kerry winding up a series of high profile, high stakes meeting in asia trying to diffuse what some say could become a big crisis on the korean peninsula. the threat taking on new urgency today as people celebrate the birth dave the founder of the come admonition nation in north korea and with the celebration there are for fears that north korea has its finger on the button to launch a missile. secretary kerry is urging china to putn north korea saying the stakes are huge. i believe that china by making clear its policy will join with others in an effort to try to make that policy real and implement it. and i think if we don t then all of our nonproliferation efforts on a global basis begin to suffer. if we don t give meaning to that policy it will have certainly less meaning to iran, or less meaning anywhere else, and i think everybody understands that. jenna: is china doing enough to
oops in the world. 1.2million troops. south korea in a high state of alert. they say u.s. posture has not changed. martha: thank you. bill: some backed on north korea s missile program, their first test in october of 2006 fairly weak. that was five years ago indicating problems with the design of the weapon. even though the north has exploded nuclear devices the come admonition nation has not shown it is capable yet of producing a working nuclear bomb. the missile test not believed to be side to the death of kim jong-il that happened earlier. experts believe it had been planned before. we are told the president was alerted to the death of kim jong-il as, the news of his death. wendell goler on the north lawn now. what is the white house saying? what is the message from there. reporter: experts say given the upheaval that followed the death of his father in the mid