sanctions against north korea against north korea, so there is little question. the united states strictly question united it's about it and they said they thought they were selling them blogging materials. so there is a lot dual use stuff out there. some of the things that the north koreans have, they built themselves. but there is a lot of tool use stuff that is out there. >> russia to forgive a lot of funds. how much can russia afford to prop up north korea? the mac not much. the reason i think the question is so just because i'm sure most of you realize right up until may team may become the soviet union as it was called back then were providing oil, foodstuff, military equipment, training, everything. electricity for their great. everything for the north koreans. in 1990, the soviets told the north koreans, from now on, from the second lord, anything you get from us, food, oil, electricity, military hardware, you have to pay for with hard currency. hard currency being u.s. dollars, japanese or german deutsche marks at the time. from that moment, north korea'

why so many run bizarre stories about north korea. >> north korea is like a black box.e don't see what's going on. to the outside involved, it's a crazy and crackpot sort of place. >> rethroughsive north korea. >> full of things that go bang and boom. even television announcer is emotional. >> when the foreign media found a sensational story, they jump on that and reinforce the i am alan of north korea as a bizarre place. >> inside the strange world of north korea. >> if you just believe one source and write based on that source, then it becomes a wild story. there are so many wild stories. >> april, 2012, a par aide, a display of the country's military power. however, arms experts studying the footage identify horn out we hopeon re, outdated vehicles and inter continental bullistic mock ooze that look like mock-ups made for show. this kind of informed reporting on north korea is the exception rather than the rule. in august, last year, south korea ian newspaper reported that kim jung unhad his ex-girlfriend shot for involvement in pornography. "salon" and "the business

first of all i was born in south korea, fluent in korea and i come from separated families. meaning families on my side have been separated into north korea although we are from south korea, during the war so really the horrific heartbreakers division of korea has always been in my family. to have a personal i guess, it's more of a heartbreak the really, my mother's brother was lost during the war. the same can happen to my father. when you think about north korea, a lot is happening. this happened to a million plus families. so i think for us it's a heartbreak. north korea is a really big heartbreak. i think i want to tell that story. this is a very personal story. which is i think why it's an investigative account but also in some sense i wanted to relate that sense of what it means to have people -- 70 million people, two-thirds their, they been families for 5000 years and they're separated for ever. the war ended in a 53 and here we are in 2014. they never saw each other again. so i think that when wanted to relate to my kids, i wanted some sort of i guess a bond or unde

that was my last day in north korea. the final chapter. >> dichapter. >> did you know that it was going to be the last day to? i couldn't believe it when i was told. when i was told by a colleague it was at christmas time and i thought that they were talking about god but in that country you only have the great leader. >> were your lesson plans controlled. you have to get permission for everything. [inaudible] i really tried to find that in order to get to know them and it doesn't sound as if i love that. i fell in love with all of them and i really wanted to teach that. but there are conflicting feelings because if i thought that they don't really know about the world, a lot of them, and i do because i am from the outside and they are never allowed outside of anywhere. they are never allowed outside of the compound at any time ever. so, they have no communication with the outside world, so i was always try and do in a way reveal the outside world to them, but it worries me because i thought as they learned more with wha

where ballistic missiles could make a difference for south korea, certainly, the reach into south korea, well into south korea beyond artillery and rocket range, so that's a problem. and i think it's the weapons of mass destruction aspect where ballistic missiles -- north korean ballistic missiles could be a game-changer security on the peninsula. but that's not only nuclear, but that could well be chemical, it could be biological for that matter. that's the way i would see it. and that's the way i would think the south koreans would see it. >> i agree with that. and as in a written report earlier this year, based on discussions in korea, as well as u.s. planners, i mean, the fear that north korea's kim jong-un's new year's message was created to include tactical weapons, it's specifically to intimidate south korea. and this is how it's treated within south korea's planning circles i think that's a driving fear this would be a game-changer. i think the united states starts to think about, more distant, second, island change places like guam, where it still has to make pivotal investment

: north korea seems willing to compromise compared to before. but the situation is still very difficult. >> agents kidnapped yokata's daughter megumi in 1977. yokata says she expects a tough road ahead but she says she'll do all she can to see her daughter again. japanese officials promised to lift some sanctions against north korea in exchange for the new investigation. but the two sides disagree about the particulars of the deal. a top negotiator from the north wants to resume service of a ship that used to carry cargo and passengers between the two countries. >> translator: the ship is a humanitarian vessel. so we need to discuss its possible return to a japanese port. >> north korea's chief delegate made the comments to reporters in beijing. japanese officials say the agreement does not include lifting the entry ban on the ship. they behalfed the vessel from entering japan in 2006. >>> japan's chief cabinet secretary has responded sharply to criticism from the chinese government. yoshihide suga defended a speech the prime minister made at as

citizen has been detained in north korea. this is the third u.s. season detained in north korea. obviously no greater priority for us than the welfare and

south korea story discourage you? the concerns with korea have not been quite company specific. elections juste finished and there are some concerns that maybe they reforms, there is not support for the kind of reforms that south korea has wanted to extend. >> i have -- i am a bit cynical plans,he reform reforming its labor markets. i don't think there is any political will to actually do those things. a more flexible labor market, one where it is easier to create jobs but also to retrench jobs as necessary. that is a big issue in korea. we also have a relatively protected economy as well. >> true enough. thank u so much for that. let's -- thank you so much for that. let's talk about china and all the rest when we see you back. thanks. >> now what to [indiscernible] the ipo of go bad pro and we have economic data points to dominate the next five trading days. >> in the coming week on wall street, a key question for investors will be can the s&p 500 record rice continue. we will be getting a raft of new economic report

>> on the one hand north korea has to by accountable. you can't arrest people because they leave a bible in a hotel room or come in declaring they want asylum. if that happened in the urks you wouldn't arrest and imprison them, but it's fair to say this is north korea. when folks go in and do this, some - you know - i don't want to blame the victim, but it's not a wise act. >> you're saying that it's a red flag, and americans shouldn't travel in that region. >> i think americans shouldn't go in and tear up a passport and declare asylum, that's out there. americans probably shouldn't carry bibles and leave them in hotel rooms because given the past history the north koreans will be sensitive to that. i'm not blaming them. but when i go to north korea, i don't do that stuff - i'm just saying. >> so what do the u.s. do at this point. do you see china getting involved? >> glen davies is sort of the point person on this, ambassador davies, he has worked to try to get folks released, kenneth bae first and foremost, because he's been held the l

the crew members caused widespread outrage in south korea. authorities say they were among the first group of people who evacuated the ship. >> translator: a single death can mean a homicide conviction. these people have to pay the price for lots of deaths. >> translator: it's a great pity our country doesn't have a manual for dealing with this kind of disaster. we need to learn from this experience and come up with safety measures that are precise and thorough. >> the ferry disaster has struck the country's tourism industry. travel agents have seen a downturn in business. transportation companies and restaurants have also seen a slowdown in sales. in the weeks after president park geun-hye announced that she would dissolve the coast guard, she said officers failed to fulfill their duties and government officials said they will set up a new body to strengthen safety management. many people are watching to see what the government will do next. they want their leaders to put politics aside to make sure south koreans are safe. anna jung, nhk wor

--north korea. there are a lot of costs. i only have 30 minutes or so and to going to the other costs in the book i would encourage you to look at that. you said if there's any doubt iran would build nuclear weapons, a strike would convince them to go all the way. many people make that argument. my view is i think iran has already made that decision and there is no way to explain their behavior over the last ten years except if they decided to build a nuclear weapon and the supreme leader is building up the program decades, it is kind of naive for us to assume he hasn't fought long and hard about what he is doing and what he intends to do with it. the second thing i point out in the book is if that is a concern that can be mitigated completely by the timing of a strike, if we strike tomorrow night then there is a danger that there someone on the fence that will change their mind but what i argue in the book is we should actually time it according to what the real red wines are so with iran is approa

the conventional threat to clients, but north korea poses a growing threat to south korea's maritimenvironment. shellingng and the reminded the alliance of the seaborne threat. hiding behind its missile and potential nuclear threat, north to theose a challenge safety and security of maritime trade and commerce. think of a submarine attacks on attack ondship, or an infrastructure. north korea shares a border with china. history drives china's policy toward north brea and causes china to value stability above all else. the peninsula has an avenue for progression in both directions. you know the ground combat of the japanese war of 1890 or 95 was fought in the peninsula. then game colonization, followed china invasion, and then and ding in 1945. china became heavily engaged in with u.s. forces during the korean war, losing, by some estimates, over ¥1 million. on the outbreak, -- this effectively prevented china from completing unification. china does not want another era of change on the peninsula. the u.s. maintains a significant residence in korea. over the years since 1950, the prese

the army tracked him down to a hiding place near the border with north korea. so far, he's refused to give himself up and at least one sold has been wounded in an exchange of fire. harry fawcett sent this report from the capitol, seuol. >> this stand-off continues. it seems the south korea ian military is in no hurry to move in and take this man by force. it all unfolded this latest chapter at around 2:23 local time when there was a shoot-out at a checkpoint near an elementary school in this village. the defense ministry is confirming that a platoon leader was shot in the arm and injured. local residents said there were about ten rounds fired in all and that since then, there has been this operation to corner him in this area. the defense ministry says they are trying to persuade him to surrender. this man, sergeants lim, as he is known, was coming off of guard duty late on saturday night about 8:00 p.m. and it was then when he returns to the b r bearax that the shooting gain. five fellow soldiers were killed. 7 injured. after that anneen normalation manhunt un

so in the makow case and north korea, obviously, north korea went ahead and did what it did. i don't think it paid a penalty in the way that other places have. i just want to say i think the sanctions against russia played a very big role in russia's change of course on ukraine. i think they worked. people who said just sanctions on individuals don't matter. they matter. i think less effective? i don't think that means this crowd was not effective. i think north korea because of its sort of strange-o economy can be less impacted by sanctions than perhaps other places. >> general alexander, start first with this question of whether or not it was the intelligence on iran that made it so much more effective, whether -- how that compares with dealing with a society like north korea, then i wanted to taking you to some of the terrorism examples that treasury has pursued in recent times. >> i actually -- well first, juan, thanks for setting this up. thanks for all you did. it was a privilege and honor to work with you. stuart, david, lesley, really has been. you know, i think what

and north korea. a professor said north korea is detaining u.s. citizens to use as a tool against america. >> i imagine the united states and south korea attempt to spy, but it's difficult in a parliamentarian state. i don't know too many stories in the literature about successful spies. i doubt the tourist he arrests are spies. the real objection is missionaries, those that come with the tour groups. that is a big issue with kenneth bea and under the new regime, that cap touring hostages, taking prisoners, it's a strategy to use as a bargaining chip. >>> two nigerians have been killed in attacks on fighting believed to be with boko haram. it took place at borno. it's where boko haram abducted more than 270 schoolgirls in april. i do apologise, we don't have that report. let's move on now. there has been fighting in eastern ukraine between government forces and separatist rebels despite an assess fire agreement. >> pictures have been released showing soldiers returning from a stronghold. five sold soldiers have been killed. russia's channel one sa

meanwhile north korea already holding kenneth bay. he's serving 18 months of his 15 year sentence. >>> in just a few hours, the supreme court will likely rule on a big case involving the affordable health care act. the quote will decide whether hobby lobby must include birth control in their employee's health insurance. the groups argue they should not have to have birth control because that's counter to the owner's religious believes. the big question for the courts then is can a company and corporation in particular have religious believes at all? the owner has a right to his or her religious believes. >> but they didn't mean you get to discriminate women against women if they have different believes than what the owner has. >> the government can fine companies with more than 50 employees that violate the health laws. they could face $356 million a year in fines. they'll have to pay 475 million. >>> supreme court expected to rule on an issue impacting labor unions across the country. justices will decide whether it's constitutional

north korea sounds steam over it. >> i mean i think so. put out an e-mail that i received, reporters, it went around the world, right, about how angry they were about the film. they went as far as calling it an act of war in this letter. so, they're unhappy with the fact that this movie's coming out. >> do you think they have a right to be? >> i understand -- i understand why they're angry. i mean, we have freedom of speech and freedom of press in our great country, however, i see their point. it's a movie about the assassination of their supreme leader. >> right. >> i wouldn't expect north koreans to condone this film. >> right, right. what about kenneth bae? that's the issue here. is it going too far to say the hollywood movie could hurt his chances? >> i don't think so. i really doesn't think so. first and foremost, kenneth was imprisoned in a prison, north korea, when the movie was made and came out. it hasn't come out but the reels come out. i don't think it will affect. but again talking about such a sensitive, sensitive issue. and t

or north korea, but it may be good news for the box office. in palo alto, cate caugurian, kpix5. >> set rogan joked on twitter saying people don't usually want to kill me for one of my movies until after they pay $12 for it. [ laughter ] >> i get it. >>> and it is good publicity for the movie. >> absolutely of the definitely. >> well the weather we are having is great for the city of san francisco. tourists are coming in with shorts and flip-flops. it is freezing and raining. >> but that will totally turn around. that's the great thing, you know. if you want better weather, wait a few minutes? it will heat up as we get toward the weekend with temperatures climbing toward the 100-degree mark by sunday and monday inland. but the next 24 hours, we do have some drizzle embedded in a wide swath of cloudiness ushered along by low pressure off the pacific northwest. not much rain, but there is drizzle and fog, it is not unusual for us at all to get measurable rain in june. that is all we would do with this is get 200ths of an inch here or there. beyo

north korea's state propaganda machine has added hollywood. "bbc news," washington. >> not liking the movie there and managing to sell it at the same time. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, could the tide be turning in greece after years of economic hardships? the tourists are flocking back, but not everyone is feeling it yet. >> manage the 325 students who were on board the ferry that sank off the coast of south korea back in april, only 73 survived. now two months after the disaster respect those teenagers have returned to class. they started the day with a somber procession. it comes as the trial of 15 crew members, including the captain of the ferry for negligence has gun. here is our report. >> they all arrived together, the ones who survived. for many of them it was the first glimpse of a campus that they all left together for a school trip over two months ago. while the parents looked on, some students cried while others bowed their heads as they walked through the school gates. everything may look the same, but

. >>> plus, captive in north korea.n american paying a price for preaching the gospel to communists? we're getting new information from his family and his lawyer. >>> and going for broke. hillary clinton gives critics new ammunition to claim she's out of touch. her message and her missteps in her campaign to sell books and maybe a presidential bid. we want to welcome our viewers in united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> up first this hour, a stunning and sudden, very troubling crush of illegal immigrants including hundreds and hundreds of children. even babies. flooding across the southern border of the united states. some forced to live for a while in conditions that are very disturbing at the least. some describe it as inhumane. our justice correspondent pamela brown is here with the stunning images and the federal government's response. tell our viewers, pamela, what's going on. >> well, administration officials, wolf, are calling this a humanitarian crisis. a flood

>> well, the search is going on in the nearby corner of south korea, close to the border that south korea shares with its enmill. it's looking for one of -- enemy. it's looking for one of its own. 3,000-4,000 men are involved in the search. what happened is in man, sergeant lim, came back from his guard duty, of about six hours, on saturday, at 8:00pm it was then, during a changeover period when he was back in the barracks, that the shooting happened. five killed, seven injured, two critically. they needed emergency surgery. everyone now is out of danger. this is remote mountainous territory up in the north-east corner, close to the dmz. hely mined -- heavily mined. it's difficult for him to move around in, and his men. as for his own background, there's not a lot we know, but we know from the military that he was under special safety over concerns that he was not adapting to military life. it's reported that he was due for discharge in september and critically he has been given category a status last year, which meant that he wouldn't have been able to serve and in a front line post, dow

the match ended with belgium beating south korea 1-0. so algeria will advance to the final round for the first time. belgium will also proceed but russia and south korea are out. the 16 teams moving on to the final round have now been determined. the host team, brazil, will face chile on saturday. in other soccer news, the sport's global governing body has punished uruguayan striker, louis suarez for biting an opponent during a world cup match. fifa says he bleached the disciplinary code by biting the shoulder of a player for italy's team during a group stage match. uruguay went on to beat italy and qualify for the knockout round. his punishment includes a ban on taking part in uruguay's next nine official matches or any other soccer-related activity for four months. the bans mean suarez has to sit out of the rest of the world cup, including uruguay's last 16 match against columbia. >>> in other news, australia's deputy prime minister says the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 will move farther south. warren truss spoke to reporter

korea you know that u.s. intelligence spends just as much time spying on pakistan as it does on north korea and al qaeda why does it feel the need to spy on its ally but i think that the pakistani u.s. alliance is essentially now just a charade i mean everybody knows that baucus on strategic god's goodness is very different from america's strategic calculus i've written a whole book called magnificent delusions in which i say that the box funny delusion is that it can maintain its strategic calculus with american assistance and support that as the american delusion is that it can change but this one strategic calculus by giving it to it in arms these two countries need to view their relationship in a way to significant to it and we must come to terms of the fact that there are people in pakistan who have ideas about how they would fight america and there are americans who think that baka son needs to be brought under restraint much more than this say publicly so i don't think that the alliance is really an al

have reaffirmed the importance of coordinating policies with south korea, concerning north korea's nuclear and missile programs. japan and the u.s. will continue working to the. >> ihara noted that japan remains firm on pushing for a comprehensive resolution to the abduction issue and missile and nuclear programs. >>> a japanese scientist has been facing global scrutiny over what appeared to be a breakthrough in the study of stem cells. now, two groups of researchers say they've found another contradiction that raises doubts over whether stap cells exist. the groups are the latest to question research by scientists, including haruko obokata of riken institute. her team claimed in january to have found a quick way to create cells that can develop into any type of tissue. they called them stimulus triggered acquisition of pl pluripotency or stap cells. but the researchers say they analyzed genetic data which obokata's team provided. they find the genetic abnormality in almost all of the cells. the disorder creates an extra copy of a chromosome. they say mice with the abnormality usually die

soldiers at a garden out post near the border of south and north korea. in iraq, militants have taken over more territory. they control a border town near syria as well as the baiji oil refinery. >> for some, iraq in turmoil is bringing back memories. weighing in on involvement in iraq. lisa stark spoke with one retired army officer who said the current chaos did not need to happen. >> running a boy's school outside of philadelphia is a long way from serving in an army tank battalion in iraq but the 12 months john no gle spent fighting there is never far from his mind. >> we immediately ran into provide explosive devices, sthieper attacks, mortar, shells, base camp beingshelled and our young men started dying. >> that was in 2004, when the war received a lost cause. but no gle along with david petraeus helped turn the tide writing the counter inc. surgency manual with a surge of troops and iraqi militias. >> we turned it around at enormas cost where the operations that followed. now, the images of isil and other rebel groans rolling into iraqi cities at l

the police failed to find the leading member of the evangelical baptist church of korea.looked for him at his sprawling complex south of seoul. it's believed his family owns the ship that sank taking 300 lives. they called on police to do more to find him. >>> well, the bbc lucy williamson has been following the story from seoul. >> reporter: well, the search itself has been absolutely massive. what you're seeing today is just the latest in weeks and weeks of a nationwide manhunt for mr. wru that's turned up little, indeed. the police have been looking all along the south coast for him as he has been moving from place to place. there are rumors that he might be trying to slip away from south korea by boat, that he is trying to claim asylum in foreign countries, and now this latest raid, the second raid that police have made on this compound, again, he is nowhere to be found. >> and why -- it's -- it seems a bit odd that somebody so high profile, a billionaire, would be so hard to find for the south korean authorities, isn't it? >> i think it's very frustrating for the sou

and what this means with korea, korea has now demonstrated a blueprint to try and take out a very important the domestic steel industry with tubular goods. they don't have any iron ore, they don't have any coal, they don't have lime stone. they use the best technology they get subsidized by their government for cheap energy. they don't drill in their own market. they don't have a market. 98% of what they produce is directly dumped into the american market. if commerce doesn't put a substantial duty on that like they did when china was doing that, what south korea would have shown the rest of the world is how to take out different segments of the steel industry and to be very blunts and you say it well, you can't make anything in this country if you can't make steel. you can't make a computer, you can't make a car. you can't make kitchen furniture and stoves and dish washers. it's fundamental to have an economy. >> so you testified yesterday in front of the senate finance committee, there are people on that committee that are now asking serious questions about not only the steel industry, bu

the south korea just earned one point in three world cup matches. the coach has apologized for their poor performance. >> they should have eaten a piece of it. >> that would have shown them. >>> a controversial tweet was sent out following netherlands beating mexico. >> this was the caption. adion amigos. you see it there. a man with a mustache wearing a sombrero. the tweet was deleted an hour later. a spokesperson for klm says the tweet was meant to be silly. later the company issued this statement. "in the best of sportsmanship, we offer our heartfelt apologies to those who have been offended by the comment". >>> max can fans calling foul after this play right here. watch it. the game was all tied up and minutes away from go into extra time. rafael marquez called on a foul. many in mexico say that was a flop. ref didn't think so. the dutch awarded a penalty kick and you can tell what happened from there. it's all the team needed. netherlands, 2-1, eliminating mexico. >>> and the u.s. plays tomorrow against belgium. >>> a promising catch behind a f

south korea trading higher now. in china, trading flat. in hong kong, we are seeing minus territory, down more than a third of a percent. >>> trade offials from japan and the u.s. have been trying to find common ground in the automotive sector. they haven't been able to bridge the gap dividing them, but they say they're getting closer to reaching a deal. negotiators pushed ahead during two days of talks in washington. the two sides have been discussing auto issues since last year. the main topic was whether to ease safety and environmental standards in japan. that would make it easier for u.s. auto makers to sell their cars. >> translator: japan won't do anything to endanger our safety and environmental standards. that's the principle we have to stick to. >> the officials say they'll next meet in tokyo. >>> the people at google want to make better maps with better eyes in the sky. the u.s. internet giant is buying a satellite firm in california. they will purchase sky box imaging for $500 million. they say they can improve their mapping se

north korea. and its fiery and unpredictable new leader kim jong-un.d in april to forgive north korea of $10 billion in debt, 90% of its debt with russia, and moscow pledged to invest $1 billion in a trans-siberian railway line and pipeline. all this essential financial help to a regime dependent for its survival on food and financial aid from china. russia hasn't filled that role since the fall of the soviet union. "we want to use modern policies to improve our advantage including integration," president putin said. "this is what we're doing in the post-soviet space." last month, russia signed a $400 billion natural gas deal with china, together with the north korea aid, some are calling it putin's pivot to asia. but it is north korea that u.s. officials consider a direct threat to american national security. with nuclear weapons and a rapidly developing missile program aimed at hitting the u.s. mainland. >> this gives north korea a way to say, hey, look, we have an alternative, you can't treat us like dirt anymore. so they welcome this newfound inter

given the history of north korea and the failure of the u.s. in the international community to stop pyongyang from acquiring nuclear weapons what lesson should be applied to the situation with i ran moving forward? and what provisions of any in the agreement prevent i ran from outsourcing their nuclear program to another country as was the case with north korea. icu nodding so i will go to you first. c. i'm sure mr. detrani will have something to add to this point as well. one of the reasons i read in my statement that it's very important to have an effective means of monitoring iranian procurement particulaparticula rly if they are going to be allowed to have a peaceful nuclear program as part of whatever agreement emerges is to make sure that in the noise of those procurement efforts that i ran is not able to outsource significant parts of its nuclear weapons development program to other states or to nonstate actors the a.q. khan's of the world and are north korea and to get a good handle on the procurement they are taking because there has b

they'll meet after north korea promised to reopen investigations. kim jong-il admitted in 2002, 13 were abducted to betrained as spies. five returned home. eight are missing. >>> commemorations to mark the deaths of franz ferdinand of sarajeva, triggering event that led to the first world war, and the redrawing of borders. that's where some believe the current conflict in the middle east were created. dominic kane explains. >> reporter: fighters of islamic state of iraq and levant attack iraqi positions. i.s.i.l. believes the geographical boundaries of the middle east need to be redraup. the borders were created after the first world war, after the fall of the ota man empire. it stretched to the red sea and to the caucuses mountains. the ottoman defeat saw the wen allies break up the -- we were allies brake up the empire. many modern day arab states from created. front ears were drawn arbitrarily. europeans used straight lines on maps to demarkate areas with no ethnic or tribal considerations, and some modern analysts believe decisions by the french

we told you about the comedy poking fun at north korea's leader.s this is no joke, warning if the u.s. doesn't stop this film from being released it's an act of war. nick watt reports. >> today this movie was decried by north korea as "an act of war." the interview follows a pair of entertainment journalists, james franco and seth rogen, recruited by the cia to assassinate the north korean despot. >> you want to kill kim jong-un? >> totally, it's a date. >> reporter: a spokesman said the comedy will trig area strong and merciless response against the united states. rogen's flip response? people don't usually want to kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it. rogen claims his comedy sheds light on a sinister reality. >> all the random facts you hear about kim jong-un in the movie are real. >> reporter: pyongyang marking the 64th anniversary of the korean war, is known for bluster, threatening in the past to bomb seoul and launch nuclear strikes on the u.s. kim jong-un is young, aggressive, unpredictable. north korea carri

citizens held in north korea to three.ls say jeffrey edward fowl entered the country on april 29th as a tourist. they say he broke the law, but did not give details. south korean media are reporting it was because he left a bible at the hotel where he'd been staying. remember kenneth bay, an american missionary, who was arrested in november of 2012, charged with hostile acts against the state. his sentence, 15 years hard labor. and as for the third american, officials say he's 24 years old, arrested in april for, quote, rash behavior. jordan chang joins us now. he's a foreign affairs columnist and author of "the coming collapse of china." gordon, always good to have you. why this person? why fowl? and why now? >> i think because leaving a bible is something that christian missionaries have been doing with some regularity in north korea, and so they suspect that he is a missionary. and that is a grave offense. but why now is fascinating. because he was detained in mid-may and they're only announcing it at this particular ti

they also want to know if the head of north korea's secret police will be part of the committee. and officials say if they're satisfied the committee can carry out an effective investigation, they will consider lifting some sanctions. >>> workers at fukushima daiichi have spent months carrying out painstaking task. they have been removing a nuclear fuel from a damaged reactor building and putting it in storage. but now the people overseeing the operations say they could run out of space. so they have changed their plan. the workers have been moving more than 1500 units of fuel rods from a pool in the reactor number four building. they have been taking the fuel to a common storage pool. space in the pool is limited so officials have planned to remove some fuel rods being stored there to make more room. but now they say it is taking more time than expected to confirm if casks carrying the rods are safe. the officials' new plan is to transfer 180 units of unused fuel rods from the number four building to a different reactor building. they say they'll start in november and they expec

it's not just allies like japan and korea that are watching our response. it's countries like iran and north korea who are watching our response, and china, trying to figure out what they can get away with. >> a question from an online viewer. he was to thank you for your service, and address your rules of engagement. he has a friend who just returned from afghanistan. opinion is that all they get to do is look through the scope of a rifle and say bang. >> a lesson congress have heard from relatives of service usbers -- i think all of have heard from relatives of service members who are frustrated by rules of engagement. aboute to be careful second-guessing military commanders on the ground, and the rules of engagement that they put for their troops, particularly given the mission they have. of what we're doing in afghanistan is helping to stand up the afghan security forces so they can be in a better position to defend themselves. that means exercising restraint sometimes, and when restraint is appropriate and when it is overboard is hard for us in washing

this time in north korea.

. >>> north korea has test-fired two short range missiles into eastern waters.outh korea says the missiles were launched days after pyongyang tested what it calls new precision-guided missiles. >>> japan's foreign minister says the missile tests will not affect plans to hold talk with north korea over the kidnapping of its citizens in the 19 '70s and '80s. they'll meet in the chinese capital on july the 1st. north korea's late leader kim jong-il admitted that 13 japanese from abducted to be trained as spies. five from returned but eight are missing. >>> there was protesters marching to maracana stadium. police detained a number of protesters. they were upset about the amount of money brazil has spent on the world cup. >>> now, a libyan man accused of planning an awe tack on the u.s. -- an attack on the u.s. consulate pleaded not guilty. the raid left the ambassador to libya and three others dead. ahmed abu chattalah has been charged with murder and appeared in a washington court after beeps captured by -- being captured by u.s. special forces in libya. >>> his n

citizen has been detained in north korea. this is the third u.s. season detained in north korea.obviously no greater priority for us than the welfare and safety of u.s. citizens abroad and don't have any additional information to share at this time. >> reporter: now according to the kyoto news agency out of japan, they've been able to add a few more details to the story other than the north koreans and the state department have done so far. he was part of a tourist group. he was detained in mid-may after apparently leaving a bible in a hotel room where he was staying. now, this is a problem in north korea because they have state run religion. they do not allow independent religions, and they do not allow christianity, which is a hint at to why he's being detained. >> you mentioned three americans being detained. the other two was christianity some how a result of their or did it lead to them dealing detained. >> reporter: yes, in the case of one, yes, kenneth bae. he's described as a korean-american missionary who went into the country under a fou tourist visa, and he has spent 1

south korea is cheating, china is cheating. nine other countries are cheating and our country is allowing them to get away with it. we stand here well, we're not sure if we're going to vote on this or not or tell the commerce department to do something about it. we're afraid of tariffs because that goes against an ideology of free market. no, it doesn't. this is about fairness and competition. and if we're about american exceptionalism, we don't back down at all. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, will congress get serious about protecting american jobs? text a for yes and b for no. leave a comment on this at msnbc.com and we'll bring you results later on. congressman james clyburn. good to have you with us tonight. can you explain the sense of urgency amongst those in congress who get it and those who don't? >> well, thank you so much for having me, ed. yes, there is a tremendous sense of urgency in the congress. i don't know what's going to happen on the house side, whether or not app

the film when it is released in october. >> do we release films to north korea? i guess we must. >> well, they can't watch it, but he will. >> he can do pretty much anything. >>> as can our leader, our dear leader, christina loren, in the microclimate forecast. >> that's right! good morning to you, kris, scott. it's hard to believe we're still in the morning hours, with a temperature of 85 degrees, currently, in santa rosa. taking a live look at the other current temperatures across the bay area, your microclimates definitely showing an appearance at this point. you're at 59 degrees in half moon bay, but here's the deal. all of our bay area cities are running warmer, you're just running 14 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago up in santa rosa, and the same for san martin. you might be wondering why. well, it has everything to do with our wind direction. so, all the cities that have the winds coming off the ocean, it's actually still pretty comfortable. look at what's going on in santa rosa. that wind direction shifted from the south to the north, and as a result, you