president of mongolia is the first foreign head of state to visit north korea, says the country's leader kim jong-un. but kim did not hold what would have been his first summit meeting during the mongolian leader's visit. he began his four-day state visit to north korea on monday. this year marks the 65th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries. the mongolian president met with members of the north korean leadership, including kim yung nam who is second in command. many analysts predicted kim jong-un would meet with him but there's been no word on whether they met. north korea's state-run media said he asked kim to give a president to the north korean leader. observers think pyongyang might have refused the mongolian request for a summit. they say the leadership may believe that kim should first meet with the leader of china, the country's key supporter. >>> a german politician says edward snowden is willing to testify in an investigation that u.s. agents monitored the cell phone of german chancellor angela merkel. the lawmaker met the former u.s. intelligence contractor in moscow.

it's a man who calls himself the world's first kim jong hoon impersonator. let's take a look at north korea's real supreme leader. you can see the real him don't you. it's sobering to think im getting back to. and here in hong kong is our thirty five year old musician who dressed up as kim is an april fool's joke but after videos of him went viral on the internet so we decided to bring a little comic relief to the city streets. while the people attending bailout thing i can make people happy. something that's so depressing. but yea it's that it's funnier. his name isn't just limited to hong kong and you couldn't tell which has since appeared in the controversial tv and fridge for an israeli burger chain threatening new to the attack on the united states but still. let's play some bots will. and that was sit down so affiliates of december. it's going. is this going on. howard has never been to north korea nor has he plans to visit the secretive state for the time being since he believes the government is aware of his antics. i. the i will. do. will be. to me

kim jong-un, just for his father kim jong-il.epending on what this young dictator wants, john. >> all right melissa, thank you. >>> more than two weeks after one of the worst storms ever recorded, relief efforts are picking up, food water and medical aid is arriving, trucks and helicopters are being dispatched. more than 5,000 were killed, more than 16,000 more are missing. >>> supermarket collapse, death toll rose to 51. two hours later as rescuers searched for survivors a second collapse occurred trapping and killing firefighters. police have opened a criminal investigation into that disaster. >>> presidential elections in honduras are being held sunday and the race there is close. the wife of an ousted leftist leader is running against the ruling party. center stage, the issue is drugs and violence. that has made honduras the murder capital of the world. a tight result could spark street protest. honduras tops the world in homicides. there are nearly 92 murders for every 100,000 people living there. el salvador neighboring cou

. >> reporter: dennis rodman visited north korea to rescue bay, even called kim jong un his friend for life. but no luck bringing bay home. >> reporter: kim's father got two tv reporters who walked had wandered across the border. that is the type of succeful outcomes these families pray for. andr andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> in this country as his family members correctly predicted, reverend billy graham has been released from the hospital. he's back home in north carolina after what was a two-day hospital stay, this time for treatment of respiratory issues. graham has been in generally failing health of late. he turned 95 early this month. >>> news about american jobs set a new record on wall street. the dough hit above 16,000 for the first time ever. applications for unemployment benefits are now close to where they were before the great recession. that was the news that helped push the dow up 109 points. nasdaq and s&p up as well. >>> still ahead for us on a thursday night, a new chapter in one of this nation's most sensational outstanding murder mysteries as the man c

. >> newman is the second men detained under leader kim jong-un, a missionary being held for over a year. the state department representative says that the united states is working through the swedish embassy to get both men released. >> to week the state department issued a blanket warning against all american travel to north korea the first warning since north korea began allowing american tourists in 1995. >> new this morning, san francisco mayor lear is denying the rumor he is in the running to become the next united states ambassador to china. the current ambassador announce ed his resignation and lee currently is in china and the spokesman said he has not been approached and he has he of althoughs his job which takes 100 percent of his time. >> still to come, san francisco eyes a plan used overseas to stop bicycle thieves. >> major production for a plane that landed at the wrong airport to take off again. >> bringing sight saving surge troy a san jose man but, first, outside to a picture of the city if all its glory from our sutro to thosuffered in silence... hoped... and lived in

. >> he is the second american detained under kim jong-un, a missionary, also, was grabbed last year but received less publicity. >> new this morning, president obama added a visit to chinatown to the itinerary for the trip to san francisco on monday. the white house says president obama will visit the recreation center for public event to talk about immigration reform. this is the president's ninth trip to the bay area in 2 1/2 years and will attend a democratic national committee lunch at the san franciscoy center on monday. sales for the fundraiser have been reportedly been slow and organizers have cut the rice in half for the cheapest seats down to $500. >> a board will meet to allow people to keep insurance that does not fit the rules of the affordable care act. the sources tell the san jose mercury news individual whose do not have complying congress have to sign up for a new land by -- plan by march 31. >> this morning, caltrain service will be back to normal after being disrupted for four hours because of downed power lines. in san mateo an explosion before 5:30 spewed sparks

it will be up to kim jong un. it may be some time before he returns home to northern california. >> secretary of state john kerry wouldn't comment directly on merrill newman's detention, but says north korea has been making "very disturbing choices." . >>> well, we are looking at colder temperatures, from teens to single digits across the north and central plains. i'll go to that in a moment. it's beautiful up here towards parts of seattle. all the weather is down towards the south. we are looking at clear skies. overnight lows will be cool for many places. no rain is expected in the next 24 hours. this is the forecast. clear skies and temperatures staying into the mid 40s, low 50, but the overnight lows will two beyond freezing. it won't be too bad as long as you bundle up in the morning. >> we have showers across central and southern parts of california, up to nevada. that is snow and rain in the four corners area. what we see over the next day is rain continues across parts of phoenix and los angeles, yes, frid

number one priority of kim jong regime this year is simultaneous pursuit of economic development and nuclear deterrence. and second is ending the political isolation. they can normalize the relations with other countries, but the problem is, and the point is this is all about tug of war over preconditions. the u.s. has been very firm about their position toward north korea. to make matters worse, as you said, north korean security authority took into custody 85-year-old american, and this situation impedes more any efforts to improve north korea and u.s. relations. probably north korea did this in order to get washington's attention. this is typical north korean tactics. however, it cannot be an independent variable to change whole picture of deadlocked nuclear talks. washington is likely to deal with this issue separately from nuclear issue. so, therefore, overall judgment or prediction about the possibility of resuming the talks is not very positive at this moment. >>> former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi lost his seat in parliament following a conviction for tax fraud.

. >> newman is the second american detained under kim jong-un. the missionary was grabbed last year, but he has received less publicity. in palo alto, alan wang, abc7 news. >>> a big change for vallejo high school. it taps into controversy the washington redskins are facing. they will no longer call themselves the apaches. they put an end to the name and mascot. it has been a source of tension between those who honor the apache and those who feel it is offensive to native americans. >>> the central subway project is about to pass an important milestone as the tunnel boring machine passes under union square. our transportation reporter is live tonight. heather dism -- heather? >> carolyn, starting tonight the subway work will be going to 24/7. some of the work you can see like this grouting station here, but some of it is so far down that you can't see it, hear it or feel it. here on the surface of fourth street south of market you wo the tunnel boring machine is building a tunnel 85 feet below. this is from the ffmta. as the machine makes steady

last week this time, the only thing on the mind of kim jong un was that their son's high school football team had just won the play-off game, one more win and the washington panters would play for the state championship. >> boys had a fantastic game, and we had no idea what was going to happen 16 hours later. >> axelrod: this is what happened. a tornado roared through washington, a town of 16,000, near peoria. the brownfields huddled with their son, brogan, a team captain, and their daughter hannah in the basement. >> it seemed like an eternity to me but to mike, brogan, and hannah, they said it seemed like seconds. and i was thinking it was the light coming in from our backdoor coming down the stairwell. it didn't take me long to figure on the that's not why it was so bright. it was that there was no house above us. >> axelrod: 1,000 homes were gone, including those of nine of nine other players. amid all the def stairksz people like kim browne field found little treasures that survived, like a pendant with brogan's number 65. >> i'm so glad it's not damaged. it's the little things. >.>

missing the transcript of two thousand and seven contest between knoll and the north korean leader kim jong il in south korea the law requires that minutes of summit meeting to be kept in the state archives. it was earlier revealed that during the two thousand and seven summit ox nor expressed understanding for a north korean demand regarding a western maritime border india will see their story insists that the border is invalid as it was drawn unilaterally by un forces that by the united states. it demands that it be redrawn farther south mongolian government officials have released the text of a lecture that prostitute and that the president made in north korea. it says no tyranny lasts forever. the kindy and build big go get kim il sung university with tony and. he was there and laid it over to mark sixty five years of diplomatic ties sell the gourd said mongolia bally is fundamental human rights such as freedom of expression and the right to assembly he said he believes in the power of freedom and that military lasts forever. a footnote in the case the president was asked not to use the

. >> newman is the second american detained under kim jong-un. the missionary was grabbed last year, but he has received less publicity. in palo alto, alan wang, abc7 news. >>> a big change for vallejo high school. it taps into controversy the washington redskins are facing. they will no longer call themselves the apaches. they put an end to the name and mascot. it has been a source of tension between those who honor the apache and those who feel it is offensive to native americans. >>> the central subway project is about to pass an important milestone as the tunnel boring machine passes under union square. our transportation reporter is live tonight. heather dism -- heather? >> carolyn, starting tonight the subway work will be going to 24/7. some of the work you can see like this grouting station here, but some of it is so far down that you can't see it, hear it or feel it. here on the surface of fourth street south of market you would never know the tunnel boring machine is building a tunnel 85 feet below. this is from the ffmta. as the machine

that gives people like kim jong was dark knight frank. it would have invested a good fit. oh man was put a check to go see a kid or ready to consign it to be a bit of makeup store and as i did the silent type who will win kept nearby basically just read a few more of an outcome that stoddard md attack. it's not just the man who welcoming fall into his defense inste guns the new cd and i was interested in you can see is some musical them and two i'm not big on patients the notion that cost less than boys. produced by entered into a solution on in the distance the morning each occasion including signs at the gym now the way of writing god sows the seed of the agency gave her the tissue to sit at the jelly tots because it'll put that back seat to secure them with the band whiskey but the cgi is a society with what to title it here. i don't think it's over you can see the champ live to a sense of insecurity amongst we went to. the i was trying to hold rates among young boy who is even one winner david cook avoidance of a clown cake this tape that was postponed and you can see

for more on the latest electricity price hike were joined by dr kim jong and professor of economics at two nine university. thanks for coming to the studio piece by piece the cancer had been mixed reviews of the latest electricity price hike. what a chore to take on this i mean do you think ill be effective enough to curb energy consumption of formerly the thirty fourth time being but i think not effective and long which means i think the price might be cool on him and more because of the body of the government to increase the domestic surprise. i think the need to increase more scenes. on the price for unique oboe electric prices ease of steel award and the reason for this post. so you know to the core lines the production costs. and then benefit the home of tissue increase in more unforced. so we've experienced the power crises year after year almost season after season. how bad is that shortage situation. all actually keep the outcome carrying petroleum and natural gas electric city parsons it much more than that or you know that for you and call. so this one many people so she hopp

newman would be the second american detained under the new young leader kim jong-un. missionary kenneth bae was grabbed last year. friends say merrill newman just thought it would be a fun, interesting trip. tonight, even though they are not saying the u.s. government would certainly be seeking ways to get him released and as you can imagine, diane, he is the talk of his retirement home. >> oh, yes, and this mysterious place, what a strange story. thank you so much, martha raddatz. >>> back here at home some news tonight, a new milestone for same sex marriage. here's the map. last week hawaii joined the states approving. tonight illinois legalized same sex marriage, the 16th state to do so and the weddings can begin there next june. >>> in washington tonight new developments in the drug bust of a congressman, tray radel. he was in court today pleading guilty to charges of cocaine possession as we learn more about how federal agents caught him. here's abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: today congressman trey radel took the walk no politician

. >> newman is the second american detained under kim jong-un. the missionary was grabbed last year, but he has received less publicity. in palo alto, alan wang, abc7 news. >>> a big change for vallejo high school. it taps into controversy the washington redskins are facing. they will no longer call themselves the apaches. they put an end to the name and mascot. it has been a source of tension between those who honor the apache and those who feel it is offensive to nativea. americans. >>> the central subway project is about to pass an important milestone as the tunnel boring machine passes under union square. our transportation reporter is live tonight. heather dism -- heather? >> carolyn, starting tonight the subway work will be going to 24/7. some of the work you can see like this grouting station here, but some of it is so far down that you can't see it, hear it or feel it. here on the surface of fourth street south of market you would never know the tunnel boring machine is building a tunnel 85 feet below. this is from the ffmta. as the machi

south korean president's park in heidi says she's a wellington based pdp archive leader kim jong and at anytime. in an interview with a french sydney's hyde park said such amazing could be held if it's necessary for achieving peace on the korean peninsula. she stressed the opposition. it is wholly should hold a bilateral summit simply for the sites on psych of colts citing the meeting should be based on sincerity and don't be a one off event. pa called on the dprk to give up its nuclear program saying the country is pursuing an impossible illusion by seeking to develop this island nuclear technology while expanding its economy to be democratic republic of congo now wear them twenty three rebels have reportedly declared a new ceasefire georgia's news agency says the rebels want oaks in kampala to continue the announcement came despite congolese troops intensifying their military campaign against the group correspondence to the phrase has been traveling with a specialist un peacekeeping brigade in the east of the country and she filed this report the drill. he says he wins first peacek

with kim jong un north korea's dictator he visited north korea this year for a t.v. show what else and he got along so well with the dictator that he was quoted as saying i love him he's now organizing our basketball game to celebrate kim's birthday next year recently rodman went back to north korea for another visit and he came back gushing about what a great time we had i want to great guy kim is he's been making lots of statements to the press about how the dictator is just as understood this thing is that all that calling him just a good hearted kid so dennis rodman has made it his mission to improve relations between the u.s. and north korea dennis rodman a guy who can barely pronounce words who got rich off of basketball they did madonna and carmen electra has a well documented drug and alcohol problem and has starred in donald trump's reality show the apprentice in other words dennis rodman is the perfect representation of america he has the euro understanding of politics or labor camps or anything of any real importance at all at a recent press conference rep

this was the 1994 agreement that clinton reached with kim jong-il in north korea. agreed for 10ans years the agreement worked. the north koreans kept their plutonium reactor. the united states delivered heavy fuel oil. the u.s. deliveries were often late because congress would not appropriate the money on time. this was a perpetual problem that north koreans talked about. the reactors were never completed. negotiations continued with the north koreans. went to northight korea in 2000. they were talking about negotiating a deal on north korea's missiles as well. the negotiations went well. bill clinton had to decide and flip a coin at the end of his presidency whether he was going to go to earth korea or try to finalize an arab -- israeli peace agreement. wrong choice. , colinw. bush came in powell wanted to continue and wanted to pick up where north korea -- where clinton left off. he was publicly humiliated for making that statement. bolton went about leaking information that the north koreans might have a secret program to enrich uranium. then there was a confron

he is good friends he says with kim jong-un. >> all right michael. wawltsd.wall street is having ar to remember. all time high, s&p above anne 00. >>> next, iran nuclear talks. leaders are gathering in geneva. and kennedy, what he meant for the millennials. interwelcominterwelcome to al ja america, on friday, december 22. there may be movement in the iran nuclear talks, secretary of state john kerry is traveling to geneva. negotiations are entering a last moment. >>> in dallas, thousands stood in silence at dealy plaza where kennedy was safntded. >>> on wall street, another day, another record, the dow closed above 16,000 and that's more encouraging news about the economy. >> and we want to get back to the iran talks, and look more closely at the potential break through. let's bring in majid ravisidad who is the president of the middle east council and scholar. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> what could this deal mean? >> i think john this is a significant development now. anyone who has studied iran's nuclear file and the

. >> wendy, found kim jong-il to be witty and a problem solver and charmed by the fact that he watched michael jordan highlight videos. north koreans have a bomb. >> you are not impressed. >> i am impressed with iranian but not the person we i'm impressed with the iranian credentials not impressed with the person we sent. >> we'll see what happens over the next six months and if anything can be undone. thank you so much. >>> the trouble is not over for two florida teenagers named by police in the case of a young girl's suicide. one of the mothers is leading a new crusade in starting with parents of caitlin and guadaline. [ paper rustles, outdoor sounds ] ♪ [ male announcer ] laura's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today her doctor has her on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. >>> so the mother of the florida girl who committed suicide after severe bullying she's taking up a new crusade. steve harrigan is on her story. >> reporter: she's making moves to

"fox files" has reported extensively on the country and its new leader kim jong-un.tocrat and his wife have developed a habit of hosting the flamboyant former nba star dennis rodman. >> i love the guy, awesome. >> rodman returned to pyongyang for the second time and says he's helping train the north korean basketball team for the 2016 olympics. >> he's perfect to hang around with a dictator. because the two of them can inflate each other like big balloons in the macy's day parade. >> dennis rodman declined comment on his recent trips. it can be easy to poke fun at the aesthetic excess of dictate tors, virtually possible to ignore the grim reality of life for millions of people prosecutely repressed by some of these ren jet streams. >> we're talking about people who are living multi-billion dollar lives while their countrymen live on less than $1 a day. >> once you consider yourself almost a different species, you don't suffer over the disparities in financial resources or power. >> during colonel moammar gadhafi's 42 years in power, he entertained the world with his

. >>> a guy in hong kong looks like kim jong-un and he is dressed up and goes out in public and he said look angry all the time. i think he needs >>> this morning help arrives. relief of food and water. >>> this morning help arrives. relief of food and water. incredible frustration and newfound fears. we will take you live to manila. >>> new numbers about americans signing up for health care and why the president is feeling more pressure today. >>> courtroom bombshell. the woman accused of stalking actor alec baldwin sent to jail. her out burst, the judge's reaction and what's next in court. >>> and maria cary's complaints about her role as a judge on "american idol." her eye opening criticism in the "the skinny" on this thursday, november 14th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> all right. mariah carey aiming her guns. at one person she didn't name by names but we know who she is. >> yeah. >> we will get to that in a bit. we will start with the philippines where the aid for the people desperately in need is stuck in gridlock. >> co

"fox files" has descended heavily on north korea's new leader kim jong un.is rodman returned to pyongyang for the second time, and he says he's helping train the north korean basketball team for the 2016 olympics. >> he's perfect to hang around with a dictator because the two of them can i inflate each othe like the big balloons in the macy's day parade. it can be easy to poke fun at the aesthetic excesses, but impossible to ignore millions of people repressed by regimes. >> we're talking about people living multi-million-dollar lives while their countrymen live on less than a dollar a day. >> after you consider yourself a different species, you don't obsess over the disparities in power. >> wherever he traveled, he was surrounded by female bodyguards kindly known as the amazons. >> he would say, i'm the best friend of the woman. >> but there was something far more sinister going on. "fox files" sat down with a french journalist in paris. her book, gadhafi's harem, has exposed his sexual appetite. >> some of these women have been chosen just for their look,

it reports kim jong-un's regime targeted people for watching south korean videos or keeping a bible.t confirm that. >>> friends and relatives paid their respects at a memorial service of a security worker who died at a shooting at lax this month. he first tsa officer to die on the job. three other people were hurt. the suspect could face a death penalty in the hospital. >> the current home of the atlanta braves is coming down the mayor confirmed what we reported yesterday, the city will demolish turner field after the braves move to a stadium outside of atlanta 201. a 17-year-old stadium. not good enough anymore. can't fill it up so they will make the next one ten thousand seats smaller. science student pleaded guilty to trying to extort money from several young women, including miss teen u.s.a. the feds say he took control of the victims' web cams and took pictures while they were naked and sent them e-mails threatening to publish those pictures. i mentioned miss teen u.s.a. she says somebody threatened to go welcome with her image -- go public with her ims unless she sent nude pict

newman would be the second american detained under the young leader kim jong un.y kenneth bay was grabbed last year. friends say merrill newman thought it would be a fun, interesting trip and even though they are not saying the u.s. government is certainly seeking ways to get him released and as you can imagine he's the talk of his retirement home. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> the fbi investigating evidence that known terrorists have been allowed to settle in the u.s. as refugees. this fbi surveillance video shows an admitted al qaeda terrorist who killed american soldiers in iraq trying to get weapons to kill more of them. he was allowed to settle in bowling green, kentucky, because of a flawed system of background checks. >> if you are asking my opinion, i'd say the system failed. otherwise they wouldn't been here in the first place. >> you think. the immigration service says it has tightened security on background checks in an effort to keep other terrorists out. >>> florida lawmaker caught buying cocaine is taking a leave of absence from congress.

. >>> a guy in hong kong goes viral because he looks like the deer leader from kim jong-un. play. check him out. >>> this morning on "world news now." help arrives. relief for typhoon survivors. desperate for food and water. the new found fears. we'll take you live to manila. >>> new numbers about americans signing up for health care and why the president is feeling more pressure today. >>> courtroom bombshell. the woman accused of stalking actor alec baldwin sent to jail. her out burst, the judge's reaction and what's next in court. >>> and worst job ever. mariah carey's complaints about her role as a judge on "american idol." her eye opening criticism in the "the skinny" on this thursday, november 14th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >> all right. mariah carey aiming her guns. at one person she didn't name by names but we know who she is. >> yeah. >> we all know. >> she said she's satin. we'll get to that in a bit. we will start with the philippines where the aid for the people desperately in need is stuck in gridlock

truth there really is only one book club more powerful than they oppressed bookclub and that is the kim jong un bookclub for his book of the month. [laughter] i'm going to talk and we want to take questions from the audience so i'm going to talk briefly and handed over to mark and we will get to your questions and your comments and address whatever you would like to hear us talk about. we wrote a book is jp mentioned four years ago or three years ago called game change. some of you may have read that book or seen the hbo movie. [applause] we preferred the movie to the book, but keep it to yourself. the book was our baby. and this book would we try to do roughly the same thing in the last book which is the people who put themselves forward in this american spectacle one of the great competitions in any sphere of life in our country or any other. mark will talk about how we go about doing these folks that we did set ourselves a bit of a high bar in the fact in the first book are its subtitle referred to the race of a lifetime. we have had in 2012 and people have asked how would you possibly to

the former basketball star who considers north korean leader kim jong-un as a friend was elected-selectede twerking star miley cyrus, justin bieber, and chef paula deen. president obama came in at no. 17 on the list because " nothing gets done. " still ahead on the kron4 morning news, we're waiting for president obama to arrive in san francisco this morning. we will tell you what he plans to do during his visit today. with live team coverage. plus the so- called knock out game makes its way to the bay area. how one man was involved in the dangerous game. and we're just days away from one of the biggest shopping days of the year. a preview of black friday sales one the kron4 morning news continues. zçzçzçtó the morning top stories we are following this monday november 25th, the president is coming to the bay area. we will take a look at what he is going to do while he's here. and a visit by the naacp today. to san jose state university because the school is still with four white students who face hate crime charges involving what they allegedly did to their african american roommate and to

they are the first known executions by the kim jong-un regime.outh korean movies or possessing a bible and took place in seven cities. rescue teams are still having trouble getting to the hardest hit areas of the philippines. the death tolls have officially topped 1700. many people are still unaccounted for. some reports indicated there can be as many as 10,000 people dead. nascar driver who two years ago became the youngest person to win the daytona 500 has announced he has multiple sclerosis. says he does not expect it to impact his racing career, competing this weekend in florida. his younger sister also has ms. those are your news headlines on the fox business network. i am lauren green. back to dagen and connell. dagen: i was at daytona when he won that year. young guy. very deep in his face. connell: very nice. natural gas prices, dagen mentioned a few moments ago, has been on the price. colder than normal temperatures in the midwest and here where we are in the northeast it is cold. dagen: in chicago, sandra mitchell has today's trade. san

so the state department asked sweden, a country that deals directly with president kim jong-un's government to help. beyond that the state department says they are just monitoring reports about the bay area man who is being held. it's been nearly one month since 85-year-old korean war veteran merrill newman was unexpectedly taken off his flight bound from north korea to the u.s. his family and friends back in palo alto, california haven't seen him since. >> i feel like it's a bad movie or something. i still can't believe that it's real. >> reporter in a telephone interview with cnn, newman's son, jeff, revealed that merrill discussed his military service with north korean authorities the day before he was removed from his flight. why he was arrested remains a mystery. >> we haven't heard anything. we've worked through the state department from the day that he was supposed to depart. we've heard nothing. >> reporter: merrill's detention coms just a year after the arrest and imprisonment of another american kenneth bay. he was sentenced to 15 years in a north korean labor camp for allegedly p

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past two years, but the makers won't be satisfied until the paste is as popular as kim chi internationally. anna jong, nhk world. >>> rob speta is back with the rest of the weather. >> we are still watching this very violent and severe typhoon pulling off towards the west approaching the philippines. you can see on the satellite imagery across eastern asia and the western pacific dominating the picture. we also have other weather going on here in eastern asia and the world. i want to talk about that. right now a low developed low pressure area across portions of hokkaido and off towards the north we've seen winds up to 120 kilometers per hour reported today and about ten homes have been damaged. pretty severe weather in the northern portions. the good news is this is drifting off to the east with high pressure typical for a fall system. that will work into the weekend and bring cooler and clearer skies. take a look at ulan bator, minus 40 for the high, snowshowers for you. beijing at 13, seoul at 14. even tokyo getting into the teens on friday with single digits possibly going through the overnight h

this is believed to be the strongest demonstration of force by kim jong-un since he took power.officials filled the stadium with 10,000 people, including children. the crowd watched as they executed eight people with machine guns. >> the sun of oklahoma senator james inhof is dead. he died in a plane crash sunday near the tulsa airport. he was at the controls of a twin engine turbo prop. the plane spiraled to the ground and burst into flames. airport officials say he reported mechanical problems moments before losing control. >> only moments after takeoff, a spirit airlines plane rushed to chicago's o'hare airport to make an emergency land i can. passengers spots a piece of the plane peeling off and alerted the crew. the engine was falling off the plane, the engine cowling was falling off the plane. the f.a.a. is investigating. >> arguments are heard about god rights for workers. the law invoked protests when it was passed two years ago and led to a failed attempt to recall governor scott walker. the law is being challenged by a group of milwaukee city employees and a teachers u

news agency, and in truth there really is one book club more powerful than oprah's, and that's the kim jong-- [laughter] we love to take questions from the audience, so i'm going to talk very briefly, hand over to mark, and then we'll get to your questions and comments and address whatever you'd like to hear us talk about. we wrote a book, as jp mentioned, four years ago or three years ago called "game change." some of you may have read that book or seen the hbo movie. [applause] if you preferred the movie to the book, just keep it to yourself. [laughter] much as we love that movie, the book was our baby. this, in this book we tried to do roughly the same thing that we did in the last book which is really just to write about the high human drama of running for president and the people who put themselves forward in this extraordinary american spectacle, one of the great competitions in any sphere of life in our country or any other. mark's going to talk more about how we go about doing these books, but we did set ourselves a little bit of a high bar in the fact that the first book our subtit

jong explains. >> reporter: shingi market began in the 1970s. they sell fresh food and daily necessities. south korea has 1,500 of these traditional markets. now technology is helping with tradition. since may, kim jo nin has become one of the shopkeepers to use a gadget in his 30-year-old grain store. a telecommunications company installed a device for free. it handles everything from credit cards to reward cards and the gathering and analyzing of purchase data. many shops used to be cash only. young shoppers at the market said they prefer to pay by card. customers migrated to large chain stores. some shops in the market were first to close. owners hope this technology will bring them back. young customers are already appearing at kim's store. they can use credit cards and collect points. sales have jumped more than 20%. kwong nin cho runs a rice cake store. he's started using another gadget. when he makes deliveries, he attaches a device to his phone. he can process credit cards anywhere. >> translator: sales at the stores have risen by 10% to 50% since we began providing help. there's been a real rise in customers, particularly housewives in their 30s and 40s. if this project is successful, w