procure the bomb and is testing its means of delivery but with some other neighbor pursuing a new deterrence policy using everything from source to support to avoid confrontation is there hope the crisis in the korean peninsula will end in diplomacy offset a situation that looks poised for conflict and is washington saber rattling helping the process or do you railing it. chung going to a special advisor to the president of south korea for foreign affairs and national security welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us sure enough korea will participate in the winter olympics and will put its team under one banner with south korea it's clear p.r. move on the part of pyongyang to show that there are good guys who can be talked to what makes you trust kim jong. un knows trust he's a man of trust building on this you have to do kinds of interactions with north korea you can the trust was north korea therefore we are inviting north korea to.

not simply because we trust north korea but because we want to build trust with north korea so to feel like maybe north korea is using the south with this olympics business to just siphon off more money and find a loophole through the sanctions. you know we can rule out the possibility but as long as north korea. you know nonproductive behavior. sure who come forward with the new condition of north korea we would welcome north korea to utilize in the winter olympics. the two korean woman's ice hockey team will become by and much to the disappointment of some of the south korean team more than thirty one thousand people have signed an online petition to the president's office asking to scrap this plan we keep saying that politics and sports shouldn't mix

so how is it fair to deprive some players to the opportunity of a lifetime for pretty much politics. through to some polled element and as a matter of fact when jane opposed to the play you know for me ice hockey team the . kind of sacrifice on the part of the players you know you feel you know sorry for that one but still you know we have another input from. north to south where you please if you can to get the plane together and i think it has some symbol to substance in many. yeah but it also has consequences for as just a south korean president's ratings have dropped sharply over the olympics if there is a public going to go along with moon soft policy towards the north. but i was it is a snowy to put a temporary surprise but i think the most popular can will come back in if the

pinch on winter olympic goes well and if the north korean players in government you know show proper behavior therefore you know i wouldn't say that it is the do to bring the defeat you know negative impact on president jean. to be quite honest i was actually surprised that they a fact was dropping ratings for the president why do you think the south koreans aren't so keen on the two teams playing together coming together under a same banner but it is something to do with the north korean behavior north korea has been undertaking misho the nuclear problem cations and north korea has its own . confrontation and therefore poor image of north korea has rapidly to through in south korea and in a different post and even made the decision to have one single team and or say.

no one single you my team know since i was in the area of. ice hockey team that is why some young generation show the unhappy use of their kind of behavior but if winter olympic proves to be successful and i think that kinds of said it would be or become. the u.s. and south korean military trails that have been a thorn in came side to where postponed for the olympics but while we all know that once the games are over that drills will resume and they include practicing the overthrow cames regime one that reverse any progress made. so the series of posts to come tumbling peaks would be a major challenge you to put as a mundane but he's trying to uncover some formula to diffuse the tension and try to make use of the new momentum for peace in the way they'll come somewhere in p.

diddy's year to be sin we don't have to make a prejudging that to do will be worst outcome after come tumbling pig what is the outcome that you're actually hoping for what's this two teams coming together i mean you said it's really symbolic and it's all about grasping this opportunity to actually make this happen to come together under the same batter what is it that you want from this i mean we all understand the realities on the ground will understand how things will go down after the olympic games are over what's your age except if we put the symbolic thing aside. now is the most is symbolic the present moon has a tool goes with regards to come from winter olympic one has to make a come somewhere in p.p. spel and then he strongly believes that the peace through impede will lead to the olympic peace or the peace means what instead exchange incorporation between north and south and trust building between north and south was and hopefully resumption

of the i will be can come young in washington and eventually make making a major breakthrough to the north korea nuclear stalemate there was another use of easy he's now aiming at. making come to where the peaceful but if dead have to lose then he'd trying to push for or improve peace and i simply straight and zion be helping our what kind of cooperation would you be hoping for in the future. no you know exchange who we can engage you socially in. exchange in cooperation with north korea and you also will be having more interesting with north korea and we're hoping that north korea would have a dialogue with north korea for the settlement of north korean nuclear issue of the kind who seems to have in mind so why do you think it is so important for the south

korea to actually have this dialogue and not that important for north korea i mean this is pretty much just first step that north korea has made toward coming together with south korea it does seem like it's the south that is making the most effort why is it more important for the south korea. we want to take a more leading and where the rule. if. you want to avoid a catastrophe oh oh come under. these words he's making every effort to be fugitive to revoke the momentum for dialogue. you told c.n.n. it was trump's tough talk that brought the north koreans to open dialogue but say all that there was some kind of a combination in which closed the door on direct talks with the yes therefore the north koreans have to turn to the south so you think all the provocation traitor

insults threats to wipe north korea off the map all that was a part of a comic plan to actually get north and south to talk. noshing doing the persian come and made us some important contribution in reaching north korea is coming to south korea but there are some other some other regions which you know it's clear that you know come to that in the south korea because north korea might want to have some kind of economic cooperation with the south korea or maybe north korea might want to drive a wedge between soul in washington but south korea knows all those in the intentions of north korea but despite all those intentions and we want to have a you know dented dialogue with north korea and try to come up with some kind of breakthrough to the con you know a stalemate but where up asking is do you feel like it trumps contribution was intentional to bring the two countries together are an intentional basically was it

all a big plan or was it history i don't know i don't know know i don't know where did intentional or unintentional but end result is does you know if north korea can have a dialogue with the united states directly they would have not come to south korea but the president trumpeting the hardline policy of north korea might have driven north korea come to south korea. now at the same time i heard you say in an interview to c.n.n. back in september that if the u.s. had spent at least one fifth of effort it put into the iran deal on the north korean issue the whole problem could have been resolved do you think the u.s. is reluctant to bring about a possible solution to the issue you know if united states pay more attention to peace as lucian of the north korean nuclear issue i personally believe did us come can come up with the solutions. so i think the u.s. has been paying too much attention to military solutions but i hope the u.s.

would pay more attention to the peace process lucian to the north korean nuclear problem. president and you right now have been praising president trump for his role in kicking off they enter korean talks why do you get trump credit for this specifically i mean not just the u.s. but russia and china have also been calling for talks and say since the very beginning actually. very simple because north korea would play havoc with the u.s. is returning. would rather choice for north korea to have. this to come you know south korea you know and mostly know we're hoping the north korea can have . some kinds of mediation of south korea so obviously this talks between the two koreas in early january they have been viewed as a huge breakthrough in the last time it happened was back in two thousand and fifteen and since then things were deteriorating how do you make sure things go

well this time i want to slide back into another blame game. i'm not really optimistic about the future over into korean relations but what i have been arguing is that we make every effort to you know that happens if it is not really you know you know of to misty prejudice projection but if you know our mandate who knows we have to fold the current problem. great now when we're well back we'll continue talking to morning special advisor for the national security and foreign policy to the president of south korea we'll talk more about ways out of the nuclear crisis on the korean peninsula stay with us.

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standoff between north korea and the rest of the world is going to play out now president moon is hoping to bring washington n.p.r. new onto the negotiating table but when you hear this who is nuclear but is bigger talk from trump and kim jong goon calling him a loser if the u.s. and north korea finally hold talks are all those insults going to be just tossed aside and forgotten about completely like they never happened nor will it be a mutual gretsch what do you think one matter is in their interest now because the leaders moved before you've. can get together they would come up with a much more practical discussions on the use of the new creation of north korea to for yes you know possibly this could have a some kind of emotional scars on those in the exchange of hostile remarks to but i personally believe that they will be able to overcome such

a kind of past by pushing for national interest as you know there's a common interest of mankind is that south koreans are coordinating closely with washington cosell thing before making any move why south korea need washington's blessing to engage in diplomacy with the north i mean it's koreans talking to koreans why wait for american permission now because we have a we have alliance a relationship we nice to meet we have them a conclusion south korea and north korea does american troops in south korea as a source of a hostile intent in policy and north korea therefore we have kind of standards between the north korea and the united states but we hide in the bed alliance with the united states because of the very strict coming from north korea cape deal for not due to new choice but us to coordinate with the united states the whole point

is a free template north korea has a no no square kind speed has a nuclear weapons then but we have a nuclear weapons and we have n.p.t. reteam nonproliferation regime which would not allow us to have you know the nuclear weapons then what is our choice but to rely on to make a nuclear umbrella sylvanus and me wish to be intense wisdom what so does that mean that for instance if america tells you not to talk to north korea then while north korea is willing to talk to south that you want to talk to them. no and because of this of the american interests and we want to have told with the north korea but knows what i was not coming close to north korea was arguing that this was devoted to north korean national interest these are in the getting rid of american military a nuclear threat from to its fullest nuclear slow that they do id want to protect pull with you know the united states but you haven't you noticed it was not responding to north korea you know as it has been arguing that

a nest north korea feels very concrete steps towards nuclear jason it would not have a dialogue with north korea then good word to north koreans are coming to south korea of course north korean intention was to be such that the that oh now we have a nuclear weapons now from the position of nuclear weapons state would do what we south korea but south korea would have never accepted that position because south korean position is basically a i will go to denuclearizing north korea ok if and no matter what we. knowledge what we are always up north korean nuclear weapons capability but our goal is to to dig the nuclear rods in north korea that was speaking about the sanctions you set yourself that the current very tough sanctions on north korea aren't working since it's such an isolated self-reliant society that is used to hardship so what are the sections for then i mean what do they have and should they be there at all. now government position is very clear that sanctions and precious

instrument to bring north korea to dialogue and negotiation table therefore we are not pushing the policy of sense and for the sake of sentence ok therefore it's time for north korea to really think about it one very clearly our government number one priority can dial when negotiation but north korea has not you know showing an attempt to have a dialogue and negotiation with the south korea as well as united states as to why self-catering joining international efforts and to put the sanctions on north korea but if north korea just come back to the dial the negotiation table we may know lose an hour in the sentence and north korea maybe international community may also rutan its ascension from north korea of course north korea to take a very concrete moves toward denuclearization starting with the freezing of its

nuclear and missile activities do you think that you ask can decide on some kind of hostile unilateral action against north korea without consulting say well for us and what kessel did to rein in the american hog. alferez and made it very clear no more war under the korean peninsula no military action without prior consultation an agreement with us will not be accepted. the u.s. and south korea light allies cannot take a mini test and they can make this it's a lie south korea suffer from immense collateral damages given all of these things ok we'll hoping that the u.s. would not take a military action we cannot rule out the post lead that you nice committee to action but the united states to do expect you know who's opposition from south korea and the controversial missile shield that has been deployed in

south korea already with the deployment help advance to go shake hands with the north or hinder progress. i would say that assad has not produced any profound impact going into korea and talk so these become a major. issue between china and the u.s. in the south korea being century to the north korea criticize the deployment of the thousands said it was has not become any major impediment to into korean talks the u.s. and south korea are not the only ones involved in affairs for instance china seems to have a lot of influence over appealing on what kind of help can south korea count on from beijing here the beijing and so do share a common interest in making peace and stability in the korean peninsula in denuclearized in north korea and for story in a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue through the tire when you were safe and

if i don't see any major difference between beijing and sold on the field north korean could you. just in your personal opinion do you feel like beijing truly. has so much influence on north korea as everyone seems to think are it's an illusion. yes it is true the china has a huge influence over north korea but. cannot influence the regime in the north korea the very clear. influence of the north korean economy and the areas. with regard to. national security north korea now the ultimate goal of dialogue that is being pursued right now is that he'll advocate is i imagine total reunification and north and south korea are so

vastly different in terms of economy technology perhaps even mentality any reunification will be a huge shop can't say all for that for instance i'm just thinking about you know i'm just thinking about reunification of germany the east germany is germany still behind the west economically after thirty years of being together. you know we have several models of unification one is a german model in which you know south korea kudos' over north korea or vice versa another more than the me small korean you've. come from a major military conflict or you could be consensual unification between north and south our government policy to you know see. our government policy you to see consensual consensual unification therefore we are hoping that you know so sonos sit together and try to find out some peace two ways of unifying the korea

meeting take a much longer time so if it does happen then one i mean will we have to wait for it came to grow old and die before a peaceful reunification can happen no no we do not norm we do not know but the one we can do is we can promote exchange in cooperation with north korea we can build a trust with north korea and we can trade any minute you know making free for all people. if we don't having legal unification we can push through. some form of corporation integration between north and selves ok there is our government put it. all right mr ling thank you very much for at this if you will have been talking to some going on that special adviser to the president of south korea for foreign affairs and national security taken into the nuclear danger that looms over the korean peninsula that's it for at this edition of surf and i'll see

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been threshold for their use has been lowered dr strangelove would be proud of world facing another gain just arms race. the bond market will not crash at this time it will continue yields a go even lower and negative yields on various basel increase from the multi trillion dollars about the negative yielding sovereign debt now to eat. more multi multi multi killing dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt and we're going to go down the rabbit hole even further but it certainly smells like what the panic cash withdrawal in places like china and west sell off in all these various markets and what the oil prices climbing higher in gold looking better that we've got here an old fashioned reversal. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet this with simple song alone even some company guess will else

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decision by the court of arbitration for sport to dismiss their appeals against a don't thing when they should ban. all. day. and far right supporters clashed with police in an italian city that suffered a racially motivated shooting last week and made massive. thank you as a growing national sentiment in the country. and a prominent down to harassment activist of the media to this news is accused of sexual misconduct by at least two men. thank you on the stories head to off the top com meanwhile stay with us here on hockey international and the big picture.

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