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the my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. north korea has launched a spice satellite into space, something confirmed by the south korean government. those sol says it is too early to determine whether the satellite is working and the way peeling young claims. this was the north 3rd attempt to put a satellite into orbit after 2 failures earlier this year. according to south korean intelligence analysts, russia played a role providing expert advice by helping analyze what went wrong with the 1st 2 launches. hours after the launch north korean state media showed its leader kim jong on already reviewing images of us military bases in guam, south korea's national intelligence service. however, expressed skepticism, suggesting that was more propaganda flare. then fact, south cruise reaction has been sharp, with the military deploying more of what it calls surveillance assets to the border

. and announcing the suspension of a 5 year old military, of course, it has maintained with the north you know, it's not the north korean regime is entirely responsible for the whole of the situation. and if north korea makes any additional provocation out military will immediately and vigorously punish north korea based on the firm. south korea us joint defense post jeopardy, who do i presume to on thursday? north korea retaliated by announcing that it was graphing the military deal to and with strength and forces along its border with the south as well. killing young issue to this statement on state media quote, we will withdraw the steps taken to prevent military conflict in all spheres. including ground, sea and air, and deployed more powerful armed forces and new type of military hardware along the demarcation line. and quote, are the regions largest player china attempted to downplay the satellite launch by

simply saying it had taken note that it had happened. badging called on all parties to wind back tensions compare notes. the situation is how we defer the reason it's in the interest and so forth. countries in the region to ensure peace and stability and for more to put it because supplement, we hope all parties can keep calm and exercise restraint. and she told me to due to the for more we have the w's east. asia correspondent james a tater james. can you place the satellite launch in the context of what feels like an enlist? number of missile launches from north korea? how significant is this and how does it fit into pure meetings overall strategy? as well as proven that the satellite is operational. there's no doubt it's a really significant moment. this has been a states of coal aim of north korea for years. now. questions remain, of course, about it's effectiveness. how useful the information that it provides will be

earlier this year, south korea retrieve remains of a failed little ones for about 2 of those from your career last year. and they said that it provided low resolution images. there's already been some quite interesting reporting, suggesting that north korea deliberately destroyed the launch real kit to stop it, being recovered by south korea or us will start to use this time. but if the latest wanted, what quote, this one's going to create, wants us to be able to do is to provide real time information on us and south creating operations in the region. not would allow people, young to know about any large scale treatments. showing young is of course, promise more notices of this nature. and it's important to remember that international observance have long criticized north korea's supposedly civilian satellite launches to admit it true, in this case, as ballistic missile test and disguise. i want to discuss the g 7 foreign ministers joint statement in response to the launch. uh and it, it also warns against further cooperation between russia and north korea. a saying,

quote, we are deeply concerned about the potential for any transfer of nuclear or ballistic missile related technology to north korea, which would further threaten this peace and stability of the region as well as across the globe and quote, how troubling is this possibility that russia stepped in to help with a launch, a little south korean intelligence. obviously, as i said, that was russian assistance on this slide since launch from north korea, there's still a bit of debate about the extensive support and what there's really not debates on right now is the depth of this relationship now between kill me young and most of the one i list i was speaking through today simply told me that north korea is no longer isolated. both may be happening is that these 2 isolated countries are finding useful allies. and each other, of course, came gentleman had this landmark trip this up in september to russia's northeast, where he met with parents and in um, a cause majority of hovel, places that can receive briefings on on russian space technology,

including satellites, increase and promise to help build some of those north korean satellites, but yeah, this is all part of abroad. a concern about this evening relationship between chrome younger moscow, which includes the reason us allegations the showing young has been supplying weapons to most code for its ongoing invasion of ukraine. that is something that both countries deny. can you tell us more about this military record that both sides north and south korea have walked away from this? yeah, this was a landmark agreement signed between the city cruise in 2018. shortly off of those very heavy days have been us present. donald trump meeting with kim jong and in senior poor. the cool aim of the quote is really to mitigate and lower the risk of accidental conflict being sparked by these 2 minute treat ministries, which are really authorizing. and of course, that's close proximity, answering each other that included and stopping. but

a true drills needed the board, the, the, um, the team and it should take me to try something between the 2 crews. and i literally pressing covers over some of the naval guns. a lot of that of the quote, what was reached with the quote seems to have been done with this latest. no one's both sides and said they will stop mid a tree activity near the border again with south korea saying no restart reconnaissance activities. we have a team and a try zone on cruise, lima worrying me that both chris has said that the other side will be responsible by side saying this if this escalates further. now, what does this say in terms of the current climate in south korea? i mean, this military record was made uh at a time when it was under a different president. a absolutely, this is a really important point. this, a cold was, of course, signed in 2018 under the presidency of moons a. and we now have a different presidents in south curren june, so kill who is viewed as being much more focused when it comes to the question of

north korea. and also crucially having to respond to in balance and navigate even more focused voices in his cabinet, which of cold for about the courts are be scrapped completely by the new a, by the south creating side story right now south creates a new scraps. one elements, one clause of disagreement, but that all voices within south korea, the cooling for the angry agreements would be kind of from now completely. so you get a sense of the different political on state within south career, which is really exciting. some of the decision making here in soul, and that i think is what's worrying. some people have the prospects for any um, any type of agreement like this being revived in the near future. got it. now you're in type pay, a lot of the concern these days when it comes to security in the, in the pacific is about a potential conflict between china and taiwan. but should the world be keeping a closer eye on what's happening on the korean peninsula? it absolutely does,

obviously so much consigned to right to the taiwan intentions with aging is easy to forget the closings to countries a too crazy technically still it war and that this represents a very real threats, a regional security instability, especially when you think of the size of the us presence in south korea and young young stated aim of of expanding it's, it's nuclear force and, and the us wanting to kind of move ahead with steps to continue to rise ation. think for western need is there really is a troubling coalition of powers at a constant tracing around north korea. now when you think of film young's expanding relationship with most going but also the relationship of a cliff course has with badging to some of this. i was speaking to today say that that try out a power is, is really shifting the 2 political states a place and not just south korea, but of course japan see which is facing 3 threats from japan up, sorry, china, north korea and rusher. and i think you know, this, this latest launch is just to remind the once again evict streaming fractious

through political situation that exists, not just in asia, but across the entire well. now james tater, thank you for joining us. there are a few countries more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, then them all these the un has warrants that rising sea levels could make the archipelago virtually uninhabitable by the end of the century. the country's new president is hoping some ambitious engineering can mitigate this threat. but his plans have been criticized by environmental groups, the lovely sand beaches, turquoise lagoons and vast coral reefs. the mouths are dream destination but its islands are also on the front lines of the climate crisis and battling for survival. deb,

i know it's getting damaged and coiled leeching is happening around ready? all for now. it's like, i don't know the reason about these things, but i think in my opinion be also be aware of product thing of a reeves and the ocean. there's increasing seer that multi views might become some of the world's 1st environmental refugees needing to relocate to higher ground in another country. we have been reclaiming some islands and one of the main reasons we are having to do with this is also because we have run out of space in most of the islands that people live and also being impacted by cost of the motion and cost of flooding. we are looking into how we may be able to use this as on, on how we can adapt to it. the new president of commodities, mohammad movies,

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