Rick Steingle News Today

China has to work very carefully and closely to bring all of our tools to bear to make sure north korea understands it has a choice to make here. it can either have rej jegime survival or nuclear weapons but it cannot have both. >> rick, theres also reports that the new administration is proposing deep cuts in terms of all of the assistance to some of these important -- frankly, important agencies of child welfare and peacekeeping at the u.n. do you have a perspective on that and how that might ...

To see for myself i went out on the water to see the u.s. seventh fleet which is a big tourist attraction here. the u.s. and south korean joint military exercises also toed t north of here in south korea taking place. there you can see the pictures of the tourists but then as well we have new pictures today of the "uss carl vincent," the joint exercises with south korea. 17,000 u.s. troops involved in those exercises. that prompted a warning from the north that they would unleash merciless attac...

Furthermore, he may want to do something to show defiance in the wake of the u.s./south korean exercises that are taking place. but ive tried to guess what hes going to do and ive been wrong most of the time so he could surprise us and not do something this time. >> that is the rising threat and the first big test for this administration in terms of foreign policy. thank you so much, gary and wendy and rick. thats it from tokyo. a lot more coming up. lets go back to washington and chris jansing....