and international organizations and partner add a d r g m basters in boston we have jim walsh he's an expert in international security and a research associate at the massachusetts institute of technology and in washington we cross to john feffer he is co-director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies are generally cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it first i'd like to go to jim walsh in boston are we have a twenty seven year old man who has been anointed leader of north korea as far as we know so far but his father had twenty years of print apprenticeship to become leader of north korea is this guy ready well i think the short answer peter's know . he's probably not prepared to do this i don't want to discriminate on the basis of age but it would seem unlikely on its face if only because he needs time to make the internal alliances build relationships and consolidate his power now he's not alone in this regard kim jong il's brother in law the young kim's uncle is going to act as regent you know in

that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it first i'd like to go to jim walsh in boston are we have a twenty seven year old man who has been anointed leader of north korea as far as we know so far but his father had twenty years of print apprenticeship to become leader of north korea is this guy ready well i think the short answer peters no he's probably not prepared to do this i don't want to discriminate on the basis of age but it would seem unlikely on its face if only because he needs time to make the internal alliances build relationships and consolidate his power now he's not alone in this regard kim jong il's brother in law the young kim's uncle is going to act as a regent you know in the medieval days they used to when the king died and the prince wasn't quite ready they would be the regent to sort of god and mentor. but that itself raised in certain questions will there be tension between the regent and the young kim what will the military take going forward but there is a lot for him to do and he's only had three years to do it so i would say no he is

listen to jim walsh of m.i.t. >> the main thing it is not involved in the nuclear weapons program. if it was people would be screaming bloody murder. they are not. so this remains more a mystery to be solved than sort of a compelling crisis that we have to confront. >> but the point here may be that we really only have the russians' word for what that radioactive material was. so there is a lot of questions still to be answered here. and the state department are among those who would like those questions answered pretty quickly, shep. >> shepard: i'm sure they would. jonathan hunt. big news in the penn state sex abuse scandal. a judge in pennsylvania ruling that prosecutors can move forward with a case against two penn state administrators. these two men are accused of lying to grand jury about then graduate assistant mike mcqueary and about what he told them he saw in a locker room. today this guy mcqueary testified that in 2002 he believes he saw the former assistant football coach, jerry sandusky molesting a young boy. mcqueary says he isn't 100% sure if it was a rape. he said s

here to help us out, international security expert jim walsh of the massachusetts institute of technology. so break this down for people watching this. we know this material, not used in nuclear weapons, why should we be concerned? >> well, there are a lot of unanswered questions. folks should keep in mind that there are lots and lots of nuclear materials. materials that are radioactive. some are used in medicine or industrial purposes. only a tiny number of those have any real application toward a nuclear weapons program. this one, sodium 22 is not one of those. there are two sets of questions. one is, why was this guy carrying a radioactive substance, trying to get on a plane with it going to tehran? that's unclear, he's a dental student and it had something to do with that. the other question more compelling is what were the russians thinking? right. this happened a while ago. they only announced it today. why did they let the guy go? why don't they tell us the name of the passenger so we can begin to piece this together? they refused to do that. and why after letting him go do they no

thanks, jim walsh. >>> kim jong-il's death comes at a critic's moment in u.s.-north korean relations. joining you state department producer, elise lavage. you've been working the story all night, many of us have been. what has the reaction been from the state department? >> very muted, alina. basically the u.s. put out a muted statement saying it's seen the reports, going to be waiting and watching. obviously we heard president obama spoke to president lee bak in south korea, u.s. and south korea coordinating closely on this. of course, it was expected, but i don't think, you know this as well from your sources, they didn't expect this to happen so soon. they believed the health of kim jong-il was tenuous but not eminent. now they're scrambling a little bit. >> obviously, viewers are listening to this, they know. everybody knows north korea's been -- you know, we've seen it as a belligerent in recent year. may not know as much as the six-party talks. what's the status of those, what are they meant to do and what's likely to happen? >> this is the u.s./south kor

that's the view of jim walsh, a korea expert at m.i.t. >> i think one of the clues here was that theade it less likely that they were going to do something in the middle of that visit. more importantly as i understand it, governor richardson got some important pledges from the north korean government, not the least of which would be to allow international atomic inspectors back into america. >> he briefed officials from south korea, china and japan. >> my job in our division of labor has been to brief the other governments. >> richardson's bottom line is that north koreans need and deserve to be brought into the world community. >> they're poor and many, they say, in rural areas are starving. and so i think for the sake of humanity, these are people that are not political. they're like the average human being that i think deserves from their government better treatment and deserves from the international community an ability to help, to be fed, to be clothed, to be educated. >> there's no doubt that life there is harsh. the state department says human rights abuses include arbitrary

jim walsh at mit joins us now.we're asking, is north korea more dangerous today than it was last week when kim jong-il was in power. >> jenna, i think the answer is yes. jenna: i think he was going to say -- well? >> jon: we hope the north koreans weren't in charge of the satellite. jenna: i think he did say yes but i don't want to put words in jim's mouth. sy a security expert, he's been to north korea which obviously many of us haven't, it's a closed country. he's also been to iran. one of the things we want for talk about jim when we get him back and we're working to do that is the axis of evil question, who is more dangerous now. jon oni'm told he's good. jenna: i believe he's back. jim, if you're with us, jon pointed out it might be the north koreans messing with our signal, and hopefully that's not the case. sometimes you get these technical gremlins. but you were about to answer the question of whether or not north korea is more dangerous and you say. >> yes, you were correct, jen kwrarbgs that was my best g

joining me now is jim walsh. great to see you this morning.ey say they are on the cusp of unlocking the secrets of the drone aircraft, what could they possibly get out of it. >> i think it's highly unlikely that they would have the capability of doing that. iran is known for grand pronouncements and the follow-up is not there. i don't think they have the technical capability to reverse engineer or doing that is meaningful with it. maybe the russians could, or the chinese could. the most likely outcome will be that that he use this as a bargaining chip with the russians or the chinese. john: they want to file a lawsuit. who would they appeal to? >> perhaps they could do something at the international court of justice. i'd like to see it on the people's court, the television program. i can see now a guy on one side, a u.s. guy on the other side. i don't think this is going anywhere. this is about politics and symbolism and they are just trying to milk it for what they can. john: maybe my friend nancy grace could handle this a one as well. >> the

jim, still stand behind you. >>> an emotional day also in the south bay. the body of shawn walsh is back in san jose.he 29-year-old was killed in afghanistan in the line of duty. walsh was about to finish his tour of duty shortly before christmas. a public memorial will be held tomorrow between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., at the oak hill funeral home. >>> and in danville, a final good-bye to a marine just before his 20th birthday. he also died in afghanistan. hundreds of mourners passed through the east bay fellowship church. they remember him as a real-life hero, died doing what he loved and what he believed in. >>> dr. oz, with a popular tv show issued a controversial warning a few months ago about the high levels of arsenic found in apple juice. he was right. tonight, "consumer reports" magazine confirms dr. oz's warning. the magazine found 10% of sample juices contain total arsenic and lead levels exceeding the drinking water standards. the fda is taking notice and will consider a new standard for arsenic in apple juice. >>> pro-choice advocates are voicing their concerns about apple's smartphone an