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the conflict remains on resolved. as south korea worries about the growing new, clear threats 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 a mid crack down on tech entrepreneurs. same as actress, phung being being disappeared for 4 months only to reappear at seeing praises of

the communist party 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 the latest concerning the disappearance of change on how big a deal is this? well, it's a big deal. i mean, if you imagine on a, on an in a bell block or anthony blinking, disappearing and made rumors of an affair. and then, and then a few months, a few weeks later they're fired. it's, it's, 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 work in 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,

the appointment of the foreign minister or the position of the foreign minister of 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 these cuts across society, it used to be just a 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 to control victim of these kind of purges that they're also

being held accountable for their actions. and that if they don't fit into the dog mind, 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 being she comes back and she says that she's, she feels dash, as 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 child is born policy changes at all? i it strikes me that because one he was, he's the previous foreign minister. i think he looks more like a, like a and a sort of the, an interim measure really. i wouldn't be surprised if they do name a new, a 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 your up on a us a part, clifford couldn't and 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 career engine north and south and has since turned from a hot war to a cold conflict with big let them today some 28000 us soldiers remain stationed in south korea. and along the inside this d. m. z, north and south korean soldiers are ever ready to pick up where they left off. as dw georg matches reports from the 38th parallel the cold war lives on here and ton one from the demilitarized. so between north and

south korea, south korean soldiers keep close watch on every move the communists. neighbors make attentions of 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 capabilities. those go head, which is nuclear capability. once they either use new nukes or threaten seriously. so that since you use to use nukes, we don't have any plan or keep an eye to keep to from the country. it is very doubtful that whether american government to ex, re responded with new nuclear weapons, north and south korea formerly still at war with each other. demilitarized zone was established in july 1953 when they ended 3 years of bloody war with the korean

armistice agreement. the relations between the 2 has, has many highs and lows over the past 70 years. but they have now cooled considerably. reunification is not high on the agenda for many people in the south korean capital. so young age like me, get a lot of pressure by leaving their own life. but at the same time, if we are thinking about the reunion is some point they have uh, like a concern, do we have to take care of them too? sweetie. they going on? don't worry about the increase texas. i will have to pay off to a possible the unification that might concern the well, i'm 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, like just total separation. i think also most of to some polls in south korea show about 3 quarters of the public now support the idea of nuclear armament to counter

threats from the north. johnson, who's this south korea should except the fact that the north has nuclear weapons instead of insisting on nuclear ization as a precondition for adults. he things south 3 of us to not he's when it's find the so called the nuclear ization declaration. just as ukraine was when it gave up it's nuclear weapons, budapest member run. one of the reason why the crunch itself plans are concerned about it is nuclear threat is that we are seeing what your current experience is. we will understand that you print with nuclear weapons will not be in bed by the rush. you know, they won't have to have to leave from russia who is supposed to provide security guarantee to create a very similar destiny. is the evidence, even though he say the walking the streets of sold 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 a 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 as fast, solid fuel in wisconsin. and so i ballistic missile now about some goals and because wal at no great was able to hit the main line us with liquids, you'll miss all since 2017. so the only files that everything else, the cold, you can prepare the much more quickly the launch. so basically the bottom 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 mid zillow with the zip codes, one reason why the west ism intervening directly with troops on the grounds in ukraine is because this morning about uh, rushes and into a weapons, rice. and if we look, i've been to the korean peninsula of south korea, you know, it's going to be getting very nervous about no pre is improving weapons capabilities of coal online q crane south. or 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 like falling this alliance in the 1950s, most career didn't have any kind of weapons and they definitely didn't have this. i'll capable of firing them all the way up the mainland us. it does now. and south koreans and thinking, well, you know, create incredibly the rest in the us with the new to

a strike with the washington really comes. all right. there was the rest of a retaliatory strike. how serious is it that the south koreans are wondering whether they should acquire nuclear weapons? i mean, that is something that's growing as our report mentioned. yeah. so i have the beginning of the current president. it's time you suck your uh, 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 career and america can discuss me to a use in the events of the, of the know for an attack. and this seems to have a calm, some bids about america's commitment to south career and kind of call that,

that dialogue about south korea developing as learning to weapons. however, this, this consults the great, you know, it's a little bit vague as at the end of the day, south korea doesn't have any, uh, or is the either american use of nuclear weapons. so i think for now and yeah, there's going to be less talk about soft drinks in the weapons, but in the years to come, i think united simply these questions going to be raised again. james? brett, well, thank you so much for joining us. a set set for the program. i. melissa chad and thanks for watching and good by the . every jenny is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some

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