dw reports from seoul. ♪ sarah: it is good to have you with us. donald trump today has condemned what he called the evils of racism after the killing of a woman who was protesting against a far right gathering in charlottesville, virginia. trump had faced criticism when he initially did not respond explicitly condemning right-wing extremists. now the u.s. justice department has announced a civil rights investigation into the weekend's deadly violence. reporter: the plane -- the pain is still raw from the mayhem. some here are still afraid. the man any redshirt to fill comfortable showing his face on camera. >> i saw people pull out knives and pistols. it was crazy. it's all ridiculous. now we have loved ones who are getting gone. -- dead and gone. all those are smiling and laughing and where picking up the pieces. reporter: has the people of charlottesville pick up the pieces, others are gathering to denounce racism and hatred into remember this woman. 30-year-old heather heyer was killed when a cargo drove into a group of antiracist protesters. h

reporter: north korean missiles could reach seoul in a matter of minutes. arrangements are in place to protect the city and its 10 million inhabitants. in the event of a strike, the subway system would serve as a bunker. instructions on how to use gas masks are broadcast in the stations. ♪ the people seoul are constantly reminded of the looming threat from pyongyang. in one of the city student quarters, they have found a serving inexpensive rice wine. they are unconcerned about the recent escalation of rhetoric from their northern neighbor. >> to be honest, i never even think about it. the north will keep threatening us but i don't think they will actually attack. i am not worried about it. reporter: despite the threats coming from the north, these young south koreans are not scared of the dictator across the border. brent: tonight, russian investigators have detained a top theater director and are charging him with embezzlement. he is the artistic director known for popular productions critical of russia. these pictures are from may when he was briefly t

yang in seoul somewhat agreeing with each other the u.s. should first show through actions if they wish to ease tensions on the korean peninsula and prevent a dangerous military clash. a government will put everything on the line to prevent another war on the korean peninsula and when it comes to the question of whether or not the united states wants to resolve the korean nuclear issue peacefully seoul says that it is on the same team as washington the south korean government and the u.s. government don't have a different position on the peaceful resolution of the crisis in south korea really be sure given that it's rather unclear what exactly trump really wants this is the core as there is no policy. this is big trouble doesn't sit down with his cabinet and say ok let's strategize. for the contingencies that we've guy and then once we've got this this policy then we are with your policy and our public our public statements reflect that that doesn't go on i mean the president makes his statement and he doesn't consult anybody does more than

again, the two invasion corridors are here into seoul and here into seoul. that is completely industrialized right now. what would happen is, what you see -- let me also indicate here, that total population is about 20 million people in this area from camp humphreys, which is a u.s. location. that's incredibly urbanized. the other thing to point out, these locations are where all the logistics flows into country and casualties and personnel, civilian personnel, will be evacuated out. >> just in terms of warning, if this is no warning from the north koreans and its launch, people have 45 seconds. >> exactly right. seoul is within that umbrella. the artillery range is about like that. seoul is within the range of these artillery pieces that are up here in the north. >> and u.s. personnel, would u.s. personnel go into north korea -- i don't know if you could say that. better question is, just in terms of casualties, you're going to have people trying to flee south. >> you are. let me do this. if i go back to this map, in what we just described occurred, those i

artillery raids may kill over one hundred thousand in and around seoul alone but what kind of specific north korean threat have we been mostly hearing about from the folks on t.v. the dramatic escalation in tensions with north korea overnight the regime divide by president trump with a new threat against the u.s. territory of guam chilling new warning comes as the rogue nation threatens to strike guam home to thousands of u.s. service members this is a regime that's trying to not only establish its power but demonstrate its power everyone splaying the talent kim's missile range game even if it is capable of reaching the u.s. and in the pacific how realistic is the threat of a successful launch a launch that would dog america's. worst . if you are us citizen on the coast of no doubt you're still pretty stressed but hey say that to south koreans from somewhere near seoul they'll be the first to get zapped if mr trump pulls the trigger gregory illich a member of the solidarity committee for democracy and peace in korea believes seoul should distance itself from washington's warmongering.

the two invasion core course are here into seoul and here into seoul. that is completely industrialized right now. what would happen is what you see -- let me also indicate here, that total population is about 20 million people in this area from camp humphries, which is a u.s. location the town of pyong tech in seoul. this is where the logistics flow into the country and casualties and civilian personnel will be evacuated out. >> in terms of warning, if this is no warning from the north koreans and it's launched, people have 45 seconds -- >> exactly correct. >> before -- >> exactly correct. seoul is within that umbrella. the artillery laing range is about like that. seoul is in the range or these artillery pieces in the north. >> when u.s. personnel go into -- i don't know if you can say that -- actually, a better question is in terms of casualties you're going to have people trying to flee south. >> you are. let me do this. if i go back to this map, if what we just described occurred, those invasion corridors are both ways. when you look at the mountai

we see this sliver of green when it comes to defense stocks in seoul. this shows you some of those movers so far this mov morning. we have this up over 10%. this has served as a barometer of agitation on the korean peninsula on the back foot. this is the nations on the aircraft carrier, but we are seeing other stocks on the climb in seoul in tokyo, rish. events: this is to the from north korea as well as that missile. the united nations security council convening an emergency meeting, coming through. right. let us tell you who did that. that is a tokyo broadcasting service coming out with that. let us just have a look at the southern states of america. texas, particularly. let us get the first word news headlines. here is haslinda amin. haslinda: tropical storm harvey has gathered new strength and is said to drench parts of texas and neighboring states. the full extent of the damage -- the amount of rain measured in feet rather than inches. harvey has crippled the energy hub with a quarter of natural gulf production -- production and refining capacity s

military and the population of seoul itself is hovering at just under ten million people in seoul alone to put that into perspective tokyo has just over nine million people new york city has just over eight and a half million people so seoul is actually one of the most densely populated cities in the entire world so even if north korea chose to lob just one shell over the d.m.z. there would absolutely be mass casualty in the thousands and maloof says that the u.s. must pay closer attention to these conventional methods of warfare rather than the nukes. and most the president decided that things were so critical that he would do a preemptive strike. and that's that's in the cards it's not ruled out knowing that that artillery is there because i think the most immediate threat would be from from that artillery just north of the d.m.z. so add mr maloof says that the north has a vast network of under mountain tunnels that can put them within meters of the d.m.z. and that unless carefully monitored this could make the south vulnerable to an invasion of tens of thousands of k.p.a. soldiers so

citizens south korea, in seoul and larger cities f. anything were to happen, it would automatically citizens in the countrys and south korean citizens. is really not war or action over there in south korea or affecting real americans, i think we have to keep that in mind. bolton ould note john not advocating specific option r that military option saying military planners should be pouring through the operational of potential military strike zone. policy makers often begin options for north korea and beyond since similar issues iran and e regarding other proliferrators. today's "wall street journal" on page.pinion beverly in d.c., line for democrats. go ahead. caller: thank you. you. my suggestion to you, all of you and i must say and we must the genesis of the bible and also in the when the board was abroad and yes -- listen through your phone, why should we be thinking bout the bible here as we're having this discussion? obama because in the beginning od made everybody, you, me, everybody, the world, the earth, he made us people. beve

ben tracy, cbs news, seoul. >>> the number of people killed from massive mudslides in the west african nation of sierra leone continues to rise. more than 300 people were killed. some of the victim's families aren't waiting for help to arrive, they're been searching for their loved ones themselves. it's estimated as many as 3,000 people have been left homeless. the names of the two 82nd division paratroopers killed sunday in iraq. they're 22-year-old sergeant allen l. siegler jr. of texas, and roshame brooks of new york. this was siegler's first deployment. both were killed when artillery aimed at isis in northern iraq exploded prematurely. >>> we're following a developing story in the alexandria section of fairfax county this afternoon. police are looking for the stranger who abducted and sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl. it happened about 5:00 p.m. yesterday along the 6700 block oftower drive. a relative says the child disappeared, then resurfaced a short time later and explained what had happened to her. police are offering a cash reward for any information that leads to an arre

yogita limaye, bbc news, seoul. in a moment, we'll get the latest from yogita limaye in the south korean capital seoul. but first, to washington and our correspondent jane o'brien. we hear that the us secretary of state has recently landed in guam. what more are we going to be hearing from him there, possibly from the president as well? the most important thing is the clarification of what he made of what the president said, this fire and fury that he was threatening north korea with, saying this was simply a way of talking directly to the north koreans in words they would understand. but more importantly, he clearly does not think that diplomacy has been exhausted. in fa ct, diplomacy has been exhausted. in fact, he said it is working, witnessed by the sanctions imposed unanimously with china at the un at the weekend. the object of those is to bring north korea to talks. he also said he does not think the situation has changed significantly over the last 48 hours because it has been pretty much of a given that nort

preemptive strike on north korea's nuclear facilities and that's raising fears across the border in seoul as only picture explains. so what if mr trump goes forward and all these roughly two dozen north korean missile launch sites testing grounds and other facilities go boom there is no way kim jong un take revenge what are they going to aim at. the north korea shover to you and dignity our army will launch the merciless ultra precision strikes from the ground. under water so they'd better stop being reckless and even without the stuff trump wants to wipe out they've got quite the arsenal toy unleashed hell over the thirty eighth parallel for decades north korea has been prepping artillery for that very moment and now what they got loaded and ready to fire are twelve thousand pieces of tube artillery and twenty three hundred units of multiple launch rocket artillery. the direction southward is clear where precisely will kim point across here here are two words for you to learn counterforce and how to value targeting south korean and possibly even u.s. military facilities near the demilita

earlier i asked analyst james rooney in seoul. unfortunately there never isa in seoul. unfortunately there never is a good time for companies to experience strikes. for hyundai, this is one of the rights of summer. for the past 30 years or so they have had this midsummer strike around wage negotiations and almost it would seem like a shame if it wasn't happening. however, it's not a good time for them to be demanding significant wage increases. were talking about the order of 7% here, very significant relevant to how inflation is today. surely this will have an impact on the bottom line of hyundai going forward and the new president of south korea, james comey has been focusing onjob creation and wage increases. will this have an impact on negotiations? i think the political environment with the new leadership certainly is more favourable towards management, and for various reasons, i'm sure we are all aware of, the leadership are under pressure after the scandal with park. unfortunately for hyundai that political environment includes the whole missile issue that china

we will be back in seoul injust a moment. the president took office on may ten, one day after the country held a rare presidential by—election caused by the ousting of his conservative predecessor. he has made it clear before today that he wants to avoid war with pyongyang at all costs. he has again made the offer of talks with north korea. 0ur correspondent is listening in. tell us more about this. this is a press conference to mark his first 100 days in office. it started with something like a campaign video. at the moment, he is very much a dressing his domestic constituents. talking about anticorruption constituents. talking about anticorru ption measures and constituents. talking about anticorruption measures and pension reform. when questions,, a lot of thoseissues reform. when questions,, a lot of those issues will be discussed regarding north korea. the tensions seem to have eased in the past few days but it has been a significant week in terms of the stand—off between pyongyang and president trump. moon jae—in

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it's carved right into the heart of a mountain outside seoul. if north korea ever were to attack, u.s. and south korean forces could continue to operate from here. a place of last resort. >> we've got to be able to command and control on the peninsula. >> reporter: colonel chad carroll giving us rare access to what is effectively the doom's day bunker commanders would use to survive an assault and launch a counteroffensive. a lot of people work here? >> enough to get the job done. >> reporter: u.s. and south korean war planners expect the north would use chemical weapons, so they may have to stay in here for a long time. and in here today, training on how to repel an all-out invasion from north korea's massive army. and north korea may not be done yet. officials here in seoul say they believe preparations are under way for north korea to carry out an even more provocative new nuclear test. perhaps in the coming weeks. lester? >> richard engel tonight in seoul, south korea, thank you. >>> still ahead, the hits just keep coming from the catastroph

the 3-year-old plan, they were focusing on artillery threat directly towards seoul so they bought more precision-guided bombs and the cyber threat, they established the cyber command and the north korean special forces threat, so these -- immediate threats, they started change procurement priorities, that's what happened then. now we come to the new administration, president moon's administration. so they recently announced that, they are calling the defense reform 2.0 because it's an extension of the report that the administration had started. they are saying that they want to focus number one on the noter korean nuclear and missile threat kend, korean air missile defense system and korea massive -- what is that? punishment and retaliation. it's a rough translation. it's not even a good translation but if the north koreans do something, we will hit them hard. a continuation of that -- that policy. also, this 2.0 is saying they are going to have better civilian control and they are going to focus on making sure that all this waste and fraud related to defense industry will be a major f

john yang has consistently 's attemptoul --seoul for discussion. as a result of these dangers, south korea's newest government is moving forward with deployment of the defense system against the threat. we commence out to korea -- we commend south korea's choices. what you get from those words? guest: i haven't read the full editorial, but those statements are more measured. they are more useful. thehould remember that system is a theater missile defense system. it has been put there to a sure south korea. there is no missile defense system that the u.s. can put into the region that is going to counter the many ballistic missiles the north korea has. this may be good against a small number, but it may -- it will oul be able to protect se from the 10,000 artillery rockets that north korea has just across the dmz. we can defend against certain north korean threats, or mitigate them, but overall, a war with north korea would be devastating on both sides, especially for north and south korea. host: line for democrats. thatr: it north korea said if they

our regional correspondent, andrew salmon reporting from seoul. the votes in kenya say the current president, include kenyatta -- boo-hoo room , hastta -- uhuru kenyatta won the election. his opponent says the election was hacked overnight. for more on the election in kenya that spring in julia stewart pears. the chairman of the electoral commission says he's going to investigate whether or not the computer system was indeed hacked. what can you tell us about that? commissiontoral wrapped up their press conference just moments ago and they said they will respond to the claims that odinga made this morning about hacking of the system last night. will makesaid they the paperwork available to parties from both sides. and they said they failed to overtly address the issue of hacking. they said they couldn't deny that it happened because they would look into it. it's important to note that there is a huge international monetary presence from the eu and the u.s. led by john kerry and what they have been telling us is they are very confident with how thi

what will seoul want from him? are seoul and washington in lockstep in policy towards north korea? they are in lockstep according to military readiness. this has been going back 60 years. general dunford comes here to have meetings, notjust with the president, but also the minister of defence of the country. in terms of the military approach, it is clear that they stand together and are ready for "swift action," which was the phrase we heard over the past few days. there are around 30,000 american troops here and south korea has a standing army half a million troops. south korea are key to protection in the region. they have the controversial thaad anti—missile system. he will also go to china and japan. general dunford comes here as part of a scheduled visit. it is not an emergency visit but nonetheless important. clearly, events in the north and the increase of the rhetoric will dominate. breaking news. security forces in burkina faso have sealed off 0uagadougou afterjihadists open fire ina 0uagadougou afterjihadists open fire in a busy street. reports say a hotel and popular t

yogita limeye, bbc news, seoul. and yogita limaye joins us now from the south korean capital, seoul. togita, we've had a tweet from donald trump saying he has spoken to president moon of south korea and expressing great pleasure at the unanimous vote —— yogita. expressing great pleasure at the unanimous vote -- yogita. that's right. the amount us leaders are speaking about this clearly is an indicator of how nervous this issue is making america. there's president trump's tweeted this morning. the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, once again sent out a very strong message late last night to north korea saying they're hitting that country where it hurts. and us secretary of state rex tillerson is in manila at the asean meeting and he is trying to get more countries to try to isolate north korea. they're basically trying to put economic and financial pressure on the country so it is forced to stop missile tests. here in south korea the president's office yesterday welcomed the un sanctions. yesterday secretary

from seoul, robin brant sent this report. first, he threatened fire and fury in north korea, then last night president trump said us forces are locked and loaded. now there's more short—phrase diplomacy as the tension goes even higher. anything happens to guam, there's going to be big, big trouble in north korea. in just a matter of days, the country on the brink of becoming the world's newest nuclear power has threatened to land missiles just a few dozen miles from the us territory in the pacific. good morning, mr president. good morning, good morning, it's great to speak to you... in a call with the island's governor, mr trump had this to say about the regime in pyongyang. this is between you and i, but you don't talk like they talk, you can't do that, you can't do that with people like us. yeah. guam is home to us military bases, a fleet of bombers, and tens of thousands of people — americans who are now being told what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion. meanwhile, diplomacy is going on. in another presidential

what is the mood in seoul in general? hello, thank you for having me. it is interesting to hear that report from guam. there are some similarities in south korea. if you showed up, you would not sign in thetect any united states or globally. there is so much attention now to north korea pay the fact that office, wellin my within artillery range -- we are in the northern part of seoul. it has been some a quiet on campus, but there are no drills. we are not being told how to duck and cover. at this point, there is certainly no outward sign. when you talk people, there is nothing close to panic. in fact, as the started to unfold, initially, in my experience, south koreans were not paying any attention at all. this is different than guam. south koreans have in through this over and over and over. people are sort of thick skinned to this sort of threat and tension rising. yesterday and today, people are paying more attention and there is more concerned. host: pegida cronin, what would typically the military be doing at a time like this? we are not seeing out

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david. >> jim avila tonight, reporting from seoul. hank you. >>> tin the mm,iddljie of the tensions with north korea, president trump is now lashing out at one of the most powerful republicans in washington. senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. it comes after what mcconnell said after the failure to repeal and replace obamacare. mcconnell said the president was new to this line of work and his expectations were excessive. the president did not like that, and abc's mary bruce tonight. >> reporter: the blame game started when mitch mcconnell said this about the president -- >> our new president has not been in the line of work before, and i think had excessive expectations. >> reporter: for more than 24 hours, the president has been firing back, delivering this salvo today. >> i have been hearing repeal and replace now for seven years. all i hear is repeal and replace. and then i get there and i said, where's the bill, i want to sign it, first day. and they don't have it. >> reporter: with republicans in control of congress and the

paula hancocks live in seoul with the latest. these are not typical in terms of how they will appear, correct? >> reporter: well, these particular military drills are very different to what we see in the springtime between the u.s. and south korea. there you have thousands of troops landing on south korean beaches. you have massive live-fire drills which are extremely dramatic, very dramatic pictures that north korea is provoked by. this time the ones in the autumn, in the fall, are a computer simulation. you have, according to the u.s. military, around about 17,500 u.s. troops involved alongside south korean soldiers, alongside soldiers from seven other countries of the u.n. command, as well. according to the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis, effectively soldiers sitting over a computer. so we're not going to see those dramatic pictures that we often do with these military drills. now of course north korea is still reacting to them. they have said, as you said, that they think it's reckless behavior. it's pushing the penin

alexander field joins us live from seoul with some perspective on that. clearly, this one intelligence agency's determination that they have developed a nuclear war head, that make this is more dangerous. why are we so concerned at this point? >> lock, as youen point out here, north korea typically makes belligerent and bellicose pronouncements, these widespread threats that are meant to inspire fear around the world and right here in south korea. a lot of times there's minimal reaction because they are so used to hearing the constant threats being repeated from the north. what makes this different? you have to look at a the content of what we've been seeing in recent days and weeks. they have shown they have made significant strides when it comes to their nuclear ambitions. not just the miniaturized weapon that could be fitted to an icbm, but they were able to reliablely test two icbms last month. not all the pieces have lined up, but they have shown they can it test them. it's believed they have this war head. there's the marrying together of the parts

alexandra field in seoul. >> we have no margin for error here. let's bring in air force kernel cedrick leighton live skyped from san antonio. >> your reaction to the raised temperature here. has the president drawn a red line here? is there a risk that the u.s. isn't prepared to meet that red line? >> i think, christine, that there is a very big risk, that we have drawn a red line without necessarily intending to draw the red line or having the strategy to deal with that. whenever you do something like this, it becomes very important to have a way in which you cannot only send the message but also have the force to back up that message. i think that was lacking in the president's remarks and in the preparation that's been going on to potentially counter a north korean threat. >> this is a good example of how that sort of rhetoric the president used yesterday can be taken out of context and military matters can get out of control very quickly. the b-1 bombers that the u.s. sent over, they had been sent there earlier in the week. when the u.s. was

generaljoseph dunford is in seoul to meet president moonjae—in and south korea's defence minister. afterwards, he will go on to china and japan. the bbc‘s richard galpin reports. on the pacific island of guam, people turned out in large numbers on sunday to pray for peace. they are now potentially in the firing line, as the stand—off between the united states and north korea continues. pyongyang has threatened to fire missiles toward this island, which is home to major us military bases. we are here to pray for the leaders of those countries to be able to remain calm, and to think about the people, and the lives of the people that we have here. in japan, anti—aircraft systems were deployed at the weekend to shoot down any north korean missiles aimed at guam. this area of southern japan would lie on the flight path. this is the most serious crisis in the region since the end of the korean war, in the 1950s, according to some military experts. there is a real risk, by miscalculation probably more than anything else, and by rather unbalanced rhetoric, of something happening that

and seoul. seoul, south korea has more than 25 million people in the metropolitan area. it is very, very close. seoul is very close to the border and the demille tar iced zone. and this is more than half the population of south korea. juan certificate atake is nbc's senior national security analyst. he's also former deputy national security advisor under president zwrorj w. bush and the chairman of the financial integrity network. goot to see you. thanks so much for being with us. >> great to see you again. thank you. >> u made the point i believe earlier i heard you on msnbc saying don't worry about what the plan is, that the u.s. has had a plan which constantly evolves with respect to the various levels of military threat that could come from north korea for a long time. is that true? >> that's right. i mean, you have the pacific command which has control over the area of responsibility here, especially with north korea. and certainly the u.s. military has been thinking about these possibilities, unfortunately, for a long time. it goes without saying there is no good m

yogita limaye has the latest from south korea's capital, seoul. well, what north korea has done is now given the details of this attack that it now given the details of this attack thatitis now given the details of this attack that it is planning on guam. yesterday it said it was carefully examining this plan and said it would present it to kim jong—un. todayit would present it to kim jong—un. today it said this plan involves firing for rockets, which will fly overjapan, and land in the seas near guam overjapan, and land in the seas nearguam and overjapan, and land in the seas near guam and they plan to present this plan to kim jong—un near guam and they plan to present this plan to kimjong—un by mid august and then it will depend on when he gives the go—ahead for them to execute the plan. you know, also in this statement what they say about president trump, that he is a man arrest of reason and only absolute force can work with him. yesterday there was a mass rally in north korea which the government says was to support the leadership.