he s in this. so, diplomacy is possible, certainly, but think of what has to be overcome. there s no record. diplomacy has been an abysmal failure in the past. he s got prison camps holding everyone. there s all kinds of issues that are going to block the way the u.s. has signaled it s willing, it s open, to continue. john, back to you. all right, thanks, jim clancy in seoul, south korea. developing overnight. all systems go at japan s crippled fukushima power plant after the cooling system went down for several hours. it s designed to keep spent adomic fuel cool. this is the second failure in a month. documents show a psychiatrist who treated colorado shooting suspect james holmes warned police holmes was danger a month before the massacre. the psychiatrist contacted a compass officer about holmes and warned he had made homicidal statements. the newly released affidavit
jong-un warning releasing video showing imagined attacks on washington and seoul declared that the armistice that halted the korean war was invalid. pretty extreme stuff even by north korean standards and in a pretty short period of time. what s your take on this? do you think he is calling the shots? well, there s some debate about that, michael. there are some people who think he s in charge. other folks think maybe his uncle s in charge. it s impossible to know. i think you put it exactly right. both in terms of the extremeness of the statements and the pace of the statements, they ve certainly increased these last couple of months. and as you said by standards of north korean rhetoric chrks are pretty bad. they say pretty intense things. if i take any comfort in this, and i don t, the comfort i take is that most of these provocations have not been north korea directly poking south korea. it s a missile test or it s a
willfully orchestrating the conflict to justify including a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and joint u.s.-south korean war efforts planned for sunday in the yellow sea. at a funeral for the two marines killed tuesday, one commander promised his troops would take 1,000 fold revenge. as protesters demanded tougher action against north korea, washington and seoul kept pressing china, their main ally, to restrain the north. chinese envoys met with south korean officials saturday. in a tv interview friday, president obama stressed the importance of beijing s role. china is a country that has influence on north korea, one of the few, and i ve communicated before and will communicate again to china that it s important that they stand firm and make clear to north korea that there are a set of international rules that they need to abide by. they called the war maneuver has provocation. china is not thrilled about
the yellow sea. sharp words from south korea, at a funeral for the two marines killed tuesday, one commander promised his troops would take 1,000 fold revenge. as protesters demanded tougher action, washington and seoul kept pressing china, the main ally, to restrain the north. chinese envoys met with south korean officials saturday. in a tv interview, president obama stressed the importance of beijing s role. china is a country that has influence on north korea, one of the few, and i ve communicated before and will communicate again to china that it s important that they stand firm and make clear to north korea that there are a set of international rules that they need to abide by. the north calls sunday s war maneuver has provocation. china is not terribly thrilled about having u.s. warships off its coast line. julie. julie: thank you so much. how much more volatile can the situation with north korea get? coming up, we ll talk live with the former u.s. army vice chief
stunt before and essentially washington and seoul have pressed china to use its influence to put pressure on north korea and the minister met with north korean ambassadors last week. does this appear that perhaps china is taking a responsible self forward? i think it s hard to say. look, the chinese are frustrated with the north koreans. this is an ally of theirs to be sure, but they re sort of stuck with them. and they certainly don t appreciate therblig recognize and provocation. but here is the issue, china wants stability on that peninsula, number one. so they do not want war. secondly, they do not want unification of that peninsula because that would bring a prosperous democracy right to their border with u.s. military bases in the country. the chinese want no part of that. so they re going to influence north korea to a point. then there is some attitudes and behavior that north korea will continue to use and take