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The series finale of the korean war comedy/drama "mash." it aired decades after open hostility ended, but the korean war still wasn't over and it's not over now. today saber-rattling by north korea and u.s. is the latest drama in more than 70 years of u.s. involvement on the korean peninsula. the u.s. ended world war ii with two nuclear bombs dropped on japan in 1945. it also ended japan's powerful empire including its rule of the korean peninsula 130 miles away. the u.s. and soviet union divided korea between them choosing more or less at random 38th parallel as dividing lynn. they installed ...

U.s. because it's clear that the chinese do not want to engage in military confrontation and would seek a diplomatic solution to anything. >> secretary tillerson said that we were prepared -- i think his word choice was, to chart our own course. do you interpret that to mean that it's an acknowledgment that president xi and the chinese are not about to reign in pea i don't think yang? >> according to chinese media they pre-announced before this meeting with trump that if the u.s. were to go ahead and perform a surgical strike against the north korean leader, china would not be in a position to...

We were prepared -- i think his word choice was, to chart our own course. do you interpret that to mean that it's an acknowledgment that president xi and the chinese are not about to rein in pyongyang? >> according to chinese media they basically sort of preannounced before this meeting with trump that if the u.s. were to go ahead and perform a surgical strike against the north korean leader, china would not be in a position to stop it because the chinese would not know when the strike would occur and they wouldn't know how it would occur. they did say that if u.s. troops were to cross the 38t...

Would attack quite frequently on the campaign trail just like he did germany's same date they were not paying us enough to have our soldiers there. i think he's come to appreciate now why it is an american interest to have 50,000 troops in japan, 25,000 troops along the 38th parallel in south korea. this is in our interest as a global power to contain north korea from threatening the region. >> leland: also as you would point out, hundreds of thousands of american troops, sailors, airmen, marines over in europe as well. always great to have you here. urinalysis is so good. going to ask you to ...

Kind of troops you have now or up against the 38th parallel. we should be committed to nuclearize the korean peninsula. i simply don't know whether that would be enough to get them to use their economic leverage. >> i got to move on. mike flynn, is he in hot water with these reports that he not only talked about potential lifting sanctions but seems to have misled the vice president-elect at the time? >> he's clearly in hot water. it's a boon for the democrats who are beating him up and to know that he's talking to the russians saying don't worry about obama's sanctions, things can be reviewed...