paula hancocks joins me again.derstand you have new information about this attacker. >> reporter: that's right, anderson. we understand from the man in the photo, this man named kim is the same man who actually attacked the japanese ambassador back in 2010 in south korea. this is when he threw a slab of concrete at the ambassador. the ambassador was not injured or affected by this but we do understand he does have a previous criminal record. we've also seen that he heads up a blog online and in that blog we see a photo of him from february 24th where he's protesting outside the u.s. embassy against these joint-military drills between the u.s. and south korea which angered north korea so much saying they are jeopardizing the relations between north and south and jeopardizing family reunions between north and south. clearly, we can see he does have a history of being angry about what the u.s. is doing. clearly, police will be looking at that very closely. anderson? >> raises more questions about the security situatio

our paula hancocks is joining us live from seoul. r pyongyang's rhetoric of intimidation and revenge. given how routine this rhetoric has become does seoul even take them seriously anymore? >> reporter: well i think seoul and of course washington have to take the rhetoric seriously, whether or not it happens every year or not. remember just a couple of years ago, tensions were very high on the peninsula, higher than they have been for years. so there is always the potential for a miscalculation or a misunderstanding of course when there are military drills going on fatherly lyfairly close to the border. we have exclusive access to look at what the u.s. and south korean militaries are doing and how they're preparing to make sure they're ready to fight side by side. [ gunfire ] firing at an unseen enemy. tanks move closer to the threats to defend their position. under tank cover, the infantry mobilize to take out targets on a nearby hill. american and south korean military fighting side by side. the battle may not be real but the threat

paula hancocks now from seoul, south korea, with the latest on that.we see missile launch from north korea all the time. the challenge is discerning whether or not it is a prelude to something more serious. what is being made of the launches this time around? >> reporter: well i don't think anyone's too surprised the fact that this is day one of the two-month-long annual war games. it angers pyongyang every year. every year we see these launches. the fact that they're short-range missiles won't tornado too many although we have heard from the south korean defense ministry that they do see this as a provocative act. >> translator: our military and the u.s. forces have enhanced surveillance posture, and we're maintaining a posture to immediately respond. if north korea takes provocative actions, our military will reaction firmly and strongly so north korea will regret it bitterly. >> the south koreans were concerned that -- as far the spokesperson was concerned, there was no sales launched ahead of this launch who he says means that there were shipping v

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. >> paula hancock on two developing stories for us. i appreciate you pushing you through feeling under the weather this hour. i appreciate that. not sure if i'll be able to do the same these next two hours. we appreciate that latest information from paula hancocks thanks. >>> we turn to india now where the government is banning a documentary about a savage rape and murder that triggered massive protests. india's daughter from the bbc includes a prison interview with one of the -- [ inaudible ] >> the documentary could encourage andin incite violence against women. we have more now on the controversy. and talk to us about what this rapist said exactly to trigger a ban on this documentary and how are people in india reacting to the ban and the government's justification for it? >> reporter: well, the government is saying that the reason they don't want the movie shown in yan is because they fear how the public will react. they don't want a "law you ander" situation here. the reason they are fearing a "law and order" situation is because

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paula hancocks keeping a close eye on those military drills from seoul in south korea.u. >>> we want to turn to the weather. we have our pedram javaheri here. and of course winter doesn't seem to want to budge in some parts of the united states. what is going on? bring spring on. come on. >> a lot of people saying the same. has had one good thing a tornado drought's been in place across the united states. we've had zero tornadoes in march. that sun precedented since 1970 whenning in was kept. around minnesota, upwards of a foot or 30 centimeters came down. the footage out of minnesota to share with you. the kids having fun with all of the snow as well if we have fooltage to share. the perspective looking like this. five days into the spring season and the snow showers abundant across the region. working through chicago, six inches or 15 centimeters came down. that was the single biggest snowstorm in the month of march, this late in the season since 1982. maps in motion here we go. sunday into monday there's about 30 centimeters or a foot that came downment an hour's dri

our paula hancocks is live there in seoul.raining exercises happen every year and every year we hear pyongyang's rhetoric. given how routine the threats have become does seoul take them seriously anymore? how seriously do they take them? >> reporter: certainly, i think seoul listens to what north korea says and has to take any threats seriously. remember this is still a country technically at war with north korea. so even if these, if the rhetoric does seem fairly routine it does have to be taken seriously not only by seoul but by washington and others in the region. this is one of the reasons why south korea and the u.s. believe it's so important to be able to work together side by side. they are very close allies. and we got an exclusive look at just what the military training looks like this year. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: firing at an unseen enemy, tanks move closer to the threat to defend their position. under tank cover, the infantry mobilize to take out targets on a nearby hill. american and south korean military fightin

. >> paula hancocks joins us live now. what more do we know about the ambassador's condition? >> reporter: we've had a briefing not long ago from the doctors who carried out these operations. they say that he has a gash which is 11 centimeters long from his right cheekbone to his lawer jaw and three centimeters deep. they say if it had been any deeper it could have cut a key artery and could have been fatal. but they say the surgery was very successful. they say that he's now resting in a hospital ward. he could be in hospital for three to four days. according to the doctors, they say that the ambassador was very calm throughout saying that his companions and colleagues around him were in shock, but the ambassador was very calm. so that's the latest on his condition. >> we're also learning more about the suspect that is behind this attack. apparently he was known to police. he carried out a similar attack on a japanese diplomat in 2010. >> that's right. we know that this man kim had tried to throw a slab of concrete at the japanese ambassador to south korea back in 2010. the n

paula hancock is joining us. paula, what's going on? it's very disturbing information the u.s.hat's right. we have confirmation from the embassy spokesman saying they can confirm there was an incident this morning. it's 8:30 in the morning local time. they say he is currently in hospital. he is in a stable condition. we know that he was -- this morning it was the reconciliation of the two koreas. he was at a public event. we don't know how this -- how this was carried out. it was about 7:42 -- >> hold on. paula, we are now being told he was attacked by a razor blade. someone took a razor blade and went to his right cheek and slit it. that's why he is holding his hand there. go ahead, finish your report. >> that's right. this is what we have from the police at the moment. it was a suspect in his 60s. he used a small razor blade. the ambassador has injuries on his right check, also on his hand which coincides with the pictures that we're seeing. the suspect at this point has been detained. he is under investigation. police tell us they have no idea what the motive of this attack.