on north korea. for those of you not familiar with this, it's a five year project conducted by csis with the support of the grant of korean studies. the consortium's research is focused on deciphering the so-called black box that is north korea. our scholars use multidisciplinary resources to gain unique insights about the country, the regime and its people. the fields, social history, diplomatic history, strategy and national security and data collection and analysis and concepts of statehood and state control involving concepts of citizenship and identity, domestic politics, and the impact of markets transnational networks and new information on society. these areas of study constitute new approaches to addressing the issues of north korea and the work that has been and will continue to be produced in this consortium which is an astounding five books and 15 journal articles constitute a scholarly literature that looks not as a static hold, but highly complicated and internally related challenges th

but i'm convinced there's a lot of dissatisfaction in north korea, but of course, expressing that is not a very good idea for your own personal survival. minge ian of south korea is reaching the end of his term. how much pressure does that put on south korea? the u. s. to reach some sort of a conversation with north korea. well, president moon has been invested in seeking reconciliation with, with north re spend a lot of personal capital and political capital on that. i, however, of his, his term is coming to an end. so he's thinking about legacy issues. i would argue that the national interests are much longer term and out live the personalities. so i don't expect any kind of a sudden reconciliation or some kind of piece agreement. i think we can be in this equilibrium, this sub standard or sub optimal equilibrium for a long time into the future. daniel kingston lecture, if international relations at troy university, thank you for your time. my pleasure. well, d, nicolai's, asian off the korean peninsula is one of the u. s. president j biden's foreign policy priorities 2022 may see a

so you could leverage north korea is quite limited for business. and in terms of military deter, provided by alliance between south korea and allies, which in japan are quite functional and solid. so status quo is not such a bad option for neighboring punches. at least for a while. in the run up to the summit meeting, we're showing pictures as you're talking to us, the summit meeting between donald trump, the, than us president and kim jong in. and there was a lot of speculation in the world media that his sister might have been positioning herself to take over from him. because it's very difficult because we're all by definition outside the country. very difficult to get a handle on how big their respective power bases are within the political mechanisms that run pyongyang. how likely is he to either be deposed or just turn away from the job that he, he now does? well, i guess the chance is so near 0 because they said that there's no alternative available. there is no money in ex dial and no consistent with the 2 separate line system only can have

laura: north korea has been hit by crippling sanctions to curb its weapons program, but it has made littleh can never give up its nuclear weapons, as it considers it vital to the survival of the regime. laura: the country is now in crisis. the border has been sealed to prevent the spread of covid-19. vital supplies have not been able to get through for nearly two years. >> in the end, if there is no sanctionselief, the regime could be under threat. kim jong-un knows this well, so to release sanctions, hampshire he would come to talks. laura: this key anniversary has kim jong-un at a crossroads. what he does next will decide his future and that of his people. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. lewis: that is it for me f the moment. i will be back with headlines in a couple moments. meantime, more line on the bbc news app. you can get me on social media, on twitter i am not -- i am at @lvaughanjones. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy an

north korea has been hit by crippling sanctions to curb its weapons program but it has made little differenceth can never give up its nuclear weapons. it considers it to be vital to the survival of the regime. >> the country is now in crisis. the border has been sealed shut to prevent the spread of covid-19. vital supplies have not been able to get through for nearly two years. >> in the end, if there are no's -- is no section relief, it is trouble and kim jong-un knows this well so i am sure he will come to talks. >> this key anniversary has kim jong-un at a crossroads. what he does next will decide his future and that of his people. bbc news, seoul. jane: yes. what will kim jong-un do next? constant question for successive administrations in washington. before we go tonight come over the course of this pandemic, many of the world's health officials have tried to stay calm when speaking to the public. one official in australia really rose to the occasion at a covid briefing today even when she was told a spider was crawling up her arm. let's take a listen. >> there is a spider. >> can someon

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specific commitments from the north korean regime. critics say the fully ending the war would reward north korea full. it's provocative behavior and threatened the presence of u. s. troops on the peninsula. are they right? i agree with those critics. quite frankly, we have unfortunately, decades of history of the north koreans go shading in bad faith. literally breaking every diplomatic commitment they have made up with the international community. as a matter of fact, they are to this day act in contravention of a host of united nations security council resolutions. i think prior to any type of diplomatic arrangement with the dpr j o, we would need to ensure that number one, north korea comes into compliance with those un security council resolutions. north korea says that they weren't joint talks on the d nuclear reservation of the peninsula until the us ends. what it calls its hostile policies towards the north, a reference to the u. s. troops, station in south korea. and the, the annual military exercises that the u. s conducts with south korea with the u. s . do you think of any circumstanc

and, also, don't go to north korea.ght, you pointed it out in your great monologue-- that we don't know much about omicron-- but it is as likely that omicron is a good thing than something we should panic over. respiratory viruses mutate. that's what they do. they more often than not-- not an ironclad law-- but more often than not mutate into something more benign. as you pointed out in south africa, it sounds benign. if we all get omicron and achieve natural immunity, it can achieve natural immunity, it can be a good thing. so i was watching this movie the other night. it was a world war ii movie, and, uh, there was nazis in the movie, and i noticed that the nazis in those movies always had, like, two separate heils. they had, like, the regular heil that they would do, and then, when they were around the offices, they had, like, this casual heil. do you remember that one? did you ever notice that? they come in the office, "yeah, heil, how are you? "what's, uh... is the kid back with the coffee yet? "come on, are you fi

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milley: we are always paying attention to north korea.t is a country that is extraordinarily well armed. they have 70% of their military arrayed within striking distance of the demilitarized zone. seoul, korea, is only 27 miles from the demilitarized zone. and with the regime of north korea is a brutal, tough regime, very aggressive, and led by an individual that is very difficult to figure out. they are always doing provocations over the course of time, whether it is missiles or other things. so north korea is something that we always are watching very closely. our intent in north korea or china or russia, we want to maintain a military capability and a diplomatic level of effort to deter war. we don't want any conflict. we want to deter war. but if deterrence fails, we are determined to fulfill our treaty obligations with south korea. so far since 1953, deterrence has worked, and we are hopeful that will continue to work. david: we have heard of cyberattacks from china, north korea, russia in the united states. we don't know if they com

korea. and he meant all of this territory the entire peninsula. well on the norths not having any of that. he had the same ambition. so we then follow suit a number of days later and declares his own republic. the democratic people's republic of korea. now of course the north koreans, being korea and they have to be do one better. now notice they have to do one better than not foreigners or outsiders but one better than essentially their brethren. this is that word i mentioned earlier, paradox, begins to make sense to you. this is one of the dominating paradox. on the one hand you see in the moment they become bitter enemies and they end up killing each other by the end of this brutal korean war more than 10 million people. if you add everybody up. essentially 5 million people some say more essentially had been killed as were the most brutal civil wars. civil war in our country is bad enough, it was essentially that but even worse because it is so much more modern and devastating. a more ironic name they could not be the democrats people's republic of korea. now th

in north korea developing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons are closer to russia and they are the united states. moses points, yes, there's a proliferation of missile defenses but that's because this proliferation of ballistic missile capabilities, lots of nations are developing those capabilities and lots of nations feel vulnerable to them and want defense as a way to protect themselves. it is not ballistic missile defenses that kill people, it's ballistic missiles that kill people so i think you had a transition of mission but at the same time the technologies were coming she had capabilities against omitted attacks, particularly tactical peter ballistic missiles. if you think about what the israelis have done to develop capabilities against those missiles as well as our own, it's a pretty good story. it's not perfect but a good story. we should come back later on this issue about the russian and chinese threats and what the role of most missile defenses and back. to answer your question, the mission changed and we had a good shot at developing the technologies that were able to

coming up, remembering the founder of north korea. the forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes. why us police bombed philadelphia and afghanistan first man in space. we start with the story of a true trailblazer who made history in 1960. he became the modern world first female head of government when she was elected prime minister of sri lanka as it was known. her daughter spoke to witness history. you are the first woman prime minister. would this make your influence less or more strong? considerably more strong. do you think they'll be more capable than the problems the men are? that remains to be seen. my mother was incredible. she shed her reticence, she came forward and on every political platform, she spoke. my father was prime minister first from 1956 to '59 of sri lanka. sadly, his enemies assassinated him. my mother had no intention of going into politics. her three children were fatherless and she wanted to devote all her time to bringing them up. but there was such a pressure from the party and the people in general that fin

it's been 10 years, believe it or not, since kim jong and became the leader of north korea. he took control in 2011 after the death of his father, kim jong il. and while his leadership style is widely criticized, few would dare to question his grip on power. how taylor was over yon reports. he became north korea's leader before turning 30 at the time many hope king jam own would lead the country into a new era. one though it opened the reclusive nation and its economy to the world. listen, i am wondering if i got up and stand kim's decade and power has been defined by brutal violence, nuclear weapons, and meetings with donald trump. it's my honor, we will have to work with them. it wasn't easy to get here. and all prejudices and practices worked as obstacles in a white forward. but we are became all of them. and we're here today. i'm president of meetings to gradually the nuclear rise, the north and exchange for sanctions relief, ultimately failed and threats against regional neighbors and their allies continued . you will want to join it, he will. the entire united states i

missile defense system focused for example on north korea has a track record in testing not a perfectit certainly. for its efficacy we might expect we would want one missile fired at a time and optimal conditions . what would be a reflection of the extent to which the benefits of withdrawal are an extension of technological defense? >> is a technological progress but also a change in the mission. so star wars, my recollection is the star wars vision ronald reagan promulgated as interpreted and applied by the defense department was to use the strategic defense initiative to mitigate the leading edge of the soviet ballistic missile act -- attack. it was an anti-soviet conception and an effort by ronald reagan to sort of say we should not base on our security on threatening to obliterate each other, but we should agree that we will defend against each other's system. at that is a more humane and more away as a space -- moral way as a base for a deterrent. the bush 41 hundred different conception of the missile defense. a senator push this hard at the time. we called it global protection

it's been 10 years since kim john own became the leader of north korea. he took control in 2011 after the death of his father, kim jong il. while his leadership style is widely criticized. few dare to question his grip on power. catcher lopez, or to yahoo has more. he became north korea's leader before turning 30 at the time many hope king jam own would lead the country into a new era. one though it opened the reclusive nation and its economy to the world, the sun. okay. and i'm wondering if one of the got and stand can step he'd empower, has been defined by brutal violence nuclear weapons and meetings with donald trump . it's my honor. he will have the relationship, i have no doubt it wasn't easy to get here. and all prejudices and practices worked as obstacles in a way forward. but we are became all of them and were here today. and president of meetings to gradually the nuclear arise, the north in exchange for sanctions relief, ultimately failed, and threats against the regional neighbors and their allies continued. you will want to journey with the ent

we're looking back the decade of north korea under the rule of kim jong own and converting animal waste into fuel. how soon the u. k is leading the way in creating renewable energy . ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle airways. how i once again got a real blast of when she weather returning to march of japan isn't really let up if the truth be no, but we have got some very heavy snow for coming in as we go on through the next couple days and lordly wency picking up that moisture as it pushes in over the years see of japan and we will see further heavy snow fall into good particle kado pushing down into particular western areas of han, she widespread snow could see $40.00 to $50.00 centimeters of snow for many areas. then as we go on through the next couple of days, it's cold enough to tokyo sang in single figures as we go on through. sat down, sheltered by the mount, is not see too much of that snow, but we will still see some eventually pushing its way through single figures there for soldiers. 2 degrees celsius, 6 celsius of beijing. much of china w

we're looking back at kim john urns decade long rule as the leader of north korea. and the body of archbishop desmond tutu arrives at cape town cathedral for people to pay their respects well, well, continues to battle. the covered 19 pandemic with both delta ann arbor con variance fueling what the w at j coles astronomy of cases. the u. s. has broken another record for infections, an average of 267000 new cases every day. this past week. infections there have increased 60 percent, although deaths and hospital admissions remain low. we'll start with this mileage a castro in washington dc. as the highest daily new cases ever in the u. s. were now at 267000 new coven cases. that's the daily average, 60 percent of which is now tribute to the omicron variant and the nation's for most infectious disease expert. doctor anthony thought she is predicting that it will only get worse before it gets better. he says the peak of this current surge will likely come in late january. we're seeing much of this happening now in the north eastern part of the u. s. with places like new

long rule leader of north korea. ah, hello, run a jury in net new york has found british so schlecklein maxwell guilty on 5 counts in her sex trafficking trial charges against the former associate of american financier and convicted pedophile, jeffrey epstein and creed, sex trafficking of underage girls debrel. alexander has a report it took the jury 5 full days more than 40 hours of deliberations. elaine maxwell guilty on 5 of the 6 charges she faced convicted of grooming young girls, her sexual abuse by her former boyfriend, jeffrey epstein. and even sometimes joining in the british socialite remained calm and whispered to her lawyer and drink a sip of water. as the verdicts were read out, outside court maxwell's friend, lee sat in a regular throughout the trial, and he left with our comment, your chance to give a reaction to the verdict for the prosecution. the verdict was a welcome relief. the road to justice has been far too long, but today, justice has been done. i want to commend the bravery of the girls now g

he became north korea's leader before turning 30 at the time. many hope king jam own would lead the country into a new era. one though it opened the reclusive nation and its economy to the world, the sun. okay. and i'm wondering if other got instead, kim's decade empower, has been defined by brutal violence, nuclear weapons and meetings with donald trump. later, we will have to work with them. it wasn't easy to get here. and all prejudices and practices worked as obstacles in a way forward, but we are became all of them and were here today. unprecedented meetings to gradually the nuclear rise, the north in exchange for sanctions relief, ultimately failed, and threats against the regional neighbors and their allies continued. you will want to journey will the entire united states is within range of all nuclear weapons. and the nuclear pasa is always on my desk. but kim's fixation on nuclear weapons has come at a heavy price. the united nations and others have kept tough economic sanctions. garcia could young but put north korea has been working t

with china and north korea. certain everyone has unalienable rights, long them, the right to the pursuit of happiness, more than the brutal communist regimes. tomorrow's mississippi case will test that proposition, however, the reversal of roe will not reverse abortion. and there are several states even on roe's demise. the effort of my colleagues and millions of americans to defend life will continue regardless how the supreme court rules in the coming months, my state of kansas, civil persuasion of our neighbors and responsive states and federal legislators, will need legislation to protect the unborn and assist new families in caring for their child. tomorrow the supreme court will hear the mo he is significant abortion case in the last 30 years. dobbs versus jackson women's health organization. to relinquish the legislative power it has assumed and return it to the people and their rements. the court will be better for it and so will our politics. and most importantly of all, millions of future voices will g

the korea believe, you know, if you declare the end of the korean war, what could happen is the north korea and china could say, well, we need to see with your all of us troops, the warheads, now formerly ended, what the, why do we need us troops stationing in south south korea and after that, if somehow us trips leaves the country, that's the best, you know, security protection that we got south korea. and we will make it totally in that case. a lot of people will lot of people see in death scenario. that's going to be a very, very dangerous scenario. you have to rely upon the mercy of north korean regime that doesn't work in the minds of most of korean, at least more than happy. okay, we'll leave it there. thank you so much. b. j. kim. thank you. still to come here on the news for you. now tony bennett becomes the 1st is really prime minister to make an official visit to the united arab emirates. and in support can next year's wilcox produce a break for arab teams with biggest stage flowers here with that story. ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe over the next

we have not gotten traction with north korea over the course of the year. we have committed our willingness to engage and we continue to enforce our sanctions and align closely with our allies, south korea nad japan, and the north koreans have continued to test certain capabilities, have refrained from other forms of provocation. we continue to indicate to them directly and publicly,, as i'm doing that we are prepared to engage, to try to make progress against the basic points that were laid down in the singapore summit in 2018. mr. haas: when you say we have not gained traction, does that mean they have or have not specifically rejected something for something? mr. sullivan: when i say we have not gained traction's, we have not sat down at the table with north korea to have that conversation at the table. mr. haas: i will open it up. you just had a democracy summit. i would be curious what you think was accomplished. more broadly, what impact is january 6 have on the ability of the united states to operate in the world? when you go about your business, meet

that is like trump went to russia, north korea, and saudi arabia. he is in bed with all these dictators. host: when you make that claim, how do you base that claim? what do you used to back it up? caller: because i have been watching since day one what is going on. host: but give me some reasons why you think that is taking place specifically. caller: first of all, my grandpa was an apache scout in new mexico in the calvary. there is something wrong with what is going on because we are experts at tracking people. host: that is ricardo in california. that's hear from loretta in cleveland, ohio, independent line. caller: well, i guess the topic would be my issue of why the republicans are holding everything up? like we can't see they are the ones holding everything up. what is wrong with them? host: give me an example of what they are holding up. caller: holding up the build back better bill. they do not want to pay for the $8 trillion trump debt. i really want to know what is in that package, pedro. how do you spend $8 trillion in four years? i reall

let's throw the one up with the dear leader of north korea. at the border of north and south korea.was a safer place. if our election was not rigged, we would by now have a deal with north korea. >> probably right. when obama visited korea he was 30 miles away in the dmz. my dad crossed the border. this is incredible stuff. i'm an inside were and i didn't know a lot of these stories. you see disaster after disaster. the economy, giving russia pipe lines, but canceling them for americans. we are told today you are lucky joe biden saved you 10 cents on gas prices. but you should be blessed. like you saved 16 cents on your 4th of july barbeque, so you should be grateful. joe biden is overseeing the destruction of america in a short 10 months. going through these pictures i said we have to show america all the pictures they didn't see. we didn't have big tech functioning as our marketing department. the handwritten comments on the pictures, we are just going with this. you see the true trump personality shine. it's a lot of fun. jesse: it's called "our journey together," it's not as goo

host: this friday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of north korea's second supreme leader kim ng-il. hundreds flock to pyongyang to place flowers at the for the statue. reporter: bearing the cold and flowers in hand, north koreans have been gathering at the monument and pyongyang for the 10th death anniversary for the second supreme leader. citizens flock to play tribute. placing bouquets at his feet. >> as i, pure and see the image of our great general with his smile i cannot stop my tears. the old saying is that time moves on and everything changes. even though time goes on, we still miss our general. reporter: the day also marks tended -- 10 years of his son and absolute power. he inherited leadership aged 27. he has been accused of removing all potential rivals including his half-brother by nerve agent and his uncle for treason. he is the first ruler to hold a summit with the u.s. president meeting with president trump and 2018. the relations with the u.s. have not since developed. they have seen rapid progress in nuclear arsenal in the last decade. defying the un security

it ended with an armistice between the us, china and north korea, but south korea didn't agree to it. and no peace treaty was signed 71 years on. so i'm showing an a still, technically at war b. j kim is an affiliate professor at the hancock, university of foreign studies and formerly a south korean diplomat. he says the south korean president luigi and wants to officially end the war before he leaves office. this is an agenda, the president when jane has been working with ever since 2018 when trump and kim joel were meeting. that's the time when the president, when jane began airing, the idea of introducing that declaration of the end of the war. and his term president james term is ending. this coming may after march presidential election in this country. so this is one of the legacy is he wants the stablished before he steps down here before he leaves his office. though for him, this is a very important agenda. but the thing is, the fact that this has not been materialized ever since. it's an introduction of the idea to 1000 a in tells us it's pretty much a daunting task. it's not

the declaration will help revive peace talks with north korea.ountries are still t war and no peace deal was reached in 1953. swiss prosecutors say they are closing a corruption investigation into spain's for marking one car. -- former king juan carlos. spanish authorities are still investigating the case. long lines have formed outside covid vaccine centers across the u.k. after the government "to reduce this to anyone 18 and older -- the government opened up booster doses to anyone 18 and older, as cases of the omicron variant search. he is warning of a tidal wave of infections in the coming weeks, and other european countries are bracing for something similar. reporter: rolling up their sleeves for a third time. thousands of people in the u.k. lined up for their booster shots, after prime minister boris johnson told the country they were facing in omicron emergency -- an omicron emergency. >> we can see omicron spiking now in london and some other parts of the country. here in the capital, it represents about 40% of the cases. by tomorrow, it

we got along great with north korea.gh first patch, but they understood we are not playing games. not very much. >> sean: you once told me that really you thought we were on a path to war with north korea. >> i did a and so did president obama. we thought we were going to end up in war and that would have been a nuclear war and that not would have been good. did you ever call them? anyway, doesn't matter what his? response was, i decided let's see how we do when we met in singapore and, we met in vietnam, we had great meetings and we established a very goodna relationship. i liked him, he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: and we got the remains of our soldiers. you gave him nothing but some of your time, and i was at both of those summits. he stopped at the test firings of missiles and the pursuit of nuclear weapons. obviously, that was a good thing at a very different situation now we will get to in a minute. the second one that stood out to me is signing the largest tax cut in the history of the

and north korea has held a concert and fireworks display to celebrate the beginning of 2022. thousands attended the event in the capital of covenants. restrictions were extended in neighboring south korea. north korea claims to be one of the world's only countries to have not reported even a single case of cove with 19 or is of enclosed and other measures imposed to prevent an outbreak. 30, i'll tell you dealing with one of the 1st places in the world to see in the new year old and traditional midnight. fireworks were replaced with a light show due to the pandemic. how is the world prepared for the new year? ahead? let's take a look now, and some of the biggest stories covered by al jazeera in the year 2021. take a look at this. let's walk down pennsylvania avenue ah, the u. s. capital building under su. cannot, however, tara, from our responsibility to validate with joseph robin bye. your new songs were notions of what is known to go to is cherry always just ma, mazda and aquatic re elected leadership retained as the military stage, to the general thought of a bit bloodless qu, they c

north korea has come to a standstill for 3 minutes of silence and memory of the formerly the kim jong il is the 10th anniversary of his death state media called for national unity during the hardships of the panoramic last year. north korea faced its worst economic contraction since 1997 feel straight in children, remain critically injured after a gust of wind blew a bouncy castle that they were playing on. 5 of their playmates were killed when they fell around 10 meters of the inflatable was held in the air. the 11 year olds was celebrating their last week of primary school that has mania in tasmania before the christmas holidays. missionaries could not in haiti 2 months ago, have now all been released. it's all clear. if a ransom was paid for the 17 americans and canadians, some of them children, the gang had demanded $1000000.00 for each of the christian 8 workers. the final 12 were released on thursday. they were captured in october sophisticated village near the capital port. her prince chili's, 2 presidential candidates have made last ditch effort to win the voters before sunday

in the pacific those missile threats emanate from china and north korea. earlier this year china tested and advanced bombardment system that deployed a formidable hypersonic light vehicle capable of evading existing u.s. missile defenses. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley characterized the test as very close to a sputnik moment referring to the 1957 satellite launched by the soviet union that shocked america and demonstrated the kremlin's military technology prowess. in its annual report to congress on the chinese military released on november 3, the department of defense noted that the people's liberation army rocket force launched more than 250 ballistic missiles for testing and training in 2020 alone calling this more than the rest of the world combined. meanwhile, north gray continues to work on developing a range of missiles that threaten both south korea and japan including are forward station forces and increasingly threatening the united states. this -- their symmetry is expect both china and north korea will increase we att

north korea has held a concert and fireworks display to celebrate the beginning of $2022010.00 to the event of the capital. north korea claims to be one of the world's only countries to not have reported a single case of coven. 19 forties have been closed and other nations opposed to prevent an outbreak newsheel and was one of the 1st places in the world to see in the new year fulton's traditional midnight firewood so replaced with a light showed you to and amec hasn't yet been any community spread of only chrome there, but gatherings are being discouraged. now we're coming to the end of the news hour and the end of a tough year for many across the world. the coven 19 pandemic. continuing, claiming more than 5400000 lives will leave you with a look back at some of the biggest stories covered by al jazeera in 2021 see next year. but let's walk down pennsylvania avenue ah, the u. s. capital building under c cannot. however, tara, from our responsibility to validate with joseph robinson by your new songs, long notions of what is known to guilty is always just mia mas democrats. he electe