threatened to turn the mainland into a sea of fire. now president donald trump talking about fire and fury so these leaders seem to be speak being in the same language, the war of words reverberating across the world but leaders in the region are just trying to tame the tensions, because they know if there is a mistake that leads to conflict, it is the people who live right here who would be suffering the highest cost. north korea doesn t need icbms or nuclear weapons to conduct an ak conduct an attack on south korea just 35 miles away. leaders may be calling for calm from china but right here in south korea you are seeing a president taking steps to ensure that the defense capacity in this country is at its greatest. he says he is looking to overhaul defense capabilities, deterrent capabilities are something that lawmakers in japan are talking about. they want to be ready in case there is any kind of mistake here. they are not responding directly
absolutely. ambassad ambassador, thank you for your expertise tonight. it s been a pleasure. elsewhere overseas this weekend in north korea, kim jong-un new year s speech full of the expected and usual self-con garagelation but analysts are paying attention to kim s claim that north korea is close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. there s a reason to take the threat more seriously than in years past. kim jong-un chose his new year s day address to talk of in national defense capacity. he talked of a hydrogen bomb test that we can t verify and then he said this. research and development of the cutting edge tech weapons are actively progressing and strengthening our defense capables including last stage
officials about specific evidence that links russia back to this hack. at this point, we don t have a lot of those details. we re just being told over and over again that the intelligence agencies are shore that it is russia. perhaps we ll get some clarity later this week. ryan nobles in washington, thanks so much. north korea s kim jong-un sending a chilling new year s image that a test of an international ballistic missile is imminent. in a new year s day speech, the north korean president said his country is making final preparations to conduct its first test of these long-range missles. it s a bold move raising fears that north korea has strengthened its nuclear capabilities right before donald truch trump s inauguration. reporter: kim jong-un chose his new year s day address to talk of a turn in bolstering national defense capacity. now, he talked yet again of a hydrogen bomb test which we
successfully conducted our first hydrogen bomb test. tests for various striking means and the tests for nuclear warheads to cope against vicious threats for nuclear war by the imperialists. we have a reporter live in seoul, south korea. there in south korea they re hearing this loud and clear. reporter: victor, kim jong-un chose his national address on new year s day to talk about an epoch making turn in bolstering national defense capacity. during this speech yes, again, we heard him making claims of a hydrogen bomb test which we simply can t verify, and then he said north korea is close to test launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. there is no way to independently verify this, but we can speak to
attacks, we are in a constant battle, so this is not a sort of a one time, gee, this is an unusual thing that a particular e-mail server at the dnc might have been a subject of an attack. this is happening all the time. so there s clearly a defense posture. how do we strengthen the defense capacity of the country and we ve been working on ways to get more technical standards out so that more of the governmental and the non-governmental i.t. service companies have strengthened their capacity just like we talked about on the yahoo side, but increasingly, with state sponsored, there s a policy question that remains open which is how do you deter a cyberattack? there s a healthy debate to be had. no resolution when we go on offense. on which side do you fall? if id the idea that our response, should there be one, we wouldn t perhaps know about this response, how then does that deter others from striking us?