of the year, after years of concern over his weight and health. he does not have a clear successor if he were to die. south korea s president moon jae-in said their tests were a sure deterrent and their own launches show how destabilizing the kim regime is. ramy inocencio, cbs news, seoul. o donnell: and coming up next, a man who uses chess to teach students how to make all the right moves. es.
very good! reporter: he started train of thought to help kids of all ages find their inner king or queen. every game of chess is 75 to 100 moves, and every single move that your opponent makes presents a new problem for you to solve. kids are just having fun. they don t realize that they re solving problems. the answer s always there. reporter: how do you teach a five-year-old how to play chess? we actually have a really cool story we use to help kids that age set up a chessboard for the first time. it goes the king and queen got married by the bishops. they rode on horses to their castle and had eight children. my main thing in class is be a scholar. so being a scholar to me is being prepared, productive, and never giving up. that s the best way to play. reporter: mastering the game of life early. jamie yuccas, cbs news, compton. o donnell: i say checkmate, andre. we ll be right back.
said milley did nothing wrong. i can tell you, frequent communication with two countries like russia and china is not atypical at all for a chairman of the joint chiefs. reporter: the book, published by simon & schuster, a division of viacom/cbs, said milley also warned senior military officials in january not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved. the white house press secretary argued today it s important to consider the timing. the former president was fomenting an insurrection, and there was broad concern from a range of members of his national security team about his behavior and fitness for office. reporter: some of that concern, the authors write, came from c.i.a. director gina haspel, who they say feared president trump might try to strike iran in his final few days in office. norah. o donnell: nancy cordes, thank you. and we want to turn now to afghanistan and how the taliban s takeover will impact women and girls.
launches and alarming rhetoric. here s cbs ramy inocencio. reporter: just hours after north korea launched two ballistic missiles banned by a u.n. resolution, south korea, not under u.n. missile restrictions, tested its own, a submarine-launched ballistic missile for the first time. seoul said it successfully hit its target. that led to a quick rebuke from the younger sister of kim jong- un. it s a notable rise in tensions after pyongyang s first-ever test of two cruise missiles last weekend. state media claimed they changed course mid-flight and did loops in the sky before hitting their targets more than 900 miles away. that could threaten japan and u.s. forces in the region. these launches, four in five days, come just after north korea celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its founding last thursday. kim jong-un appeared thinner and tanner than he did at the start
o donnell: chess is a game of make-believe, kings and queens, pawns and rooks. so what does that have to do with real life? well it turns out, quite a bit. here s cbs jamie yuccas. it s the most unique piece in the game. reporter: for 12-year-old andre, chess is more than just a game. i use a lot of stuff they learned on the chessboard in real life, like think before you move. think before i act out. reporter: he s just one of thousands of students from some of l.a. s toughest neighborhoods learning to play. i learned to play chess at age 13. it was a pivotal, pivotal moment in my life. reporter: damen fletcher grew up in compton. after going away to college, he came home to find his childhood friends struggling. some of them had fallen into the prison system, gang life, and drugs. and i just wondered why did i have such a different outcome? and it was chess.