he spent an entire day with his counterpart, kim yong-chul, a senior north korean official. those meetings were tough. they were the first time we tried to put detail into the agreements, particularly around denuclearization. and while those meetings didn't produce a certain outcome, they set the stage for many of the future discussions that have taken place after that. in august is when i started with the state department, august 23rd. and two days after i started the secretary and i were scheduled to visit north korea for the secretary's next visit. the president in reviewing the circumstances around that trip made a determination that north korea probably wasn't yet ready to make some of the commitments we were looking for and he asked the secretary of state to postpone that trip and the saerktd did. in february the secretary traveled to the u.n. assembly in new york and he and i had good meeting with the north korean minister. although he was quite clear the denuclearization issues were not going to be in his portfolio at present, that they were assigned to kim yong-chul

kim yong-nam, the brother of north korea's dictator, is smeared in the face with vx, a deadly nerve agentarrying out the assault from two sides. king jom nam dyong-nam dies wit hour. tonight, one of the women charged with his murder is set to be freed. she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and her lawyer says she'll be released from prison in about a month. her alleged accomplice, an indonesian national was released last month after her charges were dropped. >> it's a good chance that they were dupes. and the idea behind that is that she used people who when they're caught can't really explain much that leads back to intelligence. >> both women claimed they were tricked into thinking they were pulling a stunt for a reality tv show. and an indonesian official says one of them was paid about $90. for men, alleged to have been north korean agents, were seen on surveillance footage that day at the kuala lumpur airport. south korean intelligence said they were part of two north korean assassination teams, who recruited the young women and trained them separately for the attack. >> we emphasize

and his name was kim yong-chol . during the visit we had our first working level negotiations. six months after the singapore summit, but we were finally engaged in november, excuse me mid january, and rather intense discussions with the north koreans framing out discussions and a schedule for discussions, and also during the course of that meeting in the january, the decision was made to proceed with a second summit meeting. so working toward that, i took a team of experts, scientists, international law experts, negotiators to pyongyang in early february. we spent several days in pyongyang engage with our north korean counterparts, both sides would like to advance in the framework of the joint statement that came out of the singapore summit. we broke briefly and then returned to meet again where we met for several days and then up to the summit and participated in the summit meeting between the two leaders. the point i want to make with that framing is we have been closely engaged with the north koreans, especially over the last couple of months. certainly will be able to cont

north korean leader kim yong known has arrived in eastern russia ahead of a summit with president putin the meeting in the city of light of austar will be the first between the two leaders main topics include economic cooperation and north korea's nuclear program. at least sixty people have been killed after heavy flooding and mudslides swept through south africa's eastern coast more than a thousand people have had to flee their homes trencher rain is hit areas around the port city of been in recent days or thirty's have warned more flooding is expected. in sri lanka they continue to bury the dead the lives of hundreds who were murdered inside churches and hotels last sunday the death toll has now risen to a staggering three hundred fifty nine and we know now that the suicide bombers were well educated and they were wealthy one had studied in the u.k. to belong to one of his richest families and one of the suicide bombers was a woman police say she may have had a child in her hands when she detonated the explosives on her back i'm burned off in berlin this is the day. so obviously. that