says he has no further updates on the condition of us solider private travis king s condition, but added that there are concerns. private king remains in custody in north korea. national security council spokespersonjohn kirby defended the deployment of a us nuclear submarine to south korea, telling cnn that the us has to: make sure that we have in the region sufficient military capability to protect our south korea allies, and quite frankly, the 38,000 us troops and families that are on the korean peninsula. meanwhile: russia has continued to pound ukrainian grain silos for a fourth straight day, causing wheat prices to skyrocket. russia s defence ministry also says its black sea fleet has practised firing rockets at surface targets in a live fire exercise. earlier i spoke with the pentagon s deputy press secretary sabrina singh about all of this, starting with north korea. sabrina, it s great to have you back on the show. i want to start with north korea escalating its rhetoric on
international level in the workup to warm them up for it later matches. later matches. that kicking off in about two later matches. that kicking off in about two hours later matches. that kicking off in about two hours time, - later matches. that kicking offl in about two hours time, thank you katie silver. it s been an eventful week for diplomacy around the world, with two major stories breaking through. first: tensions have escalated between north korea and the us after a us soldier cross the border from the south. and second: the ongoing fallout after russia backed out of the black sea grain deal. let s start in north korea, and us secretary of state antony blinken says he has no further updates on the condition of us solider private travis king s condition, but added that there are concerns. private king remains in custody in north korea. national security council spokespersonjohn kirby defended the deployment of a us nuclear submarine to south korea, telling cnn: make sur