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jim meseda is live in seoul. jim, what is the latest you can tell us? >> hi, kelly. more threats and more tension, that's for sure. in the latest message that was clearly meant for u.s. consumption, the north korean military spoke of deploying a number of mobile nuclear devices to strike the united states. once again, this latest threat was conditional, however, this time, unstopping what north korea calls, quote, an aggressive war games or a number of war games next to its territory which, of course, it sees as a rehearsal for an invasion. this comes an kim jong unreactivated a north blah tone yumm reactor. meanwhile, intelligence suggests that the north has moved a medium range what they call musudan missile towards a launch site east of us. this kind of missile has yet to be tested, but could prove to be potentially dangerous and hit united states targets as far away as guam, an important base in the pacific. in reaction to that, the u.s. is, as you mentioned in your lead, i believe, beefing up its anti-missile defenses on guam now saying that it's taking the thre

jim meseda joins us once again with the very latest. hello, jim. >> hi, ross. as you say, john kerry has arrived here in seoul. he's going to try and kick start a diplomatic strategy that's been pretty much dead in the water for about five years or so before he then heads to bay jipg tomorrow. and there has been a ratcheting up of tension, but this time it's not from pyongyang, it's from washington where an intelligence assessment by the did i a, that's the defense intelligent agency, concluded overnight that north korea probably has the ability now to arm ballistic missiles with a nuclear warhead. now, the dia headed that a nuclear weapon would be highly unreliable if they did have one and that they couldn't reach the united states at this time. meanwhile, the u.s. and south korea as well as the allies in the region are standing by, waiting to see what north korea's leader kim jong un will do with up to perhaps five medium range missiles. the missile res now prepped for test firing. and since wednesday have awaited the proverbial finger on the button with u.s.