so what's at stake why is korean so important and why is north korea so important? irst of all because you don't want another bloody korean war. that something i think the americans are trying very hard to prevent by having 28,000 american forces in the rok. north korea is not just with nuclear weapons. she has icbms, biochemical weapons, submarine launched ballistic missiles. cyber weapons. if the only country in the world i would argue that has a comprehensive department store attitude toward military threats everything from a-z and that's what north korea has. i wanted to show the book that, yes, the rok is worth preserving for these reasons. the second goal that's at stake is because regardless of how this whole thing comes up i hope there will be unified korea and this year 2019 november, as you know, is the 30th anniversary of the dawn fall of the berlin wall. remember going to berlin in 1990 as a young man working at a think tank in korea at the time and east germany was still around germany was not unified. i asked myself, at what point will they be unified i

how many of you think do north koreans think have cellphones? actually, there are -- north korea, there's 25 million north koreans and there are 7 to 9 million cellphone users. honever they don't have wi-fi. they can only make domestic calls. put north korean apps in the north korean app store, similar to apple, and they download the stuff and they exchange information, and to your point, they aren't able to see the benefits of a modern technology. in these de facto market economies. they exchange almost 90% of the consumer goods comes from china, and you go there and you sell your rice cake and in exchange you about shampoo and then the next stall. the regime allowed this because the ration system does not exist. if you can't feed your people, they must fend for themselves but the irony is, as more of these marks flourish, the state's ability to control them basically diminishes. so these markets are not just for exchange of goods and services. that's where information gets exchanged. and south korean videos. almost every single north korean has

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as well as increase the exposure of koreans to the north to the outside world. we should establish a korean defector information institute to harness knowledge and experience of defectors to assist and develop the correct messages and will have policymakers and strategists to create policies based on detail and understanding of the regime and the korean people in the north. the institute will serve as a beacon to encourage the members of office 39 with knowledge over the regime and its finances. and conclusion, the u.s. and the rock u.s. alliance cannot allow the status quo to make the decisions through diplomacy and we know that they will not change his strategy and his need to keep nuclear weapons and if there is an internal threat to do so. but it's the long term strategy to dominate the peninsula that's the most core problem. it's a political warfare with these characteristics to support is long time to play president trump and president moon and the international community so he can remain unclear power so we can support the rock and dominate the peninsula.

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out other north korean cyber activities. deterrence by punishment, denial. uld suggest our friends in south korea need to be doing denymore to be able to what north korea is trying to do against our system, our economy. escapees thatave went to south korea and the south korean database that held information on the people that escaped from the horrors of north korea, exploited and breached. people allof these over again. we have to have much better systems in place. and deterrence by entanglement. need to pick up on working with allies and friends. the analogy in some ways can be the great work of proliferation security initiative in 2003. -- 105 countries have stepped in, notably not north korea, china, iran. we, the u.s. and more advanced countries would help those technology to see a ship that may be transiting precursors.wmd how do we help other countries were north korea is using their and other countries may not be able to have the capabilities to stop this. we may be able to help them with that. as a consortium we are stronger together. >> thank you. le

we need to jointly figure out a way together to assist the north koreans to get there so that north korea can and the north korean people can have the brighter future the president has spoken so often about. whether the u.s. . enforcement. security council it. is a. resolution does not. include the need to. often being lost. to cover the situation convinced that this political process to be actively supported. by a direct dialogue between the. and we promote. only. it. and. everything and. security lifting the sanctions and the rest of the humanitarian situation requires urgent steps. business. conditions. between. he's. officers and he. makes all kinds of accusations and for example he says he. may be. correct. correct approach and. like to repeat again we act in. those international norms that. in this case. the united states. has nothing to do with us that is an issue. that. to understand the. accusations against us that we. prepared to do that. that important for the community. to become clear in the treaty. extended and. what do you think about the argument that there is a need to en

the north korean port was destroyed by the americans as they left. thousands still died.s cargo. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. anchors away! now, if you're hoping that santa might deliver the latest tesla, >> we have updates on santa's presses. he is in french guam. now, if you're hoping that santa might deliver the latest tesla, the cyber truck this christmas, but its price tag is a little above your budget, then this might be the answer. it's a mock tesla built by a russian car enthusiast and it's been turning heads on the streets of moscow. it's based on an old lada hatchback that he bought forjust over a dollar. it's not as environmentally friendly as elon musk‘s creation and still has its old engine powering it. since the real cyber truck was unveiled last month, tesla said they've received more than 200,000 pre—orders. as for the mock tesla, its preorder book is currently empty. very briefly, that main story again. pope francis has celebrated midnight mass at the vatican. he called on the faithful not to abandon god's love at christmas because of the church's faili

we have to figure out a way to -- together so the north koreans north koreans can have that freedom. minister lavrov: you asked if the u.s. was satisfied with the enforcement of sanctions against north korea. instrumentns are an being used by the un security council however, the resolution does not only have to do with sanctions. they include the need to engage more actively in the political process and that is often being lost. the efforts to cover the current thistion, we are convinced political process needs to be actively supported and the hero is being played by the direct dialogue between the u.s. and pyongyang. and we promote their reestablishment of the dialogue where it appears that dialogue can yield results when it follows the idea of reciprocal steps. you cannot demand north korea to do everything. then go back to ensuring its security. situation inian north korea requires urgent steps. us toould allow understand the capability of the global community. including the preparedness of the global community to respond to the legitimate economic and humanitarian needs of north

hello welcome to the show i'm sam is a than north korean leader kim jong un has called for positive and offensive measures to protect the country's security and sovereignty that's ahead of a year end deadline he sent for the u.s. to soften its position on stalled talks aimed at pyongyang dismantling its nuclear and missile programs kim also warned during a ruling workers' party meeting that he may take an unspecified new path if washington fails to act u.s. military commanders say that could include testing a long range missile something north korea hasn't done since 2017 rob mcbride explains. north korean leader kim jong un has over the past couple of days being chairing a special plenary session of the workers' party of korea there have not been too many details coming out about what's been discussed apart from these vague references to new offensive measures being considered but of course this is all the build up to kim jong un's new year's day address when he normally lays out the way ahead for his country for the coming year and of course it may give us an indication of what he mea

the north korean port was destroyed by the americans as they left. thousands still died.at santa might deliver the latest tesla — the cyber truck — this christmas, but its price tag is a little above your budget, then this might be the answer. it‘s a mock tesla built by a russian car enthusiast and it‘s been turning heads on the streets of moscow. it‘s based on an old lada hatchback that he bought forjust over $1. it‘s not as environmentally friendly as elon musk‘s creation and still has its old engine powering it. you may not be surprised to hear that. since the real cyber truck‘s somewhat disastrous launch last month, tesla claim they‘ve received more than 200,000 pre—orders. for the mock tesla, the pre—order book is currently empty. in the same vein, we should probably tell you this. as you can imagine, santa claus is well on his way delivering presents around the world. the canadian and american defense agency norad, as usual, has been providing updates on santa‘s progress. he‘s currently in canada with his next stop cape cod and has already delivered more than 4 bill

needs sanctions to be removed at least partially saw the north korean government of you'll be able to resume economic girls because if those few years of the rule of the current north scary indeed or if you're very successful contrary to the common misperception not scary which is a very poor country was growing quite fast so is if your school 2nd goal was to have some of their significant news from as a nuclear power because once again all the stalks about denuclearization there have killed it for 20 years i've been laughing at that for 20 years sort of for being able to impolite not going to happen as it is actually not scary of wants to be recognized by the like see india or pakistan or israel as a nuclear power and they understand that the president from the have some chances to achieve this goal they wanted to negotiate it they did not succeed so now they will try to follow the usual at it approach they have done it many times in the past if they face a problem they create a crisis. as they try to drive tensions high as the luncheon is science so when you don't the new creating t

the north korean port was destroyed by the americans as they left. thousands still died.ory. now if you‘re hoping that santa might deliver the latest tesla, the cyber truck, this christmas, but its price tag is a little above your budget, then this might be the answer. it‘s a mock tesla built by a russian car enthusiast, and it‘s been turning heads on the streets of moscow. it‘s based on an old lada hatchback that he bought forjust over $1. it‘s not as environmentally friendly as elon musk‘s creation and still has its old engine powering it. since the real cyber truck‘s somewhat disastrous launch last month, tesla claim they‘ve received more than 200,000 pre—orders. for the mock tesla, the pre—order book is currently empty. there is much more on the news any on our website. thank you so much for watching. —— there is much more on the news any time on our website. hello there. well, it doesn‘t look like there is going to be any snowfall on christmas day, but because it‘ll be quite cold, there could be a little bit of festive frost to start the day. and the reason for the s

we also heard from a source familiar with north korean thinking telling cnn that they believe a nuclear test or an icbm test around christmas is not very likely. confirming what other experts had said which is that north korea does not want to risk angering its main ally and trading partner china and also russia. also saying that it is expected according to this source that north korea and leader kim jong-un will pursue a harder line policy when it comes to the united states. we've already heard from north korean official to the united nations, the ambassador there, that denuclearization is off the table. now, over the weekend we know there has been a meeting in pyongyang. kim jong-un was talking to top military officials. according to state run media, he briefed them on a complicated internal and external situation. and they did discuss military steps to bolster the overall armed forces. that comes ahead of a key workers party meeting expected at the end of this month where potentially we could hear kim jong-un telling the regime exactly what the policy towards the u.s. will be. there

a growing number of north korean fishing plates of washing up on the shores of japan. sometimes there are survivors but often the boats carry a tragic cargo of corpses from the secretive country does north then you'll use your gold to go north to. school rules as to who is to spin the wheel and he thinks. the mysterious vessels have become known as ship's. center no chance to talk so much from france and the moment she keeps on the skidmore center just off the phone. to talk to her and only comes to like me told him she wants to. i said take social freedom and i was home about what it was about what's great about the war 2 started to. wonder when east investigates north korea's ghost ships. and this strip of japan's west coast she's a loose also made a grim discovery total cologne nonono stock you know i think that we did a. lot of. talk but it could be on the. wall here on the house from out that this will go on on monday can be done i needed the money to meet on a new must look at more. kid thought. you are going in there so they're going in that the man must. be a ma

we need to jointly figure out a way together to get the north koreans together so north korean peoplecan have a brighter future that trump is spoken so often about. [speaking in foreign language] >> for north korea i would like to add a few words, you've asked if the will u.s. is satisfied with the enforcement of sanctions against north korea, and the sanctions by the un security council, sanctions are an instrument being used by the un security council, however, that resolution does not deal with just sanctions. they also include the need to engage in more political process and that is often be lost. the efforts to cover the currenccurrentsituation were cot the political process seems to be supportive and the direct treaty and we promote the establishment and positive that it can result in indicate and propose a new idea receptacles and you cannot demand north korea to do everything and then go back to ensuring insecurity in looking at sanctions and the rest of all of this. the humanitarian situation in north korea requires urgent steps but would allow and understand and capability o

we need to jointly figure out a way together to assist the north koreans to get there so north korea can -- and the north korean people -- can have the brighter future that president trump has spoken so often about. >> translator: as for north korea, i'd like to add a few words on that. you asked whether the u.s. is satisfied with the enforcement of sanctions against north korea. the sanctions by the u.n. security council. sanctions are an instrument that has been use ed by the u.n. security council. however, that resolution does not deal only with sanctions. they also include the need to engage more actively in political process and that has often been lost. now, these efforts to cover the current situation, we're convinced that this political process needs to be actively supported and a key role is being played by the direct dialogue between the u.s. and pyongyang and we promote the re-establishment of this dialogue. we're positive that this dialogue can yield result only in the case when it follows the idea of reciprocal steps. you cannot demand north korea to do everything and ri

they were north korean refugees, technically the enemy.y for them. so somehow, itjust happened that these guys there in hungnam listened to their better angels and did what i like to say, the right thing for the right reasons in a very difficult situation. after the last boat leaves shore, the order is given and the entire port blown up. the north korean port was destroyed by the americans as they left. thousands still died but those who got the chance to live are forever grateful to have been part of this very special christmas cargo. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. well done, everybody, and anchors aweigh! allee willis, who co—wrote the theme song for the sitcom, friends, has died at the age of 72. ms willis won grammys for other work, but she's best known for penning the long—running theme song. danny aeberhard looks back at her life. it was the late 1970s, and though they might not have known it, people across the world were strutting their stuff to allee willis. boogie wonderland, the disco anthem she co—wrote for earth, wind and fire.

because they're both violating the sanctions right now and beginning to let up the pressure on the north koreansre's very little incentive for north korea to actually give in at this point. >> and so is it fair to say that north korea has a more robust nuclear program than it did before president trump met with kim jong-un? >> absolutely. for a story we had, used to run the national lab for the u.s., and his estimate is they now have enough fuel for 38 nuclear weapons. well, that's up from somewhere between 20 and 30 before the singapore summit. so it's been a pretty significant increase. and the president failed to get a nuclear freeze in return nar meeting. and i think that turns out to have been a big mistake. >> when president trump says they fell in love over these beautiful letters that they've exchanged, what has he gotten out of it? >> he's gotten the freeze on missile and nuclear test. they have not tested since november of 2017. that's not a small thing. because the missile tests in particular are important if you're going to keep your program moving forward. and they haven't yet prove

sanctions it also calls for a bomb to be lifted on the employment of north koreans are brought it's not known if or when the draft resolution will be put to a vote to be adopted it would need the support of at least 9 u.n. security council member states in the absence of any vetoes but washington say sanctions relief would be premature this stage has ramped up its missile testing this month ahead of a year. that's given the u.s. to make concessions in their stalled nuclear talks no despite the threats america has insisted it's unwilling to compromise. the united states and the security council have a goal not a deadline we want to use this time we briefing to make crystal clear to the d.p. r. k. that its continued ballistic missile testing is deeply counterproductive to the shared objectives that the president trump in chairman camp had discussed on 2 occasions. although we can bring in political analyst to the program chris bambery chris good to see you again if washington is rejecting any sanctions relief what hope is there for relations improving with north korea in 2020 felt approac

and the north koreans have refused the entire time.t's not really clear that this relationship could sink any further than it already has, so i don't really see how a new test would necessarily damage relationships between pyongyang and washington any more than they are already damaged. >> matt bradley joining us from london. appreciate it. >>> the president has a lot of issues and a number of different fronts but he got this, the supreme court hats temporarily blocked a ruling for eight years of trump's financial documents from deutsche bank and capital one. this comes after the president asked judge ruth bader ginsberg to consider her emergency request and she said yes. joining me now is katie phang and glenn kirschner. welcome to both of you. lucky to have you here with me on this sunday morning. katie, how big of a win was this for the president's legal team? >> it was a temporary stay, so he has -- he being donald trump -- has until next friday, december 13th, to be able to see whether or not he's going to file what we expect it g

. >> north korea won't say exactly what it tested. south koreanicials say they're not able to confirm any specifics, so what does this mean, this latest test, for nuclear negotiations between north korea and the u.s. sam that vino grad is here. i wanted to ask you what your take is on the fact that we're nearing the endi of the year where kim jong-un has said you have until the ending of the year to essentially make things right between the u.s. and north korea and we see more tests happening. your take? >> this is a preview of kim's threatened new year's eve show. he's given us a trailer of what to expect after the first of the year if president trump doesn't bend to his demands. those include lifting sanctions on north korea in change for some step-by-step steps from the north koreans. but these tests have the added benefit, and kim jong-un loves hyperbole almost as much as donald trump, so the description of these tests from the north koreans do need to be taken with a grain of salt. that said, these tests do allow the north koreans to improve

the north korean port was destroyed by the americans as they left. thousands still died. been part of this very special christmas cargo. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. us presidential candidate michael bloomberg has said that his campaign "unknowingly" used prison workers to call voters on his behalf. the billionaire democrat said he had cut ties with a vendor which operates two call centres in state jails. mr bloomberg said he learned about the company's use of prison labour only after receiving a call from a reporter. the queen's husband prince philip has returned to join the royal family in time for christmas after leaving hospital in london. the duke of edinburgh, who's 98, spent four nights in the king edward the seventh hospital on the advice of his doctor. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell has more. afterfour nights in the king edward vii hospital, the duke emerged this morning and walked, slowly but without assistance, to the waiting vehicle. there's been no information about the reason for his stay at the hospital. in the past, he's been treated there fo

a couple of days ago, we saw the satellite images from north korean's test site and they have a missilengine test stand and looking at satellite images, we are told there is activity at that missile engine test stand that kim had promised president trump he would dismantle after one of their meetings. but, of course, that didn't happen. it was dismantled but after the summit talks in late february and hanoi fell apart activity revived at that location and what we didn't see a launch from that site but shorter range tests that president trump brushed off at not a big deal, not a threat to the mainland u.s. what we have seen over the weekend what analysts believe is likely an engine test, possible the kind of engine that would power a long-range missile capable of hitting the united states, this takes things to a whole new level because the engine test, a successful completion of it, could be the precursor to a far more provocative test of icbm that president trump said repeatedly he wouldn't allow north korea to possess. if this test is a solid fuel engine, nuclear fuel they have to roll

there has in fact been north korean activity recently in the last couple of weeks.several satellite images indicating the range of activities with factories in a test site, associated with the country's long-range missile capability. some experts are now saying that perhaps a gift that might not be an actual launch or nuclear test might be a bit more rhetorical like the lifting of the north self-imposed moratorium on all of this bad activity, or the breaking off of denuclearization talks. in fact, coming up the next few days, a big national meeting of chairman kim jong un's ruling party as well as his new year's day address, those could be launching back for some really nasty rhetoric. remember, talks including committees between president trump and chairman cam just in this past year are going nowhere. a top chinese official calling this week for the u.s. to in their words "to take concrete steps to get things moving. that is the last thing that analysts are looking at right now in fact, julie, the possibility that north korea might get itself into the next year el

here's the un, the north korean ambassador.y are making much trouble to play the role of pet dog in the u.s. one cannot wonder what they get in return for favor with the u.s. if these countries are truly interested in resolving the issues, they should call to the u.s. which is a hostile policy, it is an attempt to stifle it. do not need to have them right now in the denuclearization, it's already gone out of the negotiating table. they are saying this in the european countries are at a cross. >> this is about north korea internal politics. the message he has to deliver a lot of this is for domestic north korean consumption. >> we thank you, it is a barbaric regime. we always remember that and keep that in mind especially when we remember that regime did there. thank you. >> iran is in an economic crisis. the iranian president is releasing new budget to deal with u.s. sanctions imposed by president trump. >> in an effort to combat u.s. sanctions, iranians making an announcement of a new budget. if approved, it was slightly incre

. >> north korean state tv announcing a very important test at a rocket launch site. rth korea threatened the u.s. with an unwelcomed christmas gift amid negotiations. here's president trump after denuclearization talks with north korea dimmed. >> i'd be surprised if north korea acted hostily. there's hostility. no doubt about it. >> what is significant about this launch site and the timing here. >> you know we have seen this thing before with the north koreans and in many ways the political significance and symbolism outweighs the importance of the technology that the north koreans put on display here because as usual we don't know much about what kind of rocket or projectile the north koreans launched other than what they told us in their official releases and what the south koreans observed but regardless, this test is an ominous sign that north korea intends to follow through on the threat. the christmas gift that it intends to deliver attend of the year. that's when experts worry we could see a new test of a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile. that's a

navy to provide options about north korean ships that might be sanctioned. mattis refused because he thought they might lead to widespread conflict. tillersoncmaster, rex and john kelly. mattis, i quote him as saying we have to make sure reason is not trump impulse. his view of donald trump is this is an impulsive guy. in some cases, i will not provide them, as is the case of the wargame. you can't have a wargame if the pentagon does not provide war planners. mattis refused to provide military options. house began to realize the pentagon was slow rolling, which the pentagon does with all sorts of things. in this case, it was clear. tis was concerned about getting into a war with iran and the middle east. even though he had been an iran skeptic, he thought the iran nuclear deal should stay in place not only because it was working but because we negotiated with her allies. the french and the germans, we should keep our word as united states. similarly with north korea, it is a fact that wars can happen inadvertently. a small incident can spiral into something

from north korea. >> hopefully there won't be a christmas surprise or a christmas gift as the north koreans are calling it. but this is what executive sanctions look like. their main to be painful. the main to be directed. in the north korea later, i think his understanding of the united states and the president trump means business. we know that the chinese and the russians kinda based on sanctions after the initial sunday single work, 2018. and that they want to now for the u.s. to reverse a lot of the sanctions that the united nations has hosted on u.s. direction. however, they are working. and so i believe, that as long as president trump and his team, stay cool, calm, and directed as a deal with north koreans and focus on diplomacy. bringing our regional partners along with us, focusing on the japanese, and fast south koreans, and nano specific strategies that the president has put in place, there will be really little wiggle room for this north korean by the end of the year. >> i think you brought it up, they got over and met with the koreans assuring that those relationships with our

north korean state media are reporting a successful and, quote, very important test at the country's hae satellite launching ground on saturday. it's not clear what was tested. earlier this month, north korea warned it would send the u.s. a christmas gift. >>> the fbi has identified the gunman in friday's shooting at pensacola naval station as lieutenant mohammed alshamrani. he was shot dead by law enforcement after he killed three people. a senior u.s. official says there were concerning statements and online material that they're looking at. >>> u.s. house democrats are preparing for monday's impeachment in the impeachment inquiry of president trump. on saturday, the judiciary committee released a report laying out historical articles for impeachment. the white house has refused to take part in next week's proceedings. >>> in hong kong, huge number of pro-democracy activists are once again staging a massive march in the city. unlike many of the recent protests, police have actually signed off on this one. it comes just weeks after pro-china candidates suffered devastating losses in

no, this was very friendly. >> reporter: the north koreans didn't think it was friendly. a source told cnn kim was blindsided. spring began with a flurry of weapons tests. the u.s. and south korea assessed them to be short-range launches, and as he did throughout the year, president trump seemed to shrug them off. tensions temporarily eased in june. trump and kim called this historic, they claimed impromptu meeting at the korean demilitarized zone. their pledge to begin working-level talks within weeks yet another broken vow. nearly six months after that dmz photo op, another launch and the return of this infamous insult. >> likes sending rockets up, doesn't he? that's why i call him rocket man. >> reporter: north korea returned the rhetorical fire, calling trump's comments the dotage of a dotard, which means old, senile lunatic. that kicked off a busy december. north korea cryptically promised a christmas gift for the u.s. if the year ended without a diplomatic breakthrough. they published photos of kim riding a white house on the mountain, the place he's known to visit

the north koreans will not give up their own nuclear weapons. they never have. we need you think about the kind -- is it an situation where we allow more intrusive inspections? they want the sanctions to be lifted. the north korean economy is hurting. there is something we can negotiate about. hammered outs is before the leaders meet and there is a photo op. presidentdo you think should respond? guest: how should he respond and how will he respond are two different things. i would just talk about the will. i think that is unpredictable. one thing i say in the book is president trump has been lucky with no foreign policy issues on 9/11, no saddam hussein invading kuwait. president trump is afforded that. a real escalation with north korea would qualify as a major foreign policy crisis. what are your military options? the military options are somewhat limited. you could imagine a small special operations attack directed at their leadership. the point is the north koreans have a giant military, south korea is across the border, 25,000 american troops and american c

russia has thousands of north koreans who are working in russian and paying the north koreans hundreds of dollars for that. they are also transferring oil at sea and there are a couple other countries that are doing it as well. we have to shut all of that down once and for all. then we will truly have a maximum pressure campaign. the second thing, we have to call north korea out for their human rights abuses. if we really get an icbm long-range missile test, let's be realistic here. we have got to go back to a credible military option in terms of increasing military capacity in the region, putting more capability in to south korea, putting more in japan and in guam. and also making certain that those sanctions are really, truly imposed. then i think we are finally going to get the north korean's attention. i think it's pretty obvious they've been gaming us. we have had strategic put haitians in dealing with them, molly. even if they don't fire a missile, i think we need to reassessment. >> molly: your fruit certainly not the first to say that north korea plays a lot of games. we got wo

>> the fault of the administration is thinking the united states could entice the north koreans into r. nobody has ever been able to do that. not the chinese, not the russians, not the south koreans. we're not going to be the first. and so i think that the decision what trump is doing is strategic. it mirrors what the united states did with china. in 2017, trump's first of the president was he gave passes. march 2018 he starts to bring the hammer down on beijing. trump probably will do the same thing with kim jong-un, but right now there's no sign that the president is going to pivot to a more successful policy. >> isn't that the only thing that makes sense to reinstate the economic sanctions? otherwise what have they gotten out of these meetings with president trump going there and having this alleged charm offensive? >> we've gotten absolutely nothing. in this interim since may of last year, the north koreans have been making progress on both ballistic missiintercontin missiles. >> thanks for being here. thank you for the unsight. >>> so the battle over the impeachment trial is heat

to have continued negotiations, we were in stockholm not too long ago for negotiations with the north koreaneam and would like to continue those negotiations and look we would like to see this end up in a peaceful resolution and a resolution that is good for the people of north korea. they could be a great country. they could have a tremendous economic powerhouse in north korea instead of starving anding with being poor so they have to make a choice and we hope they make the right choice. >> brennan: i want to ask you about something at home, we saw a saudi military officer shoot dead three americans, wound eight at a benz cola base, with was the shooter acting alone? is this a terrorist attack? >> so we don't know yet if he was acting alone, the fbi is investigating and they have been interviewing, interrogating other saudi students, look, to me it appears to be a terrorist attack, the fbi will have to get -- go i don't want to prejudge the investigation but it appears this may be some of it was radicalized .. whether here, you know, it is unclear if he has any ties to my other organization

all of those are commitments we are very hopeful that the north koreans will continue to abide by. we continue to work to try and develop places where we can communicate, negotiation mechanisms where we can talk to them about paths forward to achieve the denuclearization that both foreign minister lavrov and i are committed to help them achieve. it's a place with overlap, we need to figure out a way together to assist north koreans to get there so that north korea and the people can have a brighter future president trump has spoken so often about 30. >> as far as north korea i'd like to add a few words on that. you asked whether the us is satisfied with the enforcement of sanctions against north korea. the sanctions by the us security council, these sanctions are an instrument that is used by the un security council. that resolution does not deal only with sanctions. they also include the need to engage in more actively in the political process and that has also often been lost. these efforts to cover the current situation, we are convinced this political process needs to be suppor

and even made a model of a secret north korean facility, a model the size of a coffee table to illustrate the regime's covert weapons programs. trump was at this meeting shown a satellite image of the korean peninsula at night. that satellite image showed the lights of china and the lights of south korea and the blackness of north korea in between. trump originally mistook the black void of north korea in the satellite image for an ocean. presumably as these national security officials were explaining to him that that wasn't an ocean on this imagery that he was looking that, that was an area without electricity and that's why it's dark. it's not water, it's land, it's just that there are no lights there. these national security officials in the oval office with trump showed thim him it wasn't an ocean and to make clear to him this isn't water, it is land, they showed him, quote, the bright lights of seoul, south korea. just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone separating the two koreas. upon being shown the bright lights of sooul, president trump reportedly asked his briefings, quote,

has met kim jong-un three times, most recently and most dramatically the president stepped in to north korean territory. in exchange for diplomacy, north korea has scaled back the testing of its most powerful weapons but north korean officials say the country won't play political games anymore that benefit president trump domestically while no progress has been made to lift economic sanctirea.onpotical prop, a north korean official warned that america may expect, quote, a christmas gift, interpreted to mean either a missile or even a nuclear te >> richard engel tonight, thank you >>> this evening, nearly 700,000 people in this country are on the verge of losing food stamps after the trump administration finalized a rule enforcing work requirements for adults who don't have children the new rule requiring 20 hours of work a week was denounced by anti-poverty groups and is set to take effect april 1 >>> it was an explosive moment in race relations the 2012 shooting in florida of a black teenager, trayvon martin, by a neighborhood watch volunteer, george zimmerman, who was later acquitted of hom

>> we have a very good relationship. >> the north koreans didn't take too kindly to that. trump a dotard. name calling doesn't work, but neither did flattery or photo ops or summits. what will it take to keep north korea in check? >> i think what it will take is basically a cutoff of money to kim. up until last year we cut off maybe 50% of north korea's international flow of funds. what we need to do is go after another 45%. if we do that, kim is faced with a choice, give up his weapons or give up power. no american president has put a kim leader in that position. we haven't had the political will. the question is whether president trump is willing to spend the political capital to do that. >> why would he have to give up power if he chooses not to comply? >> it would be if the north koreans didn't give up their weapons, we would just cut off all the money and go after the chinese banks and basically make it impossible for kim to rule. kim needs money, not only for detonating nukes and haunlaunch missiles but also for gift politics. that's how he buys loyalty. if he can't

we do not have a year and a deadline there's an artificial deadline set by the north koreans and it's fortunately it's a deadline that they've set upon themselves fast forward to after the launch the u.s. special representative for north korea puts on his best poker face and flies out to south korea the same guy you've just listened to saying that the deadlines for pyongyang know them it's a universal time for new year resolutions but for trump it's way bigger than just that it's the result of his intel your presidency 2 years ago he was the queen of the problem playing hard to get with pyongyang standing up his dates dishing out sanctions left and right now he's already conceded in his trade war with china backtracking on tariffs in exchange for a pinky promise from beijing so north korea wants to strike 2 while the election is hot and trump is soft i think for trump a kind of puts him in a bind because the only thing he has going for him as for the meant is that he's open dialogue with north korea and if. it goes nowhere because he refuses to offer a north korea anything exchange fo

one defense official tells me that the intelligence is murky. >> mike: at the north koreans have tested but none that could pose a danger to the u.s. at least so far. >> that's right. they tested over a dozen short-range missiles after testing new missiles of any kind a year ago. keep in mind north korea has not tested a long-range missile using solid fuel something bret baier asked defense secretary mark esper about at the reagan defense forum earlier this month. >> solid fuel boosters do provide you a degree of efficiency and mobility and gives you less warning then do a liquid fueled rocket but they have been moving this direction for years. it's another thing that we watch because it reduces our warnings, if you well. but we have very good intelligence on north korea. >> president trump's and former national security advisor john bolton offered some of his harshest criticism yet ove overe presence diplomatic overtures to pyongyang tweeting "we say it's unacceptable for north korea to obtain nuclear weapons but that's more rhetorical than real policy at this point." he says the dange