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Un is really doing and who is rupping the show? is it the military? is it the young leader? whos in charge? >> well on the second question, the bottom line we dont know. he certainly is up front in all the pictures and hes been in power for about a year now. the balance between him and the military, we dont know. if anything, whoever it is, the hardliners are winning in north korea. with regard to the first point, there is bluster. but as you know well, andrea, this is way off the scale. way off...

Factor with a former ambassador to china, jon huntsman. well take a history of action versus bluster. and with a possible missile launch looming in the coming days, north korea finds some shady ways to bankroll its muscle flexing. im wolf blitzer, and this is a "the situation room" special report of the north korean crisis. china suddenly taking a new and tougher line against north korea right now. over the weekend, chinas president pointedly complained that no country should be allowed to...

Its nobodys fault. its a hermit kingdom. they keep their own council, say whatever you like. but its very difficult to predict what theyre going to do. now were all keeping our fingers crossed this is bluster. but, again, the korean experts i talk to are starting to worry. >> and that, obviously, as you say, is a big shift. that is different. and for the first time, bob, it seems like a majority of americans are perhaps coming to that point of view themselves. we look at the most recent poll. to...

Flyers. these flyers have the markings of where you can go if there is some sort of a disaster, whether that be a natural disaster or some sort of impact from the north. so people are preparing for it in a quiet way. but if you talk to people, they dont really want to think about it because they are, again, so numb. it is so difficult to think about what would happen if north korea actually did launch something into south korea, the casualties would be unthinkable. >> they would be be unthinkabl...

We dont really know what he will do. is it just bluster? the administration, what they are trying to do is get with the people like china, their closest ally, who is expressing they are fed up with this and they are willing to start putting pressure on north korea and they will go that diplomatic route to get them to ratchet it down so the worst of the worst doesnt happen. >>chris: picking up on china, the obama administration has reportedly said to china, look, either you crackdown and somehow ...

Republicans would have to say, i have to go for some tax hikes. but there is a path, not wide, that he could do this some time in the next year. >> and the question, too, is, what happens with the sequester? thus far all the bluster has fallen flat. nothing happened that democrats or -- >> patients ara s ars arant get cancer drugs and thats -- >> this is the positioning not just for this budget, and for a big grand bargain, which i still think is very difficult to get. but what about even if we ...

>> towards the big deal, thats what youre talking about. >> he tried this. you can see where they can come up with democratic votes and just enough republicans, republicans would have to say, i have to go for some tax hikes. but there is a path, not wide, that he could do this some time in the next year. >> and the question, too, is, what happens with the sequester? thus far all the bluster has fallen flat. nothing happened that democrats or -- >> patients arent getting their cancer drugs and th...

U.s. canceling the launch of a icbm, the test launch of the minuteman three missile. at the same time the opposition -- the main opposition party, is calling for the president to appoint a special envoy, perhaps bill clinton, hillary clinton, perhaps jimmy carter. theyre thinking something should be done. but thats the opposition. >> thank you, jim clancy in seoul. thank you very much. we are just getting word the top u.s. commander in south korea has cancelled a planned trip to washington due t...

Some of them are going to make the kinds of weapons you have banned. do you want those companies to stay in your state? >> you know, weve been clear. people are welcome to stay in our state as long as theyre producing a product that can be sold in the united states legally. by the way, those companies have been courted over the years to move many, many times. weve been in discussions with some of those firms about their desire to move or not to move in the past. you know what, weve decided that ...

Pattern of behavior we have seen for many, many years -- provocative actions and bellicose rhetoric. the onus joys north korea to step back and meet their international obligations and undertake their number-1 goal of economic development. >> the chinese president seemed to offer criticism to north korea, saying no country should be allowed to plunge the region into chaos. eric. >> eric: steve, thanks very much. we will be watching this very closely, of course. the last year and-a-half, since ki...