North Korea Nuclear Threat: Enough IS Enough: US Warning To North Korea
NBC ID: AR92N7T2DF | Production Unit: Nightly News | Media Type: Aired Show | Event Date(s): 08/29/2017Transcript
Event Date(s): 08/29/2017 | Event Location(s): Seoul, North Korea, South Korea | Description: EXT DAY SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA RICHARD ENGEL (NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent) (00:12:05): North Korea tonight released images of its leader happily overseeing the regime’s latest missile launch, a launch that triggered warnings in Japan, alarms and text alerts telling people to take cover. The ballistic missile traveling fifteen hundred miles, over the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a fourteen-minute journey into the Pacific Ocean. Kim Jong-Un’s provocation prompting an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. STILLS North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un Various photos of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un Inset photos of missiles INT Zoom in shot of a monitor MS: phone GFX: map of North Korea and Japan EXT DAY NORTH KOREA MS: North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un standing MS: driving military vehicles NIKKI HALEY (00:12:34): I think enough is enough. (00:12:36): (Shinzō Abe speaking foreign language) RICHARD ENGEL (00:12:36): Japan’s prime minister calling it an unprecedented threat. And a rebuke from President Trump, who said, “All options are on the table.” But when pressed how the U.S. would respond-- but the U.S. has been preparing for an even bigger danger than a missile test. (00:12:54): We’re now heading to a secure bunker. It’s carved right into the heart of a mountain outside Seoul. And if North Korea ever were to attack, U.S. and South Korean forces could continue to operate from here. It’s a place of last resort. GFX: all options are on the table STILLS Trump EXT DAY MS: Trump speaking MS: tanks firing MS: troops running Back shot of troops COLONEL CHAD CARROLL (00:13:08): We’ve got to be able to command and control various units on the Korean Peninsula. RICHARD ENGEL (00:13:12): Colonel Chad Carroll giving us rare access to what is effectively the doomsday bunker military commanders would use to survive an assault, and launch a counteroffensive. INT MS: Engel walking with Carroll MS: troops walking MS: troops using computers (00:13:23): A lot of people work here? COLONEL CHAD CARROLL (00:13:24): Yeah. Enough to get the job done. RICHARD ENGEL (00:13:25): 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. CU: soldier MS: troops using a computer MS: troops sitting Side shot of men sitting Back shot of a man sitting GFX: map of North Korea EXT DAY MS: North Korean troops marching (End VT) RICHARD ENGEL (00:13:42): 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.
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