the cyber attacks have been going on for quite a long time now from the north into the south. and so we can expect more of those as the north koreans ramp up their ability. the other thing, they can do other things like for instance they can set off bombs in south korea. they can have more provocations in the west sea, what we call the yellow sea. that s probable because every spring the north korean navy goes out there crabbing to support itself and go crabbing in south korea an waters. it s built in source of provocation. obviously this is all on the heels of the military exercises that we ran with south korea, b-2 stealth bombers. if diplomacy is the only option to try to settle the waters, is our american option the best form through china to get to pyongyang? the problem right now with china, you ve also got an incomplete leadership transition, very push you you
everybody calls in the ambassador and say, please be the calmer head here. it is in many respects a situation that has increased in volatility because if you look at this disputed maritime area, before there were naval skirmishes. you would have naval vessels going against a north korean navy falling apart. what s difference this time is they re using land-based artillery batteries. from that perspective, if you vt retaliation from the south korean side in response to a north korean response, we have now what the south koreans have made very clear, that they ll carry out an air strike against the north koreans. john pack, with the u.s. institute of peace, boy, we pray for peace, john. at least some diplomacy. thanks for joining us on the korean tensions. coming up, we re going to be right back. stick around for the bowen beer bottle band. i don t know what that is
we re going to defend the south koreans by any great extent. the message we should have sent when they sank that north korean boat or south korean boat several months ago was we should have destroyed as much of north korean navy as we could immediately. i also suspect that we should have destroyed had been ready to hit them again this morning because now the media and the politicians will talk their way out of defending south korea and let the north koreans get away with another act of war. so michael, the heck with what china thinks. just go take them out because we are assigned we are an assigned defender of south korea? i think that s right. we need to act as what we are. we are a super power and we have interests of our own and the north koreans can do without a navy for a while. they can rebuild it. instead of spending money on nuclear stuff, they can build new boats. let their people starve. let s focus on al-qaida. something happened since you left the agency. they hav