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Will get his initial briefings, and then he will be transported up to the dmz. what you are seeing now is him being greeted by south korean military officials and u.n. military officials as well as u.s. this particular camp here is mostly south korean. we were told there are about 50 military officials that are stationed here at any given time from other countries, including the u.s. overall in south korea there are 28,500 troops, but here at camp boniface it is mostly south korean troops, and that's what you saw there, the vice president being greeted there. i should say, this probably goes w...

Ground forces and some 50% of its air and nafl forces are deployed within 10kilomers from the dmz, demilitarized zone, separating t two koreas. that's 60 miles. and you said, there's 20 million people in seoul. there's 28,500 american soldiers in korea. there's some 150,000 u.s. expats in seoul. this is -- this is why i just don't think this kind of brinkmanship policy is not a smart idea. it's gross miscalculation. >> even without a novel -- novel missile capacity, even without nuclear weapons,there are millions of people who are soft targets within easy reach of the north korean military if ...

Unload their conventional weapons on seoul, including 28,500 u.s. soldiers in south korea. so we're there to be reactive in the event they do something that really is dangerous to our allies in the region. we will be there to react very vigorously. and we sent a signal that if they ever take any action that threatens our allies or the united states, it will no longer exist. we have that capacity. but that's not something that we're looking for a fight. we're trying to persuade the north koreans, but especially the chinese to exercise more economic power and influence over kim jong-un saying lo...

George w. bush or president obama, they had similar rhetoric about north korea but didn't talk about a preemptive strike. talk about the significance the u.s. might go in there with a non-nuclear weapon, telling north korea we are serious. >> it is significant and unprecedented. military action in korea would be pretty significant in terms of what it would mean for the korean people on the peninsula. of course, our forces. this is not -- about 28,500 u.s. forces are on the peninsula. of course, there are more forces in the region. we have about 55,000 based in japan. of course, more naval and ...

That could actually provoke kim jong-un to do something like rain artillery down on seoul where therere 10 to 20 million people. we have got 28500 troops on that peninsula. that's a tinder box. i think that's a very dangerous thing. i want to say one thing, brian, about the notion earlier about my military. i think that's okay as well when you are the commander in chief. but he's got to remember, this military is the military that president obama built. for eight straight years president obama put forward budgets and built capability. for him to campaign and say the military is depleted but in...