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straight screen getting 200 people around the world, which we ask why? because no one should have to make up your own mind. me for mine's the. the you're watching the news agent coming up to date at chinese mistreat finally solved the country's foreign minister had disappeared for a month. paging has now come out to say, he's out of the job and 70 years after the korean war,

the conflict remains on resolved. as south korea worries about the growing nuclear threat from killing yang, the my name is most chance. thanks for joining us. we take a closer look at the disappearance of ching gong, china's foreign minister until tuesday, when the communist party announced he'd been relieved of his post. chain gun had simply disappeared for an entire month. and until this week, no one knew why. high profile chinese gone missing is kind of a phenomenon. there was tech tycoon jack mall who criticized china's financial regulators in 2020, then vanished amid crack down on tech entrepreneurs, famous actress fung being, being disappeared for 4 months only to reappear. seeing praises of the communist

party, a tennis start, punch, why accused a top official of sexual assault and again went missing only to reappear, saying it was all a misunderstanding. and now we have chewing gum. the foreign minister, formerly a close ally of shooting king, there are rumors he had an extra marital affair with a t v journalist. so joining us in the studio is dw china analyst clifford kuhn and clifford. can you tell us of the latest concerning the disappearance of change on how big a deal is this? well, that's a big deal. i mean, if you imagine on an unattainable block or a anthony blinking, disappearing and made rumors of an affair. and then, and then a few months, few weeks later, they're fired. it's, it's a, it's that kind of level. but perhaps more importantly, what it is, it's another example of how to do. we know how things actually working at the top echelons of power in china. it's

a black box. we don't know how decisions are made on key issues such as the, the appointment of the foreign minister or the position of the foreign minister in the country. and as we pointed out just now, he's just one of a number of high profile chinese, whether they are government officials or celebrities who have gone missing and you reported from china and you've been observing this for a very long time. what does this tell us about the chinese state? well, i think the disappearance, or the purging of, of senior party companies party officials is nothing new at these to say when german miles allies disappeared at the 2 mountains. 2 tigers cannot share the same mansion. what is different, i think with the current situation in the people's republic of china is that this cuts across society, it used to be just the party contracts. they kind of know what's going on. they understand the political game. but now we have things like tech type coons, we have film stars, all of these things are relatively new and part of the new china. but what we're

learning is that they too can fall victim of these kind of purges that they're all so being held accountable for their actions. and that if they don't fit into the dog man, they don't fit into what's required of them. that they too can be disappeared. and then often sometimes they come back and like jack mall has come back with his company large the gone as far as he's concerned, or like finding and being she comes back and she says that she's, she feels dash at. and she feels ashamed of what you did and it's helped her to become com. right. and so with regard back to this new foreign minister we have, does that mean that china is born policy changes at all? i, i, it strikes me that because when he was, he's the previous foreign minister. i think he looks more like a, like a and a sort of a, an interim measure. really. i wouldn't be surprised if they do name a new uh, foreign minister to take over that position, but i don't think foreign policy itself will change. i think we're going to stick to very much the, the current farm policy, which seems to be

a resolution approach to, to the united states, to warmer ties of russia. and that also keeping the keeping europe and the us a part. clifford couldn't, thanks so much for joining us in the studio. this week marks the seventy's anniversary of the signing of the korean armistice which suspended though technically did not. and the korean war, 5000000 people died in that fight, half of them civilians, and also korean american and chinese soldiers. it divided korea into north and south and has since turned from a hot war to a cold conflict was become today some 28000 us soldiers remain stationed in south korea. and along the infamous dm's, the north and south korean soldiers are ever ready to pick up where they left off. as dw, georg matches reports from the 38th parallel of the

cold war lives on the tongue from the demilitarized zone between north and south korea. south korean soldiers keep close watch when every move the communists neighbors make attentions are running high. as north korea tests, as a more sophisticated besides, some can even reach cities in the us, the country that has pledged to protect south korea. this is most dangerous moment because there is a shortage, a symmetric, a capabilities north go has which is nuclear capability. once they either use new nukes, or threats and the serious of it. so that, since you use to use nukes, we don't have any plan or keep an eye to keep, defend our country. it is very doubtful that whether american government to ex 3 responded with nuclear weapons, north and south korea formerly still at war with each other. the demilitarized zone

bulls established in july 1953 when they ended 3 years of bloody war with a korean armistice agreement. relations between the 2 have had many highs and lows over the past 70 years. but they have now cooled considerably. re unification is not high on the agenda for many people in the south korean capital. so young age might be uh, get a lot of pressure by leading their own life. but at the same time, if we are thinking about the reunion is some point they have a like a concern. do we have to take care of them too? sweetie. they're going on. don't worry about the increase texas. i will have to pay off to a possibly unification. that might concern the one of them, i guess for a most like all or koreans like with my age, i think they see a more of a distance topic rather than re unification. i think most people want to like just total separation. i think outside most of to some polls in south korea. sho,

about 3 quarters of the public now support the idea of nuclear armament to counter threats from the north drums on wednesdays. south korea should accept the fact that the, nor has nuclear weapons instead of insisting on the nuclear ization as a precondition for tox. he things south 3 of us to not ease when it's signed, the so called the nuclear ization declaration just su, crane was when it gave up. it's nuclear weapons, budapest memory run. one of the reason why the cross itself plans are concerned about it is nuclear threat is that we have seen what you can express these days. we will understand that you print with nuclear weapons would not be in bed by the rush, you know, their own have to have to do from russia who is supposed to provide sure to guarantee to create a very similar destiny is the evidence. even. i hate the walking the streets of sol

. this frozen conflict seems very far away until one encounters, one of the many memorial sites in town. like here at the warm museum of korea, commemorating the 10s of thousands of south korean and united nation soldiers who died in the korean war 7 decades later lasting peace still seems out of reach. joining us as james bradwell and analyst at n k news. thanks for coming on the program. so we mark 70 years of a frozen war and gosh, looking at p on the on today. kim john is firing off missiles and north korea is a nuclear state. this is where things stand, right? or indeed. yeah. and snow korea really keeps ploughing ahead very quickly. with this uh, new to the weapons missile capabilities. the big part of the story was in 2017,

when it launched as fast as all capable of hitting the us. and in the past few months is successfully tested. it's best, solid fuel. it just comes to mental ballistic missile, now about some wholesome because wal uh no create was able to hit the main line, us with liquid fuel miss all since 2017. so the only files that everything else that you called you can prepare the much more quickly. the launch site, basically boston line is the adult career is getting quite capable with its missiles. and that's very bad news, but will be us and south korea. right. and this is the kind of situation um, when we look at the 2 sides facing off, that ukrainian officials must be wondering. i'm saying we absolutely need to avoid . and, and i say this because of course in eastern ukraine, it's looking like a tough counter offensive, given the russian military, digging in literally with 10,

with trenches rather along an entire front. no as well. so i think uh when it comes to maybe the west, the zip codes, one reason why the west ism intervening directly with treat some of the grounds in ukraine is because this morning about uh, rushes in into a weapons rise. and um, if we look over to the korean peninsula, uh, south korea, you know, it is going to be getting very nervous about no pre is in breathing weapons capabilities of coal on like ukraine, south career. it does have a military alliance with the us. so the us is meant to come and help it out. uh it is a tax, final korea. but when they saw him this alliance in the 1950s, north korea didn't have any kind of weapons and they definitely didn't have missiles capable. ringback of firing them all the way up to the mainland us. it does now and south koreans and thinking, well,

it don't create incredibly rested in the us with the need to a strike with the washington really comes. all right, bear with the rest of our retaliates. ready stripe. yeah. um. how serious is it that uh, south koreans are wondering whether they should um, acquire nuclear weapons. i mean that is something that's growing as our report mentioned. yeah. so at the beginning of the current president, this time you suck your, there was a lot of support and there was a lot of talk about that career development. so i need to weapons. however, i use some of this with j biden, in washington, in april. they agreed to create a single, the new to us and sol, so great. and this is meant to be this kind of dialogue, whereas south per year and america can discuss me to a use in the events of the other know for an attack. and this seems to have called

some bids about america's commitment to south career and kind of calling about that dialogue about software development, certainly to weapons. however, this, this consults the great, you know, it's, it's a little bit vague as at the end of the day, south korea doesn't have any uh, old stars, the ivr american use of nuclear weapons. so i think for now, yeah, there's going to be less talk about soft drinks in the weapons, but in the us to come, i think united assembly is questions going to be raised again. james bet. well, thank you so much for joining us. and that's it for the program. i'm melissa chad. thanks for watching and goodbye the eco for it to see if it's a clean, healthy field that goes and smooth like and even be using the like, gets san antonio and cameroon is turning food waste to renewable energy

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