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Who are based here in south korea for the express and direct purpose of defending south korea security interests and the interests of the region at large. what you have now with this aircraft carrier returning to the region on this unscheduled trip, a direct response to north korean provocations is the flexing of some hustle. this is a message clearly being sent by washington to pyongyang, it comes on the heels of other strong messages. you have white house officials saying that when it comes to...

A huge acceleration of the pace of these tests. we have seen tests of missile engines which is indicated to certain analysts and experts that the north koreans are making stride in terms of the sophistication of their weapons program and you got analysts who are closely watching satellite images coming from north korea and they say they have seen suggestions of activities around nuclear sites which would indicate we could soon see a sixth nuclear test from north korea. serious and strong signs c...

>> hunch. just a hunch. and later, will ripfully is the only american tv correspondent in pyongyang, north korea as u.s. war ships head to the reian peninsula in response to what a u.s. officials says is a provocation for that regime. rate to severe crohns disease,... ...i was always searching for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i had it covered. then i realized managing was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medicat...

That the u.s. commitment remains steadfast. its part of the diplomatic game but it is definitely a considerable show of force this time around. >> all right, ryan browne reporting. i want to bring cnns matt rivers joining us on the phone from beijing and, matt, do you see this as a response to that aggression north korea showed or provocation during the visit with the chinese president to the u.s. just ahead of that initial meeting with president trump? >> yeah, i think thats exactly right. i th...

House over the u.s. policy on syria in the aftermath of that deadly chemical attack. hello, everyone, and welcome. im fredricka whitfield in new york. this is the "cnn newsroom." we start with north korea where the u.s. is sending a navy strike group towards the korean peninsula in response to north koreas latest missile test. i want to bring in cnn pentagon reporter ryan brown. ryan, these ships were scheduled to head to australia before they were redirected. what more can you tell us about...

>> well, its clear to me with what weve been saying for the last 24 hours after the attack its going to take a serious provocation for us to repeat what we did last night. look, as sad as this is, anderson, we want to park the assad problem over here, just let it sit, while we solve what we think is the more high priority problem, which is isis. so the strike yesterday is in essence our telling assad, settle down. were not going anywhere, and were going to turn our attention back to problem numb...

Quickly, this week, the peer group released the eighth edition of its online magazine and a kill list. >> while much of the world is focusing on syria tonight, there is military action under hot spot, the korean peninsula. it is, however, just an exercise. but senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot insole reports it has children the dyer of the -- it has still drawn the ire of the dangerous north. >> casualties are down, it looks like the real thing, just one of the many military exerc...

So i think this will have a real sobering affect on adventurism from the assad regime. >> is there a benefit in not -- in the regime not being clear on what u.s. policy is, on not being clear on, well, what is the red line? is it just not using chemical weapons? if im assad and you use barrel bombs, are they going to intervene? is the lack of clarity, is that a possible intentional benefit? >> yeah. i think so. look, its clear to me based upon what we have been saying the last 24 hours after the...

Resuming on the airfield that the u.s. targeted while the russian foreign ministry says a call between secretary of state rex tillerson and sergey lavrov was held in which lavrov said the u.s. air strikes, quote, played into extremists hands creating additional threats for both regional and global security while emphasizing that syria used chemical weapons is, quote, not consistent with reality. joining me is pentagon correspondent courtney kubie. is the positioning of the warship warship a show...

How syria shakes out in three, five years time, we cant know. and we should be cautious about that after whats happened in libya and iraq and afghanistan and else are with. but simply as a response to a provocation, i mean, basically assad said the world hasnt changed. for the last eight years i have been able to kill my own people and get away with it. they put dead babies on the wells tv screens and trump said enough of this. thats a change. thats a real russian reset button. thats a real rese...