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The world and very embarrassing. this time, it seems like the world is taking these threats a little more seriously. that may be because the threat period seems more sustained and more historical than usual. its because of the timing. american secretary of state john kerry is due to arrive in seoul, south korea in a few hours and visiting beijing and tokyo on this trip. his first stop in asia is seoul, south korea where its pretty singularly focused how to deal with the new level of threats from...

Saying it would not be very reliable if it exists and maybe it doesnt exist and still unclear what north koreas end game is here. do they want a war or attention or all bluster? the kim il-sung holiday they like to mark with missile launches, that holiday is monday. john kerrys visit to south korea starts tonight. the bluster in north korea has turned up to stun right now but it often is. if youre wondering why people are worrying right now the bluster right now might be more than just the usual...

Would be brutal. thats the conventional wisdom. that the north korean army would march across the dmz and into the south and seoul right here where we are, 35 miles away from the dmz, and the economic heartland of this country is vulnerable. hes got tactical weapons, hes threatened to use them. most people believe, as does kerry, i think, that this is bluster. but hes basically saying today, that your rhetoric has gotten too hot. take a way out, find a glide path out of this. a face-saving way o...

Have basically won out in terms of a potential power struggle there. over the foreign ministry, the civilian types that are in that government. number two, i think its also reached the stage where kim jong-un has already used this bluster and strength internally for his domestic purposes. you can only do so much. i think hes getting the support that he needs internally, so then the question is, why are they continuing this escalation? there months sign that at the end of the tunnel theyre ready ...

Korea, excellent report, thanks very much. were joined now by a man who knows north korea as well as anyone. he was just in north korea in early january. thanks for coming in. u.s. intelligence now telling cnn north korea may be planning what they call multiple missile launches in the coming maybe hours or next few days? what is your assessment? >> well, this is very troublesome. theres a lot of bluster, a lot of bluffing, but when theres movement of those missiles that can be detected then th...

Briing extra instant noodles, supplies of water and food and many countries are coming up with evacuation plans. they talk about chaos that i do not see even happening here. this was the announcement as was read on north korean television. and it warns, it would be foolish for the u.s. and puppet group war fanatics to miscalculate and hope for luck. war is a matter of time. and what remains is mercifulness punishment. theres no use to regret then. there will be no one alive to regret. pretty chi...

Hours or next few days. what is your assessment? >> well, this is very troublesome. theres a lot of bluster. a lot of bluffing. but when theres movements of those missiles that can be detected, then that means theyre up to something. so, i dont have any concrete information that theyre going to take those tests. but if they do, it basically means this. one, the north korean military, the hard liners of, basically, won out in terms of a potential power struggle there, over the foreign ministry, t...

>> secretary of state john kerr where -- kerry will arrive in seoul and then goes on to china. it will be interesting to see if kim decides to test while secretary of state kerry is right there in his own backyard. >> wouldnt surprise me unlittle bit. >> how big a deal is this? this is morse north korea blues -- bluster. teeter go -- peter, go to see you. a lot of people i talked to analysts and watchers, seem to think he has an internal problem. theres a power struggle going on here. does that ...

Relations and a lot of bluster, at least that has been the game in the past. what is unknown, kris, is this new young leader, barely 30 years old, not very much known about him. what we dont know is are his intentions. is he just trying to consolidate his power with the military generals who really are believed to be running the country? or a year into his leadership, just about a year ago when he took over control of the communist party, one of his many titles, is he trying to do something diff...

I dont know that for a fact, but i assume that they have. but weve also taken some other actions. theres been some airplanes that have flown there, flying over south korea, both b-2s, as well as theres f-22s, as well. there are b-52 -- theres a b-52 flight that has gone there. we have ships which have gone there, additional radars in place. so the united states has responded in kind of a firm way. we havent used a hot rhetoric that the north koreans have. the heated rhetoric, which hopefully is ...