Border Islands News Today

I like that old time Rock N Roll Joe good morning. This is the second hour of fox and Friends Weekend on this football saturday morning, youre looking at the Hilton Head Island south carolina, looks a lot different from the range at parris island, south carolina. Out there in the middle of camp, you can see hilton head across the water, you are a miserable marine with no hair, no personality, youre hungry and sleepy, theres a bunch of golf and country club folks over there. Rachel s and that is ...

Worried about any rockets striking austin, l.a., hawaii, places like that. what they are concerned about, though, are those rockets that could be aimed at some of the islands around south korea, some of the local regional attacks. they dont believe at this point that kim jong-un is going to launch any sort of massive strike against the united states. but theyre very worried that north korea may come right up to the edge of these provocations and then tumble over the edge. in other words, a local...

Rhetoric. look past the picture of kim jong-un putting north korean rockets on standby inside his military command. theres a chart marked, u.s. mainland strike plan, with missile trails aiming at hawaii, california, d.c., and for some reason, austin, texas. its wishful thinking on pyongyangs part. they cant reach the u.s. yet. but tens of thousands of american troops are well within range of a more limited strike, something short of an all-out attack. >> i think its more in the sense of north ko...

Officials are trying to discern now what are motivations behind rising levels of threats. it started with the wild threat to attack the u.s. mainland which north korea simply does not have the capability to do. but then recently, weve heard them threaten to wipe out south korean military units on some of the border islands in north korea, going after some of the u.s. military bases there in the pacific area. those are within reach of north korea. and i think what officials are trying to do right...

So what are we talking about? well, north carolina was accused of sinking torpedoing a south korean ship. so one of the provications could be north korean ships going into these disputed waters which they have in the past. also air. north korean jets flying into south korean airspace. they came close to violating the dmz just last year. south korea had to scramble four fighter jets in response. and finally, shelling these border islands like they did a couple years ago, that also would very like...

Korean ship. so one of the provications could be north korean ships going into these disputed waters which they have in the past. also air. north korean jets flying into south korean airspace. they came close to violating the dmz just last year. south korea had to scramble four fighter jets in response. and finally, shelling these border islands like they did a couple years ago, that also would very likely invite a response. some of the other reasons are to step up the cooperation between u.s. a...

The small scale attacks. so what are we talking about? well, north carolina was accused of sinking torpedoing a south korean ship. so one of the provications could be north korean ships going into these disputed waters which they have in the past. also air. north korean jets flying into south korean airspace. they came close to violating the dmz just last year. south korea had to scramble four fighter jets in response. and finally, shelling these border islands like they did a couple years ago, ...

Korean adviser to governor richardson, he looked at me and we knew what was going on. >> when we heard these booms in the distance, four or five of them and thought at one point that maybe that was the very shelling that had started. that was the most frightening moment. >> in the south, theyre bracing for retaliation. >> the government issued a take-cover order for five border islands, affecting some 8,000 civilians on those islands telling them to get into bunkers, bunkers that could withstand...

Response going to be. what we know for certain is that south koreas ministry of defense a short time ago telling cnn that they will start live-fire naval drills. that window of start time to begin in about an hour from now, and it could happen at any point during this afternoon, but the window to start those live-fire drills begins in just about an hour. now, as you mentioned, residents of five islands that border south korea and north korea have been told to take cover. there are up to 8,000 pe...

Of five islands that border south korea and north korea have been told to take cover. there are up to 8,000 people who live on these islands. the cover that they are heading to are underground bunkers being prepared by the military, but some residents say they are not going to take any chances. we caught up with some taking the very last ferry off of the island. carrying what they can, yeonpyeong villagers carrying what they can and villagers boarded and helping the elderly >> translator: im lea...