but i think the line itself set the course for a south korea or south, yeah, for south korea and north korea. because i don't think at the end of the second world war and the emerging cold war in europe, the soviets and the americans could have come together and created a unified korea at that point. >> host: you really set the stage for occupation. >> guest: write. >> host: so that. is interesting and nicely to talk a little bit about the challenges of the respective occupations to work with local leaders. i wonder if you could say something the occupation of, on the peninsula? >> guest: yes. the soviet union had a lot easier time occupying the northern half. because they had a reservoir of koreans who could speak, i'm so, of soviets who could speak korean. the soviet koreans, it's a long fsm history in itself but at the end of the 19th century when korea became colonized by japan, a lot of koreans fled the calling and established themselves in the soviet far east. then in 1937, stalin deported them to places in uzbekistan and kazakhstan where they set up command there. been in 1945,

but you know, between south and north korea, there are already fighting for 68. this is a long time ago. this is not a new game. this is an old game where they fight each other. so, she proposed that north korea would have a meeting that north korea already rejected. so, we have to see how to solve this problem. the third delay, just like taiwan, the vppp party. you know, in correa we had this kind of problem. this was more complicated, i think, you know? the opposition party wanted to talk with north korea, but in taiwan by said it was against talking with men in china. it is quite different, of course. >> we have read reports that president park has had personal relationships with many in taiwan, yourself included, of course. would you mind discussing some of your personal ties? >> this is a story that we have to trace back to her father's stage. no, 1966, i think it was february that the former president's and madame visited taiwan. at that time we say that they invited the guest to the ship, so at that time we can say that we are brothers and sisters and, you

i agree i mentioned south korea i mentioned south korea i mentioned japan if you don't read well you don't like it when i call it a right scuse me if you bring in a third one if you want a pretty good instance of aggressive imperial movement consider remember that the war in vietnam left two to four million people dead according to robert mcnamara that was not the act of a but now if so why is here doug inviting us back and one of the next to me is more than that job because i think you raise an excellent question you raise an excellent question about age and powers and asian countries being the determinant of what goes on in asia may i remind you the united states is not a nation power it's half a world away it doesn't even belong there i think we talk about how to get what experiences and lighted by asian countries don't be asian countries have a right to invite the united states you think the asian country said no to any but in both. in both south korea and japan there are large peace movements that want the us out of there so who's doing the inviting in one policy establishment l

and south korea xwra is facing a power short anl. technical problems forced two power plants off line monday and 6 of the 23 nuclear reactors are undergoing maintenance. government workers will have to forgo air conditioning for three days. a heat wave in september 2011 resulted in major blackouts across south korea. >>> people in portugal and morocco are dealing with heat of a different kind. wildfires sparked by soaring temperatures. residents of amskroud in southwestern morocco saw fires flare up on saturday night. strong winds fanned the flames. by sunday it had grown to the size of hundreds of sports fields. residents in portugal have seen wildfires spread around their community if past two days. the fires are burning through the mountainous region. firefighters are struggling to bring in enough water to fight the flames. >>> rescue workers in afghanistan and pakistan are searching for survivors after sudden downpours caused deadly flooding. more than 180 people have been killed. afghan disaster management officials say the wate

of some of south korea's biggest pop stars. staffer from the lotte duty free chain held a promotional event in tokyo. ♪ the star attraction was the south korean boy band cho shin sung, also known as supernova. the singers talked about reasons to visit their country. they said japanese can enjoy shopping for the latest korean fashions and cruising at night on the river in seoul. fewer and fewer japanese are showing up in south korea's duty-free stores. they're staying away because of strained relations and a weaker yen. lotte duty free marketing director kim bo jun said he hopes more japanese will experience what his country has to offer. here's the three-day world weather forecast. >>> that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo. thank you for joining us.

. >>> temperatures in south korea have also risen above 40 degrees. and many will have to endure the heat without air-conditioning. temperatures hit 32.6 degree s celsius in seoul, and record 40.3 degrees in the southern city of ulsan. the heatwave comes as south koreans face a power shortage. technical problems on monday forced two thermal power plants to two offline, and 6 of the country's 23 nuclear reactors are undergoing inspections or maintenance. government workers will have to forego air-conditioning for three days and authorities have asked residents to do what they can to save power. a heatwave two years ago resulted in major blackouts. >>> sayaka mori from our weather team joins us now. tell us what's behind all this heat. >> yes, it's imbearably hot in many parts of the northern hemisphere. several high-pressure systems are to blame. across east asia, many record highs set in east china, south korea and western and central japan. in fact, in japan, tens of thousands of people have been carried to hospitals due to heatstroke so far this yea

and south korea is facing a power shortage. tech kohl problems on monday forced two thermal power plants to go off line and six of the country's 23 nuclear reactors are undergoing inspections for maintenance. government workers will have to forgo air conditioning for three days and authorities have asked residents to do what they can to save power. a heat wave two years ago resulted in major blackouts. >>> rescue workers in afghanistan and pakistan are searching for survivors after sudden downpours caused deadly flooding. more than 180 people have been killed. afghan disaster management officials say the waters submerged vehicles near the capital kabul. the afghan government dispatched rescue teams to kabul. and more than 80 people there have been confirmed dead. officials say more th s say people there have been confirmed dead. rivers burst in neighboring banks in pakistan, too. they swept away houses in the central province of punjab and the southern province of sindh. 83 people were killed and more than 4,000 houses destroye

people in south korea are worried about how the water seeping from daiichi might affect them. officials in seoul have asked their japanese counterparts for detailed information about the leak. the officials want to know how much water is leaking, how contaminated it is and what impact it's having on the ecosystem. they say south koreans are growing concerned about the safety of seafood imported from japan. the officials say they've been briefed on the situation three times since late july, but the explanations were insufficient. they may send their own experts if necessary. >>> heavy rains are causing devastation in the philippines and pakistan. thousands of people have been forced from their homes. in the philippines seasonal downpours plus a tropical storm left parts of the capital manila under water on monday. officials say at least three people are dead and several others are missing. government offices, schools, banks and most private companies were closed, but some communities still struggle to go to work. >> translator: there are no passenger jeeps because of the floods

south korea needs to attract to join in ventures with korean businessmen. these are small and medium-sized enterprises. i think that the taiwan government should inform our businessmen to have a chance to cooperate with the small and medium businessmen and go over the industrial complex. they have joined this corporation. >> we understand that south korea in recent years has been very aggressive and successful in terms of competing -- completing free trade agreements with a number of major trading partners, for example the united states, that took place on march 15 of last year. what would you call the likelihood of some kind of free trade pact? country to country? if we could negotiate something like a free trade pact, which would allow free flow of capital investment and personnel between taiwan and korea, would that be something of a likelihood in the future? how would the two sides try to work out the differences on this issue? >> you pointed out exactly correct that the fta means contract between country and country. if you are going to have diplomatic

my question is about the coordination since so much affect south korea, particularly to the extent that china comes into the picture, are we finding that these kinds of -- you have been in japan and heard what they are saying. do you see them taking the right steps to bring south korean into the picture or narrow the difference or is there more concerned that the gap is widening between japan and south korea and how to deal with extended deterrence? >> that is an excellent question and i think there are few government officials who would

analysts say north korea will likely respond favorably to the south's call. the two sides agreed on wednesday to work together to reopen the industrial complex. >>> indian navy officials say rescuers have recovered the bodies of three sailors trapped inside a submarine. the vessel caught fire and sank yesterday in a naval dock yard in mumbai. the fire aboard the 3,000-ton submarine lasted several hours. it was accompanied by a massive explosion. 18 sailors are believed to have been trapped inside. a navy spokesperson says it's doubtful that any of the 15 remaining crew members survived. investigators have found that the torpedo compartment was badly damaged. they suspect a torpedo caught fire for unknown reasons triggering the huge explosion. india recently launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier. last week it also announced the reactor of its first domestically-produced nuclear submarine had achieved criticality. >>> police in western japan are investigating explosions that ripped through a fireworks festival. the blast in the city left damage

a university student from south korea is interested in listening. he visited hiroshima recently to find out more about the impact of the atomic bombing on japanese and koreans. nhk world's chie yamagishi has the story. >> reporter: university student moon young-min has come to hiroshima to learn. he and nine other members of a volunteer group visited from south korea. they took part in the small annual memorial for korean victims of the atomic bombing. moon prayed for the more than 20,000 koreans who died. many were working in the city as conscripts or laborers under japanese colonial rule. >> translator: i don't know much about the atomic bombing. i'd like to find out more about the damage it caused. i want to feel the tragedy. >> reporter: before coming to japan, moon and the others went to a nursing home for atomic bomb survivors. moon listened to their stories. the survivors have suffered from health disorders and poverty. and they faced discrimination for having been exposed to radiation. moon and others have tried to raise awareness about atom

is at 13%, south korea 15.7 he% finland 12.7%. is this another argument that's been made in this country too that the money going into education isn't the issue? >> you know it's amazing because the united states spends more per student on kindergarten through 4th grade education than all but four in the world. you don't see that spending really predicts learning the way we wish it would. we tend to spend money on things that aren't related to learning. we don't pay our teachers a lot of money as we all know and at the same time we have classrooms full of a lot of technology compared to the kids i followed all notice right away that in their classrooms abroad they were very old school. there were not you know digital white boards and -- >> not focused on the technology. we only have 30 seconds. jeb bush has tried opush a national common core, a little more old fashioned. is that something you've agreed with? >> yes, 45 states have signed on to that agreement, you want more rigorous requirements that require kids to think for thems

you go to japan, you go to south korea. protect south korea. let them pay us for it. what are we doing? what are we doing? [ applause ] and you know it's amazing i hear so many people -- conservative politicians, i'm conservatives, liberals, i do a lot of business. meet everybody. but i literally hear these can you ying, hey, how say a thing like that. that's so nasty, you know? says. what the mafia the mafia gets money for protection. what.ght, so they tell me, but that's the mafia says that. i'm trying to , be nice, respectful. give me a break. they don't believe they get away with it. spend hundreds of millions, billions of dollars protecting other countries. we get nothing. only don't we get, they don't respect us, they don't like us. at us, they take advantage of us. we get nothing. south korea making a fortune. you can't make a ship built south korea -- in terms of the big tankers and freight ships. it. can't do they have a huge thing and we protect them at tremendous cost and we get nothing, nothing. look at a place like mexico. mexico in the next couple of yea

south korea controls them. more than 70% of survey respondents said they have the territory on their minds. officials polled nearly 2,000 peoples across the country. 95% said they knew about the takeshima islands. those individuals then answered multiple choice questions on their knowledge. 63% chose the option that said south korea illegally controls the islands and has security guards stationed there. 61% picked the answer that said the islands are an integral part of japan both historically and under international law. 71% expressed some level of interest in the islands. 28% said they're not interested. cabinet secretariat officials say they'll try to raise awareness of the islands and japan's position. south korean officials say the islands belong to their country, historically, geographically and under international law. >>> internet addiction is a growing problem for young japanese. government officials estimate that more than half a million high school students can't stop playing online games. a study gr

south korea controls them. now japanese officials are trying to find out how much citizens care. they polled nearly 2,000 people across the country. 95% said they knew about the takeshima islands. those individuals then answered multiple choice questions on their knowledge. 63% chose the option that said south korea illegally controls the islands and has a security guard stationed there. 61% picked the answer that says the islands are an integral part of japan, both historically and under international law. 71% expressed some level of interest in the islands. 28% said they are not interested. cabinet secretary officials say they'll try to raise awareness of the islands and japan's position. south korean officials say the islands belong to their country historically, geographically, and under international law. >>> officials in fukushima prefecture have started internal radiation level checks for small children. they have adapted the measuring equipment for those under the age of 4. the checks cover children who lived in five municipalities designated as evacuation zones after the

i think nations are liberated when they recognize their past. >> menendez also said south korea should adopt a flexible attitude if japanese officials indicate they're seeking a reproachme reproachment. >> there has to be a willingness to receive efforts to achieve that -- overcoming those historical challenges. and if such an environment can be created, it would be good for all the people. >> analysts say this call for compromise reflects washington's position that unity between the united states, south korea and japan is essential to stability in east asia. >>> two weeks have passed since the japanese government acknowledged that contaminated groundwater from the fukushima nuclear plant might be leaking into the ocean. the government and the plant's operator are now doing everything they can to stop the leaks with a series of counter measures. experts warn that there are more pressing issues than just focusing on the groundwater. nhk world's yoichiro tateiwa has more. >> reporter: crews at fukushima daiichi have spent days working on the latest stopgap measure. they've been driving l

nhk world, panama. >>> delegates from north and south korea are back at the negotiating table, trying to agree on what to do with a jointly run industrial zone. the kae song complex has been closed for four months. it's considered a rare example of inter-korean cooperation. delegates are holding the seventh round of talks in kaesong in north korea. those from the south have said these discussions are the last they'll take part in. it has been closed since april when north korea pulled out its 53,000 workers. delegates had wanted to resume operations in july but they didn't make a breakthrough in six rounds of talks. north korean authorities agreed last week to this latest meeting. they suggest they are eager to restart kaesong and will send workers back there and say they'll lift restrictions on access for south korean business people but officials in seoul are pushing for certain conditions to be met. they want the north to admit responsibility for closing the plant and guarantee it won't close it again in tensions rise. north korean authorities say both sides should promise to work

. >> the democratic people's republic of korea and south korea have agreed to resume talks on reopening the case on industrial zone got -- the kaesong industrial zone. >> the db rk will have -- th eep dprk will resume talks. in a statement, pyongyang offered a new round of talks and said it was lifting a ban on operations at the jointly run kaesong industrial zone. it would prevent another suspension of operations. south korea has accepted the proposal, describing it as forward-looking. >> the south korean government views that the north is positively responding to our suggestion to hold talks in order to solve the kaesong industrial complex issue. we hope that reasonable measures come out from this dialogue to solve the issues and for developmental normalization of a kaesong industrial complex. >> the ministry added that talks remain unchanged from the past six rounds. earlier, around 500 south korean actor he owners protested, marched down streets and through paper airplanes, expressing their hope for normalization. >> are 123 companies facing the complex are on the verge of dying. 50

. >>> south korea has once again urged north korea to hold talks on reopening the kaesong joint industrial park. >> translator: the patience of the south korean people is reaching its limit, and north korea should behave in a responsible way. >> the unification ministry said in a statement on sunday that the four-month suspension of the complex has caused south korean firms about $6.7 billion. south korea's requesting compensation from the north for the financial damage. south korea issued the statement one week after making what it calls the final offer for talks on reopening the industrial park. seoul also announced humanitarian assistance for its northern neighbor. pyongyang has made no response. >>> china's government is alarmed about the fast-growing off-the-book debt of local government. it's begun a survey of such debt nationwide. china's national audit office puts the debt owed by local governments at between $2.4 trillion and $3.2 trillion. chinese law prohibits local governments from raising funds by issuing bonds. instead, they use subsidiary investment firms to get money from i

analysts say north korea will likely respond favorable to the south. the two sides agreed on wednesday to work together to reopen the industrial complex. >>> the united nations secretary general says he's deeply concerned about israel's plan to build new settlements in the occupied territories. ban ki-moon says the settlements could prevent the eventual establishment of a palestinian state. ban arrived in the west bank one day after israeli and palestinian negotiators resumed full-fledged talks. they hadn't sat down together in three years. ban held a joint news conference with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. he said the settlement activity could make a two-state solution impossible. >> i remain deeply troubled. settlement activity is deepening the palestinian people's mistrust and the seriousness of the israeli side towards achieving peace. >> the settlements are illegal under international law. still, the israeli government has approved the building of nearly 900 homes in occupied east jerusalem. that infuriated palestinian leaders just as they

now south korea i have many friends in south korea. they can't believe they get free protection. so we rev up the destroyers, we get our battle ships, we get our aircraft carriers all set. we get our planes. every time you turn on the engine of an aircraft carrier it cost probably a million and a half dollars and we send them over there. and what do we get out of it? >> i just ordered thousands of television sets for a job i'm building. they are made in korea. they don't make them here. you make five television sets in some part of the country. they really don't make them here. you go to japan or south korea. what do we get out of it? , ort we protect south korea and i think it's great. but let them pay us for it. what are we doing? [applause] >> it's amazing because i hear so many conservative politicians. i'm friendly with all of them, liberals, conservatives. i meet everybody. but i literally hear these people saying how can you say a thing like that? that's so nasty. that's what the mafia says. the mafia gets money for protection. but that's the mafia that says that and i say

north korea has accepted an offer from south korea to resume reunions for families separated by the korean war of the 1950's. the next reunion is set to take place in september at a mountain resort in the north. the practice of reunions was established in 2000 but suspended three years ago. spanish fishermen have staged a floating protest near an artificial reef off gibraltar. they say the reef blocks access to valuable fish stock in the region. the dispute has led to tensions between spain and britain. gibraltar, which is a british territory, says the artificial reef is necessary to protect the region's fish from being overexploited. sports news now. sprint star usain bolt has chalked up another gold medal in moscow. jamaica's win in the four by 100 meter relays means he has now equaled carl lewis' record of eight golds at world championships, but the lightning bolt has one more silver medal to his name. germany also has reason to celebrate. women's javelin throw, she'd won five silver medals in international competition. ow she's finally won gold. nuremberg took on hertha berlin. they we

south korea s a lower status nuclear partner and the south korea status should be recognized. so this would recognize that status but -- south korea would not exercise those rights even though they've got them without certain conditions being met, for example, certain mile stones on denuclearization for example. advanced consent for limited activities and one that has been noted of course is that south korea has been asking for is to operate its reduction facility. hat's the advanced condition pie ro processing. another is to build a fatty at some sort of u.s. controlled ite in south korea that may be the control would gradually be turned over over time. that's an idea floating around. and of course no agreement. what that might mean is not known. there has been some talk that 123 agreements is not necessary anymore because the united states is not really producing tangible goods in the nuclear area. it's more of an engineering consulting role and maybe that might be something although that is i don't think being seriously considered. so that puts a lot of ideas out there that

in south korea, this phenomenon has some environmentalists worried. >> thening loest river in south korea, and an important water source, it meanders across the southeast of the korean peninsula. but lately the waters have clouded over with algae, lots of it. the plant like micro organisms. even from the air, the enagree issues is effort. it is not unusual, it is just how much there is that is worr worrying. >> the fishing here for 30 years. but there was a lot of drain last year, and this year again. so now i only fish for fun. >> but the sludge is a worry, and the environment ministry has issued an alert. >> so i have managed to scoop up some of this blue-green algae that the ministries says it has detected earlier in some part oz if river, and this could be harmful to humans. as you can see it has a very dark green color, and some locals have given it the nickname of green tea latte. >> but officials say the water is safe for drinking because of the effective filtration system. >> among different types of green algae there's micro cystist, but that substance was not detected in the tes

heat warnings and advisories are posted for inland china and south korea as well as much of jap japan. as well as kyoto. people are trying to find their way to cool themselves off. i want to show you this video coming out of prefecture in inland japan. residents got a winter. they set up the snow making machine in the national park. that turned tons of ice into snow. families got refrom the 36-degree heat as they played in the powder. the children even took parents on a ride. a slide as well. temperatures expected on the hot side. 35 degrees is the expected highs. hot weather across most of china and southern china and you will see nice relief through the heat. hong kong 24 for the high today. in north america, we have a disturbance over here which could be a tropical depression by thursday. head towards the yucatan peninsula. the lingering showers across the southeaste southeastern corner of the u.s. a potential for flooding further and fly and calm in the northeast of the u.s. and some spots of severe weather for the mid-section, but back behind it, dry weather continues mainly in i

. >> general motors saying so long to south korea. this after mounting labor costs and militant unionism triggered it to rethink its reliance on the country for a fifth of its global production. kwm currently trading as eel see in a minute. let's take a look at the stock of general motors, down abo about .66%. phil lebeau has this story for us from chicago. >> reporter: tyler, we always say you build where you sell. job motors has a lot of facilities there and that's why there's a report today out of reuters in south korea saying general motors is considering, has not decided officially, but is considering lowering production substantially in korea. the problem here is that they are fighting rising production costs in south korea. this is no longer a low-cost country when you look at automobile manufacturing. when you look at annual, they build 20% of its vehicles and if you're using some place as an export base, you need to lower your costs and as you can see they build a lot because they sell a lot in north america and same with int

. >> south korea's roads have an unenviable reputation. this type of accident where vehicles dart in and out of bus lanes is all too common. the police are battling to change that kind of behavior and they say a world first is their weapon. this holiday season one to have freeways is being droned by traffic. it's equipt with a 36 -- and the drone is designed to act as a deterrent and enforcer. >> using especially during the summer holiday season. we expect to sport vehicles using bus-onlylines and the hard shoulder. >> there's already 2240urks security cameras. but still bus lanes are often used as overtaking lanes and almost every driver has a navigation system that sounds an alert that means the camera is coming up. >> so this mobile eye in the sky is going to be more judgen for you. >> it's considered one of the founding documents of western constitutional law and now 800 years after the magna carta was written one of the four surviving versions has gone on display just north of london. joan ahall went to take a look. > it was in this b

north korean leaders have suggested the opening talks with diplomats from japan, south korea, and the u.s. they say they are open to a range of topics including humanitarian issues, such as access to the burial sites. but diplomats are suspicious. north koreans say japan must provide compensation for its colonial rule, and they may be granting concessions for financial assistance for their fragile economy. nhk world, pyongyang. >>> members of the ruling communist party have scheduled a meeting to discuss deepening reforms. more than 300 members of the powerful committee will meet in november. party leaders have grown concerned about the prospects for the economy. and they could use the meeting to discuss approaches to more stable growth. they can revisit the crack down on corruption. party leaders have gone after bureaucrats and business leaders, too, and they are expected to reiterate that they are committed to cleaning things up. >>> a senior chinese diplomat has poured water on the prospect of top-level talks with japan. the vice foreign minister says china's leader is unlikely to

of course, and south korea agreed with me. in fact, in that culture, it is understood that when we turn 60 when we turn 60 we become -- [inaudible] perhaps it not how koreans spell it. and this means we are free to become once again like a child. we are to rid ourselves of our cares especially those we have collected in the world. and the turn inward to a life of ease of leisure, joy. i loved hearing this. what an affirmation of a feeling. i was already beginning to have. enough of the world. where is the grandchild? where is the cushy? i began to prepare myself to wrought from the world. there i sat finally on a rush shon in mexico. with a splend splendid view. to what i thought would be the next unlike my great, great grandmother who lived to be 125, i figure 801 doing really well. [laughter] than miracle happened. america was about to elect or not elect a person of color as it president. what? then too an unsuspecting guest left the radio on. i learned that bombs were falling on the people of gaza. a mother unconscious hers

north and south korea agreed to allow certain family reunions for the first time in decades. >>> let's move. the first lady brought a message of physical fitness on saturday and participated in thea arthu arthuarthur ashe day. the. >>> and the national zoo adds a new member to the panda family giving birth to a tiny cub no bigger than a stick of butter. the gender has yet to be determined. >> good morning. i'm morgan radford. here is a look at your top stories. doctors without borders says its medics have treated thousands of patients for neurotoxic symptoms. >>> and mubarak and muslim brotherhood leaders make their first court appearances today, facing charges over the deaths of protestor. >>> north and south korea agreed to resume reunions for fapilies separated since the korean war, six decades ago. they can meet for a week at a mountain resort in the north. the revival of family rey unions after a three year hiatus showsa a you thaw between the chilly countries. >>> let's move. michelle obama was at the 18th annual arthur ashe day and stressed getting involved in activity cans lead