the economy has not improved under kim jong un. narrator: the problem for kim jong un is that north koreans' expectations are changing. (translated): because more information is flowing in, it's getting very difficult to make people obey. there are very few people left who blindly obey every command that comes from on high. narrator: behind closed doors, even members of the north korean elite have voiced unhappiness with the regime. like this businesswoman filmed at a private lunch. narrator: the cynicism about their leaders comes partly from radical change in the way people make a living. (translated): looking at footage shot inside north korea, we can see that a huge number of people have started doing business with each other. this used to be illegal, and anyone caught buying or selling for personal gain was severely punished. narrator: illegal markets first began to appear when the state became unable to feed its people during the famine. today the state tolerates them, but people are pushing the limits of private enterprise. th

in fact what we do is dependent on what kim jong-un does, not what we do. kim jong-un needs to travel carefully here and let's get to diplomatic relationships and have that dialogue and bring regional partners in there. china, japan, south korea. bring partners together. we all have a vested interest in this. >> congressman, they have already had five nuclear tests. this would be the sixth. why do you think a sixth nuclear test would provoke a u.s. military response? >> well, i'm not saying it would. i think hopefully we can get to a point where kim jong-un doesn't do that. again, i talked about this before where who's trying to attack or invade north korea? there is no need for this guy to have nuclear weapons in the 21st century. what he is doing destabilizing not just the korean peninsula but destabilizing the asia-pacific region which accounts for 85% of trade. all countries need to come together on this because this will upset the world economy and that's why we went ahead and put them on recommendations to put them on the state sponsored terrorism so o

isis, vladimir putin or kim jong-un. >> kim jong-un, because i'm korean. judge jeanine: which one would you rather have a beer with. "justice" starts now. i'm judge jeanine pirro. mayor case in trouble. they are trying to silence you. a monstrous and pervasive movement is putting the first amendment and your free speech. the most basic and fundamental tenets of our nation at risk and in danger of extinction. whether you are on the left or the right, free speech is essential to our democracy. the reason the country was found. the prone people risk so much, even die to come here. yet as you sit there you are watching a silencing in real-time. where people are not allowed to express their opinion if it does not align with the thinking of others. this is not an esoteric or academic discussion about one person or one campus. it's happening all over. and it's putting us on a course where we are in danger of becoming a fascist totalitarian so sight where there is only one accepted point of view. no other will be tolerated. and it's time to fight back. this week c

>> well, first of all, as everyone said, the big problem is kim jong-un -- the big problem is kim jong-un, unlike his father, seems to have zero interest in negotiations. his father had some interest in it, and his interest was because he cared about the relationship with china. kim jong-un has essentially no relationship with china. they've never even invited him during his five years of rule. so there's a real problem getting to kim jong-un. i'd also like to point out that some of these -- the ideas of preemptive strikes, i think we need to remember that our relationship here on the korean peninsula is not with north korea. it's with south korea. it's with our ally. so for us to get into a kinetic strike against north korea without full understanding, full consultations with the south koreans could create a lot of problems especially if north korea were to fire back in retaliation. so i think we need to be very close to the south koreans. right now we have no ambassador here. we have no ambassador in the pipeline. i think there's a real problem in terms of our ability to communicate out

at this point i am sure that kim jong-un wants to delegitimatize the chinese and make them look powerless. this is good internal regime politics for kim jong-un and it also probably causes problem for beijing in the white house because the white house is looking for a partner that can deal with the situation if the white house believes that china can't then i'm sure the president is going to think of unilateral measures such as more sanctions, perhaps a quarantine, perhaps maybe even going after the chinese for their transfers of ballistic missile technology to the north koreans. the one thing we have to remember is that the most important piece of new equipment that we saw was that cannister that was on a mobile missile launcher. that cannister is very similar to the cannisters that the chinese use for their df-31 missile. that missile has a range of 35,000 miles which means that the north koreans could put a nuke into the lower 48 states. this is very little time for president trump to be able to actually get a solution and he very well may decide he has to act on his own without beijin

if you were walking down an alley, who would you rather bum into kim jong-un, isis or putin. >> kim jong>> why? >> because while korean. judge jeanine: which one would you rather have a beer with? "justice with judge jeanine" starts now. now to my opening statement. america is in trouble. they are trying to silence you. a monsterous and pervasive movement is putting the first amendment and your free speech, the most basic and fundamental tenet of our nation at risk of extinction. whether you are on the left or right, free speech is essential to our democracy. the reason the country was found, the reason people risk so much, even die to come here. yet as you sit there, you are watching a silencing in real-time. y where people are not allowed to express their opinion if it does not align with the thinking of others. this is not an i esoteric discussion about one person or one campus. it's happening all over. it's putting us on the course where we are in danger of become a fascist to tall tear yanl so sight where there is tomorrow one point of view, no other will be toll rated, and it's tim

basically saying to kim jong-un don't do this. and kim jong-un saying i'm going to do this. 's your thought on how important now or how effective china might be in going forward in keeping jkim jong-un in line? >> this is really an in your face response from kim jong-un. this is a grave insult to the chinese. 48 hours ago they called on all parties to calm down for good reason. the rhetoric on both sides, the military maneuvers on both side, were leading us to the greater crisis we've had in the korean peninsula since 1994 when we almost went to war over the u.s. efforts to try to stop north korea's tests and their program then. the chinese are very concerned. this is the latest insult that kim jong-un has given them. you see the rhetoric in the chinese press ratcheting up on this. there's been statements that the chinese should attack the north korean nuclear facilities. so the chinese are angry. they want north korea to stop and they are citie siding more the united states, but that he ever never going to take the complete shutdown of the country that will cause the collaps

but i do believe that people in north korea revere kim jong-un. and i believe that the idea that somehow we could -- or that somehow they could rise up against kim jong-un, if the situation in north korea became so dire, i think that might be a hollow hope. i believe they consider him a god king and they truly revere him as their leader. that's just based on what i've read in the press and reports of reporters who see the north korean people start to cry, all of this, all emotional when he comes out on stage. they seem to be real tears. i think that he has a hold on his people that they're not going to rise up from beneath and topple him. >> you know, again, i think your perception is much closer to the situation on the ground. but anything we can do to either raise questions, i don't think they'll prompt an uprising immediately. not only questions among the population, but questions among the dear leader, kim jong-un, that his people are being sort of influenced or there might be elements within the country that are thinking and embracing other id

it is not worth in deterring kim jong un. l of the military capabilities that we have, all of our alliance and all that has not desire toim jong un's achieve a nuclear weapon that could reach the united states. we must stop that somehow. those options are on the table. all of this options are on the table. >> somehow is the question. i see i am out of time. we can continue this conversation later. that is precisely the question we are asking about. i'm asking a question about the upsides and downsides if we take action directly on one of these testing missiles, whether or not it escalates and this is koreaation to have south -- >> he can manufacture whatever provocation he wants to attack south korea or japan or us. provocationure of resides with him. i think we need the administration to be clear about what they have in mind. he rightly say this is under discussion but what that means to me at this point is no one knows exactly what we plan to do here and if no one knows here in the united states, the american people do not k

arthel: what does kim jong-un do next? double down with even more to prove his own strong message to send? >> he could do another missile test or nuclear test. that's what we were waiting for friday or saturday night. i think he uses these as political messages, but they are technical developments. he sent a clear message with the parade and rev systems on friday night. they will were we have been discussing this morning, what if it is discovered that the u.s. went on offense with the cyber attack that caused that north core treian missile failure and how do you think kim jong-un would react if that is revealed to be the case? >> i hope it wouldn't be discovered because we would not be able to continue to use that particular method. i think kim jong-un would be very upset. i'm sure he's very upset with the launch failure. i think the missile technicians are probably also very upset about what's going to happen to them unfortunately. i think that the u.s. going on offense is a good idea. these are ballistic missile systems

the never-before-seen intercontinental missiles, dictator kim jong-un claims these warheads are so powerful they could reach america's west coast. the missile reveal took place during the day of the sun celebration, amid growing fears kim jong-un could be preparing another nuclear test and it would be the first one under po president trump's watch. pence is scheduled to arrive in seoul, south korea, tomorrow. we've got a team of reporters covering this story from south korea to the president's winter white house in florida. let's begin there, where cnn's jessica snyder is live in nearby west palm beach. jessica, what more are we learning about the vice president's trip and what the white house hopes to achieve with this? >> well, you know, martin, this 11-day trip by vice president mike pence, it does come at the that critical time with tensions escalating over north korea. we do know that vice president pence's en route to seoul, south korea, where he will arrive tomorrow around 3:55 in the afternoon. he has a long list of things he will be doing, among meeting with world leaders, while he

tougher posture in the united states and what that might do in north korea, how that might make kim jong-un un-act? >> so i think they are taking a tougher posture in north korea. i would say there are more. the belief currently is president trump is more unpredictable than kim jong-un. how will that play out is something we'll look. >>> joining me now, john mclaughlin, former act or and. so john, north korea. they were supposed to test a missile over the weekend. it did not work. there is a lot of talk whether or not had the hand in. do we have the capability to do that? >> we have the capability to do a lot of things in the cyber field. i have no idea whether we did that over the weekend. it's conceivable. the important thing is whether we did or didn't. some of us who have been around for a while have followed this for years. i've looked at this since the mid-'90s, and i recall in 1998, they actually got two off the launch pad, and did the same thing with a third stage, although the third stage blew up. so the real cause for concern here is that they learn from all of these failures and

this interview is that china has told the us that it told pyongyang it would impose sanctions if kim jong—unns if kimjong—un did another pyongyang it would impose sanctions if kim jong—un did another nuclear test. that is new information and that suggests that in porton meeting between president xi and president trump in mar—a—lago just last between president xi and president trump in mar—a—lagojust last month may have yielded results when it comes to china putting the pressure on north korea. fascinating as you say, laura, a lot of revelations in that report, the interview that rex tillerson gave to fox news. as we know, much depends on trying to convince china and if indeed those comments he made are correct, we're going to be watching china very carefully at this security council meeting. i think the us is clear when it comes to china trying to be the leader on this. that's what these negotiations were about in mar—a—lago. many people keep asking me the question, what is different now to previous administration's attem pts now to previous administration's atte m pts to now to previous adm

the americans and south koreans are taking part in an annual joint exercise kim jong-un has long decried as a provocation but what was seen on this side as a deterrent. still, the status quo that has gingerly maintained peace is threatened as kim jong un rushes towards a nuclear weapon capability. it raises the question what about seoul and it's suspected north korea would reign down thousands of artillery rounds on this sprawling metropolis, but won't go unpunished. >> this is a robust response not only american but south korean troops working hand-in-hand. >> reporter: the u.s. war plan is to quickly overwhelm and knock out the north's artillery threat. mobile radar units like this will track the incoming rounds from their source even before they land. you can't shoot what you can't see? >> exactly. >> reporter: this allows you to see what's coming down and coming at you? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: the eyes of a sophisticated response. >> you can track the 50 incoming rounds simultaneously? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: that's a lot. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: they passed a crew of mobile ro

what's got this lunatic kim jong-un all riled up. governor huckabee: you hit it right. he just ain't right. when talking about kim jong-un, it's fair to say he just ain't right. he thinks in the terms of publicity and showing off. so when he sees tomahawks hitting syria and moabs hitting afghanistan, he's not getting much attention. he has this big parade and military exercise and the 105th birthday of his grandfather. then he decide to light the candle on a missile and show us how tough he is. on problem is the missile blows up on the pad. this is a guy we have to take seriously. he's seriously delusional and seriously crazy. and that makes him a threat just not to south korea, but the entire planet. >> with all of the show of the intercontinental ballistic missile and the goose stepping and all of the craziness and the excitement. whether it would show whether it was real, it seems as though he would have to prove something. the failure of the missile launch. and earlier gregg palkot seemed to suggest the failure may have been due to cyber warfare interference which i

>> well, first of all, as everyone said, the big problem is kim jong-un -- the big problem is kim jong-un, unlike his father, seems to have zero interest in negotiations. his father had some interest in it, and his interest was because he cared about the relationship with china. kim jong-un has essentially no relationship with china. they've never even invited him during his five years of rule. so there's a real problem getting to kim jong-un. i'd also like to point out that some of these -- the ideas of preemptive strikes, i think we need to remember that our relationship here on the korean peninsula is not with north korea. it's with south korea. it's with our ally. so for us to get into a kinetic strike against north korea without full understanding, full consultations with the south koreans could create a lot of problems especially if north korea were to fire back in retaliation. so i think we need to be very close to the south koreans. right now we have no ambassador we have no ambassador in the pipeline. i think there's a real problem in terms of our ability to communicate out here.

105th anniversary of the birth of its founder, kim il—sung, the grandfather of the current leader, kim jong—unthere you have it. you can see those highly co—ordinated lines of soldiers marching through the capital, and we will of course watch this with great interest in the coming minutes and hours here on bbc world news. for now it is goodbye from me and the tea m now it is goodbye from me and the team and time for the weather. hello. rain for some of us on good friday. for very few of us, though, during saturday. it is an easter weekend of up—and—down weather. it is cool throughout, but there are sunnier days, saturday will be one. there are also wetter days. looks like for some of us the rain will come back on sunday, easter day. and we'll get to easter monday as well. we'll start with saturday. a cloudy start across parts of southern england. it will brighten up. sunny spells from the word go, elsewhere. it is quite a blustery day across the northern half of the uk. some gales across parts of northern scotland, and the showers are going to be most frequent coming to northern scotland. ther

so yes, china is very uncomfortable with the instability that the kim jong-un regime brings to the koreaneninsula, but we would be remiss if we didn't say that china also has a very strategic use for the kim jong-un regime and a regime hostile to the west in north korea. north korea acts as a buffer against south korea and the tens of thousands of u.s. troops stationed on the korean peninsula. if something happened to the kim jong-un regime, they may unify under south korean leadership. would that mean there are tens of thousands of u.s. troops on china's border? that's something they would not want at all. yes, they don't like kim jong-un very much in terms of how provocative he can be, but china has a high level of strategic interest to keep a north korea that's hostile to the u.s. in power in that part of the world. >> matt, it's worth noting that in the years they've been in power, neither kim jong-un or chinese leader xi jinping have ever met face to face. matt rivers live from beijing. our man in china. thank you very, very much. i want to go back to south korea, where alexander fie

kim jong un, he's going to discuss kim jong un's behavior with the chinese president. this week -- president this week. as he says, china has great influence over north korea. and china will either decide to help us with north korea or they won't. but if they do, that will be very good for china. it will be good for china because we've made it very, very clear that this is a key interest of the united states. we do not want to see north korea able to proliferate with this kind of weaponry. they have already tested this off of a submarine. it would be irresponsible for us and china and every member of the international community t to take steps now to cut off all hard currency into north korea that allows that regime to continue down this path. this threat is real. and that and it demands real response and i appreciate joe wilson with this resolution because as he notes one other-month that i think we have to make -- one other point that i think we need to make. the president muss also use the economic tools -- must also use the economic tools that congress has given hi

kim jong-un's regime vowing to accelerate the weapon's program as u.s. aircraft carrier strike group moves closer to the korean peninsula and president trump explorees a full range of options to combat the north korean threat. here at home, the president is celebrating a needed political win with neil gorsuch now sworn in as u.s. supreme court justice at the same time the white house is down playing the rift between top presidential adviser steve bannon and jared kushner. this after a frustrate pled trump ordered the two men to work out their differents. >>> aviation security officer is put on leave after dragging a passenger off the united airlines plane because he refused to give up his seat on the overbooked flight. we have new details and stunning video of this incident. this hour, i'll talk with the key republican on house intelligence committee and foreign affairs committee will herd. first to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, a new assessment of damage from the syria air strike and a lot of uncertainty about what happens next. >>

the message to kim jong- jong-un, don't push too far. the tough talk could help the north korean regime. it needs to be strong to resist american aggressi aggression. lester? >> we're also getting rare insight, richard, into kim jong-un's readiness to use nuclear weapons against the u.s. a stark warning from a former diplomat who last year became the most high profile north korean defector in decades. kim is desperate and would not hesitate to strike. do you think that he would launch a preemptive strike if he had the weapons and the missiles that he would do it? >> once he sees that there is any kind of sign of, you know, kind of attack of imminent threat from america, then he would, you know, use his, you know, nuclear weapons, you know. >> tae was serving as north korea's deputy ambassador to the united kingdom, when he risked his life to defect and speak out against the regime. which puts the focus back on u.s. military options. the fighter units here at osan don't really prepare to ship out and deploy to war in some far off place. if

he is the grandfather of the current leader, kim jong-un.ow there are new reports of possible preparations for yet another detonation of a nuclear device by north korea to mark the day and missiles in the past have been launched to mark the date as well. >> eric: joining us now for reaction as gordon chan, former policy analyst and author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. and from brunswick maine, fox news military analyst colonel david hunt who is author of the novel without mercy. how worried should we be and take us inside the mentality of kim jong-un? >> within about four years, north korea will be able to make a nuke. they've already got three missiles that can hit the lower 48 states, they just can't put a nuke on them. but a kit they can put a nuke on their noto missile and that can hit the pan and chemical weapons. we talked about chemical weapons in syria since the mid-1990s, north korea has been helping syria on chemical weapons. >> eric: talk about the mentality of actually pressing the button. >> kim jong-un ha

because right up there, kim jong-il and his son, kim jong-un will come out and watch. the world watching and waiting to see kim jong-un's next move. for "this week," bob woodruff, abc news. >> and they certainly are here in south korea. our thanks to bob. >>> up next, the man who sat face to face with the north koreans at the nuclear negotiating table. former yarks chris hill. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ what we do every night is like something out of a strange dream. except that the next morning... it all makes sense. fedex powers global e-commerce... that are massive... far-reaching... and, yes... maybe a bit magical. ♪ visit fedex.com slash dream hey ron! they're finally taking down that schwab billboard. oh, not so fast, carl. ♪ oh no. schwab, again? index investing for that low? that's three times less than fidelity... ...and four times less than vanguard. what's next, no minimums? ...no minimums. schwab has lowered the cost of investing again. introducing the lowest cost index fund