these things here and go ahead john in washington. well you know i peter i don't know that's that's that's kind of hard to say what i will say is this i think what has happened is that we have now gotten a de facto freeze for freeze this was the proposal you have that was made by moscow and beijing years ago and i wrote on this subject about a year and a half ago and i got excoriated yeah for saying that but this is what it is this is what is now de facto in place and so this is this is a big deal it is you know the u.s. the u.s. military exercises this year the joint us are ok exercises are a shadow of their former self last year we had three aircraft carrier battle groups participating this year it's one small aircraft it's really an assault ship with a short takeoff and landing j. thirty f.

thirty five so it's a huge deal now there are huge military asymmetries on the peninsula which are going to be astronomically difficult to resolve so we may get a start in these in these discussions when the two korean leaders may meet they may in a few days they may even declare and then to yes the korean war at least hostilities but it's going to take a lot of tough slogging to work through some of these details and to particularly to put in place the security guarantees which i think the north koreans are going to insist on to go forward daniel let me go to you i mean the security guarantees that's what it's always been about and i'm glad that john mentioned the freeze for freeze because that's been around for a while nobody in the mainstream media says that where that idea comes from but i can tell you if you go to last year during the security council you could see the russian and chinese ambassador at length go through that. process here daniel

before we go to the break go ahead in new york. well i just want to remind your viewers that that in two thousand and two george w. bush virtually declared war on north korea which he somehow blamed for nine eleven but north korea was was one of the three countries comprising the so-called axis of evil and the u.s. invaded one of those countries has been sort of rattling at the other ever since and so north korea had had grave concerns regarding its own security so kim jong un figured his only protection lay in a nuclear nuclear weapon which he. only has let me jump in here hold that thought gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the korean peninsula state with our team.

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three million tons that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of pommel plantations which is the destruction of rain forest. get into the zero a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. welcome back to cross like we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the korean peninsula and the possibility of peace. ok let's go back to daniel in new york you were taking us down history lane you were you were just talking about the axis of evil to pick up from there go ahead

daniel yeah so in two thousand and two with this axis of evil speech george w. bush essentially the clear of war north korea and that's that speech has never been rescinded anyway there's been no no apology issued no you know no taking back etc so so so kim jong un figured quite logically that it's only protection lay and having a nuclear weapon capable of striking the united states mainland which he apparently has achieved so that is his that is his is great you know is great chess pieces ace in the hole and i don't think i want to live here but i really doubt that he will agree to full denuclearization unless the u.s. meets is willing to engage equally and equally grand gesture which trump might be willing to do but i can guarantee the rest of the foreign policy establishment or blogs as you call them will not they will raise holy hell and they will

essentially block triumph from doing that. in washington can you reflect upon that because that's been my inkling for a moment long you know i'm like john said i'm perfectly willing to give donald trump credit for this if this is just kicked it off ok fine ok but there are forces and you see it all the time in the corporate media mimics the their corporate owners ok they're not keen on seeing. seeking out particularly if it means negotiations as equal that's not in their d.n.a. they don't operate that way go ahead absolutely absolutely correct first let me back up a little bit out here and say that yes i totally agree with john that a huge amount of credit is also due to donald trump because let us remember before he talked about fire and fury and destroying north korea he also probably went up further than any u.s.

president had had talked about and talked about particular some assurances that he doesn't see the collapse of the north korean regime he doesn't seek regime change he doesn't want to have an invasion over thirty eight over the thirty eighth parallel etc etc so he has tried he had made a lot of assurances also in his early months and that hasn't had that has he has not got adequate credit for that so yes i mean in other ways also donald trump deserves credit and that's that's that's that's perfectly fine you know the one grilli good thing going for donald trump is that the u.s. system provides huge in on foreign policy huge amount of power not just to the presidency but to the president and so he can really override his staff because frankly this is all going to come down to donald trump and making that deal with jungle on which the foreign policy establishment has not been willing to contemplate and part of the reason it's not been willing to contemplate it's easy

to see is that all the came regime for ever and the kims never never. on their from their part always cheating etc etc which is which is not entirely true it is partly true not entirely true but just too many forces i think for people in washington are western and in a cold war mindset confrontational attitude to north east asian geopolitics with the thirty eighth parallel being that tripwire and it's not easy. we fought many off them to come to terms with that you know what the peninsula could be just insulated from that whole geopolitical environment let's ask john because john that was his line of business for a while i mean what are the forces moving against this here and beyond because it's donald trump's idea but i mean the you know talks through the bureaucratic inertia that you know that would be against this go ahead well i think i would disagree

i think that currently the top leadership of the u.s. defense department is not against what trump is trying to do and we just saw that in syria we saw the d.o.d. weighed in and so we had symbolic strikes against syria rather than the more far reaching operation that some were advocating so. i think that we have to be a little bit careful here now i would take this back even a little bit before the axis of evil speech people forget that nuclear weapons were first deployed on the korean peninsula during the eisenhower administration and we had at one time nine hundred fifty nuclear tactical nuclear weapons in korea this is this is now a de quite well we had seven thousand and western europe. anyway. president

bush the elder who's now ill in the hospital was the was the one who decided to put an end to this this kind of madness and so we began withdrawing them but you know you don't have to explain the nuclear issue in terms of the evil nature of the north korean regime although perhaps there's some of that that that can be part of the explanation it's really an action reaction sequence and we took the initial action and the north koreans then responded to it so i think the same dynamic can be used in the current circumstances and terms of confidence building measures and hopefully we can walk this back i agree completely that having. a progressive president and seoul is a huge help and i think china and russia can also help but. i think it's going to be really difficult to unravel this not which

which we've tied ourselves up in and on the peninsula and these various asymmetries ok danielle i think this kind of leads to where i want to go in the program i mean i am sure that there is there's a sense that if if the u.s. and there's the perception of the u.s. backing down the perception of the u.s. . involved in a diplomatic process that would be deemed as appeasement here that would have a ricochet effect through all of the other and tangling alliances the u.s. has in the pacific is this part of the thinking there because it is john said you know to untie this not here there is a huge ripple effect through the entire region go ahead daniel. this totally true totally true and would be a huge ripple effect in washington as well where all these countries have their have their interests they have their they have their you know their little alliances japan most particularly russia and china as well so if you know.

the north may be playing a kind of vietnamese game where they're trying to you know seek a closer alliance with the south in order to protect themselves against china so therefore that's certainly possible in china could be getting nervous as well and china has friends in washington and. i have to say the japanese wouldn't be very happy if it is with a unified strong powerful korean peninsula so you know that they wouldn't there to hold the fence thinking would have to be rethought keep going daniel. and japan has tons of friends in washington also so so i think that we're going to see a huge ripple effect from the north northeastern the northeast asia on to washington as all sides are piled on and you know and trump is on one hand trump has got great power as a as a u.s. president but on this hand politically he's very weak he is really on the ropes

it's a ferocious pummeling so so i don't know i doubt very much it'll be able to withstand these forces and i think that he will i'm pretty sure he is incapable of engaging in the same kind of grand gesture that kim jong un is willing to engage you know let me go back to sort of i mean you know he won the presidency he surprises it's all the time you know maybe it'll work this time i don't know i mean don't you think also it's just a mindset i mean north korea is this cartoonish evil character the axis of evil i mean it's so convenient and there's so many people that have made entire careers out of demonizing and i'm not i'm not siding with the north koreans or it's . i don't do that kind of thing i i'm basically a realist when it comes to foreign policy so but i mean don't you think that's part of the problem here is he is changing minds you know taking a fresh look and there is like this really an amazing opportunity that we may never see again go ahead. oh absolutely absolutely this is as good an opportunity source

the end of the korean war in. as since the end of the korean war to have a peace regime on the peninsula as well as since the denuclearization declaration and agreements of the early one thousand nine hundred to do during the nuclearization let me go out a little bit on a limb here and make two points you know with regard to denuclearize nation most people and i totally agree understand the views that this is going to be very difficult close to impossible he's not going to give it up i'm one of those feel very tiny minority but who believes that this is very doable and i can really give it up i could give john i did john is not in the same position as saddam hussein. but he had to go hide it that's why he developed it in the first place to trade it away for security guarantees it seems logical to me exactly. exactly let me explain that point also you know what is a nuclear weapon the focus of

a nuclear weapon is to call unacceptable damage to the adversary he already can do unacceptable damage to their adversary by crushing seoul with his conventional guns and therefore a nuclear weapon over and above that is something that he can leverage and he can bargain and which is exactly what he is doing and therefore i would say that this is doable this is a great opportunity but what we have to do also is this cannot be a process which gets out over many years in a decade and it's action for action with five hundred steps which then breaks down after twenty steps this has to be a big grand bargain a kind in a truncated where they're going to define time period and i think it's doable let me go to look at let me go to john john you're on the negotiating team for the united states what would you tell your boss dollars trying to do in forty seconds go ahead hey i what i would tell him to do is just have good vibes in the in the meeting apparently that was the case when pompei went there i think what. it's

different this time around is that the negotiations are not being run through a bureaucratic process and a lot of people are criticizing trump on this score it's it's a crisis situation and people forget what we were talking about last fall we're talking about the imminent prospect of war on the peninsula so i think things are moving in a good direction i am concerned about the asymmetries. also we're going to have one possible drop out in this process prime minister is in deep political trouble i'm not sure if he's going to be able to survive or not but yeah i think we we just have to hope that the intercooler goes well ok and in a way moon isn't playing that is vance gentlemen we have run out of time and very rarely do we end on a positive note many thanks to my guests in washington and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here on c.n.n.

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appreciated me to just read the review the r.t.g. its latest edition we go up as we go. to jersey book. the czech republic admits it once produced a poison like the one used in the songs brits have one of former russian spy and his daughter asked to spy on the u.k. his claims that only moscow had the means to carry out the attack and. also this hour we hear from auntie franking activists whom british police view as dangerous extremists alongside radical islamists and neo nazis the police have been involved in dragging disabled people out of wheelchairs on the public point of the sultan. the pentagon says its forces stationed in the horn of africa are coming under attack from chinese laser weapons as the u.s.

issues a warning of extreme caution to its soldiers. and r.t. joins in military parade rehearsals taking place in moscow as russia prepares for victory day on may ninth. practice makes perfect they say seemingly simple maneuvers like this one still being all that simple when there are dozens of vehicles involved in the all have to be in sync. very good morning to you from all of our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron great to have you with us now first this hour the czech republic has revealed it made a similar nerve agents to the one used to attack former russian spy sergei screw powell and his daughter the country's president to me to launch the man cited an intelligence report confirming that the poison had been made last year. do you

know the choke was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity that we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened the president of the czech republic saying that nava child had been produced and stored in the country could of course be seen as quite a considerable development since it reiterates the point that russia has been making throughout the script saga for all of this time saying that it could have been produced in a number of countries including the czech republic and the us now the president of the czech republic did say that this was a small amount and that it had been destroyed however still this is important given that previously we have seen ministers of the country deny this possibility the russians crossed all boundaries when these novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie now of course when accusations against russia started if you recall the

united kingdom was saying that it could only have been russia to produce the novacek nerve agent that was said to have been used to poison sergei scruple and his daughter insults vary on march fourth however this came with a combination of arguments made by the west saying that it could only have been russia that russia was the only country they thought would have a motive in a situation like this as well as it had a history as they described it of carrying out similar attacks every culture does about the identity of the culprit no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an action. bill explosion and this is of course that russia had denied throughout the whole scandal however it did unravel and snowball into a major diplomatic route bringing ties between russia and the u.k. to a new low leading to a handful of expulsion of russian diplomats from

a number of countries as as well. the boycotting of the world cup about to take place in russia this summer and again despite the fact that russia over and over again said it had nothing to do with the incident had called for joint investigations to be carried out including with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and of course taking all of this into consideration it's curious to point out that following sergei script pollin his daughter yulia regaining consciousness in the hospital here in the u.k. the story and the whole scandal has pretty much disappeared from the political and media limelight so it's going to be interesting to see whether or not it could in fact return following these latest statements made by the czech president the czech president said counter intelligence reports identified the agents made in his country as a substance called a two thirty four and chalk time substance we've heard from george swanley a senior research fellow at the global policy institute at london metropolitan

university. it really does blow the whole british american thesis out of the water the british americans do says was that nobody bar of the russians could have produced it even though no evidence of ever being produced to suggest. that it ever was manufactured in russia are and. the people who were anywhere in the world could not have done it i mean the formula has been probably in the united states already some years ago and now if. what the czechs are saying today groups of the correct then. explode the entire british american thesis. us rapper kanye west is a russian spy secretly working for vladimir putin well that's according to one south proclaims to teach intelligence analyst the accusations can lie after the

celebrity publicly revealed his warm support for donald trump right now looks at an ever growing army of kremlin agents remember when being portrayed as a russian spy was funny. a bit of a joke. over. what he had done in the dark when. russian spy assaulted. by a casual. who isn't funny now could be anyone in the oval office in the pentagon madison square garden. can years recent coordinations with trump along with his use of infamous or rhetoric and symbols confederate flag reek of products here just join up the dogs hi nia indorse trump publicly their friends.

i'm not saying can you west is involved at all in the trump russia scandal but i am saying he has russian ties and was there right after the twenty sixteen election. scott did walk in or perhaps work in a contributor for the us news channel m.s.n. b c and also founder of russia gate agrees there are just too many dogs not to connect them kanya west went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the jew see what he got up to i sure didn't get to be doing anything it's now so or vs why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian.

pretends to. own robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the facts he cool owns the chain of all true a luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchs we're not blind anymore there could be russian spies in my audience and i wouldn't know everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now. that's why russian spies. ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the

president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you. american military forces in the african nation of djibouti are coming under attack from blinding chinese laser is also home to the pentagon but danger is apparently so high that the military has sent out an notice of extreme caution this. trysts threat to our air. we have formally to march. and we've changed it's it's a serious matter and so we're taking years years now chinese military observers say that the beams could be used simply to scare birds off of the airfield or to disrupt the activities of spider and they also point out that china is

a signatory of the protocol on blinding laser weapons which outlaws the use of equipment that could cause permanent blindness this is china's only overseas military base located in the african country of djibouti just a few kilometers away from a very strategic u.s. military base now you can bet with two key military setups so close together the two geo political rivals are looking for any possible secret info they can get from each other they've even admitted as much we have taken we are taking significant steps on the counter-intelligence side so that we have all the defenses that we need there's no doubt about that that's general wald hauser the top commander of u.s. military forces in africa now the u.s. military is all over the continent engaging in anti terror operations flying drones propping up aligned governments but while the houser admits that china is doing something in africa that the usa is not doing very well investing look we'll never know.