report . good evening, i m bret baier. leaders around the world hope the escalating war of words in south korea does not turn in the real thing. national security correspondent jennifer grich is watching it from the pentagon. reporter: less than 20 miles from the border with north korea, not far from the demilitarized zone, they began life fire military exercises testing apparent restraint shown by the north koreans last weekend when they backed down from the earlier threats to punish the south koreap ns. farther north, little evidence of constraint. they threatened a nuclear holy war. the revolutionary armed forces are going to launch a war of the korean style.
what the administration asked china to do. according to reports today. they re setting a different tone when it comes to china. is china sufficiently engaged? i don t know. i don t know if we would even know that. i don t mean the press. i mean the u.s. what china does with north korea i don t know. i don t think china wants a war either. it s not this their best interest. and they don t want slew of refugees coming over with the border. i m interested in january 19, when the chinese president heis here visiting obama. what happens in the talks, because obama has to get to brass tax to say what you did is one thing but we need you to back it up. not in our interest to see them go to war. just started, and four days
the week was because china is exerted influence. you have to ask yourself why all of a sudden? the reason is they have a decade for showing spies, they a nationalistic government hand radicalized by the attack two weeks ago that killed civilians, the first time. so you have a population that is not going to take it anymore. as a result of the reaction by the south koreaps who always appeased north and not responded and encouraged regression. they are showing that the chinese are getting worried about this. and they understood unless they hold back the north koreans you can have an caselation in a second escalation in a second korea war. bret: china it appears is getting more engaged, that s