you are watching cnn newsroom. thank you very much for staying with us. i m errol barnett. i m rosemary church. the u.s. ambassador to south korea, mark lippert, is recovering from successful surgery after a knife attack. state media say the suspect was angry about joint u.s./south korean military exercises. lippert needed 80 stitches to close the wound on his cheek. the family of a canadian pastor says he s being held by the government in north. this information developing over the past few hours. reverend lin has been to north korea more than 100 time. it s not clear why he s being detained. north korea has held a number of people in the past on religious grounds. australia makes a last-ditch tampa to spare the lives of two of its citizens on death row by
and the biggest pool of organized pool of labor in north korea is the military. so right now we re seeing reports of soldiers who are going off for the planting season. reporter: park says other soldiers are needed to work in mining and manufacturing. some of the largest state trading companies are allied with the north korean military. the longer they stayed away, the less money they made. earlier this month, the north said it might return to talks on its nuclear program if the u.s. and south korea would end their military exercises. lift u.n. sanctions, and stop criticizing kim jong-un. and kerry wants china to do more, obviously, and is using american leverage. he s telling beijing that if the north continues to threaten, then the u.s. would have to continue with a major military presence in the region, in asia, and that s china doesn t want. wolf? i had been told, jill, that the u.s./south korean military
now over to you charles???? sir charles single miles card left him blacked out. he s coming to us from home. that s gotta be traveling. now instead of covering the final four, he s stuck covering fourth graders. brick! bobby is 1 for 36. mikey? he keeps taking these low-percentage shots. and julio? i don t know what julio s doing. next time get the capital one venture card and fly any airline any time. what sn your wallet? can you get me mr. baldwin s autograph? get lost, kid. welcome back, a quick look at some stories making headlines at the moment. north korea has reportedly test fired a pair of short range missiles into eastern waters. south korean officials say it s likely a response to routine u.s. south korean military exercises, but reaction to the threats coming out of north korea, the
working in the labs and soldering, why not frame it as a freeze of a diplomatic off ramp. why has every north korean leader wanted this high profile meeting with the u.s. president? it is an important element of validation of the north korean structure itself and north korea views the united states as the source of what they call the hostile policy. so, tony, some of what north korea might want out of this, cnn particularly listing from our reporting, sovereignty, dramatic reduction of u.s. troops in south korea, scale down the u.s./south korean military exercises, how much of this, if any of it, when all is said and done, would be the u.s. be willing to give? we have been here before. i think north korea s aims in any negotiation have been pretty consistent. and you just listed them. at the end of the day, what they re looking for, is to get u.s. troops off the peninsula, to end the u.s./south korea alliance and ultimately from their perspective reunify but on