on it that it s not so bad, these military drills, these smaller ones will still be the same as the big ones, but that just doesn t seem logical. there s no doubt this is a concession from the u.s. to the north koreans. i ve been covering these very large-scale military drills for years now and every time you speak to one of the commanders at these military drills they tell you how vital they are, how important they are for the two allies to remain battle ready. now of course now they ve decide they re going to be a lot smaller, they re going to be maybe unit level or some virtual training. both sides are now at pains to say they re not that necessary to have these large-scale drills and they will still be battle ready. so we re really hearing two very different things. and the skeptics say if you don t have these large-scale military drills it s very difficult to have that level of readiness that you had before. it doesn t make sense to say we ll get the same preparation out of th
the full legal and key resolve and replacing them with something much smaller. we understand from the defense ministers, from the u.s. and also here in south korea, that they might just be unit level. so is a lot smaller and some of them will also be virtual training. now, this, according to the defense secretary of the u.s., is so that they can help the diplomatic process and this can be in line with what we re seeing between the u.s. and north korea. there are, of course, skeptics who are saying that this will affect the battle readiness of the allies, of the u.s. and south korea, especially when you consider that many of the u.s. soldiers that are here are here on a rotational process. so they wouldn t actually have any kind of large scale training. we did hear though from the previous u.s. secretary of defense, james mattis, last year, saying they were going to scale it down. but the time as well is also questionable. the fact that this happens just
this is trump s fire, it is a lie, and that the united states military, the most powerful armed force in the world would be deployed at a brigade-size unit level to the southern border to stop this caravan, which is a thousand miles away and made up of women and children, the insinuation that it s filled with terrorist ands middle easterners, 40% of the country has opted into an alternate reality. we have to wake up in this
people, these two evil people, three evil people, being radicalized by this right wing propaganda industry, and that s exactly what it is. this whole caravan in the last week of the election, is a giant lie. this is trump s fire, it is a lie, and that the united states military, the most powerful armed force in the world would be deployed at a brigade-size unit level to the southern border to stop this caravan, which is a thousand miles away and made up of women and children, the insinuation that it s filled with terrorist ands middle easterners, 40% of the country has opted into an alternate reality. we have to wake up in this country and understand the danger that this presents to all of us. we can t put our heads in the
that these exercises are ongoing all the time. they happen on a smaller unit level. they may take place in related area, sometimes in guam, sometimes in japan, sometimes in south korea. but there s a series of very large exercises like this, very visible to north korea, and those are the ones that they re putting off. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks for keeping us up to date. the search for answers in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. the journalist, is highlighting the threat that journalists around the world face every day for doing their job. coming up, we ll bring you the countries where journalists are most at risk ahead. lilly.