he's said he would speak to kim jung un to try to stop the nuclear program, which would be a major shift in the policy. also said put pressure on china to solve the problem. so suggests he sees it as a regional problem and not big enough to threaten the u.s. in order to tackle the problem, i do think consolidating japan u.s. what is happening in south korea at the moment with the president in weak position politically, that also poses a challenge. >> go to another issue that was hot during the campaign, transpacific partner-free trade pact. both candidates made it clear they strongly oppose it. member countries are anxious to know where this leaves the agreement. our senior economic correspondent joins us here for more on that. >> it took more than five years for the 12 pacific rim countries to reach an agreement. obviously japan and other tpp members don't want to see all that work go down the drain. so the talks started in 2010 with the u.s. and seven other countries. then japan and other countries joined making tpp one of the potential largest trade deals in the world. in fact, the pa

kim jung un, the leader of north korea issuing his own statement saying that castro was a prominent politicalctivist who made distinguished contributions to extending the cause of independence through imperialism. >> yeah. certainly a contrast to other parts of the world and reaction there. alexandra field joining us from hong kong just after 3:00 in the afternoon. >>> a very different reaction in miami, florida. that's where cuban exiles have been celebrating since hearing the news of castro's death. here with the mood in little havana. >> reporter: it's hard to believe from the response we've seen here and in cuba that both communities are responding to the death of the same person. an extremely stark contrast. we're standing here the heart of the exile community in miami. the demonstrations are still going. they had a dj playing muse acshort while ago. the crowd noticeably smaller than it was friday and saturday when the news of fidel passing first broke. elion gonzales, a boy in the middle of a custody battle has come out and spoken favorably about fidel and reflecting on his passing away

if the leftist government comes out they might well accomplish what kim jung-un tried with korea, together with the korean leaders kind of together government. can't think of the right word right now. so are we going to pursue with president park geun-hye who has been singing same song with president obama and u.s. policy makers, we have a problem even so, but now i'm concerned that we are getting into real difficulty depending on what goes on the next couple months. thank you very much. i would like to hear your comments. >> thank you. i think prudence and wisdom on my part is to stay far away from domestic politics in the rok right now. i would say that i absolutely do believe, however, that the ultimate election in the rok will bear in very substantial way the outcome of that election in what sorts of policies can be pursued to deal with the dprk. so, i think that connection is real. what is happening now and the difficulties that the president is having in the rok is not something i think i could usefully comment on, so i'm going to let it go. >> ambassador gallucci, i was sort of asto