war and he wanted north korean officers to be trained in the us. i saw pictures of him as a young lieutenant. in fort benning in georgia. how can i tell this story to koreans back at home and in the north as well as to americans. why is north korea important? you don't want another bloodied korean war and that is something americans are trying very hard to prevent by having 28,000 american forces in the rok. north korea is not just nuclear weapons, icbms, biochemical weapons, ballistic missiles, cyber weapons. the only country in the world i would argue had a comprehensive department store towards military threats. everything from a-z, that is what north korea has. the rok is worth preserving. the second is at stake because regardless of how this comes out i hope there will be a unified korea and in november 2019, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. going to berlin is a 1990 i was working at a think tank, east germany was still around. i asked myself at what point will be unified if they do? the bi

once the contact between the koreans in the north and the koreans in the south becomes more frequent d more penetrating, north korea has had it. it is just too much of a magnet, south korea, it is too appealing, it is too attractive and i think mr. kim knows that and i think the one of the reasons that he keeps going back to beijing is he is looking for reassurance is that when this in fact happens, where will he end up? so i think we need to step back and look at the region understand that from the very beginning, president she also stated very unequivocally -- unequivocally, if you, mr., kim launch any action against any neighbor you are on your own. that includes the united states. we will not help you. if however you are attacked by the united states or any neighbor, we are obligated to help you and that message was also delivered to president trump so that at this point i think president moon should take over and leave this process, not us. and we should support what he wants to do, including the measured withdrawal of our forces against some program, some schedule for denucleari

and lead to a rapid north korean victory. so, stalin comes up with this new strategy, this new strategic concept. he makes the concessions to mao. and, without telling mao anything about his planning, he wasn't in the habit of explaining himself to anyone, certainly not to anyone he saw as client state leaders, he cables, before the negotiations are completed, eh cables kim, come to moscow. that is the way in which it came about. and one of the big questions has always been why did stalin change? and, essentially, it is because he was blocked in his ambitions to break up nato in western europe. andamericans, truman atchison, in january, had made it clear they were consolidating u.s. interests in asia. and they laid out a defense permit or for the united states that did not include taiwan or south korea. so, communist analysts said, ok, this means they will not defend. that was not necessarily the ascension made in washington, but they wanted to be part of the defensive perimeter. so, that's why stalin decides he can go in at

coming up the north korean leader kim jong un says the world will soon see a new strategic weapon but she leaves the door open to further talks with the u.s. but also what to make of his warning. plus the rings in a new year and a new decade in welcomes the 20 twentieth's with fireworks over the brandenburg gate and in new york huge crowds to celebrate on times square the 2. i knew thank you so much for joining us. the ruins left behind by wildfires raging in australia a further 7 people have been confirmed dead over the last 2 days and nearly 200 homes destroyed now the fires have fanned out across 2 states in the south east of australia authorities and now delivering food and water to thousands of people who fled the town of kuta and took refuge on beaches and the danger is not even close to being over conditions are expected to deteriorate this weekend with the return of high temperatures and strong winds. fueled by searing temperatures and fast moving winds more than 200 fires continue to consume a strain southeastern states of new south wales and victoria. they saw a fool these r

china's north korean trade partner since -- accounts for fr 90% of its trade. nd i'm going to give you some numbers to illustrate the impact of maximum pressure. at its peak in 2014 china north korea trade was about $7 billion. according to chinese officials. four years later later in 22 basically the year after maximum pressure was adopted, it dropped to 2.4, going from seven seven4 sounds like a scary drop but do you know what the number was in 1999 at the height of the famine? 0.35. basically there's been a skyrocketing of north korea-china trade in the past decades, and so what maximum pressure has done in practice is just set north korea-china trade back about ten years, and that's more or less at the time of the sunshine policy. that doesn't look like an existential threat. moreover, china's official reports understate how much economic health is actually undergoing. first, they don't include smuggling. they also don't include tourism, and is been reports that chinese tourists have been flooding north korea come so much so that north korea has had to refus

north korean leader kim jong-un gestated in his de facto new year's speech that he would not discuss denuclearization until the u.s. agreed to peace, and called on north korea to call for protracted conflict in the meanwhile. the logic of sanctions may appear convincing when divorced from its history of failure. the trump administration has repeatedly stated in the past week that sanctions are designed to impose on north korea a choice, a choice between prosperity if it denuclearizes, and poverty if it doesn't. that seems easy enough, but that's clearly not how kim sees the situation. in kim's speech, he in fact, reiterated that nuclear weapons were north korea's ultimate guarantee us security against a u.s. military intervention and that it was no use bartering them away to be rich today and dead tomorrow. trump's maximum pressure did cause significant damage to north korea. as my co-authors and i found in an october 2019 report assessing the impact of sanctions on the population. in effect, he took what was supposed to be a so-called smart sanctions regime designed to target the mil

the north koreans argued that south korea hasn't delivered anything to north korea. therefore, he's having a real hard time in pushing for the idea of peace building through peace economy. proactive diplomacy, contrary to what conservatives have been criticizing, we have been betting on the united states 100%, particularly since november 2018, we have been 100% coordinating with the united states. we have shown 100% transparency to the u.s., we got into korean economy exchanges incorporation. as a result of that interkorean relations have become completely frozen. now we have a dilemma, what should we do, if you can not make a breakthrough in his talk with north korea. i don't know what action president would take but both sentiments in south korea, if the u.s. reopen negotiation with north korea and come up with some kinds of negotiated settlement with north korea, moon jae-in supporters, south korea should take an independence action. okay. if i would say we are going through critical period. okay. and moon jae-in needs continuing support from his supporters. if pr

look at the north korean media talks and whatever. what north korea's concern is how the american political stakeholders take that back for the domestic property to gain if north korea thinks the united states has been politically of using and misusing them for their petitions personal gains. second, if you read the recent report, you can clearly see why they are angry about the united states and of the trump administration. they've been pushing for the maximum pressures and nothing but containing and strangulated north korea. they've shown the overt criticism despite the united states and the second point on the issue of the asymmetric report says okay we've suspended the tests and the nuclear testing. we have unleashed the society and we get nothing we do not get anything for what we have done on the part of the united states. there have been reasons that outline what they are saying and the answers can be found due to trust and to come up with a jazz i pointed out in my talk it's been denuclearized. that was in hanoi saying it was c

something that defines the size of a permanent north korean nuclear force. e, for any american president, that would be a very hard thing to swallow after decades of saying we would never tolerate a nuclear north korea. >> right. and after president trump initially getting an agreement that there be some level of denuclearization that would certainly be not exactly what he had originally intended. david sanger, thank you for your expertise. appreciate it. >> thank you, ryan. happy new year. >> happy new year. >>> coming up, president trump announces some e-cigarette flavors will be pulled from the market, but is the administration going far enough? and will it make any difference as the vaping epidemic gets worse? >>> i was 18 and we had a band called the stone ponies. ♪ >> the whole damn thing broke loose. >> it was rock music, folks music, co-mingling. >> how can we define what this is going to be? >> linda was the queen. she was like what beyonce is now. >> she was the only female artist to have five platinum albums in a row. ♪ >> i can't help it, i'm stil

the north korean leader says they'll never get rid of their nuclear weapons as long as u.s. policy towards north korea does not change. we will bring you president trump's conciliatory response to kim in a moment. >>> first, let's go first to cnn's arwa damon live in baghdad. so arwa, it looks like these protesters aren't going to leave. they are setting up tents even there signaling this is not going to be a short-term demonstration. >> this is an inication of how quick things can change. it looks like they've gotten orders to clear out and that's just what they've done. that is one of the entrances to this massive, sprawling compound. and you can see right now those two soldiers or security contractors taking down the flags that were put up by these various different demonstrators. each flag represents a different gro group. many of them are very pro-iranian. the walls are just covered in anti-american graffiti. they've also set a tire on fire just to make even more of a statement as they were withdrawing. now as i was saying, the situation here does change so very, very qu

confirmed since monday including people who stayed behind to save their homes also on the program north korean leader kim jong un says the world will soon see a new strategic weapon despite this he leaves the door open to further talks with the us. hong kong police used tear gas to disperse valentine to government protesters and arrest hundreds after hundreds of thousands take to the streets to call for greater democracy. i'm phil gale welcome to the program as wildfires right through australia 7 people have been confirmed dead over the last 2 days and if you 200 homes destroyed bring the death toll from this season's places to 17 the biggest faster spread across 2 states in australia southeast this is the victoria and new south wales or thorson are delivering food and water to thousands of people who fled the coastal town of malik and took refuge on the beach. but with weather conditions expected to worsen this weekend the crisis is far from over. fueled by searing temperatures and fast moving winds more than 200 fires continue to consume a strain here southeastern states of new south wales a

we're seeing in asia and north korean leader kim jong. il soon launch a new strategic weapon denuclearize asian talks between pyongyang and washington stalled in october so korean media is reporting that in his annual address to the party kim said the u.s. would suffer helplessly if it continued to delay talks he accused the white house of making gangster like demands but he has left the door open for dialogue and said the scope of any testing would depend on the answered she'd of the united states what mcbride's has been following developments from seoul. statements obviously have been long awaited here we knew that there was this end of year deadline for the u.s. to come up with concessions to get things moving again obviously that has passed and so. everyone has been expecting to see what exactly will be the new path that north korea chooses to take so they had by their statements at this special session of the workers party of career which had been carried extensively this new year's day morning on north korean t.v. kim jong un has ba

summit meetings with kim jong un and of course have been calling for relief of the sanctions the north koreans will be very careful not to try to undo the diplomatic work that it's been building with its north east asian neighbors peter rob many thanks. own kong's new year celebrations were scaled back due to security concerns with months of violence and tea government protests thousands still gathered across the financial up including along the waterfront calling for more freedoms from beijing the bigger problem has more from hong kong. these are the scenes that defined 29000 for hong kong protesters shielded by umbrellas blockading roads and confronting riot police. a call to disrupt new year's eve celebrations kept many people away from areas normally packed with revelers tourists and shoppers but some still ventured out to ring in a new decade and mingled with those chanting slogans on the harbor from a mall. i hope that it will be a peaceful year and everyone will be more cheerful mass antigovernment protests were sparked by a proposed extradition bill that would have allowed criminal sus

we fe a north korean problem. you negotiated with the north koreans. rice: i did. rubenstein: what would you say is the chances that north korea and the united states and south korea can come to some agreement? rice: well, i have to say, when the president-- i first heard that the preptdent had on the spot ac kim jong-un's invitation, i thought, "oh, my goodness, what was he doing?" and then i thought, "you know, "nothing else has worked, so why not? why not give it a try?" and i actually think they've set the table pretty well. e of the conditions that's different is that once kim jong-un's programs got to the place that they actually threatened the united states, as they've begun to do, i think it got china's attention that the united states might actually go to war to prevent a north korean leader from being able to threaten the united states, so i think they've g a chance. i would just say 3 things. the first is, the north koreans have a history of when they're under sanctions and they start to bite, coming to the table, making promises, and then not carrying t

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

maternal grandfather who actually sketch south korea to go to north korea he actually defect north between the korean war and became a really really famous you know government official in north korea under kim il sung and you know this kind of family ties to north korea for years had to be kept as a secret you know within his south korean family so that's one of the things that i think is very important now and the north korean references the film is making i think is directly tied to some of the things that are going on the clandestine kind of politics and people living with terror you know with this obviously very real secret you know having the ties with nigeria so those are the things that are absolutely wonderful. and it is also important to note that. in her himself he this is pretty open about spending a lot of this college years not going to college but also working as a pro sorry now working by participating in a lot of pro democracy protests and anyone who knows anything about the history of modern korea knows that that was an insanely dangerous thing to do even if tens of thousands of peop

the north koreans and kim put out dramatic wording to see how the word will respond.oncern is that they will be motivated to act drastically. >> we've come a long way since the president said he and kim fell in love. david, thank you for that report. >> 35 minutes past the hour. >>> why were firefighters in detroit posing in front of a burning home? next. ok everyone! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy. running to meetings, errands... now i'm running for me. i've always dreamed of seeing the world... ...but i'm not chasing my dream anymore. i made a financial plan to live it...every day. ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm dot com. helps you live because it's tailored to you! take the personal assessment and get matched with a proven weight loss plan. find out which customized plan can make losi

time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world north korean leader kim jong un has warned the world will soon see what he calls a new strategic weapon his comments were reported on state television ken said his country was no longer bound by a moratorium on new clear and missile tests but he did leave the door open to further talks with the u.s. . tarantula rain falls a flooded indonesia's capital jakarta killing at least 9 people and forcing about $19000.00 people to evacuate power was cut off in hundreds of washing of neighborhoods with floodwaters reaching up to 4 misses some train lines and one of the cities at ports have also been closed. for a 2nd day forces guarding the u.s. embassy in baghdad have fired tear gas to disperse protesters and good by u.s. airstrikes washington has deployed soldiers to guard the compound that's off to dozens of iraqi shia militia men breached the complex on tuesday. the u.s. is determined to stop another security breach pro or rainy and protesters were forced to disperse after u.s. troops fired tear gas to the dem

there were north koreans on-site from what we can tell. and syria did not have the money for it so everybody believes iran paid for the reactor. >> what about china and its ability to sell arms to iran? where is it now? we're in a different dynamic. >> they did that through the a aq can. that network now is gone. the u.s. rolled it up. china has been selling iran components equipment material for their nuclear weapons program. they are probably out of that business now, but they have been doing that. and, of course, the north korea connection remains. >> so north korea specifically for a moment here, gordon, does this open up, if you're kim jong-un and you're looking at the united states now having an issue with the middle east, looking as the united states is on its heels potentially, therefore we'll move a little more aggressively, as they have been -- kim jong-un has in rhetoric. >> we have to expect this. we also have to expect that russia and china will move more aggressively because these countries do coordinate. they've worked toget

he meets the north koreans were treated to a televised spectacle from the capital pyongyang thousands of people had gathered in kim il sung square. to usher in the new year i. was by the world's tallest building the burj khalifa was the center of a display featuring fountains projections and fireworks from the 800 meter tower. london's big ben rang in the new year in the british capital the familiar chimes were accompanied by an elaborate pyrotechnic display from the london high lighting up the river thames. thousands of revelers celebrated the arrival of 2020. 8 shouts come at. it watching telly news live from but not next adult film with a look at me entering affection holding the same around the walls and i forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at www dot com and now i'm nick cannon for me and the whole team here thanks for joining us i'm happy. to. learn which courses. video. anytime anywhere. w yes.

to the north koreans were treated to a televised spectacle from the capital pyongyang thousands of people had gathered in kim il sung square to usher in the new year. in dubai the world's tallest building the burj khalifa was the center of a display featuring fountains projections and fireworks from the 800 meter tower. london's big ben rang in the new year in the british capital. the familiar chimes were accompanied by and the labrat pyrotechnic display from the london eye lighting up the river thames and the thousands of revelers celebrating the arrival of 2020. well the new year arrived on a somber note in australia where a further 7 people have been confirmed dead over the past 2 days authorities are now delivering food and water to the thousands of people taking refuge on beaches outside. and the danger is far from over. fueled by searing temperatures and fast moving winds more than 200 fires continue to consume a strain southeastern states of new south wales and victoria. a fire full stays rescue volunteers to take shelter and that truck as flames surrounded them. the crew made it o

as a preview now on some heroes stories making news at this hour north korean leader kim jong un says the world will soon see what he calls a new strategic weapon he said his country was no longer bound by a moratorium on nuclear and missile testing but he left the door open to further talks with the u.s. . angola has seized the assets of isabel the santoso the billionaire daughter of the country's former president the move is part of an anti corruption drive to santos who's thought to be africa's wealthiest woman amassed a fortune during her father's nearly 4 decades and power she denies any wrongdoing . british police charge a man with criminal damage were allegedly slashing a painting by the spanish master pablo but also the incident happened at the tate modern over the weekend the damage work is worth more than 23000000 euros. balls to iraq now where crowds of protesters have attacked the u.s. embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad that in response to recent u.s. airstrikes targeting an iran backed iraqi militia u.s. president gul trump has accused around of orchestrating the protes

fluttering and praising the north korean dictator over the course of three face—to—face encounters. nters. last july mr trump became the first us president to set foot inside north korea. it seemed to herald progress, in 2017, the world looked on with dismay as north korea tested a succession of ballistic missiles, more powerful than the last stop when kim jong—un said he would stop, mrtrump said the when kim jong—un said he would stop, mr trump said the crisis was over. mr trump said the crisis was over. mr kim wants america to lift its crippling sanctions, he said he wa nted crippling sanctions, he said he wanted concessions by the end of the year. he hasn't got them. as the north korean capital saw in the new year, the threat of confrontation loomed once more. mr kim has warned of what he goes shocking, actual action and says the united states will pay for the pain sustained by his people. good another test be imminent? paul adams, bbc his people. good another test be imminent? pauladams, bbc news. as a new decade arrives, businesses around the world are under pressure to improve

so to have a peace agreement with the north koreans and right now we have the armistice so for those troops to leave it has to be the win. >> but talking about the all volunteer force that is not eas easy. >> clearly. >> can he declare the war over instead just say so? >> that's kind of where we are in afghanistan. except on the counterterrorism side. if they say it is over and with that endless war and who they think we are in afghanistan. >> i just want to warn you i will cut you off. >> so dude you a ca resistance? is that getting harder? do they have around in the chamber? >> you means the secretary has a harder time than his predecesso predecessor? >> to try to recruit. >> i think he seems like he's competent but he is not general madness the talent pool is not as big over time and that's a problem with any administration but this one just do the math. the likelihood you are forced out is pretty high and just the people willing to drill through that. >> and one of my colleagues and contacts said the best people continue to meet. >> so with good leadership in the united states so

instead, state television detailed the contents of a speech two days ago in which the north korean leaderntal ballistic missile tests. sanctions have not been lifted, that they are no longer testing or improving their strategic weapons as much as they would like and so this is, in part, a signal to the united states that they don‘t plan to continue waiting. on top of renewed tensions with iran, it‘s a new year‘s challenge for president trump. he did sign a contract, he did sign an agreement, talking about denuclearisation, and that was signed, number one sentence, denuclearisation, that was done in singapore and i think he's a man of his word, so we're going to find out, but i think he's a man of his word. the president has made much of his relationship with the leader he used to call little rocket man, flattering and praising the north korean dictator over the course of three face—to—face encounters. lastjuly, mr trump became the first us president to set foot inside north korea. it seemed to herald progress. in 2017, the world looked on with dismay as north korea tested a succession of

abuses the dialogue between the two countries, they will pay for the pains of the north korean peoplenorth korea put out that dramatic language, christine. but it's still concerns. >> we never got the christmas present that they were talking about. we'll see what the calendar holds. david culver, thank you. >>> with the 2020 democrats racing towards the iowa caucuses, now, just over a month away, pete buttigieg is a fund-raising force. his campaign saying it raised 24$24.7 million. that tops the $19.2 million that the south bend mayor raised in the third quarter. and it just about matches the numbers he had in the second quarter. the numbers are cementi ining buttigieg in the field. bernie sanders ed 5 million todonors. >>> mitch mcconnell beginning the senate tomorrow. phil mattingly reports that mcconnell's plan is to continue business as usual, until the house ends over the articles of impeachment. expect movement on executive branch nominations. but mcconnell plans not to do anything until nancy pelosi sends the articles over. >> there's a second senator raising questions about mc

-north korean relations than you are right now?i was more concerned about it when this administration took office. we were in a place where it was very likely we would have ended up in a war with the democratic people of the republic korea-- of north korea. president trump has taken an approach where we've tried to develop a diplomatic pathway. we hope that the north koreans will reconsider, that they'll continue down that pathway. it's important. it's the right solution. we want peace, not confrontation. >> garrett: these two announcements do not alarm you? o> i'm concerned about a lot of otings every day, major. >> garrett: right, but i mean-- >> i, i'll be honest-- >> garrett: is this a turnaway from where you were, where the u.s. and north korea were? >> if chairman kim has reneged on the commitments he made to president trump, it's deeply disappointing. i was there when chairman kim made the commitment that said he would not engage in satercontinental ballistic missiles or test-firing of their nuclear weapons, testing their nu

>>according to north korean state media the dictator told ruling party leaders at if the us hostile policy toward pyongyang remains in place. there will not be denuclearization on the korean peninsula. north korea has recently been testing short range weapons state media said because of the no tolerance nuclear stance. north korea no longer feels obligated to abide by the self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests and they say they're planning to bolster their nuclear defense. us officials have been closely following north korea after its promise to deliver a so-called christmas gift to the united states. >>tonight we know that san francisco city officials will settle a lawsuit with more than 200 inmates who are swamped with sewage. this was in the county jail. those problems lasted for months after faulty plumbing a burst. attorneys have not disclose the amount involved but they have said the conditions lasted between january of 2017 and september of 2018 before getting fixed. the board of supervisors still has to approve that settlement some sad news in the sports wo

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at this point in time we continue to urge the north koreans to get back to the diplomatic table. we believe a solution can be found. the best path forward with regard to making sure the korean peninsula is denuclearized is through a political agreement. my job as defense secretary is twofold. i need to make sure we're prepared and ready to fight if need be, and secondly, do whatever i can to enable our diplomats to be successful. that's my focus right now. i stay in constant contact with my commanders in the field and we remain at a high rate of readiness. >> john bolton, former national security adviser, says it's time to resume the joint military exercises that the president very suddenly suspended after the june 2017 first singapore summit with kim jong-un. is it time to now resume those military joint exercises with south korea? >> well, that's something we'll take a look at, certainly, depending on kim jong-un's next move. it is true that we did scale back exercises because we wanted to keep the door open or open the door for diplomacy. i think that's the right way to proceed

there's a senior north korean official who's called president trump a heedless and erratic old man. and tenor changes. what doesn't seem to have changed is what north korea's doing on the peninsula which seems to be develop a nuclear program. >> listen. you go back and sum it up. we covered them in 2018 and 2019 first the singapore summit between kim jong-un and president trump. then the hanoi summit. i was at both of them. and what it again shows is that you can't just go in without a real plan, without having negotiate the details almost beforehand. particularly with people as tricky as the north koreans who have a very highly planned and canny agenda. you can't just say i'm the best deal maker in the world and i'm going to do this. we've seen it hasn't happened. and the it is to get them to denuclearize. and most people don't believe that they will denuclearize unless there is a quid pro quo. something that the north koreans can build on as well in terms of sanctions or whatever. but it's not something that can happen between just two leaders. it has to be well planned. i think th

. >> what about the north koreans next year? >> north korean side ts possible. they're not in the top three. but. >> questions on capacity? >> they're actually quite good in terms of cyber actors. but the question is what are you getting out of it if you're one of these countries. what is your ultimate purpose in undertaking a certain election or interference or influence activities? i think that's a difference too when you look at china and russia. china often has very specific policy objectives that they're after. stop talking about hong kong. stop talking about the uighers. stop interfering with our desire one day to control taiwan. that are very specific policy objectives. the russian side there may be some of that but a lot of it is just i will take you down. i will weaken you. i will weaken democracy as an alternate and competing vision of organizing society and thrsh i will increase my own sort of power in the world. and so depending on your objectives you are going to behave very differently in terms of your means. sanguin about 2020? you know, i am -- w

specifically saying north korea will never see denuclearization on the korean peninsula if the u.s., sists in what he called its hostile policies. david culver is following the story. david, what should we make of north korea's comments as the new year starts? >> reporter: perhaps, yeah, perhaps most revealing, you'll remember, this christmas gift that we were warned about from north korea. well it sounds like it's this hard-line approach now with the u.s., particularly over denuclearization talks. it doesn't abandon the talks altogether, but it sets the bar higher. cnn first reported that. it seems that they're going forward with that, with these remarks. important to understand the context of these remarks, as well. this is not just a public address. these were made amongst kim's top brass, party leadership. it shows a level of frustration, anger, even desperation which may also be indicative of the internal struggles he's facing amongst his own leadership. i say desperation because he goes into those many threats against the u.s. but also saying that sanctions are hurting. he point

the workers party of career which had been carried extensively this new year's day morning on north korean t.v. kim jong un has basically said that this moratorium on longer range weapons testing and possibly even nuclear testing has come to an end and we will see what happens the north korean leader did say that just the scope and the depth of this testing of what it gets of the development of its. arsenal depends upon the attitude of the u.s. so it does seem to be leaving open just very slightly although you do get a sense that this is now a final warning from north korea of the possibility that there could be some kind of dialogue at some point in the future north korea enters 2020 still believing that it has some leverage in this election year over donald trump but when you look at these statements although it isn't quite the same kind of belligerence of the past when you compare these statements with the heady days of the single pour summit meeting between donald trump and kim jong un which was all very historic some 18 months ago and the signing of a piece of paper as flimsy as it wa

you people have to make your peace with the north koreans as it is. i think he's placed us in an extremely dangerous position with north korea. >> do you think -- the rack i can government, the government in bagdad has had to walk a fine line over the years. they've maintained close relationships with riern, relied on their support in the southern part of the country. at the same time, bagdad and elsewhere relied on american security cooperation, good relationships with the pintd gone, intelligence agencies in the hunt against isis and their leaders and elsewhere. has the president undermined the government that has put them up against the wall in having to either defend or now turn their sights onto the american government for lack of a better word that they've been undercut as a result of this attack? >> i think the air force f-15 attack which nailed some terrorists was probably something he had to do to respond to increasing provocations over the last several weeks. the big deal in iraq is there's no iraqi government to deal with. the caretaker reg

the north korean leader issues new that's promising a new strategic weapon in the near future. more ahead on msnbc. >>> i don't really care. it doesn't matter. as far as i'm concerned, i would be very happy with a trial. because we did nothing wrong. >> president trump entering the new year preparing to do battle on the impeachment front, no matter what deal is reached between senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer. joining me now, joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney and natasha, national security correspondent. welcome to both of you as we get started in 2020. that means the senate coming back to start off the year and back to work. so are we going to be able to firm up on if this trial is going to get started, when it's going to get started, and the big question, are there going to be witnesses? where do we stand? >> it's a great question and we don't know much because we haven't gotten answers from members of congress. so when they come back on monday, january 6th, hopefully they'll start to outline more of the broad contours of what a senat

north korean leader kim jong un has promised to soon launch a new strategic weapon denuclearization talks between pyongyang and washington stalled in october south korean media is reporting in his annual address was passing mr kim's that the u.s. would suffer helplessly if it continued to delay talks he accused the white house of making gangster like the man's lightning strikes have started new bushfires in the australian state of victoria as the crisis there and neighboring new south wales threatens to get even worse hundreds of people remain trapped on a beach for a 2nd day as they seek shelter from growing bushfires in the southeast of australia the navy is preparing to evacuate people by sea and air from the waterfront in the town of in the state of victoria in the state of new wales turns a cloaked in an orange and red haze hong kong's famous new year's celebrations were significantly scaled back due to security concerns with months of violent antigovernment protests the anti china demonstrations and into this 6 month calling for greater freedom from beijing those are your headlines