april 15 is the 101st birthday of kim il song, the grandfather of the current leader, kim jong un. good morning, everyone. welcome to our live coverage. >> we do expect him to mark at this time day in some way. secretary of state kerry, in fact, in the reason, he disbliz japan, meeting with the leaders there. it's the last stop of his asian tour. why is he there? assuring them of america's commitment. at the same time, there is new video released on the north korean government web site, showing imagined targets for nuclear attacks within the united states. they show missiles hitting los angeles, washington, new york and for some reason, they seem to have mixed up arkansas for colorado. we go live to seoul, south korea. that's interesting, 30 miles from the border, where you are in south korea. what do you think? >> reporter: yeah, jamie, all part of the ongoing propaganda campaign by north korea. so far, we have seen no missile launch. t couple of days has been on diplomacy with secretary of state kerry in the region. he disbliz tokyo. he finished up a meeting with the japanese for

il song. the current owner kim jong un was seen in public today for the first time in two weeks, paying respects at the grave site of his grandfather. secretary of state john kerry is back in this country tonight after a whirlwind round of diplomacy in the region trying among other things to pressure china to put pressure on its ally north korea to back down from its nuclear threats. >>> in venezuela, hugo chavez's chosen successor, the interim president nicholas maduro has been elected that nation's new president. a narrow win though. just over 50% of the vote. >>> and in this country the f.a.a. has ordered more than a thousand, mostly late model boeing 737s to be examined to see if a part of the planes' tails need to be replaced. specifically it's a pin that holds the horizontal stabilizer which the pilots use to control the pitch of the aircraft. the potential defect has not caused any accidents. f.a.a. says there is no immediate threat. if that were the case they say the planes would all b

. >> reporter: north korean celebrated the birthday of kim il song, but no missile launch. secretary of state john kerry met with japanese prime minister monday morning. >> one thing is for certain. we are united. he says the u.s. and japan are hoping to -- are opening to negotiations to deescalate tensions in the region. >> the burden is on pyongyang. north korea must take meaningful steps to show it will honor commitment it is has already made and it has to observe laws and the norms of international behavior. >> reporter: that seems unlikely. north korean state tv dismissed the south korean offer to enter peace talks as a crafty trick. secretary kerry says the u.s. is working with china to find a solution to the crisis in the korean peninsula. >> their preference is obviously for a stable region and north korea right now is threatening the stability of the region. >> reporter: china has issued a public appeal for north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. but north korea continues to work on a way to put a nuclear bomb on a ballistic missile and some fear it may

. >> unlike many communist rulers, kim il song did not come to power in a revolution. the soviet union was instrumental in bringing him to power. moscow and beijing were key allies of p'yongyang. the u.s. and united nations lent support to seoul. six decades have passed since the war that hardened divisions on the korean peninsula. the autocratic kim died in 1994, and power seamlessly transitioned to the next generation, his son, kim jong ill. like father, like son. north korea stepped up its isolation on the world stage. defense spending shot through the roof as millions of ordinary koreans went hungry. many died of starvation. kim jong il wanted to hold onto power at all costs. he was behind north korea's nuclear program and the country's first nuclear tests. the armed forces unconditionally backed him, in part likely because his family was awarded a key military positions. his youngest sister eventually became a general. her husband is a top government adviser and a powerful politician. kim jong il died in 2011, but the next family member was already waiting in the

in the past, kim il-song, kim jong il were able to talk man-to-man with china's presidents. whether they have the leverage point, it's clear they can do it, but they probably won't. >> how much coverage, david, is this crisis with north korea getting in china right now, how are they playing it? >> reporter: well, it's getting a lot of coverage here. certainly, a little jittery here in china. obviously, a large border with north korea. north korea has always been a close ally but unruly cousin, if it were, with china since the korean war. in state media it's getting a lot of front page and middle of the page coverage. one thing very interesting, wolf, there hasn't been much criticism of the military buildup of the united states. we would have seen that in the past. it's clearly tacit approval, in a way, that the united states is getting into the region in a bigger way. very interestingly, also possibly pointing the finger at north korea saying we're not going to criticize the united states, so you might not have the friend as you used to in these issues. >> david mckenzie joi

il song. the current owner kim jong un was seen in public today for the first time in two weeks, paying respects at the grave site of his grandfather. secretary of state john kerry is back in this country tonight after a whirlwind round of diplomacy in the region trying among other things to pressure china to put pressure on its ally north korea to back down from its nuclear threats. >>> in venezuela, hugo chavez's chosen successor, the interim president nicholas maduro has been elected that nation's new president. a narrow win though. just over 50% of the vote. >>> and in this country the f.a.a. has ordered more than a thousand, mostly late model boeing 737s to be examined to see if a part of the planes' tails need to be replaced. specifically it's a pin that holds the horizontal stabilizer which the pilots use to control the pitch of the aircraft. the potential defect has not caused any accidents. f.a.a. says there is no immediate threat. if that were the case they say the planes would all b

in the old days there was a relationship with kim il song carried on with the son kim jong il. i don't think the son kim jong-un, the 29-year-old, spent any time with these leaders at all. it's probably safe to say dennis rodman has probably had more face time than the president of china. >> which adds a scariness of all of this is that there is no communication with him even among some in china that might have some economic influence. you mentioned earlier and jim clancy talked about how much north korea craves this kind of publicity, if you will, and that it always wants something in return. and generally gets it. has the president -- has president obama been smart about not getting into this? we've heard from the secretary of state. we've heard from the secretary of defense. and certainly we've sent assets over the pacific. but we haven't heard from the president. why is that? >> well, the president i think is playing the right hand. and that is we've deployed a couple of aegis class destroyers with missile defense capabilities. we have ongoing military-to-military exercises

il-song and he said if you bring sanctions against us, this is an act of war. we did the war briefings at the white house, we were prepared, then president clinton and president jimmy carter, there was an agreement we would provide two nuclear reactors. they would take that nuclear reactor out of commission and in the meantime, we would provide them with heavy fuel oil. so this was the framework agreement that ambassador bob galucci was the ambassador who negotiated this for us. at the time, we thought we had avoided conflict. well, what happened is of course they continued to work. instead of using plutonium, they started working on enrichment of uranium. then they abrogated the framework agreement, still asking for help, and then this bubbled up again in the early part of the bush administration. at this point, the bush administration was focused on the middle east. there were some who really wanted to go to war with iraq and were pushing us that way inside the administration. this was a really inconvenient truth to come out. and somehow, we didn't deal with

they have many around the diety, the father, the son, and kim-il song. in the end i think it's important for everybody to keep cool the biggest mistake is a miscalculation, misjudgment on the sea. i think the u.s. military is playing it positively well basically saying, look there's going to be a response, a cost if there's an aggressive action. that's all we can do. there's an internal game, possibly a power struggle going on in north korea with the young leader not necessarily feeling his oates, but uncertain where to go. >> you were there -- and i was there with you for six days in december 2010 when kim jong-il was still in power. you were over there in january with the head of google. between those two visits, did you sense any real change in north korea? >> well, i thought that the new leader, kim jong-un would be more diplomatically oriented, more willing to talk to the west. he's been educated in the west, that he'd be willing to enter into negotiations. but apparently what happened is, when that missile launch failed kim jong-un had to show his

il song. kerry is in favorf new you talks and new aid going north korea once it recognizes the national demands for that country to rein in its nuclear pro gram. next stop, china. that north korea ally is key to all of the mess here. >> sean: here to react to all of this fox news military analyst jack keene. victor are cha. the former director for asian affairs at the national security council. let me start with you. is it -- do they have the potential for nukes or not or are they close? >> they are very close, sean. i mean this has been a 25 year effort to develop long-range ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear weapons that can reach the united states. and they are willing to sacrifice everything including the welfare of their own people allowing two million people to die of starvation to make this happen. they are getting close and there is nothing right now to stop them. >> sean: is it that they are close? any potential they there are and the world doesn't know it yet? >> i think most peo

plus it's kim il song's 101st birthday, the founder and who knows what rhetoric is going to come out then. kaeson. >> a complex they work at together, one of the few joint operations. >> correct. and talking about closing it. and, you know, this brings about half a billion dollars worth of money to north korea each year. and employs 90,000 north koreans -- >> could shut down the border to workers coming to the factory today, which they have done before. kyung, you have more on that, correct? how long will that be closed for? >> reporter: absolutely. from what we gather, and let's be very clear here. what north korea is saying is that the workers cannot come in. south koreans cannot come in because this is on north korean territory. they are allowing south korean workers to leave. the latest word we have from the government and they should be entering at this point right now is so far they have not been allowed to gain entry. and this is something that we need to pay attention to. because we talk about these words. we're all talking about what north korea says. this is something north

il song. kerry is in favor of new you talks and new aid going north korea once it recognizes the national demands for that country to rein in its nuclear pro gram. next stop, china. that north korea ally is key to all of the mess here. >> sean: here to react to all of this fox news military analyst jack keene. victor are cha. the former director for asian affairs at the national security council. let me start with you. is it -- do they have the potential for nukes or not or are they close? >> they are very close, sean. i mean this has been a 25 year effort to develop long-range ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear weapons that can reach the united states. and they are willing to sacrifice everything including the welfare of their own people allowing two million people to die of starvation to make this happen. they are getting close and there is nothing right now to stop them. >> sean: is it that they are close? any potential they there are and the world doesn't know it yet? >> i think most p

il song. kerry is in favor of new you talks and new aid going north korea once it recognizes the national demands for that country to rein in its nuclear pro gram. next stop, china. that north korea ally is key to all of the mess here. >> sean: here to react to all of this fox news military analyst jack keene. victor are cha. the former director for asian affairs at the national security council. let me start with you. is it -- do they have the potential for nukes or not or are they close? >> they are very close, sea i mean this has been a 25 year effort to develop long-range ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear weapons that can reach the united states. and they are willing to sacrifice everything including the welfare of their own people allowing two million people to die oftarvation to make this happen. they are getting close and there is nothing right now to stop them. >> sean: is it that they are close? any potential they there are and the world doesn't know it yet? >> i think most peopl

in the past, kim il-song, kim jong il were able to talk man-to-man with china's presidents. whether they have the leverage point, it's clear they can do it, but they probably won't. >> how much coverage, david, is this crisis with north korea getting in china right now, how are they playing it? >> reporter: well, it's getting a lot of coverage here. certainly, a little jittery here in china. obviously, a large border with north korea. north korea has always been a close ally but unruly cousin, if it were, with china since the korean war. in state media it's getting a lot of front page and middle of the page coverage. one thing very interesting, wolf, there hasn't been much criticism of the military buildup of the united states. we would have seen that in the past. it's clearly tacit approval, in a way, that the united states is getting into the region in a bigger way. very interestingly, also possibly pointing the finger at north korea saying we're not going to criticize the united states, so you might not have the friend as you used to in these issues. >> david mckenzie joi

you know, we had a relationship of sorts with the founder, kim song il. with kim jong-un we had some relationship of his life. but this is new. >> this raises an important issue, fareed, because the u.s. has terrific technical information, satellite, intercepts, that kind of stuff, but not necessarily good insight into what is going on with the 28 or 29 or 30-year-old young leader in north korea. >> wolf, when you talk to senior u.s. officials, te really know nothing about what's going on in north korea. it's a black box. we haven't had diplomats this, of course, we haven't had much of a presence in terms of the cia. we don't understand the society. the this is true not just of north korea, it's true of iran. the u.s. has real difficulty understanding these rogue regimes, because we don't talk to them. >> hold on, guys, we have more to talk about amongst ourselves. up next, kim jong-un's leadership has been questioned. is someone else really running the show behind the scenes? new information coming in. >>> a closer look at north korea's arsenal reveals i

il song, will be set to g. we will be watching for fireworks of a ballistic nature. >> thank you, greg. >> have no doubt, they are on the path of achieving that capability. look what they have achieved in the last 10, 15 years and exported to countries, including iran. they -- a danger. i think it's a matter of time before they have that capability. >> john mccain expressing his uncertainty over north korea's nuclear capabilities. there are those who argue that north korea is a distraction from other more pressing international threats. the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, is here now. thank you for joining us. do you see it as a distraction to more pressing issues? >> iran and north korea are the same issue. for more than 15 years, both of these countries have had a joint ballistic missile and nuclear weapons program. china is helping north korea transfer these ballistic missiles and nuclear technology to the iranians. so it's one program. i don't think you can daal a distraction. it

april 15th will mark the birth of kim il song, so to have this launched and a big story for the internal audience is a big part of it, but one of the benefits here is the u.s. will have military assets there to carefully track and monitor and get important data from this test flight. >> is it possible that the u.s. is playing into north korea's hands by having too much of a reaction? are we spurring north korea on? >> well, in this respect, deploying ballistic missile capabilities in preparation for this test is something, again, will provide a rare opportunity to get more information. each test that north korea conducts on the long-range missile capabilities is important, because not much is known about the program. and as they conduct more missile tests to miniaturize a warhead, those are developments that frankly are urgent in terms of getting this type of rare information. >> so, kim jong un is a young leader who has been in power for less than 16 months. this regime seems more unstable now than it ever was under his father, kim jong-il. does that instability make north korea's threa

il-song's birthday that comes up on the 15th. >> jim clancy, thank you very much. >>> new developments this morning on the stabbing rampage on a college campus in texas. the suspect under arrest, 20-year-old dylan quick, is accused of injuring 14 people in yesterday's attack. quick told investigators he planned the assault, and he has fantasized about be staibbing people to death since he was in elementary school. cnn's ed lavandera is live with the latest. >> reporter: classes here at the lone star college campus in cypress, texas, will resume. everything back to normal today. yesterday everything was far from normal, but it thankfully came to an end when three students jumped into action and took out an attacker. investigators say dylan quick unleashed a rapid and frightening attack on 14 people as he walked through the hallway at the lone star college campus in cypress, texas. cassie foe says it was surreal to watch the horrific scene unfold. she was in a classroom when she heard students screaming. how in the world did someone stab 14 people? >> he used his backpack as a shield and

somber songs showing kim jong-il drinking wine while children starve. links to this image, a wanted poster showing kim jong un dressed as an obese pig with a mickey mouse tattoo on his gut. it blared the word hacked and showed an image of a mask that is the favorite symbol of the hacking group anonymous. that sounds totally like the north korean announcer. you can't help but laugh says this information security expert but this is latest shot in an on going and very serious cyber war between the two koreas that goes far beyond just the humiliation of a leader. which is the bigger threat, conventional war, nuclear war or this cyber war? >> cyber war. >> translator: the purpose of the cyber war is to enable the ability to fight. if the cyber war continues, there's a high possibility it could lead to a conventional war. in a country that claims to be the most wired in the world, south korea has been under increasing attack. just last month a major cyber assault knocked south korean television networks offline and throws business at banks. that's why seoul i

in the old days there was a relationship with kim ill song carried on with the son kim jong il. i don't think the son kim jong-un spent any time with these leaders at all. it's probably safe to say dennis rodman has probably had more face time than the president of china. >> which adds a scariness of all of this is that there is no communication with him even among some in china that might have some economic influence. you mentioned earlier and jim clancy talked about how much north korea craves this kind of publicity, if you will, and that it always wants something in return. and generally gets it. has the president -- has president obama been smart about not getting into this? we've heard from the secretary of state. we've heard from the secretary of defense. and certainly we've sent assets over the pacific. but we haven't heard from the president. why is that? >> well, the president i think is playing the right hand. and that is we've deployed a couple of aegis class destroyers with missile defense capabilities. we have ongoing military-to-military exercises with south korea.

this is what kim jong-il used to do. this sabre rattling to get the attention. world. to get money from the united states and then actually very little to nothing actually happens. kim jong un needs to look tough, to get the world's attention. what will actually happen? any strike against south korea is going to have, to be devastating from the united states. he can't risk that. and china also doesn't want him too many moves. the allows the united states, hey, we need to put more troops in the region them don't want that either. so there are a lot of people. a lot of countries around saying we don't want this and he is not suicidal. they won't do something that will lead to them getting killed. >> i think that's right. two big tracks. one is the sabre rattling that you are talking about. we have the talk about going to war. we have the talk about nuclear capabilities and testing. on the other track is a tremendous. a strain on the north korean economic policy. i just don't mean it is a poor country. there are many poor countries. the tension with the way they're trying

i think with north korea we had many attempts against kim ill song and kim jung-il that weren't successful. you know, like other dictatorships like gadhafi and saddam, they survived them. of there's a very pervasive service, services in north korea. there's, you know, four or five, and they keep track of each other as well as the citizens. you know, even the most brutal dictatorship in the middle east, i think, really pales in comparison to north korea. there's, you know, the security services, there's the extremely cowed population, there's, you know, the lack of a cnn effect. you don't have the access by foreign media, so you can't have that image of the atrocity when, you know, the troops shoot on citizens which then is shined to the world and then, you know, that generates pressure both in the country and outside of the country. the communications is -- inside the country is extremely limited, very difficult for people to plan anything or even just as we've seen in other societies where, you know, they can use twitter to let's meet at the palace, or let's meet at this area. you don't h

the last nuclear test happened within a few days of the birthday of kim jong-il. this rocket last april launched but failed took place a couple days before the 100th birthday of his grandfather kim il-sung. that's why they're watching the movements toward the coast trying to predict what will happen if a missile is launched how south korea, japan or the u.s. should react. >> we think we have the capable to knock it down but have never tested against it so until you actually do it for real, there's no knowing that we have absolutely 100% certainty of knocking this down. so there's obviously going to be some tension within the u.s., as well. can we actually engage this missile. >> reporter: in a frightening warning the north korean government is encouraging foreign embassies including britain and russia to leave before april 10th because they cannot guarantee their security anymore. but this morning, here in seoul, life appears to be pretty normal. in the rain, the streets are filled because they have lived through such propaganda so many times they are fairly confi

kim jong-il and the founder of north korea kim il-sung, often had to visit monuments in their honor, marching military style was their routine. kids who failed to tow the line saw this happen to their family. >> sent to farms or a cold place. >> reporter: north korean children are taught to monitor each other. daniel choi says even math class involved propaganda. >> there is five americans, american soldiers invade north korea, and brave north koreans kill them all americans and how many left like that. >> reporter: in school, stones were used to simulate hand grenades. >> they practice to show how far or little. >> reporter: gym class. >> they make targets of american soldiers. >> reporter: north korean children are brainwashed from the time they're first cognizant. there are youth cells for the army as well as for factories, government agencies, farms. analyst gordon flake visited the children's model farm in 1996. >> they brought the kids out to greet us and they came out again with that kind of well rehearsed glassy eyed stare saying hello in korean or good-bye in a remarkable wa

and then his successor, kim jong il, his son, we had years to develop his sense of experience, we had a sense of his limits. we have a new leader now and we do not know to what extent he understand what he is up against, in terms of u.s. and south korean military capabilities. are we on the verge of war? i suspect not. we have not seen any of the outrageous rhetoric we haveexpen from pyongyang matched with major force movements, artillery is not moving up to the front, armored units are not moving around, etc. the possibility of a mistake is there. whenever that possibility exists, you need to prepare for a whole range of possible outcomes. that is why i think the way the haveadministration and rok handled this is good so far. >> i would not quarrel, in essence, with what evans has laid out, certainly a lot to argue for viewing this as something that is somewhat different from what we have seen before. i do find a certain irony that there seems to be almost a wistful nostalgia for kim jong il. [laughter] not to mention that, for grandpa himself, going back further. so much of what we

over the years we developed a sense of how far kim ill song was prepared to push things op the korean peninsula, and we knew pretty much how to deal with him. and then his successor, kim jung-il, we had a sense of how to deal with him based on a number of years of experience, most of it bad. but we had a sense of the limits of this leader. we have a new leader now, and we don't know his limits. we don't know to what extent he understands what he is up against both in terms of u.s. and south korean military capabilities. so are we on the verge of war? i suspect not. we haven't seen any of the outrageous rhetoric we've seen from pyongyang matched with major force movements, artillery is not moving up to the front, tanks and armored units are not moving around, etc. but the possibility of a mistake or a miscalculation is there, and whenever that possibility exists, you need to prepare for a whole range of possible outcomes, and that's why i think the way the u.s. administration and the rok have handled this so far has been pretty good. >> good, thank you very much. jonathan, you have ano

and that i think if you look at the progression of what his father did, what kim jong-il did, that accelerated a visit to china and the nearing of the building between the two parties has both country and both parties -- processes, i think is the on putting the personnel and having different means of production and different sources of revenue from economic concessions under this effort, you see an alignment of stars. not to say that the outcome is guaranteed but it looks like more kickoff. the fundamental difference about this effort from the july 2000 economic reform efforts, this one seems that a lot of backing from the communist party of china. the interesting relationship there is if you look at the ambassador, the chinese ambassador, he's not a career diplomat. is a former vice minister of international liaison department of the communist party of china. so the relationship between the two parties is at a level where you have direct connections, doesn't translate into any decisions and immediate results but it's an unprecedented and interaction. this is the into reaction that is continui