to the south korean. this is a statement from the south korean government that i ve talked to you about, increasing the military pressure and deterrence by considering, deploying, advancing war planes near south korea which is something that s going a big step further if, in fact, i m reading what they re saying accurately. the south koreans recently deployed an anti-missile says testimony, a t.h.a.a.d. system here. the missile batteries are deployed further south of the capitol of seoul and not up the border. there was a lot of talk about that. residents of south korea do not want that level of armament, that level of weaponry into the station. they have had to do that.
terror suspects. what we re learning about the attack in yemen. and a year after the boston marathon bombing. a city gets ready to run again. coming up we hear from some of the youngest victims who were so close to the blast last year. our top story, the death toll rises to 59 in that ferry that sank off the coast of south korea. and we re getting new details about what happened when the ship was rolling over. from a radio transcript released a short time ago, here s what we know right now. divers are trying to inch through the sunken ferry hoping to find any survivors. but so far they re only coming across bodies. they re bringing those bodies back to shore one by one as heartbroken families watch. today s death toll could go much higher. 243 people are still missing. many of them are teens who all went to the same high school. families try to get from jindo, the base of the search effort, to the capitol of seoul. they say they want to tell the
have a mutual defense treaty with south korea. the chinese have more or less the equivalent with the north. so what you could potentially see is a crisis that starts out, knot r north korea, south korea. jon: with a couple of artillery shells. that brings in the united states and china. remember, i ve been in that zone between north korea and south korea, it s 30 miles from the capitol of seoul. jon: and if the north wants to unload artillery shells on seoul, they ve there s nothing to stop them. jon: they ve got it targeted, bracketed, ready to go. targeted, bracketed, and it happens in minutes. this could quickly be a train wreck that s in slow motion that could quickly speed up and the terrible thing is that the united states doesn t really have a lot of influence to ability to influence events. we ve gone to china, we sent someone last week, doesn t seem the chinese want to do anything to calm this down. historically china has been very happy to have this be at a low boil
artillery barrage killed four people in the south. greg palkot is live from the capitol of seoul. greg, tense times as you ve laid out for us this week. what s the latest? reporter: tense times, martha, but as you noted, two tracks seem to be developing in the past couple of days to deal with north korea, both the military and diplomatic track. first on the military side, the joint u.s., south korea naval exercises continue. we re told the exercises today involve interdiction on the high seas of weapons of mass destruction on ships, clearly aimed at possible coming from north korea, also on yeonpyeong island, the police hit by north korean artillery one week ago, security being bolstered and on the diplomatic side, word today that the foreign minister from south korea and japano japan will come to washington, d.c. next week to meet with secretary of state clinton and on the other side up in bay skwreubg, north korean envoy, a top envoy from