let's bring back cnn's fareed zakaria, and christiane amanpour. christiane, you were there in the good old days when the north koreans blew up one of their nuclear reactors. >> i was, indeed, that was in 2008. they invited a selective group of journalists in the winter of that year to accompany the new york philharmonic orchestra to pyongyang as one of these unprecedented cultural events between pyongyang and washington, d.c. it marked an agreement of some sorts between pyongyang and washington. we saw them do that. we saw them do. they disabled it. we saw them do it. well, that was several months later when they then blew it up, as a further show of good faith. well, afterwards, kim jong-il fell ill. and after that, these talks basically went nowhere. and then the gradual ratcheting up of these tensions. let's just go back to before 2007, and it was the bush administration's decision not to engage with north korea. in fact, to cut off all previous engagement with north korea. to dismiss south korea's sunshine policy, this was the policy of presid

christiane amanpour and fareed zakaria are both standing by. they will join us for every new development. let's go to our pentagon correspondent, chris lawrence, right now for the very latest. chris? >> wolf, the latest and newest round of concern about north korea's nuclear threat comes from a report from the defense intelligence agency, and tonight we're learning that their concern goes back years. north korea's trips could be seen practicing assaults friday. it's not parachutes falling from the sky that has the united states worried. >> north korea has not demonstrated the capability to deploy a nuclear armed missile. >> reporter: u.s. officials say that capability refers to fally developed system. u.s. officials don't believe north korea has made a warhead small enough to fit its missiles and done the testing to accurately aim it. >> obviously they have conducted a fu clear test. >> reporter: in fact, three tests, and recently launched a satellite into orbit. u.s. officials do not dispute north korea has the components to build a nuclear mi

christiane amanpour and fareed zakaria standing by. they will join us for every new development. let's go to our pentagon correspondent right now for the very latest. >> reporter: the latest and no less round of the nuclear threat comes from a report from the defense intelligence agency. tonight, we're learning that they are concerned and it goes back years. north korea could be seen practicing airborne assaults, not parachutes that has officials worry. questions surrounding a nuclear north korea. >> north korea has not shown the ability to deploy a nuclear armed missile. >> that capability refers to a fully developed system. officials don't believe they have a warhead small enough to fit its missiles and cannot accurately and that. >> they have conducted a nuclear test. >> three tests and recently launched a satellite into orbit. u.s. officials do not dispute north korea has the component to build a nuclear missile. >> delivery is something that we would expect first and it is quite possible they might be able to do that already. they might actually be able to reach japan. >> of

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joined by christiane amanpour who spent time in the north. and former presidential candidate jon huntsman who served as ambassador to a key player in the diplomatic game, china. we'll get his perspective on all of this. >>> later, they call them mass games. you will hear from a documentary film maker who got unprecedented access to them, inside north korea. they are actually mass indoctrinations, tens of thousands of north koreans who take part and the millions who watch. >>> welcome back. our breaking news tonight, north korea could have nuclear devices small enough to put on a ballistic missile or ballistic missiles that could then be fired into, say, south korea or in the region. that's from a new assessment by the defense intelligence agency. now, the conclusion, though, comes with a string of caveats. according to that assessment, the resulting missile might be unreliable. it hasn't been tested. that and the authors say there's only moderate confidence in the overall conclusion. more now on how to unravel the crisis now with chief intern

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euna lee is here along with cnn was chief international correspondent, christiane amanpour. i want to go to kyung lah in seoul. what is the latest? i believe it's now tomorrow as far as we're concerned where you are, which means this could be the day that a missile is unleashed. is that your belief it will happen today? >> reporter: that's the belief of the south korean presidential office. they believe that because april 10th is the date that's been cited by pyongyang in a couple of other bulletins, they really believe that it is going to happen on april 10th. if you look at the pattern of when north korea has done these previous launches, they have always been in the morning time so the indication from the government is that they believe now is the highest probability of a potential missile launch. something i should mention, though, piers, is that normally the south korean oceans and fisheries department is notified prior to any sort of launch. this time around, they weren't notified. you can read this two ways, either they're not going to do the launch right away or they

in a moment we take a look at north korea's true capacity for destruction and talk with christiane amanpour and fran about best how to cool things down. first, the very latest from on the ground in seoul, south korea. the state department taking making it clear they want to shift the focus in this situation to diplomacy, to dial back the tough talk, the rhetoric. what are the south koreans saying? >> reporter: well, it's having two impacts. in the government, what we're seeing is a racheting up of tone to reassure the korean population, sort of trying to keep up with the u.s. show of force. the defense minister yesterday saying that if the country detects there's some sort of imminent nuclear threat, imminent nuclear attack from north korea, south korea will not rule out the possibility of a preemptive strike, so some strong words from the south korean government. but there's also this growing sense among the general population that the show of force from the united states may be part of the problem. one of the major newspapers here saying that it's having the effect of cornering a rat. tha

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christiane amanpour and faique sa cary are here. but first, let's go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, for the very latest. barbara? >> wolf, there were some initial signs today that things could be cooling off a little bit with the north koreans. but then again, maybe not. a dire new warning from kim jong-un, to foreign embassies in the capital pyongyang. after april 10th, the regime may not be able to protect them in the event of war. sweden, which oversees american and britain and russia cautiously acknowledged the warning. >> translator: we are very much concerned over the escalation of tension. we also asked if this is just a pro proposal or requirement. we are told this is only a proposal. >> reporter: one u.s. official called it weird. nobody knows what the north koreans are trying to do. it comes as the u.s. now believes north korea has loaded two musudan missiles into mobile launchers and could be ready to fire them at any time from its eastern coastline. those missiles with a 2,500-mile range theoretically coul

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. >>> and christiane amanpour and fareed zakaria, they are both here as they have been every single day. we're watching what's going on with them. >>> happening now, a frightening scenario for u.s. troops. they've practiced and practiced for a nuclear emergency with north korea, and we've learned, guess what, it didn't go well. >>> kim jong-un's criminal network, the smuggling operation that would make tony soprano proud. >>> new fears about an axis of evil. is north korea helping iran develop nuclear weapons? >>> i'm wolf blitzer. and this is a "situation room" special report, north korean crisis. >>> in north korea, right now, the window is wide open for a missile test literally at any moment. we're told u.s. intelligence suggests there may be multiple launches. the defense secretary of the united states, chuck hagel, is warning that kim jong-un is skating very close to a dangerous line. and he promises the united states will be ready. >> as we have said many times, our country is fully prepared to deal with any contingency, any action that north korea may take, or any provocation tha

christiane amanpour and fareed zakaria are both standing by. they will join us for every new development. let's go to our pentagon correspondent, chris lawrence, right now for the very latest. chris? >> wolf, the latest and newest round of concern about north korea's nuclear threat comes from a report from the defense intelligence agency, and tonight we're learning that their concern goes back years. north korea's trips could be seen practicing assaults friday. it's not parachutes falling from the sky that has the united states worried. >> north korea has not demonstrated the capability to deploy a nuclear armed missile. >> reporter: u.s. officials say that capability refers to fally developed system. u.s. officials don't believe north korea has made a warhead small enough to fit its missiles and done the testing to accurately aim it. >> obviously they have conducted a fu clear test. >> reporter: in fact, three tests, and recently launched a satellite into orbit. u.s. officials do not dispute north korea has the components to build a nuclear mi

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and christiane amanpour and fareed sa carious will give us a global view. let's begin with barbara starr who is watching this unfold. it is pretty intense. what's the latest, barbara? >> well, the talk has been hot rhetoric for days now and now new information about a possible missile test by north korea that poses a new threat. it's one of the most alarming signals yet that kim jong-un is exercising his military might. classified imagery and intercepts confirm that north korea has moved up to two mobile missiles, launchers and fuel tanks to its east coast. the concern? kim jong-un is planning to test missiles that could threaten the region with little warning. >> the reaction time is much less when you have mobile launchers. >> reporter: the missile called the mausadan can hit guam or even the alaska's coast. the test could send a missile over japan. u.s. warships armed with their open missiles would have to quickly react if it looks like japanese territory is threatened. >> if the missile is mobile, we have to be following it constantly, or be lucky enoug

let's bring in our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. she's also the global affairs anchor for abc news. also joining us, cnn's fareed zakaria, the anchor of "fareed zakaria gps." what is motivating all this tough talk from kim jong-un and his generals? >> it's anybody's guess and anybody have tried to psycho analyze him since he's come in. some people are saying he's trying to prove himself to his people and hardliners, who knows? what we also know, and i spoke to the last american who have gone into the nuclear plant that they have. he said, and he's very confident that they do not have the nuclear capability, as the general says, to threaten either south korea or the united states. they could perhaps deliver some kind of warhead to south korea, but not on a missile. maybe by plane or ship or truck, but they don't have that delivery capability. if they restart the nuclear facility, as they said they would, it could take six months to a year. remember, we went in there. i went in there in 2008. i watched them disable it. that was sort o

i want to bring in christiane amanpour. you've spoken with leaders in the region, what are they telling you about chemical weapons in syria? >> well, the leader of the free syrian army told me exclusive yesterday that, yes, he absolutely believes he says in his doctors and various troops there have found evidence of chemical weapons being used. let me just step back a little bit and say that this all started to bubble up again in terms of why the u.s. is now coming out with its statement on this because a very senior israeli brigadier general, the head of israeli military intelligence, which has incredibly good intelligence, not just surveillance and electronic, but human intelligence, told a conference in israel this week that he believed sarin gas had been used. listen to what he said. >> translator: according to our professional assessment, the regime has used deadly chemical weapons on a number of occasions in the past few months. march 19, victims from shrunken pupils. the type of chemical was likely sarin as well as n

christiane amanpour, cnn, new york. >> so those are the images that they want you to see. what they don't want you to see is what you're about to see and hear. now, as we said, north korea is at war with its own people. much of the world is talking about missiles tonight but there's a crime against humanity occurring in that country right now and it's a crime that receives very little attention. 150,000 people are estimated to be doing hard labor on the brink of starvation in a network of hidden concentration camps. these gulags don't just house those accused of political crimes, as i told you. these prisons house their entire families sometimes, grandparents, parents, children. it's a system called three generations of punishment. it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. imagine if you were accused of a crime, you were sent to a concentration camp, but to truly punish you, they would also send your parents and your children, three generations of your family wiped out, taken away to a prison camp, no trial, no explanation. you would simply disappear in the middle of th

christiane amanpour, cnn's chief international correspondent, joins me from new york. christiane, let's do the ifs. if one or two perhaps of these missiles are launched from north korea, they, of course, would be tracked and shot down by u.s. destroyers. what happens then? north korea loses face? >> that's anybody's guess. i think it is important to say what people think might happen. i was just talking to gary seymour, president obama's former top nuclear adviser, and he said that it is very, very, very unlikely that there could be a hostile missile strike on american targets or on populated areas. much less any kind of nuclear attack. what might happen is some kind of missile strike, some kind of missile launch on an area that is either just a test in the water or some area sparsely populated reminding us which they actually did that to one of the islands, south korean islands a few years ago. then the question is, what do you do in response? well, there is the possibility and the ability to have the missile shield up and to intercept those missiles. and then to deci

and joining us now are chief international correspondent, christi christian amanpour and ambassador hill. i was speaking to chrishian. she believes in trying to ease this crisis. what, realistically, can be done, because you used to be a top u.s. diplomat dealing with the north koreans. they've lied to you in the past and these crises seem to come up every few years. >> well, first of all, this is an annual hissy fit they do over our annual exercises, so we need to get a sense over whether this is going to pass when the exercises end in the next couple of weeks. but i'm not sure now would be a particularly good time for the u.s. to be approaching the north koreans. i think the diplomacy ought to be with our two allies, japan and especially south korea, but also with china. as you know, secretary kerry will be going to china. and i think that's the key area where we need to kind of figure out what the way forward is diplomatically. we have an extremely competent six-party representative, ambassador glenn davies, and i'm sure if there's a means by which to work with the chinese to try to h

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. >> that sort of jives with christiane amanpour was telling wolf blitzer earlier today, maybe this is sort of in the smaller, smaller attacks maybe gauging international community reaction. but let me just back up a step, bob, because tell me just what exactly is sarin gas, if you're exposed, what does it do to the body? >> it's a binary agent within a very large radius, like a small tactical nuclear weapon, it's lethal, absolutely lethal. there are no anecdotes to it. it's a horrible death. it's unmistakable, you know, chemists will tell you it's interrupter and you can't survive it. so, in other words, if he dropped one of these, bashar al-assad, on a part of damascus or aleppo, it would kill tens of thousands of people if he dropped a .122-millimeter shell. >> that is incredibly frightening. bob baer, thank you so much for your perspective. hala, thank you to you, as well. >>> coming up, police said there was a shootout when the boston bombing suspect was hiding in a boat in the backyard in watertown, well, today we learned something completely different. that new detail coming up.

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christiane amanpour is joining us from new york right now. christiane, the president in the past said this would be a game-changer, not specifying what the obama administration or u.s. military would do, but potentially this is a huge development. >> well, wolf, let's get to some of the reporting that i've been doing on this issue. again, mentioning that the white house letter quite clearly calls it a small scale attack and still says they need to find more conclusive proof. but to some of the questions you've just been raising with some other reporters, as for what physiological evidence they were talking about. barbara starr was talking about that. i can tell you what the leader of the syrian opposition forces told me in an exclusive interview yesterday. they believe they've been told by their own forces inside that chemical weapons were used on at least three occasions, march 19th and that also corroborates what the israeli brigadier says. they claim have been used in homs, aleppo on two different instances and a suburb very close to damas

i want to bring in christiane amanpour who joins from new york. you were part of the group and the cnn cre that was in north korea that witnessed destroying that cooling tower that nuclear plant back in 2008. did you ever imagine that this would be fired up again? >> well, look, it's really hard to see what's go on right now because there are so many questions. we were there five years ago when they showed us around the very plant that they're talking about restarting. we actually saw them literally take things down and mothball them, wrap them up in saran wrap if you like, and disable the vital functioning of the plutonium reprocessing plan. we also were invited back several months later in june and we watched them blow up the cooling tower, the visible attribute of a nuclear power plan. and the essential, part of the essential attributes of making that plant work and enabling that reprocessing of the plutonium. we see they're talking about restarting it. american officials and scientists say they do not know how quickly or how well they could do

and joining us now are chief international correspondent, christian amanpour and ambassador hill. i was speaking to christiane. she believes in trying to ease this crisis. what, realistically, can be done, because you used to be a top u.s. diplomat dealing with the north koreans. they've lied to you in the past and these crises seem to come up every few years. >> well, first of all, this is an annual hissy fit they do over our annual exercises, so we need to get a sense over whether this is going to pass when the exercises end in the next couple of weeks. but i'm not sure now would be a particularly good time for the u.s. to be approaching the north koreans. i think the diplomacy ought to be with our two allies, japan and especially south korea, but also with china. as you know, secretary kerry will be going to china. and i think that's the key area where we need to kind of figure out what the way forward is diplomatically. we have an extremely competent six-party representative, ambassador glenn davies, and i'm sure if there's a means by which to work with the chinese to try to h

let's bring in chief international correspondent christian amanpour. also joining us, fareed zakaria. christiane, what's motivating all this talk? >> people have tried to psycho analyze kim jong-un. some say he's trying to prove himself to his own people, and even to those who may be pulling the puppet strings. who knows. what we know is what's being said and what the reaction is. i spoke to professor siegfried hecker, the last american to have gone into yeonpyeong, and he's very confident that they do not have the nuclear capability as the general said to threaten either south korea or the united states. they could perhaps deliver some kind of warhead to south korea, but not on a missile. maybe by plane, maybe by a ship or truck. but they don't have that ballistic delivery capability. also, if te restart pong yong, like they said they would, at the ro sesing plant, it could take six months to a year. i went in there in 2008, i watched them disable it. that was sort of a honeymoon period between north korea and the west. as they disabled it. it comes t

christiane amanpour was in north korea and joins me now and richard haass, author of the book "foreign policy begins at home." christian, is this just bluster? >> i don't think you can say it is just bluster. it is a pattern they have used before. very much more virulent than before and people are concerned about not just a miscalculation but pushing leaders back to war with no way to get off. there is no meaningful negotiation for some reason. the united states does not believe in negotiating with north korea. here the political system says if you negotiate, it means you reward. obviously, that is wrong. people should negotiate. it's not happening. so the united states is relying on china, and what can china do, we don't know yet. i spoke to a nuclear scientist, the last one who was in there, who said he does not believe this regime is suicidal. on the other hand, again, what about miscalculation. i spoke to the u.n. south korean ambassador who said we're worried, we're not panicked, because this is an especially virulent form of the usual threats thattim could out of north korea. >>

christiane amanpour was in north korea and joins me now and richard haass, author of the book "foreign policy begins at home." christiane, is this just bluster? >> i don't think you can say it is just bluster. it is a pattern they have used before. very much more virulent than before and people are concerned about not just a miscalculation but pushing leaders back to war with no way to get off. there is no meaningful negotiation for some reason. the united states does not believe in negotiating with north korea. here the political system says if you negotiate, it means you reward. obviously, that is wrong. people should negotiate. it's not happening. so the united states is relying on china, and what can china do, we don't know yet. i spoke to a nuclear scientist, the last one who was in there, who said he does not believe this regime is suicidal. on the other hand, again, what about miscalculation. i spoke to the u.n. south korean ambassador who said we're worried, we're not panicked, because this is an especially virulent form of the usual threats that come out of north korea. >> tho

. >> want to bring in our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour to talk a little bit about your own experience with her. you met her, you had dinner with her. tell us a little bit about what she was like. >> well, when i did, it was long after she had been deposed, you remember stabbed in the back by her own party after very unpopular moves such as the tax back in 1990, 1991. in fact, right in the middle of having ke e deployed a huge british force to support the u.s. in the first gulf war, it was right at that time and i remember so well because i was covering the gulf war that the british prime minister was deposed and another leader had to come on. in any event, she was an incredibly dynamic woman. she left a legacy that has spanned not just the generation during which she was prime minister, she won three elections, matched only by tony blair. and she has been, you know, identified with britain ever since. they used to call it thatcher's britain. sometimes for good, sometimes in a derisive way people called it. but there's no doubt she was as b boris johnson said

kyung lah and christiane amanpour is joining me now. any update tonight? >> reporter: well, it's really much sort of waiting, holding your breath. south korean authorities are certainly trained with their eyes to that east coast peninsula here. and certainly we're seeing readiness as well from the u.s. authorities, especially at the bases where the missile batteries are pointed at the sky to the north. among the populations, waiting to see if it's going to happen. it's between now and april 15th when it's kim il-sung's 101st birthday that people are expecting something to happen. it's just sort of waiting now. >> and we're seeing these bizarre propaganda pictures of korean troops waving to their leader. kyung, american and south korean troops raised their watch con level. what exactly does that mean? >> reporter: what it means is that the surveillance level has been elevated. when i spoke to the u.s. forces here, what they're saying is, it's almost like a troop readiness level. that they want to be prepared, if something does happen. in case a missile does

kyung la-and christiane amanpour is joining me now. any update tonight? >> reporter: well, it's really much sort of waiting, holding your breath. south korean authorities are certainly trained with their eyes to that east coast peninsula here. and certainly we're seeing readiness as well from the u.s. authorities, especially at the bases where the missile batteries are pointed at the sky to the north. among the populations, waitsing to see if it's going to happen. it's between now and april 15th when it's kim il-sung's 101st birthday that people are expecting something to happen. it's just sort of waiting now. >> and we're seeing these bizarre propaganda pictures of korean troops waving to their leader. kyung, american and south korean troops raised their watch con level. what exactly does that mean? >> reporter: what it means is that the surveillance level has been elevated. when i spoke to the u.s. forces here, what they're saying is, it's almost like a troop readiness level. that they want to be prepared, if something does happen. in case a missile doe

kyung lah and christiane amanpour join me now. any update tonight? >> reporter: well, it's really much sort of waiting, holding your breath. south korean authorities are certainly trained with their eyes to that east coast on the peninsula here. and certainly we're seeing readiness as well from the u.s. authorities, especially at the bases where the missile batteries are pointed at the sky to the north. among the populations, waiting to see if it's going to happen. it's between now and april 15th when it's kim il-sung's 101st birthday that people are expecting something to happen. it's just sort of waiting now. >> and we're seeing these bizarre propaganda pictures of korean troops waving to their leader. kyung, american and south korean troops raised their watch con level. what exactly does that mean? >> reporter: what it means is that the surveillance level has been elevated. when i spoke to the u.s. forces here, what they're saying is, it's almost like a troop readiness level. that they want to be prepared, if something does happen. in case a missi