north korea has marked the fifth anywhere anniversary of the former king kim jong-il and kim jong-un took over. in the past pyongyang has timed test launches of missiles to coincide with such occasions. tnchs. >>> south situations changed on thursday. the opposition party familiar mousily decided park need not been impeached if she agrees to step down. opposition leaders met later in the day, they said they'll try to get a vote on the impeachment vote later next week. meanwhile park performed official duties outside the capital for the first time in a month. she visit the scene of a fire in a market in her hometown. around the same time, there was a fire at the birth home of park's father, the late former president. police detained a man they suspect committed arson. they say he claims he started the fire because park is refusing to resign. >>> french president hollande will not seek re-election. >> i have decided not to be a candidate in the presidential election. >> hollande was elected in 2012. he faced intense public criticism over his unemployment and counter terrorism policies.

the truth is we knew very little about kim jong un -- kim jong-il. i had to talk to another to see. ey had spent some time together. our intelligence said kim jong-il was crazy and a pervert. he was not crazy. [laughter] sec. albright: when i got there, they put me in a guesthouse and because we did not have an embassy there, we had no idea what was going to happen. i first got instruction i had to go see his father also. it is very hard when you are trying to pay respect to somebody not to bow to low because that is too respectful, and the press will be furious, and not to kind of pay no respect. once i had agreed to do that i went back to the guesthouse and all of a sudden i get a message that the dear leader would see me. so we in fact had a meeting and press conference and it was something out of the 1950's, really. i standing there next to him and am i see we are the same height. i knew i had on high heels and then i looked over and so did he and his hair was a lot puffier than mine. we had amazing talks in terms of -- in terms of arranging for missile limits. kim jong-il said w

we knew very little because of the policy spending some time with him him, our intelligence then kim jong-il was crazy and the pervert. key was not crazy. [laughter] so when i got there they put me in the cast house so we had no idea what would happen. i had to follow instructions on when you try to pay respect to somebody so one-sided reid to do that i went back and all of the sudden i get a message he was sitting so we did have a press conference and it was something out of the '50s and nightstand next to him and ac we did this same height and a.c. that i had on high heels and so did he and his hair was bigger than mine laugh laugh but we had in raising talk on -- amazing talks said to keep the forces since south korea and there were a number of agreements made and it was the strange period that i hold no grief but many were confused of the election. when i came back i briefed: paul and he was very interested but then the washington post had a headline continuing of clinton policies but then was told no way so then they had reason to be confused. by the way dennis rodman is my fault becaus

kim jong-un. sec. albright: if it comes to that, it has to be really well-prepared and the bottom line is we do not know enough about kim jong-il and and the question is, who does the one-on-one and how they understand each other. at some point, we have to talk to them. the situation with iran is quite similar but different. there certainly were a lot of took place. mr. orlins: do we know if in president obama pause conversation with president-elect trump that there has been reference to a real was north that threat korea? sec. albright: we were told that. mr. orlins: secretary kissinger, if president-elect trump asked you should he meet directly with -- new -- an dr. kissinger: korea has played china-american relations. it got us into a war in 1950 that neither side really wanted. north koreanshe attacked south korea, they thought it would be an easy victory. statesn when the united came to the assistance of south korea and moved north, china for itself compelled own historical reasons to intervene. so you cannot separate north korea from china-american relations. basic objective for the immediate future has to be to remove nu

apologists who don't care, as long as people are being served, our country is not free, we are not kim jong-ils at the table. stuart: why don't you leave the democrats? why not go to the trump faction of the republican party? >> i don't think so because i think it is important for libertarians and democrats and republicans to have different kinds of voices. what happens if you start tossing democrats out because they are not, quote, democratic enough. it could happen in all parties. that is why i think it is important for people to speak to power and that is what i'm trying to do among my fellow democrats and it may or may not make me popular but i don't care. what i care about is people see there is a voice in the democratic party that is reasonable and responsible and it will focus on american workers. that is where we need to put our energy. stuart: thanks for coming on the show, you are an honest man and a brave man, we appreciate it. throughout that interview my colleague here was laughing, why? >> you asked great questions. why are you still sticking with the democrats if you believe all