reporting that Kim -- Has just laid out a military first policy with a budget that allocates a sizable chunk of funding to defense spending.

-- -- has been monitoring his developments straight from North Korea Greg what do you jealous.

Greetings -- from Pyongyang where the regime here is still dealing with the fallout from that failed -- rocket launch.

It's now said that the missile which took off here early Friday morning North Korean time about a hundred miles -- -- on standing was only in the air about.

Two minutes before it blew up.

Scattering debris in the waters off of South Korea right now South Korean ships are scouring those waters looking for any clues as to one happen.

The cost of the whole project for this impoverished country is now estimated at nearly eight.

Billion dollars that's billion with a -- seemingly undeterred though the show goes on -- Which I've got a big event.

The center of Pyongyang take a look what we saw.

No better example all the military first policy of the North Korean government and that.

Of thousands of soldiers packed into this came -- own stadium.

Consider another event markings and tenderly but the -- the founder of North Korea that another way to distract the people in this country.

Real problems at.

The founder's grandson the current leader here Kim -- on really was at center stage -- gathered pledging support.

These days -- really all about consolidating backing fourteen the other members of his government.

He's gotten a bunch of new titles in the last few days in various meetings with some -- up there with his late father and also former leader Kim Jong -- Those questions of the gathering today stayed remarkably on message including showing no disappointment about the failed and lift off.

Tomorrow on Sunday we're expecting a big show of force a massive military parade -- the exact.

My anniversary of the birth date of North Korean founder big show funding to as this country scrapes by Obama.