significant part in american russian relationships on september first one nine hundred eighty three korean airlines flight seven from new york to seoul via anchorage was shot down by a soviet interceptor aircraft over the territory of the u.s.s.r. in the sea of japan there was absolutely no justification i don't legal or moral for what the soviets did the tragedy of the korean bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on november second one thousand nine hundred eighty three nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack it was followed by placing pershing two nuclear missiles in europe . what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows that for the first time since the cuban missile crisis the world was close to nuclear war. just like in one nine hundred eighty three the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit

and frankly here is what happen and drop off was very sick and the 269 people who died in the korean airlinerhot down by the soviet september 1983 reagan even wrote in his diary so he would be dead within a year so maybe that happened maybe he got sick but they did not follow up that somebody just having a general interest in the media would at least call kennedy by 1992 to follow up. >> chuck schumer was elected to congress 1981. nancy pelosi is elected i believe 1987. they were alive and they are still alive. you have the house intelligence committee. the senate intelligence committee the foreign affairs committee's. they don't want to investigate one of their own. they didn't want to know. >> and one liberal said to me kennedy does this in the interest of pcs worried about the cold war and nuclear armageddon. he's trying to do what he can he is worried. this is justified. i said i don't know if that's a motivation or not but nobody asked him about it. are there any political motivations? at least ask maybe at some point they would have. >> that even if there were no other aspects, what he

if he's got a choice, he should stay off of north korean airlines. >> reporter: but kim has been photographedidential jet nicknamed air force un which some aviation experts say could make a long trip. despite logistical and security concerns for the paranoid young dictator, some analysts believe kim will venture far if it means another meeting with trump. >> kim jong-un would have concerns but needs the world stage. part of what he's doing is trying to help donald trump create theater rather than take concrete steps of denuclearization. he'll want a place to get media attention but not a place, i think, where protests are possible which would undercut his security and his propaganda message. >> now, wherever a summit is held, analysts say there's considerable pressure on both trump and kim jong-un to come up with a more substantive deal than the one they struck in singapore. kim desperately needs sanctions to be lifted. trump is facing more scrutiny on north korea by newly empowered democrats in congress, wolf, he's got to come back with something more substantive than they got in june. >> ce

dropoff got very sick, in fact, kennedy was very impressed with cal 007 the people who died in korean airlineviet in september 1983 reagan even wrote in his diary, word is that he's very sick. right now so he would be dead within a year. of this offer, so maybe that happened because he got sick they drop the bomb and didn't follow but just having a general interest in media would have at least called kennedy at least by 1992 after to find out what happened. chuck schumer is elected to congress. i believe in 1981 who was born a member of congress. nancy pelosi is elected to congress during this by memory i believe 1987. well they were -- right still alive. you have the house intelligence committee. you have the senate intelligence committee. you have the foreign affairs committees. they didn't want to investigate one of their own people did they? they didn't want to know about ted kennedy did they? >> they didn't and i had one liberal who said to me but look doing this in theo me but look interest of peace he's worried about cold war. nucleararm deaden you know he's trying to do what he can. h

this is a photograph of one of the demonstrations that took place after the shooting down of the korean airliner007. relations between the east and west were as tense and as dangerous as they had been at any point in the cold war. what oleg was able to reveal, however, to his mi-6 handlers was that so far from being the aggressors in the nuclear confrontation, the kremlin was genuinely fearful that the west was planning a first strike. which was partly a function of the fact that the soviets were losing the arms race effectively, but and drop -- andropov was genuinely convinced the west would attack first, which was an extreme revelation to the mi-6 and to the cia. and many much of this information was parcelled up to the cia and although the source was not revealed. when this landed on reagan's desks it had an impact. reagan was shocked to discover that the west was perceived as the aggressor and you could see the change of the rhetoric that he was using onward. the talk of the evil empire stopped and you begin to see the beginning of the end of the cold war. one of the other things that oleg d