before a north korean who wants to do that, it's next to impossible. you can't make a phone call to north korea. you can't send an e-mail or text message or facebook and you can't even mail a letter. so the exiles have created a black market in information. they hire chinese careerist across the border and deliver messages, or sometimes they deliver chinese cellphones to a north korean relatives, tell the relatives to go to an area near the border on a certain day at a certain hour, turn on the phone and receive a phone call from their relative who has escaped to a different country. in south korea, north korean exiles have formed corporations whose purpose is to get information in north korea. there are four radio stations run by north korean exiles fed broadcast to north korea. the kim family regime that creates the greatest, most prosperous nation on earth and they are the world's happiest being exposed for the lie that it is. north korea dictator, it can jump to after his father died, kim junco and understand the threat that information poses to thi

it is set to give one example there are four radio stations run by north korean exiles that broadcast daily to north korea. the mantra of

last year, 2757 north koreans reached safety in the south. so, they people to get out now have formed a large, there's enough of them that they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. and there have been several books published about life in north korea, and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korean refugees are performing a second equally important function. hard to believe, more important to their helping to open up their own information starved homeland. just ask the world now knows more about north korea, north koreans now know far more about the world. this, too, is thanks to the efforts of north koreans who have escaped. how do they do that? think a minute. any immigrant who goes to a new country, what's the first thing he wants to do? he wants to lead his family back home know that he is okay. and tell them about his new life. but for a north korean who wants to do that, it's next to impossible. you can't make a phone call to north korea. you can send an e-mail o

the north korean refugees are performing a second equally important function. i do believe more importantly they are helping to open their own information starved homeland just as the world knows more about north korea, north koreans know more about the world. this too is thanks to the efforts of north koreans who have escaped. how do they do that? any immigrant who goes to a new country what is the first thing he wants to do? to let his family back home know that he is okay and tell them about his new life but for a north korean who wants to do that it is next to impossible. you can't make a phone call in north korea or send an e-mail or text message or facebook and can't even mail a letter so the exiles have created a black market in information. they hire chinese careers to cross the border and deliver a messages or sometimes delivered chinese cellphones to a north korean relative to tell the relative to go to an area near the border on a certain day at a certain hour, turn on the phone and receive a phone call from the relative who has escaped to a different

north korean officials want the world to know their country is changing. this newly opened italian restaurant offers 11 different types of pizza. its popular with locals, and it's also attracting tourists. >> in the western media you don't see stuff like this, so it's really interesting. >> reporter: people in north korea are currently enjoying a traditional holiday period. they take time to honor their ancestors and relax. their leader is never far from their minds. >> translator: kim jong-un is devoting himself to run the country to better its people's lives. we're enjoying the holiday, praising kim jong-un and the workers party. >> reporter: the people we met make up a small percentage of the population. north korean authorities only allow foreign media to interact with those who are well-off. u.n. world food program representatives estimate 60 million people or 70% of the population are not getting enough food. heavy rains and several typhoons this summer have made the situation worse, and they expect north koreans, mainly in rural areas, will face a s

the joint chiefs of staff here in seoul describe to reporters how he managed it. >> translator: north koreanur guard post in an inter-korean management zone at 12:00 p.m., october 6. our army has raised its military alert in the area but there has been no extraordinary moves by the north korean army so far. >> reporter: seoul says the soldier was on guard duty when he killed his platoon and his squad leaders. he was then able to cross the border without being stopped. south korean guards say they heard the gunfire before seeing the north korean soldier fleeing after it was confirmed that he did in fact want to defect, he was taken to an undisclosed location and interrogated. very few manage to cross this tightly controlled border, in fact, the last time a north korean soldier succeeded was two and a half years ago, according to the defense ministry here in seoul. >>> this is what happens when we take america's stars of tv and film and turn them over to cnn.com users. >> okay. this guy has a room full of kermit and action figures behind him. >> that's "saturday night live" co-star getting gri

. >>> a north korean soldier has done what very few others have been able to.the south and told authorities when he got there, he had just killed his superior. cnn's paula hancocks has details. >> reporter: it's not unknown but certainly rare for someone to escape through the dmz. it is described as the most heavily fortified border on earth and yet a north korean soldier was able to walk across it on saturday. the joint chiefs of staff described to reporters how he managed it. >> translator: a north korean soldier has lef our army has raised its military alert in the ya but there's been no extra ordinary moves. >> he was then able to cross the border without being stopped. south korean guard says they heard the gunfire before seeing the north korean soldier fleeing after it was confirm thad he did, in fact, want to defect. he was taken to an undisclosed location and interrogated. very few managed to cross this tightly controlled border. in fact, the last time a north korean soldier succeeded was 2 1/2 years ago, according to the defense ministry here in seoul.

north korean officials want the world to know their country is changing. this newly opened italian restaurant offers 11 different types of pizza. it's popular with locals, and it's also attracting tourists. >> in the western media you don't see stuff like this, so it's really interesting. >> reporter: people in north korea are currently enjoying a traditional holiday period. they take time to honor their ancestors and relax, but their leader is never far from their minds. >> comrade kim jong-un is devoting himself to running the country to better its people's lives. we're enjoying the holiday, praising kim jong-un and the workers party. >> reporter: the people we met make up a small percentage of the population. north korean authorities only allow foreign media to interact with those who are well off. u.n. world food program representatives estimate 60 million people, or 70%, of the population are not getting enough food. heavy rains and several typhoons this summer have made the situation worse, and they expect north koreans mainly in rural areas will fac

korea, to give just one example, there are four radio stations run by north korean exiles that broadcast daily to north creigh -- north korea. the man tray of the kim family regime that north korea is the greatest, most prosperous nation on earth and that the north korean people are the happiest is being exposed for the lie it is. >> watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. up next on booktv, "afterwords," with james hershberg of the cold war international history project. this week, david coleman and his book "the 14th day: jfk and the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis," and in it, they detail the days following october 28th, 1962 and show that the public believed the crisis ended, president kennedy continued to walk a fine diplomatic line to secure the removal of nuclear weaponry from cuba. >> host: david, as you know, there's a ton of literature about the cuban missile crisis, most focusing on the 13 days as bobby kennedy's memoir was called in 1969 and the hollywood version. what made you focus on the aftermath? >> guest: two things i wanted to talk about with this boo

a senior north korean official outlines a diplomatic policy to the u.n. general assembly. north korea's vice foreign minister use aid podium at the united nations to announce a change of course. he said his country wants to build relations with other countries. he said the united states should change what it called its hostile stance. >>> the door has opened to a new era. we will forgery lags relationse friendly with us, without being bound by the past. >> north korean officials failed in launching a satellite carrying rocket. trying to test ballistic missile technology. pak accused the u.s. of forcing the council of the launch. and he accused south korean president of causing interkorean relations to hit rock bottom. some people from japan are an emotional and spiritual journey in north korea. paying their respects to relatives they lost at the end of world war ii. fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, who died and were buried far from home. nhk world reports from pyongyang. >> reporter: parents or siblings of the group's members died of illness or hunger while intern

>> well, it's credible in the sense that north koreans have in developing their ballistic missiles developed their technology but still very much a technology that hasn't demonstrated what they and north korea have been claiming. when they claimed to launch satellite to extend their ballistic missile to say they could hit the u.s. some would say is not a reality yet. >> when someone is exacting a claim like, this you know what i mean washington and seoul would have factoried that in. simply the problems of the technical capacity -- >> absolutely. i think this is probably much more, if we want to explain it, a case of political rhetoric. the north feel compelled in the face of the extension of the missile capabilities and the result of the disagreement with the americans demonstrate they can respond in a way but perhaps most importantly, the military. we have seen the succession from kim oni will had a shift in central gravity. and yet the military remains an important actor in the north korean political environment, and i think what we're seeing is a government seeking to assure its key cons

so what this meant in the critical first battle to stop the north korean advance that the marines were doing what is called combined arms operation. but the infantry was moving, they have their own planes in naval aviation's overhead. the ability to arrive immediately and be ready for combat right away was exactly what the marine said the support after world war ii when the other services for saying no, nuclear weapons, you won't do that anymore. >> you mention political lobbying on behalf of either marines. how did that occur quite >> of his extraordinary. >> after world war ii, we do away with the word apartment in navy department and principal cabinet positions that create what will become the department of defense. in the started this process, the president of all the other services were more or less on board with radically reducing the marines involved in national defense. they didn't want a second land army, which is what they though? were a sitcom to buy world war? ii. the marines took some of their smartest and most? well-connec? officers and really became??? insurgents in

crossed the heavily armed area. >> reporter: it is not unknown, but it is certainly rare for a north koreanhe dmz, the de-military zone that separates north korea and south. it is heavilied guarded but a soldier was able to get across. he described how he managed it. >> the north korean soldier has defected to the guard post on 12 ten, the army raised the military alert in the area, but there has been no extraordinary moves by the north korean army, so far. >> the soldier was on guard duty when he killed his platoon and squad leaders, and was in the able to cross without being stopped. the south korean soldiers say they heard the gunfire before seeing him run. it was confirmed he wanted to defect, he was taken to an undisclosed location and allowed to defect. very few were able to get through here, the last time was two and a half years ago according to the defense ministry, here in seoul. cnn, seoul. >>> coming up on half past the hour, we'll get a look at the headlines right now. abu masri appeared in new york city today, a muslim cleric, born in egypt, finally extradited to the united st

he was posing as a north korean defector. prosecutors in seoul say the man snuck into china as a spy for north korea's state ministry. they say he was ordered around july 2010 to assault kim jong-un who lived in china. the prosecutors say he admitted to plotting the attack. they indicted him on charges of violating the national security law. the south's news agency says the man paid a taxi driver in china to stage a hit-and-run accident on kim jong-nam. kim jong-nam wonce criticized te north korean leadership for the transfer of power from kim jong-il to his third son, kim jong-un. >>> defense officials in north korea have accepted a new agreement between south korea and the u.s. that they overextend the range of ballistic missiles held by seoul to cover the whole of north korea. the north's national defense commission has claimed its strategic rocket forces can strike bases in south korea as well as plalss in japan, guam, and the u.s. mainland. the statement also said north korea is prepared to counter any missiles on nuclear

a north korean soldier defected earlier this month by walking across undetected. the soldier passed through the two-kilometer-wide demilitarized zone separating north and south korea. he entered the south by scaling a four-meter wire fence. no one knew he was there until he knocked on the door of a military outpost and sought asylum. south korean military officials said earlier they had spotted the soldier on a surveillance camera. >> translator: there was an obvious failure in security at the border. we us a handled the report on the defection of the north korean soldier inappropriately. >> kim said the military will investigate 14 officers including one on the joint chiefs of staff. he said the military will start deploying more guards and reinforce fences. the incident is one of a series of recent breach busy north koreans. another soldier crossed the border on ox the 6th. he claimed he killed two of miss superior officers while defecting. >>> allies of vladimir putin have swept russia's first elections for governor in eight years. but critics are making new acc

and the reason they got there early was because as soon as the north koreans invaded on 25 june june 1950, even though the marine corps had no orders to the president or the joint chiefs, they immediately started mustering troops, which gunships arrived in korea are less than a month. and these guys came with their own aviation. so what this meant in the critical first battle to stop the north korean advance that the marines were doing what is called combined arms operation. will the virtuous living, they had their own planes in the aviation plane overhead. that ability to arrive immediately and be ready for combat right away was exactly what the marines said was important after world war ii when the other services or say no, no, nuclear weapons will do that anymore. >> host: you mention political lobbying on behalf of by the marines. how did that occur? >> guest: is extraordinary. after world war ii, all the services reorganized to do away away with the navy as principal cabinet positions that create what will become the department of defense. in the start of this process can the pr

nevertheless, some of the north koreans who are hiding in china decided to risk a second escaped. out of china to south korea. no one can accomplish this on his own. some people can get out of north korea on their own in the hand of the rescue rarely reaches into north korea itself. but if somebody wants to get out of china, they need help. the distances are great and the challenges are too high for a north korean to do it on his own. this is where the new underground railroad comes in. like the

cotrhanoin toit th daparance of her mother she spoke at rlyn tyo on tuesday and described out north korean agents abducted her and caerother in 19n the seaf pae idhr m aaued her an her mother on their wayom and rejected north kre' platn d attackers were not japanese. the nation insists tha her mother never entered t country. >> translator: my mother is now over 80 years old. a pl f yruprto help bring her back to her home as soon as possible. >> so the return to japan ten years ago with four other abcts,ut h moerat is unknown. they say north korean officials warned her s sul kp h moh uthehe returned to japan. tech fans will tooning joining or rejoining long lines ifrt of aletos. no t lest business news. what are they waiting for now? >> katherine, apple fans have another reaso tbexced abt cae theye ingo betaing in line for a gadget this time a little smaller. apple has invented the smaller tablet to fdffrong mpetition a market they created. the move will tighten the race with the electronics makers. >> this is ipad mini. [ applause ] >> mediarom across the globe are converging on the califo

north korean officials showed them the sites including buildings built during japan's colonial era. the travelers will visit the cemetery on monday in the capital city. about 2,400 japanese people were reportedly buried there. >> translator: i think this visit to the graves will bring some sort of relief to the relatives. >> north korean officials have allowed japanese media to cover the trip. analysts say this could mean a thawing of relations. >>> premier wen jiabao made the comment at a ceremony in the great hall of the people in beijing. hu jintao and others attended the event. foreign dignitaries were among the 1,000 guests. >> translator: china will pursue an independent foreign policy of peace and firmly safeguard its national sovereignty and territorial integrity. >> japan nationalized the senkaku islands last month. china and taiwan also claim rights. >>> the leaders of japan and china did not exchange telegrams to mark the 40th anniversary of the normalizization of diplomatic ties. yoshihiko noda and premier wen did not send messages on the occasion. in 2002 and 2007 the j

north korean leader kim jong-un will likely attend the event to make the proposal himself. this april north korea invited more than 44 media organizations to cover the centenary of the birth of the late north korean leader king il-sung. the people who run japan's only >>> south koreans have celebrated one here years since her birth. the commemorations comes amid a territorial dispute. about 1,200 people attended the event in south korea. the mayor of the place where she was born hoped people will pass on their stories to future generations. >> i hope she will be loved by people in both japan and korea as a symbol of friendship and good will between the two countries. >> organizationers released a statement calling on the united nations to establish a world orphans day realize a day with no orphans. she was born in 1912, she ran an orphanage. she raised more than 3,000 children there. she died at the age of 56. >>> data thieves are getting more and more innovative in how they steal people's information. police in tokyo have arrested five people on suspicion of creating smartp

they've banned activists from releasing 200,000 balloons carrying leaflets criticizing north korean leader kim jong-un. kim's military commanders threatened they would strike without warning if the balloons were sent. south korean police cordoned off the road leading to imjingak, a town near the demarcation line. they got into scuffles with activists who protested against the move. most of the activists are defectors from north korea. they started chanting slogans against the north once it was clear they would have to give up on their leaflet campaign, activists say they managed to release some of the balloons on monday eve frng an area not guarded by the police. the government's interventions in tensions like this one is rare. relations with the north have been more tense than usual. north korean leaders have been making provocative moves ahead of south korea's presidential election in december. >>> former chinese president jiang zemin has frequently been in the news in the lead-up to next month's key communist party congress. the congress will see current president hu jintao and many oth

she spoke at a rally in tokyo on tuesday and described out north korean agents abducted her and can her mother in 1978 in the sea of japan. she said three men assaulted her and her mother on their way home and rejected north krooe's explanation and said the attackers were not japanese. the nation insists that her mother never entered the country. >>ranslator:y mother is now over 80 years old. a peel for your support to help bring her back to her home as soon as possible. >> so the return to japan ten years ago with four other abducties, but her mother's fate is unknown. they say north korean officials warned her she should keep her mouth shut when she returned to japan. tech fans will tooning joining or rejoining long lines in front of apple stores. now the latest business news. what are they waiting for now? >> katherine, apple fans have another reason to be excited about because they're going to be standing in line for a gadget this time a little smaller. apple has invented the smaller tablet to fend off growing competition in a market they created. the move will tighten the race with

this is very much based on a very controlled north korean system. this seems to be quite stable as far as a nuclear test. there are chances of a third nuclear test as how we see the situation. we have been preparing for this for quite a long time. this may resort to this third nuclear test. recently they are trying to introduce a new economic reform measures. he tends to be making attempts to be making a better life for his people. it has yet to be seen. this is the only international system to deal with a north korean issue. i believe this system should be implemented. it will continue to shape the environment to return to sixth party talks. >> i think the minister has done a very good job in analyzing this. we still do not know whether he would follow in the steps of his father or whether he represents a different kind of leadership for the future. the concern we have is that they continue to prepare for missile test. they continue to prepare for nuclear tests. they continue to engage in enrichment of uranium against all international rules. they

in the south, the military is under fire for failing to detect a north korean soldier crossing the dmz. in july, cho was promoted to vice marshal. but in a photo provided by the state-run media on wednesday, his insignia was that of a general rather than that of a vice marshal. the media made no mention of his apparent demotion, but said he observers say he was probably disciplined for the recent defections. in south korea, the military is under fire over the defection of a soldier from the north on october 2nd. border troops reported initially they took the soldier into custody after spotting him with surveillance camera. but in fact the camera was not functioning and the soldier had simply walked past a watchtower and knocked on the door of a guard post. the joint chiefs of staff were notified of the lie the next day, but that information was not passed on to the top official, who testified before parliament on monday with false information. >>> the family of the former peruvian president alberto fujimori is asking the government to release him early from prison for humanitarian reas

but for north korean who wants to do that, it is next to impossible. you cannot make a phone call to north area. you cannot send an e-mail or text message for facebook. you cannot even mail a letter. so the exiles have created a black market in information. they hired chinese couriers to cross the border and deliver messages or sometimes they delivered chinese cell phones to a north korean relatives, tell the relative to go to an area near the border on a certain day at a certain hour, turn on the phone, and receive a phone call from their relatives who have escaped to a different country. in south korea and north korean exiles have formed organizations whose purpose is to get information in to north korea, to give just one example, there are four radio stations run by north korean exiles that broadcast daily to north korea. the mantra of the family regime that north korea is the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth and that the north korean people are the world's happiest is being exposed for the line that is. >> you can watch this and other pr

what this meant in the critical first battles to stop the north korean advance, that the marines were doing what's called combined arms operation. while the infantry moves, they have their own planes and naval aviation overhead. that ability to arrive immediately and be ready for combat right away was exactly what the marines said was important after world war ii when the other services said, no, no, with nuclear weapons, you won't do that anymore. >> host: you mentioned political lobbies on behalf of the marines. how did that occur? >> guest: extraordinary. after world war ii, services reorganize doing away with the war department and navy department as cabinet positions and create what's the department of defense. in the start of the process, the president and all the other services were more or less on board with radically reducing the marine's role in national defense. they didn't want another land army which is what they thought the marines had come to by world war ii. marines took the as many asest? and most well-connected officers, and they really becam? insurgents inside the

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and the north koreans already have nuclear weapons and so this pakistan i mean it's just it seems like everybody gets nukes to be defending us and i think pakistan is probably the most dangerous country on the planet and they're our allies and one of the least stable are going to i think i think something interesting that we just saw play out over the last couple days with reports from the new york times that the iranians and the americans have come to some sort of an understanding that there would be bilateral talks following the election when now those leaders all means united by both didn't and i both which was a very interesting thing because i mean there's this which i can i want explain necessarily the iranian side of it i'm not sure exactly what exactly they're calculus work but certainly from the american side i think there's been a shift in how we talk about these issues and it's become something we're negotiating with your enemies or negotiating even with your allies sometimes is seen as a projection of weakness i think it's interesting that right i think it's today's the fif

north korean detectors are detain inside china. the report urges neighbors countries not to send them back to north korea the human rights committee will begin discussing the report. >>> iranians are suffering through reports of economic sanctions. there's more on the way. tell us what's the latest. >> people in iran are already going through a lot of hardships. the currency is plunging. western countries are about to put more country on the middle eastern country. member countries reached a preliminary deal. they are discussing extra sanctions against iran. the eu plans to adopt new sanctions on october 15th. >>> iranian natural gas enters the eu region mostly from turkey. the volume is not large at the moment but future demand for natural gas is expected to grow. >>> japan's new economic and fiscal policy leader will attend a policy meeting on friday. he's urged to take aggressive monetary easing measures to help the economy get out of inflation. it's rare for cabinet min ter to take part in a central pang policy meeting. he said

the maritime self-defense force and the coast guard failed to fully cooperate when two north korean spy ships intruded into japanese waters in the sea of japan. >>> six members of the okinawa prefectural assembly have visited the prime minister's office in tokyo. they went there to submit a list of demands following last week's arrest of two u.s. servicemen for the rape of a woman. they said that the incident follows the fourthible deployment of the osprey transport aircraft in the prefecture and has pushed the people of okinawa over the limit. the group called for tighter discipline and a review on how american troops are educated on human rights. they also sought a revision of the japan/u.s. status of forces agreement and faster efforts to realign, downsize, and return u.s. bases in okinawa. >> translator: the revision of the status of forces agreement is the least that okinawa's people hope for. some residents have begun demanding the pullout of all u.s. bases in the prefecture. i hope the government takes our voices into account. >> okinawa police say there have been 124 cases of ra

the chinese tend to think more north koreans and that's what we've done. he only other point is in terms of what we're doing in the second term, the obama administration would not be afraid of juror talks with north korea, the lead in the six party they would have to achieve object to and be preconditioned, which is all another program, or home moratorium in the nuclear missile testing programs. >> thank you. >> aaron. >> on that point, there are ways in which the united states and other countries could bring additional pressure to bear a north korea. some of them have been attempted in the past come including the first part of the bush administration i think they have to be on the table, particularly if we have any chance of having successful negotiations, the lesson of dealing with is korea i think is you don't get anywhere without pressure. you may not get anywhere even with it. but on that list, i would include financial sanctions, tighter financial sanctions. the north korean regime is in many respects a criminal organization that feels its coffers wit

policy rather than north korean ones that risk they're mow nuclear war on the korean pepsla. in the words of hugo chavez, north north korean's foreign minister gets my prize for the most bizarre speech. bill. >> shepard: jonathan hunt, thank you. iran's prime minister returned home after his controversial speech last week. there is word that his cameraman stayed behind and is seeking asylum in the united states. the cameraman was reportedly part of president ahmadinejad's entourage during a leader's visit to new york. a lawyer says that the cameraman defected though it is unclear when and how he got away from the iranian delegates or where is he exactly right now. some wild new video capturing the shear power of a deadly typhoon in japan. keep an eye on the white car in the middle right here. >> that happened at u.s. marine base in okinawa. winds around 80 miles per hour blew that car right across the parking lot aided i'm sure by the side of that building. the wind and rain went on to cause huge problems in the tokyo area. officials say the storms swept away one fisherman kil

those symptoms are dumping snow showers in parts of northeastern china and thundershowers in the north korean peninsula. it will affect the northern half of japan on thursday. out west, dry across much of eastern china, but southwestern china is a different story. thundershowers i should say rain showers will continue throughout the day. but it's not going to be severe. but down towards the south, remnants are still hovering over. today the heaviest rain is found in the northern half of myanmar. out east we can see this pink showing up. typhoon praphoon starting to produce rough seas. over eastern taiwan from late tonight. waves could reach four meters. as you can see, it's going to continue to move at a slow pace over the next several days. we're not sure where the system is going. it could move through the okinawa islands. we'll keep you posted on the storm's progress. temperatures are looking like this. we're expecting 19 degrees in seoul on wednesday. that's about three degrees lower than yesterday. tokyo slightly warming up to 24 degrees. and out west, 19 in chongqing and dropping out of

. >> the wife of the north korean leader vanished from public view two months ago, and there were a lotf rumors about what had happened. >> now she is back, seen at a concert with her husband on monday. spectators gave the couple a big round of applause when they arrived at the theater. there had been rumors that she was pregnant or even that she had been purged. >> good that she is all right. >> absolutely. who knows what happened? anyway, thanks for watching, and do not forget you can check out more detailed information on our website, dw.de. >> we will see you again soon. do not go away. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

north koreans lined up on the hill in pyongyang to offer flowers in front of statues of the late heads of state kim il-song. kim visited the palace where his father and grandfather lie in state. an editorial called to unite under the new leader to show authority and power. it said the party is capable of accomplishing anything. experts believe north korea's new regime hopes to tighten its control of the country, while strengthening the role of the party. >>> european leaders have put their heads together over an over again to try to fix the problems they share. still economists at international monetary fund say they need to do more to ease concerns about their debt. the imf released its semiannual report on the stability of the global financial system. it said the risks to stability are on the rise. nhk world's ron madison is covering the imf world bank meetings here in tokyo. >> european leaders find themselves in a sense of debt deja vu. they've wrestled together and separately to solve budget problems. once again, they find themselves listening to some advice. >> the choice today i

. >> north korean officials failed in april to launch what they called a satellite-carrying rocket.he leaders of other countries believe they were trying to test ballistic missile technology. pak accused the u.s. of forcing the security council to condemn the launch. pak said the only way to bring peace to the korean peninsula is for the u.s. to end its hostile policy. and he accused south korean president lee myung-bak of causing inter-korean relations to hit rock bottom. >>> people in japan's northeast are focused on overcoming the challenges of the 2011 disaster. but it won't be easy. they have to rebuild homes, businesses, entire communities. we'll show you their struggles and their successes on "the road ahead," every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time here on "newsline." >>> japanese researchers are using an unmanned helicopter to measure radiation around the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. no detailed studies have been conduct sod far as aircraft aren't allowed to fly within three kilometers of the facility. the survey started in futenma town about two kilometers from the pla