president trump was warned by outgoing president obama north korea would be the most urgent problems confronting him on the world stage and the events underscores the very fact. the missile launch is of many we have seen in recent month. the banned ballistic missiles off the coast of key u.s. allie japan. the prime minister abe calling the launch as a new stage of threat. experts today saying it could be a warm up to what is an attack against japan by north korea. a large number of missiles overwhelming the defenses and there are u.s. troops in japan and there s a mobilization rally stage by the regime. north korea upset about massive u.s. and south korea military exercise. event usually triggers some kind
according to south korea s news agency the man pushed the ambassador on to a table and then went at him with the blade. the ambassador was taken to the hospital where he is report to be in stable condition. president obama called him there a short time ago. his injuries thankfully not life-threatening as can you see. however, the attack on what is normally a very safe city was obviously terrifying. according to local media, a witness reported somebody yelling north korea and south korea should be unified. the police quickly took the man into custody. his last name was kim. the news agency reporting that he has a criminal record and was opposed to joint u.s.-south korea military exercise that is got underway this week. we have a reporter in seoul. john hancock joins us. what do we know about this attack? we just had a police briefing that ended in the last couple of minutes, and they have said that this just happened two hours ago. 7:42 a.m. local time. it was at a breakfast meeting.
his high-profile inflammatory web videos condemning the u.s. and praising the 9/11 attackers. north korea says it won t move forward on nuclear disarmament in response to a joint u.s.-south korea military exercise. those exercises are just getting under way and will last ten days. talks with north korea weren t really going anywhere before this. because of the exercises north korea now claims it is free to build up nuclear defenses. unwelcome news at the pump. the average price of gas jumped nearly ten cents per gallon in just two weeks. you can blame a spike in crude oil prices. self-serve regular now averages $2.73 a gallon. that s 76 cents higher than a year ago. the cheapest gas is in cheyenne, wyoming. $2.47 a gallon. honolulu has the most expensive. $3.33 a gallon. jacqui jeras, we talked a bit earlier about this. almost the summer driving season. we want the warm weather but we don t want the high gas prices.
and praising the 9/11 attackers. north korea says it won t move forward on nuclear disarmament in response to a joint u.s.-south korea military exercise. those exercises are just getting under way and will last ten days. talks with north korea weren t really going anywhere before this. because of the exercises north korea now claims it is free to build up nuclear defenses. unwelcome news at the pump. the average price of gas jumped nearly ten cents per gallon in just two weeks. you can blame a spike in crude oil prices. self-serve regular now averages
for a statement and they say they will respond shortly. total surprise, though. everybody seems to be caught by surprise with this one. stand by. there is more we need to get to. the u.s.-south korea military exercise is ongoing. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is joining us. tell us about the exercise named max thunder. reporter: max thunder, what a name. that is an annual regular routinely scheduled exercise according to the pentagon. focusing on u.s. and south korea forces practicing air maneuvers. another exercise also going on right now, full eagle. that is going on. that involves land and air forces and you re talking about several thousand u.s. troops. now why does the u.s. over the decades insist on doing these exercises? they say it is so that both u.s. and south korean forces know how to operate with each other in a contingency, in a crisis and that helps defend the peninsula.