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Students: We are the eighth grade from Heathwood Hall in beautiful Columbia, South Carolina, and Channel One News starts right now!

Keith: Heathwood Hall, thanks for kicking off the show! I love the love — you guys are all awesome. All right, we have got a lot to get to today, so let's get started. 

Once again, North Korea has got the world’s attention. The country tested a long-range missile yesterday, adding to an already tense situation in the region. But what is the big deal with North Korea and its missiles? Well, Tom Hanson is in South Korea looking into the threat from its northern neighbor.

Tom: The most powerful weapon known to man in the hands of the most unpredictable and secretive leader in the world. That is why all eyes are on this tiny nation on the Korean Peninsula. In the last few months, North Korea has made sure to show the world its power with more than a dozen tests of missiles that can carry nukes.

Its neighbor, South Korea, put on its own show, flying fighter jets and launching ballistic missiles, simulating an attack on the North. And just this month, the U.S. sent three aircraft carrier strike groups in the largest display of naval strength in the region in a decade as a way to back up its important ally, South Korea.

There are Patriot missile batteries right next to a movie theater and a church.

Camp Humphreys is the largest U.S. military installation outside of the United States. It is just about 60 miles from the border of North Korea.

It is a particularly tense time to be here right now because of ramped-up rhetoric between North Korea and the United States. Soldiers here say they are ready to fight at a moment’s notice.

Man: We know what we're here for. We trust in our leadership, and we're constantly training just to be ready to fight tonight.

Man: Anytime we get a call, we have to be ready to go in four hours, in vehicles, ready to roll out.

Tom: Is there anything about North Korea that keeps you up at night?

Colonel: No. I hope we keep them up at night.

Tom: North Korea has spent the last few decades developing nuclear weapons, and at the same time, the international community has been trying to stop it. Warnings, negotiations, trade punishments — even stopping aid for the poor — haven't worked,

and now the leader, Kim Jong-un, has threatened the U.S., saying he could send a nuke to bomb the United States.

And in response, President Trump has fired back.

President Donald Trump: They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.

Tom: Seoul — and its 10 million people — face the most immediate danger from North Korea's growing arsenal of weapons. South Korea allowed the United States to install four more rocket launchers that can shoot down missiles from the North. That sparked protests. Many South Koreans say the U.S. ramping up is only making matters worse. 

Sung Jong-heon: Both Kim Jong-un and Trump are unpredictable leaders. To be honest, it would not be strange if a war broke out.

Tom: President Trump has said South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a major U.S. ally, is going too easy on North Korea's Kim Jong-un. 

Even with the war of words, many experts say neither side wants a real war.

Daniel Pinkston: The good news is that North Korea is rational; they want to survive.

Tom: Daniel Pinkston teaches international relations in Seoul and is an expert on North Korea's weapons program. He says it is not realistic to think that North Korea will ever stop developing nukes.

Pinkston: It's something so embedded in their belief system and their identity that, you know, it would be that revolutionary.

Tom: So what is it like for young people living under this threat? Well, American students at Camp Humphreys tell me they are just living their lives. 

How does it feel to go to school with North Korea, like, relatively close to you guys?

Teen: North Korea is not a constant thing that we're thinking about as students; like, we're thinking about living our normal lives, like. 

Teen: There's more things to worry about, like where we’re gonna go to college, SATs, stuff like that.

Teen: Grade point average.

Teen: If you’re gonna make the team or not.

Tom: But this region has seen war before, and the North and the South are still technically at war.

Teen: All the things that we've prepared, that we’ve done, may just go to dust in an instant. But then that moment doesn't really last long. So normally, we just live like other cities and other high school students in other countries. 

Tom: Tom Hanson, Channel One News.

Keith: Thanks, Tom.

And you definitely should stay tuned. Tomorrow Tom continues his coverage from South Korea, taking a look at the past 50 years of this region. 

All right, next up, the truth about smoking is finally hitting prime time. Big tobacco companies are being forced to come clean and admit to the American public they worked to make cigarettes super-addictive. 

Tobacco companies once claimed that cigarettes not only tasted great but were actually good for you. It said it right there: “Against irritation, against cough.” You may think it is crazy now, but back then, everybody seemed to agree. Even Santa was selling cigarettes, and the companies that sold cigarettes swore they weren't trying to hook anyone.

Man: I don’t believe that nicotine or our products are addictive.

Keith: Of course, that all turned out to be false. Nicotine, the drug in tobacco, is incredibly addictive. Not only that — it is deadly. And a 1999 federal lawsuit finally made big tobacco companies cough up the truth, requiring them to tell consumers just how bad their products are and how they made them more addictive.

The tobacco companies fought the ruling for over a decade. In the end they lost. And so for the next year, in papers and on TV, you will be seeing this:

Woman: Smoking kills, on average, 1,200 Americans every day.

Keith: Or this:

Woman: Smoking is highly addictive. Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco.

Keith: They are some of the statements a judge ordered the tobacco companies to make for years of deceptive advertising. But some experts worry that a message in newspapers and on prime-time television will miss a younger generation glued to their phones and Netflix.

Sherry Emery: There's not many young people that watch prime-time television or read an actual newspaper. 

Keith: And you just heard today's Word in the News: deceptive advertising, which is the use of confusing, misleading or false statements when promoting a product.

All right, when we come back, a young guy is squawking about the success of his new animal-sitting business. 

Keith: All right, I am sure you have heard of babysitting, dog sitting or even cat sitting, but, Emily, I hear there is a new type of sitter in town.

Emily: Yeah, this guy turned his love of animals into a real business. Check it out in today's Generation Money.

This is a typical day on the job for Tyler Dalton — trying to catch a 200-pound ram. The lifelong animal lover is a livestock sitter, ready for hire.

Tyler Dalton: You're dealing with chickens. You’re dealing with goats. You're dealing with sheep, cows, horses, alpacas, llamas, emus, turkeys.

Emily: A boom in backyard farms gave the 21-year-old the business idea.

Dalton: It's not too much of a start-up cost, so I bought a bunch of business cards, thought of a name, started advertising. 

Emily: He calls his company Roosts to Ranches. Sue Shortmann is a client.

Sue Shortmann: This gives me freedom to actually go away and do things other than be tied to the farm all the time.

Emily: For a modest price, Tyler feeds, catches and cares for just about any animal, from piglets to peacocks.

Shortmann: He is definitely an animal whisperer. He can catch the ones that don't want to be caught.

Emily: To trim goat hooves, he has to wrangle them first — and it is not easy.

Tyler is a regular sitter for the exotic animals at Rhineland Acres.

Bill Brenner: We don't want somebody that’s going to be aggressive or mean. Somebody that has a way with them, and he does have that.

Emily: Tyler hopes to see his business grow, thanks to happy customers — human and hooved.

Emily Reppert, Channel One News. 

Keith: Man, that is so cool. Got to give that fella props for his business and for wrangling that 200-pound ram — doesn't look easy. 

Well, that is going to do it for us today. See you right back here tomorrow when the rooster crows.

 

 

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