program is more blood than substance. the south korean capital seoul is just fifty kilometers from the border within reach of conventional artillery. fire from the north twenty five million people live in the metropolitan area. the last time north korea reversed a large scale attack was in spring two thousand and seventeen kim jong un was there to watch. his great enemy the united states has close to thirty thousand servicemen and women stationed in south korea. in seoul i go to see chad o carroll he s a security analyst and journalist and runs the n.k. news website he says it would be wrong to underestimate north korea s military capabilities. we re doing for the buffet area from a u.s. military perspective the department of defense has to take seriously any risk that
i may sell and reach the east or west cards to the united states and we re now basically at that point so even if it s a one in five chance that twenty million people can die what is you know what does that really mean we have to tell you that seriously. o carroll agrees that north korea receives assistance from abroad he shows me satellite images of a recent military parade in pyongyang. to the left of the crowd or a row of missiles on trucks he says many of the transporters were imported from china and there are more of them than previously believed. ok we can see about two one two kilometers away from kim il sung s square whether viewing took place in place and there is one spare unit of every missile type tank you name it. japan is evidently the source for other equipment