korea to conduct a series of exercises between the border between the two nations. greg palcott is live in seoul with more. greg? reporter: hi, melissa. yes, analysts here in south korea are saying now that perhaps president trump was making a point not just about syria with a launch of cruise missiles, but about north korea and, for the benefit of china, the military option is alive and well. we spent time today with the u.s. military on this peninsula. take a look. it helps when you re practicing to be close to the real thing. these are multiple launch rocket systems. soldiers are training, exercising on them. if they need to, they can fire a rocket or a missile from this vehicle over though mountains. north korea, some 15 miles away. training right now though, u.s. forces are dealing with a
has no doubt that syria was responsible for the chemical weapons attack this week. she went on to say that such attacks would never again be tolerated. she also said that there were other, in her words, guilty party, and she singled out iran as well as russia. listen. assad did this because he thought he could get away with it. he thought he could get away with it because he knew russia would have his back. reporter: now, the russian representative who had already spoken then asked to amend his remarks before the security council. and he talked at length not just about the united states and the air strike, but he singled out ambassador haley by name, who is now serving as rotating president of the council. here s the representative. translator: that i would have asked the speakers from the u.s. and other delegations not to
the suggestion was that either the russians or the syrian regime was trying to destroy and cover up evidence of the chemical attack. administration officials say that russians were present at the air base when the chemical weapons were loaded onto the syrian plane. last night pentagon officials say there were 12 to 100 russian military personnel at the syrian air base when the u.s. military struck. defense officials said the u.s. military took efforts not to hit the russian barracks there. u.s. military said they gave russians a one hour heads up before the attack. defense officials tell us, 60 tomahawk missiles were launched. we know now one of those failed and likely fell into the mediterranean sea. 20 syrian aircraft were destroyed. fox news has obtained exclusive at lite images of before and after last night s air strike. these photos provided by image stat international show the
insult my country. miss haley has just assumed her new office, that she does have a genuine opportunity and permanent representative of the u.s., member of the security council, to establish a healthy, collective working environment in the security council. reporter: it was an afternoon here of accusations, as well as insults. this is one of the most uncivil security council meetings in recent memory. the representatives today, melissa, here at the united nations, diplomats though they may be, acted very undiplomatically. back to you. melissa: wow. syria is not a member of the council, but the delegation was given an tune to speak, right? reporter: indeed. the syrian representative, the deputy ambassador was here observing. then he had the opportunity to speak. he attacked the u.s. for what he called, quoting him now,
barbaric, flagrant act of aggression. he then went on to say that syria was in no way responsible for the use of chemical weapons this week and he blamed the use of chemical weapons on what he termed terrorists. so what we have here now, melissa, after a lengthy security council meeting is a deeply divided council. it seems highly unlikely that any time soon any resolution is going to be passed on the subject of syria being officially mindful of the fact that russia, on this subject, used its veto power seven times. melissa? melissa: david lee miller, thank you. president trump sending a powerful signal to syria and its alley lies. allies. it appears the runway was left intact. let s bring in a former vice chief of staff for the u.s. air force and a fox news contributor. first and foremost, sir, why