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Two Islamic militants accused of kidnapping and killing four foreigners in the restive southern Philippines were detained Friday after surrendering to the military, authorities said.

>> thank you, tom. earlier tonight i spoke with gordon chang, columnist for forbes.com and author of "nuclear showdown." he says he doesnt think this will end well. >> hes painted himself into the corner. the legitimacy in this regime is based upon taking over south korea, killing foreigners. and so for him to maintain his position, now that hes said all these things, i think that he has to go forward and do something. i dont think hes going to do it soon because north korea never strikes when w...

Make, dont they? >> absolutely correct. the man in the loop has to decide whats the next step. the united nations command in south koreas mission is to maintain the armistice. what that means is theres a north korea and theres a south korea. weve signed up to that. theres nothing in the playbook that says, we are going to reunify this peninsula. >> and yet, don, in the process of handling a launch like that and the potential outflow, there could be a lot of nervous moments as we try to maintain ...

Korea, killing foreigners. and so for him to maintain his position, now that hes said all these things, i think that he has to go forward and do something. i dont think hes going to do it soon because north korea never strikes when we have a high degree of readiness. but they will strike when were not looking. and these military exercises that i talked about, they end at the end of this month when our readiness returns and falls back to normal and when were not looking, then the north koreans pr...

Its any different. >> i think that its different. in the past the north koreans have thrown a tantrum when the u.s. and south korea started their drills. this time the threats became more dire and i think its because jim young unhas yet to consolidate his position. at no time since 1949 has a north korean leader had a smaller base of support than he does today. thats why were sealing all of these threats one after the other. i dont think this is going to end very well. >> okay. go ahead. why do ...