Men, women and children. This concentration camp is in north korea, a country that is right now publicly celebrating the launch of a missile, a missile that has much of the media talking. After four successful failures, north korea shocked the world with this successful launch, with rockets powerful enough to reach our shores. These images showed people celebrating in north korea. Tonight, a u. S. Official tells cnn, there are early signs the koreans are not in total control of the device. But a north koreangovernment run tv, the news anchor was giddy with excitement. Keeping them honest. Pyongyang reportedly spent more than 1 billion on their Missile Program this year alone, money they could feed a lot of hungry, starving people in north korea. But while much of the world is talk about missiles tonight, there is a crime against humanity occurring in that country. A crime that receives very little attention. As i said, some 150,000 people are believed to be doing hard labor on the brin
That this was a heart breaking tragedy, by any standard. And many, many people will be affected by this terrible act of violence every day for the rest of their lives. And we should keep them in our thoughts and prayers. On the other hand, i think we all need to be very thankful that this incident wasnt much worse. We will take you live to portland for more on the shooter in just a moment here. But first, the victims. And this is where this briefing got emotional. I want you to listen here to the sheriff spokesman describe the victims and the requests on behalf of the families. This first statement comes from the family of cindy rule, age 54, from portland. Cindy was everybodys friend, she was a wonderful person who was very caring and put others first. The family has advised us they want time and space to grieve their loss and will not be giving interviews at this time. The family will make a statement at an unspecified later date through the sheriffs office. This is a statement from
You a place its so horrific, its hard to believe it exists. Its a modernday concentration camp. A network of prisons that houses men, women and children. This concentration camp is in north korea, a country that is right now publicly celebrating the launch of a missile, a missile that has much of the worlds media talking. After four successful failures, north korea shocked the world with this successful launch, with rockets powerful enough to reach our shores. Testing a longrange ballistic miss thatll could someday be capable of delivering a Nuclear Weapon across the pacific ocean. Nuclear warhead to the west coast of the United States. North korean tv show the images like these of people publicly celebrating in north korea. Tonight, a u. S. Official tells cnn, there are early signs the koreans are not in total control of the device. But a north korean governmentrun tv, the news anchor was giddy with excitement. Keeping them honest. Pyongyang reportedly spent more than 1 billion on the
Unguided scudtype missiles. And were also learning new details of the latest phone call between president obama and House Speaker john boehner did not go well. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with todays longrange rocket launch thats managed to put a satellite in earths orbit. Heres why it is important to all of us. Even though north korea is one of the poorest countries and many people are starving there, the Korean Peninsula is the most tense, most dangerous places on earth. There are roughly one million north korean troops on it is side of the militarize zone separating from south korea. As well as nearly 30,000 u. S. Forces. Not only are they within strikes distance of the launch site, a longrange rocket shows north korea is on its way to developing technology to launch a rocket at the United Statess west coast and hawaii. Officials tell cnn that the working assumption is that the North Koreans got outside help from others, including iran. So todays launch is