armistice there and the follow-up statements by kim jong-un about vladimir putin, a close military alliance, already north korea helping to supply weapons for russia to ukraine, russia supplying food and energy to north korea, so their alliance is strengthened. everybody in the region is watching what s happening with russia and ukraine. and that could be a predicate for china to invade taiwan if not in the near future, within five years is the latest intelligence analysis from the u.s. so all of this is on the table. importantly, as victor pointed out, keeping my eye on the podium, but gina raimondo with secretary blinken. here they come. so, president biden alongside the prime minister of japan, kishida fumio, and the leader of south korea, president yoon suk-yeol, they re approaching the podium. they ll take a moment to get there. one more question to victor.
have talked about a deeper military relationship. the defense minister for russia was in north korea last month and was given the royal treatment, the vip treatment by the north korean leader. so this is clearly a proximate threat that the three leaders are coming together on. while kelly was speaking, they just released a joint statement, and what s interesting about it is there s very clear calling-out of china, which i know was an issue among the leaders before and the negotiations leading up to camp david. the two asian leaders were a little skittish about mentioning china directly and their unlawful actions in the region. but it has come out in a statement, and that s pretty significant. let me talk about how it s no small thing for korea south korea and japan to overcome their differences, overcome the long-standing anger and tension between those two countries. does that only underscore how acute a threat china is, both militarily and economically in
reporter: tonight, abc news has obtained video of a small town kansas police force raiding the newsroom of the marion county record. now the heart of a battle over the first amendment. officers reading a reporter her rights, snapping photographs and taking away computers. it s everything you ever heard in the third world. it really is like we re living in stalinist russia or nazi germany or vladimir putin s russia. reporter: eric meyer co-owns the paper with his 98-year-old mother whose home was also raided friday. he tells abc news she died on saturday, one day after the raid, saying she was too stressed to sleep or eat. she had eight hours a week working for us, putting together a column of memories. how dare they take the last day of her life and make her filled with fear and anger. reporter: at issue, meyer says, is a tip one of his
ukraine, ukraine russia s bombarding the southern port city of odessa for the third night in a row. you can see this extraordinary video just in from cnn s team and it shows ukraine s air defense working to repel inflation attacks. cnn s alex marquardt joins me live from it as a. alex, what are you, what have you been seeing on the ground as this is the third night in a row where slippery russia is using here? this was a city that was already on edge after two nights of extraordinarily intense ferocious attacks by russia, this city wondering whether it would happen for a third night in a row. that answer coming just before two a. m., with an attack that lasted around an hour and 45 minutes.
arguably the most intense yet in terms of the weaponry that we saw on display today tonight. it did start the same way that the two last nights have irate sirens, warning piece of the city, an attack was coming. we start to see those red tracer rounds from the air defenses, firing up into the sky, lighting up the night sky, looking for drones to take down. there were spot lights that were searching for drones. we saw interceptor rockets taking off with, and presumably hitting things. because there were huge explosions in the sky that cast this huge blow all across this city but eventually went dark. all of the lights being turned off, presumably for security reasons, but the reason that this does appear to have been more intense tonight was because of the variety of cruise missiles, at least three different kinds of cruise missiles that russia used. including the much feared cans all missile which has a warhead of one time. we know that russia s end up at least eight long-range superso