u.s. within years. our senior correspondent is live in seoul, south korea. greg. nowhere is that summit between president trump and chinese president being watched more closely than on the peninsula because it s so close to the threat. we spent time in busy seoul today. there s something like 25 million people including u.s. troops and american civilians within artillery range of north korea let alone the nukes and missiles. north korea launched another missile this week. it doesn t travel far but far enough to send a message to the summit the regime is still in business. we met today with former south korean minister and he confirmed to us what others had been blaming they could have a nuclear-tipped missile aimed to hit the u.s. during president
hours that may have come from the reactor core. plutonium is a heavy metal. it doesn t travel very far. so i think the hope here is that most of the radiation is contained to the area immediately around the plant. the worry is that either it gets down into the ground water and then travels outside of the plant area, or that there s a subsequent explosion, a steam explosion, something inside the reactor, and then that like chernobyl would carry up material up into the atmosphere and be spread by the atmosphere. but so far, it s localized, and the best hope is that it will remain localized. jim, it s been going on three weeks now that we ve been watching these events unfold. tell me, is the trend line going in the right direction at this point? i mean, we obviously get distracted by libya and other crises around the world. if we come back three weeks from now and say is this solved, are we more likely to be fully resolved in terms of risks at