kim jong un has tightened border security. and less north koreans have managed to defect in recent years. we've been asked not to reveal their identities or where they live because even though they have left the country they are still afraid. we are changing their names and distorting their voices at their request. kim min-su ("kim min soo") and ahn su-bin (on soo bin") escaped separately across the river to china. >> did you ever feel in danger? >> su-bin told us she had wanted to leave north korea ever since her father was swept up in a purge when she was 14. >> she said after her father disappeared her family was exiled from pyongyang. >> the government only allowed us to speak to people that were approved by them. of the people you know what is the general feeling among the population? >> in 2013 the united nations released a groundbreaking report on human rights abuses in north korea concluding their abuses - including forced labor deliberate starvation, torture, and the complete denial of the right to freedom of thought

>> kim jong who? that's all i know. >> kim jong-un? >> yeah, i don't know anything. >> kim jong-un. about her. >> do you know anything about him? >> no. is he dead? >> is that the guy in "hangover"? i've seen way too much of kim jong-un's ass that i don't want to see. >> kim jong-un. he is asian and he plays in a movie and he is a karate expert, and he is bad ass! >> oh, i know. i know. kim jong-un. he's from korea. from north korea, yeah. he has an interesting haircut. please don't kill me. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: me either. we'll be right back with larry wilmore. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ keep your spirits high... the calories low... and the bill? even lower. new cedar grilled lemon chicken with quinoa, just $9.99. the pub diet, only at applebee's. with a favorite book is nice. but i think women would rather curl up with their favorite man. but here's the thing: about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile dysfunction. well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection. and remember, you only take it when you need it. ask your doctor if your heart is he

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kim jong un made the offer during his traditional new year's eve speech. harry fawcett is gauging reaction in seoul. >> reporter: for the second year kim jong un used his new year's eve speech with a conciliatory tone mentioning a summit with his south korea summit. >> translation: if the atmosphere and environment is there, there's no reason not to call the highers level summit. we'll make every effort to advance the dialogue. >> reporter: he said such talks couldn't take place whilst military drills were under taken with the u.s. reaffirming the country's nuclear policy. >> how right to support the values of late leaders. the attempt based on the nuclear deterrence. the finances the life of the country. kim's offer follows a briefing on monday suggesting initial talks. and the south korean president park geun-hye's message, leading to trust, change and reunification. park geun-hye said she would be willing to meet kim jong un if a meeting would offer the prospect of real progress. no talks for talks sake. it it carries symbolism, the second anniversary o

yet the public appears to be very aware it is kim jong-un's birthday. people working in trade say north koreans will commemorate the day in their workplaces. kim is believed to have turned 32 years old. >>> north korean leaders remain defiant over accusations of hacking. they again denied any involvement in last month's cyberattack on sony pictures entertainment. the national defense commission released a statement. it urges the u.s. government to retract sanctions imposed in response to the attack and it says north korea's military is moving forward with what it calls a strong and unprecedented hard-line response. u.s. president barack obama signed an executive order last week authorizing financial sanctions. they target organizations backed by north korea's government, corporations and related individuals. the attack prompted the studio to postpone the release of the "the interview." the comedy is about journalists recruited to assassinate kim jong-un. >>> the head of the fbi says he is confident north koreans were behind the hacking. james comey has p

north korean leader kim jong un says he's open to a high-level summit with north korea days after a proposall to resume stocks, the statement was part of kim's new year address. >>> now, the u.s. has criticized the palestinian authorities bid to join the international criminal court as counter productive. in it demanded that israel end its occupation by 2017. there the occupied west bank we have a report. >> reporter: if you agree, raise your hands. that's what palestinian president mahmoud abbas said before signing the rome statute and nearly 20 other international conventions. >> translator: the first thing that we chose for the icc. we want to complain, we are being assaulted and our lands are being attacked every day. who do we complain to? the u.n. security council has let us down, where do we go? >> reporter: the next step would appear to be to go to the international criminal court to pursue war crime charges against israel. but many obstacles stand in the way of an icc investigation including the announcement by israel in september that they are already investigating their own action

kim jong-un's rather sudden announcement was made during his traditional new year message. he said he'd even be prepared to hold a summit with the south korean president if pyongyang's conditions were met. we've been getting a bit more on this from the bbc's kevin kim in seoul. >> reporter: for kim jong-un, the new year's day speech has become somewhat an annual ritual, and here in seoul, officials do keep a close watch about what is said. this is his third new year's speech since he took power after his father's death. in the first speech he gave two years ago, the main topic was trying to improve the economy. last year after the purge of his uncle, he spent a lot of time emphasizing stability and the importance in the role of the worker's party. today, the focus was clearly on improved relations with the south. today, kim jong-un said through increased dialogue and exchanges with the south, a great transformation and reform would take place this year. he said, if conditions were met, a summit meeting with the south korean president could also be considered. >> kevin kim i

happening now, breaking news punishing north korea, president obama slaps strict new sanctions on the kim jong-un regime in response to the massive cyber attack on sony pictures. what impact will they have? >>> kim's makeover how the dictator is moving to tighten his grip on power including increased propaganda. what's different about his appearance now that may be trying to invoke his father's legacy? >>> plane crash clue an apparent piece from the fuselage from that airasia plane is recovered along with dozens more bodies. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." we are following two major breaking stories. despite rough seas and dangerous weather conditions searchers now have recovered 30 bodies from the wreckage of that airasia jet that crashed. crews also discovered more parts of the airliner including what appears to be one of the window panels. however, what's become of the black boxes, that is still a mystery. also breaking president obama is punishing north korea including top individuals in kim jong-un's government for the cyber attack on sony pictu

today north korea dictator kim jong-un said he's opened to holding a summit with south korea, a possiblen kim wants to ease tensions after the f.b.i. accused the north of hacking sony pictures. as for south korea it may have something bigger in mind. here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: south korea wants to take a step back from constant war footing and disarm its unpredictable nuclear neighbor kim jong-un. this week, they offered the olive branch of direct talks to plan a peaceful reunification. the two are divided by one of the most heavily militarized borders in the world with nearly 30,000 troops on one side and on the other north korean soldiers, part of the world's fourth largest army. richard haass says north korea is a threat. >> they have nuclear materials and we need to end the threat that is north korea. >> reporter: knitting the koreas together will be difficult. the two have technically been at war since 1950 when north korea leader kim jong-un is unlikely to givum power. american diplomats will have to persuade china to cut off its support, and some scenes fear the economi

in a new year's address on national tv the isolated country's leader kim jong-un, said if conditions were right, he'd be open to high-level talks with the south. >> translator: if the atmosphere and environment are there, there is no reason not to hold a high-level sum. we will make every effort to enhance dooig dialog and cooperation. >> reporter: it would be significant. but overtures have been made in the past with no result. >> in the past there's been so much disappointment with the attempts or the offers on the part of kim jong-un to enter into negotiations and then for some reason the conditions aren't right, and it doesn't move forward. >> reporter: in recent months there have been some signs of a thaw in the otherwise bellicose relationship between the north and south. kim's remarks come after a south korean official earlier this week suggested a meeting of cabinet ministers this month. >> translator: i don't think we'll have any particular agenda but our position is to discuss everything that south and north have mutual interest in. >> reporter: video was released of kim ap

happy birthday to kim jong-un.a happy birthday to david bowie. bob eubanks, who by the age of 32 had revolutionized "the newlywed game." also, stephen hawking who discovered black hole radiation and discovered how the universe works. and finally, elvis presley. the king himself at the age of 32 had given birth to rock 'n roll. age 32, kim jong-un had killed his uncle. happy birthday. >> we are alive 24 hours per day on bloomberg.com. "bloomberg alive" is next on the radio. for now, we say to you sayonara. ♪ >> if he is right, one day drones will be everywhere. his company manufactures self flying planes. his flight to ceo has been anything but direct. he has been a punk rocker. a particle physicist. editor of wired magazine. a three-time officer joining me today

very happy birthday to kim jong-un.a happy birthday to david bowie. bob eubanks, who by the age of 32 had revolutionized "the newlywed game." also, stephen hawking who discovered blackhole hole radiation and discovered how the universe works. and finally, elvis presley. the king himself at the age of 32 had given birth to rock 'n roll. age 32, kim jong-un had killed his uncle. happy birthday. >> we are alive 24 hours per day on bloomberg.com. "bloomberg alive" is next on the radio. for now, we say to you sayonara. ♪ >> hello, i'm pimm fox. this is what i'm taking stock of -- the manhunt intensifies for the gun men responsible for the massacre of 12 people in paris yesterday. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani says catching the gunman will take a global effort. >> they will need a great deal of international cooperation. we don't know where these people receive their training. there is no question these were fairly professional operatives. >> richard hoss,

kim jong-un could be flexing his diplomatic muscles soon. he's been invited to a summit to vladamir putin in may. north korea's leaders have accepted but will kim go venturing outside of income for the first time as a leader? taking kim out of his comfort zone is risky. >> he appears before the world media only on his terms, with his generals and his singing battalions of women. the risk of sending kim jong-un, is portrayed within the north korean system as a god-king it's unscripted. there are other world leaders. it's an international event. and he could look like a fool. >> reporter: but there are benefits to kim going to this event. u.s. officials tell us they think he may go possibly an effort to build ties with vladamir putin and others as his alliance with china cools down. i asked a north korean official at the u.n. if kim is going to russia. he said he had no information on that. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> however, i know someone with lots of information as it relates to the international weather picture. derek vandam joins us

. >>> dramatic footage showing north korea's lead are kim jong-un firmly in command. is this his response to "the interview" that cause sod much controversy. >>> dramatic political moves overnight. while you were sleeping off 2014 jeb bush took a serious step towards 2016. >>> those stories and much more ahead "@this hour." hello, i'm john berman. michaela is perpereira is off today. >>> a female haas passenger has become the first victim to be identified and returned to her family. she was laid to rest a short time ago. indonesian officials confirm nine of the 162 people who were on that flight have been recovered so far. nine. also luggage, pieces of stairs and other metal scraps were collected today floating in the java sea. but the horrible weather and rough seas have made these efforts extremely difficult. right now the search is suspended because of the dark and dangerous conditions. officials warn that the pinger locaters on those critical black boxes only have 25 days of battery power left. we're covering the story from every angle. andrew stevens is at the ne

kim jong-un's government has a secretive hacking team called bureau 121 and a larger cyberbranch called the reconnaissance general bureau commanded by a former bodyguard for kim's father and grandfather. >> one of the things the north koreans have done is built up effective and strong teams with skills and training designed simply to break into computers and destroy them and also to gather intelligence. >> reporter: if the u.s. intelligence community knew kim's hackers were building their capabilities did anyone in the u.s. government warn sony that it could be attacked? north korea had warned as early as last june that it considered sony's movie "the interview" an

. >> for the second year running kim jong-un used his new year's speech raising a possible summit with his south korean neighbor. >> there is no reason not to hold the highest level summit. we'll make every effort to advance dialogue and cooperation. >> he also said such talks couldn't take place while south korea he i can't carried out military drills with the u.s., a twice yearly event and reaffirmed his country's nuclear weapons policy. >> we he proved clearly how right it is we support our leaders, strengthen our nuclear defense. >> kim's offer follows a briefing suggesting initial talks this month. the south korean president own news message he promised to lead pyongyang toward trust and change and eventual reunification. >> she has said she would be willing to meet kim jong-un but only fit would offer the prospect for real progress. it's the seventh anniversary of the end of the second world war which here also means the end of japanese colonial rule and the beginning of the north-south divide. >> if 2000 phinisees a summit, it would be the third after the earlier meetings in 200

looking at kim jong on as well. -- kim jong-un as well. girl power. and the markets opening. getting open. coming your way in about cointreau minutes. ♪ >> the end is near. the greek elections declared and austerity will be over with. that is sending the euro to an 11 year low. moving to the downside. andrea and the united states -- india and the united states market diplomatic ties. a look at the asian action. to greece and we have no trading in australia due to the public holiday. the greek fierce as a week session on wall street. -- the greek fearsand a weak session on wall street. >> the euro at an 11 year low. euro and asia and the greek story. the worst-case scenario in greece doesn't have a new party to end austerity. [indiscernible] the government trying to repay. at least take some pain. and the default is the worst-case in the area. let's talk about the uncertainty to the markets from volatility is quite high. off by 0.1%. a good start of this morning encouraging volatility. the crucial one is the euro. as you can see from this chart a two-month chart and the lowest

so kim jong un gets to decide what movies we make? so this is every movie from now on is just this, "world's biggest picture, the motion picture." that's it. actually here's what's interesting. in korean, that translates to after-girth. ( laughter ) for god's sake, north korea that's what they do. they threaten people with hyperbolic language. why do we fall for that? that's their hook. >> north korea has threatened to turn washington into a sea of fire. >> jon: sea of fire! what? and did washington shut down? did our government shut down? okay, yes, it did shut down but that wasn't why. it was a funding dispute. bad example. the point is this-- kim jong un i don't even know why you're so mad at hollywood. you should love them. hollywood is just like north korea. everyone is always telling you how great you are. there are billboards everywhere with your face on them and no one eats. ( laughter ) but meanwhile closer to home some of our other enemies got good news as well. >> president obama announcing plans to normalize relations with

the film of course depicts assassination of kim jong-un. u.s. standing firm that north korea is indeed to blame for this attack. let's bring in jim sciutto, also with us jim acosta in honolulu traveling with the president. jim acosta i'll start with you. do you know anything about these sanctions at this point? >> reporter: yes, we do ana. the white house putting out some statements and information coming from the administration the treasury department in particular as to where these sanctions are going to be placed. the u.s. slapping some pretty severe sanctions on north korea stemming from that cyber attack on sony pictures. if you go through some of this information that's been released by the white house these sanctions are going after the intelligence apparatus of the north korean government and companies that engaging arms deals the intelligence operations of the north korean government. the reconnaissance general bureau has been designated by the treasury department in these new sanction and it says that many of north korea's major cyber

north korea's leader kim jong un says he's open to talks with south korea. ♪ ♪ >>> the celebrations aroundld as 2015 begins. ♪ ♪ >>> but first an appeals court in cairo has ordered a retrial in the case against three imprisoned al jazerra journalists. the court of cass saying was unable to grants bail for the three because it legally is not able to do so. however the court has canceled the jail sentences handed down to the three last sum her. mohammed far me, peter greste and ba mar mohamed were convicted of broadcasting false news and helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood a charge al jazerra denies. here say reminder of case, they were arrested in cairo on december 29th 2013. after a trial they were sentenced in june, peter and mohamed to seven years in jail, bahar 10 years. the trial and sentencing has been condemned around the world. in october the authorities in cairo announced judicial review, with a hearing of the case on january 1st. earlier this week vigils were held to mark one year since their arrest. well professor from the middle in. he joins us on set in doha. first of all y

tonight, kim jong-un knows how the u.s. government came to point the finger at him for the sony cyberattack. >> we can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. >> reporter: how could the president be so confident just a few weeks after sony had been hacked? the "new york times" reports the national security agency america's super-secret eavesdroppers, had infiltrated north korea's shadowy cyberwarriors since 2010. >> it appears that what happened was nsa established footholds in various parts of north korea's computer infrastructure. they basically established footholds in the chinese region and they apparently established

kim jong-un made the offer during his traditional new year's speech. harry fossett has the reaction from seoul. >> reporter: the second year running kim jong-un used his new year's speech to raise the stakes with a possible summit with the south korean government. >> translator: if the atmosphere and environment is there, there is no reason not to hold the highest level summit. we'll make every effort to advance dialogue and cooperation. >> reporter: he also said such talks couldn't take place while south korea carried out military drills with the u.s. a twice yearly event, and re-affirmed his country's nuclear weapon policy. >> translator: we proved clearly how we support the values of leaders that strengthen our national defense based mainly on the nuclear deterrents and save the finances, the life of the country is strong. >> reporter: kim's offer following a brief on monday by the south unification ministry suggesting initial talks this month, and the south korean president's new year's message in which she promised to lead pyongyang towards trust

. >>> south korea president says she is open to holding a summit with north korean leader kim jong-uno said there will be no preconditions for talks. but she insists that an end to the nuclear program should be part of that discussion and harry faucet is in seoul with more. >> reporter: since inauguration she said she would be willing to speak to kim jong-un in a summit and has to be progress from the talks and will not have talk for talk sake and now she says she will talk to him without any preconditions whatsoever. the change seems to be brought about that kim jong-un made a statement on new year's day which he said he was open to a summit if the conditions were right and the fact this year is the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the end of japanese peninsula and beginning of division on the peninsula and therefore it would be a symbolic time tomorrow meet. >> translator: i'm willing to meet with anyone necessary to solve the pain that has been caused by the division of korea and open up a way of peaceful unification. i can hold the summit if it helps but we can

the president there is saying that she is open to holding a summit with the north korean leader kim jong also says that there will be no preconditions for talks but she still is insisting that an end to pyongyang's nuclear program should be part of the discussions. harry fawcett is in seoul with the lace he felt. >> reporter: since she came to power two years ago she has been consistent in saying shells be open to talks with her north korean opposite member, but only if there were a real chance of progress stemming from such a summit. there will be no talks for talk sake. now she says that there are no preconditions for a summit as far as she is concerned. although she does say that there needs to be sincerity on the part of the north koreans denuke saying needs to be parts of the talks if they are to to lead to real prospects of peace and reiron indication on this peninsula, those two elements themselves would not be recondition to his sit down with kim jong un. what seems to be changed is kim jong un made a statement saying he would be open to a summit if the conditions were right and

that could facilitate a meeting between kim jong un and park geun-hye if they attend. he was conciliatory in his opening message, despite a couple of rounds of high-level talks. not much protest was made in terms of north-south relations. president park geun-hye said she'd be open to a summit. only if there was progress on the table, not just talks for talks sake. she'd like to see progress on the nuclear issue, but north korea has shown no willingness to abide by a call from south korea or the united states to end the nuclear programme. >> here in new york big crowds a few blocks away. we are less than an hour away from the new year and hundreds of thousands of people are packed into times square. john terrett is out there with them. >> good evening from times square, and about a million of my new closest friends. we don't know whether there's a million people here we haven't counted them. i suspect it's multiple hundreds of thousands of people. it's a large crowd, the streets around the day as where i'm sitting are packed. people like me are wearing pink hats because

. >> president park has already said she would be willing to speak to kim jong-un in a summit. but there would need to be progress from the talks and not just talks for talk sake. the change change seems to have been brought about by the fact that kim jong-un himself made a statement on new year's day that he would be open to a summit if the time was right. the beginning of the division on this peninsula therefore it would be a symbolic time to meet. >> translator: i am willing to meet with anyone necessary to solve the pain that has been caused by the division of korea and open up the way for peaceful unification. we cannot talk about peaceful unification without de denuclearization. >>> said north korea had been passive for south korea's requests for talk and north korea had been extremely tight dispiet the fact that both leaders say in principle in theory they are open to a summit there is plenty of territory that needs to be covered before that can become a reality. >> fire bombs have been thrown at the home and office of the hong kong media outlet jimmy li, the attacks com

kim jong-un could also be flexing his diplomatic muscle soon. he has been invited to a summit with vladimir putin in may. russian officials are quoted as saying north korea's leaders have accepted but will kim go? venturing outside north korea for the first time as leader? one analyst says taking kim out of his comfort zone is risky. >> as he appears before the world media, really only on his terms with his propaganda setting with his generals and his battalions the risk of sending kim jong-un who with his cult of personality is portrayed within the north korean system as a kind of god-king is that it's unscripted there are other world leaders, it's an international and multi lateral event, and he could look like a fool. >> reporter: there are benefits to kim going to this event. u.s. officials tell us they think he may go possibly an effort to build ties with vladimir putin and others as his alliance with china cools down. i asked a north korean official at the u.n. if kim is going to russia. he said he had no information on that. >> at least h

over the release of an american comedy film about an attempt to assassinate kim jong-un. pyongyang has called the film an act of war. the leader of the impoverished nation made it clear he has no intention of abandoning his country's nuclear weapons program, as demanded by south korea. still, he welcomed the comments and said he was ready for what he called frank discussions. >> poor weather conditions continue to hinder the efforts to locate the wreckage of the air asia flight that crashed off the coast of borneo. a funeral has been held in one city for the first victim of the crash to be formally identified. so far the bodies of just nine of the 162 passengers have been recovered every cause of the disaster remains a mystery and authorities fear it could be days before the flight recorder is found. brazil's president has been sworn in for her second term. she wrote down the esplanade for thousands of supporters had gathered. she took the oath before heading to the presidential palace to make a national address. russia's government is beset by massive scandal surrounding

kim jong-un made a statement in which he was open to a summit if the conditions were right, also there is the fact that this year is the 70's anniversary the end of the second world war the end of japanese occupation of the korean peninsula and therefore it would be a symbolic time to meet. >> i'm willing to meet with anyone necessary to solve of the pain that has been caused by the division of korea and open up a way of peaceful communication. i would hold the site of the summit if it helps but we cannot meet until resolve of nuclear weapons. north korea has been extremely critical of south korea for failing to stop anti-korea activists and realizing balloons that crossed the zone. they're open to a summit. there is plenty of territory that needs to be covered before that can become a reality. >> now the world famous detroit motor show has kicked off just months after the city narrowly avoided bankruptcy. it comes as a time when the big three u.s. automakers are trying to bounce back after the 2008 financial meltdown. well america's big three car makers ford, chrysler and general moto

. >>> north korean leader kim jong-un is open to a summit with his shattery january counterpart. the -- south korean counterpart. the south welcomed the gesture. kim jong-un offered to meet in seoul, pyongyang or any other city in the north or south. >>> a little good news today in the lava flow that is threatening parts of hawaii's big island. at the moment, the flow is stalled short of the area's main highway and marketplace. the flow has advanced 165 yards since last week and while that's a short reprieve, it's still very active. >>> up next, we go one-on-one with muriel bowser's honorary inauguration chair debra lee and plus allyson rae is back with a look at the weekend. >>> as we noted earlier, mayor elect more july poser officially takes -- muriel bowser officially takes office tomorrow morning. debra lee is the honorary chair of the inauguration and you may know her better as chair and ceo of b. e. t. networks and she joins us this afternoon. debra good to see you and happy new year. >> to you as well. >> this is a wonderful start for the city and of course for mayor elec

maybe your bff is kim jong-un. if your answer is no you're better off than the people in the news this hour. >>> fox first today. we're seeing the victims' terror inside that kosher market in france for the very first time today. still images show what happened in an armed terrorist burst through the doors and forced everybody else to obey his orders. one image shows the scene near the registers there where the first victims died, their bodies left on the floor as the gunman took the survivors into the storage room. items knocked off the shelves and shattered over the floor. another body crumbled in the background. an empty stroller. it could belong to a father who left the store later clutching his young son. the gunman reportedly ordered them to destroy the surveillance cameras. here's a hostage looking right into the camera lens. before he can turn it off, something happens inside that store that gets his attention. the hostage in blue walks to the door and minutes later, the gunman was dead after police stormed

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we saw this with kim jong-il. >> jimmy: yes, we did. say -- >> with "the interview." >> jimmy: i was disappointed with responses -- >> ten seconds. >> jimmy: i was disappointed in the response that i saw from some people who said, well, maybe we shouldn't make movies like this, we shouldn't do this kind of thing, people that don't really understand how big this is, the big picture and how important something like that is. >> [ bleep ] nation. we have to stop saying when something like this that happened in paris today, we have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion. first of all, there are no great religions. they're all stupid and dangerous. and we should insult them and we should be able to insult whatever we want. there are certain people in the world who want wafers on free speech. kim jong-il in north korea says you cannot make jokes about our country, and there's a lot of muslim people in the world. i know most muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this. but here's the important point. hundre

president park has urged leaders in pyongyang to join talks after kim jong-un said it could be possible. kim jong-un said in his new year's address that he can no longer tolerate the tragedy of a divided korean people. he said he wants a turnaround in relations provided seoul stop tensions. president park welcomed kim's remarks. but she also called on pyongyang to demonstrate its commitment to improving ties through action. >> translator: i hope north korea will come forward promptly for interkorean dialogue. i hope pyongyang will cooperate and make substantial contributions to specific projects toward peace and unification on the korean peninsula. >> last month the park administration proposed that the two countries hold ministerial talks in january on issues including the reunion of families separated by the korean war more than 60 years ago. >>> south korea's i.t. industries compete with the best on the planet. its pop culture has millions of followers around the world. but the country still has a tense relationship with its northern neighbor. we give you the latest insight into what

will target kim jong-un and other powerful officials in north korea with a new round of new sanctions. nbc's chris jansing is in honolulu where the president is wrapping up his vacation. chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. the way white house officials put it, north korea crossed a threshold, so today president obama signed an order for new sanctions, retaliation for both the hacking of sony and threats of violence against movie theaters that were going to show the movie "the interview," the comedy about the plot to assassinate north korea's dictator. this is the first time ever the u.s. has used sanctions in response to this kind of crime, representing a whole new opening in the cyber war. there's growing concern that the threat is escalating as potential attackers become more sophisticated and more dangerous. what's so interesting here is that the people being sanctioned weren't involved in the sony hacking itself, but they're heavily involved in getting kim jong-un what he needs for his nuclear program. and they've gotten rich doing it. administration officials