jeremy's of science and example have been the seven thank you so much for joining us north korea remains one of the few mysteries today everything is known information about everything can be found easily but north korea maintains that shroud of secrecy while. you were it happened so that for centuries korea was detached from the rest of the outside world this has to do with the fact that back in the middle ages the three counties suffered from invasions by the mongols and japanese this convince the ruling class that the country would live better if it reduced its contacts with the surrounding countries to a minimum as a result koreans were even banned from setting up settlements in certain locations particularly on the sea shore the information inflow was controlled and restricted when japan occupied korea in the early twentieth century this policy was preserved by the occupants in order to retain this colony under its control the first thing japan did was to take all the foreign relations of korea under its control and

start the japanese ational korea the koreans were forced to adopt japanese names not to speak the korean language under japanese language was proclaimed of fishel and so forth all this dark legacy both historical and cultural has to a great extent affected the views of the korean leaders. but not only is korea an informational mystery it's also one of the very few remaining islands of socialism communism how does it maintain to do that. but the fact of the matter is that the koreans proved to be very consistent in their convictions korea as with china is a confucian country where confucianism dominates the thinking and the habits of the people to quote one example when china had given up most of the confucian traditions korea was rigorously following them all the same so when chinese scientists wanted to find some information about confucian rituals they had to go

to seoul for the relevant documents it so happened that when the northern part of korea came to believe in communism and socialism it became an even greater teacher of a then the soviet union itself and other socialist countries which have already given up this ideology and system while in korea just like in china they are still trying to build socialism in the korean fashion their own model of socialism. but today in the twenty first century way economic ties are in the world do you think that this policy of isolation will help north korea progress economically. there is no doubt that the country needs its foreign economic relations expanded as according to estimates by foreign specialists and the understanding served by north korea itself it would be impossible to modernize the economy without investment from outside i would like to draw your attention to something i find very interesting there has been much talk in the west about north korea opening up and

its integration into the world community however real policy is very often at odds with such statements some sort of hysteria broke out in the media recently around the fact of the swedish department store began selling jeans manufactured in north korea if the west is really interested in north korea developing some industries fit to enter foreign markets and thus having people interested in contacts with the outside world working with it what's trapped with the selling of a batch of jeans posed to the western world safety and well being it will be absolutely in significant in terms of economic competition the same applied to the joint north and south korean industrial complex in case on a free trade agreement was signed between the u.s. and south korea several years ago which has not yet been ratified by the refusal of the u.s. to include spoons and forks and other consumer goods manufactured in that area into the agreement was one of the stumbling blocks the u.s. did not agree for a few million dollars to enter the markets and yet it's hard to imagine how this

could threaten the u.s. and world economies. so in your opinion it's beneficial in some ways for certain countries like the united states for example to have korea isolated. the village. unfortunately we have to draw this conclusion we cannot explain everything entirely by north korea's time and of course much depends on the past and the traditions on the fear of opening up because that may lead to undesirable political consequences on the other hand when they say north korea needs to become a civilized country and to be integrated into the world community there never too keen really to do things to let it happen what's more the west and the united states in particular need a bad guy in that region to justify their military presence in the southern part of the korean peninsula and to perm and deploying their missile defense systems there that's something that's been done there are somewhat more actively done in europe

indeed until now the u.s. and allied military presence in the region was justified by the soviet threat but it's been twenty years now since the soviet union however the u.s. is not going to give up their military alliances established during the cold war now it's very convenient to have a bad guy and pyongyang that can be used as a scapegoat for everything now it seems ok to have talks with russia or china and smile and keep face saying because of kim jong il we have to keep our troops and send our aircraft carriers there when the north korean threat disappears this face will be hard to keep as it will be true who the troops and the missile defense are actually saying that it will be obvious that it's not against north korea weakened and worn out by long economic turmoil but against a rising china and russia as well. so recent statements from people like former president jimmy carter who went to korea and said that he saw

signs of north korea willing to work with the six party talks and take steps toward denuclearizing itself do you think that's just good p.r. you know. i think of carter sense the mood in north korea he's an experienced politician has been there more than once the thing is that north korea realizes that without an agreement with the united states it won't be able to solve its main problem the removal of the military threats north korea was really frightened by the events in iraq in yugoslavia when the u.s. unilaterally change the regime sent both of those countries even without the consent of the united nations north korea is really afraid of that secondly it's a worry but due to the u.s. sanctions it will have difficulties to get money from international financial institutions and other countries to modernize its economy this explains the fact that north korea is quite consistently pursuing the policy of signing bilateral

agreements first and foremost with the u.s. and then multilateral agreements such as those produced by the six party talks north korea demands that they should have talks with the u.s. and then proceed further north korea views the u.s. as posing the biggest threat and believes that the main obstacle for their economic development comes from the u.s. standing in the way of international aid let's try move from the economical and political more towards the personal you've spent so much time in north korea i believe you've even met kim jong il personally what kind of a man is he. i met kim jong il both as a journalist and a diplomat in particular during the then president putin's visit to north korea in two thousand i carefully read what a number of state leaders who met him as a president wrote a belgian. wanted to say that kim jong il appears is an energetic and informed person who knows what he does and knows what to strive for i think that the

stereotypes appearing regularly in western and frankly also in russian publications about some unpredictable politician and regime are absolutely ungrounded because an irrational and unpredictable politician would hardly be able to hold power in his hands for the past two decades when many revolutions broke out and money countries actually disappeared money expected the north korean regime to fall however for a number of reasons including purely pragmatic and realistic policy and the ability to outplay the enemy even though in some small things the north korean regime managed to survive. and you mention that the north korean leader knows what he wants for his country and from his country his calling a party meeting that hasn't been held in thirty years and many in the west specifically are very excited trying to guess why exactly or what he's trying to tell the world by doing that what do you think at the purpose of the conference and

the workers' party. where you figured. if we talk about detail the only thing known to be on the agenda of the forthcoming conference are the elections for the governing bodies of the ruling party and it really makes sense for it's been forty four years since the previous conference and thirty years since the previous party congress money leaders who used to be members of the governing politburo in secretariat have died the central committee must by now have less than half the men from the original list so it appears to be high time for elections the second thing on the agenda which is perhaps the key thing is about a successor to the incumbent leader it's no secret that there have been many reports about his weakened health at the same time though many people have met i'm including people from russia and in particular cultural figures who often go. there believe those rumors are exaggerated but i can't rule out the possibility that kim jong il has begun to ponder about his possible successor who would have to lead the

country after he himself leaves the political arena i don't think the conference is due to pronounce anyone as a successor most likely such a person would simply be elected into the government which will allow him to prove his eligibility by his achievements in areas he would be in charge of that now if kim jong il decides to follow in her father's footsteps and name his son as his successor there's very little known about the what do we know who is who or what does he what does he have what her brain to north korea. first of all i think we shouldn't expect any dramatic changes right away because power in north korea is built on succession and continuity principles kim jong il became a leader first and foremost thanks to his image of a true follower of his father's legacy and ideas not of some destroyer of the foundations or the person to lead the country's policy into a shop turn so obviously the same is going to apply to kim jong il successor if it

should be one of his sons for example i cannot make any predictions as to which of them it could be you know there is much talk about the kurds on anyway this would be a young person who hasn't earned much authority in the party or the country and it is not very widely known and i don't think that kim jong il is going to quit entirely now he will continue ruling the country as long as his health from the circumstances allow that's why the decisions to be made by the conference will in their essence be shaping the environment under circles loyal to the new successor some advisors who will guide them through the challenging situation north korea is in these days at the beginning of the twenty first century.

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surrogate father of the russian hockey legend aims to live up to expectations in a second. but let's get going with an update from the russian premier li where two wins from their previous three games still hasn't been enough for itself to climb out of the relegation zone this summer a side easing to a three no win over on g. and monday's so will fixture. seeming to understand the predicament they find themselves in blasting home three first half goals to victory something off the fact that effort opening their account with a minute on the clock even off then made it two on twenty eight minutes with another scrappy. verted penalty from yes give me seven right before the break the tie done and dusted three male the final score some are a side of me and second from bottom those automatic relegation spots you boys own g. also sitting

a little too close for comfort to the drop zone and it doesn't get any easier for them games with spartak moscow moscow leaders in eat right around the corner. so after week twenty two of the thirty it's a need to remain very much the team. to catch this and petersburg man like four points ahead of champions from spain but crucially hold a full two games and c.s.k. of a company ruled out of the equation in third us they also have much just postponed because of the summer fires and also looks like a straight through a scrap between crossed off. for the two europa cup spots wild on the other end there on your screen at crawley on sabir in the danger zone that will. support will be seeking to make it two wins out of two in the champions league when they take on m.s.k. at the luzhniki stadium on tuesday richard on port flay takes a look ahead at the encounter spots i find themselves in

a great position going into much today to a fantastic one no way no way in must say was given by a lady cop inside a good chance even of a surly stage but trying to make no kind of stages for the first time since ninety nine just seeks. but let's go it's opponents from survive here maybe the group outsiders as pass like state coach says his team certainly won't be underestimating them and. that there are absolutely no problems with being motivated for this match as it's impossible not to be going into a champions league encounter it doesn't matter who the opponent is be it chelsea marsay or. we may be a bit tired going into the match as we will have played two games in just three days. it's been a long time since parts like last one champions league match at home in fact the red and white have failed to win in this competition of the luzhniki stadium in over a decade cup inside will certainly be looking to put that right on tuesday and he says he certainly won't be worrying about any statistics or as mark said going into

the game with say everyone was saying that russian clubs weren't able to win in france but we made it to win over there a couple of weeks ago but we're not going to take any notice of any statistics i'm just hoping that we'll get a result we need on tuesday to spot our cabin in good form recently in the russian premier league winning fine of the last seven a brazilian striker vella turn scoring nine times during this period their opponent juliana have injured some patchy form over the last month including a four one defeat at chelsea in their group opener because of and says he won't be taking them lightly webpages leftish i know for a fact that our opponents don't have a player in the class of someone like leo messi they have a good striker called c say who for someone who so too is very good with the ball at his feet and i have a feeling he could cause us one or two problems. spartak will have a great chance to make it she wins out of two on tuesday when they take on the

group leaders and if they can get the first time champions league win in over a decade they'll be the strong position going to be a double header with the group favorites chelsea which bumpily doxie moscow. what a nice feeling it must be to wake up the next morning eleven million dollars richer after spending the weekend playing on a perfectly manicured golf course well that's what happened the gym few rick the american winning the one the million dollar churchmen chip and with it the ten million dollar fed ex cup race fury was the overnight leader of his even par seven b. on the final day was enough to see off by a single shot while another man chasing the jackpot retief goosen finished a little and third a stroke further behind pyrrhic here on the final hole while up against almost no problems for the former u.s. open champion career title number sixteen in the back. i really worked hard last week made a couple equipment changes even and. worked really hard on my game and came in.

under so it's a special moment what a special year of never out of three one season this is the first to have the fourth fed ex cup trophy in my hands right now it's just a great icing on the cake or add up brings us all into tennis where it can take chroma turn back the clock on the reassure up of a stunning the russian in the first round of the tour a pond pacific open earlier. a former champions in the opener in two thousand and five when the shop of a was just eight years old. from one her title packing ninety five twelve up of a drop in the first set seven five before pointing back to take the second six three over local favor crum regained her composure that japanese veteran eventually some five three six six three so a great gift for crumbs for theatre birthday and choose the on a new early run match up in talked. of also joining her compartments on the

flight home after going down to on the evanovich in the first run the serb easily prevailing six three six two avenging grand slam losses to the russian at the two thousand and nine trillion open on the twenty ten french open. three great players in one that's what i saw the experts used to call surrogate future of german his n.h.l. career in two thousand and nine there three times stanley cup winner returned to his homeland russia to join kitch el side. robert for dani and met up with the trophy laden star. the twenty eighth of july two thousand and nine with hockey league strike killed three term. we gave to the returns to russia to join gay chill side. scored by a russian born player in the n.h.l. unique skating skills combined with outstanding defensive ability all these cool

beats have made experts the point is three great players in one so would good one of the most outstanding russian ice will keep players ever do the food of the urals to money that boris can particular. my brother played a few years back my father was in good contact with former management former director of the team and former manager of the team and my brother played pretty well for this club few years back especially in play offs so connection were there and interest always were. very big compared to other clubs and annoying but worse because a solid hockey club brought up the right for players really good. arena really good grounds and the services also. financially very very stable and also it was

a dream of mine and my family also to play together with my brother one of russia's biggest steel works that's what this city will be the he's best known for it could be seen like a pretty boring environment where not hokey superstar but there gave birth of his always proved it yeah it's looking into the future both on and off the ice i think . any city is like this like industrial cities will present something really really . quality let's say we have a couple lakes here we have a couple environments here where you can go. i don't know and do sightseeing or you can go you can go and. walk and we've been to the factory factories incredible the biggest factor and probably i was saying. europe and. really really. do a lot of business and

a lot of steel so technology there it's been really really good so it was an interesting trip too but as far as a city and simple city but everything we need to have here and it's very comfortable when it comes to cumin so big a jill's major two feet they're going care must be top priority no four year old father of who's won just about everything there is to wheel the ice well professionals here and. any predictions of history you need to back them up and well certain precious already applied to. team our new coach for a new manager and so i'm not going to be. predicting anything but. say you know next like a month or two we really will know or we really will feel how far we can go a stunning twenty seven overtime gill's one more n.h.l.

record store the week in the foot of household what he's all too much kid chill were time reward that's still had for but really you know marty. and that is your sports now i'll see you soon there were weather's coming up just around the corner . every month we give you the future we help you understand. what's. best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us. on our g.

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this is r.t. coming to live from moscow nine am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome after serious talks and deals in beijing russian president dmitry medvedev is wrapping up his visit to china on the third day of his trip he's in shanghai to check out the russian and chinese offerings at the world expo and he says now is there for us. president has arrived at the shanghai expo twenty ten where he'll be giving the speech and opening raso day of course he'll be taking a tour of the russian and chinese pavilion which you can see behind me there said to be two of the favorites this time round of the most impressive they have the longest waits to get in in fact the line outside the russian billion yesterday was about an hour and twenty minutes so lots of tourists from around the world and from shanghai and of course china very interested to see what russia has to offer and what's on display let's talk a little bit about that you have russia's top tech and energy companies showing the bad.