is saying deterrence can prevent north korea's nuclear provocation. what can the united states consider the possibility of allowing it to challenge a nuclear threat? maj. gen. ryder: our policy hasn't changed when it comes to denuclearization of the korean peninsula. >> a prisoner exchange has been proposed for captured north korean soldiers and ukrainian soldiers detained in russia. maj. gen. ryder: that's really a question for president zelenskyy. i would refer you to him for any questions about prisoner exchanges. >> regarding the active-duty assets to potentially assist with the wildfires, do you have a sense of how long they're willing to wait on standby and should the call never come one will they say this is probably not happening, time to folded up? maj. gen. ryder: i think we will be ready as long as we need to be ready to support that. u.s. northern command working very closely with agencies, they are making hour-by-hour, day by day interpretations. i don't want to speculate about what the future could look like other than to say we understa

deterrence can prevent north korea's nuclear provocation? can the united states consider the possibility of allowing tactical nuclear weapons in south korea as another way to challenge north korea nuclear threat? general ryder: our policy hasn't changed when it comes to the denuclearization of the korean pens lasm. reporter: the korean president has proposed to north koreans, kim jeong uni, apertured north korean soldiers and ukraine soldiers in russia. what is the united states position? general ryder: that question for president zelenskyy. i'd refer you to him for questions about potential prisoner exchanges. reporter: regarding active duty assets currently on standby to assist with the california wildfire situation, do you have a sense of how long d.o.d. is willing to wait on standby? and should the call never come, who has the authority to say, this this isn't happening, time to pack it in. general ryder: we'll be ready as long as we need to be. the u.s. command working with fema, they're making an hour-by-hour, day-by-day determination i

but characterize a bit the threats we face with north korea and iran. obviously very different ones. >> they are very different and here, at the basic level is with your most different. north korea is a nuclear power, and they view nuclear weapons as the best deterrent to regime change. nuclear weapons are how they're going to maintain control internal in their own country and to fend off of the world powers like the united states and remain relevant. iran doesn't have that. they aspire to be a world, i mean a nuclear power. we all have the capability to stop one of those two countries from getting a nuclear weapon, and that's iran. the thing about iran response in the intelligence community is i mentioned north korea using nuclear weapons as a deterrent as we maintaining power. we don't know what the iranians would use a nuclear, a deliverable nuclear weapon for. when you before a effect or for an offensive effect? talk about a regime that is based on religious zealotry and is essentially a terrorist nation, a terrorist designated state, the concern is

side, for example, north korea is having its assets in russian banks that were frozen under u.n. security council resolution direction, being unfrozen, a diplomatic lifeline being thrown to the north koreans where previously china had the prerogative there. and so you see each of these countries becoming potentially more dangerous than they would be on their own because of the support they can rely on from the other members, and then again in this broader sense, you see a place for other rejectionist countries to defect to. so if you don't like the way the world is ordered now, for many years you could sort of shake your fist at the world or become something of a rogue state, but there wasn't this sort of viable alternative to it. and now these four countries plus others are trying to construct what they believe to be a viable alternative to it and that's one to which other dissatisfied countries could add weight. bay: yeah, that's really interesting. ambassador blackwill, can you speak more about the alliance on the economic front and what the implications are for u.s. policy in

charles coast costs as the projectile has already full, and north korea has repeatedly displayed its expanding listed missile. also following a wave of missiles back in november also, well, both south korea and the us of condemned p on yang for the last 6 to states entity, blink, and sol. well, here we have to ration washington's commitment to defend his allies. you choose north korea, violating un security council resolutions will bring this visit comes at a time when americans regional allies in the middle of political turmoil off to present even sucky all was in peach for announcing martial lyn consent. that was serious concerns about some of use actions straight to soul and i speak to patrick falk, whose life was to patrick. uh, firstly uh on this uh mr. launch. any more details? interesting timing. given the the presence of blinking in the region. yeah, absolutely. this launch took place, certainly about a couple of as it goes up through the defense ministry said this was an intermediate range ballistic missile. it was fired into the seats of the piece of the korean peninsula abo

we believe north korea was exaggerating the capabilities of its missile system, including the flight distance and 2nd peak. okay, according to the analysis by south korea, us and japan, the missile flew about 1100 kilometers and there was no 2nd peak. no, it wouldn't be difficult to use such systems in a relatively small territory like the korean peninsula. well, there you go. you have a couldn't a b, right? because this, this i'll actually be useless and a potential conflict. no, absolutely not. sensible. they are right. the missile won't be used in south korea . there's no reason to use the missile like us and south korea. north korea has more than enough to reach sol, which is not far from the border and reach any other point and known as the current balance. so i guess wherever comes from, particularly from the south. now, on the other hand, as a deterrent as a strategic where this is a very active, realistic weapon. this is a weapon system that can destroy, for example, the more facilities in guam and why don't we do is the main logistics space for the us military. and the wester

they are most different north korea is a nuclear power. and they view nuclear weapons as best deterrent to regime change. nuclear weapons are how they will maintain control, internally in their own country and fend off other world powers like united stateses and remain relevant. iran does not have that, they aspire to be a world -- nuclear power. we only have capability to stop one of those two from getting a nuclear weapon that is iran. and so, you know, the thing about iran that worries us and i mentioned north korea using nuclear weapons as a deter ep. deterrent, we don't knowng what iranians would use a nuclear weapon for, you talk about a terrorist nation, the concern is make shooing that regime never gains access to a deliver able d nuclear weapon, and intelligence community is clearr eyed about that. >> and -- continues to be major disrupter in middle o east. >> one of the issues, right now we have seen the abraham accords and peace agreements that is a result of iran being weaker, poorer and less influential in recent years than in

>> the question was on north korea and north soldiers.nothing is changed from our system and which i think we gave a few weeks ago or maybe last week. approximately 1000 dprk casualties. acts of them mixup killed killed in action wounded in action. i don't have more than what we have previously given. [inaudible] >> i don't have anything on those reports and our partnership is with the fds. we work with them when itit coms to continuing to degrade isis capabilities in the region whethereg it be partner or unilateral strikes if you've seen them conduct and was most recently as in the past few weeks. and [inaudible] >> again thehe work that we do n serious in partnership with fds. it's important to remember the whole reason we are in syria to defeat isis. that is a partnership but they fds whether it be strikes our entire mission inn syria is to ensure they continue to be isis. >> a follow-up and exclusive what's going to be released tomorrow in the pda how much has been, drawn up in the 72 pda's o far roughly? i can tell you how much we ha

japan's coast guard also said north korea fired what could be a ballistic missile.e keeping track of this development. kimjoon—hyung is an opposition mp from the rebuilding korea party. he told me what his party has been trying to do during this month of turmoil in south korea. we're trying to monitor how police arrest the president. we are actually sending letters to the cio and to get there and participating and watching over the rest of the day's events, so w are trying everything to do. ——so we are trying everything to do. the arrest warrant will expire today, though an exemption has been requested. the cio — corruption investigation office — has transferred obligation to make the arrest to the police. what do you make of that and why is it so difficult for the rest to be carried out? you summarised it well in the beginning, yes. the cio is a new agency created by the moon government. it is not really well staffed. they were outnumbered by security services, presidential security service and actually helped by the military. so, police, there's more members to do

south korea has tried to downplay the weapons capability, managers on an inquiry, what we believe north korea was exaggerating the capabilities of its missile system, including the flight distance and 2nd peak. according to the analysis by south korea, us and japan, the missile flew about 1100 kilometers and there was no 2nd peak. no, it wouldn't be difficult to use such systems in a relatively small territory, like the korean peninsula possible they are right. the missile won't be used in south korea. there's no reason to use the missile like us in south korea. north korea has more than enough to reach sol, which is not far from the border and reach any other point and known as our current balance. so like if, wherever comes from, particularly from the south. now, on the other hand, as a deterrent as a strategic web. this is a very active, realistic weapon. this is a weapon system that can destroy, for example, the port facilities in guam and warm. it gives the main logistics space for the us military in the western uh long uh it has a marine brigade station there. it's got 4 facilities repa

and a serious issue for the safety of our people. japan has lost, stood in protest against north korea, and we strongly contain such actions in united states as condemns north career off to it, fight at the ballistic massage during a visit by secretary of state and people and come to so patrick fault has the license from so the north korea's missile launches have become more frequent as tensions grow with so, but there's been a lot of activity since november before the political crisis in south korea unfolded mondays, firing of what was believed to be an intermediate range, ballistic missile coincides with what's likely to be the last international trip, but the us secretary of state anthony blinking cold yet another violation of multiple un security council resolutions by north korea. we have sought to engage the dpr k, and multiple efforts to sit down to talk without any preconditions. we communicated that on many occasions. we've done it privately. we've done it publicly us and the only response effectively we've gotten has been more and more provocative actions including missile la

side, for example, north korea is having its assets in russian banks that were frozen under u.n. security council resolution direction, being unfrozen, a diplomatic lifeline being thrown to the north koreans where previously china had the prerogative there. and so you see each of these countries becoming potentially more dangerous than they would be on their own because of the support they can rely on from the other members, and then again in this broader sense, you see a place for other rejectionist countries to defect to. so if you don't like the way the world is ordered now, for many years you could sort of shake your fist at the world or become something of a rogue state, but there wasn't this sort of viable alternative to it. and now these four countries plus others are trying to construct what they believe to be a viable alternative to it and that's one to which other dissatisfied countries could add weight. bay: yeah, that's really interesting. ambassador blackwill, can you speak more about the alliance on the economic front and what the implications are for u.s. policy in

that really hasn't been an awful lot of miss all activities from north korea. and you know, this is important also because north korea has been relatively quiet since this vertical crisis is unfolded. it's important because of the context of the declaration of the martial law or the by present june. remember, he says that there are communist forces that are working against the states and the government. and this is something that is supported by his supporters that have been asked and force over the weekends. and they are claiming that there was a lecture for that have taken place in the parliamentary elections and they are strongly suggesting that this was the work of north korean forces. so, you know, since then young young perhaps is wanted to stay quiet and not wants to play, play to the hands of these claims until now. so it had allowed to 0. i am, i'm going to be and i do. there's no toys what our military offensive, i guess i'm groups to rising communities of the region is putting them on the wrong treasure from the sky. meet you and hundreds and surely

and yet another violation of multiple un security council resolutions by north korea. we have sought to engage the dpr k, and multiple efforts to sit down to talk without any free conditions. we communicated that on many occasions. we've done it privately. we've done it publicly. and the only response effectively we've gotten has been more and more provocative actions including missile launches, blankets visit is primarily to reaffirm the alliance that's been built up during jo biden's thomas president. he says it's been a priority of administration to revitalized partnerships with countries including south korea. but the trips being complicated by the crisis here after president gets a gills failed of martial law or the last month and his subsequent impeachment of a view in a press briefing south chris 4 minutes to face an uncomfortable question. comparing president young's actions to those of an autocratic leader, we known in south korea is often seen as a model case for achieving rapid democratization and driving economic growth in a short period. and we have, i bel

it's not only what russia is getting from russia but what -- from north korea but what north korea is getting from russia. iran has also benefited from this relationship. china is also part of this mix but in a slightly different place because it is so much more connected and in ways interdependent with the world that it does have to ask itself what the reputation all costs of this kind of alignment is and what consequences will be if it goes too far. we are seeing that play out in ways we very much -- but most of these are marriages of convenience, not marriages of conviction but that does not make them any less dangerous. thing about it this way. you now have an ongoing aggression by russia against ukraine and the primary drivers of that, it is sustaining it is actually north korea with missiles and troops in china with its contributions. this has greeted an awakening among europeans at what is happening halfway around the world in the into pacific matters to them just as we are seeing an awakening among countries that what is happening in europe actually matters to them. we built b

reporter: on north korea and the ukraine, on north korea, there was new middle range -- and kim jong un said it could affect the barrier and turn on the enemy and the u.s. territory as a target in case of contingency. what's the pentagon's reaction on this? secretary singh: we're aware of north korea's launch of a ballistic missile. as always we conduct closely with our allies in the region. we condemn these actions, and would continue to urge the dprk from further unlawful and destabilizing acts. we've seen this type of behavior bofer. while we don't assess that it presents a threat to u.s. forces, we're going to continue to monitor the situation. reporter: violation of the -- secretary singh: i think you've heard us say that previously many times before. it's something we've seen the dprk do in the past, we take this seriously and will continue to consult with our allies in the region. reporter: ukrainian said to negotiate an end to the war with russia, guarantees made for ukraine. how would you characterize this? secretary singh: i'll let president zelenskyy's words speak for them

we appreciate _ china, north korea. we appreciate your - china, north korea.rmoil in south korea. let's now turn our attention to canada. lcal media are reporting that prime ministerjustin trudeau could step down in the coming days. the globe and mail quoting sources close to the matter said mr trudeau may resign as leader of the liberals ahead of a party meeting on wednesday. it follows months of pressure to resign, including from more than 20 members of his own party. we shall keep a very close eye on that and update you on any new developments. awards season is getting under way in hollywood with the 82nd golden globes ceremony kicking things off in beverly hills. stars including ariana grande, first—time winner demi moore and british star kate winslet took to the red carpet ahead of the ceremony. nikki glaser hosted the awards, celebrating both film and tv, and are widely seen as the first big awards ceremony of the season. let's speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. he has been watching it all for us. peter, tell us all the top line from t

he warned of the deepening relationship between russia in north korea. >> it comes as thousands of north korean troops joined russia on the battlefield in ukraine. now we have reason to believe that moscow intends to share that space. >> and satellite technology is appealing both republicans and democrats in congress say the alliance of these 2 adversaries is concerning both koreas invading europe right now, which is a testament to this axis of authoritarianism. massachusetts democrat jay caulking class as the u.s. should support ukraine and allies facing threats globally. >> he says he's concerned about that under president-elect donald trump that requires an america strong approach with our allies on america. first approach that retreats behind a protective walls. but republican congressman like michigan's tim walberg say they trust the incoming president's foreign policy. the leadership of this incoming administration will establish the course. georgia's buddy carter says the global threats only add urgency to confirming president-elect trump's cabinet picks. the longer it takes to ha

as people have pointed out, they have tried to put both north korea into a war in order to justify this martial law in position. according to bilateral treaty of south korea and united states in time, a more united states. as soon as operational control of the south korean military, so there's no way that the south korean military would have done this on their own use. their intended purpose was to provoke a conflict. there's no way they would not have done. they would have done this without informing and getting go ahead and approval from united states. this then, and from what we have, i have observed to us. they had been very silent about president your school. only see, they say it was they, we are firms are higher in clack, committed to south korea. next he's been cold, bloody blink, and i'm the secretary of genocide and his speech outlining a post full time. so dawes, are the outgoing us secretary of state was repeatedly heckled uninterrupted. we strengthened americans, over entourage and delivered on the present funds. the thank you, i respect your views. please allow me to share

he warned of the deepening relationship between russia in north korea. >> it comes as thousands of north korean troops joined russia on the battlefield in ukraine. now we have reason to believe that moscow intends to share space. >> and satellite technology showing both republicans and democrats in congress say the alliance of these 2 adversaries is concerning both koreas invading europe right now, which is a testament to this axis of authoritarianism. massachusetts democrat jay caulking class as the u.s. should support ukraine and allies facing threats globally. >> he says he's concerned about that under president elect donald trump that requires in america. >> strong approach with our allies on america. first approach that retreats behind a protective walls. but republican congressman like michigan's tim walberg say they trust the incoming president's foreign policy. the leadership of this incoming administration will establish the course. georgia's buddy carter says the global threats only add urgency to confirming president-elect trump's cabinet picks. the longer it takes to have the

the russians have deployed strong units to kursk with soldiers from north korea involved.owing developments from kyiv. a spokesperson said fighting was ongoing in the city and two weeks ago, ukraine announced it was withdrawing some of its units from the area to prevent them from being encircled. we didn't expect this to a certain extent. it is not a big city, largely in ruins, as are most of the towns that russia is fighting for in the east. much more important and a bigger loss for ukraine would be if russian forces were now to advance and take the key strategic hub of pokrovsk, nearby. these developments come as ukraine has launched a fresh offensive in russia's kursk region according to ukrainian and russian officials, fighting is continuing there now for a second day and pro— kremlin military bloggers who are posting on social media say that ukraine carried out a large—scale assault there but they say the russian forces so far are managing to successfully hold the ukrainians back. of course, russian forces there have been bolstered by thousands of troops from north ko

>> senator as you know the challenge with north korea is visibility. my impression from the outside, like you as a member of an oversight committee of intelligence is that we have very good collection. i'm only caveat owning it because if confirmed as dni ma habit v different viewpoint or more information to look at. i would make it a priority i think collection obviously an analysis of intelligence is what makes us the greatest intelligenceis enterprise in ths world. i will commit if we are not doing enough, senator, i will make it a high priority to improve any standards that we may need to employ. thank you, congratulations on your nomination. think that is you people watching on television can't see how far away i am. we've got to know each other a little bit over the years not in the setting of intelligence but mutual friends. i just kind of went to ask a simple and straightforward question. you have an accomplished career. you are by electoral standards in the seat that would be considered by report of the safe district. you seem to be enjoying y

korea. but you have to remember that. so north grant has been relatively quiet. it's on the whole since this whole political crisis unfolds it and in fact, but it hasn't really been any sorts of missile activity around the korean peninsula . since that's a flurry of miss solves. that were 5, as you mentioned, just a moment ago in november. and that's significant when you think of the context of what's been happening here and the concepts behind procedures marshall low declaration. remember, he says that there are communists, forces that are operating within the country. and important in the context of the process would have been taking place as well. when you think about his supporters that have been out here on the streets, they are saying that the parliamentary elections was stolen and strongly suggested that north korean forces behind it. now, north korea has kept pretty quiet as i say, since then, possibly because joanne doesn't want to play into the hands of these claims. and so in many ways that is significant, although, as i say not such a surprise necessa

they have tried to put both north korea into a war in order to justify this martial law in position. according to bilateral treaty of south korea and united states in time, a more united states as soon as operational control of the south korean military. so there's no way that the south screen military would have done this on their own use. their intended purpose was to provoke a conflict. there is no way they would not have done. they would have done this without informing and getting go ahead and approval from united states. this then, and from what we have, i have observed to us. they have been very silent about president us cool. only see they say it was a we are firms are higher and clack, committed to south korea of the the malia and government has seized a canadian mining companies. gold stock pile. the move comes after months of back and forth between barracka gold and the bottom co which has been enforcing and professional order for changes to the countries mining laws. last week, eric gold corporation confirms that the company remains restricted from shipping gold from the l

>> senator as you know the challenge with north korea is visibility. my impression from the outside, like you as a member of an oversight committee of intelligence is that we have very good collection. i'm only caveat owning it because if confirmed as dni ma habit v different viewpoint or more information to look at. i would make it a priority i think collection obviously an analysis of intelligence is what makes us the greatest intelligenceis enterprise in ths world. i will commit if we are not doing enough, senator, i will make it a high priority to improve any standards that we may need to employ. thank you, congratulations on your nomination. think that is you people watching on television can't see how far away i am. we've got to know each other a little bit over the years not in the setting of intelligence but mutual friends. i just kind of went to ask a simple and straightforward question. you have an accomplished career. you are by electoral standards in the seat that would be considered by report of the safe district. you seem to be enjoying y

there was a high possibility of him endangering people's lives by provoking north korea, causing chaos near the military di medication line. and in the end causing um clash the citizens. you have to find the guy outside. interestingly enough of north korea's state media has already commented on a humans decision to implement this martial law, calling it an insane act, reminiscent of the countries a previous military dictatorships. but i gather the south. koreans was quite happy with the president you'd even before they sold kicks off. well, that's right. i mean, as of december of last year i use popularity actually fell to a record low of 11 percent. and that may have something to do with his support for the country, sending weapons to ukraine. i mean, as of now souls only sending humanitarian aid a to key of but the, i'm only, i'm here 13 percent of the country actually wants to send military aids to the country. and this is a major talking point of the opposition saying that the president's hawk is stands here is a slap in the face for the will of the people of supporting sending let

there is a high possibility of him endangering people's lives by provoking north korea, causing chaos near the military demarkation line. and in the end, closing an armed clash, the citizens you have to find by outside the number of provocative actions have taken place under his administration. according to investigators, the supreme government had already sent drones into north korean territory. add to specifically provoke the government there. and create a pretext for this implementation of martial law. after verification, we have confirmed that a south korean drone was indeed sent to pyongyang. the defense counter intelligence command appears to have planned a drone dispatch. interestingly enough, even young yang state run media has commented on humans in possession of marshal law saying that it was insane. and that it was reminiscent of the country's past military dictatorship. but washington's express little more than so called serious concerns, no doubt, because the president of south korea is an ally of the us who continues to facilitate america's military occupation of his cou

no last month, patrick fault, cuz the latest from so north korea's missile launches have become more frequent as tensions grow with so but there's been a lot of activities since november, the full, the political crisis and south korea unfolded. let me see mondays firing of what was believed to be an intermediate range ballistic missile coincides with what's likely to be the last international trip by the us secretary of state antony blinking, cold. and yet another violation of multiple un security council resolutions by north korea. we have sought to engage the dpr k and multiple efforts to sit down to talk without any preconditions we communicated that on many occasions. we've done it privately. we've done it publicly. and the only response effectively we've gotten has been more and more provocative actions including missile launches. lincoln's visit is primarily to reaffirm the alliance that's been built up during jo biden's thomas president. he says it's been a priority, a bit administration to revitalize partnerships with countries including south korea. but the trips being compli

china, russia, north korea, iran, but they are now working together and that is a distinction that is really important and really dangerous. we are in a world where our government needs to be actively working internationally to reduce the threats and frankly countering those autocracies from a position of strength, increasing our deterrence, increasing our diplomacy. so that is number one threat. of course there are still issues with nuclear proliferation validity climate change, few global threats host: as well. host:both of you have mentioned ukraine, i will point to a reuters article that has been reported in many places that trump says he sympathizes with russia's opposition to nato membership ukraine and president-elect donald trump settled tuesday, this is january 7, he sympathized with the russian position that ukraine should not be a part of nato and he lamented that he will not meet russian president vladimir putin before his administration. he was asked about the future of the war in ukraine and the role of nato as well as russia's posture last week. with listen to a clip of

she was president clinton's of state and she go to north korea. after i went and negotiated with the north koreans. and i don't have millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars in fact, i've never given $1 to the north koreans. so don't know who wrote that newspaper article, but it's obviously written someone who's either deliberately misleading readers like you or just doesn't know what the facts are. the email is there any one president that has been more influential to you in your ideas, commitment, in your writings, and as you lead the nation as you the nation? well, i wouldn't say writings. my favorite president in this century and the one one in my lifetime has been harry truman. and harry truman has had more impact my life than any other particular president. i served under him as a submarine officer. he my commander in chief and i inherited some of his one particularly concerning civil rights. harry truman was a was my preeminent hero on civil rights when i was still in the navy in 1948, i was just a young officer. harry truman o

one of them was to try to reach a deal with north korea. 0nce try to reach a deal with north korea.es that really difficult? what can we learn from the first residency? t from the first residency? i think we can learn that from the first residency? t think we can learn that this is a man who enjoys negotiating. he clearly enjoyed his discussions with north korea. and to be fair on him, he made some progress there. i mean, it has all unravelled and does not seem to be on his agenda again. we will be seeing a lot of that, a lot more aggressive approach, much more outward looking, much more bellicose, as i was saying. the real issue, the one that is worrying everybody in europe, is what he is going to do in ukraine and with russia. i wouldn't be surprised if we are going to see some quick action fare as well. a, ., ., ~ , ., well. david maddox, thank you very much _ well. david maddox, thank you very much for— well. david maddox, thank you very much for sharing - well. david maddox, thank you very much for sharing your- very much for sharing your analysis. here in the uk, the prime min

this political crisis also comes at a very fragile time when north korea is increasingly close on an in the us, the incoming administration there has a lot of issues on the table that they would like to discuss with south korea, ranging from military spending, tariffs and us troops presence. so this political vacuum in south korea really is raising a huge problem for the country. we are showing live shots from outside the presidential residence, so one final question, we are almost out of time, president yoon has his supporters and his critics who say he is putting himself as an individualfirst, head of the country, so what could happen next? could the acting president intervene in some way? president intervene in some wa ? ., ., , president intervene in some wa? ., ., way? coi already asked the actin: way? coi already asked the acting president _ way? coi already asked the acting president to - way? coi already asked the acting president to step - way? coi already asked the acting president to step in l way? coi already asked the i acting president to step in and trying to ask him t

officials are raising concerns about the growing ties between russia and north korea. washington correspondent maddie beer-temple reports on the u.s. reaction to the strengthening relationship. >>bwell, secretary of state antony blinken visited south korea monday. north korea tested a ballistic missile, weakened them. >> the dprk missile launch just today. yet another violation of multiple un security council resolutions in blinken's likely last overseas trip before leaving office. he warned of the deepening relationship between russia in north korea. >> it comes as thousands of north korean troops joined russia on the battlefield in ukraine. now we have reason to believe that moscow intends to share space. >> and satellite technology is appealing both republicans and democrats in congress say the alliance of these 2 adversaries is concerning both koreas invading europe right now, which is a testament to this axis of authoritarianism. massachusetts democrat jay caulking class as the u.s. should support ukraine and allies facing threats globally. >> he says he's concerne

iran, russia, china, north korea. korea. but that's more on a weakness that out of strength. administration begins, the united states is in a fundamentally stronger position with respect to these countries than we were four years ago. today, i can report to the american people we are in a better strategic position in the long-term competition with china than we were when i took office. you will all recall and experts believe are predicting it was inevitable that china's economy would surpass ours. according to any predictions that would happen by the year 2030 or shortly thereafter. but we in this room said no. we make investments in ourselves, , we protect workers and technology. that will not happen. now according to the latest predictions on china's current course, , they will never surpas us, period. i met one-on-one with president xi at consequential sums. he and i have always been direct and straightforward with each other. i made it clear, we expect china and are going to abide by the international rules. and so we stood up against unfair trade practices, , taking acti