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What's Next for North Korea?; London Bomber Message

Aired July 06, 2006 - 11:00   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Rattling sabers and reveling in the spotlight.
Good morning. I'm Daryn Kagan.

Welcome to the second hour of CNN LIVE TODAY.

We begin with North Korea, which is answering critics of its missile tests. They're offering a new threat.

North Korea on the agenda as President Bush welcomes Canada's prime minister to the White House. We're going to hear from both in a live news conference scheduled for about 45 minutes from now.

Also, a Coke insider busted flat for alleged corporate spying. We'll explain how Pepsi did the right thing for "The Real Thing."

But we begin with North Korea.

Launched missiles, now it's dropping another bombshell. Here's the latest on this developing story.

It's one day after its missile tests ignited world outrage. The communist nation says more launches are planned. No time frame offered up there, but media reports in neighboring South Korea say there or four missiles are now on launch pads ready to go. U.S. officials say none is a long-range missile. North Korea also threatens stronger physical action if any country dares to interfere.

The U.N. Security Council is meeting for a second day to consider possible sanctions. Council members Russia and China opposing sanctions. They are calling for more diplomacy.

So those reports of more missiles and ready to launch in North Korea. Just a short time ago U.S. officials had something to say about that.

Let's turn to our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, for more on this developing story -- Jamie.

JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SR. PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Daryn, you know, there's an old saying in the intelligence game, tell me what you know, tell me what you think, and make sure you make clear which is which. What the U.S. knows is that North Korea has more missiles, both the short-range Scuds and Nodongs that were fired on Tuesday. And, also in the works, more long-range Taepodong missiles, the kind that fizzled on the launch pad on Tuesday. What they also know is that there is apparently some activity at the site where the Taepodong was launched, according to State Department officials talking to our Elise Labott over at the State Department. But what officials here at the Pentagon with access to intelligence tell us is that there is no Taepodong missile on the launch pad, nothing imminent in terms of a long-range missile test, although North Korea has vowed to continue testing, saying it has the right to do that.

What they do believe is that North Korea has a number of short- range missiles that could be launched at short notice if North Korea doesn't feel like it's gotten enough attention already with its Tuesday extravaganza of seven missile launches, including six of those shorter-range missiles. But at this point there are no indications that there's any imminent tests under way of a long-range Taepodong.

In fact, officials say that the North Koreans might likely want to try to figure out exactly what went wrong with Tuesday's launch, as we watch this image of the 1998 test which also failed, but failed a little bit later in the launch, after it had achieved much more altitude.

But at this point the U.S. watching. They've got a lot of intelligence assets trained on the site, but it's difficult sometimes to know what North Korea is doing because a lot of the missile work is done in underground facilities -- Daryn.

KAGAN: All right, Jamie. Thank you.

Well, whether there's more launches or not, there certainly is great concern at the United Nations.

Our Richard Roth standing by there, watching what the Security Council is trying to come up with.

Richard, hello.

RICHARD ROTH, CNN SR. U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Hello.

The United Nations Security Council legal experts are going to be discussing the text of the resolution stressed yesterday and pushed by Japan, the United States, Britain, and France. There's still division in the Security Council.

Russia and China will be opposed to any measures that open the door to sanctions. And in this resolution, there are portions which call on countries to not send cell materials, technology to North Korea for use with missiles.

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador, this morning, Daryn, said this is going to be a test for the Security Council. Of course, he said this a couple months ago when the Iranian nuclear enrichment issue heated up. And the council has still not been able really to settle on a tougher resolution because the door has been open to economic incentives and negotiations between the U.S., the European Union, and Iran. John Bolton indicated to reporters the state of play with this resolution.

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JOHN BOLTON, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: You know, we think that it's important to have a strong signal. I don't really want to get into the specifics at the moment. But I must say that the text of the Japanese resolution has broad and deep support.

Now, I don't doubt there will be some changes in it as the experts continue to meet later this morning. But for now, we're going to continue to proceed along the lines of their text.

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ROTH: The French are stressing unity here. That's what Russia and China are stressing. But they say that because they don't -- they're very worried, Moscow and Beijing, about tensions being exacerbated on the Korean Peninsula. That's why -- one of the reasons they give for not backing sanctions in this resolution.

John Bolton says the worry, Daryn, is not that missiles were launched, seven missiles. It's that they could be matched with nuclear capability at a future date.

Back to you.

KAGAN: All right. Richard Roth, thank you for that.

Well, July 7th, a year ago tomorrow, suicide bombers killed 52 people in London. Today one of the dead terrorists speaks from the grave on videotape.

Our Matthew Chance has detail on that from London.

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Daryn, thanks very much.

Well, it is a chilling video that was first broadcast on the Al- Jazeera Arabic language television. Chilling because it comes, as you mentioned, Daryn, on the eve of the London bomb attacks on July the 7th last year.

The video shows Shahzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers, 22 years old, from northern England. He's a British Muslim.

It was clearly intended to be broadcast after the event as well, because he speaks in the past tense, saying, "What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue," he says, "and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and until you stop supporting the United States and Israel."

So that statement clearly intended to be heard by the British public. Tanweer is the bomber, of course, that detonated his explosive in central London on an underground train as it was moving between Liverpool Street and Old Gate Station. He killed six people, plus himself, and more than 100 people were injured.

It's not the first time we've seen a video from the grave from one of the suicide bombers, from the 7/7 Attacks, as they're known here. In September last year, Sidique Khan, who was one of Tanweer's co-bombers, issued a similar, or had a similar video broadcast on the Al-Jazeera television network. It's believed by British intelligence agencies the two traveled to Pakistan, and it's there that they filmed the video.

British police, Scotland Yard here in London, saying they are aware of this video, but saying that its release date could only have been designed to cause maximum distress to the bereaved and their families.

KAGAN: Matthew Chance live from London.

Matthew, thank you.

You watched it live here on CNN just minutes ago, a celestial dosido. Shuttle Discovery docking with the International Space Station. The pair will stay joined for at least the next 12 days. Prior to docking, Discovery turned its belly toward the space station. Yet another inspection of the shuttle's critical heat shield.

To New Jersey. About the only state services in New Jersey today that are working are the highway toll booths. The budget crisis calling snake eyes at Atlantic City casinos and racetracks, and closing down state parks, campgrounds, and the courts.

You need a driver's license? You're going to have to wait. Forty-five thousand state workers have been sent home. And by next week the crisis could threaten some state aid programs.

Governor Jon Corzine is back at the legislature for a third day, begging for an increase in the sales tax. He needs it to balance the budget, which is a constitutional requirement.

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GOV. JON CORZINE (D), NEW JERSEY: If you're trying to get out of a hole, why don't you just stop digging? We're certainly off on the wrong track. We need to get out of New Jersey's budget hole on this recurring sea of red ink and get real.

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KAGAN: Corzine put a compromise on the table this morning. It calls for temporary relief of some property taxes. So far, though, no deal in Jersey.

So how does the most powerful man in the world celebrate his 60th birthday? With meetings, and more meetings. Right now Mr. Bush is in talks with the Canadian prime minister in the Oval Office. North Korea's defiance a likely topic.

We expect to hear from both of them in the next hour.

Later this afternoon, Mr. Bush and the first lady will spend part of the day with Larry King. Do you have a question for the president? Send to it Larry via e-mail.

Just log on to CNN.com/larryking. Watch the interview tonight on "LARRY KING LIVE" at 9:00 Eastern.

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KAGAN: Let's go ahead and check out the markets.

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And this just into CNN. It involves gay marriage here in the state of Georgia. The state Supreme Court here in Georgia has upheld the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Now, a little background for you here.

Back in 2004, the voters here in Georgia approved this ban on same-sex marriage, but a lower court ruled that that violated the single subject rule of the state constitution, meaning it couldn't address both marriage and civil unions. So it was overturned. But now the state high court here in Georgia has stepped in and re- instituted that ban on gay marriage here in the state of Georgia.

Which leads us to the subject of gay marriage in the state of New York. That state's highest court handed down a ruling this morning saying gays and lesbians, they actually had argued that a marriage ban violated their constitutional rights. But the court says the law limits marriage to opposite-sex couples.

The judges threw the ball into the lawmakers' court. They say any change in the law would have to come from the legislature.

Massachusetts is the only state that allows same-sex marriage.

President Bush blew out candles and ate cake with the troop on the 4th, but today, the 6th, is his real birthday. The world's most powerful baby boomer says hello to the big 60.

How is he dealing with that?

Our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux, takes a look.

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On America's 230th birthday...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy birthday to you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy birthday to you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy birthday to you.

MALVEAUX: ... President Bush celebrated his 60th, first with troops at Fort Bragg, then later at the White House with family and friends. But today is the real day he turns the big 6-0.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This year, the first of about 78 million baby boomers turns 60, including two of my dad's favorite people, me and President Clinton.

MALVEAUX: So how will Mr. Bush mark this day? The president's father celebrated his 80th with a leap of faith.

MARILYN MONROE, ACTRESS (SINGING): Happy birthday, Mr. President.

MALVEAUX: John F. Kennedy's steamy 45th incited scandal.

Mr. Bush's birthday will likely be more low key, but he hasn't shied away from talking about his age.

BUSH: I blame my gray hair on my mother. I used to think 60 was old, didn't you?

MALVEAUX: "Newsweek's" Evan Thomas says the president's journey has been like many of his peers.

EVAN THOMAS, "NEWSWEEK": You know the 60s knocked a lot of people for a loop, including George Bush. He passed an enormous milestone in the 1980s when he quit drinking and became born again.

MALVEAUX: Thomas says Americans have also watched Mr. Bush mature during his presidency.

THOMAS: And a lot of people thought that he wasn't really ready for it. Then, bam, you have 9/11 and all of a sudden he has the greatest crisis any president has faced in a long, long time. And he had to grow up in a real hurry. And he did show tremendous strength and resolve right away.

MALVEAUX: But with every president, the demands of the job add years to one's face.

BUSH: Just getting warmed up.

MALVEAUX: But unlike most of his predecessors, Mr. Bush, the athlete, is the envy of many half his age.

WAYNE SLATER, "DALLAS MORNING NEWS": He demonstrates to a lot of people in this generation that turning 60 doesn't make you a physical wreck.

MALVEAUX: Wayne Slater covered Mr. Bush as Texas governor and now president. He says the president's outlook suggests that perhaps the adage is true, that age is just a number. SLATER: There is an aspect of George Bush's personality, which has not changed, and that's a kind of not immaturity, but a certain playfulness that I think remains.

BUSH: Anybody want a piece?

MALVEAUX: Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, the White House.

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KAGAN: And we should see President Bush in about a half-hour. He has the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, visiting with him in the White House at this hour. The two plan to hold a news conference, and you will see it live here on CNN is about a half-hour.

And President Bush going from there to do an interview with Larry King. And Larry looking for your questions to ask of Mr. and Mrs. Bush.

Go to CNN.com/larryking. Send along your questions. And then you can see the interview tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

Coca-Cola is toasting Pepsi today. The rivals worked together to make sure an alleged plot against Coke fizzled.

Art Franklin of our affiliate WAGA explains.

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ART FRANKLIN, REPORTER, WAGA (voice over): Atlanta-based Coca- Cola is the number one manufacturer of non-alcoholic beverages in the world. Secrets about its products are worth a lot of money.

U.S. Attorney David Nahmias says three people, including Coca- Cola employee, stole confidential information about drink products and tried to sell that information to Coke's main competitor, PepsiCo.

DAVID NAHMIAS, U.S. ATTORNEY: To PepsiCo's great credit, as soon as they were solicited to buy these secrets, they advised their competitor, Coca-Cola Company, that there was a crime apparently in the works.

FRANKLIN: That was on May 19th. Coca-Cola alerted the FBI, and agents launched an undercover investigation that led to Wednesday's arrest of Coca-Cola executive administrative assistant Joya Williams, of Norcross; Edmund Duhaney, of Decatur; and alleged point man Ibrahim Dimson of Bronx, New York.

NAHMIAS: It's our hope and our belief that we have managed to protect the trade secrets from being disclosed. Coca-Cola Company may take some further civil action to try to protect that further.

FRANKLIN: Coca-Cola's chief executive issued a memo to employees that said, "I would like to thank our security and legal teams for the manner in which they assisted law enforcement in this unfortunate situation. I would also like to express our sincere appreciation to PepsiCo for alerting us to this attack."

NAHMIAS: Trade secrets are important to everybody in the business community.

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KAGAN: The suspects are due in federal court today on charges of wire fraud, theft and unlawful selling of secrets.

All right. News out of Florida.

Well, we'll get to Florida news a little bit later.

Do you want to do it now? Should we do -- let's just do Florida now, what's happening. OK.

Out of Tallahassee, Florida, it has to do with a huge verdict in tobacco. It was a $145 billion verdict. It was a class action suit, but the Florida Supreme Court today has rejected that verdict.

It was the largest ever by an American jury against tobacco companies for injuring smokers. But according to the Florida high court, it had been a mistake to certify this as a class action lawsuit, representing an estimated 300,000 to 700,000 ill Floridians who had also been smokers.

OK. Now let's get to entertainment news.

The nominees are... TV's top talent grabbing the spotlight. We have your Emmy picks on CNN.

And her show is going off the air. It's actually off. But she is getting a parting gift. I'll talk with actress Allison Janney of "The West Wing." She received yet another Emmy nomination, and she's with me here on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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KAGAN: And the nominees are...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE, "GREY'S ANATOMY": He's picturing my face. He's totally picturing that dart puncturing my skull.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE, "GREY'S ANATOMY": But the thing you don't hear...

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KAGAN: Actress Sandra Oh and her TV series "Grey's Anatomy" feeling the love from Emmy today. The AB show received 11 nominations.

Fox's drama "24" leads the way of all series with 12. There will be no repeat for two winners from last season. "Desperate Housewives" wasn't nominated in the comedy series category. "Lost" missed out for best drama series.

New voting rules this year were aimed at opening up the nomination process.

Here are the shows that made it.

For best drama series: "Grey's Anatomy"; "House"; "The Sopranos"; "24"; and "The West Wing."

In the best comedy category: "Arrested Development"; "Curb Your Enthusiasm"; "The Office"; "Scrubs"; "Two and a half Men."

The Emmy award show airs on August 27the.

One nominee joining me on the phone now from California, "The West Wing's" Allison Janney.

Allison, good morning and congratulations.

ALLISON JANNEY, ACTRESS: Thank you, Daryn. Good morning to you.

KAGAN: Well, with all of your success with Emmy, we could almost make it Allison Emmy. You could be going for number five here.

JANNEY: I know. It's completely overwhelming.

KAGAN: It doesn't get old to see your name pop up on the screen there?

JANNEY: No, it doesn't. And I have to say, everyone has been the same amount of shock and surprise and excitement. It doesn't -- it doesn't get old.

KAGAN: Were you watching at 5:30 this morning there in California?

JANNEY: No, I really -- I mean, I was asleep, and the phone rang. And I -- my first thought was, who died? I was very -- you know, because the phone never rings that early, and I completely forgot the nominations were being announced this morning. So I was kind of -- my mindset was not at all about the Emmys. And now, of course, it's wonderful.

KAGAN: What are you going to wear?

JANNEY: Yes, exactly.

KAGAN: And then there's that.

JANNEY: What am I going to wear, what am I'm not going to eat.

KAGAN: All of that kind of stuff. JANNEY: Yes.

KAGAN: Bittersweet this time? Because C.J. Craig one for the history books and "The West Wing"?

JANNEY: Yes. It's such a lovely honor and a tribute to a lot of -- I haven't memorized the whole list of nominees, but it seems like the Emmy voters decided to honor a lot of these great shows. I mean, I really truly feel that I was, you know, honored -- blessed to be on one of the greatest shows -- greatest dramas in television.

KAGAN: And, of course, "The West Wing" getting a nomination, too. And a time, a season, let's be honest, people said not the strongest, not the best ever.

JANNEY: This -- actually, I disagree with you.

KAGAN: I'm just saying what people have said.

JANNEY: People were saying, what an amazing season this has been for "The West Wing".

KAGAN: So nice to have it wrap up with a nomination for the show as well.

JANNEY: Oh, absolutely.

KAGAN: Let's look at your competition coming up. Some fabulous women actresses.

JANNEY: Wonderful women.

KAGAN: Yes. OK. Kyra Sedgwick, for "The Closer." That's hot.

JANNEY: I love her.

KAGAN: Yes.

Geena Davis, you got that presidential thing working as well for "Commander In Chief."

JANNEY: Yes.

KAGAN: Mariska Hargitay with -- she just had a baby. Now she gets an Emmy nomination.

JANNEY: Beautiful -- I mean, amazing actresses. And I'm excited to be there with them all.

And Geena Davis, of course, because I won't be -- I won't be able to look her in the eye.

KAGAN: Is it -- speaking of being tall, because I ask you as a fellow tall girl here, is it true that when you first started acting you couldn't get an agent because they told you were too tall and you would never make it? JANNEY: Oh, yes. You know, people always love to discourage you from acting, and they love to pick out the one thing that's, you know, obvious about someone, and say, well, you're not going to make it because of that. You know. But ha-ha.

KAGAN: Ha-ha. Ha-ha, times six for all the Emmy nominations.

JANNEY: Exactly.

KAGAN: Besides the Emmys at the end of August, what's next for you now that "West Wing" has wrapped up?

JANNEY: I'm looking for the next thing. I've been fortunate enough to feel like I can be a little picky right now. I'm looking for the right thing, whether it be on the stage and television again, or movies.

I'm really trying to find the right thing. And I'm also a little burned out in enjoying the time off.

KAGAN: Good for you. And that time off, do you ever tune into CNN midday or, I guess, morning in California and catch the actual White House briefings? Do you ever watch...

JANNEY: Yes, I have watched them before. Not so much anymore. But it's just depressing. I can't bear it. But I have watched the briefings before on CNN.

KAGAN: And, of course, Tony Snow, the new guy with the job.

JANNEY: Yes.

KAGAN: We wish you well. August 27th, good luck finding the dress.

JANNEY: Thanks, Daryn. I appreciate that.

KAGAN: I know you'll look tall and fabulous and wonderful.

JANNEY: Thank you.

KAGAN: Congratulations.

JANNEY: Thank you.

KAGAN: Allison Janney, nominated once again. She's won already four times for the role of C.J. Craig in "The West Wing".

Emmy nominations coming out earlier this morning.

OK. Getting to the real West Wing, President Bush and Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, meeting right now. In about 15 minutes they are scheduled to hold a news conference. You're going to see that live here on CNN.

Also, hard choices, why the military option would be the last option with North Korea. Find out on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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