core, this is china and north korea vs. south korea and the united states. it s proxy situation. absolutely. russia is an important player in this as well. russia initially criticized north korea after north koreans attacked south korea in the wake of those november 23rd live fire exercises. now the russians appear to be changing their tune. they called the u.s. and south korean ambassador into their foreign ministry in moscow today and asked them, asked the south koreans not to conduct these live fire exercises. asked the u.s. officials to put pressure on south korea to bring about a cancellation of those exercises. at this point, shep, there is no indication that the u.s. is going to pressure south korea to call off these planned live fire exercises it remains a tinderbox out there as governor bill richardson said. should be an interesting weekend. yeah. shepard: jonathan hunt, thank you. the vikings and fans are preparing for very cold and booze-free monday night football ga
i. i m phil gallo welcome to the program in the last hour the foreign ministry in moscow has said that it will expel sixty u.s. diplomats and close the u.s. consulate in st petersburg the move is a tit for tat response to washington s decision to expel russian diplomats following the poisoning of the former russian spy service great pal and his daughter in britain authorities there say the script files were poisoned at their home using a nerve agent called navi chalk and that moscow was behind the attack the kremlin has strongly rejected that allegation that let s go to moscow first of all and bring in our correspondent mia drag us so richard welcome interac why has moscow chosen the consulate in st petersburg to close. well we can only guess at issues we just not get it didn t go over or he was stuck somewhere in the far east i think one of the reasons maybe if you live in st petersburg and unique if these