embassy given for these protocols. well they haven't really given any plausible explanation at all the only crazy explanation i suppose some months ago was that. had put out social media messages which were interference in other country's internal affairs i think he did some comments supporting the catalan independence movement for example and that created the wrath of spain which then put pressure on ecuador. so that seems to be that the ostensible reason sensible reason is he's doing things that are politically embarrassing that he's. making comments that ecuador doesn't think is appropriate i don't really buy that that may be part of the reason but it's very clear that the u.s. is leading leading leaning very heavily on us on ecuador to resolve the matter i.e.

to get a sound out of the embassy so he can be extradited to the united states where there's been a secret grand jury convened for several years which has every intention to slap him with very serious charges including possibly under the espionage act and certainly he's going to face a minimum of thirty to fifty years in prison if he is successfully taken to the u.s. put on trial and convicted so it's understandable he's worried and understandable he doesn't want to leave the embassy. to touch all their human rights activists thanks very much coming on to the program thank you. now former long serving f.b.i. agent who worked in the u.s. state of minnesota has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to media now he faces a four years in federal prison artie's done in hawking's picks up the story a veteran of the agency an impeccable service record three years from retirement.

now charged tried and found guilty for whistle blowing the only black asian to the f.b.i. is minneapolis field office it's a real worry grew uneasy over his seventeen year career he says he saw discrimination racial profiling rule bending and abuse of power by the agency he felt the public needed to know i truly wanted to make a difference and never intended to put anyone in danger the f.b.i. and court saw things differently tried under the espionage act he was branded a traitor who put national security at risk isn't the first whistleblower to face the wrath of author or tease edward snowden chelsea manning are two of the best known in recent years but this case was slightly different terry allbery was charged with the leak of just two documents to the media and retaining another focusing on methods used by the f.b.i. supporters claim the only damage caused was not to national security but the egos of author of. the u.s.

attorney general has made things clear amongst the crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers the risk of exposing perceived wrongdoing and injustice is higher than ever we are conducting perhaps the most aggressive campaign against leaks in department history crimes like the one committed by the defendant in this case will not be tolerated they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and punished and it seems for now whatever the motive alleged racism or spying lawbreaking or corruption whistleblowers call bori will face the tough choice of trusting their conscience or risking everything one thing we've got a workable or the bottom line. or wrong or poll buying another are written by the regularly. going behind the scenes and any blow the whistle certain thing with a little bit more of what what what actually transpired i mean we were. look the.

theory. director called me for one and there's other many other people to your level sort of thing to the press that are highly classified. and that and that is a concern but i don't really have a stream of government made it out to be. the top of the hour with more headlines the first international.

as the second meeting between the leaders u.s. and north korea is on the horizon questions remain well north korea give up its nuclear weapons for good or are we going to miss ruston another round of tension my guests today. president of the korea international economic policy. there's light at the end of the tunnel for the. president. and. the rest of the world. thank you for being with us today delighted to have you so recently the north korean leader wrote a warm letter to president and now we see that a second meeting may be on the cards just can we expect any tangible results from.

never know. there might be a new summit between donald trump. and seems that this time it will be a more productive meeting and we can expect tangible results of course their views on the denuclearization of north korea are somewhat different at this point. america says the nuclearization first got the while north korea thinks that we need to end the war and then move forward i think that those leaders are choosing the peaceful path and if that is the case they will breach a solution to the nuclear problem up and i am hopeful that will happen at that was at the. so i think the e.c. not too long ago seriously asked people on american t.v. if the u.s. should bomb north korea so they really were on the brink of war and now they're about to meet for the second time does it mean that the worst is over what do you think. that is the. last year everybody was concerned but i don't know

or on the korean peninsula was inevitable but now the situation has changed drastically there is movement towards peace last year but that wouldn't have even dreamed about this of course this will take time but i think so gradually both the united states and north korea of the nuclear problem on the korean peninsula. what was our present trump acted towards north korean leader when he wrote mean things on twitter called him names sent out and then we called and now america and north korea have unprecedented only a translation national interest was behaving this way he was criticized for acting with such recklessness but now i guess it turns out that he did everything right still feel probably in. well things have stabilized to degree witty and i think these are wise choices that people have made at the maybe it was some trickle

where the trump played in order to make north korea participate in dialogue but the situation in north korea has changed as well its current leader kim jong un is like a young gorbachev his vision is different from the ideas of he's predecessors americans think that the soviet union fell because of u.s. sanctions but it is not true and we see the same situation now in north korea americans think that sanctions against north korea are forcing the koreans to talk but it is only one of the factors that now the situation in north korea it will be is a little different it's opened up with kim jong un has a different vision now and he's ready for disarmament rather is it. i don't know i think i think that maybe he just outsmarted every one for us he's scared to world with nuclear weapons presenting the worst case scenario and he's capitalizing on that saying ok i will not make nuclear weapons let's be friends. compared to the united states and other countries north korea is

a small states but it is that they cannot fool the whole world if they deceived or fooled the world then we cannot expect anything good to come out of that then more i think they understand this and unlike previous leaders of his country or. once a different result is not the end that inspires hope. right now trump and the north korean leader are exchanging pleasantries but the south korean leader is also doing his part to any relations between south and north koreas are getting better what can we expect from this policy. was there you know. administration in south korea is trying and will continue to try to engage north korea in dialogue even before the first united states north korea some mental we were doing something to ensure that summit would actually take place and now korea is playing a major role as well it is the connecting the bridge organism important for the

united states and north korea to come to an understanding right and our government is playing a very important role bringing those two together but it's this is how the current administration is different and we're all seeing the positive results. the only one i remember when the next round of harsh sanctions against north korea was being discussed president clinton said that sanctions don't work especially in the case of north korea because its people are not scared of difficult this song but why is north korea making concessions now you see in the rhetoric say say that they are ready for it to nuclearization all right we're ready to give up nuclear weapons. in reality sanctions against north korea is just one factor played a part in the current state of things. like we're north korea decided to talk to the united states and south korea at that when north korea became a state also that sanctions were immediately imposed from day one of its existence

it is an important factor but it is not the only one. but when the situation got really dicey at the end of last year and it felt like war was inevitable but if things suddenly began to change south korea never stopped trying to talk to the north and the p. and chong olympics allowed us to make significant progress so it was a good excuse and a good opportunity to sit down together thoughts and most of the bits and both countries came to an understanding during the storks which is north koreans also did not once and mrs chance to talk to us and then after the talks south korea's signals to the united states to china to russia and japan that there was progress to be made and that north korea was really in dialogue. and now we all see progress which means that it wasn't just the sanctions that made a difference between north korean leader kim jong un was educated in the west and

he understands what is really important now for his country and the important thing is to be able to feed the nation by just going to the impossible without dialogue and nuclear disarmament north korea understands that it will not prosper without peace that's for sure. not sure anything about keeping the regime alive it was obvious to everybody that everyone sat the north korean leader needs nuclear weapons to prop up the current regime it's to guarantee of his safety in the region and he's saying again those are just words for now but he is willing to give up nuclear weapons does this mean that he has some other guarantees stronger. nuclear weapons. you know when you are starving but you have nuclear weapons that is a road to nowhere and it could spell doom for north korea first and foremost current leader kim jong un is young she studied abroad in

a western country and he understands western culture at that if you give up nuclear weapons you can develop your country and your economy and i think this is what he's thinking. but nobody might that but he needs guarantees that no one will interfere in his country's affairs and if the international community and countries like the united states russia china and japan provide such guarantees it is entirely possible that north korea will do nuclearize so i don't give jong un just needs guarantees from the countries that he has some kind of trust him. because business as a team so why would say we're only close relations with north korea that it has today what is the aim of his policy and what about north korea why would they need to grow closer now missing in the. as you know korea peace and prosperity. similarly that's a very diplomatic answer let me ask in

a different way what is more afraid of north korea nuclear missiles or a war in order to destroy a north korean nuclear missile what are you more afraid of. children which bush. after the korean war or the koreans have always felt threatened. on the one hand everyone is used to that but on the other hand everyone holds an actual war is out of the question being at the store but no less important maybe the most important thing even more is the economic aspect the economy just not from a humanitarian points if you have the same period being divided in two parts in the north and south of course it's a terrible thing so it's about our economic really speaking it is. so much worse. stagnating now the. young people have to feed. and they need to make more money out of egypt so we need new opportunities and. our economy would be great if such opportunities opened up thanks to north korea lawyer asian markets more including

russia. versified our economy based on the peace and prosperity of the korean peninsula and strengthen our size with india with the so-called southern regions this is all very important to us that is why our current government and our people want to peaceful resolution to the nuclear problem and closer ties with north korea . do you think trump might be expected to make some concessions in response to kim's actions. expect something like that to happen. well it's already happening the u.s. military has suspended military exercises to south korea but then with the saber to clear did it because north korea stopped the nuclear testing at the end started to dismantle some of its missile launch sites that the best deal and then came the

mutual concessions these are the positive results of the u.s. north korea summit but it will take not one cent it will take five six seven summits to ensure we do not go back to the way things work. on this that short break right now while we're back will continue talking to j. young plea president for the korean state of the international economic policy stay with us.

seem wrong. to shape out this day. and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. now we're back with j. young lee price and for the korean international economic policy mr lee of cool that way what world do you think russia could play in. opinion what can russia to

to normalize the situation. you know. we have in terms of north korea's the nuclearization stems from the differences between the united states and north korea russia needs to play an even more active role on the commune. strategically speaking for example that can be accomplished by a trilateral cooperation between north korea south korea and russia i believe that north korea will be ready to nuclearize very soon there could be an agreement about some of the nuclear weapons and materials to be taken to russia and disposed of there then on the basis of mutual trust with the united states and russia could help north korea in the energy for example build a gas pipeline and trucks with this north korea would open up to the world a little more that's how we could solve this issue as well this way united states

russia relations will improve i mean it's possible cooperation will avoid getting sanctions and almost. no one else i think could trade between russia and south korea facilitate closer ties between the north and the south i mean geographically it would involve transit through north korean territory which would mean more cooperation between russia south korea and north korea in order to expand trade. one of the main obstacles for the far eastern development is the instability on the korean peninsula as soon as there is peace on the korean peninsula would have incredible potential for mutually. an official development not only for the far east but also northeast asia as a whole. russia wants to cooperate with the asia pacific since that is the center of global economic growth the far east and north korea will be the engine of economic growth in the twenty first century russia's trade with ozzy on is growing

north and the korean peninsula is the door to the asia pacific region as a whole if peace prevails here russia will be able to have economically beneficial relations not only with the west but also with the asia pacific. economic you. touched on this before the interview with the sanctions within russia and the west and the latest u.s. and european sanctions against russia is turning east look at this forum for instance a clear reproves that russia is seriously about. to say will benefit from that i don't know maybe a taking this vacated by western partners or russia. i'm very happy that russia is paying closer attention to the east including korea korea used to be russia's partners we cooperated see as well it would be nice to rebuild all that but we definitely needs both starts. i very much hope that we will meet

many times in the future here and at the eastern economic forum that russian made possible in ten years i think russia will be a true asian country not only in the job graphical sense yes and also economically that is why i think. the economy. right now the u.s. is south korea's closest partner any country which is out of tune with american foreign policy towards russia is heavily criticized by united states and this could pressure on for instance there is a number of european countries which are not that eager to impose sanctions on russia but what is pressured by the u.s. so. under american influence they have to obey and imposed sanctions aren't you afraid to south korea being such a close american partner would not be allowed by washington to become friends with russia. you know i think that one day sanctions will

disappear like snow. but it will take time for your country and for us and the whole world economy the sanctions imposed on russia by the united states and the e.u. have a clear detrimental effect. screw operation efforts throughout the world i think that some day us russian relations will improve and when the day finally comes we have to be ready we need to start preparing the foundations for that other. one of those allies asking aren't you afraid the south korea will simply not be allowed to develop closer ties with russia. south korea may be a small country but we are a sovereign nation we are not subjects of america even though it is an important partner. but there are many ways in which we are independent from america we have the right to choose our own destiny for example the size of our economy decides

america and japan who would be happy to develop relations with russia with the eurasian continent on the whole with nations and with india there is nothing bad about that is there no i don't believe that we are america's puppets no that is definitely not us but. at the pilots i want some people are talking about a possible to nuclearization of the korean peninsula and they're saying that north korea might finally give up its nuclear weapons and eventually sign a treaty with you if that happens will south korea have any meat for a year strips on a peninsula or will you say so long we don't need you anymore now that the threat is gone home. well denuclearization and north korea are not directly tied to the presence of united states troops in south korea but i do not think u.s. forces will be staying here forever. these two factors should not be perceived as

related to one another this is the way we see things right now our priority denuclearization. opposed to sitting. down trump on came john goodman our building bridges to task between washington and beijing are becoming strained could play on young somehow take advantage show the crisis in u.s. china relations it could attempt to bargain for concessions by capitalizing on u.s. china tensions for instance south. mower you know. china has a strong influence on north korea and so does america and russia north korea is very important to us in order to resolve the issue of north korea's nuclear program we will require support from all parties including the major powers as us china russia and japan without the help of these nations we will not be able to secure a full junior. and achieve the peace and prosperity on the korean peninsula but i

say this because i want to emphasize just how important russia's role is to this and tired thing what's what's the bus. i said i'd like to ask you something when north korea and america had per america blame china blame beijing for manipulating north korea now the relations between north korea in america have improved i mean we don't see anyone in the knowledge ing beijing's role or thanking china say commanding north korea to improve relations with america in other words when relations are bad between north korea and the u.s. it's china's fault but if relations do improve then suddenly china had nothing to do with it so how come. yet the. scope of the trade war between china and india. states is heating up the poor and that is fear is very unfortunate because the lack of close cooperation between the two powers makes it impossible to resolve the north korean issue. trump is very

aggressive right now with respect to beijing isn't ham he's taking some unexpected and have a hand in measures against china only so wary down the markets are bracing for a new round in the tariff for that but what if all these threats are no different from what trump it with kim stores korea germany or what he did and he kept the piling on threats until the two leaders finally met and the cleric piece up what if he's planning to do the same with china i mean he will keep issuing threats until he makes a sudden you turn to or supply and he could couldn't he one of the most. the way i see it is a little bit different previously under the obama administration the problem was that from america's few point trade with china seemed unfair that was the way they saw it at the cup but now under trump we'll see there's a multitude of grievances with china's policies and this is not just about national security it's also about stealing technology it's about copyright law and u.s.

intellectual property and so on still the united states and china need to negotiate and arrive at a solution to this trade war it's all dragging on and i think it was the fault lies with china america is worried about its technology being stolen and this is what i believe america is most afraid of and that is why there are tensions. and if there's one thing i don't get are this two countries really that much at odds with one another that they prevent each other from prospering i mean how serious are they actually economic tensions between china and america i mean really. yes well unfortunately they are quite real recently the. korean institute for international economic policy investigated the way united states sanctions against chinese goods affected korea's economy and what we found was that the entire situation was restricting curious economic opportunities so far the effect hasn't

been too severe but if the tensions continue to rise and if it goes on like that for some time it will become a threat to our economy and to the region's economy as a whole idea. of what concession as they make that china is because they were this construction project of the century and i'm talking about the new silk road project they're constructing infrastructure all throughout your asia when will this mega project be launched will china even care by that point about some tariffs on them by a trunk like. americans are very very closely monitoring on this right now they have taken the wait and see approach want to see what it all leads to. confidence i mean russia china in korea is a need of a high speed rail system and if american invest in it with their capital and their technology and joins in i believe that would guarantee high efficiency and mutually

beneficial. effects of. thank you very much for the conversation and i wish to a. president i don't have space in the system. to the broken system. it's not just for people like me to remove the original ugly little. different people who are here for different reasons we all should just be also a little.

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