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the military. one tough have asi on leaders, failed in their push to restore democracy. and why the development of hypersonic missiles could push the arms race on the korean peninsula into a watering new phase. ah. i british manager, welcome to dw news asia, glad you could join us. a me in my court has sentenced ousted leader on saying so g to 4 more years in jail for illegally importing and possessing walkie talkies. she already faced as a 2 year gerald term on other charges, rights groups have called the proceedings a court courtroom circus. but they have got it on even as a regional grouping asi, an attempt to manage the crisis in mid mart last week,

get bored in prime minister hans and visited the country. the 1st forum leader to do so, since last year school, he met military ruler, min own p n. a meeting criticized by pro democracy protested and rights groups. but cambodia, which currently leads us, he on said it was trying to push for a return to peace in me and my this was a visit that critics had urged cambodians prime minister to call off. they said his trip would not only empower the leaders of a violent qu, it would also be an insult to the more than $1300.00 people, the military, his cove since last february. but hon. san asked for patience. and after the talks were over, his foreign minister said progress had been made i may know what we achieved in this negotiation or to medium. our leader was a very good positive result. with

a progressive step forward on the implementation of the 5 point consensus. that all al z and leaders agreed upon are to learn more emotional guy on the water grammarian. the 5 point consensus, a kind of road map to peace was agreed to by all the leaders in indonesia last april, back then me and mar, promised to end the violence and engage in political dialogue. but that didn't happen as the crackdown continued as the in band, me and mar, from attending at summit last october. now the visit by cambodia is prime minister who himself sees power nicu in 1997. looks like an attempt to allow me a mar back into the fold without pre conditions. this is anger, the supporters of democracy mamma, they took to the streets in towns across the country over the weekend. the people of numer are clearly sending

a very strong message that home son is not welcome in them. they are very upset that that once on his a should be providing visit a visit to the moderate honda and, and which is actually terrorized the whole country. despite such opposition to the visit, cambodia, and 5th, a different approach is needed if peace is to be restored in me and mar and vermont, as i'm joined from bankrupt by fin robinson from human rights watch fill. the so called 5 point plan agreed to buy asi on members. last april, admittedly hasn't worked. good. the can borden prime ministers approach of meeting me and mars military rulers directly be, was trying out well, judging by the joint statement that came out of that meeting between once and, and our senior gentleman on the line. i think the answer is probably no. the

statement itself touted a ceasefire that was agreed by the myanmar military till the end of 2022. but the reality is they are busy bombarding and attacking ethnic organizations all across the country. and no one's interested in talking to them about a cease fire. so the fact that prime minister, who in san tao did this as some sort of political progress shows either that he has been duped by the burmese or that he's playing along with the charade to try to indicate there is progress. one, in fact, there is none you mean can border isn't being sincere and its efforts to secure peace in myanmar that is still a very open question and our assessment based on that joint statement is that no, because cambodia also did not insist on meeting with all parties involved in myanmar including on sang. so she and other imprisoned elected leader from the

november 2020 election. you know, this was a meeting between dictators between once an a, who's that his own human rights problems in cambodia and the general who's leading a brutal myanmar. ha ha ha, which has been massacring villagers and bombarding settlements and committing human rights violations all across the country. and now you have cambodia as terrified as he on for this year. what then can we expect from the 10 mission block when it comes to me in my well, we'll see next week when the foreign ministers of asi and meet and see a maria in cambodia ah, for their foreign ministers. retreat. whether once and gets an airfoil from the other foreign ministers for basically stepping out of turn. ah, there wasn't really very much consultation with the other aust. young leaders before whose and get it off to our myanmar. and a,

it appears that he'd got very little from his conversations there and appears to have endorsed a statement that on its face is problematic. so he's got a lot to answer for. and i think that the foreign ministers are the other countries, particularly indonesia, ah, malaysia and singapore who have been very tough on man, mar, how they're going to give them a hard time. what does oldest say about us in so called central role in trying to negotiate an end to the crisis. muma? well, i think i see on is still split right down the middle about what to do about myanmar . ah, and that is a fundamental problem. you know, the european union and it's member states continue saying that asi ends and proudly as a core part of their policy towards myanmar. but that st. rowdy is failing because there is no consensus about where to go next. i think it's now time for the european union us in other countries, the play a leading role and stop trying to push this off to the regional leaders to solve

for roberts and we live there with that. i mean, but thank you so much for joining us. to do thank you to the korean peninsula annexed, but a fast developing arms raised between north and south korea is set to go hypersonic . last week, north korea claimed to have tested a hypersonic missile for the 2nd time. in 5 months. south korea has dismissed the claim. and whatever the truth, the danger posed by hypersonic missiles is very real compared to ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles fly more than 5 times the speed of sound. oftentimes faster than that too. and that direction can also be changed mid flight. think of it as a stone you have thrown, but then are able to change its direction and speed as it flies through the air. this makes hypersonic miss. i was very hard to detect. but traditional missile defense systems, for instance,

a hypersonic missile fired between pyongyang and soule would take just seconds to reach its target for distance of nearly 200 kilometers. not, not korea claims it possesses such weapons. and this year, south korea intends to test its own hypersonic missiles, keeping an eye on this for us is correspondent frank smith. in so frank with our reports that south korea plans to test its own hypersonic messiah this year. is this the start of a hypersonic miss? i race on the korean peninsula? well, i think it's fair to say it is it's, it's possibly even fair to speculate that this has been happening for some time. south korea has said that it's been developing hypersonic missile capabilities since the early 2 thousands ramping up those development efforts in the, in the 20 ten's. and it also says that the hypersonic missile that it will be testing and deploying,

perhaps later in the 20 twenty's is better than the one that was tested just days ago by north korea. the south korean hypersonic missile will be a hypersonic cruise missile capable of flying its entire flight at a very low altitude. and at that hypersonic high speed, making it more difficult to detect. then the missile that north korea recently tested, which initially had a ballistic missile parabolic phase that, that could be detected. and as you mentioned, it only takes report, say 75 seconds for this cruise type. hypersonic missile to theoretically reach, prolong yang from sol here in south korea. in the front, we're used to north korea regularly cutting out reference tests, but law stood so south korea tested submarine launched missiles and rockets. why you soule arming itself like never before?

there are a few reasons for this. so korea has been building up. it's military over the past couple of decades since about 2020 under kim day john. but the missile development has really taken off over the past year, especially as an agreement between south korea in the united states released south korea from limitations on its payload, in range of its ballistic missiles. south korea is also made efforts to try to develop a more independent security structure. yet you have a south korean president, moon j, in speaking of dialogue with the north. i'm and that's what he said after the recent north korean missiles test are moon jane's hopes for these stalks rapidly evaporating. and if a presidential election in march. well i think that's fair to say in order for

peace talks to take place on the korean peninsula. first, they have to involve the united states and north korea. they have to involve di, new chloride, zation or at least arms control. right now, the us really isn't interested in negotiating with north korea because it has other, you know, more important items on its foreign policy and domestic agenda, given the, on the current, coven, 900 situation. they're also north korea for its part really felt that it, you know, got pushed around at the hanoi negotiations with former us president donald trump, failing to secure any type of agreement there. well, coming to that negotiating table, you know, with an offer and some concessions. things could change here though with the election coming up. as you mentioned, e j young is a progressive, he's another, a liberal left winger like current president move in. and he may want to reach out

to north korea once again. frank smith in so we leave it there was an, i mean, but thank you so much for joining us today. and besides north and south korea, india, china and russia also have various stages of either developing or already deploying hypersonic missiles in asia. we leave today with images of what the future of warfare is already beginning to look like. are back to more of the st. barbara. so you've been with every day for us and for our planet. a

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