. >> bj kim is an adjunct professor. he says the war footing is unusual despite years of tit for tat attacks. >> we have had this before. we had occasional exchange of fires. in my recollection, however, the north korean leader raising the level of alertness for the military up to this, right next to the war declaration level is unusual to me. so, indeed, exchange has been there, they have been there before. but this kind of stated level of alert itself is quiete quite un. some people say we should offer reconciliation, not backing down on the military side of t i don't know whether that kind of solution would be realistic or not. there is conservative view that we have to do all we can to be tough on north korea's provocation here. the nation is divided in terms of its opinion. >>> greece's rulinger is reis a party has split. they will form their own movement. there's been dissent since the leader accepted a bailout program with eu creditors. the split comes just hours after he resigned. let's get more on this from athe

bj kim says it's difficult to work out exactly how bad the situation is in north korea. >> the political system has been already overall discouraged the production level and also there has been decade its of collapse or decaying of manufacturing. talking about government, well, the system itself probably bears the biggest burden. different observers have different observations about how rampant the market is. i think it's really difficult to generalize because depending on which area you talk about, there will be variations. indeed, what we know as a general understanding is that the black market has been growing, particularly under the previous ruler because of the failure of the system. always here, getting stronger and stronger e we'll very to see how much room the government system will get to maintain its own place. there are reports about famine and food shortage. but because of the closeness of the system itself, we are not sure about it. so we need more information. then at this point we are not seeing much of the progress in terms of seeing the better political. >>> this is the