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Beijing blocked a vote on behalf of ally north korea. they seem to do that almost no matter what north korea does. after six hours of negotiations yesterday, british and russian proposals. the council was not even able to agree on a mere statement to the media. it happens to be the lowest level the council can take. it doesn t even have the force and weight of u.n. resolution. the british draft statement called for both sides to exercise extreme constraint and condemned north korea of shelling south korean island and suspected tore pedoughing of a south korea ship that killed 47 sailors. despite the china would not agree to such language fearing that criticizing would already flame the already high tensions. they asked the secretary-general to send an on voi to korean peninsula lal. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice says she thinks the council may never have a statement. the majority of council members made clear their ....
Saying they are holding their fire because the south korean military moved their target zone further south. that s what they are saying any way. seoul is asking its residents to take shelter in underground bunkers. all of this is coming as bill richardson wraps up a four-day diplomatic visit to north korea. greg palkot live in london, he s been following this, and greg, what do we know about this drill? reporter: greg, this dangerous cat and mouse game in the region continues. there are a lot of moving parts. let s talk about the drill first. it went on as sed are scheduled, south korea shooting artillery shells off the shore of the pong kwr-r island. that s the place where south korea conducted drills and was also hit with deadly force by north korea just about three weeks ago. north korea has threatened greater retaliation following ....
Win historian says the castle and its history may soon be lost forever. . the north wall of bannerman castle rises over the hudson just above west point. historian tom johnson says the castle and the island it sits on essential parts of american military history. some call this island the mecca of military memorabilia. explain that. it is. it was where many of the items now chrefcted and sold on the military collecting market spent some of their time. they were stored out here. stored by the island s namesake, francis bannerman who many referred to as the father of the modern army-navy stores. in the 1890s he purchased% of captured goods from the spanish-american war. what did he do with that. some of that was stored here. that was the reason the arsenal was purchased. he primarily sold through ....
View, that it was important to clearly condemn the events of november 23rd and the attack by dprk on on the island but that view did not ultimately achieve consensus. reporter: they still don t have consensus. they re waiting to see what china does if the crisis blows over. jenna: waiting for china, seems like a slogan, something we re talking about all the time. what does north korea say about that. the ambassador was there and he said if war breaks out it could easily spread across the globe. no actual explanation about that. the ambassador said the live-fire exercises by north korea are gangster like. they threaten a sea of fire saying they want to settle scores with the u.s. despite all that the north korea has now said it is not even worth responding to and so that is the latest right now as we wait. jenna: eric shawn, thank you so much for that report. we ll have to run down to ....
These drills today, that s why south korea took no chances. as you noted putting the residents there into bunkers but also scrambling fighter jets, training the missiles on north korea. they even had about 20 u.s. military staffers on that island. but today nothing happened. the only thing north korea hurling in the way of south korea words, calling their drills, reckless, dismissing them as child s play and said they wouldn t want to respond to every single action of south korea. so for the moment it s quiet there. greg: this is not the first time, greg that governor richardson has made a visit to south korea. he has deep ties in the leadership. what role did he have in all of this, if you know. reporter: maybe a significant role, really. people are trying to figure out why did north korea blink? it could volleyball because of the resistance provided by south ....