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Talk about that some. >> the north korean military, the korean people army was trained by the soviets and trained by the chinese communists. so they rely on volumes and volumes of artillery fire. so they have a massive amount of artillery and surface-to-surface missiles. we would see those at the start of a conflict. >> a lot of this has been dug in since the end of the korean conflict. they've been preparing for 50 years for the next one. >> they sure have. where the armistice was signed, back in '53, 1953, is where a lot of those units remain today. >> okay. and beyond that, there is this qu...

Missiles. talk about that some. >> the north korean military, the korean people army was trained by the soviets and trained by the chinese communists. so they rely on volumes and volumes of artillery fire. so they have a massive amount of artillery and surface-to-surface missiles. we would see those at the start of a conflict. >> a lot of this has been dug in since the end of the korean conflict. they've been preparing for 50 years for the next one. >> they sure have. where the armistice was signed, back in '53, 1953, is where a lot of those units remain today. >> okay. and beyond that, there ...

>> but the president ocht united states is in power to give executive orders. like he did today. that's not unconstitutional. my question was what gives you the right. i mean, you're not a supreme court justice, are you? >> well, my oath actually says, and this is my 20 years in the reserve component, the military, i swore an oet to obey the lawful owners ahead of me. a law, a legislative bodty has to pass, and then the president signs. we all learned that. this is a process. and to think that, es spispecian an issue, yes u it's emotionally charged.

Number is deployed to war in, say, afghanistan. how do you fix this and what's the problem with the discrepancy? >> okay so the president of the united states every four years orders review of military compensation. it basically looks at the active duty pay system. reserve pay system. v.a., veterans benefits. look he at the total spectrum. one of the things they found was this large pay discrepancy between reserve component troops and counterparts serving in iraq and afghanistan. what they found was basically that reserve component soldiers make double the amount on their weekend training here...

We made some decisions to change how we do training and organize. and we have done so much better now at forming an army and our professional army is able to perform and respond in my mind in such better ways. we have people who decided to do this as a procession for the most part. and i think that makes us better in the end. what we try to do is we also have an active component, we have a national guard, reserve component and with all three of those components that's what makes up the services. we have to use that to reach in the communities. we have national guards in every state in the unit...