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When youreon the peninsula, the way you approach your job every day is be prepared to fiept tonight. nothing else is acceptable. the provocation, if were trying to evaluate the level of tension, i would say it doesnt exist any differently today than it did the day before. the issue is what took place in syria sends a very powerful message to the kim regime and pyongyang which is this president is not afraid to strike and not afraid to take kinetic military action and we have a battle power group...

Discipline not to act on a provocation like watching pictures of children killed with gas, but that is the challenge that terrorism poses, right? because its always a temptation to redirect and respond to provocations like this, even when its not consistent with your strategy. discipline has not been the hallmark of president trumps political career. >> do you -- its interesting you use the word "terrorism" to describe this attack. i think of it as a war crime, to the extent that we know it was ...

Accusing russia, trying to cover up what happened there. what killerson is up against, a russia calling u.s. strikes on syria an inadmissible act of aggression, intensifying tension between the two countries. russian president putin today suggesting that the assad regime and russia are being framed for the chemical attack. saying more will follow -- >> >> translator: we have information from various sources that this kind of provocation, i cant call it anything other than provocation, is prepare...

>> what can we glean so far about this administrations approach to how its going to deal with that guy, kim jong -u? >> two things mainly, theyre trying to ignore him. so the -- on the theory that what he wants most is to throw them off their game, to pursue a strategy thats worked for him in the past, at the start of american leadership, worked for previous north korean leaders in the kim dynasty to essentially force a new american administration into a corner where north koreas calling a t of ...

Youve got aircraft available and an abilities to provide this amazing air force. the united states has full ability and certainly its not unpress denlted for them to be in the sea of japan with the carrier battle group. thts not unusual. kind of makes sense and its very prudent. >> when youre the president of the united states saying i have an armada coming in and its very powerful and my submarines are powerful, hes doing the wrong thing. is that the right way to speak to kim jong un? >> i dont...

Within last couple of months he smeared the nerve agent on someone who he believed might come back and try to take over his position as leader. >> a family moeb no less. >> a family member. we have stories there, but we wont -- >> all right. >> if you think about what he has done to amass troops, artillery and weapons that -- by the best modelling, huge casualty counts for seoul if he decides -- >> if he was to strike seoul in terms of potential death -- >> well, a lot of that is classified. but...

Geneva. >> you brought it up that needs to be discussed between tillerson and officials. you have been in north korea who has been there. lester hold was nearby. you have been in the north recently. that country said threatening things as we know for a very long time. this is a critical moment. even then the military exercises, they did take place a couple of times a year. the ones that were scheduled in april and they see those as a huge provocation. it is true on the last occasion

Next come? >> reporter: while, officials here in south korea and in the u.s., of course, see the provocations as coming from north korea. thats why they have three back to the waters. as we continue to point out. it is not untususual to see u.s aircraft to carry in these waters. they routinely participate in exercises. what, of course, significant is the fact that u.s. officials are saying that this return of the u.s. has mentioned is the result from provocation from north korea. you have defens...

The question, how will he respond what they seizurely as another provocation. >> exactly. alexandra, and expectation, now, is that north korea could fire off the test at the moment. whats being said about that. >> that is a constant concern both for officials in the u.s. and right here. defense ministry here in seoul is saying that we could see another missile test somewhat soon. you could also see another nuclear test, its impossible to predict when north korea takes these kind of actions, as w...

Action. both can hit targets and support of the ground troops with missiles and even with some hefty machine guns. heres what two pilots of two planes told us about their specific korean mission. to take a look. >> it is is going to be very intense time. thats kind of what we do here. we do our daily mission, but we are always maintaining our readiness. >> we go to the same airspace that we have been going to in a wartime situation. 30 miles to the north of us. we will be there in defense of the...