at the weekend kim yong jong the increasingly powerful sister of north korea's leader kim jong un warns that the liaison office would soon be destroyed. neighbors russia and china are clearly concerned. north and south korea are the same people as a close neighbor china has always hoped that the korean peninsula would maintain peace and stability with you one day during an inch some are wondering whether this is a crisis manufactured by north korea to distract attention from stalled nuclear talks between kim jong un and us president trump whatever the rationale north korea has yet again captured the world's a. tention. correspondent frank smith inserting explain what sparked this latest incident the leafletting campaign from south korea a couple of n.g.o.s here one called the fighters for a free north korea led by fox hock a north korean defector routinely floats large balloons carrying leaflets over the border and into north korea they are released dropping thousands of leaflets just along the border regions inside the north for north koreans to pick up and look at and consume some inf

at the weekend kim yong jong the increasingly powerful sister of north korea's leader kim jong un warns that the liaison office would soon be destroyed. neighbors russia and china are clearly concerned because. north and south korea are the same people as a close neighbor china has always hoped that the korean peninsula would maintain peace and stability with you wondering cerulean and she some are wondering whether this is a crisis manufactured by north korea to distract attention from stalled nuclear talks between kim jong un and us president trump whatever the rationale north korea has yet again captured the world's a. tention. let's catch up on some other headlines from around the world now beijing authorities have ordered schools closed and are urging people not to leave the city following a new corona virus outbreak health officials have reported dozens of new cases in recent days after nearly 2 months with no new infections the outbreak has been linked to a wholesale food market in the capital researchers in the u.k. say they have identified the 1st drug proven to significantly r

at the weekend kim yong jong the increasingly powerful sister of north korea's leader kim jong un warns that the liaison office would soon be destroyed. neighbors russia and china are clearly concerned. north and south korea are the same people as a close neighbor china has always hoped that the korean peninsula would maintain peace and stability with you and the children some are wondering whether this is a crisis manufactured by north korea to distract attention from stalled nuclear talks between kim jong un and us president trump whatever the russian north korea has yet again captured the world's attention. president trump says he's going to cut the number of american troops in germany by nearly 10000 from current levels of about 35000 he said he was taking this step because berlin had failed to meet its defense spending commitments nato secretary general says alliance members will need to hold a discussion about how and when a withdrawal would take place. presson trump and i discussed this issue during a phone call last week and my message will start today u.s. presence in europe it

south korean capital at that time and they said if we see propaganda out of north korea praising kim yong jong putting their forward as a spokesperson of north korea then the game for the throne would be over and kim you'll join would be the presumptive heir to the leadership of north korea and that's very possible that we're seeing now frank so thanks very much for that from seoul today south korea. or germany has rolled out its official app to fight the spread of covert guide as knology can send warnings to users if they've been in close contact with anyone confirmed to have the virus the government hopes that this will help shorten faction change the up is voluntary we'll talk about some of the data privacy concerns after this report. the demo version of germany's coronavirus tracing app was unveiled in late may it has a simple design and it's easy to use the app was developed by german software giant s.a.p.t. gether with deutsche telekom the firms were only commissioned to create it in early may until then the german government had planned to use technology that would have put user data on

here is a very unequivocal message from kim jong sr the for law and the tragic scene of the useless nor south joint office completely collapsed or would be seen. yong ngs state media though insists that the destruction of the office is as much a tragedy the measure of completely destroying north south jointly as an office corresponds to the mindset of the enraged people who surely force human scum and those who have sheltered the scum to be dearly for their crimes the leader is an office was tragically ruined was a terrific explosion. it comes amid an escalation between the 2 may but pyongyang for instance has been ramping up threats to move into the now demilitarized zone skeptics though saying that all of this is just diversion tactics and really kim wants the attention of washington. never again will we provide the u.s. chief executive with another package to be used for achievements without receiving any returns nothing is more hypocritical than an empty promise and think it's just because of those leaflets those anti north korea propaganda leaflets which they say that's why they did it but it's highly unlikely that that is the only reason beca