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

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. 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. 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

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

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 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

i think that's diminished significantly given north korea -- north korea's bad behavior. so my simple answer is china. and without china, in my view it was north korea economy just crumbles. >> dr. lee? >> we do know all specific north korean institutions that engage in proliferation and other illicit activities. there's a long list. executive order 13382, mentions 30 or so north korean entities, including individuals. and the most recent u.n. security council resolution, 2087, adopted in january, lists for north korean individuals by name. a couple of those are associate with north korea's so-called space program, science, technology. the other two are associated with a north korean company, a commercial bank, which is a long history of engaging in illicit activities. there is also in the u.n. security council resolution 2087, a freeze on the assets owned by a north korean bank, eastern land bank. so the problem is not necessarily identifying sufficient number of targets, but implementing those targets. >> dr. asher, i'm going to expand a little bit. let's talk about the

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 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, >> brown: and finally tonight, the republican-controlled legislature in arkansas this week passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law over the democratic governor's veto. it imposes a near-ban on the procedure from the 12th week of pregnan

>>> pressure on the peninsula, north korean leaders respond to tougher u.n. security council sanctions prompting south korean military leaders to put their forces on high alert. welcome to nhk world "newsline," i'm ross mihara. officials in north korea have threreenen to unilaterally 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 nuclear war. >> a statement by the committee in charge of interkorean dialogue says north korea will scrap non-aggression being pacts with the south starting monday. the same says the country will close the north/south hotline at the demilitarized zone. authorities at pyongyang said they would cancel the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities in the ko

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

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

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

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

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

north koreans posted on the streets, coming within 50 miles of north korea's bored.sure south korea of u.s. protection, it could lead to unintended consequences. >> one china viewing this as alarming escalation. the second is that the north koreans receive validation in terms of their muscle development program. >> senior defense officials say there was an intense debate over weather to send the b-2 bombers up to the white house. he says the full range of options was considered with some urging the u.s. to do more than just fly the bombers and others saying the u.s. should hang back, hold back and do less. fred? >> thanks so much, chris lawrence. >>> just how big a threat is north korea? i'll get answers from an expert who has been watching the regime for years now and the people who helped track down a cop killer may not get the reward they expected. we'll ask our legal guys what the law says. threats to attack u.s. targets. hawaii, guam and the u.s. response. how big a threat is north korea? jim walsh is here to give us some context. what's going on here, jim? kim

>>> 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

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

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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

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

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

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

support issues coming from china into north korea. hopefully china sees the threat for nuclear proliferation in that part of the world in the event they are not able to stop what north korea is doing. >> chris: thank you both. we have to leave it there. thank you for talking with us and no doubt there is tough par beginning' head on -- bargaining ahead on the budget. thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you you. >> chris: up next, the battle inside the gop o over how to gw the party. vo: always one step ahead with an intuitive motion activated lid and seat, bold makes sure you'll never have to ask him again. [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. >>chris: the conservative political action conference held the annual meeting and if you can believe it, a presidential straw poll for 2016. here are the results.

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.

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

is also tackling north korea the u.n. security council has adopted a resolution expanding sanctions against the country it was drafted by the u.s. and china and there's a response appealing and third nuclear test parties on the saucy a chair going to have the details from new york. the fifteen member united nations security council presided this month by russia has adopted a new sanctions resolution against north korea and response to a third nuclear test conducted by pyongyang on february twelfth in defiance of existing united nations security council resolutions which basically bad any kind of nuclear testing by north korea and this latest resolution was drafted by the united states and china during three weeks of negotiations and adopted this thursday unanimously by the security council what this latest new resolution calls for is an implementation of tighter restrictions on north korea including making it tougher for north korean officials to be able to carry around bokes of cash in suitcases it basically also calls f

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,

it is not a win-win situation for north beach. north beach has nothing to gain from this. it is simply a place to dump all the debris from this subway project in chinatown in northern beach. this is not been a good thing for the chinatown community versus the north beach community. we're not really happy about this. the change of location does not in any way reduce the construction impacts to the neighborhood. it moves them just to the other side of columbus. this pagoda property faces columbus, so the disruption to traffic is inevitable and the dirt and all the other things are still there. it's not a handful of people that are opposed to it as supervisor chiu said. in all the meetings i have been to, a majority have been opposed to. one official at the community meeting was cut short by a fire alarm. it's been very frustrating to the people attending that meeting that we were not allowed to ask questions. the likelihood of a north beach stop is next to nil. the agreement with the owner does not allow for a station at that site, i understand. i would also like to dispute

and as you said by standards of north korean rhetoric chrks are pretty bad. they say pretty intense things. if i take any comfort in this, and i don't, the comfort i take is that most of these provocations have not been north korea directly poking south korea. it's a missile test or it's a statement or they're not going to honor an agreement. there hasn't been any direct confrontation. i think that's good. but what worries me and we heard a north korean official say this today, this may be the dumbest thing i've heard all year, it's only march, but it may be the dumbest thing. he was quoted today as saying "war could break out any moment so there's no need for military-to-military communication." actually, it's the opposite. if there is a chance of war, not by design but by accident, the two sides need to be communicating so that something small does not grow into something big. >> matthew, i want to bring you back into the conversation here because jim brings up a really good point. and that is what is the prospect here of war? i mean, you have the south kor

officials today talked about north korean dictator kim jong-un saying north korea is not a paper tiger. it wouldn't be smart to dismiss its provocative behavior as pure bluster. this is serious. and outfront tonight, matthew chance, on the island of pyeongyo pyeongyong. how big of a step is the move to server the military hotline? >> well, they've done that before. but it's still a pretty big step. there are more than a million troops facing up against each other across one of the most volatile borders in the world. and so there are very few channels of communications between those two militaries. so when one of them is severed like this, obviously increases the possibility of a miscalculation of a misstep that could potentially escalate into something more serious. and that's one of the big concerns now. there's so little trust between the two sides, so little opportunity for them to communicate and coordinate. that could lead to something very dangerous indeed, erin. >> matthew, some people might say what were the hotlines really used for if they were only for emergencies? maybe they

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

loosened in the aftermath when north korea agrees to do something we learned painfully that north korea does what it says it is going to do. this is a tough thing to deal with. part self-made. the united states has a policy calling for reunification of both north and south korea. china doesn't want them reunified because it doesn't want a capitalist democracy on its border and the south koreans don't want reunification either. prosperous country. 25 million people in the north and one of the most abject states of poverty one can imagine. until we sort of forego a unification we are not going to necessarily get the cooperation we need from china. maybe what we ought to do is not be provoked into giving any kind of concessions and reexamine whether or not we ought to step back from the polyof reunification with the help that as north korea misbehaves more it will drive china to help and step in. >> chris: and iran? >> the president misplayed this also from the beginning. he had a chance to destablize the regime and missed it. >> chris: during the election in. >> in 2009. we get hints the

yes, north dakota. rallies were held under the banner, stand up for women, north dakota.lies in fargo and grand forks and minot and this one in the state capital of bismarck, north dakota, today, where the ap estimates more than 300 people turned out in cold conditions to urge the governor to veto these bills. in a sign that the personhood folks are weirding out at least some in the republican party in north dakota, there were even some republican lawmakers today who were among the pro choice protesters, asking the governor to please put a stop to this nonsense. one republican state representative told "the huffington post," quote, it's to say, hey, this isn't okay. we have stepped over the line. north dakota has not even passed a primary seat belt law, but we have the most invasive attack on women's health anywhere. we are spending an inordinate amount of time on social or personal issues, but we haven't done anything on property tax relief, higher education funding, fixing the roads. there are all kinds of other things we need to be doing besides this. ah, but this is w

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

this comes after declarations by the norths. north korea takes on the world author joins us now.n, great to see you. many people are concerned about the latest threat from the north. how serious is it at that point from your perspective? >> it is serious and we should be concerned. these harsh words are coming at a time of disarray in the north korea regime. kim jong-un has been in power less than 16 months and firing officials loyal to his dad the previous ruler and trying to change the nature of the regime itself . at no time had he had a smaller basis of support that kim jong-un today. all of the threats he's backing himself in a corner and doesn't know the consequences of what he's doing and the window for violence is open. >> talk about the timing of the threat. what do you sigh as being significant at this point? >> north korea always makes threats before the south korea and will united states do the joint drills and they did it this year. but most of the time north korea goes silent and this time the warnings are more dire and intense and that means something is different

at north korean nuclear tests.re is real threat that north korea does best which is to profit some of the world's most dangerous weapons to some of the world most odious people. bill: they make money off of that, too, don't they. >> they do. north korea survived from humanitarian aid, economic aid from countries like the u.s., south korea and japan. that test why it wants to get back on negotiating table it time and time again conned us for aid in returns for promises to disarm it never follows through on. beyond that aggregate level of economic support it pursues a number of illicit activities, trafficking in people, illegal drugs, counter fit pharmaceuticals and weapons proliferation and how the regime really thrives. bill: i think this needs repeating almost every time we talk about the story. what the north koreans want they want to sit at table with the united states. one-on-one. no one else. not the chinese. not the jop meese, -- japanese, not the south koreans. they want to be seen on level of america. that

the north says a war could break out at any moment. today the united states denounced the move. >>. >> we think the provocative rhetoric is not constructive to insuring peace and stability on the peninsula. >> north korea packed serious punch. the military has unknown number of nuclear weapons as many as 800 short and long range ballistic missiles and $1.2 million fighting troops. all dangerously close to the 30,000 american soldiers stationed in south korea. the dictator says north korea is not a paper tiger. it wouldn't be smart to dismiss its provocative behavior as pure bluster. matthew, how big of a step is the move today to sever the military hotline? >> well, they've done that before. but it's still a pretty big step. there are more than a million troops facing up against each other across one of the most volatile borders in the world. and so there are very few channels of communications between those two militaries. so when one of them is severed like this, obviously increases the possibility of a miscalculation of a misstep th