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Today at 6pm ET, CNN's Wolf Blitzer continues to take us inside the conflict with a special edition of The Situation Room: North Korean Crisis.
South Korean officials fear this could be the week that North Korea goes ahead with a provocative missile launch. North Korea's communist regime warns the region is becoming a "hotbed of war," and tensions are only rising now that the North Korea are pulling workers out of a joint industrial zone near the border.
As Kim Jong Un threatens war, how can he afford to test his weapons and the patients of the world? CNN's Chris Lawrence is following the money.
And some Americans are on vacation in a crisis zone. They'll tell CNN's David McKenzie about their pleasure tour of North Korea.
Also joining Wolf are are Christiane Amanpour, House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Peter King, Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Christopher Hlil, Diana Magnay in Tokyo, Kyung Lah in Seoul, Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr, Tom Foreman, and Brian Todd.
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