when kim jong-il died in 2011 his son took over. as a prayer that way because kim jong-il had three sons, number one son came from his first wife he had four wife. he had a second son who was the older brother of the current leader kim Ãkim jong-un. and then kim john jan and then his younger sister. so in korea bloodlines are really important. if you're born from another mother would have the same father, the mother is really compete of who will be the next great leader. in this particular case kim jong-un's mother made sure, although she also passed away, that her son would be in the running and in a way, life was made easier for her because number one son, who ultimately was fascinated by kim jong-un in 2017, he visited tokyo disneyland in 2001 under a different passport. he came as a dominican republic citizen with his wife and nanny. and his young son. so he was caught at the airport carrying bundles of cash so the japanese got this guy and until then the number one son was considered to be the crown prince and the guy who would

north korea's kim jong il after the latest tests of a missile launch site earlier this month regional powers are concerned pyongyang is about to undo efforts to ease tensions. and we agreed that peace on the korean peninsula was in the common interest of the 3 countries we also agreed to make efforts together to help promote north korea u.s. dialogue for denuclearization and peace. the possibility of north korea turning into serious nuclear threat has become more tangible after february summit between kin and u.s. president on a trump fails to deliver any results. to come and threat of a north korean attack has forced to pan and south korea to overcome their own bilateral tensions over their colonial history. i am willing to improve this important relationship between japan and south korea by all means today i would like to have a frank discussion of china north korea's only ally supports the call for peace on the korean peninsula beijing is interested in easing tensions in the region also for economic reasons china's premier used the opportunity to promote a new free trade zone betwe

even more unpopular than north korean leader kim jong il and that really shows something it's. been pressure on it's always great to hear inside thank you let's check a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 24 people have died after a bus plunged off a cliff on the indonesian island of sumatra rescuers are still searching for any survivors trapped inside the vehicle which veered off the road above a 150 meter high ravine. german carmaker b.m.w. has confirmed that it's being investigated by the u.s. securities and exchange commission the wall street journal newspaper reported that b.m.w. was being probed for allegedly manipulating its sales figures in the u.s. the company said it was fully complying with the investigation. about a dozen people have been injured in australia in a shopping mall stampede in sydney mall goers scrambled as balloons were dropped containing gift cards then billed as the ultimate make a balloon drop 7 resulted in 5 shoppers being taken to the hospital with injuries. all right to the central american state of one doo

president donald trump has wound north korean leader kim jong il and he has quote everything to lose if he does not denuclearize up young yang said it had carried out an important tested a missile launching site the north once u.s. concessions before moved to its. firefighters are racing to contain almost $800.00 bushfires in austin eastern australia where the conditions of east but a neck of fire close to the biggest city sydney is still threatening homes and heat waves with strong winds is forecast for this week an authority sphere that will fuel most of the places. syrian opposition activists say that at least 18 people have been killed in as strikes in a province the last rebel stronghold in the northwest observers say the bombs were dropped from syrian government and russian aircraft in another violation of the 3 month old system. where hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of the bella russian capital minsk to protest against closer ties with russia sunday marks 20 years since the 2 countries signed a union agreement that in visits to close political economic and milita

bolton went on to claim that president trump should be more concerned over kim jong-il's short-range launches. if he is correct, or should the president ignore this former chief of staff. here with me now is former trump deputy advisor and author of forthcoming book revolution, trump, washing ten, and we the people. katie great to see you. microsoft. >> mary christmas, simpleton right? i think speculating on north korea, everybody has been trying to figure out martha north korea for the last 20 years. we've used a combination of sticks and tariffs, sometimes more stick sometimes more carrots. and when i came in with president trump, he reviewed the national security policy towards career and there really were no good options left. so what we did was come up with the plan of coming up with economic diplomatic financial political military, altogether and put them on a dial and slowly turned up the dial, which is what the maximum pressure campaign has been all about. with this certain extent bolton is right has not been successful but i would add yet. and here's why. because a lot of wh

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been involved over the past 2 years in the major initiatives in the united states when chairman kim jong il and flew to singapore for the summit meeting with president trump he flew in the air china special plane for example and when he met with president kim in vietnam he traversed through china by a real way and there are many other reasons but i think the current way of trying to achieve a breakthrough purely between the p r k and the united states in a bilateral way is doomed to failure because d.p. r. k. will never fundamentally trust the strategic objective of the united states it will always 2nd guess if for example it gives up a nuclear weapon whether the united states will pungs upon d.p. r. k. and eliminate the regime killed a leader for example and everything ends up in the disaster in order to make sure right now that has security and so i don't think current can be addressed that that's a more forces weren't being well let's let me take that to return in washington do you agree with that that perhaps this should really be more of a multilateral approach rather than a bilateral

could north korea be shifting strategy overstored nuclearization talks speculation grows out of kim jong il in the new year address the growing violence in the central african republic where m.-bone the where 40 people have been killed in days of unrest. hello there some pretty good clear conditions across much of iran and east was across into afghanistan is a bit of but no real weather with that cat instead it is still reserved for the eastern end of the med and in particular across much of turkey and northern sections of syria now as we go through tuesday it does tend to read the weekend but we have still got want to cools the snow should clear by chews day it's a little bit milder 11 celsius aleppo 16 in beirut but again there is a chance of those showers but as we go into wednesday it tends to increase again some more of those coastal showers and again we could see the full cost particularly into northern areas of turkey quite a bit of cloud across into will central southern sections of iran and also the chance of a few snow flurries across into kabul feeling cold a high of just 4 degre

north korea be shifting strategy over storms denuclearization talks speculation grows ahead of kim jong il in the new year address. had some pretty good conditions across much of iran and east was across into afghanistan is a bit of but no real weather with that had instead it is still reserved for the eastern end of the med and in particular across much of turkey and northern sections of syria now as we go through tuesday it does tend to read the weekend what we have still got want to the snow should clear by and choose day it's a little bit milder 11 celsius 16 in beirut but again there is a chance of those showers but as we go into wednesday it tends to increase again some more of those coastal showers and again we could see calls particularly into northern areas of turkey quite a bit of cloud across into will central southern sections of iran and also the chance of a few snow flurries across into kabul feeling cold a high of just 4 degrees celsius not cold across the arabian peninsula some very nice time which is fairly cool breeze at times the overnight hours again getting cooler but

released pictures of leader kim jong il in the so hey launching station near the border with china it is the 2nd test at that site in just under a week and comes ahead of a year ends deadline which will create day for the u.s. to drop its insistence on unilateral denuclearization. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack in afghanistan the defense ministry says 9 soldiers were killed on friday this is in the cut about district of gazan province several other attacks also carried out there the u.n. mission in afghanistan says 10 civilians were killed in just one of those attacks malaysia's prime minister says u.s. sanctions on iran are violating international law he was speaking at the forum here in qatar mahathir mohamad says they have led to malaysia losing access to the iranian market washington reimpose the measures on terror to after withdrawing from the 2015 year cliff deal live here and many others lost a big market when the us asian is it a gives iran malaysia did not support the imposition of the e.u. need a letter saying why the us league is. such a actions clearl

todd: donald trump says donald trump is more dangerous world peace and kim jong-il and or vladimir putin received 41% of the vote when asked to rank the greatest threat to world peace. him came second, iran's ayatollah and putin tied with 8% and xi jinping lasted 7%, donald trump poking fun at justin trudeau after canadian tv channel cut his cameo in home alone 2. >> where's the lobby? >> down the hall and to the left. >> thank you. todd: i guess justin t doesn't like my making him pay up on nato trade. he then added the movie will never be the came, just kidding. the channel which is publicly funded says the cut was made to make room for more commercials. if you thought that was insanity listen to this. salon.com doubling down in a piece that compares hallmark movies to nazi propaganda. >> your name is chris kringle? >> i got it. >> i go so excited, i know you're going to be there. changes are many things around this town. todd: the article argues the original the case for christmas, really fascist propaganda. this is crazy to say, similar to the anti-semitic work of nazi joseph goebbel

released stays pictures of leader kim jong il in overseeing the test at the launching station near the border with china this is the 2nd test at that site in just under a week and comes just ahead of the year end deadline which north korea gave to the u.s. to drop its insistence on unilateral denuclearization the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack in afghanistan where the defense ministry says 9 soldiers were killed on friday it was in cut about district and in the province several other attacks were also carried out there the un mission in afghanistan says 10 civilians were killed in one of them. now u.s. house panel has recommended the impeachment of president donald trump another crucial step in the process that's divided congress and the nation the full house of representatives is expected to vote in favor of impeachment at some point next week this report is from our white house correspondent kimberly halkett. another foreign visit to the white house overshadowed by domestic politics as the president of paraquat i sat and comfortably in the oval office u.s. president

soon as he came back, kim jung-il, as you can imagine, got totally livid, and from then on he lived in while knew china and in macao. so in a way, the leadership fell to kim jong un's lap. and so in 2008, his father had a massive stroke. and in north korea, of course, whenever something happens to the leader, nobody knows. and then intelligence picked up the fact that the guy was sick, but they weren't sure how bad it was. that was when kim jung-il decided my third son's going to be my successor. and at that time, he was in his mid 20s. so you can imagine even though you are groomed to be the successor, in north korea this is the most totalitarian state on earth, and you have 1.2 million forces in the army, you also have the world's most pervasive security apparatus, and still he's a kid. regardless of the kim dynasty's aura, how can you go to your generals and say you know general kim, i'm only 26, 7 years old but hey, you know what? i've got all the goods, so please trust in me. that's the problem that he had. but once he got into power over the last, you know, eight, nine years, kim jong un now feels very comfortable. but his catch 22 is very simple, in my

for about this didn'that kim jong-il -- that kim jong-un did 27 shots, in 2017i had to make the assumption it was going to hit the united states. i couldn't assume he wasn't going to make it. secondly, i testified to this, that i had confidence in our capability to defend the united states. thirdly, what i would say, is every time he tests, he's testing. and we get concerned about failure and you can often learn more in failure than you can in success. and so as i've been watching in the news, and in my time there, being a part of a very elaborate , we watchedyou know him get better. we watched him be able to do things. -- i cant give you tell you this. first of all, the training that happens to defend the homeland is awesome. the things that we did to make sure the homeland was defended throughout, you know, the network of give abilities was constantly being looked at -- of capabilities was causally being looked at. we assumed it was going to hit we think everyd time he tests he's gaining capability. michael: thank you. please wait for a microphone, identify yourself, and we will start wi

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so should the white house was on with this policy or what will they do to deal with kim jong-il. we'll talk about that next. spotlight. and a drumroll, please. yeah! tonight is a magical night. where anything is possible. it's party time. woo! here we go. ha, ha. now for the icing on the cake! come, we're about to begin. eric: career is staying he is bolstering his defense capabilities dealing with his top military officials. this comes after the regime promised that christmas gift, for america, kenny is more from washington. >> this meeting is the latest indication of north korea's going frustration of the lack of sanctions released by the u.s. according to the state run korean central news agency, kim young presided over a community of military, taking up the bolstering of the armed forces required for the fast unit situation and crucial time of the developing korean loophole in. it is specified when the meeting took place and an elaborate on what steps can't undertake some north korean experts see that they weep may be preparing to test launch a missile. white house is expecti

. >> like a letter kim jong-il wrote. >> reporter: donald trump rebuked the democrats in their efforts to subvert his presidency, the new york times says he is angry and a little shellshocked. >> i just left donald trump. he is mad at held. >> reporter: pelosi trying to pressure mitch mcconnell over the senate trial is refusing to send over the impeachment articles and deflecting reporters questions. >> i said this is it. >> hard to see what the benefits necessarily are to dragging it out. >> reporter: nancy pelosi is dragging her feet by waiting to send articles of impeachment to the senate. nancy pelosi melting down to one poll shows 62% of the public closely following these events compared with 82% for the clinton impeachment. pelosi's slowdown added a surreal element. donald trump telling reporters he wants a speedy trial. shannon: the space force story is big news for the white house, the president announcing a 6 the branch of the military, the first in 70 years but this includes more spending so let's listen. >> with my signature today, you will witness the birth of the space for

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watching al-jazeera live from go also coming up north korea's leader kim jong il and boast to develop a new strategic weapon and accuses the u.s. of gangsta like to moms. desperate battle into the new media to save homes and lives in australia of the middle.

it but if we do we'll use it really if we have to we'll do it but you know my relationship with kim jong il is really good but that doesn't mean he he won't abide by the. right that that was the that was u.s. president trump and he was then speaking to the secretary general of nato that's. when i think we've got that signal back let's take a listen. replay approximately $500000000000.00 a year more for protections $500000000.00 now we only had a month or 2 before the budget so they said oh no no i don't you know they're very good businesspeople you see how they do want to trade but they've agreed to pay almost $500000000.00 a year more that capital to a $1000000000.00 plus to a $1000000000.00 it's a lot of money looked at that with a number of phone calls and immediately now we're to go shooting for that a bit more because united states is facing a lot of money for projects are worth it and we think it's fair that they pay and paid more we have a very good relationship but we think it's fair that they pay more i'm not sure anybody knows that you know about the 500000000000 that they agreed

kim jong-il and is urging what he calls positive measures to bolster the country's security ahead ofbrendan scott is tacking this from singapore. there has been a lot of speculation about what she might say. to we looking at a return fire and fury? ultimates the question. that neitherhink of them once a return to the fire and. anxiousm john huston is to force him to move on negotiation. the way ofing in sanction reduction and he needs to increase pressure on the u.s. president, a year where the issident is being challenged a good time for him to do that. >> we are eagerly awaiting this --ech from gigi and paying president jesus paying -- xi xinping. >> he has steered away from any direct mention of trade controversy. year, apeech last general message to the nation on the new year, it is filled with a lot of optimism and hope for the coming year. he mentioned that the nation was facing one of the biggest challenges and 100 years. to be looking for any some signs out of the economic data. 2020 is a big year for him. it is a milestone where they will meet all these targets that they set

once for kim jong un -- or kim jong il's, the founder of north korea, and we went on it for when they honored their army and two other times. but this is nothing new. everybody's sitting here talking about nuclear weapons. north korea's got nuclear weapons, understand one thing. they're not going to get rid of them. that is part of their philosophy. it's called -- [speaking foreign language] -- and it's basically self-reliance. they basically -- when they came out of world war ii and they split into two countries, north korea basically stated that they were going to be self-reliant on what they do. and all this stuff about china and north korea, china came into that war because we were on the sea which is the border of china. and china thought that macarthur was going to invade. you have a nice day. host: that you are to -- thank you for the call. james is next from georgia. good morning. caller: i think the north koreans are just stirring up the pot to try to get trump to give more assistance or money to them. and i don't think he should. i think he should keep the tariffs on north k