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Chang. north korea takes on the world. gordon, nice to see you this morning. >> thank you. >> clayton: lets start in the beginning with north korea. should would he be taking these threats seriously or just show for camera with kim jong un with a gun out there playing around. >> they pretend this is bluster. it comes at a particularly bad time because you have got new leaders in the region. they cant back down. you know, in north korea kim jong un hasnt consolidated his position in the regime. h...

About what you wrote. you wrote south koreans arent particularly worried about the rhetoric coming out of north korea, but it seems to be a bit more than mere rhetoric of late or are we wrong? is this just bluster from north korea and thats how people are interpreting it? >> yes, theres actually a lot of disagreement about that part in seoul. some people here think that this is simply bluster and this is rhetoric that will pass. but at the same time if you look at the rhetoric coming out of nort...

South koreans dont live tlar da their daily lives worrying about it. they have grown up with these threats. north korea says this kind of thing every few years. when you become accustomed to it, it just sounds like bluster. something could happen, but south koreans are not -- theyre not losing sleep over it right now. >> okay. from the global post, geoffrey cain. thank you so much for your time. will anything change in college sports after the scandal at rutgers university? some are even defen...

Ambassador, the pentagon approach a very diplomatic one. we talked about this before whether the u.s. was playing into the propaganda hand of north korea. you agree with this approach? >> yes. i think its important not to get into a war of words with the north koreans. i think we need to be kind of steady and to avoid any kind of escalation there. at the same time i very much support the deployment of ships. i mean, we need to be ready. we dont know for certain whether this is all bluster from t...

The u.s. alliance means something. so we wouldnt just turn our backs on this there would be something. >> would this arguably strengthen the u.s.-china alliance? >> well, we dont have much of an alliance with china but we sure have an important relationship there i think already, because of this bluster by the north koreans, the threatened missile launches, we have started to thicken up the antimissile defense. that cannot come as in news to the chinese, and they have to look at the time north k...

President obama. their first visit. and its certainly expected, i would say, that north korea, as it does at times, may act up and try to steal some of the attention during that time as well. >> brianna, thanks very much. lets go wack to our guests for some further analysis right now. there is a new government, ambassador hill, in south korea, and president park, shes tough. if there is some sort of provocation, i suspect unlike her pre deceaser, she might respond right away, and that could esca...

Missile defense, but certainly now they are really working at it hard. because they realize some accidental trip wire could be touched here. in all likelihood, this is the same type of bluster weve seen repeatedly from north korea. ive followed these conversations for years, since 1994, and the type of rhetoric is not unlike what we see rather routinely. they do do very provocative acts, the sinking of the south korean warship with a north korean torpedo was very provocative. the shelling of the...

That did not happen under his father and there is kind of a an assumption, i think, that a lot of this is bluster, that this is trying to do things that have to do more with political, diplomatic and economic aspirations than it does with proving military superiority because the truth is that north korea is not superior militarily and the danger of any conflict with the united states is ridiculous. it doesnt have a missile that has the range to hit the united states and i think its range is actu...

Of this is bluster, that this is trying to do things that have to do more with political, diplomatic and economic aspirations than it does with proving military superiority because the truth is that north korea is not superior militarily and the danger of any conflict with the united states is ridiculous. it doesnt have a missile that has the range to hit the united states and i think its range is actually smaller than you suggested. i think its under 2,000, which would make it hard to even hit ...

The problem is that this bluster, which i think boreds on bafoonry at times is something that could get them into some kind of incident with the highly capable south korean army. >> experts say they dont have the missile technology to reach the united states. but they could arguably reach maybe some bases and of course we have 30,000 troops in south korea. if japan or associating were attacked in some way, would there be retaliation? if so, what it would it look like? >> i suspect there would be...