in kim jong-il Ãbkim jong-un went to play golf. time he ever got his hands on a golf club he had four holes in one. it was so good that he told the club master lessons on how to play golf. so when kim jong-un visits like this orphanage in front of this orphanage is blue a big banner with a big red star in the red star is where the great leaders stood and there is a narrow that tells you where he went in the orphanage. an important one particular place there is a chair that is cased in a glass box because he sat in that chair. i'm sure there are some people in this audience, gosh if i could live like that that could be a pretty fun life, but that's only for the very very à the vast majority of north koreans are of course doing much more poorly. so what i wanted to end up talking about is what would happen in north korea? one thing i know is not can happen is despite president trumps bromance with kim jong-un, he's not going to give up nuclear weapons. why? because north korea saw what happened to saddam hussein and lydia's qaddafi a

missiles going back and forth, and trump was telling the world i've got a bigger nuclear button than kim jong un, and kim jong un said, you know, i will blow up the white house, and it just went on. so people were really scared, and i know that friends back in south korea, americans, were preparing for some type of an exit if there was a major crisis. and so it took me two years, since the summer of 2017, and, you know, as i said, the book was just published last week. so one of the key messages that i want to, i guess with, get from this book, and i guess there were a number of motivations for me. and the first is i wanted to describe not just kim jong un and the leadership, but to give american people a sense of what the regime was about. and you hear snippets on cnn or fox news, and you see this guy with the funny haircut, and he's got nuclear weapons. but it's also a very important country. and yet most people, i guess, who are not really specialists don't know all that much about north korea. so i wanted to give a broader picture. and i think for me as a korean, and today being veterans day

on the opposite end are the kim family regime values, which of jong-unism,im canada and i'll of human rights ticket kim jong-unmpower. human rights to keep kim jong-un in power. paul smith describes warfare vest. the use of political means to propel an opponent to do one's will. based on hostile intent. this very much describes what we might call kim jong-un's unique political warfare. what weso a form of talked about in the paper, in which kim jong-un is trying to play both president trump and the international community just as his father manipulated the six party talks and his grandfather manipulated in 1950. this is in the dna of the kim family regime. from northn escapee korea wrote to provide advice on how to address this. we hope to complement that advice. bottom line, the challenge now is for the iraq and u.s. alliance to figure out an acceptable and durable political arrangement that will advance u.s. and iraq u.s. alliance interests on the peninsula and in northeast asia. the alliance has to determine the ways and means to achieve that goal. these must include new international diplomatic efforts, mi

this very much described what we call kim jong-un's unique political warfare. it is also a form of the long kahn in which kim jong-un is trying to play both president trump and the international community just as his father manipulated the six-party talks and his grandfather manipulated stallin in the 1950. this is in the kim family dna. an escapee wrote to president trump to provide advice on h how -- to figure out an acceptable and durable political arrangement that will protect, serve and advance u.s. and iraq-u.s. alliance in east asia. it has to determine the ways and means to achieve that goal. these must include new, international diplomatic efforts, diplomatic enhancements and defense and offense and enhance sanctions enforcement and a robust information and influence activities campaign including a strong focus on human rights. the iraq-u.s. strategy working group must develop a plan b or m maximum pressure 2.0 that kim jong-un may never agree to denuclearize and may always i le to highlight some of the key concepts and recommendations from each power d

these are the things kim jong-un has not been doing so far, which is why kim jong-un and will's personalas somewhat still been upheld, even though talks are not working. another thing north korea could demand in order for kim jong-un to uphold his economic development plan, is to ask the international community to lift certain sanctions that are hurting north korea's economy and preventing him and interfering with his economic plan for the country. shery: are we hearing any of that from their party committee meetings that we are seeing this week? , as theytings, the plenary call it, it has been going on about three days now. north korean state media says it will continue. the latest report have seen is reports of kim jong-un talking to his officials for over seven hours. up meeting scaled shows kim jong-un will be making quite a big announcement, and there will be significant changes in terms of north korea's path for what it has, its vision for the new year, and it is north korea's way of emphasizing for the world to pay attention to north korea on this beach.r's day shery: in the meant

it was sort of a threat from kim jong un, kim jong un is maniacal. the secretary of defense didn't want to respond to that, dismissed that as just an exaggeration from kim jong un and it doesn't seem to be worried about that. arthel: i think president trump is trying to keep things -- keep a cool head. kim jong un's cool head if you could by saying i have a great relationship with him. i think they're trying to keep that from blowing -- getting out of control. let's talk about syria in my last minute or so with you. that was brought up by brett and he asked if -- has the administration put turkey in a position that has disadvantaged the u.s. in any way and the secretary esper said no, turkey put turkey in a position that's bad for them, in spinning themselves out of the nato orbit. what do you think about that? >> i thought that was a fascinating comment from the secretary of defense. it was very insightful. i think he's right about that, to put the onus on turkey. turkey engaged in this action in northeastern syria. it's been a accused of engaging in

and kim jong-un.t the beginning of the year, there was optimism on both sides there might be some kind of diplomatic solution to this crisis and now as kristen holmes is saying things seem to be falling apart. what is your take what is happening now and especially from the white house point of view. does it seem north korea is a priority even with the things happening with the impeachment proceedings? >> they are not a priority. good to see you this morning. i looked in my records today and said, when was the first time i talked to you two about north korea saying i was skeptical? and that first time was in for those of us with short memories, that was in june of 2018 when the president first had his very first summit with king jong unand many of us who watched this part of the world said this was not gnoing to work because the kim regime relies on their missile systems and as part of their regime dynamics. they won't give it us because they realize if they they will lose their capability to run the r

are you still expecting some kind of christmas gift from kim jong-un? >> we always monitor the situation and chairman un said there would be something over christmas. i think the president has engaged in diplomacy with him. they have a good relationship personally. perhaps he's reconsidered. we'll have to wait and see. we'll monitor closely. it's a situation that concerns us of course. >> what will be the consequences if north korea resumes either long-range missile tests or nuclear tests? >> i don't want to speculate. we have a lot of tools in our tool kit and additional pressure can be brought to bear on the north koreans. what i want to focus on is this was the most difficult challenge in the world when president trump took office. president obama warned him there could be a war on the korean peninsula. multiple administrations, republican and democrat, have dealt with this situation without success. president trump took a different tact with personal diplomacy and so far we've had some success. kim jong-un promised to denuclearize the korean peninsul

brian, a big announcement from kim jong-un with possibly more to come. >> right. ally just minutes away from kim jong-un giving his new year's day address around which there have been some ominous warnings. the dictator just had his news agency float out that warning of a new weapon. officials in washington are watching closely to see what kim has to say about his denuclearization talks with president trump. >> reporter: a dramatic countdown to the new year in pyongyaonyongyang followed by f. [ speaking in foreign language ] that comes with a more threatening countdown to the new year from kim jong-un as the dictator dons a white tunic. warns of imminent action and according to state media, he says ominously that the world will witness a new strategic weapon. the leader has been foreshadowing drastic measures from his wants aren't met. >> kim has said the end of his year is his deadline for an agreement and he's not getting an agreement, so he's promised us a surprise. >> reporter: a senior trump administration official tells cnn they're closely watching the korean

relationship with kim jong-un. we both want to keep it that way. he knows i have an election coming up. i don't think he wants to interfere with that. we'll have to see. the relationship is very good. but there are certain hostility, no question about it. >> he says he doesn't think kim wants to interfere in the 2020 election. what do you think about that? >> well, he wants to pressure the president who is up for re-election in a year. i think the mistake that we have made is we've given kim jong-un three big summits with little substance. the first one was good. the president made the right move in reaching out to kim jong-un but the last two meetings haven't gone well and the north koreans have spoil themselves. they only want to negotiate with the president even though we have some capable negotiators. steven begun, trying to get the north koreans to find a balance in a negotiation maybe lifting some sanctions. in exchange for denuclearization. i'm not reciting the u.s. position. i'm just saying that i think the

kim jong-un slept with a basketball at boarding school in switzerland. tender, half-page portrait before we realize that when he grows up, he becomes someone else. is he now a full-on sociopath? and talk a bit about his -- how he came to be. >> yeah. i think, you know, there is a tendency to view kim jong-un as this madman. a total nut job as donald trump once said. but in fact, while he did have a very abnormal childhood. he was treated like a little prince. he grew up in this very decadent environment. he didn't show himself to be a sociopath like from an early age. he was -- you know, he was a spoiled brat. but he wasn't torturing kittens or doing anything that we might see as evidence of future, you know, craziness. and, you know, i think that his time in switzerland, far from convincing him that he should, you know, eventually take his own country down this kind of liberal, democratic path. probably proved to him that if it wasn't for north korea and that fantastical state his family created, he would just be no one. he would be another normal kid s

>> i think that president sought a different root here with kim jong-un. and it's not as if past policy achieved a goal either of denuclearization of north korea so the president was trying a top down approach where he would establish a personal relationship with kim jong-un in the hope that that would result in the lower levels of that north korea nuclear capable would be essentially on negotiating table and that -- and that painstaking negotiations by lower level diplomats might not accomplish that without the the highest level agreement. that's why the president walked into the -- walked across dmz last summer and taken every step he could and i would just say that's what i think you have to do -- given the fact that we're trying to press so hard for spanxs ting that president needs to demonstrate that he really does want peace and negotiations. >> ann hoffman our fox news contradict tore dan, thank you. >> thank you. some alarming story this is week on hack percent breaking into in home ring cameras. how the company is now responding. i like chillaxin'

kim jong-un who threatens the so-called surprise.hat do you predict will happen and do think he will back down or is he in a fox? can the president, even with a phone call, cap if the president says he has a beautiful relationship with him, could there be a stand down or will this continue to be a standoff? >> i think we will engage in south korea to see how they feel about this to launch something on christmas eve, christmas day or before the new year. i think we can sit back and watch it and then impose sanctions. the design here is to make a threat, you know, put in a provocation in order for sections relief, in order for us to make some sort of concessions. that is not likely to happen and we are already communicating that to kim jong-un and and we will see what happens. eric: all right. we shall see. you always take a holiday but perhaps this time there will be a breakthrough, you can only hope it michael of washington dc and the hudson institute, thank you. molly. molly: president trump kicking off his holiday vacation in south

through a combination of tough sanctions and military show of forces, we were able to convince kim jong-uno come to a summit, at that summit, kim jong-un promised to denuclearize north korea and we expect him to live occupy, up to the promise he made at the sum it in singapore and hope to do so. >> brennan: well his ambao the u.n. said yesterday denuclearization is to teet out of the negotiating morning. with this test and that statement, it seems an explicit recognition here that on their end diplomacy is dead. what is the u.s. going to do if they restart test ms. >> well, i would be pretty nervous if i was that ambassador because kim jong-un has said publicly he will denuclearize the north korean peninsula, for north korean balance past door to take a contrary bogs to his leader i think in that circumstance is a pretty dangerous thing for him to do. >> brennan: north korean diplomats don't usually freelance, you know that. >> well, it doesn't end well for them if they do, so i am a little surprised which by that comment by the u.n. ambassador. we will have to see what happens. we are con

speculation groups ahead of kim jong un's new year's address. and it's a very cloudy picture across much of europe but not a huge amount of weather with it we have got a storm sitting in the eastern med and there's also quite a lot of which has been fairly slow has a clear but we haven't had much of flooding in moscow is snow so this has actually been trucked a look at tunnels us knows being brought in just to add to the festive spirit of boost everybody's spirits at this time of year and the resistance now in the forecast but not a huge amount and temperatures again not really below freezing so that snow that there could be melting pretty quickly and had it's been the warmest december in over 100 years now by cheese day the system in the eastern med it is beginning to break apart want to see showers across into turkey and is generally a mild picture throughout europe about 11 degrees celsius on tuesday fairly cloudy with that 11 a clear that is brighter on wednesday but is it a bit cooler at 80 degrees that not bad at all in a good ass 11 the c

this time of year it becomes popular for kim jong-un to say things? it's a vase? >> no, unfortunately. merry christmas despite the grim topic we are about to discuss. this is a buildup to kim jong-un's buildup to a major speech. he gives a speech every year and it sets the tone for his government. it looks like he's getting prepared to make a dramatic change in policy. all the indicators show that. and he's now on a self-imposed deadline to deliver this christmas present before the end of the year. it's not clear it's going to happen tomorrow, actually, we haven't detected any launch preparation at the known missile sites. but it's almost certainly to come and will almost certainly be an icbm arc long range ballistic missile that can hit the united states. he's had three such tests before in 2017 and we expect this to be another demonstration of that capability. >> trump has tweeted about it. it's hard to keep track of all of trump's tweets on north korea and kim jong-un, after he returned from that summit some think was an ill advised summit. he said

richard engel explains >> reporter: mounted on a white steed, north korea's kim jong-un ascended the slopes of his country's highest mountain country's founder. the like this, kim jong-un is signaling that he's contemplating a big decision that likely has to do with the united states. president trump in london seemed to threaten kim jong-un. >> we have the most powerful military we've ever had, and hopefully we don't have to use it, but if we do, we'll use it. >> reporter: president trump has met kim jong-un three times, most recently and most dramatically the president stepped in to north korean territory. in exchange for diplomacy, north korea has scaled back the testing of its most powerful weapons but north korean officials say the country won't play political games anymore that benefit president trump domestically while no progress has been made to lift economic sanctirea.onpotical prop, a north korean official warned that america may expect, quote, a christmas gift, interpreted to mean either a missile or even a nuclear te >> richard engel tonight, thank you >>> this evening, ne

i have a very good relationship with kim jong-un. think we both want to keep it that way. >> reporter: north korea has already test launched a series of short to intermediate long-range missile earlier this year. this announcement takes pyongyang and washington one step closer to confrontation. roxana saberi, cbs news, london. >>> pro-democracy protesters were back on the streets of hong kong today in big numbers. hundreds of thousands turned out for the authorized march, meant to coincide with united nations human rights day. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> to france now, where the government is vowing to press ahead with its sweeping reform of the country's pension system. that sparked outrage and new protests. elaine cobb is in paris. >> reporter: protests in france turned violent this weekend as rioters again clashed with police. that followed a tense standoff last thursday as almost a million people took part in demonstrations nationwide against sweeping reforms a

he could be a positive gift that kim jong-un would given a beautiful vape instead of a missile test. ryan? >> kristin holmes. we'll have to see what it is. we appreciate that report. let's dive in with our panel, i am joined now by our robert wray, formal independent counsel. abe, let's start with you. it is christmas eve, what do you make of what the president had to say there. >> we know republicans are wishing this trial away, they like to get it going and concluded, they know the reaction of the president throughout. this waiting period is very difficult because the president likes to stand offense, he does not like to sit in stew. he lashes away. so this period until they return on friday january 3rd and really get back to business monday january 6ered or tuesday the 7th. it is going to feel very long as the president keeps on talking about this and complaining. so i think it is part of nancy pelosi, the house speaker strategy left twist in the winds, she will be passing those articles along but it is a tough period for president trump when he hears senate majority leader mitch

hello welcome to the show i'm sam is a than north korean leader kim jong un has called for positive and offensive measures to protect the country's security and sovereignty that's ahead of a year end deadline he sent for the u.s. to soften its position on stalled talks aimed at pyongyang dismantling its nuclear and missile programs kim also warned during a ruling workers' party meeting that he may take an unspecified new path if washington fails to act u.s. military commanders say that could include testing a long range missile something north korea hasn't done since 2017 but macbride explains. north korean leader kim jong un has over the past couple of days being chairing a special plenary session of the workers' party of korea there have not been too many details coming out about what's been discussed apart from these vague references to new offensive measures being considered but of course this is all the build up to kim jong un's new year's day address when he normally lays out the way ahead for his country for the coming year and of course it may give us an indication of what he me

kim jong looks majestic. i genuinely commend that photographer. although i guess when your life depends on take a good photo, you'll take a good photo. kim jong-un is like, "make this a good one." "yes, sir." "make sure i don't like fat." finally, some news about one of this year's hottest holiday gifts, just in time for you to remove it from your wish list. >> a consumer alert from the f.b.i. this morning about the risk of owning a smart tv. the f.b.i. says hackers can use your tv to change channels, send your kids inappropriate videos, or cyber-stalk your home. agents recommend learning what features are on your tv and how to control them, come up with your own unique passwords, and make sure you know how to disable microphones and cameras. the f.b.i. also recommends placing tape over the tv's camera. >> trevor: oh, shit! layof( laughter ) hackers can now break into your tv and watch you? this is terrifying. no, i would rather have someone leak a sex tape of me than see what i look like when i'm watching tv. ( laughter ) yeah, because, when i'm watching tv alone, that is when i'm at my most gross. ( laughter ) i'm playing with my toes, scratch

president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un are back to trading insults. tonight, the north is threatening the u.s. with what it calls an "unwelcome christmas gift." elizabeth palmer has the details. >> reporter: north korean leader kim jong-un didn't make the threat in person. he was too busy overseeing the opening of samjiyon, a new model town. but this smiling man is deadly serious about coercing america to lift punishing sanctions by the end of the year in return for nuclear concessions. in london, president trump seemed to take this latest provocation in stride. >> that's why i call him "rocket man." but we have a very good relationship. >> reporter: that relationship could be seriously strained by north korea's so-called christmas gift, which may be a long-range ballistic missile test. that's a weapon cable of reaching american cities. president trump said he hoped military force wouldn't be necessary. >> but if we do, we'll use it. >> reporter: at the moment, the state department is calling for sustained talks to solve this standoff. that's not nearl

and the music being this fantasia that kim jong-un give up his nuclear weapons and the u.s. and north korea would happily ever after. >> brennan: and it thrusts us into 2020 politics. we will take a break here, because we have a lot more to talk about on the other side of this break. stay with us for our predictions for 2020. classic geico heroes, starring in six new commercials, with jaw-dropping savings. vote for your favorites at: geico.com/sequels ahhh, which way do i go?! i don't know, i'm voting for our sequels. with geico, the savings keep on going to a screen near you. not the leg! you dang woodchucks! geico sequels. vote and enter to win today! skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. not the leg! you dang woodchucks! now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! johnsbut we're also a cancer fighting, hiv controlling, joint replacing, and depression relieving company. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. >> brennan: and we're back now with our cbs news correspondents

for us to be sitting here and put any credence into the notion that these love letters of kim jong-un trump is so invested in the appearance of this being a success that kim jong-un has all the running room in the world he wants to conduct tests. the u.s. would be raising issues with our allies and partners and at the u.n. even with the short range test if this was a normal administration. he has given this guy a pass because he wants to look like he did something that worked. the it has not worked. >> last question to you on the role of china in all of this. we have seen north korean leader take that heavy armored train back and forth from china over the last many months. what role do they play? how big an x factor is china in the conversations over the future of the north korean regime? >> so china is the most important economic partner to north korea. the u.n. sanction that's have been on north korea, particularly the ones targeting general trade have hurt the economy. the they're reliant on china. kim jong-un is kind of caught in a box too because he has threatened that he'll do s

has the president played into north korea's hands or was he right to talk with kim jong un? >> i think it was the right course of action or talk to kim. this was the right path. ambassador bolton's right as well, though. the sanctions we have applied are not the maximum sanctions. plenty of people are cheating, china among them. dodging the sanctions. we can be tougher and the world can be tougher on north korea. i don't think -- also we have suspended military exercises. i think it's probably time to restart the military exercises. >> julie: should we add more troops to south korea? there was a poll out. kim jong un has said two things need to happen in order for them to stop test firing missiles. that means lift sanctions and pull u.s. troops out of south korea. neither of which are going to happen. >> i think you're right. congress just put in law the fact that we can't reduce the number of troops in south korea without the secretary of defense testifying that it's in the best interests of the united states. we've got about 20,000 troops in south korea now. that's fine. th

president trump has met three times with kim jong-un. not much has come of that. sidesly because both fundamentally disagree about what they want from each other. the united states is looking for a total denuclearization. kim jong-un will not denuclearize. he might offer some more inspections but he wants sanctions limited. host: president trump has said he likes to sit down and talk face-to-face. yet previous presidents have said we will meet but only if we senator schumer: happy holiday. happy everything to everyone. i hope you have a good holiday season with your families and hope you don't have to work on christmas day. now, more than a week ago, i sent a letter to senator mcconnell -- sorry, more than a week ago, i sent a letter to senator mcconnell outlining a proposed structure for a fair and honest impeachment trial in the senate. nothing dill tower, nothing prolonged, but what joe friday said on "dragnet." , just the facts, ma'am. president trump sadse he wants due process. our proposal gives it to him. the tradition of due process is when you are accused,

kim jong-un expected to announce a new hard line stance when dealing with the united states, includingaking denuclearization completely off the table. >> there is some indication that kim jong-un sees president trump as politically weakened because of impeachment. explain why trump's situation matters to north korea. >> reporter: because they want to make sure that president trump actually has the political power to implement any sort of a deal that would be reached. given the deep division and the fact that president trump was impeached in the house, they know that as of right now he might not be in the best position to focus on any sort of nuclear deal or at least the implementation of it especially given this is now moving into 2020, a very sensitive election year. my sources say the north koreas are going to take a step back, continue to remind the world that they have this nuclear capability. i wouldn't rule out a launch in 2020, but they've already gotten the effect they want around christmas time which is lots of western media talking about the possibility of a launch. why would

ros: anytime you get through kim jong-un with the express, some -- big threats -- kim jong-un making threats, it is a relief. pyongyang is two days into a central committee meeting that is focused on north korean strong defensive measures. he is not backing down and more missile tests could be coming any day or week from now. it is unclear kind of communication areas with washington. we understand relations soured in the automatic don't think they have improved -- in the autumn and i don't think they have improved. you. ros krasny, thank more to come. stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. because beyond technology... there is human ingenuity. every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. less trading day of 2019, pointe the asx weaker by 3%. most sectors are lower. looking at t

that is when kim jong un has said he will be finished with negotiations. i would be surprised if north korea acted hostilely, i have a very good relationship with kim jong un. i think we both wants to keep it that way. he knows i have an election coming up and i don't think he wants to interfere with it. north korea ambassador to the united nations says long negotiations with the united states are not needed and denuclearization is already off of the table. >>> today we are expecting the justice department to release a highly anticipated report about the presence claims the russia investigation was knowledge and. according to the los angeles times the report will say the bureau did not break rules or laws and the pursuit of evidence or to literally seek to derail mr. trump's presidential candidacy. the paper says the inspector general uncovered pieces from agents and lawyers acting in careless and unprofessional ways. >>> the house judiciary committee will meet this morning to lay the groundwork for articles of impeachment and could be a vote by the end of

we will have to wait and see on what kim jong-un announces to see what next steps north korea will behery: what have we heard so far from north korea's meetings? seeing isest we are we are in today three. kim jong-un constantly emphasizing the need to ratchet up efforts to hold up his economic development plan. this is a domestic audience that kim jong-un has to cater to in order to secure his regime and in a way, legitimize his leadership within north korea. way could also be another for kim jong-un to emphasize to the world, and not just the donald trump administration, that they will fend for themselves, and they will stand up for themselves and not feed ever what denuclearization demands without having met their own demands from the u.s. side. paul: thanks so much for joining us. if you are away from a screen, you can always find in-depth analysis and the day's big newsmakers on bloomberg radio. now broadcasting live from our studio in hong kong. you can listen via the app, bloomberg radio plus, or bloombergradio.com. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "daybreak asia." i am shery

so-called love letters, from kim jong-un. he has said and slammed what president trump said, saying if he continues, then kim jong-un's perception of president trump could change, saying that north korea has nothing more to lose. also saying, that president trump does not know much about north korea. this is interesting because in the past north korean officials have refrained from slamming the u.s. president himself. but clearly, that appears to be changing now. the rhetoric on both sides is increasing. dave? >> and the name-calling is back. paula hancocks live for us in seoul, south korea. thank you. >>> a california man facing serious charges. police say he posted videos online, practicing a mass shooting. sitive. yet some say it isn't real milk. i guess those cows must actually be big dogs. sit! i said sit! beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. becau

kim jong-un has been warning the united states would receive a christmas gift of its own selection indenuclearization talks. the president tweeted kim jong-un is too smart and has too much to lose if he acts in a hostile way. he does not want to void his special relationship with the president of the united states or interfere with the u.s. presidential election in november. gordon chang is the author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world." gordon, north korea has been signaling to the u.s. for weeks that something bad will happen if there's not progress made on the nuclear deal by year's end. >> i think the u.s. should say to the north koreans, well, if you're cancelling the denuclearization talks, that's fine. we'll go back to strict sanctions enforcement. for more than a year and a half we have not been robust in the way we've been enforcing u.s. and u.n. roles. >> north korea called this a very important test. we know they've warned the u.s. about an unwelcome christmas gift. do you believe this is paving the way for them to launch a satellite or intercontinental ba

kim jong un green beret killed in combat in afghanistan back on us soil.ael goble arriving on christmas day, the new jersey native was killed just before completing his final tour of duty. carley: christmas ends without a gift from north korea, the us monitoring the regime after threatened to launch a missile test on christmas. rob: the president is being urged to ramp up north korean sanctions. >> reporter: the president facing criticism how he is handling relations with the north and some are calling for the us to enforce maximum economic pressure. nothing has come of that ominous threat from north korea to deliver a christmas gift to the us, what some speculate to be a long-range missile chest but the us missing the follow-up, the us moved four surveillance planes over the korean peninsula on christmas day. this comes as denuclearization talks are at a stalemate and north korea spent the last year conducting more than a dozen short range missile tests. donald trump shrugging this off but this week his former national security adviser john bolton critici

kim jong-un was talking to top military officials. according to state run media, he briefed them on a complicated internal and external situation. and they did discuss military steps to bolster the overall armed forces. that comes ahead of a key workers party meeting expected at the end of this month where potentially we could hear kim jong-un telling the regime exactly what the policy towards the u.s. will be. there was no specifics about the u.s. after this weekend meeting and then we could well hear in his new year's address what exactly he intends to do. paula hancocks, cnn. >> thank you. >>> as the pentagon braces for what north korea will do, the white house is getting a bashing from trump's former national security adviser john bolton. he gave his sharpest rebuke yet of how the president is handling the country. bolton telling axios he does not think the administration, coat, really means it when they vow to stop north korea from having nuclear weapons. quote, the idea that we are somehow exerting maximum pressure on north kore

kim jong un said he will the nuclear eyes.he does not, then we will take that into account and we got plenty of tools in the toolkit. >> the president has made a personal promise for the commander-in-chief about denuclearization. what does he do now? >> he has to keep up the maximum pressure campaigns. for much the same reason. north korea's take and what difficult is but this is an economic sanctions are been devastating to north korea and may not end up being the end of undoing kim jong un in this. 25 million who were flat across the chinese quarter so the trick to watching this, let's see how the chinese like this and if the chinese want to play both sides or engage in undermining of sanctions but there's real belief, there's a real threat. >> their best friend, propping him up all these years and you are saying is a potential they can finally get serious about that? >> china wants to prop up the regime, partially delocalized and leverage with the u.s. issues that china has to deal with. the second thing is, they cannot aff

because it reminded me of things that were being made back home. >> reporter: north korean leader kim jong-unexpected to deliver a national address on new year's day. and nuclear talks between the u.s. and north korea have stalled since a february summit between president trump and kim jong-un fell apart. the communist nation hasn't tested long-range missiles in more than a year, but they have still been testing short-range ballistic missiles. wendy? >> marc liverman in new york. thanks. >>> a powerful winter storm is expected to cause delays today on what's supposed to be the busiest travel day of the year. snow is already hammering the mountains in southern california. interstate 5 was shut down yesterday after vehicles got stuck in the snow. the snow and wind were so strong, some mountain ski resorts closed down. that storm is now headed east. flood alerts are posted in california and arizona. heavy snow is possible in parts of the rockies and plains later this week. snow and ice are also forecast in parts of the midwest and northeast this weekend. and in the south, heavy rain and thunders

>> president trump has a personal rain with kim jong-un -- relationship with kim jong-un, h, pursue a path of diplomacy that is different, if will be tough, our deputy secretary of state have been working, we believe there are still puneopportunities for kimn and north koreans to come to the table, we have laid out for north koreans a way for them to have a brighter future, a better path than number nok, we you taking on tough challenges at state department that the trump administration is pursuing a lot of things that no other administration has meaningful try to pursue before. we're still hopeful that president's personal rain with kim jong-un will payoff. david: from a position of string, i don't think i have ever seen as strong a military as we have. morgan ortegas thank you so much. >> thank you. david: have a freight ne -- gret new year, new york governor, cuomo denouncing a anti-semitic stabbing attack. what is going on? we'll ask nypd sergeant, blue lives party founder coming next. >> we're in a crisis right now, there is a crisis of anti-semitism, not only region but the whol

shouldn't cross. >> as you know, the president has frequently boasted of his good relationship with kim jong-un. it would seem as if the honeymoon is over. >> i would agree with that. and if kim jong-un chooses to test a missile or launch a satellite, i think we have to take aggressive measures. that could be a resumption of training with the south koreans, you know, those have been put on hold. you know, we just can't let them cross into that threshold. >> put on hold by and large, according to many, to appease the north koreans in an attempt to try and restart these stalled talks over weapons. what about the role of sanctions, congressman barra. how effective have the sanctions been? >> the sanctions were initially quite effectively, but you need the chines and russians to be working with us. so we can continue to go back to the united nations, but it is worrisome that the chinese and the russians are talking about some sanctions relief. and we do think the chinese have been cheating here. we've given the president in these recently signed defense bills the ability to exert additional pressur

president trump fired back at kim jong-un in a tweet saying the north korean leader is too smart and has far too much to lose if he acts in a hostile way. roxana saberi has the latest. >> reporter: while kim jong-un smiled for his country's cameras at the opening of a new spa on sunday, north korea's official news agency delivered a vague but menacing message -- that a very important test took place here at the launching site. experts say north korea likely tested a new type of rocket engine. a move that could signal pyongyang may soon resume tests of missiles that could hit the u.s. the announcement comes just days after the north korean leader warned washington it has until the end of the year to offer a breakthrough in deadlock diplomacy. he wants u.s. sanctions lifted. president trump, who's met kim three times, most recently as they stepped over the border from south to north korea in june, says pyongyang must denuclearize first. >> i'd be surprised if north korea acted hostilely. i have a very good relationship with kim jong-un. i think we both want to keep it that way. >> repor

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

this comes as north korean media reports kim jong un had a republican meeting with military capabilities. we have a report tonight from washington. >> reporter: in this meeting is the latest in the growing frustration of the lack of sanctions by the u.s., according to the state-run korean central news agency, kim jong un presided over a key meeting of the military to decide on important military steps to boast forces as required the fast-changing situation for the korean revolution. they did not specify when the meeting took place and did not elaborate on steps that will be taken but some korean experts believe kim jong un may prepare to test launch a missile, the white house expecting pyongyang to attempt some sort of lunch over the christmas holiday according to senior administration officials who recently told john roberts the north continues to go back to its old playbook of trying to get president trump's attention with running action, if that happens and the north attempts to launch, the u.s. will likely respond by going to the un and possibly having additional sections of its own,