Page 11 - Defensive Posture News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The late '60s, early '70s. and sources we spoke with said the president looked at that and said well, you know, why don't i have that many? why don't i have more? then there was a conversation about what you mentioned, joe, just that it's not really feasible to increase it, for numerous reasons. because of treaty obligations, because of budget. the u.s. doesn't have the budget to increase it right now. but i think it left some people -- we're told it left some people in the room a little surprised. one of the other vignettes we were told about, huge security concern north korea and the buildup...

Video from our law enforcement out there -- i saw four or five explosions that took place during the combustion. we are still on defensive posture. we are not sending anyone in. we are letting it burn out. >> sandra: company leaders said they had initially considered relocating these chemicals but deemed that process too risky. they said this morning pressure valves in the trailers holding the chemicals made loud popping sounds as they were released. a spokesperson described the release of the pressure valves, you can call it a warning sign that more fires could be coming soon. they sort of co...

Peninsula with south korea conducting its own bombing drills, a direct response to the provocation from the north and also word from south korea that the united states is considering deploying additional military assets to the region in a defensive posture, which north korean officials here say will provoke the situation further and perhaps push them to take this to the next level conducting a more provocative nuclear test. there are signs of activity at the nuclear test site. >> they are having this emergency unsecurity council meeting. what can they do? >> reporter: not much. they just passe...

They come close to jan pan. we're seeing a more defensive posture from russia. we're hearing via russian state media they are beefing up the defenses because of the north korean threat. >> cwill ripley said the more concerning thing was earlier this week when north korea talked about this detailed plan and this missile getting closer to japan, that is primarily the concern there in japan and has really stood out to them as something different than just the normal rhetoric, right? >> absolutely. it's very specific. and the fact that these missiles were going to fly over certain prefectures is w...

South korea and japan are used to living with intimidation from pyongyang, but now they're preparing in earn skpeest and v to retaliate. live for us in tokyo. tell us how they're reacting there. >> we're seeing japan take a defensive posture, a more defensive posture than we have seen in the past because of the specificity of that guam threat from north korea. we spoke to the ministry of defense and they told us that as we are speaking, in the overnight hours here in tokyo, daytime there in the united states, they are moving these ground based missile intercept ors, they're moving them from ce...