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We just showed pictures of those exercises theyre doing with the japanese and the south koreans. >> north korea needs to pay attention. united states and south korea have this incredibly vibrant alliance. our relationship with japan is increasingly strong. the militaries in both south korea and japan are modernized and are top notch capabilities. the united states is a very -- has been forever a presence in that part of the world. and north korea has continued through its activities to kind of t...

Korea today. i assume that these exercises are at least partly because of a desire to deter north korea. doesnt seem to be working. is it possible that those exercises are also provoking north korea? >> well, i think if you ask kim jong-un, hed probably say they havent but thats not the effort at all. youre right. trying to make sure to deter aggressive, provocative actions out of the north, but just as importantly as that, we want to make sure we have the appropriate military capabilities at th...

Agreeing to reduce production? >> again, its difficult to know what his motivations are or what the timing is here. its possible that hes looking out and seeing and thinking falsely that the united states is distracted elsewhere and were not going to pay attention to this. that would be a mistake on his part because as youve seen, were not going to look the other way. we are making sure weve got the capabilities in place. the training, the programs in place to defend ourselves and our interests....

And i actually think that as we are focusing on it, were talking about this, i actually think -- i understand the strategic decision they made to only focus on the hundred classified documents. the notion of a special master in this case at all is inconsistent with -- these things. and so, i expect the supreme court will give this short shrift -- the delay, the distraction will have occurred, and the justice department will get back to doing the investigation they need to to do a damage assessme...

North koreas latest provocation garnering that response. the white house explaining its decision for that missile launch. >> this is not the first time weve done this in response to provocation s by the north. to make sure we can demonstrate our own capabilities with the south koreans and japanese. we want to sit down with kim jong-un he hasnt moved in that direction and hes moving in the opposite direction continuing to conduct the missile tests which are violations of security council resoluti...

National security and those of our allies and partners, which is why were staying focused on this. you saw in the last couple of days in response to the north korean ballistic missile launch that went over the island of japan that we conducted some exercises, air exercises with our japanese counterparts and air exercises with south korean counterparts. we can protect the peninsula if it comes to bass. we wont allow iran to achieve the nuclear weapon. diplomacy doesnt appear to be working now. we...

A modern nuclear power. we have been monitoring as best we can his nuclear posture to make whatever changes we have to do. thus far we have seen no indications that mr. putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons of weapons of mass destruction inside ukraine and we have seen nothing that gives us pause to have to change our own strategic nuclear posture. so were going to make sure we have the capabilities and readyness in place to defend our national security interests and those of our alli...

Should take very seriously. i think the likelihood of the use of firearms is difficult to use these battlefield, tactical nuclear weapons effectively, especially against a mobile ukrainian forces. weve done it in exercises four years of the united states. we did it during the cold war, and found that its so, its a more difficult problem than it looks like on paper. even with like ten kiloton warheads in an area of destruction, as well, relatively small. the likelihood of missing is relatively hi...

Stay vigilant, make sure that we have the capabilities ourselves in the region to defend our national interests and those of our allies. >> our senior international correspondent will ripley joins me now on this news. you saw the response in tokyo. what more could you tell us about this launch? >> well, look, this is right in the middle of the busy morning commute. and it is third time this happened in japan. albeit the first time in five years. so there were a lot of people who heard the warnin...

And there have been five missile launches in the past ten days, and 23 of them so far this year, and also that there have been increased capabilities. so north korea now could see the opportunity to test longer range weapons because for the longest time, the u.s. barely noticed that they were testing the short-range missiles. as well, theres the sense this could be the preamble to a nuclear test by kim jong-un, and this is something he has not done for the past five years, but this is seen widel...