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Know he's threatened before. specifically south korea, even with conventional weapons you're talking of hundreds of thousands of south korean casualties. we've got about 28,000 troops in south korea. obviously, a much bigger force in japan. but still, we haven't seen any mobilization yet. we haven't seen pushing troops up to the dmz. we haven't seen the reintroduction of u.s. tactical nuclear weapons into south korea, the b-1 that's that fly over aren't nuclear capable. what's the continuing tipping point for you, when you look at the discussions between the president and secretary mattis are ...

North korea doesn't like, one, the b-1 bomber, two's joint u.s. and south korean more exercise. that military drill begins on sunday, while a new set of b-1 bombers just arrived here on guam from the mainland. north korea sees both as a provocation and prelude to war. the b-1 b can reach pyongyang in under three hours and is seen as key to knocking out their nuclear capabilities. those bombers may or may not be involved on sunday when we can this ten day joint military exercise with the south involving some 80,000 soldiers. the u.s. called the defensive. south korea's new president says that's...

Brigadier jr. anthony at a timtatta authorof besieged and e clinger fellow of northeast asia at the heritage foundation. he has also previously served as the cia's deputy division chief for korea. all very well qualified with a lot of deep history in this area. general, let me start with you because i would like to get your reaction to what general mattis said there. what did you think? >> mae, martha, general mattis, secretary mattis is saying in a very direct way if you shoot at us, expect consequences to come back at you in a nano second and we are prepared to do that. and what you are seei...

There are patriot missiles to stop there. what happens afterward is another big question. we don't know. we're not saying the u.s. should respond or would respond but when talking about locked and loaded there are a lot of assets if they wanted to respond. naval base guam and andersen air force base and home to some of the most advanced air track. f-32--2, stealth aircraft sent in to try to take out the radar systems and their air defense systems which are quite robust and could be followed by the b-1 which carries the heaviest bombs in the arsenal aside from nuclear bombs and would be capable...

Done the science and we have to rely on the capability. it's a provocative move for north korea to do that. kim would have to be suicidal at that point to launch a missile and telemetry says in the route of guam. we have to assume it's nuclear. why? we described to them the comp t capability. >> and one thing for them to ramp it up. and the u.s. military specific command is getting involved in the rhetoric as well. i was a bit surprised. speaking as a former pentagon correspondent, during the first gulf war, u.s. air force b-1, b lancer bombers on guam stand ready to fulfill #fighttonight miss...