kim's successors, his son, jim jong-un would pick a brighter path for its people faded with last week's failed missile launch. denuclearization of the north korean peninsula remains a goal theist and six party partners strive for. however, given north korea's erratic behavior recently, over the course of the past several years, the goal of denuclearization seems further away than ever before. i commend the administration for halting assistance to the north and encourage the president and secretary of state to stand firm against any other further destabilizing actions. furthermore, if north korea proceeds with testing a nuclear weapon, as likely if prior behavior is any indicator, all members of the six party talks must condemn this behavior. the future of north korea is bleak and as the people of north korea that would bear the unimaginable hardship of kim jong-un's tierney. it is my belief north korea will never give up its nuclear weapons. it is the weapons itself it is using to maintain its iron grip there. i hope our distinguished witnesses today will address the human rights traged

there are indications with this third kim family leader, jim jong-un, who is 28, 29 years old, and is about the same age as the hero of my book, he -- it's unclear how popular he will be or if he is in control. >> we will come back to your hero of the book. i will show you some video from our first interview in 1990, when i asked you why you like to travel. >> i read and i got interested and i remember, as a kid in college, i dind't believe they existed. i sometimes would go and think, walter kronkite put together a big, elaborate deception. the world outside is what i knew. >> do you remember saying that. >> i did think that. i spent my life proving myself wrong. >> when we talked to you, you wrote a book about africa. since then, when have you lived? >> i was there for the collapse of communism and the yugoslav wars. the prague revolution. in czeckoslovakia, they came out to listen tot his speeches, and left the main square and did not step on the flowerbeds. and the crack-up came and it was a horrible mess. americans did not understand. i left about halfway -- two thirds of the way

the new north korean leader, jim jong un who yesterday was given the most senior position in the northean communist party is seen as having to require this kind of show of support, a show of strength, to help establish his credentials. so no sign korth north korea is going to say we're not going to do this because of international condemnation. in fact, the international condemnation may be playing into north korea's hands, at least so it can show it is isolated it does have enemies all around it, which is the narrative very much used by the north korean state to establish its totalitarian system. it says it is a victim of an international conspiracy and that is why it needs to have its oppressive system in power. so it will probably take place. the question is will it work? and many experts we have spoken to say there are risks that the rocket would blast off and then come crashing down. and that would be an enormous embarrassment for north korea. and then open the -- open many questions on how north korea will respond. if it is a failure, how will they react? will they blame the outs

the world bank despite for the holder of the jobs to better reflect today's economic reality kim jong un jim yong kim is a health expert has been serving as president of the ivy league dartmouth college candidates in the world's fastest growing economies have been seeking to great washington's hold on the post to reflect their increased role in global finance. for shared was in farmers of just north of the iraqi capital in what appears to be a sectarian attack two carloads of gunman opened fire while the men were working in an orchard violence has decreased in iraq but so the militants still want to attack the challenge the country share led government. the three leaders in the west african state of guinea percent of announced a national transitional council following the meeting with political parties soldiers wrestle control from the nation's interim government four days ago over plans to reduce the size of the country's influential army because of in company getting perceptions of one of the pensions and one hundred seventy four. rounds president says sometimes attacks across the country

. >> reporter: supreme court commander of all he sees, jim john unstands kim jong-un.hey have never heard him speak until now. his tone was soft, a stark contrast to the deafening roars of his people. he pledged to build on the legacy of the two leaders who have gone before him and a hope to reunite a fractured korean nation. we have suffered the pain of separation for nearly 70 years, he says, we have lived as one people on the same land for thousands of years, to suffer like this is heart breaking. but this was a military parade and with menace. >> this is not just a show of strength to the north korean people, this is designed to send a deadly message to the rest of the world. the supreme court leader, kim jong-un says his minutes -- he also has the firepower to prevail in any war. >> translator: our military has become a powerful military, able to handle any kind of modern warfare with complete offensive and defensive capabilities. the foreign powers are not the only ones with the monopoly of military supremacy and the days of their threatening and lying to us with

jim walsh, international security analyst. welcome to the program again. i want to ask you the parading the journalists through letting people see, is this for internal -- is this for kim jong-unally, sending a message to the international community? both? >> yes, it's a good question. often when north korea acts out, it will, its purpose is to communicate with the broader world, communicate to the united states or to japan or south korea. this is about internal messaging, being able to go to its own public and say look all these western journalists are here, we're really important, we're really a big deal and why do i say it's internally driven, because they are going through a political transition, this young guy, this 20-something-year-old has taken over for his father and trying to consolidate his commission and 100th anniversary of the founder of north carolina, kim il-sung. this is about regime legitimacy and talking to the north korean people and the military, the elites in the military. >> cnn saw what appears to be a satellite. most of the media agree there is a satellite for this rocket to launch the satellite into space. so big deal, except we also know this is a co