north korea. that said, things are a little bit different right now. ar i think the uncertainty and the lack of clarity in terms of wha president trump might do has unnerved some south koreans and also what's interesting is there's a growing call in south korea among some parts of the population for south korea to arm itself. i think it's reflected in what the student was saying. some people are calling to have nuclear weapons reintroduced to the korean peninsula since this is a really interesting development that i see happening in south korea. >> frank, you have experience in the diplomatic world and we're talking about the potential for military confrontations and how these societies view the threat culturally. you've been around the negotiating table. how does the actual threat of violence, the actual threat of war if there is such a threat really inform how these discussions -- you were at the six-party talks. those were defunct. there may be talks in the future. how does that inform how talk

so afraid of north korea? north korea has a very tiny army. even if it gets icbm's which it is working its way towards, they still have a quantitative and qualitative military edge, both with conventional and nuclear capabilities. the north koreans know if they do anything, if they go to coon -- if this escalates to an actual conflict with america, they will just definitively lose, so why is the u.s. making such a big deal out of north korea? todd: we have had a lot of analysts and experts and journalists, maybe even you on the takeaway on my show explaining that south koreans tend to be much less excited about the north korean threat than americans are. is that true? jean: it is true to a certain degree. south koreans have been living with this threat for decades now and they have to go about their daily lives. remember that they are -- they are living in a country that's extremely competitive. they have everyday concerns that they are much more concerned about. i remember as a child when i was visiting south korea, we used to have these regu

>> north korea is not the soviet union. north korea is not china. north korea is not even iran, all right? so i understand how difficult this will be for any american president to digest, and i understand why the trump administration is trying to avoid that reality. but let me give you what i think is a truth, a very, very sad truth but truth nonetheless. it is my judgment that it will be more dangerous to prevent north korea from getting to that state than it would be for us to try to cope with a north korea in that state. >> so, the question of kim jong-un's real agenda has baffled many across the globe, but now we're getting a much clearer picture. thae yong-ho once worked for the north korean leadership -- a high-level diplomat. he was deputy ambassador to britain. and when he defected last summer, along with his wife and two sons, he became the highest-ranking official to do so in 20 years. this year, thae headed to capitol hill, and i spoke to him just after his briefings there, when he urged lawmakers to step up an information campaign into t

to north korea's real uniting i'm allowed to talk. about this with the young student. i want to say i want to hit on. i already knew going to sell all of the korean people have to fly but only you can show up on time. the next obligatory item on the agenda is a visit to kim il sung's birth place he's the founder of the state and the house where he was born is a veritable site of pilgrimage that everyone has to visit. his father and mother who are family members who are fighting against the japanese in these sound days present the most i was from or the times this is patrick under a low education from his parents all the credits oh great a car one of the kings oh one look on young woman that one young kid for peace or or korean keeper let me pull up here that are locked he said because he wanted like the present king was a huge very like a with a general kings and. everyone loves the great leader but is that true it becomes impossible to determine what's real and what stage here. the same flowers here sold several times a day. late onc

and we dropped it all over north korea. do you think the people there may rebel against the leadership, and we could achieve a revolution from within? host: thank you, daniel. guest: all of us have long hopes for a regime change from within in north korea. the unfortunate reality, however, is that the north korean regime has a pretty firm grip on power. there has been a consolidation of kim jong-un's power within the regime over the last few years. he has been in power little over five years. taking over from his father. it is very unlikely that we will see that kind of transformative change in north korea anytime soon. term, this isong the kind of gradual change that can alter the reality in north korea. but any such change would not be smooth. it would not be a velvet revolution. it would be a very difficult conflict from within. but that does not appear, according to all of the north korea watchers i talk to, to be something that will happen anytime soon. host: from florida, democrats line, jean, you are next. caller: hi

korea's friend have not worked out trading with them allowed the north korea regime to further build its missile a nuclear programs so yes there might be a need to do a humanitarian business with north korea so that people have food but beyond that trading with north korea to make a profit or in the hopes that doing business with them would result in a more enlightened country just hasn't worked out so we do have to look back and see what mistakes that previous u.s. administrations or other governments have made in dealing with north korea because that informs what decisions we will make going forward i think to going forward are there any other lever's that beijing comput pressure on here because beijing obviously does not want to be pressurized itself point number one point number two it might be happy quietly in darker rooms it might be happy with the idea of regime change but it doesn't want regime collapse because it does not want hundreds of thousands of north koreans trying to get across the border no i would say up to today all the efforts that deal with cries ation and slowi

going to go to war with north korea? you were quoted in an interview a couple of weeks ago as saying the chance of war increases almost every day. is it still the case? >> i think it is still the case, and the reason for this, judy, is that we are out of time with this problem, not out of time completely. we have a very short amount of time to be able to address the problem of north korea. as you know, they have continued -- the north korean regime has don't its nuclear testing and missile testing in a way that threatens the whole world, and failed agreements of the past had assumed that while we have more time to really cope with this problem set and to reach denuclearization. so what we really want to do is do everything we can now with everyone across the world, with allies and partners and china and russia to take all the diplomatic action, all the economic action we can to convince kim jong un this is a dead end, and the reason why this is so important is because it poses such a grave threat to the world. i mean, th

in north korea. they are responsible for these and they alone can solve these tensions. >> i think mr. tillerson for mr.state -- i thank tillerson for a statement. i shall make concluding remarks in my capacity as the minister of the foreign affairs of japan. has devoted itself to create a country respecting human rights and abiding by the ine of law and support piece the asia-pacific region. walked as aan has peaceloving nation will not change in the future and contribute to the peace and prosperity of the world more than ever before. in our meeting today, we have condemned in the strongest term that acts of provocation by north korea in violation of relevant u.n. resolutions. we months again made it clear -- we once again made it clear the international community will never accept a nuclear armed north korea. i call on member states to implement the relevant security council resolutions and maximize national pressure on north korea in order to realize a denuclearize korean peninsula. this month, ja

shot of north korea. you can see on there the line of china. when you were there, what do you remember? what is in your mind's eye? where did you go? mr. harden: going to north korea is not a good way to report about it. i went with a group of about 600 westerners, when the new york philharmonic went to pyongyang at the invitation of the government for a special concert. and like almost all western visitors, we were housed in a high-rise hotel on an island in pyongyang, and taken to places they wanted to show off. statues, grand avenues, the subway. we were taken to the airplane and left, about two and a half days later. my experience, is that the country is bizarre, and full of white concrete and immaculately-dressed guards. but that is not the reality of north korea. the way you find out about the reality of north korea -- and it is increasingly easy to do it -- is to go to seoul, south korea. there are close to 30,000 defectors from north korea. --from south korea, almost there are close to 30,000 defe

north korea knows they are open. they know where the door is, they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, the hills ellen mitchell discusses the future of defense spending and the national defense of the racing -- defense authorization act signed by president trump this week. and we will feature a pacific standard contributing writer as he talks about his recent piece on the secondary market. then, a senior research fellow shares his view on bitcoin and the future of cryptocurrency. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, today at 6:00 p.m. on the civil war, generals we love to

korea's imports of petroleum products which are very important for these weapons programs north korea has none of its own oil and needs to import a lot of its energy also a lot of the better off people in north korean cities rely on petroleum imports to run the generators that they use for their own private security supply so the screws are tightening as you said and we perhaps can expect a major change right away but this is an important step towards further cutting north korea off from its source of income steven burrill lake in seoul thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world officials in the philippines have confirmed more than one hundred people have been killed by a tropical storm in the southern part of the country dozens more are missing storm ten billion with winds of up to eighty kilometers per hour has now passed across the southern island of mindanao. thousands of well wishers have gathered at the imperial palace in tokyo to mark the eighty fourth birthday of japan's emperor akihito the emperor has pledged to carry on with his duties until he

korea now a lot of experts agree that so far north korea sanctions on north korea haven't been able to deliver the results that are expected they've not been able to force north korea to the negotiating table they've not been able to persuade pyongyang to give up its nuclear and missile development program and many experts say the u.s. and the u.n. appear to be running out of sanctions options but what is being hoped perhaps is that even if they are not able to force north korea to the negotiating table they these sanctions may have the ability to limit pyongyang's ability to carry out further tests and so how are we expecting north korea to react to this latest round florence given their behavior and what they've done with other sanctions with other resolutions in the past. that's right now north korea has previously said economic sanctions these sanctions will not have the effect of forcing it to give up its nuclear and missile development program in fact it said that this will only accelerate its resolve to become a nuclear country now and there is no official reaction from north

on november 28, north korea again shocks the world. in the middle of the night it launches a new missile. this one is huge. much more powerful than anything pyongyang has launched before. large enough to carry a nuclear warhead all the way to washington, dc. two hours later, president donald trump tries to sound calm as he absorbs the news. thank you very much. as you probably have heard, and some of you have reported, a missile was launched a little while ago from north korea. i will only tell you that we will take care of it. we have general matters in the room with us and we've had a long discussion on it. it is a situation that we will handle. in the days that follow, america's most advanced stealth fighter jets start landing at bases in south korea. it is now perhaps only months before north korea will be able to hit america with a reliable nuclear tipped missile. former state department officials like david straub say this fundamentally changes the equation. whether we will be content to continue just containing north korea as we

korea to keep this problem in north korea. this is the worse for the chinese because if a major war does develop there, they have to worry about millions of north koreans streaming over the border and they don't want that. a tropical storm that was threatening southern vietnam has weakened and is expected to dissipate within forty eight hours. almost a million people have been told they may need to evacuate their homes — forecasters are warning up to half a metre of rain could fall. in the state of uttar pradesh in india, each year around 2,000 women are killed over dowry demands. but an 80—year—old grandmother has been waging a unique fight for gender equality. parkashi tomar is india's oldest shooting champion. here's her story. not to be messed with. if you've enjoyed a day of festive excess — eating and drinking a little too much — perhaps the most exercise you want right now is reaching for the remote. so spare a thought for competitors in the wingsuit flying world cup. they spent most of their christmas jumping

north -- north korea is not one of these. through very successful efforts by the north korean regime to that this remains a nameless and faceless policy issue. not a personal story, a personification of a story that the average american will somehow be influenced by or take up a calls for. -- or take up a cause for. menino -- many north koreans are sent back. there is nobody that could associate a name or a face with this terrible human rights situation in north korea. by example, south korea, during , hadilitary dictatorship this person who eventually won the nobel peace prize. he became a voice, a face for democratic activism in south korea. korea, youin south have these personalities that can be identified with the problem. the north koreans have been very good with not allowing that to happen. the chinese have been complicit in that. that is one of the reasons. think is that it just hasn't captured the imagination of some major personality in the west. catchy,his may sound but practically i think it is true. when some of

a nuclear north korea. the dprk's unlawful acts cannot be ignored nor explained away. the dprk must be held accountable for its actions. in that regard, any notion that the source of tensions on the peninsula are the fault of no one party, there is but one party that is carried out in -- carried out illegal detonation of nuclear devices. there has been one party that continues to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles in violation of u.n. security council resolutions. overflying another sovereign nation, japan, threatening civil aviation security because launches are undertaken with no notification. there is but one party that has been targeted with punishment and counties with the most rigorous regime action ever undertaken, the kim regime in north korea. are responsible for these tensions, for these and they alone can solve these tensions. >> i think his excellency mr. tillerson for his statement. i shall now make concluding remarks in my capacity as the minister of the foreign affairs of japan. japan

gordon has studied and written about north korea. he said the accusations are likely true. >> these ship to ship transfers from chinese vessels to north korea's they occurred if october. those are violations of u.n. anks already in place. -- sanctions already in place. they were violating u.n. rules. we know that the north korea ship that was not permitted to go into a chinese port. turned on its transponder in a chinese port this month. >> democratic senator criticized president trump's initial response. tweeting and saying: >> we know that chinese banks. even large ones have been laundering money for north korea. we need big fines on those banks have declare them to be primary money laundering concerns. sanctions have not stopped north korea up to now. because we have not applied sanctions against countries that keep north korea in business. china, russia and others. >> the u.s. announced sanctions to target 2 north korea officials. >> we appreciate that. straight to ambassador john bolden. these tweets fly by. when the president s

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is ready for talks with north korea without condition. loss of face for donald trump off his favorite counter the boy all new since the alabama senate race to his democratic rival. plus the philippine congress votes to extend martial law on the southern island of mindanao. so that leaders from the muslim world a gathering in istanbul for talks on u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital extraordinary meeting by the organization of islamic cooperation was called by techies president bush at top but about to send. what he calls a strong message follows talks on the issue between leaders of saudi arabia and jordan in riyadh on tuesday trump's decision last week was met with condemnation and protests the latest demonstrations were held outside the u.s. embassy in tel aviv and there's been violence during protests in the occupied palestinian territory all week at least four palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in confrontations with israeli security forces well we have standing by and occupi

north korea. you have a senior administration official telling us, cnn, that the trump administration has decided to be more quiet, to be more discreet as that official put it about speaking publicly about u.s. military exercises with south korea and japan that are aimed at demonstrating military capability against north korea. the decision, we're told, is meant to give u.s. diplomats more leeway in ongoing sensitive talks. what do you think about this decision? >> i think it's a step in the right direction. i have been saying for many months that bilateral negotiation is the only way to solve this crisis. secretary mattis had said war would be catastrophic. we have over 200,000 americans in korea, south korea. there would be about a million people killed if there were a war. and we know that negotiations have worked. president clinton tried it in the 1990s. and there was an agreement. and north korea agreed to stop its nuclear production for almost a decade. there should be two goals to the bilat

north korea condemns the latest u.n. sanctions as an act of war and promises to continue its nuclear program. coming up at least two hundred dead in the philippines. continue the demonstrations against the u.s. recognition of. presidential campaigning intensify this week. north korea has called the latest round of u.n. sanctions against pyongyang an act of war it also warned it plans to consolidate its nuclear program the u.n. imposed extra sanctions on friday following north korea's recent intercontinental ballistic missile test well florence levy joins us on the line from south korea's capital seoul so the north koreans are calling these new sanctions of war any response from the south koreans yet. i haven't had any x. response yet from south korea but there's language that very hearing from north korea really is something that south korea and the rest of the world has come to expect very angry threatening language and in this statement issued by the north korean foreign ministry. published on stage media it seems to r

korea is trying to support itself by selling illegal goods north korea is i dined reckless criminal right threatening the pace of the region it supports itself by breaching un sanctions not simply by selling commodities like call them and other goods but also by selling weapons by selling drugs by engaging in cyber crime it is vitally important that all nations would relentlessly to enforce those sanctions because the more economic pressure that can be brought on north korea the sooner that regime will be brought to its senses protests around the world against the u.s. decision to recognize treasonous israel's capital they are gaining new momentum tens of thousands rallied outside the u.s. embassy in indonesia they called on president donald trump to stop plans to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem south africa's ruling party is just hours away from choosing a new leader the winner replace president jacob zuma as head of the party and lead the a.n.c. into general elections that's in two thousand and nineteen and soma has called for unity ahead of that vote. place in saudi a

and north korea responds in kind. part of the language used yesterday by the north koreans called donald trump insane, that america was begging for nuclear war when as i recall, that is exactly what the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, said that north korea recently. each side employs the same rhetoric. you have people like lindsey graham, the us senator, talking about the americans needing to pull dependents out of south korea. that kind of talk, people around you would find very alarmist, frankly, because no one south of the border really feels that a nuclear war is imminent. they live with this threat for a very long time. that would sound very odd to most people here, if this is an ongoing dispute with north korea about its nuclear ambitions. it has said it has already achieved many of those ambitions. we are in a situation where the two sides, north korea and the united states, exchanged this heated rhetoric without the situation changing much at all. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the

so afraid of north korea? north korea has a very tiny army. even if they w t get icbms which it's looking its way toward, america still has a qualitative and quantitative militaryry edge both in conventional and nuclear capabilities, and so, the north koreans know if they do anything, ifg, this escalates with the national conflict with america, they will lose so why is the u.s. making such a big deal out of north korea. >> we have had a lot of analysts and experts and journalists, maybe even you on the take away, on my show explaining that south koreans tend to be much less excited about the north korean threat than americans are. is that true? >> it is true to a certain degree. south koreans have been living with this threat for decadeses and had to go about their arily lives. remember, they are living in a country that is extremely competitive. they have everyday concerns are much more concerned about. i remember as a child when i was visiting south korea, we used to have these regular air raid drills at 2:00 p.m. and you pull your car over

and north korea that has been a trademark of this year this is all culminated in north korea possessing a nuclear bomb and a missile to deliver it anywhere allowing them to probably announce the conclusion of their nuclear program it looks like diplomacy may never be given a chance. checking the reporting there now while north korea is attracting global condemnation some believe that washington is making matters worse to his greggory a leak from the advisory board of the korea policy institute the united states are truly concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would again dialogue that the only way to resolve the problem and north korea said many many times if you are not willing to give up a nuclear program unless the united states roughly after all policy i think like a reasonable request to me the more the united states wants to punish north korea the more they convince north korea that they need to develop their nuclear deterrent protect themselves so has the opposite of. a former bosnian croat general who fought in the bosnian war he nearly nine hundred ninety s. committed

a former sergeant who defected to north korea after the cold war has died. he was a prisoner in pyongyang for nearly four years before his release in 2004. nearly four years before his release in 200a. this is from celia hatton. asa as a young american soldier, he wa nted as a young american soldier, he wanted to avoid military duty. he says after getting drunk one night he walked across the border into north korea, hoping russian forces fighting at the time would capture him and eventually let him go home to the us. that did not happen. instead, he was kept in north korea, eventually marrying a japanese woman who had been abducted by the north koreans. they made the best of it, falling in love and having two daughters. then, they were separated. an agreement brokered between the band japanese prime minister and the late north korean leader, kim jong—un, negotiated minister and the late north korean leader, kimjong—un, negotiated for his wife to return to japan. years later, he followed, agreeing to serve a 30 day sentence as punishment for deserting the

we don't have it confirmed from north korea, but there was talk ofa from north korea, but there was talk of a tunnel collapse that one of the missile launch sites. has that, or does this mean that, combined with the oil embargo, but that could have a real effect? north korea seems to be following its own timeline, there was hope that during this board is that we saw recently, that north korea was working towards coming back to negotiations, those hopes we re back to negotiations, those hopes were dispelled when the north koreans conducted what was their third icbm test. there is this temptation to a tribute setbacks to tunnel collapses and other measures, but from the track record, we have seen, the more complex test is, the more time it takes, which is why we have seen the pause. why did china change its votes? china has been on board with these kind of measures, they have been stipulating that they would permit un security council thatis, would permit un security council that is, no more no less. the measures are a type of measured response overall, that it is calibrating, china is ver

so afraid of north korea? north korea has a very tiny army. even if it gets icbm's which it s working its way towards, they still have a quantitative and qualitative edge both with conventional and nuclear capabilities. the north koreans know if they do anything, if they go to coon flict with america, they will just definitively lose, so why is the u.s. making such a big deal out of north korea? todd: we have had a lot of analysts and experts and journalists, maybe even you on the takeaway on my show explaining that south koreans tend to be much less excited about the north korean threat than americans are. is that true? jean: it is true to a certain degree. south koreans have been living with this threat for decades now and they have to go about their daily lives. remember that they are -- they are living in a country that's extremely competitive. they have everyday concerns that they are much more concerned about. i remember as a child when i was visiting south korea, we used to have these regular civil air raid drills at 2:00 and you have t

a change of tune on north korea. the us says it's ready to open talks without preconditions. ‘the world is losing its fight against global warming' — france's president macron gives other world leaders a blunt warning. also in the programme: on a red carpet not so far far away. the latest star wars film feels the royal force at its european premiere. hello. after weeks of scandal and vicious political in—fighting, it's still looking too close to call in alabama. these are the live pictures from montgomery. we are expecting the republican roy moore to come out. he is still slightly ahead in the counting of the democrat royjones. mr moore has tried to brush off allegations of sexual misconduct. alabama has long been a deeply conservative republican stronghold. if the special senate election there has gone to a democrat, it would be the first time in a quarter of a century and has national implications. it could put at risk the slim republican majority in the senate. that would make it harder for that would make it harderfor mr trump to do what he promised in his election

havingre talking about people visit from south korea to north korea. now we are in a situation that seems ridiculous. why would we not want them to kia, hyundai cars there or or whatever else they want to manufacture, and why can't we do the art of the deal here and kim jong-il toth make a nuclear trade with his program and start trading with this guy. he has to feed his family, he has to feed the people of his country. the talk is that they are all starving. but when you look at the things on pbs, it shows a pretty functional society. we may be going down the wrong road here. host: congressman? bring up some valid points. that is what we try to do, the world community, especially south korea. go ahead and work toward reunification. that is why they built the industrial complex over there right at the border of the dmz. during thatpened time when kim jong-il passed away and kim jong-un came in, we see the escalation of the nuclear threat with the six nuclear bombs that he has done needed since he has been in office. a 17 nuclear -- icbms he has launche

north korea knows they're open they know where the door is they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk thank you. even assuming that to us extra state to breakfast and iraq's about to north korea after that meeting at the u.n. security council over north korea's nuclear program yes or to state said that not much a change with north korea in the last eleven months the situation may even be worse he said he would continue the diplomatic options on north korea and the idea was to maintain pressure a pressure campaign with korea with a sanctions regime as well as unilateral actions on the part of many countries he insisted that there was no difference between him and president trump over the policy the policy was to keep the pressure up and intending to lead towards diplomatic talks and was preparing the military should anything go wrong let's bring in mike hanna who's often miss force at the united nations so mike the there's always been this question about whether the position from trump and to listen is slightly different and doesn't seem to be saying that actuall

north korea has called the latest round of u.n. sanctions an act of war north korea's state news agency says the strengthening of its nuclear deterrent program is the only way to for straights the u.s. the u.n. imposed extra measures on pyongyang on friday following its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test florence louis has more now from seoul. north korea called the latest round of un security council sanctions imposed on it as a threat as a violation of its sovereignty as well as an act that would violate peace and stability in the region it also seemed to direct much of its anger at the u.s. who led drafted and negotiated this latest round of sanctions now one interesting thing however is north korea seems to acknowledge that these latest sanctions are the toughest ever that it's facing it called it tantamount to a complete economic blockade as not only a significant cap on petrol supplies the sanctions also call for the repatriation of north korean foreign labor as within the next twenty four months hitting an import

and south korea are doing the military exercises are legal under international law what north korea is doing is not legal fundamentally though i agree with victor gao that it's really important for china and i think it's work well on this issue and i agree that sometimes the because of such a complex relationship we have copyright in some areas and disagree and others we end up with this problem of priorities and i think are really important for the thompson ministration to prioritize the korea issue over the other areas in dispute such as economic and so on which they were doing initially but it's a message it's become a little less clear recently how it's like to really i agree with victor when to reaffirm the centrale of the that but i disagree that this freeze for freeze supposable would really make any progress at this point given how much capability north korea has given their lack of interest senate and given the challenges it would present in terms of the equivalence it would suggest with what the u.s. is doing with north korea's doing roshi were trying to come in there what wa

improvise ation exists in north korea. by the way the red panel in the building says vegetables for the population of the capital. regardless of all the propaganda and the i'd call it brainwashing the koreans always manage to surprise me positively it's always important to focus on the details joining these human encounters even though they're always organized and managed such meetings have an impact on the people here i think it's the only way to separate the people from the propaganda. the. young yank the capital with a population of more than three million is currently undergoing a construction boom new skyscrapers a shooting up all over the place shaping the city's skyline. if you look closely you can see that south korean brand names have been covered by north korean banas like i say you just have to pay attention to the details i'm wondering when north korea suddenly got all the money for these gigantic construction projects almost eighty percent of young young was destroyed in the korean war over the course of three

the economy of north korea but. you cannot. pose a total bloke a they need to be aware of this we just passed a new security council resolution we've managed to get read of. extreme things we've managed to keep some of the projects that we have. which have been there would be of benefit to russia who we've got calls new parts of the meeting. to initiate further crackdown on north korea. well mr macmaster once said use diplomacy would only rely on for us. and we prowess on the strongest military in the world well if it's still the case that. we are in store and that it means that we are facing turbulent times and tests and tribulations present puting favors. a unifying approach not trying to isolate any one but trying to build inclusive dialogue. machine not. go in away from russia use relations so i would like to ask you about syria recently updated round of talks in astana that we. must meet that day and syrian congress will take place in sochi on january twenty ninth and thirtieth do you think we're getting closer to a soluti

strong stuff against north kore north korea. it also comes amid talk from an important south korean government agency that yes, perhaps north korea could talk with the united states about its missile and nuclear programs in 2018. as you also noted, preparing and antinuclear unit for the government to fend off any kind of action from north korea. there are no real indications from north korea or the united states that negotiations are -- another important development in the past day or so, doctors in south korea examining one of those defectors from the north korean military came to south korea in least demonic recent weeks have found anthrax antibodies within their bodies that could indicate that that soldier and maybe others are vaccinated against that deadly biological weapon. it means they could be handling them, there are a lot of concerns. remember this past year, we saw that attack apparently by north korea against the estranged brother of kim jong un. a lot of danger out there and a lot of concerns going into the new year

north korea is a rational actor. they think they need ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons to protect themselves. they are absolutely convinced that we will invade and destroy them if they don't have the ability to defend themselves, but at the same time, what we have to make clear to them is, okay, we're going to try and stop you from doing that through economic sanctions, but, even if we can't stop you from doing that, our military might combined with our allies in the region is so great that if north korea were to use any of these weapons in any way against us or our allies, their regime would cease to exist. we need to make that point crystal clear. and i don't mind if the president or others are very strong in their rhetoric, telling north korea, you better not attack us. again, what i fear is the notion that somehow we think we have to strike north korea first, or worst is a miscalculation. we think north korea's going to hit us, north korea thinks we're going to hit them, so one side or the other says well w

also in the past sanctions haven't really worked against north korea and in fact north korea has said that these punitive economic measures will only accelerate to north korea's nuclear and missile development program let's take a look at its past actions when sanctions were passed by the u.n. security council in august north korea responded with a missile test in september when sanctions were passed in september it was funded with a missile test and a hydrogen bomb test in september itself in november i beg your pardon in november and that missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile that experts said flew the highest in north korea's history of missile tests now we haven't had any official reaction from pyongyang as yet normally takes about a day or two before there is an official statement put out on state media but we can expect to hear from the north korean leader kim jong il in a couple of days now he's taken to delivering a new year's day speech an address ever since he came into power earlier this year he said his country was in the final stages of developing an intercont

south korea's president makes his first visit to china as regional pressure mounts on north korea has nuclear missile tests. and i mean this is al jazeera life from coming up in the program conflicting claims of ethnic cleansing in minute talks about borders say six thousand seven hundred refugees were killed in one month alone. a test of popularity for india's prime minister as elections are held in his home state of gujarat. plus a look inside what the u.s. military thinks will be the army of the future. so then north korea's recent nuclear and missile tests once again the focus of regional and international leaders a delegation from russia is in pyongyang right now and russia has the u.s. and south korea to engage north korean diplomats instead of economic sanctions in tokyo you interviewed general antonio terraces called for the unit see if the u.n. security council to allow for the possibility of diplomatic engagement with north korea. we have also the opportunity to discuss the. nuclear threats that we today face erosion to the north korean problem it is very clear that security

a move north korea equated to an act of war. reports say the russian government is offering to mediate between the u.s. and north korea. state department failed to respond to requests for comment on the offer. secretary of state tillerson is that north korea must earn its way back to the negotiating table starting with a halt on its missile and nuclear tests. before leaving for his holiday, the president promised pressure on kim jong un. >> there is much more work to d do. america and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a denuclearization and ensure this regime cannot threaten the world. go all the administration focuses on north korea, the president spent the day playing golf with david. he will georgia, a pga pro and a former pga pro. a tweet this morning. "based on the fact that the very unfair and unpopular individual mandate has been terminated as part of our tax cut bill, which essentially repeals over time obamacare, the democrats and republicans will eventually come together and develop a great new health

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