offering right now is for both sides to breathe into a bag for a while. look, rhetoric is one thing, action is another thing. and just cliff notes for our viewers, what are the actions that might suddenly appear that would make us nervous? there are several. number one, north korea initiates what s called a semicivil defense exercise, which is essentially opening up the bunkers and key figures in pyongyang disappearing. the second thing is they have a demonstration, which they did in 2011 as you remember, that means engaging one of the offshore islands with ar till tri, shooting across the dmz or delivering an intermediate range missile towards guam. on the u.s. side, watch for any effort by the united states to remove military family members from the peninsula or to elevate the status from 2 or god forbid
the army was on the move in northern hamah province in central syria. the video posted by the free syrian army. following a week of intense russian and syrian air force strikes, it appears a ground offensive is underway in the area, an area far away from the zone controlled by the islamic state. but it s not easy going. at dawn, says this rebel field commander, there was an intense bombardment with rockets, ar till tri, tanks and russian planes, trying to smash our defensive lines but we held our ground. he claimed the syrian army was trying to advance on three fronts. also in hamah province, helicopter were in action, though it s not clear if the pilots are syrian or russian.