. >> people that say that this was a botched job are not thinking like north korean intelligence operatives. they're not thinking like killers. >> narrator: what it reveals about kim jong-un... >> in order to survive, he had to conduct politics inside the regime. and politics inside north korea is a blood sport. >> kim jong-un is ruthless, he's brutal, but he's not suicidal. he's not irrational. he's very shrewd and calculating. i think he has a plan, he has a goal, which is to complete the nuclear program. >> narrator: and the capabilities of his regime. >> he's managed to generate enough precision, technical acuity, and money in order to build a nuclear missile program that poses a genuine threat to the united states. >> we're truly in some uncharted territory. the game that they're playing has incredibly high stakes. >> narrator: tonight on "frontline:" "north korea's deadly dictator." >> "frontline" is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you-- thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherin

the collateral aspects of the north korean problem are deterrence works. we know that in terms of state actors. but north korea is a despicable regime, and the more the sanctions work, the more desperate they become for any sort of cash import or any kind of imports they can get. the danger of their getting nuclear capabilities into the hands of nonstate actors that cannot be deterred becomes a big danger. therefore to permit that time of regime to continue in a nuclear status while other regimes don't have nuclear weapons creates big problems. and therefore there's no question that the questions for proliferation will get worse. and we need a more effective way of dealing with that than the simple old structure of the mpt, which in the modern world no longer has a credible basis for it, which is some countries can have nuclear weapons and some agreed they won't have nuclear weapons. that's broken down because the technology is too widespread now. and countries are technically capable of getting nuclear weapons now. we've already seen that with pakistan and

the north koreans had a very hard experience during the korean war. ans bombed north korea so much that there were no more targets to bomb. they remembered the bombings. today the us still maintains 2a,000 troops in south korea. north korea boasts of the fourth largest military in the world, over a million troops. the threat to america and its allies comes not from a superpower like china or russia, but from the kim family, three generations, who have run north korea for nearly seven decades. they're secretive, paranoid, but utterly determined to have nuclear weapons. kim jong—un‘s grandfather, who started the kim dynasty, kicked off the race for nuclear weapons in the 1960s. his father carried out the first nuclear test. he's only been in power six years, but kim jong—un‘s carried out many more missile and nuclear tests than they did. former insiders know about kim jong—un‘s obsession with nuclear weapons. a top north korean diplomat in london defected last year. today he lives in south korea under heavy protection. his life is in danger. kim jong—un

was not negotiating with the north koreans. and if you look at some of the opinion surveys, especially in south korea and back in 2004. some 40%, 45% of south koreans were blaming the united states for north korea's nuclear program, blaming the united states. why? because the -- they saw the u.s. unwillingness to negotiate in the first bush term as being the reason north korea felt it had to have nuclear weapons. so i think keeping that door open to negotiations is absolutely critical. let me -- i will say a few more things about negotiations, but there is a third element that i think is also very critical. and that is working with china. now, we cannot work with china as some kind of contractor in this. we cannot work with china as something that we somehow outsource the problem to the chinese. we need to have a serious sit-down, a serious discussion with the chinese about what our aspirations are and what their aspirations are. think back to the shanghai acards when president nixon arrived in shanghai and pulled this rabbit ou

you know it to a north korean. national assembly member lead told to lead that delegation to washington i spoke with a lawmaker yesterday in a center right party who says he disagrees with the request to bring nuclear weapons to the peninsula and that doing so would be a violation of the south north joint declaration on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula isnt it. north korea already promised denuclearization many times but they break the promise and their promise is just fake so we cannot believe north korea we cannot be treated anymore like this will him in their lives but how did the arms race in korea actually start shortly after taking office in one nine hundred fifty three president dwight d. eisenhower multiplan put forward by the joint chiefs of staff to end the stalemate in korea by dropping an a bomb on north korea and china eisenhower rejected the blank along with the recommendation from secretary of state john foster dulles to use a limited nuclear attack on north korean troops that year north

managed to arm—wrestle, if you like, the malaysia government into handing over three remaining north koreanssia, under suspicion. who are being held in north korea —— in malaysia, undersuspicion. so who are being held in north korea —— in malaysia, under suspicion. so to conduct this trial, only these two young women, this indonesian and vietnamese woman, are left. that account is that they had been trained to carry out what they thought were televised pranks. these are all women with no particular background that would suggest that they could have been involved in this assassination. and they are simply arguing that they did not know. so this is all malaysians had to go on. they will bring expert witnesses to the trial, as well is listening to the two women, but we will not hear from any of the north koreans themselves. so the actual details of the plot and howard was organised, i think, details of the plot and howard was organised, ithink, i details of the plot and howard was organised, i think, i think that is something that may still elude us wa nts something that may still elude us want

and north korean woman named ko young he regularly traveled to switzerland by private jet. with security officials capture under surveillance she was suspected of smuggling precious metals but she actually turned out to be the mother of the kim children. walk up while her visits would last for two three or four months. and she says she stayed in their apartment if you should be but would also take off on shopping trips to big european cities. you should also organize family gatherings for example at a hotel in interlochen dallek and doesn't attend but she's read a bunch of rooms and that's where they've made it to feel funny. kim jong il's private life was considered a state secret but if you insiders knew that he had at least three mistresses and four children on those occasions when kim fell seriously ill neighboring countries worried about. who would succeed him if he died but that decision seems to have been made early on. north korea's confucian tradition dictated that kim's oldest son kim jong nam would eventually become the country's leader but that changed after he

government should focus on the activities of north korean-linked vessels including increasing the number of entities and individuals sanctioned in north korea's shipping sector, compiling a complete list of vessels linked to north korea, and naming ports in china and russia that facilitate north korea's sanctions of asia. the urgency of the threat should call for the department to take these actions before the 180-day grace period granted by the sanctions law has elapsed. north korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs are a threat to the u.s. homeland and our allies. there are two basic policy options for the united states. one accepts this dangerous situation as reality. under the false premise that north korea's provocations can be contained or deterred. the other path was successful in bringing iran to the negotiating table with crushing sanctions that could force the kim regime to realize the futility of continuing its nuclear weapons and missile programs. the only peaceful way to protect the u.s. homeland is to ensure kim jong un feels the full weight of sanctions implemented by

officials who blame the north korean regime for his murder. and denies all involvement but tried unsuccessfully to prevent malaysian authorities conducting an autopsy the results showed that kim jong nam was killed with a nerve agent v.x. the murder spot a diplomatic crisis between the two countries can join them as body was returned to north korea in much part of a deal securing the release of malaysian citizens from the reclusive state. so was kim jong nam as murder the result of a years long plot by pyongyang north korea has a long history of ordering killings just silence its opponents d.w. met with one defector who fled the regime and says that his life is still in danger . for one north korean dissident this is a nation of kim jong nam last february wasn't merely news talks on hawk himself has been on the north korean government list for years the bodyguard around the clock tongue in my life is always in danger in two thousand and eleven north korea ordered a spy to assassinate me with a poison dart the following year and a north korean

greater concern about the international response to north korean behavior is probably helpful. >> letme just add come , i dont disagree with my colleagues. china has done some heavy lifting with north korea. we see this now with the sanctions. we certainly sought with six-party talks with a convene as yong indicated there with a one-two brought north korea to the table in april 2003 to initiate the six-party process and so forth. but to your initial question i think china has to be concerned about stability in the north, the conflict in the korean peninsula. they don't want, they want conflict in the korean peninsula and i think they realize we are at an inflection point with north korea because again miscalculation or lack of communications could precipitate something. and i think china would be a a very actively on that if they felt and as my colleagues indicated they see north korea, although they're not happy with north korea, they have a treaty with north korea but north korea serves a purpose for china as was articulated. i don't think they want to see it used doing something in

all of these designations target north korean trade ta, north korean illicit proliferation. it has had an impact on the ease with which they are able to make transactions. it's cut down on their hard ability to earn hard currency and it is having an effect of increasing pressure on the regime. >> thank you. this is a question for both of you and start with you, miss mantle occur. many of us here in this body and all of our allies are concerned about the president's statements about the jcpoa. the president indicates he intends to blow up the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran nuclear agreement. many argue this seriously undermine u.s. credibility on nuclear issues with north korea and others. are you concerned that this -- that the president's position undermines our diplomatic efforts with north korea? >> no, senator, i'm not concerned. these are two very different and zing problems. north korea needs to understand that we are very serious when it comes to applying our maximum using our maximum authorities to applying economic pressure and frankly, this is an area

increasingly they are exporting workers and well we found is that in factories in china near the north korean border there is economic zone where they have a bilateral agreement with china to export these workers and they process but they're not hey directly the government of north korea is. in the workers in the end will get a fraction of what they should have received and tell us a little bit more about the conditions these north korean workers are working under . right so these are coveted jobs for north korea and because it's not particularly for them to climb up an economic ladder that is because life is so tough in north korea this salaries and pay is so minimal there that said they were twelve hour shifts six days a week in factories they live in dorms adjacent to the factories and they're under the constant eye minders so they walk between their dormitories in groups they. get one day a week or they go into town and on that day they're minders with them and they remain in a group they cook for themselves they keep small gardens at their factories and they're there for two to three yea

there's a large north korean commune. bernie swiss journalists tito's plattner explains why they choose to live there. just like no us resist being less sure is the reason for that lies in the recent history of switzerland it's a neutral country and many international organizations are based around. switzerland has always been open to the north koreans they know that this is a peaceful country with business and that their privacy will be respected air your joy and that's why a lot of prominent north koreans send their kids to study here it was good idea and she's accepted and that includes kim jong un here can join a plessis is a full she's. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two swiss authorities received an application filed by the north korean embassy for a residence permit on behalf of a certain mr park. the visa application listed the names of three children so who now and me here on the dates of their birth are the same as those of kim jong il's three children but the names were changed slightly. cervix is a fighte

if past is prologue, we ought to be prepared for a further spike in north korean cyber crime. while the cyber twist may be relatively new, north korea has long termed to criminal activity such as counterfeiting to fill its coffers. the country often uses diplomatic cover to pursue illegal activities. in essence they're using national collection means for criminal gain or more aptly to be compared to as a state sponsor of cyber crime. one word on what we do about this. bottom line, we need to train more and better. we need to exercise. i think contingency plans are really important, make the big mistakes on the practice field not when it's game day. and dhs has done some good work in terms of sharing information intelligence. this is so vital because that's going to be the warning, that's going to be the indicator that something bigger may be afoot. in terms of the broader threat picture other scenarios will require a much broader response and it will need to include partners like d.o.d. and dhs and the utilities would likely be overwhelmed in such a scenario. thank you. >> the

it passed is prolonged, we ought to be prepared to further fight the north korean cyber crime. while the twist may be relatively new, such behavior is not. north korea has long turned to criminal activities such as currency, pharmaceuticals to fill its coffers and whereas traditionally the forces of crime seek to penetrate the state, in the case of north korea, the opposite is true. the country often uses diplomatic coverage to pursue illegal activities. in essence they are using national collections from all sorts of intelligence for criminal gain or more aptly, to be compared to a state sponsor of cybercrime. one word on what we do about this. bottom line, we need to train more and better. we need to exercise and think contingency plans are important, make the big mistakes on the practice field, not when it's game day. dhs has done good work in terms of sharing of information intelligence such as cobra where they provided indicators of north korean activity. this is so vital because that's going to be the warning, the indicator that something bigger may be afoot. in terms of t

the north koreans retreated farther north, the americans began advancing. at that point, macarthur made a critical error. he pulled out the tenth corps and sent it around by water to wonsan, which is marked on this map here. but by then the republic of korea troops had already passed won san and cleared it. so those troops came in. furthermore, it's very mountainous. korea's very mountainous so what happened was the troops got dispersed and compartmentalized. they got split up as they advanced into north korea. now, macarthur was euphoric. he was anticipating victory by getting the victory and getting the troops back home at christmas time and he was exceedingly optimistic about this sort of thing. unfortunately things didn't work out that way. americans were worried that the chinese might get involved. and they kept questioning macarthur, questioning macarthur, i talked to a former -- he's now deceased, four-star general who went over with the chief of staff of the army joe collins. and they went and met with macarthur and the entire time , macarthur paced

the north koreans? yes. >> reporter: just weeks ago say eyewitnesses, north koreans living and working in this sprawling compound, in clear violation of u.n. sanctions. they grew their own food, moved in and out with trucks. then they vanished. but the building's title deed shows it's a headquarters of north korean state company mansude. as sanctions have squeezed, the north korean regime searched globally for foreign cash to fund its nuclear and missile program. and across africa, they found willing partner and historic allies. in namibia's capital alone, the national museum and statue of founding president commemorating an independence even the recently finished presidential palace, all built by the north korean state in their trademark totalitarian style. but the contracts aren't just artistic. outside the capital, it's just scrub land. you'd never know what you are looking for, inside this namibian military base. u.s. investigator says there is a north korean munitions factory. a violation of sancti

just two more north koreans play in europe one is cern and one. and a system audition. the you're asking you know i'm thinking lucas as the conduct of an all skin goes. into knots non-sport events all talk and off. i wonder if part gets to keep the profession wages paid by example. i'm disturbed at the start. of talk to start us. on this because even disney. park has not played much for this season one day he hopes to go back on board. and then i go back to. wants to go back but it seems other north korean players will come to europe and i might see them in the bundesliga one day. last but not least a quick jump to europe's most successful club. reporter is still tracking the world's biggest star thomas chasing c r seven. i'm still wiling at the real madrid training ground on my hunt for christiane when i. where will he leave from. a local cameramen if i'm on. ok i need to get past these roundabouts to the gate which the players usually past when they don't take the secret and. fortunately i meet some kids on the way they're going experts in getting players to stop for

officials who blame the north korean regime for his murder. and denies all involvement but tried unsuccessfully to prevent malaysian authorities conducting an autopsy the results showed that kim jong nam was killed with a nerve agent v.x. the murder spot a diplomatic crisis between the two countries can join them his body was returned to north korea in much part of a deal securing the release of malaysian citizens from the reclusive state. so was kim jong noms murder the result of a years long thought by pyongyang north korea has a long history of ordering killings just silence its opponents d.w. met with one defector who fled the regime and says that his life is still in danger . for one north korean dissident this assassination of kim jong nam last february wasn't merely news pox on hawk himself has been on the north korean government's death list for years the bodyguards around the clock tongue into my life is always in danger in two thousand and eleven north korea ordered a spy to assassinate me with a poison dart the following year and a

entities and increasingly against north korean individuals so this is a loss it also sets back north korea's relationship with china kim jong nam had been a protege of china had sort of been under chinese protection and he was eliminated without chinese permission and so i'm actually kind of surprised the north koreans sort of took this kind of action they didn't clear with china or anything i mean just suddenly one day a chinese asset has been eliminated i can imagine the chinese are very happy about that you say he was a chinese asset he had been under chinese protection but how how why would it be even sorry g.'s a word easy how how could the north koreans get to him if he was under chinese protection. yeah i think that's actually one of the sort of big mysteries about this right is that why was kim jong un running around southeast asia without any kind of operational security. the chinese had been holding him sort of on ice if you will sort of in the background in macau because he had a claim to leadership in north korea right he has a blood descendant of the previous kim right a

that's been on the north korean government list for years. a bodyguard only takes him around the clock tongue my life is always in danger in two thousand and eleven north korea ordered a spy to assassinate me with a poison dart the following year and a north korean came to shoot me later someone brought a homemade bomb to my hotel to there was a letter sent to me threatening not only to kill me but my whole family. grew up in a privileged family in pyongyang he worked his way up until he got to post it to provoke on the ministry by one thousand nine hundred nine after a round of purges in the north korean elite he and his father defected to the south soon a pox on hocks life took a tragic turn. and. i lived quietly and saw for three years in two thousand and three an old friend who had defected as well came to tell me what had happened to my family that intelligence officers had arrested my uncles they were killed after being tortured my fiance was tortured terribly too my cousin had gone missing this is why i joined the north korea human rig

watch to experts like you to go from from the university of vienna think about north korean football. still a coupon had to file. on the north and the actors who. haven't got it and it's not his quest post he's off to bonn on a much stricter escape tonight i'm sure. you do you know don't you get your super got it on you soon you want to go house and you feel like russia and qatar north korea have increased their investment in football. talking about money the swiss cuddly toy maker karl messily has been bringing north korean players to europe for ten years he's not keen on an interview though as a form of footballer things everything has been said already. i was quite interested in how his recruitment model worked. among the players he brought in his park or even lived with the businessman. mentioning my conversation with messily to park certainly helps lighten the mood. but you know i know because he lived in his house for here he is here and. he's my best friend here the club has sent me a condition questions are limited to the topic sport and culture so what differences does park n

sebastian had a drink with a north korean player. for that price and i asked him what he's up to and whether he misses home. thomas is still chasing christiane a renowned life and some young detectives help him out a better for an hour and lots of asia on kick off life. the chinese superleague is it really that simple well the amounts of money days trying to round suddenly are the stars how the brazilian and four hundred twenty thousand dollars per wage van his fellow brazilian auster five hundred forty thousand per week an argentine carlos chavez bookie makes eight hundred twenty five thousand dollars everybody. went to shanghai to meet the stars to find out how soon the super league is. quote lies ahead for the countries i am is to turn china into a footballing powerhouse the plan includes the following. seventy thousand pitches saw a million kids playing and one hundred thousand home grown prizes. and the ultimate i am well to win the world cup but twenty fifty of course there is that really realistic. have shanghai s i k g r one

korea.t attack north nick: that is a very important signal to the north koreans. chael: the problem with the punching. one problem is he does fear, incorrectly, that the united states wants to get rid of him, his regime, and wants to reunite the north and south. he sees these weapons as the ultimate deterrence against us doing that. when the president uses the kind of language he is using, it reinforces in kim the reason why he wants to have these weapons. the second is, and this is a strange thing about north korea, they use the vitriol like no other country i know but are incredibly sensitive to it. one thing you hear from the north koreans all the time is when south korea says something not nice about kim jong-un, the north koreans get their back up. this language not only reinforces their policy but it is dangerous because it forces them into a corner. nick: the problem with tough rhetoric that plays to the president's base is it introduces into the mind of kim jong-un and his advisors a doubt. are the americans in a defensive posture? will they only attack us

yeah i think the chinese are pretty upset with the north koreans they just don't want to say it publicly i think geopolitically the chinese see north korea as a useful buffer between them and the americans and the japanese and south koreans so they like the idea of china of korea being divided and north korea being roughly in the chinese orbit what they really don't like is the sort of ideological gangster kind of governance of north korea right so the pursuit of nuclear weapons obviously is very disruptive to china i think that china i think they do think china is not lying when they say they want to denuclearize korea they want to keep the north korea alive they don't mind the kim family but i don't think they want them when you get weapons similar i think the chinese realize that all this kind of north korean gangsters and the kind of things that we've seen in malaysia not just the murders but north korea traffickers and methamphetamines and counterfeit dollars and so i think that north korea does a lot of sort of shady illicit stuff and i think the chinese would like to find a way to

bush institute's north korean freedom scholarship program.n effort by the former president to encourage freedom and values from those who fled the kingdom. and grace is uncompromising on what she says should be the fate of north korean dictator kim jong-un. >> the north korean regime should not exist in this world anymore, any longer. i will say the u.s. government use military force or any kind of force, we shall stop the north korean regime. the regime is killing those innocent people in the country. childs, babies and moms and they are dying without help. reporter: tough talk is the only thing the regime understands. >> i believe north korean regime will not listen if we speak nicely, so i think it's time to take action to north korean government because if we don't have any action, we only speak words and trying to give something to them and you know, give candy to crying kids, cancel the moment but will not solve the long run. reporter: she does not think a military strike in south korea and the region is feasible. >> i don't want to dro

stay in the water but no north korean will stand trial for the murder for north korean men accused of planning the attack immediately boarded flights out of kuala lumpur after the killing interpol has issued a red notice alert which is similar to an international arrest warrant for the men one of the suspect who was detained by malaysian police has been released because of insufficient evidence the trial may shed some light on a murder whodunit that's caught the world's attention but there's also a sense that the mastermind of the killing may never be caught florence li al jazeera. french police have opened a counter terrorism investigation after two people were killed in a knife attack must say essential train station the attacker was shot dead by security forces are still he stopped to passers by the station was evacuated. canadian police are treating an attack that injured four people in the city of edmonton as an act of terrorism they say they've arrested a somali national who was seeking refugee status please say the men round a traffic control barricade after a canadian football

at the same time, north koreans are ill—defined ways around sanctions. er way, then as it does not. but depend on then as it does not. but depend on the extent to which north korea circumvents the sections, we might not see a huge drop, although i am expecting some drop. just a heating speaking to me earlier. a few decades, microsoft has dominated software. recently, it has been playing catch up. but there has been an effort to change the culture of the company, which the ceo was described as sick. i fundamentally think that microsoft as a mission not to make itself cool, but to make the user is cool. that is who we are. the first product that microsoft credit was the basic into computerfor microsoft credit was the basic into computer for the altair. microsoft is now back in the game, as far as aa is concerned, but what of the risks? as you said, the first thing we should do is to make sure that we ta ke we should do is to make sure that we take the position we are in and empower people. —— ai. take the position we are in and empower people. -- ai. embell

to decapitate the north korean leadership. now, we spoke to the u.s. military as well. they say that u.s. military plans remain in tact. they're confident in those plans and they're confident that they have the secrecy necessary to move forward, but this is not the first time this has happened. north korea has tremendous hacking capabilities, shown in both the public sector with something like this, but also the private sector. you'll remember the sony hack going back more than a year now. >> multi-pronged threat from north korea right now. jim sciutto, good reporting. thank you very much. >>> with us now is democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts. he's a key member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> let's go through several of these issues. first of all, the north korean foreign minister today said that president trump has lit the wick of war and is basically -- he accused the president of being insane. how concerned are you about how the kim jong-

the words came from the top of north korean leadership. at means north korea is seriously considering an above-ground detonation would be the first the world has seen since china exploded a nuclear devi aboveground in 1980. obviously there are a lot of risks that come with an act like that, but north korea at this point they say feels it's simply necessary before they are able to engage in diplomacy with the united states, because they want to approve, they say, they cannot only defend themselves but could also attack the mainland reliably if necessary in the event of a war breaking out. north korea's envoy said earlier this week, quote, nuclear war may break out at any moment. dave? >> terrifying. all right, will live for us in tokyo. thank you. >>> could be days or weeks before some residents are allowed back home in areas devastated by wildfires in california. firefighters are starting to get better control on some of the fires, though. the latest, next. building a website in under an hour is easy with gocentral... ...from godaddy! in fa

in a stark new warning, a top north korean official tells cnn kim jong-un's regime isn't interested in diplomacy with the united states until north korea develops a missile that can hit the east coast of the united states. is it more rhetoric or a new reality? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following multiple breaking stories. the result of a wide and wild news conference by the president, just two days after the president's former chief strategist declared war on the republican establishment, the president stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the man who embodies the gop establishment, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. the president declared that the two men have never been closer and predicted victory for the republicans' efforts to cut taxes and repeal obamacare. this afternoon's news conference also was remarkable for the president's rejection of any blame for this year's many failures to pass major parts of his agenda, saying earlier today that republicans have not gotten the job done and adding, and i'm quoting him now,

also ahead the trial is set to begin in malaysia two women accused of murdering the north korean leader's estranged half brother. ross as america's top diplomat visits china over north korea his boss tweets that trying to talk to piano is a waste of time. we're going to need seventy five million dollars just. in the next five to six much and after visiting room hainje refugees in bangladesh the head of the world food programme outlined says came up it helps need it. initial figures released by the council on regional government show a decisive vote in favor of secession in sunday's referendum but also indicate an unexpectedly low turnout meanwhile the divide between the regional government in barcelona and central government in madrid appears to have deepened after polls close the president of the regional government collis boojum on said catalonia had earned its right to independence that was after at least eight hundred forty four people were injured across the region as punishment has moved in to shut down some polling stations speaking from the capital madrid prime minister mariano ra

is currently conducting military exercises as you know with south korea, something the north korean regimeis that north korea is not really interested in diplomacy until they have that intercontinental ballistic missile capability to reach the united states. where does this go? >> first, i would say with respect to the secretary of state's comments, the point of diplomacy is to prevent the bombs from dropping in the first place. unfortunately president trump only or 10 months in has shown a real inability when it am cans to dealing on the international stage and that includes north korea. it's unhelpful to take this go it alone approach. what we need to do is to work with allies and japan, south korea and especially china and ensure that we bring as much pressure as we can on the kim regime possible to abandon these sorts of suicidal thoughts that kim is continuing to pursue. unfortunately i think the trump approach had the opposite effect and in many ways accelerated the north korean regime's desire to be a nuclear power. >> you think that diplomacy still has a chance. the u.s. has been t

so for example the amount of remittances, the money north koreans can send back to north korea when theyat has been limited from 15,000 euros down to 5000 euros. there has been a ban on investment by the eu in north korea. and further entities such as the north korean army now on the sanctions list. so this is the eu saying we arejoining sanctions list. so this is the eu saying we are joining the sanctions list. so this is the eu saying we arejoining the un in a parallel sanctions list but to an extent the eu actually has very limited dealings with north korea. some countries like poland for example have about 400 north korean workers. they are trying to pressure countries like that to limit and not renew the visas of those north koreans who are working there. despite tougher sanctions from the united states, from china and now from the eu, it looks like north korea is not affected at all. now they are warning countries that are joining the sanctions list should refrain from joining us military action to avoid retaliation. yeah, that the statement by the deputy un ambassador of north kor

it is time to take action to north korean government. we don't have any action, we'll may speak the words and try to give something to them like two little crying to, it cancels the moment. >> she does not think the military strength at the predictions of possible catastrophic loss of life in south korea and the region is feasible. >> i don't want to drop the bomb were killing innocent people. trade to vichy hopes the u.s. and allies can conduct covert actions that will lead to the toppling of the regime. her two younger brothers died of starvation and her father died from being tortured while in police custody was making about the racer in china china and she was always taught with a portrait of the north korean leader. >> in new years, they give little kids a gift bag, which is cookies and candies in the back and then we hold that back in front of us and fall to the portrait three times. so that was the lecture i got from my grandmother. i have to fall to the leaders portray and i have to think to him whenever or whatever food i can ea

for the research of the book i interviewed a north korean defector and he actually trained hackers in north korea and issued a dire warning saying the u.s. should take this as serious. what they are going for is the u.s. infrastructure ability to turn out the lights com, to dame the infrastructure and prevent us from operating as a society. and of course everyone recognizes the u.s. is probably the most wired country in the world and if you attack that infrastructure, you could cause strategic damage to the united states and that is a danger. the north koreans are building on that capability and they are still considered a second-tier threat to the russians and chinese. >> host: you are critical of the u.s. lack of response to the hack. can you go into that more to understand what the u.s. did after the attack and if there were missed opportunities? >> guest: i've been covering this issue for a long time and it goes back as far as 2011. i learned from intelligence sources in the government of senior officials of all the major agencies, the intelligence community, the pentagon, law enf

the north korean regime however fiesta free flow of information for its sealed off people. packs on happening most from his own experience how a piece of paper can change lives. in one thousand nine hundred three i visited a classmate in one santelli at the square downtown people suddenly looked up in the sky and saw balloons state intelligence officers were carefully watching the balloons then they popped in flyers were scattered people were asked to turn them into authorities but some people put them in their pocket and i did too. that was when poc realized for the first time what living in a country without oppression could actually mean. while most south koreans simply shrug off the threat from the north and go on with their daily lives activists like pox on hockey approve of a cold war conflict just a few kilometers away. young viewers spock's regular balloon launches as a provocation and tries to shut them down with the tiller it still pox on hack hopes to achieve his dream of a unified korea one day. even though i come from a good background and had a comfortable lif