partnership. we can do a before and after comparison. the united states is clearly no longer heading security order in asia such as we knew during the cold war. so we have to really look at the individual relationships that asian countries have with the u.s. one by one. japan of course remains an american ally but look at south corey, korea, they are moving forward with belton road initiative, collaboration with china to enhance the industrial exports. australia has just announced it does not want to see american missiles stationed at darwin. so we really have to look one by one to see where american geopolitical leverage or points of influence will remain in the years ahead. and do they worry? do asian countries worry about the rise of china or are they
rather strange landscape, hundreds of thousands of spectators are set to be there until it winds its way back and ends up back again in the mausoleum. jon, having spent a couple of visits in yeongpyeong i can tell you the regime can get the people out and we can promise a very well coreographed and disciplined event tomorrow. jon: there was also a south korean delegation today there, greg, what is the significance of that? reporter: yeah, exactly. kim jong un in the past two days or so has been ordained by the state media as the head of the military, the head of the workers, or communist party. now we can call him diplomat. he hosted a former first lady from south korea, a south korean business woman, both with some ties to bettering relations between north and south korea. this unofficial delegation, jon is about as far as south corey ace going tsouth korea is going
live. he s fine. they said it looked like he had terminal cancer and it doesn t look like he does. and they said they will physically respond it the u.s. goes ahead with planned may haveally exercise this is weekend. it came shortly of a secretary of state hillary clinton denounced north korea for the sinking of a south corey an ship. can t do that s correct she said. and a helicopter crashes while picking up a patient in central oklahoma. it killed two people, one other person was killed in the crash. the survivor described as doing fairly well. all right. upset union workers stage major demonstration necessary 15 cities. hyatt hotel workers are protesting job cuts in and elimination of healthcare benefits. they are also upset about thousands of contracts that will expire soon. hundreds were arrested nationwide, including at this protest in los angeles. and we need your audio, steve, for this one. a robber dressed as darth vader