abadie, it is beautiful here.lay of abadie, it is beautiful harem dismal swamp sounds like the lay of abadie, it is beautiful here. it has ecosystems all in this one landscape. the name does not give it a welcoming feeling but once people get to learn the area, they realise how special it is. we are walking along washington ditch, named after george washington who was one partner in the great dismal swamp land company. these indigenous were dug under his direction to drain the swamp, log the timber and farm the land. to drain the swamp, not the only us president to say that. i guess not. more than 200 years of development for the area to become just a little less dismal. and at that time, the swamp featured in another chapter of american history. before the civil war, runaway slaves came to hide here. they form communities and they were called maroons. this people chose to live in the swamp? yes because live on a plantation was so horrific that they chose to be free and if they had to go to live in the swamp to ha

army to iraq, itas then the prime minister abadi that came at the request of the iraqi government, not parliament. the iraqi military state doesn't need the u.s. army, which i think they need them now. they can just ask them to lea and they will leave eventually in a few days. >> schifrin: ambsador suleman, former ambassador to iraq. sarkawt shams, thank you very much to you both. >> thank you. >> schifrin: north korea's leader kim jong-un has announced he will no longer abide by a moratorium on nuclear and long- range missile tests, and he warned north koreans of a "long confrontation with the u.s." direct talks with the trump administration are stalled. for more on all of this, we turn to naoko aoki, an adjunct political scientist from the rand corporation, and a former journalist who has been to north korea 18 times. thank you very much, welcome to the "newshour". >> thank you. >> schifrin: what are your main takeaways from kim's statement? >> i think this is a major policy shift from -- to an answer on weapons development, strategic weapons development and an emfa signs self-relian