from north korea traveled south of what s known as the northern limit line. this is the de facto maritime border, de facto zone between the north and south. it triggered air raid warnings in one of south korea s islands off the coast. that led to, as you mentioned, a response from south korea using fire jets with three of them landing north of that de facto maritime border. in other words, it was a tit-for-tat situation which shows the escalations are showing no signs of letting up from either side. the joint chiefs of staff here in seoul blames north korea for this. they say they re fully responsible. they re willing to provoke. the north has a very different perspective. they have been issuing warnings which is a five day military divide prescheduled between south korea and the united states and 240 war planes, thousands of service members and north korea has called this
want to see with nuclear weapons. helen cooper,thanks for being with us. more breaking news, a dramatic escalation between north and south korea. air raid warnings went up after 20 missiles were fired and landed in the waters around south korea and japan. in retaliation, south korea sent fire jets and fired three air to surface missiles that landed in the sea. it came hours after north korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the u.s. and south korea to pay. in a statement the u.s. military said it s aware of the launches and called them reckless and destabilizing. let s turn to another top story this morning. there are six days until election day. more than 27 million voters have already made their voices heard in the midterms.
house speaker is going to taiwan on this trip. the chinese spokesperson tweets a couple of them visit to taiwan by speaker pelosi would challenge china s red line and any challenge to our red line will no doubt be met with resolute counter measures. he wasn t done tweeting if u.s. fire jets escort nancy pelosi s plane into taiwan it is an invasion. pla dispose of pelosi s plane and the u.s. fighter jets and including firing warning shots and in ineffective then shoot them down. the chinese, you don t think they are going to shoot them down? it s tense. let s bring in our panel matthew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute. morgan ortagus and tom bevan real clear politics co-founder and president. morgan, you know, this is standard fare for the chinese to saber rattle but it s a little more intense than usual. it is. i think they are only going to get more aggressive in their rhetoric. and in action.
in english translated as a dream. we need money, resources to rebuild our dream. if ukraine gets these fighter jets from poland. how big of a deal with that be? excuse me, how will? if you get the jets from poland you ve been asking for. yes at the moment one of the most vulnerable elements in our self-defense, is of course open skies. russians use its military advantage to shell many cities, as i said. civilian infrastructure. with their missiles. we need these fire jets. we need to enter missile defense to protect ourselves from those horrendous those absolutely unjustifiable missiles against infrastructure in ukraine. so our military wants to use
and families to other countries in the european union. some may want to come to the united states and canada. so other countries need to up their systems because 2 million it s in the something that we can cope with for much longer. jacqui: the biggest objective for ukraine is air superiority. ukraine wants migs from poland, the fire jets. the u.s. military has decided that ukraine doesn t need them for a number of reasons despite the huge push in congress to get it done. do you think that that is the right decision? well, ukraine has received effective antitank and antiaircraft weapons. our mig 29s i m told could be used by ukraine and ukraine can use them to launch some other and i understand the polish side was willing to do it and it s the u.s. that has been skeptical as you said.