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Our deployments or potential deployments to hot spots that, you know, like the middle east where there are water shortages that continue for a long period of time, where there's a possibility of famine, all of those things are critical elements in national security, and quite frankly when it comes to basing at home, bases like the navy bases around norfolk, virginia, are very susceptible to rising sea levels so that affects not only military planning for military operations, but it also affects our readiness posture and frankly where we put our people and our missions, and that's going to be a...

In a way they understand that we're serious about defending our friends, reassuring oural or allies and preventing them from misbehaving. >> do you expect iran to launch another attack? >> i don't necessarily expect them but i have to plan and prepare for it. that's something we try and watch very carefully and adjust our readiness posture. part of our strategy is to -- i mentioned it in my remarks -- is to multi-lateralize this. i had he phone conversations with allies about providing additional forces into the saudi arabian peninsula. air defense in particular. we recognize the challenge pre...

Eric: meanwhile on the other side of the world, north korea is added again. firing a new round of missiles earlier today. the regime launched two short range ballistic missiles off their coast. this happens to be the seventh weapons test since just late last month. we are following the continued bad behavior from washington. reporter: tonight japan and south korea say they are monitoring develops in north korea after he mentioned the north testfired two short range ballistic missiles earlier this morning. the projectiles eventually ended up in the sea, south korean military, they put out a sta...

U.s. defense secretary mark esper, here's what he had to say before this most recent launch. >> i think our biggest concern with the long-range tests that were being conducted, certainly, we don't dismiss the short-range tests. we watch them, monitor them, try e to understand what they're doing and why, but we also shouldn't be thrown off the diplomatic path. >> reporter: japan's defense minister says these tests cannot be tolerated. he held a news conference today in which he said, quote: this conduct poses a grave problem for the international community including our country. the firing of b...

>> we have some breaking news now for you on the story we have been following here all morning which is the fact that north korea has fired a ballistic missile we are told that went about 500 kilometers or 300 miles, that is according to south korean joint chiefs of staff. now it went off around 4:00 a.m., so about an hour and 20 minute ago, the south korean military saying that our military is closely monitoring north cre why and maintaining readiness posture. if it was 500 kilometers, 300 miles that is not the distance it would have gone on may 14th. >> that one went much further and actuall...