this is the concern certainly in south korea as well. north korea is learning something each time it tests. there was a national security council meeting monday morning. the acting president in south korea saying the north korean president acting in defiancdefi. the regime would be appallinapp. the joint u.s. and south korea military drills are defensive and normal in nature. every year, pyongyang is angered by them and reacts this way. paula, thank you. left with strong condemnation. u.s. backed iraqi forces making a big push to recapture mosul. they are closing in on the old city near the main government complex. tens of thousands of sicivilian fleeing the area. over 400,000 people could be
especially about china and this part of the world and china s expansion in the south china sea. and secretary mattis said the united states should rely on its allies in the region, south korea, japan, in order to modify as he put it the misbehavior of a country like china, in his view. so that is something that china definitely worries about in terms of being contained in the area. the one area that china hopes to move forward with all the parties involved is on what is going on, on the border behind me. china says the way to solve the nuclear program and the party talks that failed some years ago that is where china sees an opening, but in the meantime, there seems to be tension on both sides. matt rivers in china, and paula hancocks in seoul, very good to see you. well, it s time for a short break, and then more on president trump s heated phone call with the australian prime minister. up next, we ll go live with more
ambassador. treated for non-life-threatening injuries. back to paula hancocks in seoul. what have you learned? reporter: well, anderson we know straight off of this attack the ambassador was taken to a local hospital just about half an hour ago. we understand he was transferred to a larger hospital here in seoul. we re being told by that hospital he is currently in surgery. they don t have details of his condition at this point. they said they re waiting for the end of the surgery to give us any kind of information. and we also know from police that the attacker himself was likely injured. we understand he had a fracture. they re not saying exactly where that fracture was but at this point it s not clear if he s being treated. we know he s being questioned anderson. paula, thank you very much. i want to bring in barbara starr, a friend of the ambassador. she joins us now. you know ambassador lippert well. what can you tell us about him? you say he s a former navy seal?
some obviously just test firing. it s that time of year. some showing displeasure. i think we can expect to see pretty much a similar situation over the next couple of months. you could say things will be predictably unpredictable when it comes to what s said from pyongyang. these u.s. and south korea exercises named full eagle and key reserve, they ll laugh for about two months. we should note that north korea conducts its own drills each winter which makes their reaction this time around that much more strange. but is north korea under kim jong-un becoming more predictable at all? is that part of the concern here? all right. unfortunately, a technical issue there with our paula hancocks in seoul. we ll move on. boris nemtsov predicted if he were killed it would be an international incident. i m a well-known guy. this is a safety because if
welcome back. south korea s foreign minister plaefs the resumption of six party talks on north korea s nuclear program may be close. we have new details of an interview just conducted with the foreign minister. paula, thank you for joining us. what is the latest with your interview? george, we may be closer to the resumption of six-party talks on north korea s nuclear program than we thought. the foreign minister told me that he believes that the five of those six parties, the u.s. china, russia south korea and japan, may just be weeks away from having a deal that they can offer to pyongyang to entice it back to the negotiating table. it would appear there has been