early in the conflict the north korean army controlled nearly the entire korean peninsula.ut after u.n. forces fought back the war became a quagmire. four months into the war suk-ju decided to desert the north korean family and flee to south korea. before fleeing to south korea he visited his family who had sought refuge from the war by hiding in the mountains. that day was suk-ju's birthday. his mother cooked him a feast of chicken. after fleeing to south korea, suk-ju managed to make a living by using his carpentry skills. he says he constantly regretted leaving his family behind and fleeing alone. he had no way to contact his family. as time passed, suk-ju came to believe that his family may have been perished. he decided d ed to start a new and remarried in south korea. suk-ju's second wife, yang bok-re, she could tell suk-ju continued to blame himself. this document from north korea confirmed the fate of suk-ju's family. his wife died in 1994. his eldest daughter and eldest son were still alive. the status of his second daughter could not be confirmed. he was informed

i'm korean and i'm proud to be korean. >> mark is what's called a korean who has lived abroad. here, more and more people, like mark, are moving back home for the ever more numerous opportunities. >> when i came here, it just felt right for me. i'm here. these are my peoples. this has what i've been missing. i was considered an outsider in my own country. i had like this thing going on because i was like am i not korean enough if i don't do this, if i don't drink this, if i don't eat this, but there was a certain sense of well, i want to learn this if that makes me feel more korean. >> nice. the best part is the skin. is this so hard to walk in and eat delicious food and get hammered in the street? being korean is pretty awesome. >> last one. >> yeah. >> nighttime in seoul and everywhere you go it seems, food and drink. this is what they call kind of like a pub, if pubs could operate in the street. you could have drinks and, well, i guess you could call it pub food. >> we're about to go eat some really, really good. welcome to seoul. let's do this. >> my new friend mark helped

to sanction north korean officials simply for being north korean officials. we don't even have to provide evidence they conducted illegal activity. that gives us tremendous power. 16 russian officials after the crimea incursion. we have not used that power is much as we could. the target has changed. north korea has adapted since then. it's like the cockroach theory of law enforcement. you go into a kitchen, turn on the light, see where the cockroaches are and where they run off to. if you take off the first node, the plan a, you alert your law enforcement authorities so they watch where the money gets redirected, where the cockroaches go. it is then that you go after the plan b. ms. glaser: on the issue of have aent, we have to strategy that is composed of engagement as well as course of steps. steps.ell as coerviccive we have a channel in new york, we do talk to the north koreans. about have to be careful revising the 6 party talks mechanism, as the chinese encourage us to do, in the absence of some return to the commitments that north koreans made under th

to sanction north korean officials simply for being north korean officials. we don't even have evidence that they've conducted illegal activity. that gives us tremendous power. we sanction 16 officials for being russian officials after the crimea invasion. we haven't use that power as much as we could. the target has changed. it was very effective because it was a very large conduit. it's sort of like the cockroach theory of law enforcement. you go into a kitchen and see where the cockroaches are and where they run off to. if you take out the first node of plan a in north korea you alert your intelligence and law enforcement so they watch where the money gets redirected and where the money goes. then you go after plan b. >> on the issue of engagement, congressman, we talked about that you have to have a strategy that deals with its composed engagement as well as coercive steps. as far as i understand, the united states engages with north korea. we have a channel in new york. we have talks with the north koreans. i think we have to be careful about agreeing to

>> according to korean culture, according to korean uncles and aunts.profession. you know, i wouldn't have to explain myself if i just said i was a cpa. >> right. >> never. you know that. >> you've still got some "splainin" to do. >> just get it across that i cook, and that there was this phenomenon that happened on the streets of l.a. that changed and opened up korean culture to the world. >> what does it mean to be korean-american? does one create one's own world? i don't know that i'm any smarter about that now than when i first came to k-town in the middle of the night to discover a strange and fabulous and delicious slice of america i had never known was there, but i'm never known was there, but i'm trying to figure it out -- -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >>> so we begin at the end. after a wild week in seoul,

north korean technology. just a quick question, does does any of our witnesses have any guess as to how much money north korea was given for cooperating with outcome are? the estimates have been in the hundreds of millions of dollars. we know two things, i read once a nuclear weapon, iran is about to get their hands on hundred $30 billion. would north korea be willing to sell, they've already proven they are willing to sell nuclear weapon kits if you will, or equipment and plans. is north korea have enough atomic weapons that they will be willing to sell one or two of them, and is this a multibillion-dollar cost for whoever wants to buy them? >> i was going to address your comment about north korea as a terrorist nation if i could. in my written testimony i have a long list of actions that north korea has taken which i think i fulfilled the legal obligation of relisting them as a terrorist nation. there are number of your statues, perhaps the most relevant is 18 u.s. code 2331 which defines international terr

we don't know why the north koreans took this time. we know that in two days' time, it is the leader kim jong-un's birthday. in the past, that hasn't been marked in any way since he took power. whether or not this is to mark his birthday, we simply don't know. but this has been some time in the making. the order for it, according to the north koreans, issued back on december 15. john? >> paula, thank you. paula hancox live in south korea. jim schutto joins me now live in washington. the u.s. not confirming this was any kind of underground nuclear test. that will take a number of days they say. but diplomatically, what are the options ndur if the americans? >> we do now have an official reaction from the white house. the national security council spokesman ned price saying that they are aware of what he refers to as seismic activity on north korean peninsula. he said they're still assessing what exactly it was. and while they cannot confirm it was a nuclear test, they would condemn any violation of u.n. security council resolutions. it

, according to north korean state media. it says he issued the order back in december the 15th, just a few days after he publicly admitted they had the h bomb, the claim which, at the time, many analysts queried and said was highly unlikely that they could have made such a significant jump in nuclear capability. at this point, it's yet to be confirmed whether or not this was a hydrogen nuclear test, but the fact that this test went ahead is leading to expected swift international condemnation. meetings across the region are ongoing. we know right now here in south korea, seoul, there is the head of the u.s. forces in korea, and also the u.s. ambassador to south korea, and the south korean foreign minister to discuss what's happened. >> yet to confirm if this is indeed a hydrogen bomb. how do they go about confirming this, and if it is, and we don't know for sure, how significant would that be? >> reporter: there are a number of ways they can determine what kind of bomb it was. the way the immensity of the explosion, the kilo

inter-korean relations. the events of the past few days, though, are driving the countries further apart. >> that was nhk world's kim chan-ju. >>> with china's economic worries spilling over to markets around the world, investors have been seeking some bright signs for the global economy. they may have found it. the latest employment data shows the u.s. economy is enjoying solid growth. officials at the u.s. labor department say non-farm employers added 292,000 jobs last month. the figure is much higher than market expectations at about 200,000. hiring occurred in several industries led by professional and business services. officials revised the figures upward for october and november. the unemployment rate remained at 5.0% for the third straight month as more americans enter the workforce to look for jobs. some analysts say the u.s. jobs data may turn around recent global market moves if investors remain confident about the situation in the world's biggest economy. >>> u.s. president barack obama is seekin

strategic weapons on the korean peninsula, according to south korean military official. >> yeah, let talk about the test first and then the reaction that you are saying to it. from the beginning, it was pretty clear this was not a hydrogen bomb test, despite the claim of kim jong-un, the leader of north korea. the seismic signature was just too small. and we know this because we have an international organization, an organization that has monitors and sensors that can detect any test anywhere in the world. in its registered at around six kilotons. that is about half the size of the hiroshima bomb. but nothing close to what you would expect from a hydrogen bomb. the reason you are worried about this is hydrogen bomb can be 1000 times more powerful than the hiroshima type devices. so even a handful of hydrogen bombs in north korea and hands would pose a huge threat, especially to south korea and japan and other countries if they developed longer-range delivery systems, which they don't have. so we're pretty confident of where they failed -- if there was even an attempt at a hydrogen bo

the reason for that, the north koreans insisted he speak korean.y were listening to every word they said. a lot of the things were intended for people who were not in the room as far as the messages that sounded almost identical to pyongyang propaganda. >> what are the north koreans get out of this? >> reporter: they have another bargaining chip. the nuclear test last week was certainly an effort to get the attention of the world. it did. specifically the united states. the united states responded four days later with a b-52 bomber up to the demilitarized zone. escorted by south korean fighter jets. you have the north koreans announcing they have an american citizen in custody, accused of stealing secrets. the end game here is north korea wants to sit down at the table with the united states and other world powers. they want sanctions lifted and they feel by asking an american detainee, they may be able to work out some deal to receive aid or reduction in all of the international sanctions against the country. so far, no response indicating that ty

south koreans. is any of this linked together? >> yeah. i mean, there could be a linkage. what we see are patterns. and maybe not one singular event is that alarming. but in a state where nothing is shocking, patterns can be very concerning. and we see basically kim jong-un pruning his power base. and that means that there could be possible risks or insurrection against his leadership. or it could be nothing. we're not quite sure. but what we're sure is the end result of all of that. maybe it's paranoia based on nothing. but north korea is on a determined arc towards establishing nuclear weapon capabilities. so i think the question now is not whether it has done so, but what does the world look like now that north korea, we assume, has nuclear mill tarization capabilities. how does the world function and react to north korea in that type of world? >> that's a question they'll be looking at at the u.n. in the coming hours. governments around the world will be dealing with in days anticipate weeks to

the north korean, yet again, are in the driver's seat. they have the entire international community reacting to what they've done and if there is any diplomatic follow-up, it gives the north the leverage of everybody knowing they've got this powerful new device. they will continue to go more unless they get what they want. which from the united states is recognition of some kind. respect from china, it probably involved money. more aid and without that, the north is signaling very clearly, it's going to keep moving ahead and developing this nuclear capably. >> you talk about north korea's relationship with china. it's primarily financial. how much pressure do you expect china to exert in the coming days and weeks? >> well, the test is really a slap in the face to china and its leaders. the chinese in recent months took a different approach to north korea. they have been pretty critical of pyongyang the last couple of years. they adopted a new friendlier tone. the chinese calculation i think was being more accommodating would encourage the

accusing the north koreans of violating u.n. resolutions. north korea has been under international sanction since 2006. when it said it detonateits firsdetonated itsfirst nuclear . since then, it debt nataldevices in 2009 and 2013 in addition to this in addition to provocative blaballistic missile tests. that proves north korea has the capability to hilt parts of the united states. south korea's military responded to the news by going into full alert as almost 29,000 u.s. trooption stiltroops still state south. north korea's move is a reminder that it's still a powder keg that could explode at any moment, and could cost american lives. all the focus turning to the fact that the north koreans say they managed to detonate a hydrogen bomb. if that's true it would indicate they are developing far more lethal weaponry than what once thought. whatever the explosive claims this newest test is causing lawcial throughou athroughout asia. adrian brown reports. >> people in pyongyang stood for what was said to be an important announcement. on cue they

korean territory.attached to balloons the winds we were told were suitable for that to have traveled south from north korea as well. no coincidence potentially that all this is come happening on the day of the presidential annual new year's address. and much of that address, certainly, the first chunk of it, was devoted to what happened last week, north korea's fourth nuclear test. it's traditional for a south korean president to start the new year we national address this time there was added urgency, immediately onto the subject of north koreans fourth nuclear test last week. >> translator: considering the deceitful and reckless behavior as seen in this year's nuclear test it was realized that could always be additional prop indications by north korea. south korea and the u.s. will move forward to neutralize north korea's provocative actions through strengthening joint defensive capacity. >> reporter: physical she said the u.n. security council needed to tract stricter punishment in previous round of

the situation on the korean peninsula itself is very tense. and it contains elements for escalation of the tension. and on the one hand, the continued military exercises by republic of korea as well as the united states, different kinds of forces on the korean peninsula itself is destabilizing of the whole situation. on the other hand, i don't think there is any reason to justify any country on the korean peninsula to develop and test nuclear devices. >> a top chinese leader held talks with kim jong-un in october to try to improve ties. he says officials in beijing are frustrated that north korea still went ahead and carried out the test. >> then will china g along with the u.n. security council on adopting new sanctions against pyongyang? >> china not only said yes to security council sanctions in 2013, it went farther and imposed its own measures. they included a trade ban on materials for nuclear arms and financial sanctions. but china is north korea's largest trading partner and pyongyang's economic lifeline hinges on beijing's support. ex

anyone but north korean's. neil: right? >> and they are the outlooks here. and what we're talking about are rational ways of dealing with that. and what you can expect of the it is a of america at any time. if we wanted to use force, could we crush this country? yes. is that the right thing to do? no. neil: obviously we're world premier power. everyone knows we could crush other countries if we wanted to do so. i guess what i'm saying here and wondering about is whether the north korean situation brings to mind the iranian deal. and you said at the time you had assurances that certainly in the near term would stop whatever they were doing ten years out or whatever they were obviously doing other things. who's to say that the iranians haven't cobbled together the same sort of strategy and aren't doing the same thing? >> well, that's why you have transparency provisions. that's i couldn't do inspections, and you do the best you can with these deals. i don't think anyone who's been involved in negotiating with a c

does the south korean populace know about this?ey have been in the range of north korean conventional missiles and weapons for 30-40 years, so the nuclear is a of north korea is not really a game changer. they see these as problems for the united nations and the united states to solve. there was a lot more shock and outrage last august when land mines on the dmz maimed to south korean soldiers. what will happen now is there's going to be a week or two of strong rhetoric, but the south korean business community is really itching to get back into north korea. on north korea to a business audience a few weeks ago. over well.go people feel the chinese are making the sort of money that the south koreans should be making up there. adon't think anybody here has strong interest in keeping the story alive for very long. ,ishaad: the question is then far is this and how the north korean playbook of rallying north koreans behind the leadership? >> we need to realize that this is not a failed communist state. ,his is an ultranationalist milita

to sanction north korean officials simply forbidding north korean officials. we don't even have to provide evidence that it conducted illegal activity. the u.s. sanction 16 russian officials for being russian officials after the crime the incursion. we haven't used about as much as we could. the target is change. banco delta asia was rejected because of the very large conduit. north korea has adapted since then. it's sort of like the cockroach theory of law enforcement. you going to a kitchen, turn on the light, see with the cockroaches are and whether what i'll do. if you take out the first of plan if north korea given a larger intelligence and law enforcement so the watch where the money gets redirected, where the cockroaches go. it's been you go after plan b. >> on the issue of engagement, we talked about earlier we have to have a strategy that deals with, it gives them coast -- composed of engagement as well as coercive steps. as far as i understand the united states and gauges with north korea, we have a chip in new york. we do talk to the north koreans,

now we can speak to a former south korean foreign minister. do south koreans take what has happened in north korea very seriously today? >> yes, of course. we take it very seriously. this represents a greater threat to - an increase in threat to some of the other powers, including the united states, china and japan, but it also means a great threat to south korea as well >>> how big a development is it if it is, indeed, confirmed that a military h bomb has been tested? >> well, it is a very significant development in that even though the scale of the explosion was not greater than the last one, which was about - around 5 degrees, but it means that they are able to manufacture miniaturised bombs which can serve as war head, and combined with the capability with launch, sbn, this will represent a threat to any country with or without the long-range missiles they are developing. so i think this has the effect of bringing china and the united states together in dealing with the north korean nuclear capability >>> now we enter familiar territory, d

the north koreans say it's not on. if there were a freeze on the north's capabilities, there might be a diplomatic door opening. but the politics in the states in an election year make that hard. i think at the end of the day, the north koreans are going to get away with this. there will be a lot of international huffing and puffing, but nothing will change and the north's nuclear program will continue full seem aheteam >> and it will be interesting to see what china does, given that they asked north korea not to go ahead with this. mike, thank you. >> an em passioned speech. barack obama spells out his plan for cushing g for curbing gun violence. my doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara® your doctor should test for tuberculosis. stelara® may increase y

no one of a korean peninsula should develop and persist a nuke lee weapon. this is mandated for several resolutions. no one should disregard the integrity of the united nations security council resolution, and all of us should work together to achieving denuclearization. china does not have the influence, but made the position well-known to all the parties concerned that china will not tall rate a situation where nuclear weapons will be expressed, developed or used on the korean peninsula. that is the situation. it is borderline of the foreign policy regarding this point. >> it must be being viewed with a certain amount of alarm, the claim that this is a hared gen bomb, rather than the atomic bomb that it is thought that nooe yes detonated -- north korea detonated and tested in the past. >> well, i would say the bottom line should be that no one, no regime on the korean peninsula should develop, possess or use a nuclear device including the atomic or hydrogen bomb. and whether it is either of those is irrelevant for this one. what the united nations security

the north koreans or the pakistanis? >> north korea. 1993 when we had the first nuclear price sis, kim il-sun, the grandfather, called together his military and asked them so what do we do if we fight the americans over our nuclear program and we lose? and kim jong-un's father said if we lose, i will destroy the earth. what good is the earth without north korea? so this is a loose cannon. we're not just talking about deterrence. if they have a problem with the regime, they could do it. and one has to wonder, why did they do the test now? >> what's your theory? >> they were trying to make up with china. and let kim jong un go to beijing. china has to be furious. i would suspect they have internal problems. >> we'll have more on that later this hour. it's a good point that you raise. >> we appreciate it. whether it was an h-bomb or a plutonium device, the fallout diplomatically for the north koreans is likely to be the same. >> reporter: north korea's claim it tested a hydrogen bomb brought swift condemnation from around t

the south korean military has fired shots after spotting a north korean drone along the border. earlier they urged china to urge sanctions against north korean in relation to its recent nuclear tests. the shots at the drone is a measure of how prickly how the tension is >> reporter: indeed. we have been speaking to a defense ministry here in seoul and they say it was around four hours ago, just over, 2.10 prime minister local time, when south korean forces detected what they're calling an unidentified aerial vehicle but understood to be a drone heading towards south korea over the demilitarized zone. it may have briefly crossed the official border. south korea issued brought casts warning it to be turned around and 22 shots were fired and it then went back. the japanese, south korean and u.s. nuclear envoys on the nuclear matter are all meeting as we speak here in seoul and there will be another meeting between south korean and chinese officials in beijing. china is saying they will work closely with south korea to tackle this north korea nuclear issue, but in her annual address

korean propaganda messages within earshot of hundred of thousands of north korean troops stationed alongitarized zone. north korea has one of the largest standing armies in the world. that's infuriating for the regime that its soldiers, tasked with loyally defending the northern side of the peninsula, can hear these messages from the south that could perhaps send messages to cast doubt or create suspicion in the regime led by the supreme leader, kim jong-un. that's why the north considers the loud speaker propaganda an act of war. one official i've talked to here said they wouldn't be surprised if there was military action with the north possibly sending more troops to the dmz like they did over the summer. we haven't gotten any official response or information it what the north's strategy will be in response yet. >> certainly an interesting tactic by the south. great reporting there, will ripley in pyongyang. thank you very much. >>> a bush fire has burned through almost 60,000 acres, almost 150 acres in western australia. we have more from the international weather center. allison, i u

poverty starvation in depression is a north koreans life. things can be different this is how life is supposed to be. you cannot think of the possibilities. because you cannot watch movies and you cannot read books. philosophers or batman. i did not know what philosophy or evolution was. kelley new things after the second four. and that was my world view. and everybody wants to be like us. but it was not that good. i was born 1993 but then they started the ration system. but then they were getting ready for the regime and then he said the 3 million people died the population was 20 million in you can imagine how many people died during that time. >> one day i saw my grandmother taking a lot of medicine and i was asking her why are you taking so many? i was pretty young. then i hear my local screening -- screaming to my grandmother to wake up and that is how she ended her life. nobody told me what compassion was. there is no word for love. the only word you can use is to express love for the regime they could never imagining to tell my mom i

there's got to be some rethinking on the part of the north koreans. finally, while we are doing better with the south koreans we need to continue to get south korea, japan, and the u.s. together, the three democracies of the six party talks to see what we can do to get the russians involved. our relations with russia are about as bad as they have been for a long time. there are big if's if they are going to do anything in the remaining months. that is the ambassador from the university of denver and a former diplomat. we will have more information at 3:00 and william cowan will be our guest then. still ahead on bloomberg markets, more trouble for chipotle, and e. coli outbreak, a plunge in sales, and a federal subpoena. ♪ david: "-- welcome back to "bloomberg markets." chipotle, a worse than expected plunge, they are struggling to rebound from multiple outbreaks of foodborne illness and now they have been subpoenaed in a federal criminal investigation. for a look at the troubles, let's bring in cragg. first of all, what did we learn from the sales fig

they'relso playi south korean news, music and appeals for human rights. authorities have sealed off observation decks and other areas near the border to protect the safety of tourists. >>> it's far from the first time the south has broadcast propaganda messages across the dmz. over a decade ago, they were a common occurrence. nhk world has this report. >> reporter: i'm close to an observety that tourists regularly visit. today, though, access beyond this point is restricted because of safety concerns over the resumption of broadcasts. in seoul, news of the resumption of propaganda broadcast is being greeted with mixed opinions. >> translator: if we show a weak attitude towards north korea, they will think they can do anything by ak toughly supporting the government's move. >> translator: i'm afraid the broadcast will cause problems if it lasts long. it will raise tensions and citizens will become anxious. >> reporter: they used to regularly blast anti-north korea messages across the demilitarized zones. last august, the administration of park geun-hye res

returned to the north korean side.had managed to fly dozens of meters into the country. relations were already strained after south korea restarted loud speaker broadcasts along the border. they're critical of north korean leader kim jong-un's regime. soldiers there have also been on high alert. seoul says it also suspects north korea of releasing balloons that dropped anti-south propaganda leaflets within its borders. in 2014, south korean officials discovered three downed drones in the country. they crashed on an island and mountains and elsewhere. the south korean defense ministry and the u.s. military concluded the north sent them to spy on the south. pyongyang denied that. >>> well, north korea is also a topic of conversation between japan and russia. both countries are seeking to ramp up pressure on the north. japanese foreign minister fumio kishida has called on russia to closely cooperate with the u.n. security council to adopt a new resolution incorporating effective sanctions against pyongyang. kishida made t

but look, simply caving in to north korean blackmail doesn't work.n down the road to a greater crisis down the line. even if north korea hasn't conducted a hydrogen test, we can't engage in the politics across the nation simply saying the test failed there for we can break a sigh of relief because you can learn just as much from a failed test is a real test. sandra: michael rubin come your latest article, just turning the wheel is back at going to the escalating conflict there. you say make no mistake saudi arabia should be condemned without reservation. that doesn't mean the islamic republic of iran is winless. >> we have two countries in fma to odious regimes, one an ally, one an adversary who are indication of breakneck competition to see who can put you on the fire. the fact of the matter is while i don't think south korea -- i'm sorry, i don't think out of entrÉe to saudi arabia. it's not just the saudi embassy is. it is the french embassy attack over the years, british embassy, danish embassy. until you stand up and say this isn't the way you c

the north koreans know they can defy cloin chinese. community college doesn't like the leaders in beijing. >> thank you very much. on top of the hour, ali velshi will have this. ali. >> if a country like north korea did deploy a hydrogen bomb, human survival could hinge on a secret vault hidden inside a mountain. i'll take you inside, at 9:00 eastern, john. >> thank you ali. >>> in addition to the much needed rain, storms in california are bringing flash flooding. the second powerful storm to hit california just this week. >>> as the president moves to tighten gun restrictions with new executive actions, california's become the only state to enact gun violence restraining order. under the law citizens or law enforcement officials can petition to prevent someone from getting guns or take guns away, jennifer london explains. >> well, this is my last video. it all has to come to this. tomorrow is the day of retribution. >> chilling words in a haunting video posted online recorded the day before 22-year-old elliot roger stabbed and gunned

many korean american children and adoptees have taken it to heart. many children tired of fighting stereotypes are now channeling the energy in a positive way. the parents couldn't be prouder wearing hard on their sleeves and or in david's case on their arm, the korean ted to, he and his wife couldn't be prouder of their two beautiful children. in this end everyone celebrated by bonding over korean food, family style, filling bellies and hearts with love and friendship that could last a lifetime. a high school seniors in the last few years bouncing between city homeless shelters and is living in a housing complex in east harlem. zachary cheese shows as the team is using these experiences as admission as a. >> this is an accurate description of what is like to be 12 years old, homeless, on the street and with nowhere to stay the new york city. >> reporter: a circumstance out of his control, the raw truth of homelessness and kids caught in the middle told in a college entrance as a. >> living in a tiny apartment and my father was up on alcohol binges e

korean nuclear tests. what are you picking up from just people in the street. >> nothing has changed. everyone is going about their business. it's not surprising. south koreans have been dealing with north korea for the past 70 years. they are still technically at war with their northern neighbors. there was never a peace treaty signed. you won't see much reaction. the reaction is coming from the political arena. >> paula hancocks with what sounds like a pretty bad cold there. hope it gets better. >> north korea's claim it tested a hydrogen bomb brought swift condemnation around the world. >> this act is a profoundly destabilizing for security. >> knot korea's nuclear test is a serious threat to our nation's security and absolutely cannot be tolerated. >> reporter: even china, north korea's neighbor and closest ally kbikly denounced the test, after down playing the nuclear threat for years, growing concern in beijing over the program under north korea's erratic and unpredictable leader. u.s. officials hope

could this further jeopardize the north korean and chinese relationsh relationship? >>> it is very important to the watch right now. china not only condemned the nuclear test, but also announced that it did not get any advanced warning from pyongyang which it has had in some of the previous nuclear tests that north korea has carried out. that is perhaps something that the obama administration is pinning its hopes on right now that a u.s. official has told cnn that washington now wants to impose some new u.n. security council resolutions, quote, unquote with teeth that would have some new sanctions against north korea, and also hoping that this new tough rhetoric that is coming from beijing against the north korean neighbor, it could prompt china in the future to impose some unilateral sanctions against north korea, but the problems here is that hard any anybody has any leverage over to thor hermit king dom, and perhaps the only country who does is china who enjoys a good economic relations with north korea. wolf? >> ivan watson, thank you very much. and as ivan just

the japanese believe there were 17, the north koreans 13. clearly there were more dozens, probably hundreds. >> there are people in japan that leave it's hundreds. >> absolutely. the highest is four or 500. >> the stories you tole of how the people were abducted are on their own. what lesson can be heard? >> it's crazy or irrational. when you look at a microsense at what each of these actions has tried to yield, there is a rationale behind them. it may seem a tremendous amount of effort for a small gain. >> they do the complicated things, but there is some sort of method to what - to us what seems like madness. >> i think we dismiss the north koreans as irrational at our peril. >> invitation only zone - author. it's a fascinating book, pleasure to have you with us. >> the cold and know keep the refugees crossing through the balkans in search of a better life. why they continue their journey. >> what the pentagon says is the biggest problem with the afghan military and the army's ability to keep soldiers in its ranks. >> water is a human righ

it looms over 725 million koreans and for their -- 75 million koreans and for their sake, the republic of korea and china and other regional stakeholders must demonstrate commitments to addressing this threat. by targeting the individuals and entities that support the kim regime, through elicit activities, this bill will -- fully weaken the pyongyang. i urge passage of the bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from new york. does the gentleman from new york reserve? mr. engel: sorry. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. royce: i yield to the chairman of the foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade, judge ted poe. he's also an original co-sponsor with me on this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. poe: i thank the speaker and i thank the chairman and the ranking member for bringing this piece of legislation up to the house floor. mr. speaker, north korea is a world threat. a nuclear world threat.

now the south korean military says it fired warning shots after seeing a north korean object along the border. more on this we're joined by our correspondent harry faucet. what can you tell us about this unknown object? >> reporter: it seems that a drone from north korea entered south korean airspace over the d mc about three hours ago now at 2.10 in the afternoon local time, that's according to the defense ministry here in south korea. they're saying that they fired 22 warning shots in the direction of this flying object. it then changed its course back northwards and retreated over the military demarcation line, within the demilitarized zone between north and south korea. this coming on the same day that south koreans found leaflets, propaganda leaflets in seoul, decrying south korea, especially the leader, park geun-hye, and the same day that she made her annual new year's address to the people. it comes in light of the fourth nuclear test carried out by north korea just a few days ago. she majord on that. that was the first thing that she talked about. the prospects of further prov

i don't know whether it's actually accurate whether the south koreans have asked that. what i can say is we have a very significant and serious alliance commitment with the south on the peninsu peninsula. we have as you know nearly 30,000 troops there on the peninsula as well as other operational and strategic assets in the region. we're fully prepared to meet our security commitments under that alliance and nothing's going to change about that. but i'm not aware of any new requests. >> john kirby, thank you so much. >> my pleasure, jake. >>> in our politics lead, ted cruz might be done talking about his canadian birth, but donald trump definitely is not. and one other major republican is also announcing there's a legitimate question about cruz's eligibility to be president. >>> plus, a woman from bill clinton's past is back and tweeting an ugly accusation against the former president. that story next. living with chronic migraine feels like each day is a game of chance. i wanted to put the odds in my favor. so my doctor told me about botox® an fda-approved treatment th

f-16 and south korean f-15 flying very low over the osan air base just south of the north/south koreanorder. that message of course not intended for south korea, very much north korea, reminder of u.s. capabilities in the region after north korea conducted its fourth nuclear test. to be clear the state department says the information from the u.s. is that this was not a hydrogen bomb test, not a successful hydrogen bomb test. still in the atomic bomb category, that would be a step behind. but they're still analyzing. i'll tell you one thing though, this invisible message no question, it's part of redemonstrating to the world that south korea falls under america's nuclear umbrella in effect, it's defense umbrella, but many people in south korea they want something different. they want antimissile defense. it's a system called the f.a.d., a terminal high altitude area of defense. to this point it's deployed in hawaii and guam, not in south korea. there are many in south korea who want this today particularly as north korea makes advances with its own ballistic missile technology. that's

talking to our correspondent in the south korean capital. harry, before we get on to the negotiations and the dialogue, news coming in that a student, a university student from the u.s., has been arrested in north korea? >> reporter: that's right. that's what the state media of north korea is saying. there has been no confirmation from u.s. officials so far. we have spoken to the u.s. embassy here. they simply say that they're aware of the media reports, but according to the state media report coming out of the pyongyang, a young man, frederick, a university of virginia, say has been detained into the country on a tourist visa. the state media report suggests that he carried out some kind of hostile act against the state. it is also said that the act was tolerated and manipulated by the u.s. government. there have been attempts to get in touch with people who may know a bit more about this. the reuters news agency saying that the young pioneer's to tourist agency has confirmed that this man who was travelling on one of their tours was arrest

war an even before the korean war, back in the '50s. so we're seeing sort of another cycle of this drama that's often hidden from view. they got off to a bad start, in part, because of the last test, which kim jong-un did after kim john pin was in power him they were just starting to repair the damage an mend the fence actually in the fall and there was a very high profile trip by one of xi's top leaders to pyongyang in october. that was seen as potentially a big break through. this, obviously, sets that all back. kim jong-un is sending a clear message to beijing that says, i don't need you. i'm not looking to please you. i'm my own man. that may be very popular in north korea. >> that may be something that at least north korean elites or north korean people like to see, a very strongmentin young guy. we don't know about. that that's a possibility we have to entertain. so the chinese are really left on the back of their feet and it will be interesting to watch xi to develop this. >> that relationship back in the freezer. thank you so mu

the second thing is the north korean regime is inherently weak but projecting strength. everybody saw what happened in the first gulf war. and saddam hussein didn't have nuclear weapons, and kim jong-un's making a statement don't mess with me. but the interesting thing is that even if this is a hydrogen bomb, and i agree with chris hill that it's unlikely that it is, but we'll know more in the future. it doesn't really change in any massive way relations with the united states, japan or south korea. the relationship that it changes significantly is the relationship between north korea and china, because china has all of the cards of the international community and influencing north korea. and north korea is betting that china isn't going to put too much pressure on the dprk, on pyongyang, because china's strategic interests are more focused on countering the united states than dealing with any particular problems in north korea. >> mr. ambassador, you tried to work with kim jong-il, the father who detonated a nuke in 2006. do you think kim jong-un, the son, is more dange

that's something the north koreans would desperately want. it's also noteworthy it's two days before kim jong-un's 33rd birthday. 33 years old. and really with his finger at the button of a growing nuclear arsenal in a country with a lot of raw uranium a very troubling development for the world that this nuclear program continues to develop. in spite of all the sanctions, unchecked, wolf. >> to put it mildly. all right, will, thank you very much. will ripley in beijing. while north korea's claim of an h-bomb test sent shock waves around the world, the united states and other nations are making it clear that any other kind of north korean nuclear test is unacceptable. let's go to elise labott. elise, has kim jong-un this time gone too far? >> well, wolf, even as it poured water on north korea's claims it tested a hydrogen bomb, the u.s. asked the u.n. security council to consider new sanctions. it's all part of the obama administration's policy towards north korea dubbed strategic patience. but after four nuclear tests there are questions toni