relation to a shooting targeted on their own. they believe angel gomez drove a vehicle while somebody else fired a high-powered assault weapon at an undercover police van. that wounded two officers. he faces two counts of attempted murder. the police superintendent said the van was riddled with bullet holes and shows how brazen the gunman can be. we have to absolutely do something about the gun violence. if these individuals, these maniacs will shoot at the police like that, do they think they care about shooting at average citizens in the city? both officers have been released from the hospital and thankfully they are okay. laura: amid rising tensions between the u.s. and north korea, the world regime has detained another american citizen. the state department said the man work for the university of
coming from the u.s. and japan as they send military action into the region. all the while another u.s. citizen detained in north korea, what more do we own about why he was detained and could happen next here in this climate between two nations, that it s very tense? well, we don t know the exact circumstances surrounding the detention. we understand he s a professor at the university of science and technology. we ve had a statement from that university, from that school. they say he was trying to board a plane at the airport and that he was detained at that point. they say they don t believe that he was detained because of anything he had done within the university. they don t know exactly what the investigation is surrounding or they re not publicly saying that. the swedish embassy who works on
tried to leave north korea. this comes as north korea is threatening to sink a u.s. aircraft carrier in a single strike. trump talking to leaders of south korea and japan last night. we go live to seoul, south korea. bring us up to speed, paula. reporter: yeah, christine. hello. there s a lot going on in the korean peninsula at this point. tony kim is the man, we understand, that has been detained by north korea. this is we ve believe, a professor. he was teaching at the university of science and technology. we have a statement from that school. he was trying to leave the country and te tan detained at airport. they don t believe his teaching had anything to do with why the regime wanted to detain him. they don t give any reason for what was his reason for detep detenti detention. the swedish embassy, as washington has no diplomatic
an academic. a former professor at a university in china that is a university of science and technology. have not been able to confirm neither with the u.s. state department or with south korean intelligence. there are two others that are currently being held that we know of. one of them is otto warmbeard, a student from the university of virginia he was detained in 2016 at the airport and held since then and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after he confessed to trying to take down a political sign out of his hotel. another man named kim dong khu was detained in october of 2015 and charged with espionage and received a sentence of at least ten years in prison.
threats almost on a constant basis over the last several days, if not weeks. today another threat towards australia threatening a nuclear strike on australia. yet again another threat from the north. thomas? this after mike pence meeting with the prime minister. rhetoric continuing to heat up. kelly, thanks. joining me on set, senior adviser at the albright stone bridge group and expert on north korea. great to have you with me. your reaction to this reporting coming out of north korea that an aide worker was arrested, detained in pyongyang after trying to leave the country there on a relief mission. literally just as i was being seated here i looked at my e-mail and got an update on the story for you, so i ll share it for you. the gentleman is a korean-american professor, professor at the university of science and technology. he was teaching in pyongyang, a