militaries there are echos of a frightening time. it has anner eerie feeling. putin is testing inging to see if they re ready for confrontation. some of the exercises included more than 80,000 russian troops. he has his military planes fly what their transponders off playing high altitude chicken. the potential for something to go wrong is exacerbated when you have lots of armed people with their fingers on the trigger moving around. it comes on the heels of tensions over ukraine where russia is accused of sending weapons to for the fighters.
korea at this time but at this time, we have overwhelming evidence. the malware was written in korea and the code is virtually identical to the code attacked south korean businesses to march and june. we ve got video of kim jongun inspecting military planes. there he is. but in a sense, the world is afraid but also rolls its eyes. does it show north korea has capabilities no one thought they had? they ve gotten pretty much, i mean, they ve gotten everything from sony. but it s worse than that because we ve known that the north koreans were doing this at least a decade. we know they re very good at it and worked with the chinese on this and we haven t done anything. you know, of course, the north koreans are evil but washington has exacted no penalty on all sorts of countries for attacking u.s. companies, so the north koreans say how do you take someone
both legal and safe. james, thank you very much. i appreciate it and i enjoyed reading your piece today. thank you. i have to ask you. i fly a lot as do you. i fly over europe a lot and have flown over ukraine. a 1,000 foot margin of error. the ukrainians said don t fly below 32,000 feet because of concern of military planes shot down. other airlines were flying. that to me as a flyer is not a safe margin of error. the way the airline system works is each individual airline cannot afford or would be practical to have its own intelligence unit assess risks all around the world so therefore they rely on international and national aviation bodies to say here is where you can fly and here is where you cannot fly. the idea is that they set the margins of error within the boundaries. here would be an example.
fact that they screwed up. so this has all been translated. hasn t been verified, as i say. it does seem to be somewhat of a smoking gun. if it turns out to be true that this was an intercepted conversation, our experts have said it sounds accurate. and it doesn t sound as though it could have been edited together, rachel, and they re acknowledging, look, they apparently reportedly, allegedly shot down two military planes, one on monday, one last night. a fighter jet. so they have this ability, they have those sams, and it does seem to be, according to american intelligence, a surface-to-air missile. the only question is, where did it come from? did it come from this side of the border or other side of the border? any case, it s russian equipment. to that point, if in any case it s russian equipment as sort of the bottom line and it doesn t matter whether those it doesn t matter in diplomatic terms whether that missile was fired by russian forces, or essentially by irregular russia
about, you know, why is an airliner still flying over a conflicted area like this? i think most of the airlines had decided to fly around there. that normally use that airspace. so why malaysian airline is flying through that airspace, even at a high altitude, is to me something of a mystery. and there ought to be something better done about the radio communications by which these civilian airliners identify themselves or by which military planes interrogate the civilian airliner who are you, what are you, to avoid mistaken identities which virtually all of these involve some accident of mistaken identification. clumsily mistaking the identity but nonetheless mistaking identity. there ought to be some foolproof way to get at that issue. nbc correspondent robert hager, thank you for helping us sort out what is a complicated story in this. i appreciate your time. thank you, sir. there s going to be an emergency international meeting