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Two Islamic militants accused of kidnapping and killing four foreigners in the restive southern Philippines were detained Friday after surrendering to the military, authorities said.
>> thank you, tom. earlier tonight i spoke with gordon chang, columnist for forbes.com and author of "nuclear showdown." he says he doesn't think this will end well. >> he's painted himself into the corner. the legitimacy in this regime is based upon taking over south korea, killing foreigners. and so for him to maintain his position, now that he's said all these things, i think that he has to go forward and do something. i don't think he's going to do it soon because north korea never strikes when we have a high degree of readiness. but they will strike when we're not looking. and these milit...
Make, don't they? >> absolutely correct. the man in the loop has to decide what's the next step. the united nations command in south korea's mission is to maintain the armistice. what that means is there's a north korea and there's a south korea. we've signed up to that. there's nothing in the playbook that says, we are going to reunify this peninsula. >> and yet, don, in the process of handling a launch like that and the potential outflow, there could be a lot of nervous moments as we try to maintain essentially the status quo. >> thank you, tom. earlier tonight i spoke with gordon chang, col...
Korea, killing foreigners. and so for him to maintain his position, now that he's said all these things, i think that he has to go forward and do something. i don't think he's going to do it soon because north korea never strikes when we have a high degree of readiness. but they will strike when we're not looking. and these military exercises that i talked about, they end at the end of this month when our readiness returns and falls back to normal and when we're not looking, then the north koreans probably will strike. >> cnn is keeping a close eye on developments on the korean peninsula now i...
It's any different. >> i think that it's different. in the past the north koreans have thrown a tantrum when the u.s. and south korea started their drills. this time the threats became more dire and i think it's because jim young unhas yet to consolidate his position. at no time since 1949 has a north korean leader had a smaller base of support than he does today. that's why we're sealing all of these threats one after the other. i don't think this is going to end very well. >> okay. go ahead. why do you say the last sentence, you don't think it's going to end very well. >> well, because i thi...