daunting statement. let s talk more about it. joining me now from orlando, cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. we saw after the provocative event in texas, home-grown terror is real. how do you fight it without stepping on basic freedoms? that s the toughest question we are going to face and i think mr. ridge s statement is absolutely correct. but i would like to just comment on that because remember on 9/11 i was a war planner in the pentagon on 9/11 and very few americans had ever heard of al qaeda. we adjusted to them very quickly over a period of ten years, we fought them in afghanistan and iraq found out about their centralized networks. what we have now a different kind of organization with a different kind of network. they are more decentralized. they are not looking for the great big attack but the multiple attacks. and as you just said that s what s going to have the
dmz as in various capacities, assistant division commander, battalion commander and war planner. i understand as most people what the north korean mostives are and what the real nature the threat from north korea. we think the greatest threat of missiles that launch nuclear weapons. in fact the great threat as you may know, jenna, is the 5,000 artillery pieces they have aimed at seoul right now and 1.2 million man army that has something like 5000 tanks. so the north koreans have a very serious military, forth largest in the world in addition to nuclear weapons. so they are a serious nuclear and a very serious conventional threat. jenna: so how are you understanding the recent threats coming from that country, not just on south korea but on the united states as well? yeah, this is, a little background, quick background. it s now march, almost april. and this is called the starving season in