after the death of kimjong-un, his son kim jong-un continued to develop nuclear and missile programs,ere introduced against pyongyang, and only 7 years later, on the eve of the phon chane piada, the north korean leader softened his rhetoric. at the same time , the new president of south korea, moon jain , advocated the normalization of inter-korean relations. in february 2018, at the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games, the national teams of the two countries marched in a single column under a flag depicting the korean peninsula. in 2018, the leaders of the two countries met three times and agreed to start with the participation of china from. usa, i’m not so sure, i often remember the great general of our civil war, william sherman, under whom we served some of my ancestors. he said that the goal of the war is to establish a better world, and that should be the goal, not dividing ukraine along the front line. thank you. general sherman, to whom our interlocutor referred. cursed the war as an orgy of barbarity and cruelty, but said: wars are not always evil, they are part of

but this year, the north korean leader, kimjong—un, came out and said for the first time he abandoned"look, the south korean people "can no longer be considered our brothers and sisters. "this is a hostile country. this is an enemy state." and so that is a huge ideological shift from the north koreans, and it does change the dynamic here. and it does lead us to think about the village of taesung and what that means for these people living along the border with north korea. the whole purpose for their village is that they are this beacon of hope for reunification. do i think that in my lifetime north korea will be an open country, that we'll be able to go freely or that north and south korea will be reunified? that's a very different question. and i don't know. hello there. there were some warm weather around on saturday. top temperatures of 22 celsius in the south east, but we'll start to see some changes for the second half of the bank holiday weekend with sunny spells and thundery downpours moving in, all thanks to low pressure close by. as we head into sunday, these weather fronts

but this year, the north korean leader, kimjong—un, came out and said for the first time he abandonedid, "look, the south korean people can no longer be considered our brothers and sisters. this is a hostile country. this is an enemy state." and so that is a huge ideological shift from the north koreans, and it does change the dynamic here. and it does lead us to think about the village of taesung and what that means for these people living along the border with north korea. the whole purpose for their village is that they are this beacon of hope for reunification. do i think that in my lifetime north korea will be an open country, that we'll be able to go freely or that north and south korea will be reunified? that's a very different question. and i don't know. hello there. the weather for half—term has certainly brought its challenges this week. in fact, across the east coast, it's been rather grey, and take a look at thursday afternoon — and cromer pier, as you can see, it was raining quite heavily and with the breeze coming in off the north sea, it felt quite chilly as well. sligh

"let's brag about kimjong—un, ourfriendly father,".unist state in the past 50 years. that's it from me but i will be back with more on the day's top stories. hello. the weather at this time of year really can be very fickle, as we've seen over the past week. during the bank holiday weekend there will be a mix of sunshine at times and heavy showers and it could be warmer, but we won't reach the high temperatures we've seenin reach the high temperatures we've seen in the past few days. , the warmest day of the year and we maintain those temperatures in western scotland and northern ireland on friday, but for suffolk and north wales, it was much colder because of the cloud and rain. it is moving it's way further north but we have some more rain to come on saturday across northern ireland, some heavy showers pushing across scotland and it might turn a bit drier in north wales and northern england but still a lot of cloud and to the south we will see sunshine after a chilly start with a few showers developing in the south—east of england. i

oblivious to the korean lyrics which include "let's sing kim jong—un, the great leader, let's brag about kimjong—unears. let's speak to keith howard, an emeritus professor of musicology at london's school of oriental and african studies, who is known predominantly for his works on korea. isa is a bit more about the songs and why they are created. that is a bit more about the songs and why they are created.— why they are created. that is accompanied _ why they are created. that is accompanied a _ why they are created. that is accompanied a question. - why they are created. that is - accompanied a question. basically, if think of north korea as a monolithic state with one leadership, and everything going down from the top, then you've got people coming up from the bottom so young musicians, your composers, your groups, they are all there. they are all appointed by the state and songs are created from the bottom up but the lyrics are approved from the top down. so the lyrics have to be i ideologically sound and they tend to be distributed around and everyone has to compose a song, sometimes it is a co

stories on the bbc news website and app, and it involves the latest song from north korean dictator kimjong—un many american users, the irony�*s not been lost on them that it's gone viral on the chinese—owned app, while us lawmakers are trying to ban it. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon king. it's the bank holiday weekend and i think mix is probably the way way to describe the weather over the course of the weekend because while there is warm sunny spells for many, some sunshine and showers as well. this morning certainly has been wet across parts of northern england and northern ireland, that rain will continue this afternoon. the risk of some showers in the far north—west of scotland with sunny spells and sunshine in the south, there may be showers in the far south—east. those could be heavy and thundery, but one sunny spells across many southern areas. temperatures i7, 18 degrees. the areas. temperatures 17, 18 degrees. the warmest may be in the west of scotland, 19 or 20 degrees. rain will continue tonight in northern ireland and scotland, but beneath cloudy skies, temper