cnn foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty takes a closer look. >> reporter: the strongholds of enemies will be turned into a sea of flames. after threatening to unleash nuclear war, why have north korea's young leader and his generals suddenly gone silent? the u.s. and south korea ended a massive two month joint military exercises that infuriated the north. experts say that might have helped. another possible reason. >> china and the united states must together take steps in order to achieve the goal of denuclearized korean peninsula. >> reporter: secretary of state kerry's visit, pressing china's leaders to use leverage to get the north to cool it. >> and today we agreed to bear down very quickly with great specificity on exactly how we will accomplish this goal. >> reporter: korea watchers believe transfers of money from north korean entities in china back to pyongyang have been curtailed, and shipments across the border slowed. at least on the surface, no public signs china turned up the heat on kim jong-un. >> in terms of de-escalating rhetoric, it is a good thing. but the

the next question will come from jill dougherty from c.n.n.tional rules were drilled through thank you very much i'd like to begin with the question in russian for sig signatory which. you mentioned but issue of chemical weapons to get president obama says that there are certain red lines here. does russia does president putin have in your red lines. secretary kerry will. have to pull out maybe not. you talked about russia and the united states working more closely after the attack in boston but this last year has been marred by a number of issues and you've referred to some of them syria missile defense the magnitsky act n.g.o.s adoption etc you spent it looks like two and a half hours with president putin did you make any concrete progress on those issues and does boston really change anything specifically in how the countries are going to work together. well. mistress of your ticket for stocks. as for the first question is that i can just be as one side said if ever there seems that we seriously i'm probably considering any answer even prob

jill dougherty is covering this story.eporter: i think what you are seeing is russians are saying this is really a pattern. they are saying, number one, ryan fog el the most recent case has actually been they would argue was with the cia. they you into it before he came. it wasn't the first time he was spying. when he came to russia, they were watching him. they say over the past two years the united states has been upping its attempts to recruit russians, most of them intelligence agents to work for the cia. in fact, they say, as you pointed out, in january of this year an unnamed american also was expelled because of that. we asked the state departmentant. that they are not giving any details or confirming that. and then finally, they say, you know, it's simply, it was too much for them. the phrase is they tested our patients and it was beyond the pail and russia says they had to make this latest case very public, which they have been. so, carole, i think you can say there is a lot going on here, a lot of messages and th

cnn foreign affairs correspondent jim doherty has t -- jill dougherty has the story. >> reporter: his traveling to north korea, five times last year. >> he's only had the biggest heart for the people and the nation of north korea. and, you know, he was really happy that he was helping in some small way to their economic growth. >> reporter: the 44-year-old korean american operated tours from china, bringing in businessmen. he was arrested in early november in russon, north korea, a special economic zone near the border with russia and china. this week he was found guilty of unspecified hoss tail acts. >> he's generous and giving, and maybe he could have delivered bread to orphanages once or two. >> reporter: many people are malnourished or starving. after bae was arrested, u.s. officials told cnn he was involved with a protestant religious movement. that, too, could infuriate the north. on his eight trips to north korea, former new mexico governor bill richardson has been a go-between. in january, on a trip with google executive eric schmidt, he took a letter to kenneth bae from his f

we're expecting to hear from john brown at cnn foreign affairs correspondent, jill dougherty. the associated press rights with the u.s. decision to arm and three rebels and russia's decision to supply the assad regime with missiles, possible that it has overshadowed attempts to bring representatives of the regime and the opposition to peace talks at an international conference in geneva possibly happening next month. we are expecting this discussion to get started momentarily. bu [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> we are expecting this discussion to get started in a moment or two. guests are preparing and getting their microphones on. the associated press writes that a spacecraft carrying an american, russian and italian left earth today heading for the international space station, where they will spend six months conducting a variety of experiments. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to tonight's panel. it's great to see we have a full room, which is a good indicator for a robust discussion tonig

cnn's foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is following all of this from the state departmentfour days ago, and it just won't stop. every day, the russian media are coming out with more allegations, and this latest chapter is the outing of what they say is a cia station chief in moss kouf. moscow. the plot thickens, in an already convoluted and public spy scandal. just days after an alleged cia officer ryan foegle, claiming they caught him red handed trying to recruit a russian agent, in a highly unusual step, they publishes the name of what it claims is the cia station chief at a u.s. embassy moscow. the cia isn't commenting. it also broadcast a recording of an alleged second american spy expelled in january. details of the spy scandal have been splashed across the russian media. interfax news agency even reporting that the wigs ryan fogel wore to disguise himself are similar to wigs taken from a cia agent caught in 1986. experienced russia watchers say it's not surprising alleged spies are being unmasked, but they question, why so publicly and why now? they say it could be t

cnn's foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is joining us with the latest. >> reporter: we're at this point, are not telling us where the women are but they do say that under normal circumstances they would be working with a nongovernmental organization to give them things like housing, probably some clothing and a way of getting in touch with their the two women from the philippines worked behind these gates. the residents of the saudi arabian defense attache. a luxurious guarded compound in mclean, virginia valued at almost $3 million with bars on the windows. state department officials tell cnn the women claim the saudi diplomat living inside held their passports, forced them to work extremely long hours, did not pay them, would enter their rooms and wouldn't let them lock their doors. officials say so far there appears to be no indication of physical or sexual abuse. the women somehow contacted the philippine philippine embassy for help. it in turn contacted u.s. authorities, agents from homeland security and the state department came to the house and removed the women. th

also, cnn foreign affairs reporter jill dougherty. that will be live at 6:00 p.m.tern right here on c-span. also tonight at eight :00, new recommendations from the national transportation safety board. members say it should reduce deaths from alcohol-impaired writing. among the rules that the ntsb wants states to adopt, lowering the legal blood-alcohol limit from .05 from the current 08. >> today we need to consider the safety report, "reaching zero." this is critical because impaired driving remains one of the biggest killers in the united states. , our nation today saw the deadliest alcohol- impaired driving crash in u.s. history. a drunk driver drove his pickup the wrong way on interstate 71 near carrollton, kentucky. he hit a school bus and killed 24 children and three at all chap runs -- three adult chaperones, injuring 34 more. today our thoughts are with those families in carrollton, kentucky who are recognizing the 25th anniversary of the crash. that same year, impaired drivers would kill thousands more. let's look at how well we are doing as a nation to ad