a pragmatic american diplomat i see no choice but to -- cooperation in north north north korea's regime. >> thank you. >> we can count on you, mr. connelly. we pleased to hear from mr. bashar al-assad are a for the thank you for being here. i think each of you commented on this line in the scenario where we draw a line north korea steps over. so there is a policy on the part of the north korea government to provoke -- knowing that and knowing they will continue this policy of provocation, to the past non-proliferation to help the north korea. is there anyone we can work with or compel the chips to work with. >> let many on the comment. i don't know if anyone is sympathetic, per se. i think there are some around kim jong un have been exposed to china and the deng xiaoping. i think that has to be powerful. dr. lee mentioned what is happening in the research korea. that message to be powerful. so yes, i believe there is some around kim jong un who are witnessing this and realize north korea needs to be moving in that direction. >> all right. and -- yeah. so. i'll ask a followup question. k

north korea. the unanimous vote by the 15- member council. the resolution puts new restrictions on north korea. [speaking foreign language] >> the agenda is adopted. under rule 37 of the council's provision of rules of procedure, i invite the representatives of belgium, canada, denmark, italy, japan and the philippines to participate in this meeting. if so desired. -- it is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda. members of the council also have before them document 2013 stroke 136, the text of a draft resolution submitted by australia, belgium, canada, denmark, italy, france, italy, japan, morocco, the philippines, the republic of korea, rwanda, togo, the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and the united states of america. it is my understanding that the council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before us. i shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. will those in favor of the draft resolution containe

north korea. as a result, north korea's ruling elite who have been living large while impoverishing their people will pay a direct test. -- direct price for this nuclear test. this can be found on the u.n. mission web site www.usun.state.gov. these sanctions will bite and bite hard. they increase north korea's isolation and raise the cost to north korea's leaders of defining the international community. the entire world stands united and in our commitment to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and in our demand that north korea complies with its international obligation s. if it does not then the security council committed today in this resolution to take further significant measures if there is another nuclear test or missile launch. we regret that north korea has again chosen the path of prove occasion. -- provocationfar from achieving its stated goal of becoming a strong and prosperous nation, north korea has instead again opted to further impoverished its people and increase its isola

now, north korea persists. north korea persists with their human rights issues, and they persist with illicit activities, but they know very, very cleary if they want any -- clearly if they want any progress with the united states, certainly with the united states, illicit activities have to go by the wayside. this is causing pain, and i concur fully with my colleagues and with your statement, mr. chairman, these sanctions are biting. they're biting. it's causing north korea not to get access to the funds they need. they need to bite even more significantly, and they should have even more impact as we move forward with further, be you will, responses to the most recent nuclear tests. and there will be additional sanctions and additional activities. so the message is clear to north korea they have two paths, there will be further sanctions, they will become more of a pariah state, and they will find it even much more difficult to survive if they continue down the current path, or they can look to becoming a more

he also is the founder and co-editor of 38-north, a website devoted to north korea analysis. and sung-yoon lee is an assistant professor of international politics at tufts university's fletcher school. joel wit, are we closer to war today than we were even just a week ago? a real shooting war in northeast asia? >> i think this is an extremely serious situation. and i would say that we are one step away from a second korean war. and i say that because in this kind of tense situation, the danger of miscalculation or accidental conflict is very high. and so this is a very dangerous situation. and we need to be very careful sz professor lee, do agree? are we really in more jeopardy than we were just a few weeks ago? >> well, we have seen a crescendo of-- barrage. i don't think we are on the brink of war. because we know the north korean regime harbors no suicidal impulses. i don't necessarily warrant to paint the north korean reg only as all knowing brilliant omnipotent brilliant strategist. there is the possibility of miscalculation but we have seen north korea resort to periodi

now, north korea persists. north korea persists with their human rights activities and illicit activities, but they know very, very clearly if they want any progress with the united states, certainly with the united states, illicit activities have to go by the wayside. this is causing pain, and i could only, i only -- i concur fully with my colleagues here and with your statement, mr. chairman, these sanctions are biting. they are biting. it's causing north korea not to get access to the funds they need, not to move the money they need. they need to bite even more significantly, and they should even more impact as we move forward with further, if you will, responses to their most recent nuclear tests. and there will be additional sanctions and additional activities. so the message is clear to north korea that two paths, there will be further sanctions and they will become more of a pariah state, and they will find it much more difficult to survive if they continue on the present path. or them cock back to the s

north korea. this new security council resolution, based on a u.s.- china draft, includes tough new sanctions intended to impede north korea's ability to develop further its illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs. these sanctions include targeting the illicit activities of north korean diplomatic personnel, north korean banking relationships, illicit transfers of bulk cash, and new travel restrictions. i think that these actions are a step in the right direction -- and very much in keeping with the sort of approach that the ranking member, senator corker and i called for in the north korea nonproliferation and accountability act of 2013, which the senate passed on february 25 -- and i congratulate the administration on moving things forward so effectively at the united nations. but i also believe that we need to do more to better determine how the united states can combine effective sanctions and military countermeasures with strong and realistic diplomacy aimed at north korea and at china

north korea is extremely isolated.t has been able -- it is an incredible story that it has been able to get this far, given how closely the country is watched. i don't expect to see much of an effect on north korea's behavior or its nuclear program. a lot of north korea watchers are saying this whole strategy of ignoring north korea and then adding new sanctions every time it issues a provocation dust is not working. the obama administration needs to come up with a new diplomatic strategy, whether it's working more closely with china or whether it's coming to the table and talking to north korea and telling the north korean directly what we think of them and what we are prepared to do. host: we are taking your calls this morning on a variety of foreign policy issues we will get into in this segment, from north korea to venezuela to the capture of the son-in-law of osama bin laden. give us a call. staying on north korea for a second, some optimism out there in reports that china might be coming around to help with this

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the north koreans understand b52 and b-2.used the bombers before and after the axe cutting incident and north koreans reacted to that in a matter that everyone found surprising. they are afraid of us and our nuclear power . they know there is no way to win the conventional war. they want to keep the regime in power. >> you bring up china . i want to talk about it russia this week had said itmented what the u.s. and north korea to back away from the table and show restraint. i didn't hear anything publicly from china, where are they on this? >> it is interesting. all . indications that we have recently, north korea's great friend the chinese is getting frustrated with the koreans almost as much as we are. they want stability in the peninsula and don't want a massive flood of fredge fredge refugeeses . by the same token they view themselves as socialist partners and they are trying to do a balancing act to dampen down the level of violence, but at the same time they are deal the same guy kim jong-un . the chinese haven't figure

north korea is a pretty ugly piece of baggage.h we'd started this long ago, but never too late. >> gregg: do we need to step up our efforts, clan destine efforts for regime change in north korea and do it through the south koreans? >> i would be entirely in favor of that, but south koreans have been nervous about doing anything that could lead to instability in north korea because they, like the chinese, fear massive floods of refugees across the demilitarized zone or in the case of china across the alou river so i think we have to work carefully with china which has a civilian population built from the suburbs of seoul to the dmz and don't want their civilians endangered by chemical or biological weapons. i think that really, south korea should see that a reunified korean peninsula is in its interest, to be blunt, a cheap labor force in the north that would love that employment, as opposed to near starvation and i'm hoping that the new government in south korea, having watched kim jong-un's performance the past several months wil

north korea. that is followed by un security council members on policy towards north korea. the senate judiciary committee today passed a bill on gun trafficking largely along party lines. the legislation toughens penalties for those who buy guns for those who cannot legally own them. they also began debate on an assault weapons ban offered by out for new senator diane feinstein. this markup is an hour and 40 minutes. >> good morning. we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine senators. i think, senator grassley, we can get going. first off i want to thank senator paul for having a filibuster which kept everybody still in town so we can have a quorom to talk about guns that may not have been his number one reason for doing it, but we take ancillary benefits wherever they come from. last week we all had the opportunity to talk about legislation before the committee regarding gun violence in america. we gave our speeches. and i hope we could make significant progress. earlier this

north korea is not suicidal. to negotiate vis-À-vis the united states from a position of strength on a host of matters, that has played the most role in keeping the peace in the korean: nisul.a.inkore >> i grant your point. i would interject one point. you have a habit to consider on the part of the government of north korea. that is the habit of proliferation. they have proliferated every other weapons program they have gotten a handle on, including to syria. in this instance, you have seismic activity that would indicate that it is a much greater yield in terms of this explosion and it is a smaller warhead. they must be getting closer in terms of that capabilities by placing it on what they have mastered. we go to the ranking member on europe, eurasia, and emerging threats. >> i would like to thank you personally as well as think the chairman for the strong leadership that both of you have provided on this issue of korea. i remember many years ago when i first was elected and became a member of this committee,

the north said said it was entering a state of war. >> there are north korean threats like announcingar which hurts of the ceasefire agreement, cutting the military hotline, harming the peace and stability of the korean peninsula. >> stability is important for the people live on the this south korean island near a seaboard declared after the 1950-1953 war that is disputed by the north. p'yongyang shelled the area in 2010 killing four people, two of them civilians. >> heart is beating hard every day wondering to see if this will happen again. i will still live here. however, i am scared there will be another attack. againthe north provokes like it did in 2010, i think there will be all out war. i don't think the north would be that reckless but they are so unpredictable. >> friday, the north korean leader threatened to attack the u.s. he said it was in retaliation for joint u.s.-south korean exercises which included two american stealth bombers, if the u.s. support the south, i do not think war will break out. if it breaks out, it means the north korean regime will fall. how dare the n

sanctions ever against north korea. it comes in response to north korea's latest nuclear test conducted last month. the ambassador susan rice expressed hope after introducing resolution this week that it would be approved unanimously. north korea says the united states is trying to start a nuclear war. >> the cardinals arrived for another day of meetings today in rome waiting for a last colleague to join them before they decide win to begin the conclave. the cardinal from vietnam is expected to arrive today. the american cardinals in rome have canceled their popular daily briefings out of concern that details of the secret proceedings could be leaked. >> it is 5:51. head in the 6:00 hour, the bay area school district considering firing all of their prescribes -- principals and vice principals. >> and another set back for oscar pistorius. >> and facebook face lift, what to expect from the networking giant as they revamp the page users see when they first >> welcome back, when you log on to facebook, take a good look beca

north korea needs to come back. china can bring north korea back to the table. pyongyang. not just for the sake of having talks. come back to the table to determine if king jong un, as his father was committed to the six party process and denuclearization and the statement which spoke to denuclearization, kim jong-un has never committed to this. that needs to be determined and if that can be determined then we could make -- all of us could determine do we reconstitute the six-party process and move forward? china can do this and facilitate movement on that side. >> suarez: joseph detrani, victor cha, thank you both. >> thank you. >> woodruff: we'll be back shortly with a look at the new, strict abortion law in arkansas. but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support, and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> brown: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we have the story of a pakistani man seeking justice for the murder of his family. jonathan rugman of independent television news r

my name is lance carnes, i'm a resident of north beach. i guess i wanted to make a pointed to about taking care of our neighborhoods. you know, we're certainly going to be in a situation of putting up with a lot of construction without any real benefit to the neighborhood, a station or service. i'd like to start off and echo what the previous speaker said and that is we had a meeting in january 22nd which was unfortunately terminated before a lot of people traveled some distance in fact, to get there, were able to ask questions or get answers. and i'd like you to reschedule that as soon as possible. it's nice to come down here and visit you folks at city hall, but little two-minute sound bytes. much better to have a forum where we can ask questions and get answers. last thursday at the planning commission meeting, it what noted that the owner of the pagoda site is to be compensated generously for the delay in his development plans while the extraction project proceeds. there is no mention to compensation to the nearby businesses particular

the fire is nearly half contained. >>> a new threat from north korea. a south korean official saying the north test fired two short-range missiles into its eastern waters. the pentagon announcing this will spend a billion dollars upgrading the defense system to deal with the north repeated threats. the plan includes increased in japan and intercepters in alaska. the north has recently warned of a preemptive nuclear strike on the united states. i'm harris faulkner. now, back to "justice" with judge jeanine. ♪ >>> no blood when you shot him

chairman. >> yes, let's please talk about north korea. >> can north korea attack the united states inctions and the joint military exercises that are continuing? >> well, they certainly -- we certainly know that they've exploded to some degree a nuclear device. that's what they've well established. not the first one they've done. always the hardest part of a nuclear program and it's always in different components, know t have a missile capable of handling it. we know that they have now an exploded a nuclear device but that last part of weaponizing it, on top of a missile to be discharged is a whole other matter. you don't have to have it on a missile to cause harm. if you can transport that to a place as an example in south korea for a detonation, it would still have a tremendous casualty count and all of the negative impact that would go off -- go on with an explosion of a nuclear device so we should take him at his word. it is clear that this 28-year-old leader is either trying to embolden himself with the military that run the operations of north korea or the other way around. mili

north korea announcing it entered a state of war with south korea. kim jong-un required rockets are ready to be fired at seoul and american bases. they revealed two nuclear capable b-2 stealth bombers. ian is covering the situation from the south. >> reporter: officials in seoul dismissed the latest outburst of more of the same. it followed a massive rally in the northern capital friday where tens and thousands came out in support of kim jong-un's charge, shouting death to the u.s. imperialists. >> escalating military confrontations would lead to further isolation. here's nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> he has 8,000 troops poised 40 miles from seoul and the big worry is there could be a mistake. a miscal lags by the north would force the first woman president to retaliate. she has very little flexibility and that would instantly bring the united states into this conflict. >> earlier today north korea threatened to close the industrial complex but that site does remain open. hundreds of south koreans travel there daily

if it does, the north will fall. why would they start a war to kill the same race. >> others say the threats should not be taken at face value. this is kim getting popularity at home. >> it is regime security. this is to bolster the new leader. it comes from the nuclear tests and the u.n. sanctions. >> north korea is known for being unpredictable. seoul is ready for the worst. >> a gunman has gone on a rampage in a pakistani school as the principal was killed and six children wounded. more from karachi. >> wounded school children taking to hospital. after they should have been celebrating -- celebrating a prize ceremony, -- >> two men came in on a motorbike. >> a man ran in firing and we were all engrossed in the magic show but as soon as the firing started there was a stampede. >> panicked relatives crowded around the primary school in a low-income neighborhood. >> as a result -- the school principal has died. >> the principle is reported to be a local member of the national party that represents ethnic groups from

when north korea tries -- >> when north korea tries to move money to pay for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, countries must now block those transfers, even if the money is being carried in suitcases full of bulk cash. >> the sanctions are a response to a nuclear test that follow this rocket launch in december. they closed loopholes and strengthened measures imposed in previous revolutions, ring them more in line with un restrictions on it ran -- bringing them more in line with un restrictions on iran. >> defuse the tension. bring down the heat. >> negotiations are not the top priority on the ground. with the u.s. demonstrating its military support for south korea and pyongyang taking its hostile rhetoric to new heights . bbc news at the united nations in new york. >> are more on the tension, i spoke a brief time ago with -- for more on the tension, i spoke a brief time ago with a former state department official. north korea has ignored the previous three un sanction resolutions. >> they want to ignore this, but there were two aspects that were very important. first, the un

south korea over exaggerated north korean threats. there is a general apathy. your average south korean does not pay attention to a north korea does until bombs fall. then people start getting concerned. >> this is a political test for south korea's new president. what sort of options that she have? how has she handled the crisis so far, do you think? >> she has played it very cool. the military here in south korea has said that as it is, there are not any profit -- if there are any provocations, that it will immediately retaliate. that if north korea were to launch an attack, they would go after the command structure. they are definitely talking tough, but as i have seen here, sometimes the best thing to do is just let it slide by. sometimes the best treatment for north korea is just to ignore them and things eventually cooled down. >> this is the closest the countries have been to the brink since the korean war. >> with north korea first attacked the south korean naval ships and killed about 40 sailors and later in 2010 attacked this island and killed four pe

than five minutes and 24 to the tunnel it is moving at the limit and word of a new injury accident, north 101 at san jose, we will update that in the next few minutes. kristen and eric? >> looking ahead a few hours to traffic news, the devil slide tunnel on highway one opens tonight after the evening commute bypassing the landslide prone section of highway one. you can see the new tunnels from above, with drivers passing safely through the middle of the mountain and avoid the cliff hangar road which often closes for months at a time. ribbon cutting is scheduled for 11:00 this morning and abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield has more in 30 minutes. >> golden gate bridge crews are working to install 27' sign above the toll plaza this morning to let drivers know that soon paying with cash will no longer be an option. starting on wednesday, the bridge will in longer take cash and there will be no human toll takers. drives have to sign up for fast track, register a credit card account, or expect a bill after they cross. also starting on wednesday the toll plaza speed limit increases to 25 miles p

korean reactions we have to say of course that north korea has said in a waiting for this resolution to be adopted that it would as a threat for this resolution. basically cancel the existing ceasefire of one nine hundred fifty three which put an end to the korean war this thursday north korean officials threatened with a preemptive nuclear launch if she were to be attacked by another country and this is of course a hint at the united states because this week the u.s. has kickstarted joint military drills with south korea on the border between the two koreas something that pyongyang has dubbed an open declaration of war and we have to mention that analysts of course are saying that north korea is actually far from a while from having the technology to be able to set up and a nuclear weapon a specific target what was the biggest concern here is of course this provocative language that's dangerous in the united nations security council today a point reiterated several times by russia hopes to achieve is basically for north korea to return to six party negotiations with this latest push

korea but what has north korea done and north korea has carried out a nuclear test the third but they're doing it in response to major massive u.s. military exercises that our kids are conducted in a way to stage a mock invasion and bombing of their country a country that was indeed invaded twenty years ago exactly twenty years ago in fact the u.s. strategic command said we're reorienting us hydrogen bombs away from the soviet union this is after the demise of the u.s.s.r. and now targeting north korea and that's when d p r k withdrew from the nonproliferation treaty and began building with great earnestness its own nuclear capacity. barack obama's former counterterrorism adviser has been confirmed as the new head of the cia but before the senate could vote in john brennan his nomination was held up by questions over his role in washington's controversial drone program one republican lawmaker spoke for a marathon thirteen hours to get guarantees that the remote controlled strike wouldn't be used on the home front as artie's marine important i reports. so many u.s. lawmakers have a long o

korea but what has north korea done and north korea has carried out a nuclear test the third but they'redoing it in response to major massive u.s. military exercises that our kids are conducted in a way to stage a mock invasion and bombing of their country a country that was indeed invaded twenty years ago exactly twenty years ago in fact the u.s. strategic command said we're reorienting us hydrogen bombs away from the soviet union this is after the demise of the u.s.s.r. and now targeting north korea and that's when d p r k withdrew from the nonproliferation treaty and began building with great earnestness its own nuclear capacity. body of venezuela's late president will be i'm bald and put on public display quote for eternity who go chavez reportedly killed by a heart attack after a long battle with cancer is currently lying in state at a caracas military academy was the feeling a producer for artie's video agency ruptly stood in line to see. i'm standing near the military academy where the late president hugo chavez's body is on display in a huff open cosset and literally hundreds of

north korea gets frisky, what do we do -- get out of it? we send them down and stop whatever is going to happen, what do we get out of it? we get nothing. the fact is we're run by either very foolish or very stupid people. what is going on in this country is unbelievable. our country is a total mess. a total and complete mess. what we need is leadership. now, by fixing the economy we're able to solve the problems that we really do need to solve immediately as a nation, medicare, medicaid, social security, they become affordable when we become a wealthy country again. you know part of the reason that the republicans and even the democrats they're talking we have to cut, we have to talk because our country isn't doing it. new technology has shown that we have tremendous wealth under our fete in the form of energy. right under our feet. north dakota is a great example. [applause] we're not allowed to go and get it. so we go to opec nations that think we happen to be, they are all friends of mine. they think we're the stupidest people on earth.

north korea says this is the final warning. >> from this time on the north-south relations will be entering the stay of war and all issues raised between the north and south will be handled accordingly. a state of peace nor war has ended on the korean peninsula. >> reporter: the young leader threatening to close an industrial complex. manufacturing plants from both north and south korea not far from the border. thousands of north koreans work there. they say the threat is unhelpful to the country's unstable relations. state run media releasing a photograph of the middle night meeting with his staff. his rocket plans target military bases and cities in the u.s. you can see the large scale map in the back. it's not sure if they have technology of hitting the mainland but targeting neighboring countries within those regions. it came one day after the u.s. conducted joint military drills with south korea. state department officials to send the b-2 bombers were part of normal exercises but officials say they are not ignoring the provocative threats. >> when a country says the kinds of things tha

the north koreans know says former u.s. secretary of state henry kissinger that there is now a real danger of an accident, incident or miscalculation on the korean peninsula. if that happened, there is a danger that china and the united states would end up reacting quickly, vicerally and in a way that might make things much worse, even lead to conflict. to prevent this scenario, we should propose serious strategic talks. kissinger who spent more time talking to senior chinese leaders than any other living american said that my instinct is that the chinese are ready to have this conversation. for more on this, you can read my column in "the washington post" go to cnn.com/fareed for a link. let's get started. >>> joining me now, two terrific guests to explore more, the mystery that is north korea. victor cha, previously he was director for asian affairs at the national security council under president bush. donald gregg is a former ambassador to south korea. in fact, he just returned from a visit there. he was also national s

before the isolation of north korea. does this make the nation feel cornered and under pressure to take some sort of action? >> strange as it may sound, i think it is more a sign of weakness than strength, and it illustrates how isolated the leadership is and how much it has to rest on the power of the military class in north korea. >> thank you very much for that analysis. >> frantic diplomatic efforts are under way to secure the efforts of 21 united nations peacekeepers taken hostage by a syrian rebel group. they are being held in golan heights where there were put on a mission to monitor the syrian border area. >> they have been ordered to treat them as enemy prisoners. >> the rebels purportedly posted this video on the internet at the kidnapping the united nations troops. the rebel group calls itself the martyrs of the armored brigade, and they accuse the peacekeepers of working with the syrian government. they say that is the only reason the government has been able to station troops near the golan heights. >> we ar

korea but what has north korea done north korea has carried out a nuclear test the third but they'redoing it in response to major massive u.s. military exercises that our kids are conducted in a way to stage a mock invasion and bombing of their country a country that was indeed invaded twenty years ago exactly twenty years ago in fact the u.s. strategic command said we're reorienting us hydrogen bombs away from the soviet union this is after the demise of the u.s.s.r. and now targeting north korea and that's when d.p. r. k. withdrew from the nonproliferation treaty and began building with great earnestness its own nuclear capacity and is that nuclear capacity though a threat to the region as well as other parts of the world indeed even the anti missile defense system in eastern europe is being described as defensive action against north korea is it really a threat. well it's not really a threat in the sense that i mean that i said a moment ago the u.s. has such a preponderance of force but the north koreans interestingly in february just a month ago said the lesson of the libyan inva

north korea ratchets up its threats against the u.s. but could it follow through on firing missiles at america? we'll bring you the very latest on this developing story. >>> guns, immigration, the economy, a week of swiftly moving issues as the president tries to tackle them all. what comes first? >>> and the next chapter. will american amanda knox be forced to go back to italy? facing murder charges once again. we have some new answers this morning. >>> and soda fizzle. a new report on changing american habits, that's in our three big money headlines for you. hi, everybody, great to have you with me today. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." i'm thomas roberts, alex has a much-deserved day off. here's what's happening for you now. in north korea, just announcing it has entered a quote, state of war, against south korea. meaning it will deal with every issue with the south in a wartime manner. this follows a string of warnings and threats by north korea against south korea and the u.s. for its routine military drills. nbc's ian willia

china needs to stand up against north korea. the united nations, the sanctions that were voted on in the united nations, one of the first times that i've seen china vote against north korea, they -- china has their own issues and they don't want the volatility of war occurring in their region. and north korea is in the southern part of china. so we need to keep working with china. and this is something that's positive that china is now starting to stand up and work with the united states and with the other people in the region to make sure that north korea doesn't continue what they're doing right now. >> let me ask you a little bit more about china since obviously they're so important here. china is now saying that america's decision to bolster its missile defense system on the west coast would only antagonize north korea. gordon chang, the author of "nuclear showdown," he said last week that china has been selling north korea missile launchers for a missile. i wonder if you think china is saying the right thing but behind clos

they called it a ban on north korean north korean missile tests and triggered sanctions. dismissing the sanctions, north korea confirmed it planned to weighed a third nuclear test. just last month an underground explosion at one of north korean test site was detected. it's important to keep in mind that north korea spent an enormous amount on the budget while two-thirds thirdz. country has trouble finding food to a eat. we'll have much more on the growing threat from north korea and look where it might be targeting the weapons a little later in the show. >> jamie: new controversy that is erupting over a gun law that goes into effect in new york today. it requires mental health professionals to report the names of patients they think could potentially hurt themselves or others. the federal department of veterans' affairs says it won't comply and senior correspondent eric shawn has the latest. >> reporter: the fact that some won't want to say patients are a threat. that is why they are fighting back against the new law. department of veterans affair they will not comply wit

. >> tensions with north korea are rising.he military action taking place, today, in the communist country as it makes new threats against the west. >> first, a major announcement expected from the obama administration and it is likely to impact the price you pay at the butch. a live look at the fog engulfing the golden gate bridge. there is a lost this fog, or maybe you will not see much along the >> good friday morning. with the fog, it is pea soup from the north bay to parts of vallejo. the delta is clear. look at the north bay from petaluma, santa rosa, our beaches and along san francisco the san mateo coast we are looking at very foggy conditions, the san carlos airports at quarter-mile visibility so it will continue to creep to the east and not making it into our inland valleys. we have a beautiful day on the way with temperatures climbing through the 60's and the warm of the day we have seen in quite some time with mid-70's inland and lower 70's around the bay and 60 with sunshine at our coast of the tonight if you are

heading towards the north, check out all these lightning strikes just to the north of rockport, and ramsey. napa, a brief shower, and mad moderate rain in santa cruz and scotts valley and glenwood. there's more sitting off the coast. >> ama: new tonight at 5:00. some unidentified good samaritans rescued two men after their pickup crashed into the water near the mare island bridge in vallejo. the chp and vallejo fire arrived to find the truck submerged in five feet of water. both men were safe on the canal bank after people fishing nearby helped them out of the water. the driver was taken to the hospital with internal injuries. his passenger was left shaken and shivering. >> as you can see it became airborne, landed in water so they could have lost consciousness and drowned. so a lot of things to be thankful for today for those two people. >> ama: the truck remained in the canal for hours as salvage crews tried to figure out how to remove the wreckage. >>> hundreds of dental patients were tested today for h.i.v. and hepatitis. after oklahoma dental board investigators found what they called

>>> pressure on the peninsula, north korean leaders respond to u.n. sanctions prompting north korean commanders to put their forces on high alert. welcome to nhk world "newsline". north korean officials have unilaterally to scrap all non-aggression agreements with south korea. their announcement follows the u.n. security council's approval of tougher sanctions against the north. council members made the move to punish the reclusive nation for carrying out a nuclear test last month. ♪ >> translator: the united states and south korea went as far as adopting a u.n. security council resolution to impose more sanctions on our country while trying to set off a newark war. >> a statement by the committee in charge of interkorean dialogue says north korea will scrap non-aggression pacts with the south starting monday. the statement says the country will close the north-south hotline at the demilitarized zone. authorities at pyongyang said they would cancel the 1953 armistice. they justified that decision by saying they were responding to u.s.-south korea mili

you mentioned north korea and ties to syria. >> we know in 2007 that the north koreans actually soldeact are to north korea, and syria would have nuclear weapons today if israel hadn't decided in 2007 to strike that nuclear reactor before it went active. so it's a terrible situation, we could be face ago syria today where there's a fight between iran and hezbollah on one hand and al-qaeda on the other side and could be fighting over the nuclear welcomes. north korea's proliferation is a serious concern and that is something i think that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. >> and north korea and iran specifically? >> there's an extensive cooperation going on between north korea and iran today. we know that a senior architect of iran's program and witnessing a north korea nuclear test, extensive cooperation. they've been cooperating for years on advanced ballistic missiles. we've got to focus on north korea's technology because that's going to end up in iranian hands one day. >> you mentioned the nuclear test, one on february 12th, i believe, that resulted in additional u.n. sanctions. c

north korea is trying to get attention. negotiate a deal, get some goodies and then quietly start cheating on that deal. that has been the pattern in the past. but this time, the north koreans have gotten the attention of their ally, china, but not quite how they want to get it. in a remarkable shift, china, which sustains north korea economically, had drafted and then voted last week for u.n. sanctions against pyongyang. for decades beijing saw pyongyang as a natural ally but a senior official told me last wednesday, we are clearly hearing increasing levels of frustration and concern from beijing about north korea. a few weeks ago a senior communist party analyst argued in an op-ed in the financial times that china should abandon north korea. now, talk is easier than action. china has never imposed penalties or strictly enforced sanctions against its ally. beijing's reasoning is understandable. we tend to think about north korea through the prism of two issues, nuclear weapons and human rights. but the chinese have a more

they increase north korea's isolation and raise the cost to north korea's leaders of defiing the international security. >> to address the nuclear address and to prevent isolation. >> japan's u.n. ambassador urged officials to think hard about what path they should take. it took the security council just over three weeks to pass this resolution. we've beenollowing the story. how did the security council act so unanimously in. >> the key here was the u.s. and china worked together. in the past china has opposed tough sanctions against its long time ally. this time china helped the u.s. draft the resolution. china doesn't want its neighbor north korea to be armed with nuclear weapons. at the same time chinese leaders are concerned sanctions that are too severe could further deteriorate the north korean economy. that cld result in a flood of refugees crossing their border. the wording of the resolution underlines that the sanctions apply only to actions related to north korea's nuclear and missile program so that focus may have made the chinese comfortable enough to authorize the resolution. >> w

to the north wintry weather will be moving towards the northeast effecting north western part of moscow. things will turn stormier in moscow. temperatures are looking like this turning zero degrees in vienna. two in moscow and ten degrees in kiev on friday. here is your extended forecast.

this came after the korea link the operator even that phrase the korea link the celebration in north korea created it was unthinkable just three four years ago it launched a three g. mobile internet service and mislead has not been the only one posting pictures all foreigners are now gaining access to the network services mobile networks in north korea and basically a flurry of face tags check ins coming now from inside one of the world's most close states lets fascinating and i mean i guess that's great for the foreigners but what about the locals i mean do we see local north koreans running around posting tweets and instagram is everywhere now this all these options remain restricted to the local population but at least now. they can send text messages to each other in even make a video course for a country where having curtains and windows has been outlawed simply for the reason that this would indicate you mean you have something to hide you know this is a great breakthrough indeed i didn't actually know that they had that that's pretty crazy i mean you've actually been on the gr

is beefing up protection against north korea. >> the pentagon is acknowledging that north korea is becoming more of a global threat because of the speed at which it is developing its missile program and its nuclear weapon program. how does the military want to respond to this? at the front line, by going to the pacific ocean where the fear is that north korea on its best day might be able to launch a missile that would go all the way out to hit some parts of the united states. what are they going to do about that? first of all, they want more radar support. they want a new base in japan here, to be tracking early on what's happening. they want to beef up missiles in alaska and california and of course they want steady monitoring from ships at sea, from airplanes overhead and from satellites, all watching to see if north korea is going to launch at some point our way. how would that work? if north korea launches a missile, all those early warning

very serious weather here in the north bay. we are live right now in novato with a wet parking lot here at hamilton marketplace. we are in between rain cells but the big story this morning seems to be the wind and it is causing big problems in santa rosa where the crews have a downed tree blocking gates road and high winds took the street down but cable, phone, and power lines along with it and it happened at:15, fire crews still on the scene trying to figure out how to get the tree out and how to get power back to people. it is not known how many could be without power and 15 -- phone lines. the drive across the golden gate bridge was dicey. this video shows a heavy storm cell moving through. winds were gusting over the span, too. you have to really slow down if you are crossing the golden gate bridge this morning. this was our drive up through petaluma this morning on 101 northbound, rain hitting the windshield, and we did taught see any accidents but we called c.h.p. a short time ago and there have been spin outs, some minor