korea at the tim. there were supposed to be elections in the north and south. i said there was only an election the south. and so the united nations thought of south korea as that's the united nations entity, we are protecting them. even now in thet legal doctrina reason it's argued it was appropriate for president truman to unilaterally decide to go to war is that he was protecting an important american interest in what was that interest? the united nations there is great concern with the un survive? what would happen at this big objective failed? so that's one of the reasons that an action on behalf of the united nations seem to be tremendously important. >> from my perspective truman is very successfully able in the summer of 1950 to build a domestic and international coalition behind the troops. that evaporates by the end of the year. they are two overlapping factors here that coincide. what is the cold war the fact korea is important strategically because of geographic position in japan is a symbol. it's also important because truman is in independence, mis

obviously, it means happy birthday, north korea and i hoped you remember to get them something nice. it traces its founding to this date in 1948. today was full of terrified north korean citizens marching through the streets dressed identically doing synchronized things with flags and banners all pledging loyalty till death to this third generation of totalitarian dictators who have ruled that country since its findings in 1948. the cult of personality that is the north korean dictatorship involves essentially the worship of the kim family is gods on earth. and today on the occasion of north korea's birthday, the chinese president and the president of russia vladimir putin send warm congratulations to north korea and warm congratulations to kim jong-un praising his dictatorship promising close relations and cooperation in the future. at some level, maybe the birthday card from china and russia from north korea makes sense because both china and russia border north korea and all three of those countries are dictatorships of one type or another but they are in different votes and russia

of russia, vladimir putin, sent warm congratulations to north korea. warm congratulations to jim jong-un, praising his dictatorship, promising closing relations and cooperation in the future. and at some level, maybe the birthday card fromve china and russia for north korea makes sense. i mean, both china and russia do border north korea, all three of those countries are dictatorships of one kind or another. but china andd russia are kindf in different boats, right? b russia used to be communist, briefly tried on the idea of being a democracy, now under vladimir putin it's devolved into a variety of fascist dictatorship. russia waging the largest land grab since world war ii. china is still communist. china is also huge, both population wise and inhu terms its economic and geopolitical influence. china, of course, is the global superpower besides the united states. yeah, these are three dictatorships, two sending a birthday card tos, the third. t why are these two big swaggery countries, china and russia, kind of embarrassing themselves with this small

north korea traces its founding to this date in 1948. and so today was full of palpably terrified north korean citizens marching through the streets dressed identically, doing synchronized things with s flags and banners all pledging loyalty until death to the third generation of totalitarian dictators who have ruled that country since its founding in 1948. the cult of personality that undergirds the north korean dictatorship involves the worship of the kim family as gods on earth. today, on the occasion of north korea's birthday, the chinese president, xi jinping and the president of russia, vladimir putin, sent warm congratulations to north korea. warm congratulations to kim jong-un, praising his dictatorship, promising closinga relations and cooperation in the future. and at some level, maybe the birthday card from china and russia for north korea makes d sense. i mean, both china and russia do border north korea, all three of those countries are dictatorships of one kind or another.ip but china and russia are kind of in different boa

aerial bombardment of north korea is also just so important to understanding north korea today. a lot of people, you know, what happens, of course, in the korean war it has this sort of yo yo type ofwh course where noh korea is initially very successful in invading south korea and north korean forces occupy southko korea for a perid of time and that occupation is brutal and violent. but then after the landing, american forces occupy north korea with south korean forces and during that period they basically tried to completely overturn the north korean government and set upp a new government and so that period is also massively destructive and violent with, you know, massacres occurring, civilian deaths, people looking for revenge because, again, the civil -- the elements of the civill conflict are still ongoig throughout the korean war period so there's a lot of sort of violence at the societal level the's occurring all through korean war, but you want to understand north korea today, you have this period in which american forces are occupying north korea and china does, of cours

, there was once a trilateral institution, but it was entirely focused on scenario planning for north korea. continuously planning. aside from that, every trilateral summit that took place between the leaders of the three democracies in asia, the u.s., japan, and korea, usually on the sidelines of aipac, you and i were both involved in setting these things up, was entirely ad hoc. ad hoc, aren't they? when the three leaders met, it was entirely ad hoc on the sidelines of something. it was not a dedicated trilateral among the leaders. and so that is why cap david was so important. it really established this. what is the number now? 50 different meetings have taken place at all levels among the three countries on all issues from supply chains and security to the youth summit that will take place in august of students from japan, the united states, and korea. while on the one hand the institutionalization of japan, korea, china started much earlier than the u.s., japan, korea, and it has been resumed with the meeting that took place last week or two weeks ago. there is actually much more progr

i disagree with the perception that the camp david summit is directed at north korea. its commitment to work closely with the united states and japan. south korea is committed to contributing in maintaining peace and stability. if you want to know more about what south korea would do, i think this commitment says a lot about what kind of contributions they would make. >> thank you so much. i want to come back this way, if that is all right. i think the question on public opinion is right up your alley. >> i feel like a school kid with homework. [laughter] >> thank you the question. according to a recent poll from february, the question asked about the united states. 80.4% said yes, i love the united states. another question about south korea. 4.1% up from last year. it is good. 44%. 44% of them said yes. there is a lot of room for improvement. my colleagues in japan would do their best to make it 80%. i do not think we do enough research asking questions of the japanese. do you see americans having a trilateral cooperation? the answer is yes. i see that as a yes from al

a detention facility in south korea, where he was being held following a bar fight north korea is suspected of executing a number of officials held responsible for devastating flood damage this year, south korea's intelligence agency says, leader kim jong un is looking for someone to blame and lower-level officials are paying the price cnn's will ripley reports north korea is facing its worst flooding crisis in decades overwhelming destruction, an unknown number of dead could castro fee caused by heavy rains and human failure, lack of planning and preparation, plenty of blame to go around kim jong un's absolute power means he can't be criticized. >> he's going on a rampage punishing local officials, removing some from their posts, perhaps going even further. south korea's spy agency says, it's closely monitoring signs. north korea may have executed multiple officials over the flooding one report put the number as high as 30, citing an unnamed south korean official. any numbers are nearly impossible to verify, given north korea is expected liam isolation and rejection of all outside a did yo

yes, you are right, north korea has a lot of artillery shells.ans certainly have missiles, these short-range missiles, and they certainly have drones, so you're right, that's a problem. aid to ukraine can compensate and even outweigh the supply of these weapons, and what can will it happen that china starts supplying russia with weapons, and if that ever happens, will america's attitude toward war change? it won't change america's attitude toward this war, but it will change america's actions toward china. as of right now, we, the united states , have big sanctions, very tough sanctions against iran and north korea. china knows all about this. the chinese have large investments and do a lot of trade with the united states and europe. but north korea and iran do not trade much and do not have much investment in the united states states and europe. and china has, china understands that the same sanctions against it as sanctions against north korea or iran will harm the country, that is why china has not yet supplied russia with weapons, this is a d

north korea continues. it's active development of its nuclear ross nolan, nuclear weapons capability. it is now a south declared new p around states. i just thought that all of this is the time this loan think of its nuclear capability. it is time with the run out to the us elections. and in fact, south korean and us officials have recently ones that we could expect some much bigger kind of publication from those career as we get closer to us presidential elections. possibly in the form of a launch of an icbm and intercontinental ballistic missile of the kind of missiles capable of reaching the continental united states or even another underground nuclear tests. the kinds of nuclear tests that north korea has not now carried out for a number of years. and a to combine the oldest visit comes off the back of yet more missile launches from the no that's right to the state run media from those career has also released images of kim jong and overseeing a missile launch. this is thought to have been the take carr

they engage in illegal arms trade with north korea. any cooperation that directly or indirectly aids north korea's military capability is a blatant violation of the relevant united nations security council resolutions and undermines non -proliferation regime. we strongly urge north korea to comply with the relevant security council resolutions and to respond to our proposals to engage in dialogue. mr. president, the ongoing conflict in ukraine has aggravated geopolitical tensions worldwide presenting us with challenges of unprecedented scale. in order to fulfill its fundamental duty of maintaining international peace and security, the security council must devise effective strategies to navigate the complexities and overcome its inherent constraints. as a non-prominent member of the security council, the republic of korea reaffirms its unwavering support for an active participation in the council's work to this end with a renewed

so again, nuclear and north korea experts are saying this could be kim jong un trying to say north korea is nuclear and it's not going back to a time when it wasn't. now earlier this week here in the sole region, i had the opportunity to speak to former president trump's fourth national security advisor, robert o'brien. and i asked o'brien, would there ever be a chance of the united states agreeing to a nuclear freeze with north korea? saying that it has nuclear weapons, but no more nuclear weapons further north. he said that would be extremely tough listen to his comments to excuse the north koreans and say, okay, it's okay for north korea to have a bomb. >> it's pretty hard then to say, well know, around cannon i have a bomb and saudi arabia can't have a bomb to deter iran. it can't just be that the bad guys can get the bomb with impunity. >> north korea is acting with more confidence who could forget earlier in the summer when russian president vladimir putin came to the north korean capital to officially enter into a new military strategic partnership. one of the questions moving for

so, the only countries that are ready to sell weapons to russia are iran and north korea. look, who allocates weapons to ukraine? this is all of europe, this is the united states of america, this is japan, this is south korea, this is australia, this is new zealand, this is canada. the economic power, the economic strength of ukraine's allies, compared to russia's allies, is 20 to one. so ukraine has powerful allies, and russia only has iran and north korea. but there are still a lot of them. that's right, they have a lot of weapons, but they pay the price in the form of sanctions for providing these weapons. yes, you are right, north korea has a lot of artillery shells. and the iranians definitely have missiles, those short -range missiles, and they definitely have drones, so you're right, that's a problem. but our aid to ukraine can compensate and even outweigh the supply of these weapons. and what could happen that china starts supplying russia with weapons, and if that ever happens, will attitudes change? it won't change america's attitude toward this war, but it will c

well, the context of this was the sixth nuclear test by north korea, really. i mean, frankly, since you were on the ground in yongbyon, that was many years ago. you know, we haven't had anybody in north korea or had any real negotiation since then. not now. i know you were in the obama administration. no offense. three of our administration or the trump administration, but not the sort of negotiations that were taking place in six party or an agreed framework. it's been a long time. and so i think there was some heightened frustration and this led to a rash of public opinion polls in south korea said somewhere between 60 and 75% of south koreans thought that they should have nuclear weapons. so i guess one question is so you feel like the ncg and the washington declaration have have addressed some of these concerns and your general thoughts on this whole question of these these public imprint, this public opinion on the issue? yeah, no, thank you very much. i mean, first of all, to say it's to remind everybody that our colleagues in the republic of korea at th

north korea may have executed multiple officials over the flooding. one report put the number as high as 13, citing an unnamed south korean official any numbers are nearly impossible to verify, given north korea as extreme isolation and rejection of all outside aide. did you ever witness a public execution in north korea shrunk to when i was in middle school, i saw a soldier getting publicly executed i went out of curiosity. >> i couldn't eat for several days after that. >> that traumatic experience. >> one reason chung kwan part says he ran away from north korea 15 years ago despite his elite upbringing today, he's a south korean lawmaker what do you guys? >> it doesn't make sense why these public executions are still happening in north korea. but you know, kim jong un killed his own uncle. >> that executions sent chills through the north korean elite, made up of top party officials, diplomats, and senior officers. kim's uncle, jang song, tech was the second most it's powerful man in north korea. south korea is unification ministry says only around 5

so they brought in a ballistic missiles from north korea. and now they're proposing to bring in the ballistic missiles from iran. it's important, keep in mind that the ride has been supply. russia with missiles all along the street, 136 is that we just heard about. iran has been sending for about a year. and in fact, they've set up a plant in the, in russia to produce these missiles, these kamikaze drones. the ballistic missiles is a step up in a support, but not mentally, a change in policy. now tell us more about these miss. uh, uh, what could they be useful? so all these missiles will be used for the same things we've been seeing that is for mass, the tax on ukraine, particularly its infrastructure. but also cities where she has been doing is, has been gathering up all the production over a couple of weeks and then firing them all off at once. that way they hope to overwhelm the ukrainian air defenses is suppose to pass this be part of those attacks. ballistic missiles are harder to shoot down then the comma, comedies, kamikaze, drones th

north korea and china reconstituted russia's military capacity. in the wake of october 7, the steady escalation of violence by iran has further highlighted the impact as the houthis and hezbollah and avoided targeting russian surface ships but attacking those. the depth and collaboration expands which together we have seen the axis of upheaval and what might be done to address this threat i am welcoming adam smith and rob wittman. mr. smith serving parts of south seattle bellevue and served on the house armed services since 1997 and served as the chairman. he formerly chaired the subcommittee on air and land forces. and ranking member smith is served on the house foreign affairs committee. mr. wittman represents virginia's 1st district and richmond district and hampton and northern neck. and served as vice chairman of the house armed services committee and mr. wittman serves on the strategic competition between the united states and chinese communist party and i will turn to the members to offer their opening remarks and our virtual audience can a

— like north korea? well, first of all, like north korea?irst of all, the russian _ like north korea? well, first of all, the russian military l of all, the russian military has been building up his own suuply, has been building up his own supply, certainly, in the last year they recovered from the initial problems they had when they first invaded ukraine and they first invaded ukraine and they were unsuccessful in achieving their goals. but i was at a conference in kyiv last week and it was clear that this increase, particularly in the supply of north korean ammunition, is a great concern to the ukrainians.— to the ukrainians. talk about the stakes — to the ukrainians. talk about the stakes in _ to the ukrainians. talk about the stakes in the _ to the ukrainians. talk about the stakes in the legacy - to the ukrainians. talk about the stakes in the legacy for l the stakes in the legacy for presidentjoe biden. what about presidentjoe biden. what about president volodymyr zelensky of ukraine? he's going to be here, obviously, the us. he will b

this press has been talking about the democratic people's republic of korea, known in the west as north korea, as something exotic. practically never seen in history, and that puts the world in danger. well, what should we believe then? the democratic people's republic of korea was nothing. they were all starving people who had nothing to do, and now some few, of course, western journalists who accompanied president speak of the good life in the democratic people's republic of korea. and that it was not born from the struggle of people against japanese imperialism, and later against the bullying intervention of what is now american imperialism, maybe they don't know that it had to confront no less than 16 countries, the troops of 16 countries such as canada, the united states, the united kingdom, new zealand, colombia even and many others. turkey and of course it defeated them, but then general douglas mackar at the time threatened to drop on pyongyang, the atomic bomb that had entirely destroyed hiroshima and nakazaki, as if the koreans of the democratic people's republic of korea, north kor

this is the 1st time that north korea has revealed in such detail the inner workings of its uranium enrichment facilities. north career is suspected of having one or more such facilities at its nuclear sites. we had not told exactly which one this was or when this visit took place. about we see images of kim jong, done touring the facility, and also calling for the acquisition of more centrifuges, which are needed for the production of weapons grade uranium. this comes as north korea continues its active development of its nuclear capabilities in spite of international sanctions. as objections from south korea, we also see released on fridays images of conjunction, overseeing another weapons test. this is thought to have been the testing of a multiple, a rocket load system from north korea's east coast, carried out on thursday morning when we're also told that kim jong and visited a facility for the training of north korea and special forces he was pictured holding what appears to be a sniper rifle, the floating of uh, its nuclear capability and its military prowess all seems to be timed for t

outside aid did you ever witness a public execution in north korea shrug. when i was in middle school, i saw a soldier getting publicly executed when i went out of curiosity. i couldn't eat for several days after that. that traumatic experience. one reason chung kwan part says he ran away from north korea 15 years ago despite his elite upbringing. today, he's a south korean lawmaker, was regards it doesn't make sense why these public executions are still happening in north korea but you know, kim jong un killed his own uncle. >> that execution sent chills through the north korean elite made up of top party officials, diplomats, and senior officers. kim's uncle, jang song-thaek was the second most powerful man in north korea. south korea is unification ministry says only around 50 elite north koreans fled under kim's father that number has almost tripled under kim jong, un coinciding with his crackdown on corrupt officials also, the reason for the elite defection is that north korea, there's fewer benefits for the elite now. >> secondly, it's no secret that

in china, russia, iran, and north korea. but first three in particular. we have and maybe i have my old cia hat on, we have neglected the kind of strategic communications programs we had all through the cold war. directed at east europeans and russians about what was really going on in their societies, even in our covert programs benefit we had all we did was tell the truth, they knew it was the truth they wented it every day, we're not doing things like that in countries in particular, if they accuse us of doing it why not, i think part of our strategy getting under the skin of these guys. also getting the word to their people. about what is really going on in their countries, because we will end up confirming what most of them already know. and i think that is a big arrow in our quiver going forward, they are try doing it here. so, i am not getting the argument why we shouldn't be pressing back. >> well you have reminded me why covering you two was fascinating intellectual exercise and daunting one and reminding us how to -- 30 thousand feet from when w

this comes as north korea continues its active development of its nuclear capabilities. in spite of international sanctions. as objections from a south korea, we also see released on fridays images of conjunction, overseeing another weapons test. this is thought to have been the testing of a multiple, a rocket load system from north korea's east coast, carried out on thursday morning when we're also told that kim jong and visited a facility for the training of north korea and special forces he was pictured holding what appears to be a sniper rifle, the floating of uh, its nuclear capability and its military prowess all seems to be timed for the run up to us presidential elections. and we are owned by south korea and also us officials that we can expect a possibly a bigger publication as we get closer to the election date in the fall. and that may be the launch of an icbm and intercontinental ballistic missile, or even another underground nuclear test run mcbride, i'll just say era. so the $30000.00 voting workers have gone on strike in the us. that's often 96 percent of

and indeed, images released by north korea and state controlled media. do seem to show the flights of this missile 320 kilometers reportedly, and then exploding on the hillside in the very far north of the country. also what's different about this missile is the warhead, which was set to be a super heavy weight for the hoff tons convention. busy bullhead which suggests the kind of bunker bust the weapon that could be used potentially against an underground millet. 3 head quarters, a operated by the south korean military. all the u. s. allies that will be of concern to military chief here. also keeping up into korean tension levels has been yet more fresh build balloons loads from the north flight into south korea. and much to the annoyance of people here who have been getting constant voting messages on this smartphones well into the night, with more than a 160 balloons said to have been launched wednesday through into thursday. mocking the 21st batch of these uh balloons that had been launched by north korea since the stats of the summer. rubble cried o

this comes as north korea continues its active development of its nuclear capabilities. in spite of international sanctions. as objections from a south korea, we also see released on fridays images of conjunction, overseeing another weapons test. this is thought to have been the testing of a multiple, a rocket load system from north korea's east coast, carried out on thursday morning when we're also told that kim jong and visited a facility for the training of north korea and special forces he was pictured holding what appears to be a sniper rifle, the floating of uh, its nuclear capability and its military prowess all seems to be timed for the run up to us presidential elections. and we are owned by south korea. and that also us officials that we can expect a possibly a bigger publication as we get closer to the election date in the fall. and that may be the launch of an icbm and intercontinental ballistic missile, or even another underground nuclear test. rub, mcbride, i'll just say era. so the people in a nod, year and city that still launch the underwater and now fac

with north korea as well. our attempt to engage on risk reduction and nuclear issues has been answered with missile tests and greater hostility to us in our close allies, and outright refusal to even discuss arms-control peer pressure and the prc are failing to meet their international obligations. practically speaking there forcing the united states and our close allies and partners to prepare for a world where nuclear competition occurs without numerical constraints. the reality is that further enhancing our capabilities and postures is intelligently important. will incentivize russia and the prc to engage in arms-control, freeing the subject matter at the heart of those engagements, provide the united states with leverage in those engagements, and prepares for an environment in which they may continue to refuse engagement. we need to persuade our adversaries managing rivalry through arms-control is preferable to unrestrained permission across constraints. we should be under no illusions about the challenges

space ever increasing nuclear dimensional threats from russia, prc and north korea may worry about the credibility of our guarantees. under the president's leadership we are fully invested in strengthening our alliance system to ensure extended deterrence continue. the ductless united states and south korea is an example of her efforts to jointly approach nuclear sinners with her allies as equal partners. nay has taken steps to improve its capabilities, posture, exercises and planning. this is work were advancing ahead of the washington summit to account for russia's actions in europe including the nuclear domain. both asia and europe we are looking for ways allies can contribute to nuclear deterrence. whether by eating these burden on u.s. conventional or dual capable forces, or septic cap conventional support to u.s. nuclear operations in a contingency. enabling greater participation will increase allied confidence in u.s. security guarantees underachieve extended deterrence for nonproliferation approach that we have taken. this administration continues to uphold the nuclear nonproli

a lot that came from north korea, a lot that have come from russia. [30 from north korea, a lot that_ have come from russia. do you think that some _ have come from russia. do you think that some of _ have come from russia. do you think that some of that - have come from russia. do you think that some of that success| think that some of that success that you mention there, using their own weapons, would that be an impetus to press and maybe convince us allies that they should be able to use western weapons to do exactly the same thing? i western weapons to do exactly the same thing?— western weapons to do exactly the same thing? i don't see why not. i the same thing? i don't see why not- i don't _ the same thing? i don't see why not. i don't see _ the same thing? i don't see why not. i don't see why _ the same thing? i don't see why not. i don't see why not. - the same thing? i don't see why not. i don't see why not. if- not. i don't see why not. if the russians are firing at them, the ukrainians ought to be able to fire back. they've been able to do that. when we've given them the a

they, american nuclear adoption was extended to include not only a russia, but also china and north korea. what does it mean in practical terms, and is it still a given that to me share the same biology regardless of ideology him? i'll discuss that. i'm now enjoyed by ted postal professor emeritus of science technology and national security policy at mit. i'm former scientific advisor to the u. s. chief of naval operations. professor postal is great to have you on the show. thank you very much for taking the time. well, thank you very much for having me. uh, i think that the discussion between the russians and chinese and americans is a very good thing to be doing. and i'm very upset. as an american citizen, i should say that the united states is not talking to russia and china about these important issues. well, let's have this discussion between the 2 of us. i know that you're very concerned about an accidental nuclear war between the russian and the united states on lots of mid the fraud history between our countries has known quite a few examples of technical malfunctions which made t