couple of bombs get mauled to the island from north korea. now all this sudden north korea is hitting them with some bonds. the call us and say, "we would like very much to sign contracts. you are a wonderful trading partner. we love you very much. by the way, would you mind sending a great aircraft carrier and about 17 destroyers because north korea is shooting at us." what do we do? we have this great aircraft carrier head over to north korea. we have the whole navy -- a big portion of our navy is going over there. north korea says, "this is bad news." and they stop. we signed a terrible agreement. did i say to somebody, "to start up the engine on a carrier like the george washington -- we know. the what do have a great airplane. they say the rolls-royce is the finest engine in the world. i said i would take your word for it. i do not have to hear the engine. listen to this. we send to george washington with all of the side ships and the destroyers. do you know how much they paid us? nothing. we are stupid. our leaders are stupid. they are stupid. it is very sad. there are so many s

go through in your book, which is north korea and its philosophy of socialism. can you sort of lay that out? >> guest: yeah, well they are nuts is the problem. although, there is are there something inherently wrong with socialism or does the most unlucky political philosophy in the history of political philosophies because everywhere there is total socialism it throws up monsters. socialism just happened to coincide with stalin, lenin, mao? ho chi minh, pol pot, chavez, all these sorts of characters? was it just bad luck that it ran into these authoritarian genocidal murders people or said something about the system itself that brings that out? i think it is probably the latter. north korea is an interesting example, because it is the most total socialist system left in the world. but there are a lot of aspects, the north korean socialist philosophy, that have parallels in western thought among liberals and conservatives and particularly the idea of oligarchy, being anti-trade, the country that produces the things you need. >> host: white you define that? >> guest: i will talk to

is north korea and its philosophy of socialism. can you sort of lay that out? >> guest: that's the problem although there's either something inherently wrong with socialism or it is the most unlucky political philosophy in the history of the political philosophy because everywhere there is total socialism if there is monsters from socialism just happens to coincide with stalin, linen, mao, ho chi minh, chavez, these all sorts of characters was just bad luck ran into all of these authoritarian genocidal murders people, is their something about the system itself that brings that out to think it's probably the latter. north korea is an interesting example because it's the most total socialist system left in the world. but there are a lot of aspects as you say i can't really say that our free and socialist philosophy that has parallels among the liberals and conservatives comes a particularly the idea being antitrade, anticountry that produces the things you need that is autarky. >> host: why don't you define that? >> guest: i will talk to you as the idea of the sort of radical economi

evil look simple you go through in your book which is north korea. >> they are nuts. >> there's either something inherently wrong with socialism or it is the most unlucky political philosophy in the history of political philosophy because every word there is total socialism. socialism just happens to coincide with stalin, london, mao come ho chi minh, chavez all of these characters is a bad luck they ran into all of these authoritarian often genocidal murderous people or something that the system itself that brings the out and it's probably the latter. north korea is an interesting example because it's the most total socialist system left in the world. but there are a lot of aspects i can't really quite say that the north korean socialist philosophy that have parallels in western thought and the liberals and conservatives and particularly the oligarchy being antitrade, anticountry that produces the things you need this autraky. >> host: why don't you define that? >> guest: i will talk to you as the idea of radical economic independence producing and consuming your own goods. that's big

evil example that you go through in your book which is north korea. its philosophy of socialism. can you sort of laid that out? >> yes, well, they are not. that's the problem. although, there is other something inherently wrong with socialism or it is the most un lucky political philosophy in the history of political philosophies because everywhere there is total socialism the throes of monsters. is socialism just happening to coincide with stalin, 11, now, what she meant, the cams, and chavez, all the sorts of characters. was it just bad luck that it ran into all these authoritarian, often genocidal, murders people? is there something about the system itself that it bears that out? it is probably the latter. dr. rhea is an interesting example because it is the most total socialist system left in the world. but there are a lot of aspects. i can't really quite say it. the north korean socialists sought philosophy that have parallels in western thought. among liberals and conservatives, particularly the idea of the oligarchy, and titrate to make a tree that produces the things you

is in north korea today. he's on a mission with three other former world leaders. going to show you video of carter with the group of elders in china yesterday. they're on a six day trip to try and restart peace talks between north and south korea. the group was not told ahead of their trip to north korea who they would meet with, but they say they hope to see north korean leader kim jong-il. after that the group travels to south korea. >>> early this morning a somber ceremony in the ukraine marking 25 years since the chernobyl nuclear disaster. a memorial service was held in the small city about 25 miles from the disaster site. special tribute was paid to the clean up workers who were sent in immediately after one of the reactors exploded. they died shortly after from radiation poisoning. the fallout forced more than 350,000 people living within a 300 square mile radius to leave their homes. >>> now a protest against nuclear power will be held today in men lo park to mark the chernobyl anniversary. that's scheduled for 11:30 this morning right in front of cafe baron. >>> two new el

cold in -- held in north korea. so far, we don't no who it is or what the person was doing in north korea. the state department says swedish officials visited the detained american on behalf of the u.s. now, in the past, former presidents jimmy carter and bill clinton, went to north korea and successfully negotiated the release of detained americans. >>> a south dakota correctional officer is dead after two inmates tried to make a prison break. this all happened yesterday in sioux falls. few details about the attempted escape have been released but a we do know that the 63-year-old officer worked at the sioux falls penitentiary for more than 20 years. the prison is now on lockdown while the investigation into the attempted breakout continues. >>> some state lawmakers are trying again to repeal california's open carry law which allows people to carry unloaded guns in public. a bill to ban open carry of guns in public passed a state assembly committee yesterday and now heads to the assembly for approval. >>> there was chaos in the trial of two brothers accused of a triple murder thank

the u.s. do to help. >> the situation in north korea is grim, grim, grim. it is a highly, controlled society where any notion of dissent, any notion of public debate, any notion of free press or free assembly is simply not tolerated. i don't know that i would say it's better or worse. it's poorer. it's dismal. if there are some positive developments, they're minor. we're really dealing there with a government that has really tried to shut itself off from the world. and in large measure succeeded. and so it's one of the places, you know, when you read these reports, it's one of the places, you know, i look at it and i go, you know, we really have not made much progress. please, in the back. >> would you mention a little bit about the countries that started restricting the use of media inside the country? what secretary clinton mentioned earlier? how many countries or -- can you elaborate a little bit more the list of countries -- >> yeah, i don't have the list in front of me, but it ranges from governments that are using laws and regulations to restrict media or internet.

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in south korea and north korea. he is traveling with the former presidents of ireland and finland and norway their goal is try top ease tensions between north and south korea. >>> back here at home a presidential candidate is attacking president obama saying republicans want to end medicare. >> obama care is avoucher system for those that do not have care. when ryan does it for medicare we are cruel and horrible to seniors. you can't have it both ways. >> former pennsylvania senator made the comments yesterday. he was talking about congressman paul ryan's plan to turn medicare into avoucher system. ryan says his plan would help drive down costs because seniors would be able to shop around. the president and other democrats are against the plan saying it would be the death of medicare and leave seniors to fend for themselves. >>> easter celebrations will continue at the white house with the annual egg roll. i want to show you pictures of last years event. this year nine-year-old robinson from firefield will be taking part. robinson won an online lottery to attend the event. her mot

north korea. he's on a mission with three other former leaders. i want to show you new video. we just got this in of mr. carter with the group of elders arriving in north korea today. they are on a six-day trip to try to restart peace talks between north korea and south korea. they are not told ahead of the trip who they will meet with but they hope to see north korean leader, kim jong-il. after north korea, they will travel to south korea. >>> happening now, today is the start of a two-day meeting by the federal reserve that will have an usual ending. fed chairman, ben bernanke, will hold a news conference tomorrow after the meeting wraps up and that's the first time any fed chair has agreed to talk with reporters at the conclusion of the federal reserve meeting. bernanke is not saying why he is deciding to do that now. economists predict the fed will choose not to change interest rights right now. the family of a woman killed by a city vehicle in san francisco is expected to receive a $1 million settlement. the 63-year-old woman was hit in a crosswalk -- crosswalk by a public u

are in so-called slow spending accounts and won't have an immediate impact. >>> north korea says it has arrested and is preparing to indict a u.s. citizen who has been held captive since november. the north koreans won't say what the crime was that was committed, but a south korean news agency reports the korean-american is being detained in the north for allegedly preaching christianity. >>> still more trouble this morning at japan's crippled nuclear power plant. engineers are trying to figure out how to remove the spent fuel at one reactor, where radiation is surging, and temperatures are rising. officials say radiation levels in the sea near the plant doubled last week to 23 times the legal level. >>> in berlin today, foreign ministers from 28 nato countries are discussing what to do next in libya. secretary of state hillary clinton is attending. now a key issue, efforts to enforce the no-fly zone. the british and french are calling for a stepped-up air campaign, and more nato members to participate. >>> in libya, today, nato launched new air strikes against gadhafi's forces. vid

to have missile defense in order to protect us from attack iraq. one of the rogue states iran north korea and now they throw china into that equation. for the last three years the pentagon has been trying to make china the new bogeyman and china unwittingly played into the united states hands with its anti-satellite test. according to some experts this anti-satellite test didn't come as a surprise to american officials. at the time i was at a conference in colorado springs and the military officers in the room actually left to watch the test in real time so they were observing the actual chinese any satellite as we know about every space launch we know about every project launch we have reconnaissance and surveillance satellites that can detect all these we detected the chinese test for example in fact we detected to two previous chinese tests that failed so we know about this it's extremely difficult to hide this space tests they're one of the most observable weapons tests you can possibly imagine. everything indicates that china's anti-satellite test was intended to make the world

citizen is being detained in north korea. he was arrested in november for committing a crime against the government and authorities are now preparing to indict him. they gave no further details. >>> famous director francis ford copolla is is target of a new lawsuit. saying they haven't been paid for the work they did there. an attorney said the winery has paid most of its bills, but there is a dispute over the final invoices. >>> people are moving out of their parents homes and renting their own places. even in high-demand cities. vacancy rates have dropped to pre-recession levels. the san francisco giants about to take the field in just a half an hour. >> the fans are talking about the dodgers, but they're also talking about the barry bonds verdict. i'll have a live report coming up in sports. >>> oakland is encouraging its residents and businesses to go green. hosted the 17th annual earth expo next to city hall. dozens of local organizations ranging from business to community groups set up booths to educate people on environment alice shoes. to celebrate earth day, sponsori

down to our to a handful of states who programs you know we worry about north korea and iran basically and they only have medium range missiles that is they can't reach the united states. from ronald reagan on birds every president has third funding for missile defense under different guises various funds costing at least two hundred billion dollars. are u.s. taxpayers getting what they pay for. it's a con it's a con missile defense is the greatest fraud in the department of finance and believe me it's had a lot of competitors i really i really believe this i've. missile defense is the longest running fraud in the in the history of the u.s. department of defense. if ballistic strikes are so improbable why seek to repel them such cost them from space. what if missile defense is a disguised friend vision beyond simply destroying the sun. there's going to be an inherent in the satellite capability with any ballistic missile defense system regardless of whether it's located in space or elsewhere. and i think that that's effectively opioid a. missile in some senses is more difficult than ta

have north korea was taken off that lists, libya was taken off that list. what does cuba have in common in with iran, syria? >> at this point, to have cuba on the terrorism list is really inappropriate and should be changed. but 17 years ago president nixon shortly before he died was the highest ranking american who called for the rolling back of the embargo, lifted the embargo, because he believed and it's the same philosophy as the approach to china, which is if there's economic liberalization that will lead to -- >> good question. what phrase best describes a level of importance of mr. obama's latin american diplomacy? a routine goodwill tour? this is one of your visited latin america. pat, to refresh your recollection because that's fading, or was it of strategic importance? >> it was basically business as usual. he's got to maintain a hand in there. he went down there to do so. >> china is in there, don't you understand? >>> think he's dropping in one day is going to change? >> no but de -- >> it's about winning the future to use his phrase and a lot of people watched his tr

also been detained for questioning. >>> the state department is asking north korea to release an american who has been held for months. we don't yet know the identity of that person or why he or she was arrested. former president jimmy carter does have a private visit there set for later this month. he gained the release of another american last summer. >>> there are just two space shuttle flights left. now, we know where the shuttles will go when they're retired. 21 museums wanted those shuttles. "atlantis" will remain at the kennedy space center. "endeavour" will go to the science center in los angeles. the smithsonian air and space annex will get "discovery." and "enterprise" will be in new york city. >>> those final resting places were hotly-contested. nowhere was the disappointment greater than at the johnson space center in houston. the home of mission control is only getting seats from the shuttle. the families of the "challenger" crew, which perished in 1986, had hoped for better. >>> now, let's take a look at the morning's weather from around the country. there will be r

as police in north korea will use not. with a weapons and other things i why not talking about more them straight off weaponry but steel they should be capable. of bishops have access to these weapons. not so you give them all these things that will be difficult to imagine for them to stand on their own feet alone and the one thing you know there are a lot from other countries for a successful army. three figures are important but. there are some trained personnel. firepower and morag. when it comes to moral was my personal opinion i don't believe that all our officers really think of fighting for the nation of course. it's really important when you quit and with the taliban this is the other way around most of them really fight for the cause and they believe that's true well with which they have zero which makes it difficult difficult to find the lewis has always made it difficult to fight people and thank you thank you very much eriksson's you for being with us unfortunately we're running out of time and just a reminder that my guest today in the studio was a real hard ruler the p

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world the part of washington that hurts to dominate the region that office and boys in north korea caught possible solution to the conflict which has dragged . on for over a month in libya the rebels and loyalists are fighting it out in a deadly stalemate with cavil's using both sides mounting the nato led coalition continues to aid the insurgents for their strides. there's anger in the u.k. as a country spends millions of pounds on the war in libya while the public sector of home is neglected in slashed testers say the country's model of democracy is failing a recent poll suggests nearly half of the population opposes the involvement in review while british and these are overwhelmingly in favor of it. and the russian space should name after the first man in orbit is carrying a group of three to the international space station to mark the fiftieth anniversary of your garments cursed by the russians and one american will spend nearly six months on the ice says we're here due to arrive a few days. also the headlines here in our she'll be back at the top of the hour meantime will bring you t

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of the. >> [unintelligible] north korea poses? bilateral negotiations, we will obviously not do that. what you suggest we can do? -- what do you suggest we can do? >> i think we should continue to isolate north korea. we have been put in a compromise position because of our own economic spending binge of being in a position to leverage the chinese more now than we have been able to in the past. clearly, it seems clear that it is in china's interest to have north korea as a buffer and as a point of attention and destruction in the region. we have to get to a point where that is no longer to their advantage. cleaning up our house here would help and renewing and restoring our alliances in the region and showing that we will be good friends to our allies in the region will also help in that regard. yes, go ahead, sir. >> if you were in charge tomorrow, what would you do with libya and syria? i want to know what you do directly. >> first, i have to have -- i do not have the information necessarily to make those kinds of judgments in a way that i feel comfortable answering that quest

related to that shooting. >>> north korea is making new threats this morning opinion the communist country says it is prepared to destroy its neighbor south korea and the united states. the threat is in response to joint military drills that both the u.s. and south korea took part in earlier this year. north korea has said such drills are acts of war. the latest war rhetoric also comes on the eve of its army's anniversary. >>> a massive search will begin tomorrow in japan for the bodies of those killed in last month's quake and tsunami. japan is going to send nearly 25,000 soldiers on a land and sea mission to recover the bodies. a team of veterinarians will also be sent to the evacuation zone around the stricken nuclear plant to check on thousands of abandoned animals. this will be the third intensive military search for bodies since last month's disaster. >>> nuclear licensing in california was on one of the topics at an earth day festival in san francisco. people gathered in civic center plaza yesterday. earthquakes and nuclear power plants were among the topics. yesterday, acti

continue to have showers, prestige. look how iraq has been treat, and north korea. north korea has been treated, let us sit around the table as gentlemen and negotiate. iraq, because everybody knows it does not have this kind of weapons, was pulverized. and yet that message was not lost on many countries watching the international scene and look at the security perspective or security perception. >> rose: some would argue everybody didn't know saddam hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. >> that is one of the issues that needs to be investigated. that proves my point. did anybody really believe at that time that saddam hussein had any nuclear weapon or chemical or biological weapon-- but particularly nuclear weapons. we have not seen a shred of evidence from that time. the i.e.a.e. made that statement on 7th of march, 2003, and we made it unequivicably clear that there was no sled of evidence that iraq has resuscitated its nuclear weapon program. i'm not sure anybody really believed at that time that iraq had nuclear weapons. there was a lot of media hype. there was a lo

world free of nuclear weapons. we are excited to see it come back again. a second, with north korea we are trying to talk about deterrent by punishment. but what we talk about north korea, the turn by punishment does not really work. when they use their nuclear weapons against us, it will not be based on rational calculations. that would be discouraged -- disparate kinds of kings. it would be a suicidal attack. in that case, a deterrent by punishment would not work very well. what we do is try to boast to deterrence by denial capabilities, and in doing so, we have tried to reduce the ballistic missile defense systems and what we call civil protection, which is actually true defense. -- through defense. third, when we talk about china, certainly, we talk to the american partners to talk about comprehensive deterrent capabilities, but in addition to that, last year the government of japan published basic guidelines in which we started to talk about dynamic defense. people get troubled -- puzzled by that. we came to focus more on peacetime with china. we are not talking about fighting war

forms that we see in places like china or in north korea. then there is our very own hemisphere latin-american out. i speak of our hemisphere today, the birthday of james monroe, the man who giveth the monroe doctrine, a doctrine that said we would make no colonias' claims abroad but neither would we tolerate the crushing of sovereignty and our own hemisphere. can we honestly say that latin america's is better off than it was two years ago? it is a reason for writing with prosperity, freedom, 70, and democracy? no, we cannot. i focused on venezuela at eppc. i complained from the beginning that we were ignoring a hugo chavez and his ambitions and threats. we've gone from bad to worse. two years ago when honduran democratic institutions, real democrats, were fighting a proxy battle with hugo chavez, we sided with the job as ally. in south america a, the president has sided with our best ally on the continent and has had to fight drug cartels and stand up to hugo chavez, columbia. without u.s. support, columbia has been isolated to the point where they have recently chosen to appea