warning leader kim jong il we credit cost of the x. y. and. afghan officials accuse u.s. forces of killing at least sixteen civilians in an airstrike the band of on claims they were all extremist militants we hear from the victim's relatives. there in my mother who both killed. my two brothers my mother and my sister were killed. thanks for tuning in you're watching our team to national it's three in the afternoon here in moscow with you now is emily so. bring them home that's a call after archie started campaigning to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded and an iraqi orphanage these youngsters have reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined islam and state. listen.

there are new pictures of kim jong il combing through maps of what does it mean as tensions remain high between north korea and the u.s. . and two u.s. soldiers died on a combat operation in iraq but questions remain about what killed them. it's tuesday august fifteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm talking sweets and you're watching our two america the weekend is over but the anger surrounding the protest in charlottesville is not improper to protest actions and gatherings of and here racist demonstrators sprung up across the country in the past couple of days since the violence in charlottesville a nation made crisis into the streets. in durham north carolina a crowd gathered monday to topple a statue of a confederate soldier meanwhile in baltimore the city council voted to destroy all confederate arab monuments in the city. in gainesville florida the daughters of the confederacy hired workers to remove a publicly displayed confederate statue however white supremacists are matching the last mobilization the people of charlottesville are still contending with our rights to progress co

so far, it costs kim jong-il to step down, we have to see moving forward. he is realizing he has now got a president prepared to stand up to him. --kimkim jong-il and un back down and the he made a wise and well reasoned decision. the alternative would have been catastrophic amount acceptable. the united states was locked and loaded, you said you believe that was a causal connection to north korea standing down? if you look at the 35tory over the last year, or so ballistic missile tests, multipleis and by solutions, very little is done to north korea because of that. it can takelearned actions contrary to what the un security council says. it is time for them to realize there are consequences to such bad behavior. host: randy is on our independent line from maine. caller: i keep thinking, if you get china involved, we are still dealing with the world war ii problems. it takes care of it only. trying to take care of north korea will leave and he will my and have us on the southern peninsula. thank you very much. guest: first of all, china was to hedge minute

donald trump's rhetorical duel what north korea steps up to the president now warning leader kim jong il will be credit if he acts unwisely. afghan officials accuse u.s. forces of killing at least sixteen civilians in an air strike at the pentagon claims they were all extremist militants we hear from the victim's relatives. there in my mother who killed. my two brothers and mother and my sister were. broadcasting live from the russian capital you're watching our team to national it's six in the evening here in moscow we can now. bring them home best to call after r.t. started campaigning to find rather have a russian speaking children strand as an iraqi orphanage these youngsters have reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined us on mixtape. this is low so many if you. give the loan this. is their only what you. say. after we showed our clip from the baghdad orphanage we started to receive calls and e-mails from people who think they know the children our correspondent has traveled to the russian republic of dagestan after the grandparents of two sisters had and fat

that was the assessment of kim jong-il. >> reporter: it was president grandfather who the tyrant is believed to most want to emulate from the clothes to the hair style. >> kim jong-un wants to project the image of his grandfather. he was viewed and is viewed by the people of north korea as a great revolutionary. he gave them independence. he fought against the colonials. he fought against japan, he fought against the united states in the korean war. >> reporter: is kim jong-un under threat internally? and if so, could that cause him to flex his muscles against the u.s. in a show of strength? >> kim jong-un's leadership appears to be fairly solid. he has insulated himself and protected himself from any threats to his leadership. whether those be physical or political threats. >> reporter: analysts say it is possible north korea's elites may get nervous and move against kim if he keeps taking his country from one crisis to another. but one expert points out kim keeps his elites and generals under such close surveillance, it's tough for them to gather forces against him. wolf? >> interesting. b

north korea, kim jong-il, the man in charge before kim jong un, he is remembered as saying one of thet ways to keep a strong hand is to try to keep things under wraps and not give away anything and, in fact, there's often the feeling that the koreans here want to keep the world guessing, and that's the best way to make a strong position out of not very much. so i think that these kinds of assessments from the outside world, the throwaway comments made often are not really accurate, and i think there's plenty of analysis from experts over the past weeks, months and years even going back to the early 1990s which suggests that because, after all, it was back in the early '90s that people thought that the country would collapse following the collapse of the soviet union. in fact, here we are in 2017 and it is still here. >> rafael, quickly, can you describe how kim is different from his predecessors who really emphasized the military aspect but he has emphasized both the military nuclear program and the economy? >> i think that, since 2012, which was is first full year that the new leader

i think all of this going around and purging people, just like kim jong il and, when he gets scared inour position, trump seems to know how to fire. what do you think? >> greg: it's understandable coming from them, it's not a surprise. you're seeing the two lanes, you're seeing the media late in the everybody else lane. the media is chasing rabbits. the rest of america is interested in the whales. the rabbits are rumors and conversations and some meetings and some staffing changes, those of the rabbits everybody chases and we chased them too. america is interested in the whales and the whales of the economy, economy, economy and security and terror. i had to frame it after the election as action versus words. they are preoccupied, the media is preoccupied with his words. america is preoccupied with his deeds. if you have problems with trump's character or his jokes or the way he acts, concentrate on what he does. there are four things that i look at that make me feel like things are going well. isis is not entirely gone but it's getting there. he's rolled back a ton of regulations, he

disagreemento be for diplomacy and whether or not kim jong-il and will actually response to doma c.ink we are dealing with someone rational? >> there is a lot of frustration how quickly north korea passes program seems to be advancing. u.s. presidents for maybe 20 years have tried to solve the north korea issue. have used a stick of sanctions, and nothing has ever seemed to work. , they haveeadership been committed to getting a missile that could deliver on to the a nuclear missile united states. it is hard to see what will stop them from getting there. all the scenarios around wargames with north korea are grim diddley for people of south korea. torlet: thank you bloomberg's national security leader for putting that all into perspective for us. with the latest north korea headlines return to volatility and equity? howard was already sounding the alarm. >> within on every strategy and high yields or emerging-market debt or equities, there are riskier and less risky things to do. i would be moving toward their less risky. question when he us now is the chief equity strategist at libe

the host of you are welcome and author of dear reader, the unauthorized biography of kim jong-il. richard fowler is also here. welcome. let's start off the week with glory and gigantic theoretical hugs. democrats are optimistic about the prospect of john kelly. why do they like him? >> hopefully they can rain in this president. kennedy: don't the democrats love the chaos? >> i want the president to do his job. be the president of the united states for a second and stop tweeting. hopefully he will do that. kennedy: obama used twitter and mumbled. not quite in the same way. you say general kelly is already improving morale. >> for anyone who has a military member in their family as i do and anies of americans do. these guys know how to run a tight ship. my own father raised us that way. jared and ivanka report straight to him and not necessarily to the president. kennedy: that was one of the big questions, would he stand between steve bannon and jared kushner and ivanka trump. many insiders report that there are some people who have disdain for the president. kind of a bad morale. y

it relies on being able to determine -- deter someone like kim jong-il them. i do not think he is crazy but i would not want to bet on him not using nuclear weapons against the united states. i think the goal here should still be two new -- dean nuclear eyes and there is a way to do that. that is the way forward. virginia beach, republican line, bill is next. caller: the question is what options does the u.s. have versus north -- north korea? by far the best option would be to choke them economically with sanctions. sanctions do not ultimately work, how confident are you to get the capability of the united point ofd hitting the release both before and after launch? the next step, i would think, in deterring north korea from hitting part of the united states. thank you. the talent of your on north korea programs, there are u.s. military officials who say of course there are military the backend show the types of casualties possible and part of that is because north korea has a missile force that is a lot more mobile now. we're not talking about 10 years ago whe

and that was the assessment of kim il sung and kim jong il, they were logical in their own context, they in power, but they had these psychological disorders. >> the young kim appears different. >> he's not as cooperative or communicative as his father or grandfather. so this guy is unpredictable, he's brash, he's -- in essence, irrational. and quite a big ego. >> kim's grandfather, kim il sung, quickly deployed a personality cult around his leadership. after he was installed with soviet backing following world war ii. monuments to him are everywhere in north korea. his birthday is celebrated with giant festivals. kim jong-un emulates his look, even his hairstyle, analysts say in an attempt to derive legitimacy. >> kim jong-un wants to project the image of his grandfather, kim il sung was viewed and is viewed by the people of north korea as a great revolutionary. he gave them independence. he fought against the colonials, he fought against japan, he fought against the united states in the korean war and south korea south korea. >> kim jong il was next in line with his penchant for luxuri

nuclear blast so where does that actually leave us well only a few days into trump's verbal spot with kim jong il a survey showed almost eighty percent of americans believe north korea is capable of launching a missile that could hit the u.s. and that's despite many experts saying weapons are not sophisticated enough to achieve the cia director mike pump ale believes there's no immediate need to be concerned so how worried should people be nothing about it but what i'm talking about is i've heard folks talking about their we being on the cusp of a nuclear war saying no intelligence that would indicate that we're in that place today don't you hawkins has been taking a look at who actually benefits from any scaremongering. the higher the tension the hotter the rhetoric we've certainly had no shortage of that in recent days but who stands to gain from this war of words for one the u.s. president has kept busy sounding military drums against north korea. they will be met with fury. that is their it's a state. maybe it wasn't. and it's tough talk like this that brought him unique popularity according

they cut a deal with kim jong un's father, kim jong il.iving north korea $4 billion in energy aid in exchange for the promise that the rogue regime would freeze and eventually and its nuclear weapons program. bill clinton said this was a good deal for the american people. take a look. >> this is a good deal for the united states. north korea will freeze, and to then dismantle the nuclear program. south korea and the other allies will be better protected. the entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. >> sean: predictably the deal turned into a complete and utter disaster. a direct reason why we are in the situation we are in on the edge -- the world being on edge tonight with north korea. earlier today, the president called out to president clinton's foolish mistakes. watch list.ie >> we will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years, look at clinton. he folded on the negotiations. he was weak and ineffective.or >> sean: the president is clearly not going to repeat the policies of a

the reality is kim jong-il and -- kim jong-un's regime, i don't think that has changed. u.s.orea really backing down on these kind of joint exercises that are necessary to ensure that they are able to respond. it does seem that north korea has backed off a bit. missiles, the u.s. made pretty clear. an aggressive stance by north korea. >> bloomberg national security editor joining us from washington. you can watch the speech on bloomberg tonight at 9 p.m. new york time. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ york and0 p.m. in new 7:00 p.m. in london. julia: welcome to bloomberg "bloomberg markets." ♪ julie: we are live in bloomberg world" is in new york over the next hour. your top stories we are covering in the bloomberg and around the world. wall street has jackson hole on his mound as janet yellen heads to the annual summit. unwind's big man could be a shock. the sun is in the spotlight today. we have eclipse fever like everyone else. a total eclipse from coast-to-coast for the first time since 1918. we will talk to the ceo of sunrun. bill's comeback trail hitting another road

we also have an expert on north korea who what a great biography on korean dictator kim jong il. eally understands the family. gillian, i'd like to start with michael. you do not believe that if kim jong un has one child, it will be at guam. >> of course not. if you are going to go to prison, you'll take a shot, you punch the guy in the face. when the japanese attacked pearl harbor, there was a fleet there. they know the retaliation number regardless of who the president was, even if it was president obama. it would have been swift and brutal. the good thing about what president trump is a saying, hes speaking their language. when you are engaged with negotiations and someone is being bellicose and hostile, you want to comeil at them with the same volume or higher so they realize that this guy isn't falling down with the bluster. if you go back to the '90s, kim jong il boasted that they -- if they attack, we'll destroy the world. another deep breath.br during the cold war, there were hundreds, if not thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at us from the soviet union and we lived un

also shown to be much more of a man of the people, much more like his grandfather was, than what kim jong ilcluse. and so i think, you know, especially the younger people, when now the skeconomy is reall growing and they're a strong and powerful nation as kim jong il had promised them to be, kim jong un is also now out with the people, talking to them, and has a much better rapport with the north koreans than what his father did. >> when you look, jenny, at both president trump and kim jong un, you see the verbal volleys back and forth, the hyperbolic language laced with, you know, fiery, literally fiery language. but is trump's response, the egging him on, is this what the leader of this rogue nation wants? is hoping for? >> you know, i don't think it's what he wants. but he's certainly prepared to respond. but it does play into a narrative where now, you know, it's much easier for him to point to a u.s. active threat. so you know, they spend a lot of time -- kim jong un spends a lot of time developing the story of why they think the u.s. is a nuclear threat to them, and points to the joint

used by the united states it defends the united states but it's not really the united states if kim jong il and the north koreans were to say that we are going to target off the coast of california or we're going to target off the coast of washington state or even target off the coast of hawaii there would be a very different response from the united states because you are directly threatening the homeland but what is the purpose of a territory or a colony the purpose of a colony is that you are exploited when things are good and if things get ugly you cut it loose the fact that trump speaks so recklessly and sort of impulsively only helps to underscore a lot of those those anxious tensions we're back with more of your monday headlines in just about. anyone else seems wrong. but. just don't hold. me. to shape out this day as a kid and in the game equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want. to be this i

. >> yeah, there's a difference between the kim jong-il 13 holes in 1 story. >> right, kim jong-il has golfed the perfect golf game, according to -- >> hits a hole in 1 every time. and the sort of it's not a lie if you believe it. and there might be some of that going on with trump, but what strikes ma s me is it's an incre waste of time and talent and resources that the white house press shop probably on a daily basis has to go back and try to forensically put whatever he has said together so that it makes sense. you can imagine sarah huckabee sanders, people in her office today, saying, gosh, can we find a time where he would have been with pena nieto or with the boy scout leaders that we would pla plausibly make this true somehow and it's just this is not the whey to use your press shop. i mean, these are people who are meant to be staffing the president, prepping the president, spreading the president's message on policy. and instead, they're having to figure out how to make what he just said somehow sort of true. >> they have to do it on a daily basis. you know, yesterday in the m

when we dealt with kim jong-il and kim jong sung, we would always cave in.he president made it clear there will be no appeasement. that may, they are trying to do. i'm sure president trump is very serious. david: you can still have diplomacy. there is room for both. some people say the many good cop-bad cop. i say it's diplomacy without appeasement. i single out one person. that's general mattis who is a tough marine general. he knows how to be tough an also knows how to be diplomatic. he sent a message earlier in the week that was tough. he said cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and destruction of its people. but listen to what he said a little bit later. >> right now secretary tillerson and ambassador haley, you can see the american effort is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction and gaining diplomatic results. i want to day right there. the tragedy of war is well enough known. it doesn't need another characterization beyond the fact it would be catastrophic. david: the mainstream media jumped on that and

territory the president sent the following warning to kim jong. il he utters water threats or if he does anything with respect to chua or any place else that's that american territory or an american ally he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast tweeted the u.s. army is locked and loaded against the secretive east asian state it's the latest in a long line of rhetoric from the american leader with fears the war of words is now becoming a little too personal. north korea best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see the people that were questioning that statement was it too maybe it wasn't tough enough that it did it's a state that has nothing to do with their that's a statement. and i wanted to ask on the war of words for now u.s. media reporting the pentagon has plans for a preemptive strike on north korea's nuclear facilities but that's raising fears across the border in seoul as a correspondent explains so what if mr trump goes forward and all these roughly two dozen

little transfer torkel doorway to north korea steps off with the president now warning leader kim jong il we credit cost of the x. y. and. afghan officials accuse u.s. forces of killing at least sixteen civilians in an airstrike the band of on claims they were all extremist militants we hear from the victim's relatives. there in my mother who both killed. my two brothers my mother and my sister were killed. thanks for tuning in you're watching our team to national it's three in the afternoon here in moscow with you now is emily so. bring them home that's a call after archie started campaigning to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded and an iraqi orphanage these youngsters have reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined islam and state. listen. this is low so if you. give the you. do business with you please. stay. here. after we showed our clip from the baghdad orphanage we started to receive calls and e-mails from people who think they know the children our correspondent you have has traveled to the russian republic of dagestan after grandparents of

stressed that the situation should only be dealt with through the un analysts told us that trump and kim jong il should tone down the rhetoric but this can't be is an ego fight and right now what it felt like was a fight between trump on one side and kim on the other and to see who could make more outlandish statements and the fear is that if somebody flinches if somebody screws up there could be hundreds of thousands of dead people here this is a very real fight this is shockingly dangerous and the last thing we need to do is stand down and start bumping chests and talk about who is the bigger man with the president's rhetoric i think it's it's two leaders exchanging bombastic terms it would be a disaster a total disaster an arms race right on the peninsula even china does not want that that's why we need to tone down this rhetoric corral in these folks and and try to get them to talk reasonably rather than being bombastic all the time and creating tensions over at home trying to prevent rating received a boost amid the tough talk with north korea his popularity jumped six points after he warne

threats are to blame for the tensions in north korea, more than war, kim jong-il on wants to stay inower. here is more from the president in bedminster, new jersey. >> i don't think they may not and i think the first time they heard it like they heard it and frankly, for people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough, maybe it was not tough enough. they have been doing this to our country for a long time, many years, and it is about time someone stuck up for the evil of this country and other countries. maybe that statement was not tough enough. we are backed 100% by our military, backed by everybody and by many other leaders. many senators and others today came out very much in favor of what i said, but if anything, that statement may not be tough enough. >> what could be tougher than fire and fury? >> you will see. >> [indiscernible] it. don't talk about i am not like the other administration who says we are going into mosul in four months. what they are getting away with is a tragedy and cannot be allowed. from lily is joining us fort lauderdale, florida, democrats l

it was go back to 1994, the clinton administration struck a deal with kim jong un's father, kim jong il. according to "the new york times," the u.s. agreed to give north korea over $4 billion in energy aid over the course of the decade in exchange for north korea freezing and eventually ending their nuclear weapons program. as part of the agreement, north korea would allow inspectors into its nuclear site but this is very important -- would also be allowed to keep their nuclear fuel rods, which could be used to make weapons for an unspecified number of years. of course, bill clinton put all those fears aside and praised this agreement and you might remember when he went out there and said this is good for the american people. watch this. >> i would like to say a word about the framework with north korea, that we signed this morning. this is a good deal for the united states. north korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear programs. at south korea and our other allies will be better protected. the entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. south korea wit

that's really necessary and i don't see the danger of that the actual statements both on the part of kim jong il and on the part of our president the danger is that they may reach a level where kim jong un actually believes there were about to conduct as a preemptive attack on him and that might stimulate him to take actions with his nuclear weapons so that's something we don't want to do you slow going about approaching more korea with carrots and sticks what are the carrots. we have plenty of carrots i've negotiated with north koreans in the past and we have plenty of carrots that we could offer them we can offer security assurances we could offer. economic incentives that would in this case the way being the south korea or japan or japan south korea can offer economic development i have offered those to them in the past and they're very interested in them but the number one interest is restoring preserving the regime so we have to have something in the form of security assurances as well as the economic incentives but we also need some carrots and the united states really does not have any si

north korean missile launch sites testing grounds and other facilities go boom there is no way kim jong il won't take revenge what are they going to aim at. the north korea's sovereignty and dignity our army will launch the merciless own trip rescission strikes from the ground sea and underwater so they'd better stop being reckless and even without the stuff trump wants to wipe out they've got quite the arsenal toy unleashed hell over the thirty eighth parallel for decades north korea has been prepping artillery for that very moment and now what they've got loaded and ready to fire are twelve thousand pieces of two barks hillary and twenty three hundred units of multiple launch rocket artillery. the direction southward is clear where precisely will kim point across here here are two words for you to warn counterforce and how to value targeting south korean and possibly even u.s. military facilities near the demilitarized zone versus an attack to destroy economically critical infrastructure and to cause immense civilian casualties i mean it when i see immense look at the range. north korean

kim jong il has been said by state media to have managed amazing feats and scored a perfect 300 the very first time he went bowling and get this, he sank 11 holes in one the very first time he played golf. amazing but is it true? only military and government officials can own motor vehicles in north korea and north koreans must abide by one of 28 approved haircuts. unmarried women must have short hair and married women have many more options. >>> foreign ministers from 14 countries are set to meet in peru today. their goal is to agree on an appropriate response to try and stop venezuela's growing political crisis. the u.s. is considering more sanctions. the meeting comes as embattled venezuelan -- president nicolas maduro promise to hurt opposition fighters. >>> on the southeastern shore. this happened in salisbury, maryland monday afternoon. cars were tossed around in this parking lot right off route 13. homes and businesses were damaged and trees were ripped in their roots. today, a national weather service team is heading to salisbury to confirm if what neighbors heard was actually a

president sent a warning to kim jong il and he also stressed his support for the american asian territory of guam in a phone call with the governor. he utters water threat or if he does anything with respect to qualcomm or any place else that sort of american territory or an american ally he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast. technically you can't have a thousand percent but will brush over that has now posted emergency guidelines on how to act in case of a nuclear strike he's advised locals to avoid looking at the flash or fireball and to waste no time running for cover they were released these guidelines shortly after donald trump extensions yet again by far enough yet another tweet the president took time to inform the public of the u.s. army is quote locked and loaded against pyongyang it was the latest in a spate of talking tough from the u.s. leader. north korea. there's no make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen the people that would question that today it was. maybe it wasn't tough enough so that i

it's already begun there equating to kim jong il and that's crazy talk you might think there are no concentration camps there are elections with dora himself he joins a very exclusive club including mr mcgarvie. and and and kim jong un in terms of the repression of his people what about this guy the king of saudi arabia his opponents tortured and executed in public his family controls everything. in saudi arabia he has deprived his people of freedom democracy choice talk about dancing with the devil. what does washington do so hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia. is that for double standards u.s. foreign policy is entirely hypocritical i mean they only characterize government says dictatorial or authoritarian when they're not favorable to u.s. interests u.s. maintains close ties and supports the monarchy in saudi arabia that's one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world when it comes to putting labels on governments and other nations it all depends on who's a friend or a foe of the united states sad isn't it you can rule oppress and kill all you want witho

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duel with north korea steps up with the president now warning leader kim jong il will be quick fast if he acts unwisely. afghan officials accuse u.s. forces of killing at least sixteen civilians in an airstrike but the pentagon claims they were all extremists militants we hear from the victim's relatives. there in my mother killed. my two brothers my mother and my sister were killed. bangs returning and you're watching our team to national it's two in the afternoon here in moscow with you this hour is of these two top story now bring them home that's call after r t started campaigning to find relatives of russian speaking children stranded in an iraqi orphanage these youngsters have reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who joined us on state. look let's see. if this is low so if you. could. give the us. if it is near the what you please. state. your. after we showed our clip from the baghdad orphanage we started to receive calls and e-mails from people who think they know the children our correspondent there are guys the fs travel to the russian republic of dagestan af