courts that he violated the national security law and is guilty of beating up and dance and pro north korean group called the revolution a reorganization or are all which was planning to blow up the infrastructure and south korea in the event of an inter korean won the lawmaker was also found guilty of plotting to bomb threat from the government the court said it found pro north korea documents in each session and that he had previously some north korean the three songs off of which are prohibited under the south's national security law. other members of the u p p hoover and trial and similar charges was sentenced to four to seven years in jail. monday's decision follows an intensive investigation that included statements made by a whistleblower from the revolution every organization. the court's fdr had been planning the rebellion since march and that included an armed revolt in the capital's holy bull siblings kennedy party and the main opposition democratic party said they supported the verdict what the u p p has criticized it saying that did yesterday gave in to pressure from the governm

the island was shelled by the north koreans. then 2011 came upon us. after the dust settled from the provocations we embarked on an effort to test north korea's willingness to engage in negotiations again, another test, to see whether the north koreans could engage in negotiations with a seriousness of purpose. in close consultations with our allies in seoul and tokyo and in coordination with our other six-party partners in beijing and moscow, we cautiously began in 2011 to engage north korea in a series of meetings designed to bring a halts to its nuclear program and missile launchers, and in our effort to restart six-party talks create an environment con con doessive to such talks. after three meetings, after a the death of imjung ill. we we -- an understanding we would pursue a path of confidence, building measures, which would begin with the north halting the missile launches and nuclear activities and would be reciprocated by confidence building measures on our own, and yet, again, barely two weeks after this test was administered, north korea anno

it is and isn't good on the north koreans desperate for better ties with us but for obama the korean peninsula north korea in particular is not a top priority. the middle east and domestic economic issues take precedence. and that's why the north has received no positive signs from the us after suggesting high level military means last june. so i think the north is now aiming to lay the groundwork for better us clients including its inter korean relations first and trying to change the atmosphere on the korean peninsula it's likely the obama administration will be watching how korean relations develop. the us will be on the lookout for any changes within the south korean government then they may move on to negotiations with the north in line with requests from the south the those of you who live in it regarding japan north korea wants to resume talks on the normalization of diplomatic relations. as it stands to receive massive amounts of compensation in return it. and japan maybe someone opened in august as the country is facing increasing isolation from south korea and china us. see

north korea claims can at the south korean spyhrow the state. this claim was backed up by hand he testified that he received money from south korea's spy agency in exchange for providing information about the north the national intelligence service tonight the plane thursday. and it's worth noting that can be and has a tendency toward statement added that he needs the education ministry said it was notified about the oppressed in november but that the north refused to give details on that. usually it's a toe. he was being made for north korea to continue ignoring our repeated calls to identify and repeat rate that teen south korean and two only to reveal his identity now. in the ministry demanded that the north and chart and safety and tell he's repatriated and to allow his family and laurier to visit and you can get. it's rare for a south korean national to be detained in the north and the incident comes amid falling enter korean relations experts expect him to be released sooner rather than later as north korea is known to showcase its detainee

the north korean human rights and those stupid as soon as possible that the un has already urged north korea to stop by the people's rights and for time and stop the repatriation of north korean refugees. these are the ones at the forefront on the two parties had each submitted by bill since two thousand and five calling for measures that would improve the lives of the north korean people. the standard party's proposals have nearly called for documenting human rights situation in north korea supporting human rights activities and helping groups and eight north korean defectors. the deep peace proposals have focused more on supporting cooperation between the south and north of providing humanitarian aid well democratic party lawmaker tomtom they're welcome to discussions on the bills he said the timing was inappropriate. both parties to go ahead and talk about the pending bills of legislating that may affect north korea's attitude toward south korea. especially at a time when we are going up there with the family reunions and releases with north korea are improving political analysts sa

will notd states reward bad north korean behavior, its provocations, it's rather -- it's rhetoric. the security and prosperity north korea seeks will only come when pyongyang changes it scores. it will not be rewarded for bad behavior. , spoke about briefly earlier there should be no doubt that the united states will continue to take actions in our defense and that of our allies. this includes maintaining a regime onctions pyongyang. this includes strengthening our alliances with seoul and tokyo to deter and counter the north korea threat that we and our allies face. fifth principle is to maintain an alternative path. as we said to peter lee, the united states will continue to encourage north korea to choose a better path. we remain committed to a diplomatic solution, a dramatic solution based on authentic and credible associations, leading clearizationdenu actions. the united states is prepared to its north korea change course. it is prepared to sit down to negotiate and government commitment they have made. pyongyang must move its seriousness to take meaningful steps to show it ha

the north asked the south to postpone its drill. but south korean officials insisted the issue of families was unrelated and they turned down the north's request to put off the exercises. the fact the talks were held at all is a surprise. last year north korea raised tensions with south korea and the u.s. by declaring its unilateral cancellation of the ceasefire agreement that ended the korean war. later north korea lashed out at south korean president park geun hye. >> reporter: not long after this north korean leader kim jong un said in his new year's speech that his country must be prepared to improve relations with the south. he said it should show a flexible policy and a conciliatory attitude. in the middle of last month north korean state media announced that the north and south should stop publicly badmouthing each other. >> reporter: the delegates from the north and south may have failed to reach a break through at the pan munn john meeting but agreed to keep talking. >> earlier we talked to an experts in our seoul studio. kim kuhn chick is

of north korean people but increasing segments of the north korean population do have access largelyause of the growth of these informal markets. because fuel is a part of these info markets and comes from china, you can imagine how all the information that goes on the --nese side has access to that hasn't translated in terms of any organized unrest and any people, especially after the arab spring phenomenon. puzzleomething of a where information coming into north korea has not brought about particular change. they really are a counterweight to the penetration of the south side of information. the from from west virginia, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have been given to understand that under the free trade agreement that rumsfeld and through the halliburton corporation and north korea -- host: are you familiar with that? guest: not the specific details of halliburton. i think you may be referencing the 1990 four u.s. north korea framework agreement, where in return for giving up their nuclear weapons program at that particular point in time, the north koreans

bring hope to the north korean people. but will they ever learn from it? >> i don't think there is a country that is sealed like north korea. >> reporter: the u.n. commission warns china it could be guilty of aiding and abetting them. china calls it a plot to defame and sabotage its country. advocates where china has no veto say they should take action so this report gets a world forum. >> andrea, it is hard to hear about, but the u.n. says they need the world to know. andrea mitchell from our d.c. news room, thank you. >>> now to a drama that played out earlier. it was all going as planned on board an ethiopian airlines jet that is until the co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit of the aircraft and hijacked the people on board, with over 200 people on board including 11 american passengers. what followed was a tense few hours in the sky as the hijacker flew the aircraft to switzerland. we get more tonight from nbc's ayman mohyeldin. >> reporter: inside this ethiopian flight 702, passengers in their seats, hands on t

ukraine says north korean older brother again soon for the first time in decades. helen was one of the south korean individuals choosing to travel to north korea on the m resort on thursday to meet with long lost family. the represent the first cross border unions to more than three years. box elder brother was taken to north korea while stealing on a ship in nineteen seventy two. for more than four decades his family didn't hear a single word from him until today. the not too thirsty scene cuts trouble to make his feelings into words all of the one. my parents passed away not knowing how their son was doing. my parents couldn't tell anyone what they were really feeling now this feeling of losing your child like this isn't something one can fully comprehend it will hide any deal and others from the south are still to meet with separated family members on six separate occasions over the next three days for a total of eleven hours before returning to south korea saturday afternoon the second round of north koreans will unite with around three hundred sixteen a very st

the iranians and the north koreans have both orbited satellites to the south, and the north koreans haved several simple nuclear weapons. iranians haven't yet but probably will before too many months go. so we have at least two very bad states tied very closely to terrorist groups and the rest that could be idealogically crazy enough to try something like this. and, you know, you don't need a satellite. you can lift a nuclear weapon quite easily with a weather balloon up into orbit and detonate it. that's all that's needed. >> not very comforting. all right, ambassador woolsey, thank you very much for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> coming up, the former secretary of energy. when the lights actually did go out. spencer . >>> we take for granted when we flip a switch, the lights fw on. when we turn a key, the car starts. but it seems that the united states is not taking steps to reduce our vulnerability. with me our former secretary of energy spencer abraham. secretary, you were the secretary when the lights actually did go out in the northeast blackout of 2003. what's been done

party talks whenever we engage with the north koreans this is a top priority. i would also say it is an area in which our international cooperation has grown markedly particularly since the 2009 nuclear tests and the 2012-2013 activities. we partner with a number of countries, china included, in a way that helps deal both with the flow of material, whether they are sea, air or land base as well as related finances. that is as far as i can take a public answer on this issue but it is certainly one that is of paramount concern to was as we execute this issue. >> that was a fascinating and depressing history lesson you gave us on how many times north korea has violated its international obligations. you said we should judge north korea on its actions and the same should be applied to our negotiations with china because china continually uses the language you use about opposing nuclear is asian -- nuclearis nuclearisation and has participated in north korea's program and involve the original proliferation to pakistan which ended up in north korea. one could make th

he therefore concludes for chinese interest of for north korea's interests for stability of the korean peninsula and northeast asia, china must utilize all his political diplomatic economic, social, governmental and noncommittal resources, convince north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons. this, of course, is the united states' policy as well. in this way and i say this in closing, pyongyang essentially provides an opportunity, an opportunity to sharpen north korea's choices, to remind north korea that the security and prosperity it seeks are only possible through denuclearization. a reminder that the policy decisions the regime has been making will only continue to lead to greater dramatic and economic isolation and deprivation. to remind pyongyang that the dprk's pursuit of nuclear weapons make the country less secure and less prosperous, and remember that the true victims of north korea's nuclear program are the north korean people, and the peace and prosperity they desire and deserve. thank you. [applause] >> now the floor will be open. >> thank you very much. it was a great hist

. >> united nations report is levelling disturbing allegations against the north koreans. >> kim jong un may be hello, i'm antonio mora. diplomat. them. >> it comes as the country enters its sixth day of process. >> a set back for process in u.s. >> our man jimmy fallon taking over. over. >> the sixth host in six years. >> it will be a big night. >> we begin with a report on unspeakable crimes perpetrated in north korea, and an unprecedented warning from the united nations to north korea's leaders. u.n. investigators said monday that supreme leader kim jong un and his security forces could face an international trial for ordering systematic widespread and gross human rights violations. they are detailed in a 272-paged report. michael kirby, and shared the u.n. commission of inquiry compared north korea's crimes to that of the nazises in world war ii. michael kirby had this challenge for his u.n. colleagues. >> too many times there are reports in no action. well, this is a time for action. we can't say we didn't know. we now all do know, anyone who report. >> for more, i'm pleased to b

the north korean side objecting to things that the seen government says, and the south korean media. negotiator from south korea saying that he couldn't police the free media in south korea. this comes at the same time that the u.s. secretary of state has talks with the president and the foreign minister here. the united states would never accept north korea becoming a nuclear armed state. he has been in budget, where he processed the chinese to do more. he admits they have done more in the past year and previous years to pressure north korea to denuclearize. not huge breakthroughs, but the fact that they are talking at the level is significant, and the hundreds of families that they are hoping with greater opt fix that they'll once again meet, has been an extremely important couple of days. >> some of the families separated during the korean war lived here in the united states. we spoke to some. >> when this family escaped the korean war, they were happy to survive, in 1951. >> later they realised they'd never see the siblings left behind. >> translation: i started crying. i feel th

it's unfortunate that the north koreans don't treat kenneth bae as a humanitarian act. they were on the verge of negotiating with an american envoy to turp him loose. it didn't happen because of a military provocations, adelaide by the north koreans that we pursued. maybe after this report cools down, the north koreans will see fit to let the american, who is sick, to come home to his family. >> boy, looking at the report and seeing hundreds of thousands killed, concentration camps, atrocities, it's a horrifying thing to conceive of. governor bill richardson, great to have you on the show. thanks. >> an al jazeera america exclusive taking us inside the taliban to give us a glimpse on what the war in afghanistan looks like from the taliban's point of view. even if the afghan government were to agree leaving u.s. troops in afghanistan, the first line of resistance will be the u.s. trained afghan national army, al jazeera's "faultline" shows a journalist trailing taliban fighters after they attack a base. >> i'm acutely aware i wouldn't be allowed to film them unless they

this raises fears that anti north korean groups will use the money taken from state coffers. to further insight to korean relations opposition lawmakers demanded that government lift economic sanctions against brother and i were put in place after your stinking up the south korean warships could end in twenty ten however the government said it would keep the church considered lifting the sanctions known as the maid twenty fourth badgers. on tuesday the national assembly were reviewing the intercollegiate session with the focus on the economy. the nation's biggest purse on a leaked last month and the government's fall on the jurors are expected to dominate the discussions. can see. i then it's. and a former u s point man on asian affairs had something to say about the developments in north korea's nuclear weapons program. christopher hill the ex u s sen massacre to south korea stress that comes as possession of nuclear weapons is not acceptable to the standard of the region the team until his will christopher hill said the road to peace on the korean peninsula will be a difficu

the iranians and the north koreans have both orbited satellites to the south, and the north koreans havetested several simple nuclear weapons. iranians haven't yet but probably will before too many months go. so we have at least two very bad states tied very closely to terrorist groups and the rest that could be idealogically crazy enough to try something like this. and, you know, you don't need a satellite. you can lift a nuclear weapon quite easily with a weather balloon up into orbit and detonate it. that's all that's needed. >> not very comforting. all right, ambassador woolsey, thank you very much for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> coming up, the former secretary of energy. when the lights actually did go out. out. spencer ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates

but it's unfortunate that the north koreans don't treat kenneth bae as a humanitarian act. they were on the verge of negotiating with an american envoy to turn him loose. it didn't happen because of military provocations alleged by the north koreans that we pursues. maybe after this report cools down, the north koreans will see fit, as a humanitarian gesture to let this korean american who has been there the longest, 15 months, who is sick, to come home to his family >> let's hope they do. looking at the report and seeing hundreds of thousands killed in concentration camps, atrocities, it's a horrifying thing to conceive of. governor bill richardson, great to have you on the show. thanks. >> deadly protests have raged for close to a week in venezuela. after 15 years of socialism under hugo chavez and his successor, nicolas maduro. people are concern why an oil-rich country has record prices, scarcity of services, we are joined by rachl levin, from caracas. i know you are at the center of the protests, what is going on in the streets? >> today there was a group of people mar

analysts say citizens appreciate her tough stance towards north korean provocations. still, some south koreans are frustrated with park's economic policies, including her failure to generate jobs for young people. some labor unions held an anti-government rally in the capital. analysts say park may have made her new economic promise to try to keep up her support rate. >>> during her first year in office, park geun-hye has tried to reform public corporations saddled with debt and she's brought about closer ties with china. relations with japan have only become more tense. but some say her administration is showing signs of a shift. nhk world reports from seoul. >> reporter: park geun-hye came in to office hoping her country would enjoy better relations with its neighbors. but relations with japan have only grown worse. and park believes the japanese are to blame. >> translator: it's regrettable that japan's words and actions are destroying the environment for potential cooperation. >> reporter: south korean and japanese officials have taken different positions on territ

. >> reporter: a north korean defector weeps as she recalls the oppression that they are family faced before she escaped. many witnesses asked for their identities to be withheld. there have been investigations of human rights in north korea but never one as comprehensive as this. getting a clear picture of what goes on in the secretive state, how people cope with depravation and starvation is difficult. the international commission of inchoirry found torture, execution, systemic rape and abduction of foreigners. many of these crimes against humanity all part of a planned system of political control. north korea's leader kim jong-un recently executed his uncle, once the second most powerful man in the country, and a number of other relatives. kim, age 31, took over his late four two years ago. the chairman the commission of inquiry has written a letter to him in it he recommends the u.n. refer the situation in the democratic people's republic of korea, the country's official name, to the international criminal court to render all those, including possibly yourself, who may be responsi

experts say officials including the north korean leader must face justice over torture, physical oppression, and other offenses. pyongyang has refused to cooperate with this inquiry, and rejects its conclusions. >> forced labor and secret camps. deaths. starvation used as a political tool. all details of testimony from the damning u.n. report into human rights abuses in north korea. >> for now, the international community does know. the international community will know. there will be no excusing failure of action because we did not know. >> previous international attention has been focused on but growingprogram, reports of abuses prompted the un's human rights council to launch a commission in 2013. over a year, together evidence from satellite imagery, and .eard often harrowing testimony >> once you get to the prison camp, women go through a blood test to check for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. after a positive pregnancy test, they would force an abortion on you. would get senten to labor camps to carry loads up and down the hills, often cause miscarriages. -- which often c

want their counterparts to postpone the annual military drills with us for sids the north koreans want to go ahead first with dreams of families separated by the korean war. now those are scheduled to start in a weekend and five days later the trails this gadget to bt and during that period the south korean delegates and smoothly unions will be the first step toward improving times but they certainly unions and the drills are unrelated and they turned down the request to postpone the exercises still negotiators from both sides have agreed to continue with their discussions the north koreans appear to be upgrading their missile capabilities. diplomatic sources say they've tested a rocket engine for a new long range ballistic missile the sources say the test took place on december twenty fence at a missile base that on sunday in the northwest b c the engine could be used to propel a missile called the cave and zero eight bc the north koreans have reached the height of the launch pad that point sunday from thirty seven to fifty two meters. the sea than ace can now launch missiles capable

leadership, the issues of how can the report help north korean people, and how north korean people can learn more about the report. the question about the - how much surprise, how much the shock might be given to the readers of this report and other rely difficult. the groups, particularly the activist grournings the human right -- grournings the human watch, they have been monitoring for a long time, not a year, but decades ago they monitored in north korea, the external nation camps, the massive human right abuse and abduction of sit dispeps from other -- citizens from other countries. >> that's the thing. the report will come out - can anything be done. the recommendation is to go to the icc. it's not blaming individuals. can this be acted on, do you think? >> that's what our discussion with justice kirby focussed on. the whole government needs to be looked at holistically, and the problem is not just one country being nasty to its citizens, it comes in the legacy of colonialism in the region, the legacy of the war, the legacy of the cold war and the corian war, which has not been c

>> the north korean government wants to be recognized and to have international legitimacy.th korean officials walk internationally, this is going to stalk them. >> the north korean regime calls the united nations report a political plot and says the human rights violations mentioned in this sorry-called report do not exist in our country. >> brian todd joins me from washington and i'm also joined by phil robinson in boston, the deputy director of human rights watches, asia division. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> brian, can you explain why so many people are being thrown into these labor camps in north korea? what are interest crimes? >> a lot are being thrown in for crimes they know nothing about. what north korea does is if someone runs afoul of the regime, they will target not only them but their relatives as well. one woman testified she was put in a prison camp for doing nothing more than gossiping about kim jong-il. they put her and her elderly parents in a prison camp along with four of her children, ages 1-9. all of them died, except for her. witnesses are sa

we are very uncertain about the north korean leader. the execution of his uncle who was the second most powerful man in north korea. the execution in december has really caused an increased level of concern amongst experts on korea. he is not a reformer some predicted he might be. he is continuing the policies of his father but it seems to be in a more brutal, unpredictable and amateur way. we are concerned about what he might do either during the exercises or even some type of provocation. >> what america would like is to have its allies lined upside by side but we have a spy contention between south korea and japan that john kerry needs to address. >> the strained relations are diverting attention from the real security threats, north korea and china's increasingly assertive behavior in the east china and south china sea. the u.s. is trying to get our allies to realize the closest wolf to the sled is the north korean threat and not each other. we are trying to overcome deep historic differences as well as a dispute between tokyo and s

know lines hundreds of south and north korean families separated by the korean war me again. we have already having spent the second day of cross border re unions and you're set to start again tomorrow she became korea japan showed no sign of easing as the killers are to observe its so called d c wednesday. iran has claims on three control of the island to the ec the judge's impartiality is being questioned after russia sadly the southern province actually figure skating gold medal and three s defending champion could have asked what the weather was a color field inflation. all this and more text in front of me what i needed to write a very twenty first year in korea won from seoul. i knew him and daniel chan thank you for joining us. to begin this evening with the two of the cross border family of unions and the north's moncton can restore the tears of joy and sorrow continued on this friday as hundreds of south and north korean families met for about a total of six hours from already highly emotional event. we are joined by the un in the studio etsy and just a recap of that

once again another test to see whether the north korean's could engage in a conversation with seriousf purpose. of course, in coordination with our other six-party partners in beijing and moscow. to utiously began in 2011 engage north korea in a series of meetings designed to bring a halt to its nuclear program and missile launchts and in our effort to do that create an environment to produce such talks. after three sets of meetings. one in new york, 2011. one in geneva in october. and following the death of kim jong il. we came to an understanding in north korea that would son boo called the leap day deal. and understanding that we would pursue path of confidence building mutual confidence building measures which would begin with the north halting its missile launches and would be reciprocated with confidence building on our own. and yet again, barely two weeks after this test in essence was that administered north korea announced it would proceed with a satellite launch in clear violation, not only of the united nations resolution banning such launches using ballistic missile techno

even the north koreans were caught up in the emotion.t's a rare opportunity families split up in the north korean war of the 19 50's, and most don't get this chance. those who do make the most of it. a nephew bows to his uncle. and a father tries to comfort his daughter. >> don't cry, you shouldn't cry on this good day. we'll be able to meet again soon. trust your father. stay healthy and live well. >> reporter: a third of its group are over 90. two of them got sick and had to return home. a second group of south koreans will be allowed up to the diamond resort from sunday until tuesday. it's such a special time because they don't have any contact with their families otherwise. people can't write e-mails, exchange phone calls or write letters to each other. this arrangement was only agreed to by north and south korea a few weeks ago. the last reunion happened more than three years ago. but now this reunion is over. and these koreans had to say goodbye to each other. they know there is little chance of hearing from each other let alone se

pressure internationally on leaders overseas. >> and on people that's doing business with the north koreans. they should know, too, that this is very important to the united states of america. and to lawmakers in the united states of america wherever they are located doing business with north korea. >> quickly, david. >> i was going to say one last thing to all the viewers is we need the american people to get behind this campaign. we need the american people #bringbaeback. it is our responsibility as american citizen citizens. we have the opportunity to do this. we need to bring him home to the united states of america. >> let's hear from the churches, the synagogues. >> let the church say amen. >> amen. >> terri, thank you. we here at cnn made a commitment with this story. we are going to continue with it and bring updates and stories about the awareness of what's happened to your brother. we will stay with it for as long as it takes. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> in the meantime, other news, escalating tensions inside a florida courtroom. a man accused of murdering a teenager i

have exchanged the list of their remember red cross delegation is there any inner korean pop line the talks come after north korea broke its week of silence on monday to propose that the koreans me for working level dialogue on either wednesday or thursday the soul had previously proposed holding to the unions from every seventeen to twenty seconds at north korea's mouth can come to soar. the foreign experts take on the upcoming inter korean talks over unions for families separated by the korean war era join in the studio by dr came to a chair professor at the university and former presidents of the korea institute for national education. thank you very much for joining us. without you we have of course notice of korea trying to claim claim to have tongue and talk less about the discussions for two weeks because for family reunions and finally i'm enjoying it responded the question is what took them so long i think of the formal most korea. they do maybe the ball from the tray and put it to coast trip to see the regions. most korea needed some time coolest a queen of equal and kate the separate to the famil

chilling words from an american man being held inside a north korean labor camp. of kenneth bae voicing fear that the brutal conditions will hurt his health and that message has his family here in the united states more worried than ever. brian todd is here in "the situation room "working the story for us. what's the latest? >> an extraordinary piece of video, kenneth bae speaking in english says he doesn't think he can be in this labor camp much longer and if he is, he may have to go back to the hospital. they gave details on his health and how he's being treated. from the north korean gulag wearing prisoner number 103, kenneke kenneth bae says he's lost ten pounds. he's been working with his hands a lot, that he has some cuts and -- >> doing hard labor for eight hours a day for the next couple of month s will be difficult. if they can do something right away it would be the best way to do it. >> reporter: his conversation with a swedish diplomat was released by a pro north korean newspaper based in japan. he told the diplomat he's being treated fairly, has acces

north korean leaders rejected the report. their u.n. representatives in geneva said there are no human rights abuses in their country. >>> many investors were closely watching the outcome of a meeting at the bank of japan. yuko fukushima from our business desk has more on this story. so, yuko what are people in the market expecting from the boj? >> well, the gdp figure that came out yesterday was lackluster. some investors were hoping that the boj would do more to get japan on a solid recovery track. well, bank of japan policymakers have unanimously decided to maintain the monetary easing measures they introduced last april. they have also agreed to encourage commercial banks to step up their lending to companies. members of the central bank policy board wrapped up a two-day meeting on tuesday. they get their assessment that the economy continues to recover at a moderate pace, and that domestic demand is increasing ahead of the sales tax hike in april. they also noted that both business investment, and exports are picking up. by stickin

this is from a north korean gulag and part of an exhausting report of abuses inside of north korea.partial squad said that there was a starving woman giving birth in the camp, and the soldier heard the cries and beat the mother and then forced the mother to drown the child. >> she shook her hands and drowned the baby in the water. >> there is no other place who has the level of abuse that north korea has. >> reporter: systemic starvation, torture and rain and execution were common place witnesses told the u.n. fo former detainees and prison officials described grotesque methods of killing the inmates and guards forced them to dig their own graves and then hit them over the head with a hammer. and speak ing ing to amnesty international, another method was to have the inmate come to the office and sit down and two people would be waiting with a rubber rope. >> if you strike someone with it, it will wrap around their neck and then you kill them the by pulling the rope. >> reporter: this north korean defector who testified for the u.n. told paula hancocks how the prison guards killed he

i did a nice candid report on the streets to maneuver from the north some korean defense ministry said friday that north korea's lee business launched seems to have been planned to quit so the sorrows school's annual military drills in washington. the ministry said the north have five four projectiles which considering their speed and direction are presumed to have the true range scud missiles. this is the norm for scud missile launch in five years the laws also follows an incursion by a patrol boat over the de facto great time border within the two countries on monday. what's a seoul's defence minister said at that time was sent to test the south korean military. it is. given its timing coming right after the inter korean family re union suddenly ongoing key result rails. we believe that the north's missile launch was very intentional about time for publication the ministry said the south korean military is prepared for any provocations from the north. just hours before the launch so i propose around the red cross talks to resolve major units used include a reunion for families separa

north korea's willingness to engage in negotiations, once again another test to see whether the north koreanscould engage in negotiations with a seriousness of purpose. in close consultation with our partners, we cautiously began in 2011 to engage north korea in a series of meetings designed primer to bring a halt to its nuclear programs and missile launches, and in our efforts to restart the six-party talks create an environment conducive to such talks. after three sets of meetings, one in new york, july 2011, 1 in geneva in october and one in february after a short hiatus followed a december death of kim jong-il, we came to an understanding with north korea that would soon be called -- the federal 29th understanding, and understanding that we would pursue a path of confidence building, mutual confidence-building measures which would begin with the north holding its missile launches and nuclear activities and would be restricted by conference the measures on our own, and yet again, barely two weeks after this test in essence was administered, north korea announced it would proceed with a sel

he killed the genie to daddy and japan the us and south korea have been close a disgusting north korean issue. we all agree on basic science the meeting follows comments made by us secretary of state john kerry carrier sixty nations to improve relations as those that facing threats from north korea. china's president as stress his willingness to promote political dialogue with time on him and meeting with the former leader of taiwan's ruling party last week china and taiwan held their first ministerial level meeting since their split in nineteen forty nine. she didn't they met with the nationalist parties honorary chairman. we inch and in beijing. he runs to one news agency says she highly evaluated the ministry level toxic to the point he said the two sides had gained many common perceptions that will lead to the peaceful development of cross strait relations. she was also quoted at three during his call for consultations with taiwan under the one china principle. the end of twenty said they will be no turning back on the path to the peaceful development of china and taiwan times. i me

the panel members heard testimony from two hundred and forty witnesses including north korean defectors the jefferson says he hopes that report will spur people to take action. they will be no excusing friday of action because we did not. we do not there are points as political prisoners are subjected to torture and other forms of violence is as utilities use executions to terrorize the population into submission. it says north korean authorities have engaged in systematic abduction of four nationals it says agents may have abducted more than two hundred thousand people including more than one hundred japanese citizens panel members say the country's supreme leader of the operations bc the crimes should be referred to the international criminal court. officials from the us and japan have called for action over the records. a spokesperson for the us state department said the document the flanks and global consensus for a heart said in a statement that the government urges north korea to follow the year when some recommendations japanese officials plan to work with their counterparts from

we're sure north korean leaders know of our intentions yet unborn to grow south korean defence ministry spokesperson kim mean soaked says his country's forces will go ahead with their drills regardless of family reunions the national police agency has announced that conman the injured and swindled arab victims out of a record forty eight point six billion yen or four hundred eighty million dollars in two thousand and thirteen in about twelve thousand fraud cases during the year the total amount of swindle funds increased by more than one or twenty million dollars from the previous year police officials are working to stop the spread of such crimes and said just a variety of cautionary measures but they still haven't found a workable solution. nhk world the kolkata tells us more fraud has become a major issue in japan. yet the hall for the victims. i'll do you mean it. single as on the phone causing as the sons or grandsons of puppet show targets. neil flynn a month long as seventy million tons last year. after fifty three percent from a year before this time of the crime has decreased a

, that the north koreans made on saturday, at the weekend, asking for a high level meeting, a rare event, the only in the last seven years, the last happening in 2006. the north koreans requesting the presence of someone from the presidential office from the south korean delegation, which they have got. there's a high ranking person on the north korean side of these talks. as for what they want out of it, the leader of north korea, kim jong un, talked significantly about trying to improve the economy in north korea, so it may be they are after, in the short term, the reopening of south korean tour groups are or the readmission of south korean tour groups, something that has been stopped things 2008 when a south korean tourist was shot by a north korean guard. what will eventuate from these, we have yet to find out. we know the first session has taken place. it's an open agenda meeting. no set rules, no structure to it, making it all the more interesting. >> we understand that the two sides are expected to talk about the resunls of reyun -- resumptio

the concrete measures in great detail that the north korean authorities should take is spelled out in this report, and then there's the recommendation that the security council forward this case tot international criminal court. -- to the international criminal court. >> we'll see if that actually happens. human rights investigator and author david hawk. thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you. tonight": injustice. it is a case of environmental racism. we see how chevron operates in nigeria. we see how chevron operates in ec wa ecuador. countries that are not powerful enough to fight back. >> but they are fighting back. one community's suspicions and a fear that reaches across the ocean, next. >>> veterans with a mission to restore the past and at the same time, heal their lives. a want to see what's going to happen. >> i want to know what works what do you know works? >> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> oh my! . >> an now a snatch shot of stories making head lines on "america tonight." the hijacker was the c

. >> on the other hand, though, the north korean government has already category i categorically treatly rejected the report. there could be hounds of people in the north korean power structure that could conceivably be war criminals is there a danger this might make them dig in a little further and not make them open up and expose themselves to war crimes trials? >> there that is argument that it will create a bunker mentality. but there already is a bunker mentality and these guys don't talk to anybody and they isolate themselves and they provoke other countries, so it basically can't get any worse. my hope is that internally, some of the military in north kariya, the party structure, the communist party structure and perhaps kim jong-un sees, look, maybe it's time to change course. we are having a real, real international outcry against us. maybe the time has come to negotiate on nuclear weapons, on the regime itself, on isolating ourselves a lot less than we have. this report might be a kindling. i am always an optimist. can't get any worse right now antonio. >> in going back to ch

this former police officer, who did not want to be identified, describing what every-day north koreans face. people might resist the regime with their lives if it is only themselves who might be killed, this man says, but it's not only one man being put to death, it's three generations of his family, too. >> just unprecedented crimes against humanity and the world can't close its eyes to that and pretend it's not there because there's a nuclear problem. >> reporter: of course north korea denies all of these charges. as for holding them accountable, it will be very difficult because their powerful ally, china, will probably resist any prosecution and will north koreans in the country actually learn anything about this report? diane, in the recent trips i've made there we've seen cell phones on the streets. maybe there will be messages passed in and out. and they can learn about this report from inside. >> nonetheless it's very closed. >> it's still isolated, yes. >> thank you very much. at least put on notice tonight. >>> back here at home a sign of the changing modern american family.

it didn't happen because of some military provocations alleged by the north koreans that we pursued, after this report cools down a little bit, the north koreans will see fit as a humanitarian gesture to let this korean american who has been there the longest, 15 months, who is sick, to come home to his family. >> let's hope they do. but, boy, in looking at this report and seeing hundreds of thousands of people killed, concentration camps all these atrocities it is really a horrifying thing to conceive of. governor bill richardson, as always it's great to have you on the show. many thanks. >> thank you. >> an al jazerra america exclusion that i have takes us inside the taliban to give us a glimpse of what the war in afghanistan looks like from the taliban's points of view. even if the u.s. gets the afghan government to agree to a security agreement that would leave some u.s. forces in afghanistan, the first line of resistence to the taliban will be the u.s.-trained afghan national army. al jazerra's fault line shows a journalist following taliban fighters as they attack an afghan nat

hope however quickly flickered out including ten an estimated one hundred thousand korean american families heights north korea. but this time only one hundred seventy families from the tooth fairy as well out to meet their long lost relatives. many of the separated korean american families live in southern california which has the largest population of koreans outside of the divided peninsula. for them to attention a member of the national unification advisory council of los angeles says there's not much hope for every union anytime soon. the kids would go boom the humid and there are hundreds of thousands of separate the family is awesome and we are and does for them to take it to the most to me del semi sweet and can be canceled could the police noble i don't think people like me in the united states would have a chance to go though although korean americans are able to take a high centred to the north to meet their families using their us citizenship. not many consider it a feasible option and i know there are organizations that help treat americans visit north korea to meet their families but it cos

the north korean hostesses are caught up in the emotion. it's a rare opportunity. families were split up in the north korean war of the 1950s. most don't get this chance. those that do make the most of it. a father tries to comfort ace daughter. >> translation: don't cry, you shouldn't cry on this good day. we'll meet again soon. trust your father. stay healthy. >> a third of the group is over 90. at least two got sick and had to return home. >> a second group of south koreans will be allowed up to the diamond mountain resort until tuesday. it's a special type of. they don't have contact otherwise. people can't right emails. this arrangement was only agreed to by north and south korea a few weeks ago. the last junion happened more than three years ago. now the reunion is over. and these koreans had to say goodbye to each other. we know there's little chance of hearing or seeing from each other again. >> heart breaking to see. at the vatican, the pope appointed new card analyse. 19 appointees help the pope run the church. pope benedict xvi was also there. >> the new

the official added they have not seen any unusual activity by the north korean military. their exercises come as officials from both koreas are organizing reunions of families separated by the korean war. people who haven't seen each other in decades have been meeting at a resort in the north. organizers hadn't held such reunions for three years. observers are focusing on whether the start of the drill will affect north korea's cooperative attitude. >>> there may be some relief for those caught in the nuclear disaster in fukushima. residents of a district in the prefecture near the crippled power plant may soon be able to return home. the government has decided to lift an evacuation order for the district almost three years after the nuclear accident. senior vice minister -- or senior vice industry minister kazuyoshi akaba told residents the government will lift the order for part of miyakoji district in tamura city on april 1. this would be the first lifting of an evacuation order for the contaminated areas. all areas within 20 kilometers of the fukushima daiichi plant ha