korea and whether the north can send athletes to the winter olympics south korea's president moon j.n. said he's ready to negotiate on letting north korea join next month's olympics hosted by the south but he stressed north korea's nuclear and missile programs would be major topics north korean leader kim jong un had raised the idea of joining the olympics in his new year's speech in that same speech he also issued new threats against the united states voters. ok let's get a line up now if we could to a soul and go to correspondent josh smith who's in the south korean japanese right now john what are we to make of this a limp dick overtures the olympic diplomacy we're seeing could it signal a breakthrough in the hope of reduce tensions on the peninsula. well there are certainly those in seoul and elsewhere around the world who hope that this does some kind of opening in an end to the rising tensions that we've seen over the past year however many analysts were somewhat cautious and skeptical of this noting that north korea in the past has also offered similar branches all of branches with l

j.n. has said he is willing to meet his north korean counterpart conjunction under certain conditions moon said denuclearization of the korean peninsula would be his goal in any talks with the north his comments come a day after the first high level talks between north and south korea in two years well a tsunami threat has been lifted after a seven point six magnitude earthquake shook the caribbean on tuesday night the tremor struck in the seat near the northern coast of honduras officials in honduras said shaking was felt across much of the central app for american nation however there have been no reports of serious damage. and french actress catherine dinner has criticized the meat to movement saying men should be free to hit on women in an open letter published in friendster new warned of a new puritanism as a result of the recent surge of sexual harassment scandals. from white house insider to banished outsiders stephen batten has stepped down as executive chairman of the right wing breitbart news network the announcement comes less than a week after battens withering criticism of tru

moon j.n. who took office in may is more of a liberal compared to his predecessors so the conciliatory tone is perhaps in recognition of that north korea has said it's even willing to send its athletes to participate in the upcoming winter olympics and paralympics that those games are being hosted in pyongyang in south korea just eighty kilometers south from the border with north korea now but analysts are really asking what is kim jong un hoping to achieve from this piece of the church to the south well some analysts say he is perhaps hoping to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea traditional allies and perhaps this is being made much easier by the fact that in south korean president isn't as much of a hard line politician on north korea compared to previous south korean leaders now he is perhaps also trying to buy more time for north korea to pursue its nuclear ambitions because as you pointed out this was an overture that's just been made to north to south korea and not to the u.s. listen to what else he had to say. bulent you're going to assume that the u.s. mainland is within the range of our nuclear strike and the nuclear button