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Calls war games. >> yes, they would see it as provocative, victor. truthfully, the north koreans see any exercise as provocative. the exercise going on as you said at the lower level, the tactical level. exercises are going on at the ground. at the higher level, it's computer level. the full eagle exercise in the past i feel is important. i have been on several of them. balls it brings forces from the united states to the peninsula on behalf of the defense in south korea. now, when you are going from ft. lewis, white house, or ft. bragg, north korea, you go to korea nor tcre korea for the fi. ...

Actually stop military exercises like the foul eagle exercises that have maybe been postponed, the ability of the alliance to defend south korea would degrade very fast. and so the united states is not going to do that. also, that is a moral equivalent. the military exercises are illegal. one thing about this foul eagle exercise, the dates were never announced until just three or four days ago when mattis said they would start after the paralympics. it's not entirely clear they were postponed but clearly what the united states is doing is trying to make the conditions for talks on tuesday good...

The latest word this morning we've got is they are giving word that people who have employees in embassies ph north korea, the british government has been told you may want to get them out after april 10th, a date now attached to that admonition. >> this keeps ratcheting up. it's one of those things the old saying, if somebody says they are going to kill you better take them seriously. this has gone far beyond anything that kim jon-il did, his father. it started as a response to the full eagle exercise and it's analogous to a dog and mailman. the mailman shoeups every day at 10:00, the dog bar...

This traps? >> well, bill, i haven't heard specifically that they have been put on alert or have elevated status if you will. when you have a crisis, our troops move, liberties are canceled. closer to their weapons. aircraft are loaded and ready for flight. incidentally though, this happens, this recent kefuffle with north korea goes on during the full eagle exercise where the u.s. and south korea mills terries have large joint exercises. our forces would be at an elevated status as a result of that. the recent b-2 announcement from north korea and counter pronouncements from washington and u....