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north korean leader kim jong-il and his son, kim jong-un and tens of thousands of u.s. troops are station the in the demilitarized zone in south korea and what is the situation like on the ground? freelance journalist jason struther joins us from seoul, jason, are you there. caller: i m here. harris: i m curious to know, the north today, threatening to unleash, quote, merciless action, in response to these war games, going on between the u.s., and south korea and some would say they ve already taken merciless action, what is the mood among south koreans. reporter: they are more worried than, perhaps, ever following the attack on yeonpyeong island, last week, because unlike other skirmishes that have broken out between the north and south, this time civilians died, two were killed during the attack and, even people here in the capital of seoul, are have woken up to
understand how incredibly dangerous this new set of leaks will become to national security. gregg: after 9/11 our government created the u.s. cyber command which has this incredible technological ability to disrupt or disable wikileaks. they could shut it down all they need the president is to sign an order. do we need to take action like that to disable these internet groups that are hurting national security and jeopardizing lives? i don t think there is any question. this is a wake-up call for keith alexander and the guys in cyber command. we ve not done all we could offensively to take the fight in this case to the enemy. we spent most of our time trying to defend ourselves within the department of defense. war is two sided endeavor. offense and defense. until we get our act together and n attacking these sources,
allies in asia on the crisis in the korean peninsula and consider a proposal by china to hold emergency talks and, condemning joint u.s. and south korean naval exercises, north korea calling the war games a pretext for aggression. reporter: china launches a bid to cool rising tensions between north korea and south korea calling for emergency talks but all eyes are on the north as it puts surface-to-surface missiles on the launch pad and a calling for 6 party talks north korea walked out of two years ago, in washington, john mccain, the top republican on the senate armed services committee says he doesn t give much weight to china s latest diplomatic move. i m only encouraged by action, which would bring north korea to a point where they would abandon their aggressive behavior and that can only really be done now by china, and
not surprisingly younger folks will be doing more shopping online. gregg: i m going to say 91% say they haven t done holiday shopping. harris: scott, you re done, aren t you. i got my wife s birthday and son s birthday before christmas so i m part of the group that wait until the last minute. gregg: scott, thanks so much. you try to avoid scenes like this one, snatching up all the deals. harris: there i am. gregg: which is why i did all my shopping already. some are knocked down, black friday for you. we re going to give you all the best ways to avoid the crowds and shop online. harris: stay with us.pains sl ow y down. introducing bayer am. its dual-action formula