<Anchor>

President Trump says he has ordered this day. The reason is that Soleimani was preparing to attack the American people, so that the attack was a defensive party defense. At the same time, there are tensions throughout the United States because of the potential for terrorist attacks.

I'll take a look at Washington's correspondent in Washington, and I'll ask you more.

<Reporter>

Trump insisted that killing Commander Soleimani was not to start the war, but to stop it.

Was attacking American diplomats and soldiers.

Soleimani said it had to be removed a long time ago and he would have saved more lives.

[Trump / US President: Soleimani has been doing something worse for the Middle East for the past 20 years. What we did yesterday was something we should have done a long time ago. Could have saved many lives.]

In front of Christian supporters, they appealed forever to stop the plot against the United States.

[Trump / President: He planned an attack on Americans. But I'm sure his cruelty stopped forever. He planned a big attack and we caught him.]

Secretary of State Pompey argued that Soleimani was involved in the bombing of Lebanon and tried to attack Washington, DC.

The removal of Soleimani was a self-defense for the protection of the American people.

After Iran's retaliation, New York, which had a nightmare of September 11 terrorism, caught an emergency.

[Bill Double Lazio / New York Mayor: We are potentially faced with more difficult and enormous threats than anything we have experienced before.]

Police have increased significantly, and checkpoints have been strengthened in case of possible terrorism.

<Anchor>

Correspondent Kim Soo-hyun, do you think there are a lot of countries that have a good understanding of the US claim, or are there favorable responses?

<Reporter>

The United States justified the Soleimani attack as a defensive operation, but so far the country that sided with the United States was as good as Israel.

The United Nations has called for restraint on both sides.

UN secretary-general Gutehs has now issued a statement that leaders should exercise the utmost restraint.

Russia has criticized it as an adventurous move that will increase tensions in the Middle East, and China has called on the United States to remain cool, fearing tensions in the Middle East.

France rated the world as more dangerous.

Pro-Iran militants, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine, have declared their share in Iran's retaliation.

<Anchor>

Anyway, the commander bombs a regular army in another country and is not in a war situation.

<Reporter>

Yes, it is American logic that Iran tried to cross the line and removed Soleimani in advance to protect Americans.

If you apply it to North Korea's nuclear weapons, it's a bypass warning that the US could use these military options in North Korea.

Indeed, the military options that came out in the United States in 2017, when the tensions in North America peaked, were limited preemptive strikes, or surgical air strikes.

However, as the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula face different circumstances, many point out that it is impossible to interpret the US mass movement strategy as it is.

(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, Kim Sun-tak)