north korea argued that south korea hasn't delivered anything to north korea. therefore, he's having a hard time in pushing for the idea of peace building through peace economy. diplomacy, in fact, contrary to what conservatives in south have been criticizing, we have been betting on the united states 100%. since november of 2018, we have 100% coordinating with the united states. we have shown 100% transparency to the u.s. with regard to interkorean economy and cooperation. as a result of that, interkorean relations have become completely-- and now we have a dilemma what should we do if the united states cannot make a breakthrough in its talk with north korea? i do not know what action the president will take, but sentiment in south south korea, if the united states fails to come up with a settlement with north korea, then supporters are raising voice, south korea should take independent action, okay? i will say that we are now going through very critical period, okay? south korea is a democracy and moon jae-in needs from his supporters. if he cannot deliver to

policy toward north korea. the panel took a look at challenges to the korean peace process and perceptions of north korean leader kim jong un. >> i'd like to go ahead and get started. good morning, and thank you all for coming. my name is george bibi, i'm the vice president and director of studies here at the center for the national interests. i want to welcome you and thank you all for coming to this conference today on north korea. as we think about what might be coming down the road on the korean peninsula and the broader region, it's very easy, i think, to succumb to the temptation to be pessimistic. in fact, as we sit here in washington today, it seems like there's all kinds of reason to be pessimistic. we seem to be facing on the home front a variety of challenges. we're in the midst of a wrenching presidential impeachment process. the broader country seems to have some deep cleavages societally. we have a big problem with mutual distrust in the country. when we look abroad internationally, the headlines

korea continue to exist.and how things will pan out, i don't think as much as he wants to he will be able to emulate the chinese. >> terrific talk. you mentioned the korean war, the soviets played an incredibly important role before the ascent of china but do the russians continue to play a role in north korea? >> in my book i talk about the interest in korea, a general audience, people in this room, korea is the only place in the world, where they converge geographically. china, russia, the us and japan. everything that happens on the korean peninsula by definition has original condition. russia is a different country because she put kim bill song into power but since the ussr chip in 1991, russian influence went down. and you cannot ignore russia for two reasons, the russians have a lot of influence politically north korea and they said on the un security council. whatever happens politically the soviets or the russians have a feed zone. in that sense, the importance of russia on the korean question, russia

but international sanctions prevent south korea from engaging with north korea. for example, president moon strongly desired to have railroad connection reconnected between north and south and even he had groundbreaking ceremony in january last year but nothing happened "after words". he wanted to reopen and mount a project again, because international sanction regime he could not do. the north koreans argued that the south korea has not done anything to north korea. therefore he's having a hard time pushing for the idea of peace building through piece economy. proactive diplomacy, contrary to what conservatives and south korea have been criticizing we have been -- [inaudible] we have been 100% coordinating with the united states. we have shown 100% transparency to the u.s. with regard to exchanges and corporations. as a result of that relations have become completely frozen and we now have a dilemma that what should we do if the united states cannot make breakthrough in its talk with north korea? i do not know what will take but [inaudible] if the u.s. fails to

posture towards north korea? or does it really depend on given how mercurial trump is, if you had a democratic president, maybe trump has broken enough ice that you could crack a deal, or if trump is reelected in the second term, does he perform another u-turn and figure that he wants to keep the pressure on iran so needs to cut a deal with north korea? >> what i described was what is possible. given the pieces that exist and history that exists and the capability on all sides that exist, this is what is possible. what i didn't even talk about was whether it's probable, given the current political leader here in the united states. he would have to go through a major change, and i am very closely aligned with what you're saying in terms of trump's, you know, it's my way or the highway, it's my way or the missiles, as he's been doing lately with the fire and fury. if trump comes to the position to where -- and he has -- if anybody is able to do a pivot or u-turn even and not think twice, it's trump because he's don

forces in korea.ne of the things that always struck me is incomprehensible was our occupation of the imperial japanese at -- armies headquarters in seoul and using it. who the hell thought that up. what it is asked or. it is right up there with let's, all the generals, all the great men who think of themselves as a great man moving into saddam hussein's palace. my god, why would you do that? what does the arab think you are about? he's going to conclude that you are no different from the french and the british imperialist that he has dealt with in the past, so, it is not the best answer in the world but i think the trump sometimes wants one thing and does another because there is no one to advise him differently, and the advice that he does get usually is, whatever you do, change nothing. >> okay, yes, sorry, the microphones will come around. >> daniel davis from defense priorities. you guys with different versions of a couple of things, this idea of machiavellian black and white one way or another, w

with the anniversary of the start of the korean war, when south korea invaded north korea, as the ball bearing press announced. and then north korea had to responded. -- to respond. question, one brief was there any sort of small north korean effort to show that, in fact, they were responding to some kind of attack? that is a minor point. a major point, i think, speaking of the technological problems the soviet side was having, in fearing the worst, was part of the american buildup connected to a mis estimate of how much nuclear capacity the soviets really had in the early 1950's? questions.ood the original plan for the invasion, which was developed by the north koreans, the soviet advisers did not like it. and they completely revised it. and stalin said, you don't just invade a country. you set up a pretext that you are the victim. and so, there has to be an incident that is simulated of a south korean attack and you response to it. -- respond to it. it was going to be a secret invasion, but then the information about the invasion and the clearing away of civilians from the border reg

grandfather maternal grandfather who actually sketch south korea to go to north korea he actually defected north between the korean war and became a really really famous you know government official in north korea under kim il sung and you know this kind of family ties to north korea for years had to be kept as a secret you know within his south korean family so that's one of the things that i think is very important now and the north korean references the film is making i think is directly tied to some of the things that are going on the clandestine kind of politics and people living with terror you know with this obviously very real secret you know having the ties with nigeria so those are the things that are absolutely wonderful. and it was also important to note that. in her himself he this is pretty open about spending a lot of this college years not going to college but also working as a pro sorry now working by participating in a lot of pro democracy protests and anyone who knows anything about the history of modern career knows that that was an insanely dangerous thing to do even i

and north korea in sweden in october those broke down quite quickly what north korea is seeking here is a step by step process toward denuclearization it's not going to go for that one shot deal that was presented in one noisy vietnam early in 2019 however it would be willing to see some step by step toward denuclearization that would have to include relief from those u.s. led united nations security council sanctions talking to times for joining us from smith in seoul. take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world of the losing candidates in the runoff vote for guinea-bissau presidency says he will contest the results with the country's supremes court during goes a similar as the pereira told supporters in the west african nation of the vote has been rigged the electoral commission has declared the former prime minister omarosa soco the winner of last friday's ballasts with 54 percent of the vote. threshold rainfalls a flooded indonesia's capital jakarta killing at least 9 people and forcing about $900000.00 to evacuate the power was cut off in hundreds of wa

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i'm talking about iran and north korea. the situation in both countries have gotten more dangerous in the last few days and while the president has tried two completely different approaches to contain them neither seems to be working. let's start with north korea where the president says he trusts kim jong-un to get rid of his nukes because she a man of his word. the president of the united states said that on new years eve, two days ago. on the very same day, kim jong un said he will restart missile testing, unveil a new weapon, and keep their nukes until america drops their "hostile policies." now let's go to ooirp, he has tried to squeeze the leadership with sanctions. after the u.s. launched air strikes on militants backed by iran they attacked and directly tweeted donald trump. the question this morning remains, since the president's rejected diplomacy with iran and asked too much of north korea, will he have the support of the allies that we need so much? jans nichols is with the president in florida, ali, to you firs

as north korea state tv releases more images of kim on horseback.lcome. the message from kim jong-un certainly indicated a certainty about a strategic weapon. >> i think it's pretty clear, he's been sending signals basically all year, but very clear about this end of the year deadline. and in the new year's speech saying clearly they're going to demonstrate some new strategic women unless the united states does x, y, and z. i think that's been pretty clear what he wants to do and i think we have to take the threats seriously, i don't think it's just bluster. >> the talks stalemated, the walkout at hanoi and the symbolic walk across the dmz, but no progress. the real progress during the so-called moratorium was north korea has developing its missile capability. >> yes, i think that's right. unfortunately, since the summit in hanoi in february of last year, north korea has shown dramatic increases in their short, medium range ballistic missiles, as well as in the type of fuel they use for these weapons and possibly sea-launched weapons which you asked

. >> let me ask about north korea. you know, kim jong-un threatening both a new strategic weapon, possibly the resumption of nuclear or missile testing. this after three, count them, three face-to-face summits between trump and kim in which trump has placed a lot of personal value in and personal and diplomatic capital. based on those comments and threats, as well as the intel community's assessment that north korea's nuclear problem continues to advance, has trump's north korea policy failed? >> it's an utter failure, and that's what's so pitiful about it, is that our intelligence agency week after week after week, our intelligence agencies have been saying kim is continuing with his nuclear weapon program. donald trump, on the other hand, is jetting for country to country, telling the american people by tweet don't worry about it, you can sleep easy at night. these are his words. there is no north korean threat. kim and i are in love, we're writing love letters back to each other. you wouldn't believe it in a movie.

you also mentioned north korea. they spoke a little bit about north korea. they would not show any leg on whether, in fact, the u.s. believes north korea is going to test some sort of a new strategic weapon as kim jong-un has said in his new year's message. they also wouldn't say whether they believe there's any action coming out of north korea. they gave us the standard line. the u.s. military there is always on a high state of readiness and always prepared. general millie specifically said the u.s. homeland, the military retains the right and is confident they'll be able to protect the u.s. homeland from any provocation from north korea. >> quite a lot of development from the pentagon as well as overseas. let's bring in lance nichols into the conversation. as we just laid out there by courtney's reporting about the comments from secretary of defense and the joint chiefs of staff, how is the white house managing it? any sense that the president may be reassessing some of the decisions involved in his strategy to go after kh, these groups in iraq militarily

south korea is a big economic power to have a lot of influence and south korea has its own initiative towards southeast asia. in this regard, even when japan strongly promotes cooperation with southeast asia, sort of how to cooperate with south korea, is also entering sort of the scope of japan. and also with regard to the u.s./japan alliance, i think one of the key issues is how much japan and the united states can cooperate in developing infrastructure, in implementing specific projects regarding infrastructure in relevant regions in korea and southeast asia. my sense is from a viewpoint of a researcher, japanese researcher of southeast asia, southeast asia needs a huge amount of money and china cannot afford to sort of finance that southeast asia needs. in this regard, the southeast asia also seeks other sources of support. in this regard, japan and the united states have great potential to fully, effectively sort of promote infrastructure development in the region. >> thank you for the question. as for the south korea issue, both countries, japan and south korea, the politization

administration tried to continue , butgue with north korea i'm not sure that this would deter north koreag-un has made a strategic decision to test and icbm, the history he has with the united states suggest that while he could face increased sanctions, he is likely to face a response. in the long run, this probably does not change things much unless the situation in the middle east significantly escalates. haidi: fascinating conversation. thank you for joining us. more to ♪ come on "bloomberg daybreak: asia." this is bloomberg. ♪ is bloomberg. ♪ sophie: a check on the latest business flash headlines, the days of expansion at office sharing wewrok seem to be over. dashedm nosedived in 2016 levels. in new york, they were the lowest in five years. arei: j.p. morgan chase taking extra office space in china's tallest skyscraper as the increase mainland headcount. jp morgan introduced its shanghai tower. 20,000 square meters. we are watching fast retailing when japan opens in a few minutes. the operator reported its worst quarterly revenue drop in a decade. the company had counted on overseas

many people here in south korea are dissatisfied 150 were a 5 year old infected patient was released from a clinic and had contact with tens of people issues a boat they are being used as a kind of political football especially by the opposition and the backlash has also trickled out to outlying areas where the government has put in place a quarantine facility that it wants to use for those people returning those south koreans are returning from china they blockaded the facility with tractor trailers very interesting shanks nets thank you. it's an award winning film set in pakistan made by a pakistani director that no one dare can watch it's been banned by government censors after a smear campaign by a radical islamist political party to wreak back pakistan party leaders claimed a film called zindagi to moscow or the circus of life is critical of islam they came to this conclusion after watching the 2 minute trailer they threatened to stage protests and attack theaters if the film is released it reportedly tells the story of a devout muslim man who enjoys dancing in the story a video

or south korea but very clearly for north korea. you can say that and that is why i thought that north korea would not take any action that would be regarded by the united states that north korea indeed has crossed the red line because there is a small window of opportunity for diplomacy and dialogue between washington and pyongyang to have and this much has forced the fests i'm talking about the 1st couple of months of the new year 2020 prior to the beginning of the regular annual massive military exercises conducted by the u.s. forces south korea and south korean military ok we have to leave the dock to young should grown men in seoul thank you very much. in europe the french president emanuel micro has called for calm across the country in his new year's address there has been widespread disruption for almost a month amid anger over planned pension reforms that's prompted lawyers teachers and even musicians to go on strike but our reports from paris. it was an unusual protest against the french government's planned pension reform

and north korea, but north korea and south korea.0 miles separating north and south korea, the largest artillery and rockets concentration in the world across 137 miles wide at demilitarized zone. they are seconds away from being able to kill about 10 million people. that's always the issue of what you do with that capability. to this day, we have insulted. >> charles: there has been talk about officially ending the war and getting rid of the demilitarized zone. we know south korea's leader has been really attempting to woo kim jong un. he seems a lot more open to reconciliation and prior south korean leaders. >> yes, he certainly is. the issue for this is china. china does not want a unified north and south korea for a couple of reasons. they don't want refugees flowing into china. they love as russia does having a state like north korea to do dirty work. the chinese are never going to be okay with that combination. they have a big boat to play. >> charles: china understands dr. frankenstein at one point lost control of his monster.

remember, north korea thinks it's democratic so if south korea is a democracy, but it's not liberal, it's not free, well, then, it looks a little bit like north korea, in at least theoretical terms. moon jae in after all, what's the name, what's the formal name of the state that he leads? it is the democratic peoples republic of korea. >> to watch the rest of this talk, visit our website book tv.org. search for gordon chang or the title of his book "losing south korea" using the box at the top of the page. >>> starting now, it's book tv in prime time. in just a moment, the impact that detroit's bankruptcy has had on the city's poor. then vanderbilt university president brian fitzpatrick offers his thoughts op class-action lawsuits. greenhouse talks about the challenges american workers face today. and later, a reairing of the former deputy assistant to president trump, sebastian gorka. find more on book tv.org. now here's more on detroit's bankruptcy. >> good evening, everybody. >> good evening. >> that's a good detroit response for c-span. my name is peter hammer. i'm a professor of

escalating tensions with north korea. will reported many times over the years from north korea and has this context about what we're hearing now from kim jong-un. >> reporter: when you think about where we were at this time last year, when there was so much optimistic and hope about the prospect of diplomacy and then the hanoi summit fell apart and what's happened since. escalating rhetoric between north korea and the u.s. north korea testing short rairng wrairng -- short-range missiles. we know jong-un is preparing for a major shift in policy. because the united states hasn't move and the issue most important to them, sanctions, they no longer feel obligated to abide by the issue most important to the united states, which is northern korea's self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. in fact, north korea saying they're going to bolster their nuclear defense basically reversing course entirely. remember, the whole reason why the united states and north korea decided to sit down, why president trump a

the number of people that have been affected and infected i should say and certainly here in south korea there's a little bit of you know rest by no new. reports have surfaced of people that have been infected they are monitoring closely 28 people and some 387 people are being kept tabs on under self quarantine a particular worry here is the 3rd and 4th infections were people that had returned to south korea asymptomatic that means that they hadn't shown any symptoms and he sniffling any sore throat and headaches and a fever when they were turned in so they met people in contact with people without knowing that they were infected and that can lead to again the contingent spreading quite a bit faster now what is the government doing about this. the government has organized 2 planes to airlift some 700 south koreans that remain in and they've also raised the threat level here in south korea from yellow to orange that's 3 levels below the the highest level of concern they've also had some universities cancel some classes as the $70000.00 chinese students study here in south korea many of th

a verifiable iran nuclear deal as leverage to get a deal out of north korea.nd the president really squandered that, and republicans remained largely silent on that. >> last word for you, ben rhodes. >> i'd like to see the democrats take this up. democrats often prefer to talk about domestic issues. but they need to step up here. both the presidential candidates and in congress to paint this picture. because not only are we talking about iran and north korea. we're talking about around the world. the world is moving on without us. the u.s. is no longer the leading power in the world on most of these hish issues. he is basically an embarrassment on the world stage. but unless democrats are stepping up and making a sustained case to the american people about why that is, it's not necessarily clear that that's going to break through to the american voter and the american people. >> i just got an idea. maybe this is part of my new year new me. the next time you're in d.c. we will go up to capitol hill. we'll ask them what their plans are in that category. ben rhod

of korea armed >> so i'm heading to south korea i'lle end of the month and get a great chance to sit down with general abrahams and get a greater perspective, but he had said he has managed the risk. units, they're ready to roll. we've done a remarkable job there as i highlighted before, brigades at the highest levels of readiness, but for efforts on the ground, general abrahams is making adjustments and he thinks he can manage the risk. >> so you see it as a risk, but risk that at the moment is, if it's causing any degradation in capability at all it's a very level and one we can figure ways around. >> yes. >> let me get more towards the regions that you were focused on in your remarks, the broader part of more than half the thed's surface in indo-pacific command if i'm not mistaken and if we count inspire much of asia, all the way over to the indo pakistani border. start with the philippines? and i would just love to ask about your overall sense of that the most important things the army is doing and where some of your plans are philippinesthe going forward? strong historic relatio

some prospects north korea might take the time when the u.s. is more focused on the middle east area and might take more provocative action toward the u.s., and the following question is, is there any new effort by the u.s. army in the korean peninsula to step up or defense, or offense capability against north korea? thank you. >> with respect to your first question, there's always risk with that, i don't see a direct correlation right now. and on the operational side, i'm not going to comment about operational moves on the peninsula. >> so we'll go to tom and then after him, the gentleman right next to tom. >> good morning again, mr. secretary, tom burke, army here at brookings, as an recent aviation commander in the ox ar, i can attest to the strategic, to the tactical rather, through strategic benefits of the pathways mission set. as you're looking to expand this mission set is, this something that you consider doing in cooperation for example with the marine corps, just as we're looking to manage the multitude of commitments that we have in

remember north korea has several bombs.north korea in the last few years of president trump administration has made the times very aggressive. they have not stopped the program and papers in iran, they said we also had produced a bomb, they wouldn't be making these threats to us. they wouldn't treat us the way they treat north korea. the discrepancy thought exists and the uss treatment of korea in iran is being in iran by radical elements tuesday we should go north korea's way. there is evidence in the past that suggests the supreme leader has traveled to the north korea. they said this is not a bad way to run a country. it becomes north korea when these demonstrations happen. iran shut down 5%. iran became almost as close to an isolated country behind a digital iron as north korea was. so these problems need to be considered when any decision is made about iran. >> missouri, darrell i'm. >> thank you for taking my call. i can't hear anything. >> the comment is your giving the president too much credit for having a strategy

. >>> another crisis in north korea. kim jong-un saying his country should not longer be bound on a halt of develoweapons developme. listen to trump's special representative for north korea. >> kim is definitely, definitely playing trump. trump saying that kim signed the deal for denuclearization. well, not so far. >> let's get the latest from david culver in hong kong. david? >> reporter: christine, a new year. we're back to old and alarming rhetor rhetoric. they reflect this angry and more concerning desperate tone. he is saying that because the u.s. will not bend on easing sanctions, north korea, now leaving open the possibility, they could resume nuclear and long-range missile testing. what was a glimmer of hope in establishing a denuclearized peninsula, all has reversed course, it seems. president trump trying to convey that he and kim have a good relationship. maybe there's something we're not seeing. the words and actions out of north korea, in particular, satellite images, showing movement in and around past icbm

south korea is a big economic power over southeast asia and south korea has its own initiative towards southeast asia. in this regard even when japan strongly promotes cooperation with southeast asia, how to cooperate with south korea also entering japan's storage and also with regard to the us-japan alliance, i think one of the key issues is how much you can cooperate in developing in implementing specific projects regarding infrastructure in relevant regions. my sense from a viewpoint of a japanese researcher, southeast asia needs a huge amount of money. india and china cannot afford the finance that southeast asia needs. in this regard, southeast asia also seeks sources of support. in this regard japan and the united states have great potential to effectively promote development in the region. >> for the south korea issue, japan and south korea, politicization has a very big power to shape the attitude toward each other and so this is beyond -- a very big obstacle to coverage with others and on the other hand japan, china and south korea are trying to promote free trade agreement am

he went to the dmz and stepped over into north korea believing an effort to get north korea to give up their weapons to land him a nobel peace prize, and instead we're seeing that north korea's returned to their tough talk and threatening to deliver a gift in some way to the u.s. trump said it might be a vase. we tend to doubt that and i think it goes to show you how tense, joe, things have gotten again. >> i'm curious, tell us what, as we talk about north korea, we're going to be talking richard haass, david ignatius, many other experts who from the very beginning have said that the united states, donald trump would never get denuclearization from kim or the north korean people. and the president sent out the tweets after the initial meeting saying you never have to worry about nuclear weapons or missiles again. he's, for some strange reason, continued to talk about love letters between kim and himself. and he's continued to assure americans that this one was taken care of, this one was in the bag, check this one off your to-do list of worrying about north korea. well, obviously that'

forces in korea and those that would go to korea early in a conflict from the united states or elsewhere, given that we have stopped for the moment doing these big exercises as we traditionally had done with the republic of korea armed forces? >> so i'm heading to south korea at the end of the month. i will get a great chance to sit down with general abrams and get much greater perspective, but he had said he has managed the risk. the units are ready to roll. we have done a remarkable job there as i highlighted before, 26 brigades at the highest levels of readiness but for efforts on the ground, general abrams is making adjustments and he thinks he can manage the risk. >> you see it as a risk, but a risk that at the moment, if it's causing any degradation in capability it's a very modest level? >> yes. >> let me get more now towards the regions you were focused on in your remarks, the broader part of this whole, i think it's more than half of the world's surface in the indo-pacific command, if i'm not mistaken. if we count the entire pacific ocean much of asia, all the way over to the in

and north korea. north korea has been testing short-range weapons.nouncement doesn't come as a big surprise. we've known that north korean leader kim jong-un has been likely preparing for a major shift in policy. and that's what north korean state media announced. they said because the united states hasn't moved on the issue that's most important to them, sanctions, they no longer feel obligated to abide by the issue most important to the united states which is north korea's self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. in fact, north korea saying they're going to bolster their nuclear defense. basically reversing course entirely because, remember, the whole reason why the united states and north korea decided to sit down, why president trump and kim jong-un met in person, was to solve this problem of a rapidly nuclearizing north korea. and now we could be right back there again. kim jong-un talking about a new strategic weapon that the world will witness very soon. but as usual, being cryptic, not saying what that weapon is. this

north korea put out that dramatic language, christine.ut it's still concerns. >> we never got the christmas present that they were talking about. we'll see what the calendar holds. david culver, thank you. >>> with the 2020 democrats racing towards the iowa caucuses, now, just over a month away, pete buttigieg is a fund-raising force. his campaign saying it raised 24$24.7 million. that tops the $19.2 million that the south bend mayor raised in the third quarter. and it just about matches the numbers he had in the second quarter. the numbers are cementi ining buttigieg in the field. bernie sanders ed 5 million todonors. >>> mitch mcconnell beginning the senate tomorrow. phil mattingly reports that mcconnell's plan is to continue business as usual, until the house ends over the articles of impeachment. expect movement on executive branch nominations. but mcconnell plans not to do anything until nancy pelosi sends the articles over. >> there's a second senator raising questions about mcconnell's strategy. this was susan collins speaking to m

north korea's leader talks of a new strategic weapon and says the u.s. needs to stop its hostile policy to revive stalled. the desperate battle into the new year to save homes and lives in australia the military is on standby as lightning starts more bush files. i connick drops at times square in new york to ring in 20 times. the u.s. has flown a team of marines into its iraqi embassy after protests tried to storm the compound president donald trump is blaming iran for the violence but teheran has denied being involved there's widespread anger of a u.s. airstrikes in iraq and in syria targeting the hezbollah brigades and it rainy and backed group to serious about a full team reports now from iraq's capital. oh stay angry and determined they marched across the river tigris through unmanned checkpoints into the heart of the fortified green zone thousands of members of the iranian backed popular mobilization forces and their supporters surrounded the compound of the u.s. embassy to deliver a stern warning notice honor. this is a message to trump and to the

and north korea in sweden in october those broke down quite quickly with north korea seeking here is a step by step process toward denuclearization it's not going to go for that one shot deal that was presented in 100 noyo vietnam early in 2019 however it would be willing to see some step by step toward denuclearization that would have to include relief from those u.s. led united nations security council sanctions could talk in tucson for joining us from smith in seoul today it marks a year since president present job also the one who was sworn in and he's kept many of his election promises to break from his leftist pretty disastrous policies on minorities environmentalist's and intellectuals have divided the country and after last year's devastating fires in the amazon rain forest his support may be waning. through last august saw an unprecedented disaster in brazil the amazon rain forest in flames the blazes weren't merely a consequence of drought the politics of fear of also not of also played a role he encouraged large landowners to set fires to convert the land for other uses on

treatment of north korea and the u.s. treatment of iran is being used in a run by radical elements to say we should go the north korea away. there is evidence in the past to suggest that khamenei, the supreme leader, who has traveled to north korea, one of the few places he has traveled to, said that this is not a bad way to run a country. there is a proclivity to become a north korea when these demonstrations happened. of theut down 95% internet. in other words they became almost as close to an isolated country behind the digital iron curtain as north korea was. so, these problems, i think, need to be considered when any decision is made about iran. host: missouri, democratic line. high.: thank you for taking my call. i can't hear anything. host: you are on with our guest. go ahead with the question or comment. caller: the comment is that we are giving the president too much credit for having a strategy for what he's doing. ,very country, iranian also they want democracy. everybody wants freedom of speech. freedom to go

well given that the the north korea had conducted many nuclear tests about half a dozen nuclear tests and and several long range missile tests especially as late as 2017 before instituting that moratorium that's lasted 2 years that really has exasperated north korea now saying that you know the u.s. had until the end of the year to change its attitude and to offer some relief from these biting u.s. led u.n. sanctions so it is being taken seriously in the international community the u.s. president himself commented that he trusted north korean leader kim jong un to keep his word to keep his promise made in june of 2018 that he would address the issue of denuclearization but again the north korean leader made clear in his comments that he didn't feel unilaterally balland by the promise that he made to the united states so we're likely to see some type of increase some type of change from north korea certainly abandoning that moratorium that they had provided the u.s. without they feel any results coming out of it in the negotiations that took place over the last couple of years frank an

one was in north korea. they've exchanged letters.one point the president said they'd fallen in love. amid all of this, what has the u.s. gotten concretely that would make that statement america is winning true? >> we've gotten a moratorium on long range missile weapons testing that kim has just announced is over. he said it in his speech, it's in the paper. he's declaring an end to that diplomacy. the question really is what will the trump administration do in response. will they acknowledge that or will they continue to pretend that this diplomatic effort has legs? if we see the initial indications and based on my conversations with state department and white house officials, it seems like they're going to pretend that nothing happened. if and win north korea shoots off an icbm or tests another nuclear missile, that ability to pretend will become ridiculous on its face. then we'll have two policies. we'll have a north korea that says we're not in talks and we'll have a trump administration that says we're still hoping that everythin

it looks like north korea. so what's the name or the formal name of the state that he leads? it's the democratic people of korea. . . . .

north korea has nuclear weapons.us goals. north korea, the girl, however, is unreachable. denuclearisation. i think there is no evidence it will give up its capabilities. with iran, the goal is unstated. it seems to be fundamental regime change across the board but we've never really articulated what iran must do in order to get a degree of relief from us economic sanctions. richard, ijust us economic sanctions. richard, i just want to show a twitter message the president wrote just after the meeting in singapore. he says, just ended a long trip but eve ryo ne he says, just ended a long trip but everyone can be much more relaxed. there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. meeting with king john own has been a very positive and interesting experience. what he offered him was a bright economic future but what he didn't understand, it seems to me, was it wasn't just about the money, understand, it seems to me, was it wasn'tjust about the money, it understand, it seems to me, was it wasn't just about the money