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Duty that day and what an astonishing moment it was. it was one of those days i think you'll both agree, once what was happening became clear, that it was no accident, that this was an attack, we knew that things were not going to be the same and they never have been and they still are not. we've made an amazing recovery as a nation from that, but as general mattis and the president made clear, the struggle against this scourge still goes on. and we think about it every day and it affects our lives, our budgets, our defense posture, our diplomacy every single day. >> jon: you know, there are s...

North koreans. a huge show of force by the u.s. military. military exercises going on for the past couple weeks. exercises that happen twice a year in this part of the world. and the united states, south korea, and japan were in the process of winding down two weeks of exercises that always happen that infuriate north korea and that is the trigger that pushes north koreans now. they are always very, very agitated by these u.s. military exercises and they called for the u.s. and south koreans to back down a little bit on this. but the united states of course says they're not going to do this be...

>> i've been disturbed by the rhetoric as well. i think we are in a moment where we begin to think in terms of deterrent, unlike we've thought before. i have to tell you, they give a warning to those in guam to go inside and run and hide is not an answer for a nuclear attack. it is clear we haven't changed our defense posture in the region and on the peninsula but it's always at a high posture because of the nature of the threat from north korea. i think it's important for us to try, the new sanctions haven't even been in place for the better part of a week yet. i think the response from china...

Before. >> i've been disturbed by the rhetoric as well. i think we are in a moment where we begin to think in terms of deterrent, unlike we've thought before. i have to tell you, they give a warning to those in guam to go inside and run and hide is not an answer for a nuclear attack. it is clear we haven't changed our defense posture in the region and on the peninsula but it's always at a high posture because of the nature of the threat from north korea. i think it's important for us to try, the new sanctions haven't even been in place for the better part of a week yet. i think the response fr...

Defense posture. this is a direct response by japan from that very specific threat from north korea, poppy. >> kyung lah in tokyo. thank you so much. now, if a north korean missile were fired at guam and got through u.s. defenses and intercepts, an official there says it would only be in the air for 14 minutes before reaching the target, and that is the chilling headline people are waking up to in the newspaper this morning in guam. let's go to ivan watson who is with us for more. ivan, what else can you tell us? >> reporter: hi there, poppy. that's right. that chilling piece of information co...