of korea will end.rea as his counterpart does in western europe as a symbol of america's intention to stem aggression and preserve peace. but there is a light side to serving in korea today which offers relaxing fun, adventure, and a variety of travel and recreational opportunities. ,herever you are stationed off-duty hours are going on leave can mean places to visit with lots to do and see. ♪ there is, of course, seoul, home to 6 million inhabitants, and old and new life styles coexist in this capital city, which expresses the essence of today's south korean vitality and resurgent see. when business has been put aside, it swings, sings and soars, and even though a midnight curfew prevails, there is still ample time to savor the flavors of the city after dark. ♪ it's culture and beauty -- if culture and beauty are part of your scene, a lifetime of korean history can be found in the temples and palaces scattered across the land. ♪ throughout korea, you will be -- bynded i scenic beauty scenic beauty, whe

the film gives a brief history of korea and details the events to the korean war korea. call me no high and rhea meaning clear. it harbors over 4000 years of myth and history. but its claim to be the land of the morning calm is marked by tortured history of domination, war in a land divided. still korea today both a dynamic 20 century momentum. there is throughout the republic of korea, a growing vitality, underscored by technological prowess an ever increasing self reliance. yet in the midst of accelerating change, stark figures and shrines continue to recall long ago legends and dynasties. and the earth is still work by men who cling -- . still mocking the legend of korea as the land of the morning calm, is the grim reality of beyond conflict which only two decades ago ravaged and scarred this divided country. leaving permanent reminders, of the price paid to preserve individual freedom and national security. here at pusan the united nations memorial cemetery, more than 2000 markers. eternally symbolized more than 94,000 the united nations soldiers airmen and sailors p

six divisions of north korea's peoples army slammed into the republic of korea.ithin three days, they're rolling thrusted seas the capital city of seoul. korea had suddenly become a hot cold war crisis. in our capital, reaction was dramatic as well. president truman immediately offered our military assistance to help stem and repel north korean aggression. another voice, that of the united nations, quickly condemned north korea's aggression. in a series of emergency meetings pulled upon you and members to assist the republic of korea, the united states was designated as the un's executive emanation to head and coordinate a un military command. 20 member nations to which we're not responded to the un's request on military assistance. the 90 days following north korea's invasion were grim. the desperate fight for a time to build the un ground and air forces inside firepower to match the scale of the expanding war. but as un military units pulled into korea by air, by sea, enemy ground targets were founded by our air force. and on the ground, heroic actions on the b

republic of korea was declared in pyongyang, that is in north korea.s far as the attitudes towards reunification, i can say the korean people are very, let's say, nationalistic, very proud of their culture, their history, their unity over centuries. in fact, in 1950, this was the first time for -- in about a millennium, it had been unified for a thousand years, essentially, before the americans and the soviets brought about this disastrous war. and so i think in their heart of hearts all koreans would love to see reunification. but i know in the south there are misgivings because of the great burden that the south would have to undertake if there were to be reunification in supporting a very impoverished north korea and very politically troubled north korea. as far as the north korean attitude, officially they consider themselves the legitimate government of all of korea, and people have been prop begandized along those lines all their lives. and so they, i'm sure, just think it's their rightful place to be reunified and to be the rulers of korea. >> t

not just north korea, which suffered tremendous bombardment, but also south korea.characters, the featured individuals, and these are real people of course with real experiences, but i called them characters, my characters witnessed much of the horror of the war, some of the worst of it, from the atrocities to the era of bombardment in north korea in particular. and so, this is a way i thought to bring home to the reader the real meaning of any war, and this war in particular, which is so neglected it seems on bookshelves in america in particular. and so, i have characters ranging from a little northern refugee girl in seoul, who opens thebook with awakening to start of the war, on through various soldiers and civilians, even an american nun who runs a clinic for refugees in south korea during the war, on up to people at the top channels, -- generals, matthew ridgway, who ended up early on as overall commander on the american/south korean side, and the chinese general who was the overall commander from 1950 onward on the chinese/north korean side. i follow their exp

korea 1950-1953. he talks about the war that and looks back at the division of the country along the 38th parallel after world war ii, its role in the cold war, in the conflict that led to the death of more than 30 6000 americans. a brief look at the events that led to war in this u.s. 1950 information film. is korea, a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea, the soviet union lost that time setting up a communist puppet government. in the south, the united states an united nations drove to -- united nations strove to establish an independent democratic republic. two years ago, a united nations commission supervised free election south of the 38th parallel, and the republic of korea, a sovereign, democratic nation, was born. reed.resident was sigmund in the citizens of may 1950, this young republic went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government under their democratic constitution. even as the citizens of the korean republic

kaesong is an old capital, loyal capital, of north korea. old korea. you may note that it is also the center for the inter-korean cooperation whenever it does happen. there is an industrial park. four south korean industry for some ears, no longer, shut down, hopefully temporarily. industries, north korean workers introduced to production. [indiscernible] the whole refugee story is just one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. the korean refugee story. it is estimated 10 million koreans were separated from their immediate family members. my featured individuals, my characters, have many examples of this. one is a young medical student in north korea who dodged the draft by the north once the war broke out. he was supposed to be drafted but his grandmother hid him away and eventually with all of this back and forth over the territory of north and south korea, he gets evacuated to south korea by sea and goes into the south korean army. when he left the north, this is when the chinese entered. the south korean army and the american army had moved t

in north korea. say the korean people are very, let's say, ofionalistic, very proud their culture, their history, their unity over centuries. in 1950 this was the first time foughtfile korean -- korean. it had been unified for centuries before the soviets and americans brought about this war. i think in their hearts all koreans would love to see reunification, but i know in the south there are misgivings because of the great burden that they would have to undertake if there were to be reunification and supporting a very impoverished north korea and politically troubled north korea. as far as the north korean attitude, they consider themselves the legitimate and thent of all korea people have been fed propaganda there whole lives. i think at this point they think it is their rightful place to be reunified and be the rulers of korea. war legacyorean foundation putting together a series of conversations. those on the front lines of the battle between 1950 and 1953 and among them was alan clark. first, t

as six divisions of north korea's people's army slammed into the republic of korea.ree days, the rolling thrust had seized the capital city of seoul. korea had suddenly become a hot cold war crisis. ♪ in our capital, reaction was dramatic and swift. president truman immediately offered our military assistant -- assistance to stem and repel north korean aggression. ♪ another voice, that of the united nations, quickly condemned north korea's aggression, and in a series of emergency meetings, called upon members to assist the republic of korea. the united states was designated the member nation to head and coordinate military command. 20 member nations responded to the u.n. request for military assistance. the 90 days following north korea's invasion were grim. a desperate bid for time to forces in size and firepower to match the scale of the expanding war. ♪ [explosions] as u.n. military units poured in by land and sea, ground troops were pounded by the air force. on the ground, heroic actions gave general macarthur and his u.n. command the time to bring in its own ini

do not have identical interests and korea or anywhere else china at once north korea to exist north korea sit down nations to china sometimes particularly if it does things like nuclear testing not too far from the chinese border and by the way i don't rule out that that might be a proper question and they might go for bots it is a path to status or relatively stable but the states that china which has problems on the border that's as we're seeing at the moment north korea as china will protect the kim jong un regime. now in better times and there was perhaps a chance that the chinese would influence mills that have to a limited degree implemented some quite drastic u.n. sanctions we've seen chinese trade original premise about any trade north korea has did actually get out of to trying to 16 but these are very bad times as i'm sure all of us are web a tree in china in the u.s. there is not the slightest incentive that chichen came out in a fairy direct competition for the great you know it's true that well it's 2 superpowers why would she jinping left to think to help the united states h

they saved north korea.therwise, the unified korea beginning with the dictatorship back in the '50s, but the chinese still view that war as a great victory, first of all, because they saved north korea. and they have a very -- they pay close attention to the history of that particular war. in fact, one of my characters, as i mentioned, is the overall commander of the chinese general, the overall commander toward the communists, and soon after he entered the war zone and set up a headquarters, he had his eldest son on his staff as the russian translator. and soon after the chinese army entered north korea, the headquarters was attacked, and the man had just left his cabin and for some reason now he had returned to the cabin with something. and war planes, american planes came in and napalmed an area of the headquarters, and killed ying. and so mao's son, whom some considered a potential successor, i suppose, is buried in north korea and was honored on their memorial day, so to speak. so the connection between

korea 1950 to 1953. we thank you very much for being with us here on c-span and on c-span threes american history tv. >> thank you, very good to be with you. >> the historical significance of the korean war, as we said often being viewed as the forgotten war, what is it 70 years later? >> well i think we can see it simply in the tension that still exists on the korean peninsula within the nuclear crisis. but you mentioned it was sometimes called the forgotten war and that's partly because it was an indecisive conflict in a far off place. it came just five years after the good war or the great war, world war ii. then it was eventually overshadowed by the vietnam war. but when we look back, you can see this was a watershed moment in the 20th century history because it militarized the cold war and communist and capitalist worlds. it also was the first undeclared war of the united states in its history and of course that is all we have had since. it remains the last conflict between great powers, in this cas

forces korea are there committed to come to south korea's defense in the event of. some kind of outbreak of conflict sort of come back to a little bit later on we talk more about the united states seeing as you brought them up i want to go back to i just found out if we don't have the pam and john declaration then what do we have we have 2 countries technically and i know it's a sort of throwaway line but 2 countries stick technically still at war. what would be your fears about escalation. well it don't you see it does carry risks i we have to wait and see 1st of all you know words and deeds and also it was the same thing with 'd north korea at the the blowing up of the laotian office was a very dramatic day eat on their own territory. let's see what they actually do they freshened i think there are some reports this is happening that troops will go back into 2 areas one quite near the border the case on. and which is the same place where the explosion took place and not combat these are former joint ventures now lapsed with south korea and of course along the bord

of north korea's people's army slammed into the republic of korea. within three days, they had seized the capital city of seoul. suddenly become a hot cold war crisis. in our capital, reaction was dramatic and swift. president truman immediately offered our military assistance to help stem and repel north korean military aggression. another voice, that of the u.n. north korea'sned actions and called on you and members to assist the republic of north korea. named tod states was head and coordinate the u.n. military command. responded toions the request for military assistance. the 90 days following north korea's invasion were graham. -- grim. desperate fight for time to build u.n. ground forces to match the scale of the expanding more. -- war. as u.n. military units poured into the republic of korea by air and sea, enemy ground targets were pounded by our air force. heroic holding gave general macarthur and his u.n. command the time needed to prepare its own initiative. the un's initiative turned out to be the bold invasion of inchon, 150 miles behind

information agency on north korea's invasion of south korea on june 25th, 1950 the response from the united nations. ♪ >>> this is korea. a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea the soviet union lost no time in setting up a communist puppet government. in the south the united states and the united nations strove to establish a independent democratic republic. two years ago at seoul, capital of korea, they supervised free elections south of the 38th parallel and the republic of korea was born. the president was syngman rhee. in may, 1950, the citizens of the this young republican went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government under their democratic constitution. even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in re-elections, the north korea community leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. and this was their target. a mountainous peninsula and the 20 million peace loving citizens of the republic of korea. at tack by the north korean communists come suddenly and without w

parallel and the republic of korea, a was born.ts president was sigmund reid. in may, 1950, the citizens of this young republic went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government onto their democratic constitution. even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in free elections, the north korean communist leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. and this was their target -- a partly mountainous peninsula and the 20 million peace loving citizens of the republic of korea. ♪ the attack by the north korean communists came suddenly and without warning. the heroic republican army faced by superior forces with all the advantages of deception and surprise, rally to the defense of the republic improvising quickly to beat the unprovoked aggression, korean republican troops were thrown against the invaders south of the 38th parallel. against a prepared enemy armed with modern planes and guns, the republican troops were ill-equipped to meet the onslaught. ♪ back in the unit

to assume a hard line against north korea because if south korea does not show it will that north korea'sfailure to abide by the various accords and agreements that have been signed the last 2 years we really lead to ten's of all consequences for kim zone and then north korea will probably feel even freer to engage in more aggressive measures and also in turning to other potential partners in this your political process namely china and russia are good to get your thoughts on that thanks so much so when who india is announcing it's expelling hough of the stuff in pakistan's high commission in new delhi because of spying pakistan quickly rejected the allegations as baseless and demanded a similar reduction in indian staff and diplomats in the slam about c'mon haida has more from the capital. everybody. specially given the fact that they're running along india. china pakistani foreign ministry staying. here in their. language. it is their trade to destabilization pakistan and india their way. of going through this is my dream. given the fact that budget. movies. would get danger from being

but there was no shopping in those mountains. >> when did you leave korea? >> leave korea? that was in 1953, and it would -- it was after the winter. it was during the -- >> so december? >> the spring or summer. >> what was the most difficult thing that you remember out of your service in the korean war, or painful? what was it? the most painful thing was having to go down to the tent and identify that young man that i told you was killed because of bullets in his -- >> ankle? >> in his ankle, and he died of shock. i went down to the tent to identify him. after they brought him in, they have a big tent with all the killed. and there were a number of killed that day. that night, rather. but that was probably the most painful. he was such a nice young man. and i think it was his first patrol, too. >> oh? >> yeah, i think it was. yeah. >> you mentioned about what good did actually come out of korean war and your service there. and so simultaneous achievement of economic development and democratization in korea? >> yes. i am very happy to see the economic development. >> yeah,

south korea had a crisis on its hands. the peak, a third of them in daegu. the city's health system was overwhelmed. there weren't enough medical staff and beds to handle this surge. a call went out for for volunteer medics to go to daegu, a call went out for volunteer medics to go to daegu, among them doctors and nurses from seoul's national medical center. theirjob — to treat those with the worst symptoms. one was dr young—hwan kim. dr kim was sent straight to the front line. no camera crews were allowed to film in his critical care unit, so everything you see was shot on his body cam. this is a so—called negative pressure ward, where no air is allowed to circulate from one room to another. it stops the virus spreading within the hospital — a lesson learned from the mers outbreak. but even so, there were times when dr kim felt helpless. with no vaccine and no drug to combat the disease, all he could do was buy a patient time and hope that they hung on. with daegu the epicentre of the outbreak, officials faced a difficult

korea has made several threats against south korea in recent days including threatening to destroy the office which was set up and 2018 let's bring in robert bride from south korea's capital seoul well what more can you tell us. this is a very serious the development is not completely out of the blue they have been making threats for some time from the north against deteriorating relations of course all of this comes against the background of stalled denuclearization talks between north korea and the united states which him as impacted into korean relations with north korea accusing the south of making matters worse and so on so there have been increasingly. threatening noises from north korea and especially in the past week or so they have been angered by the planned release by by by groups here in south korea of defectors who had planned to release balloons with propaganda messages into the north this is always angered the north koreans they have objected making threats the south koreans had said that they were taking action to try to prevent this they knew that things were at a tipp

so, korea was my opportunity to participate, and help. and i am glad that i did. >> when did you graduate high school? >> uh, i did not graduate. i left high school in 1950, and i went into the marines in 1951. >> did you know anything about korea at the time? >> oh yes. >> how? >> the chosen reservoir was a very, very well covered media event, in those days. the country literally was on edge, hoping that the marines could get themselves, out of the reservoir, and back to the shoreline, where they would be relatively safe. that part of the war attracted a lot of young people. >> attracted, not scared them off? >> no. it attracted a lot of young people to come into the service. >> wow. >> and i was very fortunate because when i got to korea, i was assigned to the company, fox company second batalian seventh marines. -- second battalion, seventh marines. that company was very instrumental in holding the pass open, from the chinese, in order to allow the marines, to continue their march out of the encirclement. >> before we go into that part

attempts at appeasement and wants south korea to stand up to north korea. who has if we kneel in north korea will continue to move in the same direction. if we stay strong. 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. i say out of the out there. as the term should simmers in despite warnings police will interfere still plans to monitor the tide in sindh borders with rights to north korea. and his reminder about top stories a prime minister scott morrison says the country is under a cyber attack from a foreign state. he says all levels of government critical infrastructure and essential services of being targeted to strike the us public broadcast of the i think state reports federal agencies believe china is behind the attack. film and national security adviser john bolton's memoir contains explosive allegations about president donald trump including that he asked china to help him win reelection in november trump has denounced the book as pure fiction is it ministration is seeking to block it on the gro

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

and then north korea had to respond. of course, one brief question, 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? >> both good questions. 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 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 region reached some communists in japan, some japanese told the american officia

really can't engage north korea very much because of global sanctions right to sort of u.n. level sanctions and they're also sanctions by south korean south by the united states by japan the countries around north korea this president when jane really wants to engage north korea but he's been very very constrained in what he can do because the lead the letter of the law prevents a lot of south korean engagement right so when he asked about the escalation my sense is that he would go out and give a speech and ask the north koreans back to negotiating table he's already done that the south koreans want take any kind of provocative action but the facility that was destroyed was inside north korea and there's some other stuff inside north korea too that the south koreans have built if the north koreans choose to demo to demolish that or to occupied or repurpose it in some way there's really nothing the north koreans can do about it a robot we often say pyongyang raise tensions with the south when it wants concessions or sanctions relief from washington but president trump has so

attempts at appeasement and wants south korea to stand up to north korea. has if we kneel north korea will continue to move in the same direction. if we stay strong. 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. got i think i think i think i didn't know. as the tension simmers in despite warnings police will interfere pock still plans to monitor the tide in sin bombs with rights to north korea. frank gangs blaming the tensions on north korean defectors like ho who said propaganda cross the border but this isn't anything new so so why the harsh response from the north well we're hearing a lot of different analysis here in south korea it's hard to really divine north korea's reasoning behind some of its policies especially in this case if we look at a couple of things 1st of all covert 19 has gripped by many reports north korea and so the regime might be trying to distract people from that but a lot of analysts are saying this is messaging to the united states over the ongoing united nations security counc

attempts at appeasement and wants so korea to stand up to north korea. if we kneel north korea will continue to move in the same direction. if we stay strong on our 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. as the tension simmers and despite warnings police will interfere park still plans to monitor the tide and send bottles of rights to north korea. and in the united states a book by donald trump's former national security adviser john bolton is threatening to up and washington and the white house the trumpet ministration has been trying to prevent publication due to some explosive revelations. these pages contain claims which could rock u.s. foreign relations and significantly affect the u.s. presidential election this autumn they were written by john bolton who said he saw tramping gaijin fundamentally unacceptable behavior that eroded the very legitimacy of the president say. top of the books list of bombshell claims that trump asked chinese president xi jinping to insure his win the election

attempts at appeasement and wants so korea to stand up to north korea. who has if we kneel north korea will continue to move in the same direction that if we stay strong. 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. i think. as the tension simmers in despite warnings police will interfere poc still plans to monitor the time in sin right to north korea. more on this story. pocky is the director of the korea project at harvard's kennedy school center and joins us from cambridge massachusetts john north korea is threatening to move its military into the demilitarized the area are we heading for an escalation we are going to keep in mind is that each of these steps has been already announced by the north korean side one way to make sure that it isn't this type of sudden shock but also there's a pattern here this is an unraveling of the internet. starting in 2018 and so there is a much thought of unwinding of each of those landmark agreements and the next one is the movement of north korean troops back to

attempts at appeasement and wants south korea to stand up to north korea. who has if we need it north korea will continue to move in the same direction. if we stay strong. 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. tension simmers in despite warnings police will interfere park still plans to monitor the tide in send bottles that writes to north korea. a new book by donald trump's former national security advisers rattling washington the specially the white house among several explosive claims made by john bolton is that president trump china to help him win reelection in november the ministration has been trying to prevent publication of the book and that alone as already made it a bestseller excerpts of it have already appeared in today's u.s. newspapers. these pages contain claims which could rock u.s. foreign relations and significantly affect the us presidential election in november they were written by john bolton who said he saw donald trump engage in fundamentally unacceptable behavior that ero

attempts at appeasement and wants south korea to stand up to north korea. who has if we need it north korea will continue to move in the same direction. if we stay strong and 50000000 people can be free from threats. that we need to have the confidence of a sovereign state. as the tension simmers in despite warnings police will interfere still plans to monitor the tide in sindh bottles that writes to north korea. and these are our top stories this hour former u.s. national security advisor john bolton's memoir contains explosive allegations about u.s. president donald trump including that he asked china to help him win reelection in november trump has denounced the book as pure fiction is it ministration is seeking to block it on the grounds that it contains classified information. and russia's ambassador to germany says moscow will react to take punitive action against russia over the killing of a former chechen rebel invoking last year on thursday german prosecutors accused moscow of having their limb con complex feeling in the broad daylight in the park

so korea was the first war that -- i can't say that. first modern day war that african-americans were able to participate in combat both as a unit and as an individual being assigned to units, but it was a significant time. >> so that means that before the korean war that the african-american soldiers were not allowed to participate in the combat? >> not as a unit or as an individual in the marine corp. obviously every marine is a rifleman, and so african-americans were involved in some fights when the fights came to them especially in the islands when they landed during world war ii. the marine landings had to be supported by service units at the beach receiving supplies, sorting out supplies and moving supplies up through the front lines. well, oftentimes the japanese would attack those supply units, and they had to fight but they were not assigned to fighting. they had to know how, and they did so on occasions. they would get shot at and we had dory miller who was a sailor get a navy cross for his activities on december 7th when the

north korea has blown up its joint days in office with south korea was opened on the border close on 2 years ago he has been threatening to cut off to south korea defectors sent food medicine and propaganda leaflets over the border. you look at some of. the north south joint liaison office was completely ruined on tuesday in the wake of cutting off all the communication lines corresponding to the mindset of the enraged people to surely force human scum and those who have shelter at the scum to pay dearly for their crimes. let's bring in wrong mcbride now who is in south korea's capital so rob is this just about propaganda leaflets or is there more going on here. well this is a very worrying development development that potentially puts into korean relations back into the deep freeze we had been expecting some dramatic action like this things have been building up in this direction of course have been having worsening relations over a period of weeks if not months against the background of stalled dialogue between north korea and the united states and so on but in recent times north k

welcome to the program north korea has. an office the post set up to improve relations with south korea the explosion was captured in surveillance video released by the defense ministry in the joint. just north of the border. to stop. the border. frank frank what's this incident. well you mentioned it earlier the the leafletting campaign from south korea a couple of n.g.o.s here one called the fighters for free north korea led by box hock a north korean defector routinely floats large balloons carrying leaflets over the border and into north korea they are released dropping thousands of leaflets just along the border regions inside the north for north koreans to pick up and look at and consume some information denouncing the north korean regime he's done this for on words of a decade but has been ramping up activities this year together with his brother who sends rice in plastic bottles by the sea with currents taking them into north korea and also infuriating the pyongyang regime who spoke out against this earlier cumulate

and north korea.ing that liaison building. -- seems to be taking a stronger line with the northern neighbors , saying at the moment in essence that they are, i suppose, not really that bothered by what's going on currently. our chief north asia correspondence tracking this -- corresponded is -- correspondent is tracking this. >> the north koreans, they want l to back off and not support the continued global u.s.-backed to sanctions on pyongyang. they are not necessarily getting that level of cooperation from the government of moon jae-in. they did blow up a joint into inean liaison office -- liaison office. they are talking about moving the military back into border areas. they could possibly reopen those 10 frontline guard posts that were closed since 2018 when moon jae-in and kim jong-un had that reproach moment, which has soured quite a bit over recent tensions. the presidential office eoul has had in s a press conference and they are taking a bit of a harder line than initial reaction from south k

korea started rough.irst 40 days were a battle for time with a handful of men against an army. yes, they were good men. good soldiers. and no story of the korean war mentioning without how bravely they fought against great odds. there were only a couple of companies from the 24th division in the beginning. no brass bands at the airport. a few days before, some of us had been in cities -- civvies. we weren't scared. we didn't know. stuff out of the planes. we moved on. nobody said, this is it. nobody said, you have arrived in korea to beat back five north korean communist divisions. here to did say we are delay the reds. ok, let's go. about 10% of us were veterans. paris andbetween mets. mostly, the soldiers were young. no battle experience. they smiled a lot. made the lot of us look like good-natured yanks. some of these boys enlisted to travel. travel posters about korea? "relax, come to the land of the morning calm." look likethe towns any towns this part of the world. the south korean troops like any s

when i was in korea i was marine pfg. and i'm very pleased to be doing on mayterview with you, 29, 2014. that is a long time after the end of the war. so you will have to forgive any memory lapses i may encounter. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much again. would you please share your birthday and birthplace. 28,es: my birthday is may 1933, in new york city. i was born in york hospital in new york city. >> yesterday was your birthday. how was it? james: it was wonderful. my daughter was here and one of my grandchildren was here. he came early and we went out to play golf, which was my first time playing golf, and over of thears, because entry to my leg. >> oh. --es: the cancer in my like. leg. it was a very wonderful birthday. >> thank you. please tell me about your family background, the school you went to. in york city? james: in new york city, yes. i want to a school that is now called the fashion institute of technology. >> you are in fashion institute? james: i tried but i never worked at it at all. i cannot sew a

korea started rough. the first 40 days were a battle for time with a handful of men against an army. yes, they were good men. good soldiers. and no story of the korean war could be told without seeing first how well they fought against great odds. in the beginning there were only a couple of companies from the 24th division. no brass bands at the airport. two days before some of us had been in cities spending leave time at fuji, something like that. we weren't scared. we didn't know. we got stuff out of the planes, we moved out. nobody said this is it. nobody said you have arrived in korea to beat back five north korean community divisions. somebody did say we're here to delay the reds. okay, let's go. about 10% of us were veterans. few roads look like france. somewhere between paris and mets. mostly the soldiers were young, no battle experience. they smiled a lot. they made a whole lot of us look like good natured yanks, glad to see a new town. some enlisted to travel, but whoever sees travel posters abo

my loyalty lies with north korea the democratic people's republic of korea. parks family members live in the north if they're still alive if there's one thing he can't abide it's people sending anti north korea flyers over the border. to their low lifes how is the north supposed to put up with that money if they. don't the man sending the flyers is also named park and he's also from north korea but he despises kim jong un's regime and wants it overthrown. the activist has found refuge in south korea but even here he's under constant police surveillance he's seen as a troublemaker and potential target for an attack he agrees to meet us at this playground where he feels it's safe to talk. the north koreans need to know that the grandfather of kim jong un and his sister started the korean war that's why i've produced the special brochure for the 70th anniversary i will send it over in the coming days it depends on the wind. one of park's actions in late may prompted the north to escalate. yang blew up an inter korean leader as an office just north of the border

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this is deja vu news live from berlin north korea violently escalating the tensions with its southern neighbor john yang has blown up a liaison office near the 2 countries heavily militarized tris border tensions between the 2 countries have been rising for weeks we'll go live to seoul for the very latest. also coming up germany rolls out its corona virus tracking it tracing out the government hopes the new technology will help fight the spread of the virus but it is voluntary so how effective can it be and what about security and privacy concerns. and president trump confirms washington will be slashing us from in germany he says he's acting because berlin has not been paying its fair share of nader's budget. i'm brian thomas critelli with us today north korea has blown up a joint lives own office near the border between the 2 countries the office seen here when it was 1st opened in 20 teen handles inter korean relations situated in the town of case song that's just north of the border the explosion comes as tensions between the 2 sides escalate escalate over a leaflet in campaign py

north korea and these people routinely use the proximity of north korea to release balloons and other things. into the sky filled with a flash keys and imagery from south korea and magazines and things like this and pamphlets saying that north korea is this horribly governed place in conjunction with sort of this pampered desk but everything else the north koreans have complained about this behavior for decades and the current south korean government really wants a rapprochement detente with north korea and so they have sort of moved against these groups but that raises all kinds of freedom of speech issues here in the south it's very tricky south korean left doesn't really want this kind of confrontation in the blue launches and stuff like that right and these things sort of come in waves and the south korean and the north korean government often uses the south korean less interest in negotiations with north korea as a lever to get south to the south korean government to move against domestic opponents that is to say that north or from the south korean government to get the north kor