Spring Exercises News Today

Exclusive report right here. it just came out moments ago. its hot off the press. tell me what the significance is here. >> these are the annual key spring exercises. theyre not going to conduct them in any more. this isnt a direct result of the summit in hanoi. this is something thats been going on for sometime. youll recall after the first summit in singapore, president trump talked about these exercises, calling them provocative, saying theyre too expensive. hes been on the record numerous ti...

Covering the military for nearly 15 years. and in that time i have heard over and over from the u.s. military about how critical these are to readiness and to what they call inter operability. the u.s. and the south korean and other allied nations being able to work together, you know, know how their equipment works together and to be able to train and whatnot all at once. but these clearly also were and have been a show to north korea and in some ways to china, they act as a deterrent value. in...

Communications, thats meant to be more of a message. youll note that this year for the spring exercises, the u.s. military turned off all the media coverage of those exercises. normally hopping aboard a ship or doing some sort of thing out there, youre welcome. they let you do it. they turned everything off. they went dark because they wanted to give the military, u.s. forces, give negotiations a chance to mature. as weve just heard from admiral harris, peace is a real possibility. weve also hea...

Ahead with the annual spring exercises. its a change that theyre now objecting to these exercises. in a way it was last nights statement coming out of north korea, its more troulg than the first. the first is an objection to the exercise. the second one gets to the core of what every administration official has said publicly and privately, thats the goal is complete and verifiable denuclearization. as you mentioned earlier, sara huckabee sanders was asked about this on the white house lawn, she ...

Would continue their spring exercises. every spring they go through a series of exercises broadly called full eagle. the exercise that is taking place right now is called max thunder. its basically an air force exercise. a lot of hardware is up in the air. the assumption really from the olympics onward is that the u.s. would be able to continue with those exercises in part because it has to do with the strength of the alliance between south crea and the u.s. they would be able to continue and th...

Provocative moves and then back down. is this action by kim jong-un, who is only 30 years old, -- is it far beyond the pale of the usual blustery rhetoric? and if so, why? >> well, youre absolutely right. this has gone on for years. everytime we have spring exercises with the south koreans, the north koreans go into a hissy fit. but this has gone on longer and its been stronger than ever before. and i think a lot of it has to do with, lo andbe hold, the norton people do not have a lot of confide...