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Peninsu peninsula. the strike force will meet up in the sea of japan to do combat drills, surveillance and other training. tsa workers did not find the majority of weapons hidden in luggage during an undercover homeland security operation. that's according to cbs news. it reports that investigators were able to sneak fake knives, fake guns and even fake bombs past the tsa security more than 2/3s of the time. the chairman of the house homeland security committee, michael mccall of texas said he found that disturbing. the homeland security department's inspector general made recommendations to t...

Combat drills that are going on right now, the u.s. defense secretary, james mattis, just made a rather surprising comment about military options for north korea. >> reporter: he did, wolf. secretary mattis a short time ago at the pentagon told reporters that there are military options to deal with north korea that would not put the south korean capitol, seoul, at grave risk. mattis would not go into detail but what those military options are, but until now, most analysts believe that any military option to deal with north korea would inevitably provoke an attack from north korea on seoul whic...

Heading there and engaging in combat drills with south korea. at what point does this hit a tipping point and really get dangerous? >> well, it would certainly become dangerous if the russian forces and u.s. and south korean forces are coming in close contact with each other but the risk in this particular case is probably fairly minimal. it would take something like an aircraft incident or naval incident to get there. that 11-mile border that you mentioned between north korea and russia is a very, very isolated place. it's not el paso or san diego in terms of border crossings. far from it. th...

Congressman peter king. i need you to stand by. we're getting new information on the korean situation. u.s. and south korea and chinese forces are all preparing for military action as north korea threatens war, beijing putting war planes on high alert and american troops engaging in combat drills with south korean troops right now. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. what are you learning? >> reporter: all of this an indication of the growing tensions on the korean peninsula. china has put some bombers capable of carrying cruise missiles on high alert status. a u.s. defense o...

Threatens to launch a pre-emptive strike that would destroy the united states and south korea in their words, in an instant. a defense official tells cnn china's military is preparing for all contin jens is including a war in its backyard. with hundreds of u.s. troops now engaging in combat drills with south korea. this hour. i'll speak with congressman peter king. he's a key republican on homeland security committees. our analysts are standing by. first let's go to our cnn international correspondent melissa bell. she's in paris covering this latest attack. what's the latest? >> reporter: thi...