is ready to resume dialogue with north korea whenever its leader kim jong-un appoints a negotiator. north korea earlier said it has no intention of having dialogue with washington. dialogue and negotiations are the only way to rovl outstanding issues and that south korea will work closely with japan and other neighboring countries. but diplomatic observers point to a difference between the u.s. and south korean stances toward north korea. the u.s. maintains that inter-korean cooperation should match progress in the north's denuclearization. that seoul should do whatever it can based on its own initiative regardless of washington's intention. >>> north korea's state run media say kim jong-un visited the mausoleum of kim il-sung on the 26th anniversary of his death. the nation's ruling party newspaper reported on its front page on wednesday that the leader had paid respect to his grandfather at the palace of the sun. a photo at the top of the page shows that far fewer officials accompanied kim jong-un than did so last year. in april the north korea media carried no reports on the lead

this is deja vu news of live from berlin and the corona virus hits north korea leader kim jong un calls an emergency meeting after person shows 1000 symptoms the isolated country has so far claimed to have avoided the pandemic. britain imposes a 14 day quarantine on travelers arriving from spain where there's been a recent spike in krona virus cases that's in spanish authorities reintroduced measures to prevent the spread of the virus. and policing the pandemic will meet the people here in berlin with the un and if you fall task of keeping party goers socially distant. on. a micro local welcome to the program north korea has placed the city of chi song near the border with south korea under total lockdown after a person was found suspected of covert 19 symptoms leader kim jong un called an emergency meeting on saturday if confirmed it would be the country's 1st official case north korean state media say the person suspected of having the virus crossed illegally from south korea. for more i'm joined by josh smith avoiders correspondent in seoul south korea. i have to ask you 1st i mean i

news live from berlin the coronavirus hits north korea leader kim jong un calls an emergency meeting after a person shows covert 900 symptoms the isolated country has so far claimed to have avoided the coronavirus also coming up britain imposes a 14 day quarantine on travelers arriving from spain where there's been a recent spike in corona virus cases that's as the spanish authorities reintroduced measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic. and a new maybe voyage for germany's troops travel industry the 1st line away zanker since the business was paralyzed by the pandemic but can the industry whether the economic storm mad. as welcome to the program north korea has placed the city of k. song near the border with south korea under total lockdown after a person was found suspected of covert 19 symptoms leader kim jong un called an emergency meeting on saturday if confirmed that would be the country's 1st official case north korean state media say the person suspected of having the virus crossed illegally from south korea. for more on that story i'm not joined by just smithies a reu

kim jong un's sister also refers to speculation that another summit with trump could be held befoforehe u.s. prpresidentia election in november. she says such a summit could take place as a result of a sudden decision by both leaders, adding that no one knows. she says a summit would be unnecessary and useless for pyongyang as long as there is no decisive change in washington's attitude. the statement also stresses the good relations between both leaders, sayaying kim jong un wants to convey to trump his best wishes for success. >>> the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted work around the world. in south korea some city dwellers struggling to find jobs locally are heading out of town for a taste of life on the farm. nhk world's kim chone joou has more. >> reporter: south korea's sweep pepper farmgs are in season. this worker is new to the job. he turned the position as a pastry chef in seoul as shehe wouldn't have made enough money following the pandemic. she looked to the countryside instead. >> translator: i knew farming was tough. but when i actually tried it, i realized how hard it

is right next to the country that originated with the virus, and b, you can't believe anything kim jong-unay. paul, north korea has a less than desirable health care infrastructure. what do you officials you speak with think of this rather bizarre claim by kim jong-un? >> reporter: jake, certainly you would be hard pressed to believe that north korea doesn't have a single case, but this is still what the country is claiming. the w.h.o., the world health organization representative for north korea, spoke to us just a few hours ago and said that north korea is claiming they have been testing people. they have done 922 tests so far, so not very many for a suspected population of 25 million. but they said all of those tests came back negative. kim jong-un has claimed, as you say, it's a shining success the way his country has dealt with this, also warning against co complacen complacency. that warning from the north korean leader came as we saw images from this meeting. nobody appeared to be wearing a mask. there was very little, if any, social distancing, so that was something to note as well

placed the city of cause song and a lockdown of the concerns of the coronavirus case its leader kim jong un has declared a state of emergency in the area the state news agency says a defector who illegally cross the border from the south has shown symptoms of cover 19 it's the 1st time that north korea has officially reported a suspected corona virus infection so clark is following the story from home call she says it's unclear whether the patient has been tested. well this person who defected 3 years ago to south korea the return date back to north korea was on july 19th and he suspected or he or she is suspected of having covert 19 other reports don't indicate if he or she has had the official coronavirus test and said that the suggestion is that there's been several medical check ups showing respect for the symptoms that are linked to or a similar to those that you have with the crowd a virus that if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea kim jong un has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city

that north korea's leader kim jong—unin north korea's leader kim jong—un ina north korea's leader kimg the coronavirus may have entered the state. describing it as the country's first suspected case of covid—19, the newsagency said the town near the south korean border had been locked down over fears a defector that had returned last week was infected. the border town is a symbolic area. and a liaison building to help with peace talks, but as relations soured, north korea blew up that building in june soured, north korea blew up that building injune and a huge explosion. the north says the person who crossed back into the state had defected to the south three years ago, normally an occurrence likeness ina normally an occurrence likeness in a heavily fortified border would be unlikely. south korean military officials they are very well have happened and they are investigating. the secretive state has sealed all ofan secretive state has sealed all of an previously stressed it was virus free as the pandemic spread around the world, but a nalysts spread around the world, but analysts have

and the coronavirus pits in north korea leader kim jong un calls an emergency meeting after a person shows symptoms of coke at 19 the isolated country has so far claimed to have avoided a pandemic to. encourage its and thanks for joining us we begin in the united states where ceremonies have been held to honor the late civil rights icon john lewis the legendary congressman died of cancer a week ago at the age of 80 louis' casket is currently lying in state at the alabama state capitol in a symbolic tribute lewis was carried across the edmund pettus bridge in the city of selma which has become a landmark in the fight for racial justice. a bridge that linda la genius lost. following a path of roses paratroopers john lewis crossed it for the last time. the event dubbed the final crossing a highlight of the celebrations honoring the life of the civil rights activist and congressman. it was on this bridge in 1965 that he helped lead a march for racial justice he then became known as bloody sunday after was brutally suppressed by state troopers john lewis was beaten so badly he was left wi

the coronavirus his north korea leader kim jong un calls an emergency meeting after a person to show symptoms of a culture at night the isolated country has so far claimed that you have avoided the pandemic. and you could supersensitive noses health purpose spread of the corona virus we take a look at a program of training sniffer dogs to identify infections even before symptoms appear. i'm clay richardson thanks for joining us the american flag has been taken down at a u.s. consulate in southwestern china police have closed off the surrounding area in the city of chengdu as u.s. officials vacate the premises. china ordered the closure of the consulate on friday and retaliation for washington's order to shut down the chinese consulate in houston u.s. secretary of state called it a hub of spying and intellectual property theft. hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the evacuation of the u.s. consulate in chengdu china though many take selfies and wave chinese flags large numbers of police officers put a quick stop to any provocative gestures that go like go china i'm chinese go chin

know one of the many reasons that peace had to be stopped so february 27th 2019 donald trump and kim jong un they meet in vietnam the summit fails and reports begin emerging that my palm pale and john bolton succeeded in napalming any progress toward peace march 15th pompei on bomb denies derailing north korean nuclear talks but just destroying the peace talks wasn't enough the american people needed a good solid propaganda to reassert the idea that kim jong un was a doctor and a bloodthirsty dictator who will choose with a mouth open end and leaves toenail clippings on the breakfast table that you find later in your life what the dood. marj sturdiest the new york times reports north korea executed and purged their top nuclear negotiator but 2 months later we learned it's true for the fate of north korean of o.c.a. it or executed after the failed summit grows murkier with new reports that he's still alive within the next day or 2 it became quite clear the diplomat was very much in the land of the living but the propaganda put forward by the new york times and many other outlets had already d

if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea kim jong un has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city of k song has been put into a lockdown as it was got as a result he's described it as a critical situation a report released by the state run media says it's a dangerous situation in case some that may lead to a deadly and destructive disaster now north korea has received thousands of testing kits from russia and other countries it's also had some pretty strict border closures in recent months but i believe restrictions have eased of lights now the case of this particular defector the state run media saying he illegally he or she illegally crossed the demarcation line on july 19th and the politburo meeting that is scribed it in a dialogue as aloof guard performance on the front line on that particular day and obviously an investigation into the military unit responsible will happen. one seen as a success story australia has had its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began 10 people died in 2

and that would bring huge humiliation to kim jong-un, they are very smart.y pretending to carry out the threats to achieve all the puose they have intended by >>e e said thahehe sth korea an government's response to the threats by pledging to prosecute defectors, sent ding leaflets across the border is not smart action. >> any aspects of negotiating with them that we should be more careful or pay more attention in order to produce more good results sns. >> i think in negotiations, the most important thing is the leveraging you have. the leverage means the power to affect the outcome, or to determine or effect north korea's fate. what north korea values most is sanctions relief. security guarantees. all those things that are stipulated in the joint statement. but if you ease sanctions before they make the progress, then you lose all the influence to move forward. >> he stressed the importance of the u.s. south korea alliance if the negotiations are too ill to results. >> we have no leverage with north korea. we can expect to have it when we have power to pers

but last week the north's leader, kim jong un, decided to suspend militariest escalati suspend military escalation. kim chan ju sat down with a former north korean envoy for more on the future of inter korean relations. >> he is a vetereran south kore diplomat and negotiator witith e north. he was seoul's chief delelegateo the six-party talks from 2006 to 2008. he also served as national secucurity adviser to former president. referring to kim's decision to postpone military action, he said north korea never planned to do anything in the first place. >> they mentioned military plans inin order to add impact to the threats, to their intimidation tactic. if they actually went ahead with their military threat, they lose everything. they lose everything. and that would bring huge humiliation to kim jong un. so they arere very smart. they are very smart withohout actually doing anything. just pretending, by pretending to carry out their threats, they achieved all the purpose they intendedyy thrtening. >> chunaid the sou kornn vernmement'sonciliaty reonse to pyonang's threats by pledging to p

. >> it sounds like kim jong-un is tracking the election clock ago well. much credibility tows pun in north korea's claim that they had won't negotiate with the u.s. before election. this is extortion kim jong-un style. there's no excrete that he's been a surrogate for trump. trump has inaccurately pointed to progress with north korea as a foreign policy success, despite the fact that kim jong-un continuing to engage in illegal, multitheater activities, whether it's weapons attacks, cyberattacks and more. he wants one thing from president trump, sanctioning relief. he's deeply aware he has the ability to blow up president trump's narrative on north korea, figuratively and literal ly. he can show trump who is boss, so to speak. what i'm watching out for is if president trump chooses to give north korea concessions to keep him quiet in the run-up to the november presidential election. sam vinograd, as always, thanks as always, on a holiday weekend in particular. >>> could he give us a hint about his campaign strategy? next i'll talk to carl bernstein, what he

i think this year's october surprise could be another meeting with kim jong-un. don't think anything could come from such a meeting other than bad concessions by the united states. i think it's m much riskier tha perhaps trump really thought about, but he likes the show. he likes the attention. it's a way of showing him on the world stage, and if you're in a period three or four weeks before the election and nothing else is working, it might be worth taking the chance. >> reporter: t the president's niece, mary trump is releasing her own tell-all book next week, following a legal campaign to stop its publication. as the presidential election closes in, more searing accounts of trump's past are expected to hit store shelves, and they could make the president's road to re-election much bumpier. takashi, nhk world. >>> the european parliament is urging japan to improve child custody laws and take steps to prevent the abduction of children by estranged parents. members of parliament adopted a resolution on wednesday voicing concern over a high number of parental abdu

this is really the first time that we have heard any indication, and it's coming from the top, kim jong un, the coronavirus is in north korea. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. >>> a rare move for north korea. the country is acknowledging its alleged first coronavirus infection. according to state run media, kim jong un called an emergency hearing. they also reported the infected person entered the country illegally last week and was placed in quarantine. the government says it has put some isolation measures in place. with so many countries dealing with spiking cases, the race for a vaccine is urgent and highly competitive. nations are already gambling and buying potential doses. melissa bell visits a lab working to bring a vaccine to the public. she's in paris. >> we have taken virus from patients. >> reporter: the race for a vaccine has never been so fierce. across the world, 166 potential covid-19 vaccines are being worked on the like here in western france. the european pharmaceutical company has just sold 60 million doses of its potential future vaccine to the united kingdom. >> the aim is

like theresa may, primeinister of great britain, and you described the relationship he had with kim jong un and presidenter president erdogan as a pbromanc. who is president trump's favorite authoritarian. >> i think it' xi jinping, and concern.ls me with great if you watch, on a number of occasions, donald trump on the posite side of the table of xi jinping, vladimir putin, kim jong un, it'sot a fair fight. they are extraordinarily focused, hard headed, knowledgeable, experienced and thoroughly ruthless, so they see donald tmp on the other side, and it's not a fair fight. so if you're on the pro-american side, it's something to worried about. >> why does he have a blind spot to when it comes to authoritarian leaders? >> you know, i can't explain it. i'm not shrink myself. i'm not going to attempt to explain it in terms of his early ars or that sort of thing. i think in part, you know, he wants to be a big guy with the real big guys and the big guys are xi jinping and vladimir putin, law enforcementst s, concern for trivi democratic constraint it doesn't bother xi jinping and vladimir putin

now, we know from state-run media that kim jong un the leader convened an emergency meeting and, within that, he and his elite agreed to enact a maximum-emergency system. now, according to kcna, kim jong un said there had been, quote, a runaway, what we know as a de k defector. and then, july 19th, crossed back into north korea. now, the south korean military say they are looking into this, to try and confirm whether or not that was the case. but according to kcna, this particular individual did show symptoms. uncertain results was from a medic medical checkup. and so, the individual was put into strict quarantine, as were many others according to this article, in a city just along the dmz. up until now, north korea has claimed they have zero cases within the country. this is something that authorities and officials around the world, simply, did not believe. they did close off the border, very early on. and they are one of the very few countries in the world that can completely isolate, in this respect. but this is really the first time that we have heard any indication, and it's coming

its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce the measures state media says the suspected case is a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea says it's investigating sarah clarke is following that story from hong kong she says it's unclear whether the patient was tested for corona virus. well this person who defected 3 years ago to south korea the return date back to north korea was on july 19th and he suspected or he or she is suspected of having covert 19 other reports don't indicate if he or she has had the official coronavirus test and said that the suggestion is that there's been several medical checkups showing respect symptoms that are linked to ward a similar to those that you have with the crowd a virus that if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea and i can join on has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city of case one has been put into a lockd

its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce the measures state media say the suspected cases a defector who fled to south korea years ago for attending illegally last week south korea says it's investigating. and now chinese people in the city of one hand have a new emergency to deal with 6 months since the coronavirus outbreak forced its 11000000 residents into lockdown flooding has now submerged parts of china's worst affected city as well as other parts of a province katrina you reports for. there used to be a part where $100.00 follow town now walks but last week's to wrenshaw rains changed that flooding and pollution is crayfish and crab ponds gotta hold imo much the coronavirus this year already impact my business when the operate was contained i worked really hard to recover the business but just before the harvest time this flock am i've lost sort of. almost all of size stock died in just a few days he lost more than a year's of with of income. he says 2020 has so far been a year of disast

you are watching the news on his with our top story at this hour a north korean leader kim jong un has called an emergency meeting after a person exhibited cohabit 900 symptoms and chase song near the border with south korea the city has been placed on a total lockdown if confirmed it would be the isolated country's 1st official case . that's it for now from me and the oddity of michael will have an update at the top of the off place to watch. our planet his birth. places. claims that consumed forests and entire residential areas cut. rising temperatures water shortages land clearance there's an abundance of flammable material once again to. go stuff in the 1st. go in the small. little conflagration in the world on fire starts august 12th on t.w. . before inspections our bosses said get your mosques on and keep your mouth shut and don't say a word even if you speak german alex speak from romania worked for germany's biggest meat producer 10 years unpaid overtime no protection from the coronavirus poor living conditions experiences shared by 2. and of thousands of contract workers in ge

donald trump's foreign policy especially his dealings with china's xi jinping and north korea's kim jong un you were present at 2 out of 3 meetings between trump and kim you said there were times when we were very close to making concessions that i think even prior administrations like the clinton and obama administrations wouldn't have made was drunk willing to give away the shop what kinds of concessions do you mean. well i don't think he understood what he was doing i think he he he longed for a deal with north korea on the nuclear weapons program i don't think he studied the issue closely enough to know what the ramifications of different terms that were offered were i think ultimately and the case of the who noise summit the 2nd meeting where he did walk away from a proposal by north korea that i thought entirely inadequate he did so because he knew that if he were to accept that it would have produced a volcanic political reaction in america from the republican party and that he fundamentally couldn't do that and that really was the sort of reaction that troubled me the most that he d

complete total not locked down after a person was found showing symptoms of covert 19 now leader kim jong un called an emergency meeting on saturday if confirmed it would be the country's 1st official kane's north korean state media say the person suspected of having the virus crossed illegally from south korea. for more i'm joined by josh smith a reuters correspondent in seoul south korea. i have to ask you 1st i mean if confirmed this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korean authorities how credible is this well as with all things north korea claims of having no cases has been met with a lot of skepticism due to the lack of hard information coming out of north korea so there is a lot of skepticism but this isn't their 1st case that being said we also haven't had any firm cases otherwise so if this does in the turn out to be the case a lot of people expect them to potentially announce that they've had other cases as well which will be something that people are watching very closely josh in this case has been linked to a person whom authorities claim defected to south ko

congress man began 55 years ago also coming up on the show the coronavirus hits north korea leader kim jong un calls an emergency meeting after a person has showed symptoms of coke at 19 the isolated country has so far claimed to to have avoided the pandemic. and could super sensitive noses help to curb the spread of the corona virus we take a look at a program a training sniffer dogs identify infections even before symptoms appear. i'm going to reject that and thanks for joining us we begin in the united states where ceremonies have been held to honor the late civil rights icon and john lewis the legendary congressman that died of cancer a week ago at the age of 80 louis his casket is currently lying in state at the alabama state capitol and a symbolic tribute to lewis was carried across the edmund pettus bridge in the city of selma which has become a landmark in the fight for racial justice. a bridge that learned to love genius lost. following a path of rose petals. john lewis crossed it for the last time. the event dubbed the final crossing a highlight of the celebrations honoring the life

north korean leader kim jong un has called an emergency meeting after person exhibited covert 19 symptoms in case song near the border with south korea the city has been placed under total lockdown if confirmed it would be the isolated country's 1st official case. up for now i'm not michael oh cool here in berlin don't forget you can get all the information on our stories on our website www dot com and you can also follow us on twitter and instagram as well at the news more news in 45 minutes. competition marketing numbers here that's how intuition. stand. on you tube joining us. talk of it is for. us for. us for how.

south korea under total lockdown after a person was found showing symptoms of covert 19 leader kim jong un called an emergency meeting on saturday if confirmed it would be the country's 1st official case north korean state media say the person suspected of having the virus crossed illegally from south korea. we spoke earlier to reuters correspondent josh smith in the seoul south korea we asked him about claim that this 1st officially acknowledged case of cove it has been linked to someone who defected to the south and had just returned to his homeland north korea. well south korean officials have said that there is a good chance that someone did recently return across the fortified border and they're checking into that but it is quite interesting that folks that we've talked to note that this would potentially allowing north korea to blame south korea rather than china for example for any outbreak in north korea at the same time they also note that it could allow north korea to save face if it decides to accept aid that's been offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form o

. ♪ >>> north korean leader kim jong-un convened an emergency meeting after the first suspected caseient is in isolation and under quarantine. isolation measures are in effect for the border area near the town. cnn's paula hancock has the latest on this story. >> reporter: this is the closest that north korea has come so far to admitting the coronavirus is within the country. we know from state run media, the leader convened an emergency meeting. within that, he and his elite agreed to a maximum emergency system. according to kcna, kimo owe he said there's a runaway, a defector who left north korea and on july 19th crossed back in, across the dmv. the military are looking into this to confirm whether or not that was the case. according to the particular -- they did show symptoms. uncertain results was from a medical checkup. the individual was put into strict quarantine as were many others according to this article in a border city along the dmv. up until now, north korea has claimed they have zero cases within the country. this is something that authorities and officials simply did

but still i'm impressed that north korea got one coronavirus case and kim jong un immediately ordered a lockdown. kim was like we can't have corona killing north koreans. that's my job. now one part of the story that is really weird is that a defector left north korea, went into south korea, but then came back into north korea. but apparently there is a really good reason for it. yeah, he didn't leave, he just went to south korea for some chicken wings. coming up after the break, desi lydic goes full kente clt and we talk to one of america's top historians. stay tuninged. >> just had a brand new record today, again this is now the 18th time sincek and this is since, after the problem, so we have a new stock market high for nas dak and the others are get-- nasdaq and the others are getting very close. what do you tell parents who look at arizona where a school teacher recently died, parents who are worried about the safety of their children in public. >> but i didn't know very many people in washington t wasn't my thing, i was from manhattan, from new york. now i know everybody. and ha

its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce those measures to state media say the suspected case is a defector who fled to south africa south korea years ago before returning illegally last week. industry has recorded its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began 10 people died in 24 hours in the state of victoria the epicenter of a resurging outbreak case numbers there have been growing by several 100 per day for the past 3 weeks now. you have to say that these numbers are far too or was there is some relative in a stretch to term relative stability we're not saying w.w. game we're not dealing with thousands of cases of die which is what the modeling tells us we would have had to deal with if we'd not go into the start story start home. we've got to drive those numbers down 7 more scuffles in tear gas on the streets of the u.s. city of portland as protests there continue against police brutality those demonstrations sparked by the killing of georgia for the minneapolis have now been going

pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce the measures state media says the suspected case is a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea says it's investigating there have been more scuffles and on the streets of portland oregon in the states as protests continue against police brutality the demonstrations which were sparked by the killing of george floyd have been going on for more than 8 weeks. israeli police have confronted the latest protests demanding the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu water cannon was used to disperse crowds again rallying near his home in west jerusalem demonstrators have held repeated protests to his handling of the virus pandemic those are the top stories the news continues after rewind we're back a little later season. we understand the different cities and similarities of cultures across the wound sentimental how you take a. current affair that matter to you. hello and welcome to rewind and maria over the last 10 or so years here at al-jazeera english we've built

as a result, kim jong-un called an emergency meeting this weekend to deal with the possible spread of the virus. now, this is the first suspected case reported in the reclusive north. the government has declared an emergency and locked down areas around the border city. south korean police say the man was being investigated in connection with a sex crime. so for more on this, let's turn to cnn's paula hancocks in seoul, south korea. some new details emerging there. what more do we know? >> well, kim, at this point, we've heard from the defense ministry here in south korea, and they confirmed that a man did, in fact, they believe, cross into north korea from south korea at the time that north korea claims it happened. now, from the police point of view, they say that this individual, this man had been accused of a sex crime. they say that they had been trying to track him down. they were investigating this particular allegations and they believe that he had fled to try and avoid that. so what this tells us from the north korean point of view is it's effectively the closest we have come

. ♪ >>> north korea marked the 67th anniversary of the korean war armistice with remarks from kim jong un the defensive effects of its nuclear arsenal. the north's rulingararty newspaper said kim spoke at a conference of vetens on monday. he said that north korea developed nuclear weapons in order to possess absolute strength in order to stave off another armed conflict. he said the north had guaranteed its future and is now capable of defending itself from any form of military threats from hostile foforces. in 2018 kim agrgreed with u.s. presididt donald d trump in the summit to work told a goal of denuclearization, but talks between the two stalled after the north sought the lifting of sanctions andhe united ststates called it a lacack o of concret actition by pypyongyang.g. the u.n. security council president is asking member stateses to observe sancnctions against nonorth korea. >> to remind cololleagueues how important it is to implement the sanctions regime, taking i into consideration that north korea's continued efforts to build up its nuclear program. >> the council convened on m