Spring. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening as we come on the air tonight, it is already saturday morning in north korea and the day of that countrys most important holiday and that has american officials on edge braced for a possible military show of force from kim jong un. Increasing signs north corkorea is coupled with series of strong statements from the white house and ping yang and a volatile home to hundreds of thousands of americans. We get the latest from nbcs andrea mitchell. Reporter tonight all eyes on north korea, kim jong un on stage, applauded by thousands on the eve of a anniversary often used for provocative military action. The birthday of the regimes founder, his grandfather. He may mark the holiday with a missile test or worse, his sixth nuclear test. Today a top ate to the north korean dictator lashing out at the u. S. Accusing President Trump of pushing the w
Lesson in an annual life of in an annual life of spring. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening as we come on the air tonight, it is already saturday morning in north korea and the day of that countrys most important holiday and that has american officials on edge braced for a possible military show of force from kim jongun. Increasing signs north korea is coupled with series of strong statements from the white house and ping yang and a volatile home to hundreds of thousands of americans. We get the latest from nbcs andrea mitchell. Reporter tonight all eyes on north korea, kim jongun on stage, applauded by thousands on the eve of a anniversary often military action. The birthday of the regimes founder, his grandfather. U. S. Officials say he may mark the holiday with a missile test or worse, his sixth nuclear test. Today a top aid to the north korean dictator lashing out at the u. S
In charlotte. You had an experience with a smashbang grenade, the kind of blinding concussion grenade that are used in situations like this where police need to get the upper hand. Whash you seeing right now . The protest crowd disperses and then it picks up. Right now weve got a line of riot police who have been holding this line since we got out here at least two hours theyve been holding this line. In the last 15 minutes, brian, as we mentioned, some of the protesters have lined up about a foot away from the riot police. As you might remember we talked to manuel a short while ago. Hes outs here saying we need to take a stanltd. Its time to take a stand. We dont approve of what happened and so thats why were here. I asked him, as you heard, are you willing to go to jail tonight for what you believe in . He said he was. You brought up a good point, brian. There are people in masks. There are people with bandanas around their facings, there are people with gas masks on as we walk down
Ducklings. Kids learning a lesson in an annual life of in an annual life of spring. Nightly news begins good evening to our viewers in the west. As we come on the air, it is already saturday morning in north korea. And the day of that countrys most important holiday and that has american official the on edge tonight, braced for a poebl military show of force from kim jongun. Increasing signs north korea is coupled with series of strong statements from the white house and ping pyongyang and now a majtser worry of a dangerous show downin a volatile region thats home to hundreds of thousands of americans. We get the latest from nbcs andrea mitchell. Reporter kim jongun on stage. Applauded by thousands on the eve of an anniversary often used for provocative military action. The birthday of the regimes founder, his grandfather. He may mark the holiday with a missile test or worse his sixth nuclear test. Accusing President Trump of pushing the world toward nuclear war by tweeting tuesday, no