korea, and i think it's time to feed them. i think if you flood the country with food and give, feed the people, and tell them where the food is coming from, i think that will bring about regime change faster than continued sanctions. >> we can use the sanctions as a way to kind of control north korea. i think, you know, the fear's there, but as long as we're putting something forth to show that we care, we want to keep the peace, i think that's the way we've got to go. >> i do think that china is an important partner because of, you know, their economic power, and if, when the u.s. sanctions are in place, you know, china can easily provide north korea with all of their resources. >> now if china stopped supporting jong, i, from what i know, the regime would collapse and that might be a problem, would be a problem for china because all those people there would uh, probably come across the border and they don't want that. >> arguably in the case of north korea, sanctions have been in place a long time, and the north koreans, at

north korea attacked south korea on at least one occasion. as south korean president lee myung-bak started the fourth year of his five-year term today. improving relations is high on his to do list. but with the approval rating up, his top priority is keeping south korea's economy on track. president lee has placed top priority on economic growth. the country has bounced back faster than most from the global financial crisis. in december, the government estimated the economy grew 6.1% in 2010. the official figure will be released next month. at the g-20 economic summit in november in seoul, lee emphasized his management ability as a former business leader. his approval rating at the time stood at 51%. but it fell to 44% because of how he dealt with aggression from his neighbor. the shelling of that south korean island for one. but north korea was also accused of sinking a south korean warship last march. recently president lee's approval rating has bounced back to nearly 50%. that's higher than it was for his three predecessors at this stage

in south korea with what's happening in north korea, you really get the sense that this was an important time in our history, and an important conflict where we prevailed collectively. that's my thoughts. >> good evening. >> hi. >> did they prefer to ditch their aircraft rather than resort to aggressions? they love to fire their parachutes. >> i will tell you a story, this is going to tip off a little bit about ed jackson. at jackson was the pilot who was blinded. now, the korean war was the first time in chechen seats were used. and initially you had to be at a certain altitude before you are quote unquote about the use these ejection seats. but i don't think anyone paid attention to that if they had to get out of the plane. but anyway, ed jackson faced that choice as well. he was blind. he was over the ocean. if you want to ditch, what are your choices? .. >> he can't get to the controlses, he's up in the air like this. and finally, you know, the ejection seat finally slid down, and he was able to get control. but then even though he was blinded and face with the the possibility of dit

a student from korea, i have a question another radical list might favor. about north korea. i read an article you have written that maybe you would recommend president obama to go for negotiation with north korea but so far we're trying hard to negotiate with north korea but north korea conducted twice -- long-range missile. there's speculation without a guarantee on complete irreversible verifiable nuclear -- and the sort of nickel -- negotiation is a waste of time. i was wondering if you could note on that perspective. >> we have to negotiate with north korea. i was a friend of richard holbrooke and i lament is passing. i talked to him about his work with slobodan milosevic who he said was one of the most reprehensible human beings he had ever met. he said but i have to negotiate with the man to stop the genocide in the balkans. i think we need to negotiate directly with the north koreans. the current leadership in south korea has undone a number of good things that were published by his two predecessors. to summit meetings were held with north korea. a number of agreement

forces in korea. luck had come back to washington to say to the president a few months prior to this close call that we could win a war with north korea but that the cost would be a million and a trillion. and when president clinton said meaning what, he said a million south korean lives and a trillion dollars from their economy because of the destruction and the disruption. so those were the stakes, and they were pretty terrible stakes. but clinton had kind of backed himself into a corner. it was going to be a series of ratcheted-up restrictions on north korea, and north korea's response had been to threaten to turn seoul and south korea into a sea of flame. you probably remember that phrase. so both sides were kind of ratcheting up into a conflict that neither side seemed to have a way to pull back from. it was just at that point that former president jimmy carter decided he had better step in, and he took advantage of the fact that for the previous three years he'd had an invitation from the north

and north korea nearly overran south korea. there was a perimeter calvo pusan perimeter and the south was reduced to this tiny perlmutter that the tip of south korea and at any point it looked like the dam was going to break in the north was going to overrun the south. basically truman appointed one of the legends in the pacific, general macarthur, to stem the tide. initially the 24th infantry division was thrown in and they were equipped with 2.36 bazookas it bounced off the tee 34, they didn't have hardly any effect at all, and it was a delayed game. they were treating time for space. the answer came in the form of the marine corps. first to the marine provisional brigade was sent over and they acted as if all your brigade to plug the gaps, but it was in the summer of 1950 that george company, which is the focus of this book was formed, and it's a story about men that had no training at all in most cases as well as some veterans of world war ii, but many of them were reservists, and it's not like the reservists of today where

they agreed that north korea should present a concrete plan of denuclearization at interkorea talks. maehara said japan would not hold dialogue with the north for the sake of just talks. kim also said that the north should arrange appropriate international conditions for the resumption of the six-party talks proposlesed by china. kim said as a news conference afterwards that the south, japan and u.s. have agreed that the north should move first. he added that china understands this well. working level military talks between the two koreas broke off last week with the north showing no signs of moving toward denuclearization. >>> japanese ast out in koichi wakata has been named commander of the international space station to serve for six months from 2013. he's the first to be chosen from outside europe and the united states. wakata is scheduled to fly to the iss on a soyuz spacecraft at the end of 2013. he leads a multinational crew from 15 countries and plays a significant role in the operation of the space station. wakata has been to space three times. he also completed a long-term

song from korea telecom again. good to see you, mr. song. let's go and put these people out of their misery. >> yeah. [all speaking korean] >> first to be switched back on are the kims. although they feel they've learned a lot from their time offline, they balk at the idea of living without the internet for good. >> [inhales sharply] [speaking korean] >> i think a week has been quite enough for me. but if i was asked to do it again to show people the good sides of living without the web, i would volunteer. >> [speaking korean] >> [speaking korean] >> it's just like, if you lived a week without electricity, the house would become a complete mess. so, i would say a polite, "no, thank you" to being unplugged ever again. >> [laughs] [all speaking korean] >> and as the yangs prepare to return to their normal wired-up world, they're considering a permanent change in the way the household operates. >> [speaking korean] >> from now on, i think we should have rules-- rules on how much time we can spend a day on the net. let's say 30 minutes a day. >>

north korea has been proposing talks with the south since the start of the year.n the eve of the north korean celebration kbs television on tuesday evening aired footage of the man believed to be the second son of kim. the man believed to be kim jong chol was spotted and the concert of british guitarist eric clapton in singapore on money. the man in a t-shirt and pants was accompanied by 20 people. he didn't answer questions from the television crew and left the scene while one of the companions asked them why they were shooting the video. kim jong chol is said to be a span of clapton and was spotted at the concert five years ago. if the man was kim jong-il's son he was outside the country before his birthday. the second son plays a less report role now that his younger brother has effectively been appointed to succeed his father. >>> the commanders of the u.s. forces says the annual military exercise with south korea will focus on deterrents and defensive operations. the joint drills are due to start at the end of this month. the exercises, which were formally an

the eu and south korea had signed the agreement back in october 2010. the trade deal calls for the gradual elimination of five years of almost all tariffs on industrial and farm products between the eu and south korea. the current tariffs up to 14% on electrical appliances reduced to zero. products include autos and televisions. the approval will make south korean products more competitive. this is raising concerns among japanese companies that they may fall behind south korean firms in the european market. >>> singapore's prime minister has expressed support for japan to become a member of the a u.s.-backed pacific free trade agreement known as the transpacific partnership. singapore's taking part in the negotiations for a multi-lateral free trade framework in the region. he met the chairman of japan business federation in singapore on thursday. he is now on his three-nation southeast asian tour with indonesia and thailand. he noted that singapore is exercising leadership as a negotiating member in an effort to make tpp rules and asked li about his cou

talks were rebuffed by south korea, simply a propaganda attack. but something changed in the last week. south korea has committed to these talks today and the choreography is such there will be higher level military talks and possibly a summit between two countries' leaders this year. >> pretty unusual for the two sides to meet like this. you have mentioned what we could expect but how likely is it they might reach any kind of agreement? >> there are all sorts of reasons why they may not. there are demands by south korea where there is a suggestion of responsibility about those two incidents last year. p'yongyang has said that they are not responsible for the warships and the shelling of the islands was a retaliation. that falls very short of the apology some people in south korea want. but the reason north korea is coming to the table is that it needs economic aid. the south korean government made it clear that unlike in the past when there were unconditional offer as of 8, this time they will not offer any kind of assistance unless they get genu

we have this report from seoul, korea. >> many people here in south korea were not confident these talks would yield anything concrete, but talking is certainly better than military confrontation, and that is what people were concerned about just a couple of months ago, so here on the streets, you had people practicing rushing down into subway stations in case of a sudden bombardment, so the question is, is this latest setback terminal for the talks? now, despite the smiles and handshakes in front of the cameras at the beginning of tuesday's session, it was never going to be easy. sticking points that included basic details light when the high-level military talks should be, whether they should involve level -- ministers, defense officials, and how the attack on the south korean warship last year should be addressed. they want what they call responsible measures from p'yongyang. analysts are not expecting an apology, as north korea has always denied any involvement in the sinking and the city it was provoked by the navy. also, according to seoul, north korea walked out of today's meeting

north korea celebrates the birthday of kim jong il. is it his 16 ninth or 70th? -- 69th or 70th? >> hello. the winds of change are flying across north africa and the middle east, stirring up youthful populations against authoritarian regimes. in libya the attentions of a human rights activists have brought protests in yemen with reports of more unrest in iran. all of it inspired, it seems, by the revolutions in egypt and tunisia. bahrain is undergoing its third day running. >> anger over the young man who was shot dead on monday, this tiny kingdom has been rocked by anti-government protest. this is the third day demonstrations there. two protesters are dead. a majority shia population with discontent at the way they are ruled. today some of those on the street went so far as to call for the overthrow of the ruling family. trouble in this unpopular state comes after the overthrow in this most populous country. unrest in libya as well, ruled by colonel gaddafi for years. hundreds of protesters clashed overnight. the riots were triggered by the arrest of a human rights campaigner th

of south korea. so excuse me if i didn't impolite, but that's what i believe. [inaudible] >> thank you for your speech. i was curious, what do you see as possibly the last 20 years the biggest failings of american presidencies, president in regard to korea, the last 20 years and its biggest success either diplomatically or culturally, politically? >> i think the biggest failure was a complete turnaround from the end of the clinton administration to the beginning of the bush administration from invitation to bill clinton to visit pyongyang to george w. bush condemning them as part of the axis of evil. i think the biggest success was secretary, former secretary of defense negotiations on the north korea's missile issues, which was solved well enough so that general rock was invited to the united states, was hosted by vice president gore on the top floor of the state department. and it was proved that sustained negotiation by high level americans can work with north koreans. but we have not given them a

trade deficit with korea. this would not have happened if the republicans had earlier succeeded in their insistence that flawed agreements with approved. likewise, in the case of panama the administration pushed for an agreement to address panama's status as a tax haven, and we understand panama is working to ratify and implement that agreement now. this administration has also been working on efforts started several years ago to insure that panama's labor laws comply with basic international standards and with its ft obligations. there are now important labor law changes pending before the panamanian with legislature. with regard to colombia, as we have pointed out repeatedly and as indicated consistently in the state department reports, there are serious outstanding issues relating to the colombia fta. colombia labor laws fall short of norms, and workers struggle to exercise their rights to associate and collectively bar game. bargain. persistent problems include abusive cooperative and other forms of contra

the council's north korea sanctions committee briefed the council on its findings on wednesday. it says an american nuclear scientist who visited the north last november believes the country has multiple uranium enrichment facilities. the committee also says it has learned of north korea's continued access to nuclear technology. u.n. member nations are required to tell the council whether they have enforced sanctions in line with resolutions against the north. but with only roughly half doing so, the committee called again for the sanctions to be strictly enforced. >> the report of the panel of experts contained some new revelations, very, very clear evidence. we believe that the sanctions system needs to be implemented and need to be made more efficient. >>> japan's decision to raise the sales price of imimportanted wheat will deal a heavy blow to domestic foodmakers amid continued deflationary werereurs. the move comes as imported wheat increases an average of 18% starting in april. the move by the agriculture ministry comes as wheat faces growing demand in emerging the agricu

there are demands by south korea, some kind of suggestion of the responsibility. as i say, pyongyang has said that it is not responsible and that the shelling of the islands was simply a retaliation. that calls very short of the apology that some people want. on the other hand, the reason that north korea is going to pay is because it needs economic aid. the south korean government made it quite clear when there were unconditional offers, this time, they will not offer any kind of economic assistance until they get the concessions they want. >> thank you very much. protesters have taken to the streets of the haitian capigal -- capital demanding that the president to step down. each of these have approval to stay on after the presidential elections. a new vote is due in march. [gunfire] >> they were only warning shots, but the message was clear. the protests had and the. riot police called after police had used teargas to disperse the crowd. when the gas was blown into nearby homes, some bystanders a painful price -- paid a painful price. with no one elected to rep

south korea insisted that north korea should first apologize for its two recent attacks and pledge to prevent any recurrence. that includes the sink of a south korean warship in march and artillery attack on a south korean island in november. south korean officials said after that they would be ready to take up the other issues. north korea opposed setting pre-conditions. >>> the party led by myanmar's pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi has called for the united states and european countries to maintain their economic sanctions against the country. the national league for democracy or nld released a statement on tuesday ahead of the formation of a new administration. the nld says the main reasons for the sanctions are human rights violations and the lack of democratic procedures and should be lifted only after these problems are solved. in myanmar, a new administration will be formed shortly. nhk's correspondent in bangkok who has been following this story says the country is expected to promote a shift of power to civilian rule with the kusht military government maintaining its co

the people in south korea. excuse me if i've been in polite, but that's what i believe. >> yes? >> [inaudible] >> sure. >> thank you for your speech. i'm curious. what do you see in the last 20 years of the biggest failing of american presidents in regards to korea, the last 20 years, and biggest success dipmatically, culturally, political? >> i think the biggest failure was the complete turn around from the end of the clinton administration to the beginning of the bush administration from the invitation for bill clinton to visit to george w. bush condemning them as part of the axis of evil. i think the biggest success was secretary, former secretary of defense negotiations on the north korean missile issue which was stalled well enough so that general rock was invited to the united states, hosted by vice president gore on the top floor of the state department, and it was proof that sustained negotiations by high-level americans can work with north koreans, but we have not given the high enough level participat

export to korea. i would say to those concerned about panama and colombia, it's easy to discount it. every job is important wlsm panama is a $1 billion market or another place is a $ billion market, they find a -- they are a business for a farmer. >> ambassador kirk, i'm glad we have you in front of our committee. welcome. i appreciate the work done on the south korean free trade agreement. i know it's going to happen workers, but i can't pass up this opportunity to say that rice, which is very porn to my state, louisiana, was excluded. we know no trade agreement is perfect, but i do belief procrastination really hurts us from a standpoint of prestige, credibility and lev ram. it's time to move forward on this agreement. by contrast if we look at colombia, our commodities, including rice, are included. we've seen amazing statistics whereby u.s. exparts of clomity to rims over the last year or two paw we have in the moved forward and other countries are moving forward with clomfree trade afwreepts. i h

>> we need to address them -- some outstanding issues like we did with south korea. >> with south korea you renegotiated the deal, right? >> we addressed the outstanding issues. >> you can explain what that means? >> there are issues that need to be addressed and that's what we're going to do to address them. >> i don't know what that means when you say you have issues that need to be addressed. is the trade agreement renegotiated with the south korean government is what you did. >> there were shortcomings in what needed to be addressed on issues relating to autos and beef. which had prevented an agreement from being voted on. as i said in my earlier answer to you, outstanding issues related to colombia and panama that also need to be addressed. >> is it safe to say that vice president suleiman's vision for the transition process is not entirely in line with u.s. tradition? >> i think that his -- the process for his transition does not appear to be in line with the people of ejiment. and i think -- egypt. and i think that we believe that more has to be done and i think more importantly

trade deficit with korea.not have happened if the republicans had earlier succeed in their insistence that fold agreements be improved. likewise in the case of panama the administration pushed for an agreement to address panel's status attack even and we understand panel is working to implement that agreement now. this administration has also been working on efforts started several years ago to ensure that panama's sleeper laws comply with basic international standards and with its fda obligations. because of our efforts there are now important labor changes pending before the panama legislature. with regard to columbia, as we have pointed out repeatedly, and it's indicated consistently in the state department reports there are serious outstanding issues related to the columbia fta. columbia labour laws fall below the norms and workers struggle to exercise their rights to associate and collectively bargain. persistent problems include abuse of cooperative and other forms of contracting. employees direct negoti

i am a student from korea.estion about another radical less -- by north neighbor, about north korea. i had read somewhere that maybe you were recommending president obama to go for negotiations with north korea. but so far, we have been trying hard to negotiate with north korea but north korea conducted twice a of nuclear tests and has a bunch of long-range missiles. there is speculation without north korea called up the dismantlement of nuclear -- that negotiation is a waste of time. what do you think about that? >> i think we have to negotiate with north korea. i was a friend of richard holbrooke and i lament his passing. i talked to him about his work with slobodan milosevic who he said was one of the most reprehensible human beings he had ever met. he said but i have to negotiate with the bad to stop the genocide in the balkans. i think we need to negotiate directly with the north koreans. the current leadership in south korea has undone a number of good things that were accomplished by his two predecessors

trade deficit with korea. this would not have happened if the republicans had earlier succeeded in their insistence that flawed agreements be improved. likewise in the case of panama, the administration push for an agreement to address pana must addis of tax savings and we understand panama is working to ratify and implement that agreement now. this administration has also been working on efforts started several weeks ago -- years ago to ensure panama's labor laws comply with basic international standards and with its obligations. because of our efforts there are now important labor law changes pending before the panamanian legislature. with regard to columbia, as we have pointed out repeatedly, and has indicated consistently in the state department and ilo reports, there there are serious outstanding issues relating to the colombia fda. colombia labor laws fall short of ilo norms and workers struggle to exercise their rights to associate and collectively bargain. persistent problems include abusive cooperativ

. >> north korea has been celebrating the birthday of its leader kim jong il. he turned 69 but records show he is 70. >> children waved in the light on this apparently happy day. north korean tv showed presence from the leader being delivered to a remote part of the country. it is impossible to say whether this gratitude was heartfelt. >> our glorious leader sent gifts to our two kids. there is a carefully displayed -- flowers and bows at the statue of kim jong il pulse father. people may look contented, particularly if they can be allowed to live in the capital where conditions are less harsh. in neighboring south korea which is still at war with the north, they were filling balloons but not in celebration. they float them over the border. >> we are sending a message to the north to fight kim jong il's dictatorship. >> but there is not much chance of that. very few north koreans will be aware of uprisings elsewhere in the world. it is synchronized swimming displays to glorify their leader. the man was not filled in public which is not unusual on his birthday.

>> it was criticism of was initially when we tried to do things under bush with north korea. with the unilateral approach then tried multinational approach and neither one seems to me very effective. what are your views you think would be most effective work generally? >> united states has recovered a certain legitimacy and popularity abroad that to it lost during the first bush and administration but recovered over the second. george w.. and there was a significant shift between george w. bush first and second term with unilateral versus multilateral and obama has continued multi lateraled tradition to some extent. and negotiating with north korea, i ran, we need a combination of unilateral and multilateral. we made those to be part of the equation with iran, if we have a carrot and day stick we made the international community to stand with us. they are fighting in a way that they haven't you need the unilateral because at the end of the day to run is scared of the united states. slow in either country the understanding between the governments of iran to deal with their sec

. >> north korea has been celebrating the birthday of its dealers leader. state media said he turned 69. other sources suggest that he is 70. either way, the capital has seen pageantry. >> children wave into light on this apparently happy day. north korean state tv showed presence for the dear leader been delivered to remote parts of the country by air. it is impossible to say where this gratitude was heartfelt. >> are glorious leader sent gifts to my two kids. he is just like our father, she says. >> there is a carefully staged display of affection across the country. people may look contented, if they are lucky enough to live in the capital, but conditions are less harsh. elsewhere the shortages are acute. in neighboring south korea, they were filling balloons, but not in birthday celebration. the attached anti-kim messages to them and looked over the border. >> we are sending a message to the north to fight the dictatorship. just like the people of egypt. there's not much chance of a. with tight controls on the internet, and very few north koreans will e

. >> korea -- commissioner hammer: the last thing that i want to echo, as somebody who spent time as a d.a., the system is broken, and it is costing us a lot, and with the mental-health illness, it is costing us a lot. it is frustrating because it is a revolving door, and what l.a. does with their smart team, which is another great thing to learn about, is much more reactive -- is much more proactive before it gets to that point. then, we can really break the cycle radically, locking up folks when they are sick, frankly, so i think this is the first step, and korea a lot more to do. president mazzucco: -- and we need to do a lot more. president mazzucco: we are now at the time where we should go over this. i would suggest we implement the memphis model with reference to some particular issues, dealing with recommendations with a general orders, 8.02, 6.14. we probably need a little more review on that, but i will wholeheartedly endorse adopting the memphis model and implementing it immediately, and setting it up for someone to start running at union -- unit and work with the communit

on the substance of dealing with north korea and iran, i think we really don't have much choice but to take this two-pronged approach. the threat of containment with north korea and isolation, coupled with a willingness to talk and to normalize if they are willing to get rid of their nuclear program in a verifiable way. with iran, i think the same would apply. i think there are -- many of you maybe saying why are we talking to this regime? this is a mistake. the bottom line if we don't talk to them, we don't we will not get a diplomatic solution. if we don't, there are two potential outcomes. one potential outcome is an iran that has a nuclear weapon. that to my mind is ugly, unattractive outcome. the second outcome is an american bombing campaign against iran that will probably last several weeks and will lead to who knows what. that in my mind is also a very bad outcome. and that's why i would sit and leave the door open to dialogue with iran until the 12th hour. and that's because the consequences of diplomatic failure are sufficiently awful to warrant the dialogue. >> yes, sir? >>

that we export to korea. and i would say to those of you concerned about panama and colombia, i think it's a bit easy to look at korea because it's $10 million. from our administration, i can certainly speak for me, every job's important. so whether panama is a billion dollar market or colombia's a $2 billion market, they represent opportunities for some farmer, some small business, and that's why i think it's important we find a way to bridge our differences to move forward on those as well. .. procrastination hurts us from prestige, and leverage. time to move forward on this agreement. by contrast to look at columbia our commodities including rights are included in this agreement and we have seen amazing statistics whereby u.s. exports of commodities have plummeted in the past year or two because we have not moved forward and other countries are moving forward with colombian free trade agreements. i hope we get to the point where we stop hurting our farmers in rural communities and get moving on these becau

but few end up after world war ii and korea go back there for what? what would they go back to paris island for? they became a drill instructor because they learned how the marines go through things. and those are the things that are very important. some of us are very fortunate that we got in world war ii, got educated, and then we get -- got training and were called back for korea and, therefore, various other things taking place. >> let me -- let me just, i'm sorry, sir. that was a very good statement. let me just go ahead and move on to the next question then. do we have another question in the audience? >> i'd just like to make a statement. i received disability from the korean war. mine's $123 a month, not $2700. and it's very difficult to get disability. this gentleman said it's difficult, it's really difficult. by the way, the u.s. army was also in korea. yeah. >> we certainly want to honor the sacrifices of the u.s. army veterans in korea, and the book brings out one unit, in particular task force faith, that was on the other side of the chos

india, china, south korea and others have taken similar measures. indonesia's annual inflation in january hit a 21-month high of 7.02%. the rise is attributed in large part to soaring food prices. >>> australia's sugarcane and banana industries were battered by one of the strongest storms to ever hit the continent. cyclone yasi made landfall in the northeastern state of queensland early thursday with winds gusting close to 280 kilometers an hour. early estimates put the loss to the country's sugarcane industry at around $500 million. australia is the world's third largest sugar exporter and 95% of domestic sugar production takes place in queensland. concerns are mounting over price increases and shortages. the cyclone is just the latest setback for the region. heavy rains and flooding that began late last year have damaged agriculture and mining areas in much of the state's infrastructure. according to australia's treasurer queensland produces one-fifth of the country's economics output. >>> india's former telecommunication minister was arrested on

in particular i'm thinking of north korea. what are your suggestions? how would you handle the situation that we face now that is becoming extremely serious in that part of the world? >> i think you are spot on to refer to the timing issue. and it has two different dimensions. one is the ability of time to work to our adversaries advantage, particularly in a country like iran which minute by minute day-by-day gets closer to being able to enrich uranium to weapons-grade. and, the time cuts against us at home in the sense that political time is to dave measured in seconds and minutes. if we are lucky day because of the 24 hour news cycle, the internet. brown, bump, bump, bump. to pull off a serious episode which an adversary takes 5-10 years. 5-10 years is a century in political time today. it wasn't in 1895 because time moves more slowly. that is why i think it's so important for a bama or whomever is leading this effort to worry about the domestic landscape. you need to be able to carry political support for something that takes a very long time. on the

have been saying, and one of the things that really knocked me over is that this is sort of where korea iraq, two or three as opposed to 20 years, it just blew me away, and dr. marshall is right, what brings us here is that it is happening a lot right now, and that is because either our training is wrong or perhaps we have had a rash of extraordinary incidents, and so, when i see those kinds of statistics after the research you have done, both in officers being injured, which means a lot to us, and it ought to be a lot to everybody, and that people are being hurt less and shot less, that is a winner, so it is powerful, extraordinary, and that is what made me invest myself even more in this process. i have a couple of questions and then some comments. have the response times been negatively impacted? >> it is interesting, mr. supervisor. we have not found matt as a complaint. if they need additional time, they can take it, but we have not seen an additional impact with capacity, so i will be honest. we will look at supervisor responses. >> i just want to say he is correct on that. the le

no matter how hard we try, we are not going to korea a single lasting job. islly, what we're doing taking money from peter and giving it to paul. what we have to do is get the federal government the heck out of the way. [cheers and applause] now, in the end, we will be here all night if i list all of the things that we would have to do, but number one, we have got toslash the corporate inme-tax rate. it has to happen. it that is not fun to say anymore now that the president has said it. we have to start taking hold of regulations. in addition to all the tax burdens that we see, this is costing hundreds of billions of dollars every single korea to industry. one of the problems with this, we talk a lot in the constitutionally limited government program about the need to get congress to stop doing tngs it was never intended to do. that is one symptom of the problem we face, one reason why we focus on the constitution. other bad things happen. when congress does not do the things it is supposed to do. the very beginning of article one set up the legislative powe

the cold war heated up when north korea was invaded by -- sa korea was indeed on the 20th of june, 1950 and 134,000 north koreans swarmed across the parallel. the reserve units in the united states were called up and they have a tough time finding some of the women because they had gotten married and their names had changed. they had children by now and they were just really hard to find. well they did rotate in a rubber of them and they were called up for the contract. there were military hospitals supporting the war in korea, and the 24th infantry division landed on the west coast of korea, and with them came the fourth army field hospital, and of mckay is a doctor of the salvation army parents who lived in buffalo new york and she's the veteran of the china burma india campaign of world war ii. when we interviewed the general mckay she told us we went in with a 30-foot tide. i remember clement, side of the ship on the road ladder and getting into the landing craft. the marines have gone first and secured the area as far as it could be secure. in the army troops went in and we entered

. >>> north korea today refusing to hold any more military talks with south korea. the north accuses the south of lacking serious intent to improve relations. yesterday, the koreas' first officials talks in november ended abruptly after raising hopes of improved ties. >>> this morning, people in the south waking up to subzero temperatures and imagine having to drive through this here. this is tennessee getting home in the snow was an uphill battle there literally. watch as some struggle to make it up the road here. a lot of traffic. one driver says it took him 10 minutes to get to the top. three inches of snow fell in the city at clarksville yesterday just in time for the rush hour. and i keep saying it lawrence, but really glad i'm here right now. >> yeah. no kidding! after seeing that. things are going to eventually change here. can't stay dry in southern california forever, can it? i don't think so. we'll see a major change in the weather pattern in the next few days. out the door this morning, we are looking at freezing in some spots and patchy frost. through th

the issues with korea were very specific. the way it was negotiated, it did not assure access to the market for our automotive goods. we worked on this. it was very specific. they were shutting us out, shipping 500,000 cars a year. we were shipping 5000. our automotive producers and their suppliers insisted that trade b eight two-way street. it was very specific. -- it was very specific. if the republicans had had their way, where the bush administration, we would not have approved the free-trade agreement essentially having a major part of our economy shut out of art -- shut out of their markets while they had complete access to ours. the issues were very specific. they related to the violation by panama of basic international standards as outlined in our state department reports in terms of worker's rights and it was a tax haven. we try to work and then they elected someone as a speaker of the house who had an arrest warrant for killing an american. those discussions stopped. it was very specific. when it comes to columbia,

the export to korea. i would see to those of you concerned about panama colombia, it's easy to look at korea because it's $10 million to write. every job is important. whether panama as a billion dollars market for $2 billion market, they represent opportunities for some farmer, some small-business. that's why it's important we find a way to bridge our differences to move forward on those as well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ambassador kirk, i'm glad we have you in front of our committee, so welcome. look, i appreciate the work we've done on a south korean trade agreement and i know it will help workers, grow shops and businesses, but i can't pass up this opportunity to say that rice, which is very important to my state in louisiana was excluded. we know that no trade agreement is perfect, but i do believe repressed nation really hurt the stomach standpoint of prestige, credibility in its time to move forward. if we look at columbia, are commodities, are included in this agreement and we've seen amazing s

began north korea walked out.he talks were the first of its kind. and there was hope that the meetings would ease tensions. but talks apparently collapsed when south korea demanded that north korea apologize for the sinking of a warship in march that killed 46 sailors. north korea apparently wants to focus on other military issues. >>> well, in just about 45 minutes the head of the federal reserve gives a major update on the state of the economy. ktvu's allison burns is in d.c. with what could be a very contentious appearance for him. allison. >> reporter: pam, it is ben bernanke's first appearance before congress since republicans took control of the house. gop lawmakers have been vocally critical of his approach to the economy. they're expected to grill him about it this morning for his part he's expected to say while the economy is growing it will be several years before the unemployment rate returns to a more normal level. new this hour we just heard from treasury secretary who gave an optimistic view of the e

no matter how hard we try, we are not going to korea a single lasting job. islly, what we're doing taking money from peter and giving it to paul. what we have to do is get the federal government the heck out of the way. [cheers and applause] now, in the end, we will be here all night if i list all of the things that we would have to do, but number one, we have got toslash the corporate income-tax rate. it has to happen. it that is not fun to say anymore now that the president has said it. we have to start taking hold of regulations. in addition to all the tax burdens that we see, this is costing hundreds of billions of dollars every single korea to industry. one of the problems with this, we talk a lot in the constitutionally limited government program about the need to get congress to stop doing things it was never intended to do. that is one symptom of the problem we face, one reason why we focus on the constitution. other bad things happen. when congress does not do the things it is supposed to do. the very beginning of article one set up the legislative

stance with regards to north korea. and with north korea now. we're down to create by worry about by well the paradox is is that politicians who really know nothing about these things have to appear to know something they have to speak out on all of these issues to be considered credible figures so sarah palin you know who could see russia from her door and her window you know is now an expert on russia or whatever else the reason why us politicians feel free to make bloopers on international issues could be that many of their audience is can't catch the inconsistences well it's very easy to manipulate people when they don't know anything so they generally americans. indifferent they don't pay attention to world events and you can easily manipulate them cos of their public ignorance or ghastly after waging wars in iraq and afghanistan for years figures show most americans still have difficulties finding the countries on the map the only. if the public is not able to notice the ignorance of their politicians they won't be able to hold them accoun

we have to see how washington will korea. always, there is a difference between how they react in public and what messages they are relating to the egyptians and president mubarak. in public, the obama administration has been very careful not to be seen that it is dictating what a foreign leader needs to be doing. on the other hand, it also does want to make clear that it understands the grievances of the egyptian people, but it once the egyptian people to be able to choose to their next leader is -- it wants the egyptian people to be able to choose. there is a meeting between hillary clinton and the security council and others going on right now, and we will have to see if they come out with a statement later today. there is concern about the rising tension in the country. they do feel that the army is behaving very adequately. we have heard some kind of praise almost from admiral mike mullen, the chief of staff. he seems to think that the army was behaving very well because of its calls to protesters not to lose, because of

for korea, that would have boggled anybody's mind. and, you know, this was -- if war with spain had been presented as a war, presented ahead of time as a war to conquer the philippines, it would have gotten absolutely nowhere. the only way americans could accept this projection of american power beyond american shores, the first time with, you know, the very miles per hour exception of the barbary wars, the first time they projected power beyond american shores was 1898. cuba was only 90 miles from florida. if somebody had said, oh, we ought to project american power 9,000 miles across the pacific, nearly everyone would have said, you've got to have your head examined. it is said even william mckinley had to get out a map to see where the philippines were. do any of you remember where you were when you heard of the invasion of grenada in 1983, and the newscasters had to figure out where in the world it is. well, this was very much the reaction of americans to the news that commodore dewey had won the first battle of the war with spain