and, sharp words from south korea and a funeral for the two marines killed tuesday, one commander promised his troops would take a thousand-fold revenge and protesters demanded tougher action against north korea, washington and seoul pressed china to retain the north and chinese envoys met with south korean officials saturday and in a tv interview friday president obama stressed the importance of beijing s role. president barack obama: china is a country that has influence on north korea, one of the few. and, i have communicated before and will communicate again, to china, that it is important that they stand firm and make clear to north korea there are a set of international rules they need to abide by. reporter: china is not terribly thrilled about having u.s. warships off its coastline, jum this. julie: malini wilkes, thank you so much, a manhunt in chicago after a police officer and a man were killed, the
u.s.-south korean military exercise, a senior chinese official, traveling to seoul today hoping to defuse tensions. north korea warning the training exercises will bring the region to the bring of war. as south korea buries the victims of tuesday s attack, leaders in pyongyang say they are not the only ones at fault, malini wilkes has the latest. reporter: julie, north korea is suggesting the u.s. and south korea share some of the blame for this week s conflict and casualties and the north shelled the south korean island tuesday, killing four people, two marines and two civilians and crews began rebuilding damaged homes, the north declared seoul was partly responsible claiming the south used its civilians as human shields near artillery positions and hyped the casualties for propaganda and pyongyang accused the u.s. of will fully orchestrating the conflict to justify a nuclear powered aircraft worrier and war exercises planned for sunday in the yellow sea.
fighting back. well, first of all, we obviously need to know exactly what happened that has caused this incredible flood of information which can be harmful to the united states and our allies. and we ought to think about ways of responding such as a cyber attack on those that are responsible for it. wiki leaks has been working with a number of publications. the new york times, the german guardian and other european papers that have access to the documents and we should begin to see some of the details coming out throughout this afternoon. shannon: malini, thank you very much. for more on the wiki leaks document drop, lieutenant colonel shafer joins us now to talk about it. your initial reexercis reactioe the fact that we hear hundreds more documents are coming? that is part of the problem.
condemning wikileaks universally. here is a sample from fox news sunday. leaking the material is deplorable. i a gree with the pentagon assessment people at wikileaks could have blood on their hands. the people who are leaking these documents need to do a gut-check about their patriotism. reporter: now there is three publications working with wikileaks. british newspaper guardian, the german magazine and then the new york times. we expect one of the european publications to have one of the material out in the evening their time, so it could be late afternoon our time. back to you. jamie: malini wilkes, we re watching this by the hour. thank you so much. eric: later in this hour, liz trotta will be here to talk more about wikileaks and julian assange. right now, this morning, on sunday, all eyes are on north korea. could they launch russian-made surface-to-air missiles against our warplanes? right now, those missiles have been placed near the border to the south. this is
u.s.-korean naval exercise in the yellow sea, north korea is talking tough. north korea says it will have no mercy if the u.s. or south korea get too close to a territory, and same follows last tuesday s deadly terrorist attack on the communist nation on the island near the north border. today, south korea defense ministry has ordered them to leave the island. the four-day naval exercise kicks off not far away. same time, china is calling for an emergency meeting to of the regional towers to ease the tensions. the six party disarmament talks that north korea walked out of two years ago. in washington, key lawmakers urging china to take stronger action to rein in the north. china has a chance to change the future of the korean peninsula. i m looking to china to step up their game against north korea and try to bring them in the fold of peaceful nation. china obviously borders on this country. and i think china calling for resuming of the six party talks is important. we ha