i've served in seoul and worked the korea issue for going on 30 years. that's something that we are all very proud of. we place tremendous importance on synchronizing and consulting with the republic of korea. we listen very carefully to the thinking and initiatives coming out of president park's blue house. we also recognize that china for a variety of reasons has a tremendous influence to bring to bare and a significant role to play, as does japan, as does russia. and so the short answer is, no. we are not of the view that the pathway to a denuclear identifies peninsula is through bilateral u.s.-dprk negotiations. the negotiations we seek must be, i believe, based on the significant agreements already reached and captured in the 2005 joint statement of the six-party tal talks. >> thank you very, very much for those clarifications. i think everyone appreciates that. yes, in the back of the room. >> sir, let me play a little devil's advocate since nobody from peking university wants to stand up. let me see if i can play the devil's advocate on that. unit

harry fawcett joins us from seoul. one would thing that this pact would have been implemented years ago. why now? >> well that's right. you would think that two countries which share a common threat from a country like north korea, which often threatened them with nuclear weapons would be cooperating to a full degree on such matters. that is to ignore what happened here in the last century, when japan was a colonial power, and ruled korea as it then was, often in a brutal way. that history wrangles deeply in south korea. in 2012 there was plans for a military pact between the two countries, an hour before it was to be signed. the south koreans pulled out because of public outrage and the outrage in parliament. the solution came through months of secret negotiations through the united states saying okay we'll have a trilateral intelligence sharing pact. you can share your north korea intelligence with each other, through us as a mediator and that seems to be what has done the trick. certainly the united states wants a f

is 1 hour and a half, and from seoul to tokyo is 1 hour and a half.ll community and also, we have developed more than 70,000 students are coming from chie ma to crow i can't, and around the 70,000 students from korea to china and we have like the aerospace project, we have campus project, the three different areas the china, japan and korea and they took courses together and just like in europe. and probably not much in europe, you can see the signs of english signs, and japanese signs and korean and chinese signs all together. even in seoul, our subway signs we have all four languages that are written. so, that this kind of live community will be possible within one or two decades later. for example, the island, a lot of investment and they want to on reside in -- from china to north korea. and also, travels and the plastic surgery, it's a very common from chinese people to korea. and a lot of things, just this kind of interrelations for the future generation and only the problems is the poll particular thes. but the other life itself, there are a lo

and i served in seoul and worked the korea issue for going on 30 years. that's something that we are all very proud of. we place tremendous importance on synchronizing and consulting with the republic of korea. we listen very carefully to the thinking in the initiatives coming out of president park's blue house. we also recognize that china, for a variety of reasons, has a tremendous influence to bring to bear and a significant role to play, as does japan, as does russia. and so the short answer is no. we are not of the view that pathway to a denuclearized peninsula is through bilateral u.s.-dprk negotiations, negotiations that we seek must be, i believe, based on the significant agreements already reached and captured in the 2005 joint statement of the six-party talks. >> thank you very, very much for the those clarifications. i think everyone agrees with the. yes, in the back of the room over there. >> sir, let me play a little devil's advocate since nobody peking university once to stand up. let me see if i can play the devil's advocate on the. united

our correspondent steve evans is in seoul and he told me about china's role in all this. >> reporter: there have been articles in the chinese press basically expressing exasperation at north korea, basically saying we don't have to support you forever. nobody thinks that's the official leadership position of china, but the very fact that that idea is floated in the official chinese media indicates that somebody might want to be getting a message to pyongyang, just hold your horses a bit. china is the root of the internet into north korea, a single server in china. president obama had asked china for help. we simply don't know what the response was, if any. but people might surmise about whether china is saying well, okay, we will just yank the reins in a little bit here. at the end of it all, china will support north korea, but that doesn't mean it's happy about everything which north korea does, and maybe it's indicating its unease. >> steve evans there in seoul. with me is the bbc's technology reporter dave lee. obviously, there's speculation about whether china was involved, whethe

lifetime and i have served in seoul and worked the issue for going on 30 years.that is something that we are all very proud of. we place tremendous importance on synchronizing and consulting with the republic of korea. the initiatives coming out of bluenose. we also recognize that china for a variety of reasons as a tremendous influence and a significant role to play as does japan, as does russia. and so, the short answer is no, we are not of the view that the pathway to a denuclearized peninsula is through bilateral u.s. dprk negotiations that we seek must be i believe based on the significant agreements already reached and captured in the 2005 joint statement of the six party talks. >> thank you very, very much for the clarifications. yes, in the back of the room over there. the >> server, let me play a little double-sided kids since nobody from peking university wants to stand out. send me see if i can play the devil's advocate on that. the united states negotiation of the united states is often like a world wide web said the big gangster who goes around armed

nhk world, seoul. >>> policy makers in china have declared war on air pollution. one environmentalist believes they'll struggle, so he's rallying ordinary citizens to join the fight. more from nhk world senior commentat commentator. >> the air is filled with billions of tiny particles that can be harmful to health. >> it just makes me sick. >> last month regional leaders gathered in beijing for their annual summit of the forum. suddenly blue skies appeared above the capital. the government wanted to insure a smoke free meeting so they restricted traffic and closed factories. when the summit ended, the haze returned. environmentalist has a non governmental organization and spent many years tackling pollution issues. >> we see how bad the situation is. >> this is a particularly bad day, smokey day. the days like this is a clear reminder that discharge is way too big. >> he collects local data on pollution across the country and uses that information to keep track of 170,000 factories. ordinary chinese can access the database on the internet. if you click the site of

steve evans is in the capital seoul with the latest. >> reporter: the hackers call themselves the opponents of nuclear power from hawaii. though nobody believes that hawaii is necessarily any connection to them. they've been posting documents, internal documents from the nuclear industry here in south korea on the web over the past few days. now, though, they're also putting warnings up on the web. they say that if three reactors aren't closed by christmas day, then a "round of destruction" will occur. and also they're threatening to put about 100,000 new documents on the web and asking the question, is this really what you want, this kind of information about nuclear power to be out there? now, nobody knows how forceful, how truthful these claims are. what we do know is that hackers have got into the system. the nuclear power company and the government here says that they do not have the power to get into if bit of the computer system that controls power stations. that they don't have the power to take over power stations, if you like. but they're also saying that they're going to conduct

diplomats in seoul say they hope the japanese government will make sincere efforts to advance friendly and cooperative relations. and they want abe's administration to move bilateral relations forward in a future-oriented way, based on a correct view of history. >>> the israel government called on people living near the border of the gaza strip to be on alert on christmas day. the two sides blame each other for the breach of a four-month-long cease-fire. the israeli military says a soldier patrolling on the israeli side of the border was shot and wounded by snipers in gaza. the israels responded by firing into the palestinian enclave. they also used unmanned aircraft to bomb hamas positions. palestinian sources say a leader of hamas's armed wing was killed. hamas has blamed israel for the escalation of violence. >>> on friday, a rocket was fired from gaza into israel. the israeli military responded by carrying out its first air raid on gaza since the start of the cease-fire between the two sides in august. >>> islamic state militants say they're holding a jordanian pilot after his warp

japanese and south koreans were planning on signing a bilateral deal two years ago but officials in seoul pulled out at the last minute. opposition leaders criticized them for negotiating behind closed doors. leaders in washington later persuaded the south koreans to cooperate. officials in seoul will share information with the japanese via the americans and avoid more public criticism. representatives of the three governments say they'll sign the deal this coming monday. >>> members of a group who help asylum seekers say more people have applied than ever before. they are pushing the government to allocate more resources. representatives of the japan association for refugees say the number of applicants topped 4500. they say that's an increase of 1200 from last year. and they say it's the highest number since japan adopted a refugee recognition law in 1982. applicants in financial difficulty can get government help with living and housing expenses but the screening process is so slow that some run out of money and end up homeless. they are pushing the government to help more quickly and

representatives in tokyo and seoul will share information through their counterparts in washington to avoid criticism from the south korean public. they both had planned to sign a similar agreement two years ago, but officials in seoul withdrew because of domestic opposition. leaders in the u.s. have persuaded the south of the importance of information sharing and other forms of cooperation between the three sides. japanese defense minister said in a statement that dealing with the north's nuclear and missile threats is a common and urgent security issue. >>> japanese public security authorities are trying to track down a married couple from tokyo who may have traveled to areas controlled by islamic state militants. they say the two left japan for turkey in early november. they've learned the couple went to a town near the border with syria, and they say where the pair went from there is still unknown. officials in japan had earlier contacted the couple who they say intended to travel to islamic state controlled areas. they say the japanese woman and her french algerian husband are bo

. >> reporter: this is a women's school in seoul. it's for older women who never finished middle school or high school. officials held a ceremony ahead of the college entrance exams. the principal handed out sweets to all 148 students wishing them good luck. officials at south korea's education ministry say more and more senior citizens are enrolling in college. in five years the number has grown five-fold. this school started offering classes for adults in 1978. each one pays about $640 for three months' tuition. there are 50 schools across the country catering to elderly men and women. these schools help them enter the college. in this classroom elderly students are busy reviewing their notes ahead of the college entrance exam. the students range in age from their 40s to their 80s. many of them are over 60. in the 1960s, south korea was much poorer than it is today. leaders put a top price on economic growth. very few people had the luxury of going to college and the widespread sexism of the time made the situation even worse for g

an american airlines flight from seoul to dallas. we get our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. [ screaming ] >> reporter: by all accounts, it was a terrifying midair experience. american airlines flight 280 flying from seoul, south korea, to dallas, suddenly at 34,000 feet, extreme turbulence. it went on for 30 to 45 minutes. fully loaded food carts, laptops and wine bottles went flying. a flight attendant knocked unconscious after hitting the exit sign. a passenger hit on the head with a flying plate. >> you okay? >> reporter: and some passengers began to pray. >> dear lord, i love my family. >> i haven't seen this. i have flown about 5 million miles, and this was probably the worst i have seen. >> reporter: with the plane a complete mess and passengers injured, the pilot turned back and landed in tokyo. in all, 14 injured, seven taken to area hospitals, including a flight attendant with a broken arm. >> everything that wasn't bolted down or seat-belted flew into the air. >> reporter: today, many of flight 280's passengers arr

officials in seoul maintain only noncritical data was lost. still, president park geun-hye has called for checks on the safeguards of national infrastructure, including nuclear facilities. cyberspace, she says, has become a new stage for terrorism. south korean investigators haven't found a culprit. but they've seen the results of past north korean hacks, and they know their neighbor is more than capable. the president echoed a comment made by many in recent days. we must be fully prepared. craig dale, nhk world. >>> a management shuffle at one of japan's largest air bag maker. ramin mellegard is here with the details. >> thanks, gene. ap niece auto parts maker takata has announced its president has stepped down. the move follows worldwide recalls of vehicles equipped with takata air bags. stocker will remain on the company's board. hakata will serve as president in addition to continuing as chairman. company officials say takata will take charge of the response to the recall issue. they say the company wants to speed up the decision making pr

just about 100 people from japan's travel industry arrived at incheon airport near seoul. they're part of a group of 1,000 professionals who plan to visit south korea. industry groups from the two countries are sponsoring the tour. the number of japanese visitors to south korea dropped 22% in 2013 from the previous year. the number so far this year is down more than 10%. >> translator: south korea is a nice place. i hope to learn more about the country so i can share my knowledge can customers. >> well the people taking part will visit tourist spots in seoul, and other parts of the country. they hope to get ideas to help them develop package tours. >>> researchers at japanese electronics firm hitachi more than a decade ago developed technology that identified people by scanning the veins in their fingers. well, now they've taken that a step further. people in the industry thought it was next to impossible for a machine to read finger veins while people were moving. but researchers have come up with a device that does just that. people pass through an automatic ticket gate,

it will allow seoul and tokyo to share military secrets on north korea through the united states. harry fawcett has more from seoul. >> any kind of military pact between japan, south korea's former colonial ruler is viewed with a good deal of suspicions by politicians and members of the public at large. that is why it was announced on friday, that it would be signed on monday the 29th of december. indeed it's emerged it was signed on the same day it was announced and goes in effect on monday. a good deal of managing of the process, because it is so delicate. there was an earlier attempt to have a bilateral pact in 2012. the japanese delegate was virtually waiting with the lid off the pen. south korea pulled out with an hour to go because of the public outcry and the parliamentary outcry. this requires no parliamentary approval. it goes through the united states. information about north korea will go through the united states before it's given to tokyo, and vice-versa. still there'll be those here that say tokyo stands to gain more from south korea's intelligence, and suspicion of

much colder in seoul with a high of 1. morning showers followed by just cloudy skies as that low continues to push off toward the east. now let's take a look at the forecast for north america specifically starting off on the western side of the continent where we have this low pressure system swinging on board with some cold air, plenty of rain and maybe even some snow from british columbia all the way into places like bakersfield and sacramento as we go through wednesday are rainfall totals for 300 millimeters. look out for wet spots and slick spots. speaking of rain on the eastern side of the u.s. we have this massive low pressure system that's creating some record rainfall into new york city. still expecting a lot more rainfall, maybe even some snowfall, and freezing rain combinations. just nasty mess as we go through wednesday with snowfall totals possibly up to 30 centimeters into quebec. here's a look at the forecast around the u.s. and also into canada. looking at rain for the northwest and northeastern side of the

cnn, seoul. >> is that real?pope francis used his annual christmas address for a blistering critique against vatican officials. he urged them to mend their ways which he likened to a sick body. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> translator: a disease of turning bosses into gods. it is the disease of those who court their superiors, hoping to conquer their ben ever lance. they honor people and not god. they are people who live their service, thinking solely of what they must receive and not about what they have to give. they are petty, unhappy people, inspired only by their fatal egoism. >> butt pope d >> but the pope did wish them a merry christmas. he's been working on overhauling the administrative body ever since he became the head of the church last week. >>> we've got rain, snow in the united states. >> just in time for everybody traveling and trying to get to where they need to go before christmas. i was at the grocery store today. it is mayhem out thayer. people are getting desperate. it's getting very cl

kim law for us live there in seoul. revealing, and frightening developments. thank you. >>> well, the governing body of international football gets ready to release what could be a scandalous report, but there's a catch. not all the information will be made public. we'll have that just ahead for you. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. [ female announcer ] over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer5. >>> football's governing body says it will release a redacted version of the controversial report into corruption allegations

. >>> now, to that frightening american airlines flight on its way to dallas from seoul, south korea. the flight hit severe turbulence long before it got here. more than a dozen injured. glass drinks flying through the cabin. just one of the images there, you can see the dent in the overhead bin. there was an emergency landing, and tonight, we hear of the panic and of the prayers on board. here's abc's clayton sandell. >> reporter: flight attendants had just begun serving meals when severe turbulence suddenly sent food, passengers and crew flying. >> it was like a little bump and then there was a really big one. where, like, all of my drinks went up and hit the ceiling. >> reporter: the american airlines flight with 240 passengers and 15 crew was on its way from seoul, south korea, to dallas. but when the shaking started off the coast of japan, the pilots turned for tokyo. passengers say luggage, laptops, broken glass plates and anyone not buckled in went airborne. passengers tell us people were screaming, praying. babies were crying. >> i've flown millions of miles. this is the worst

it was an area called dark soul or something called dark seoul. part of seoul went dark.media companies were knocked off the air. it was incredibly disruptive. the thing that's important to note, again, it was about visibility that. the hackers aim to try to make ordinary life for south koreans extremely difficult for a short period of time. so the theory is bureau 121 is doing these practice runs in south korea. the targets are getting bigger and bigger. >> kyung lah, thank you. we're joined by evan perez. he broke the news about hackers stealing the credentials oh of a top sony administrator. also with us, fran townsend, tom fuentes, and our cnn political commentator and contributing editor to atlanta media, peter beinart. evan, a lot of people are ask why the u.s. government can't do something to prevent these kinds of signer attacks instead of relying on companies to defend themselves. what's going on over here? >> wolf, that's the problem with the united states, obviously. it's a free country. the internet is open. it's not like a lot of foreign countries, especially

the pictures tonight of the severe turbulence slamming that american airlines 777 that took off from seoul. listen to the passenger taking video talk about his family. >> dear lord, please let us land safely. i love my family. >> reporter: the jetliner flying through a storm. the airline says precautions are always taken to try and avoid this. >> i never seen anything like this in my life. >> reporter: with this kind of damage, the pilot made an unplanned landing in tokyo. seven of the 255 on board taken to the hospital. even aviation experts are surprised by the strength of this turbulence. tonight, american airlines tells us the jetliner will be back in service soon. everyone is out of the hospital. and the majority of the passengers arrived in dallas earlier today, still shaken from the turbulence they experienced. david? >> just incredible pictures. david kerley, thank you. >>> and now to those drenching rains hitting the west yet again and the frigid cold headed to the east. take a look tonight in los angeles. water up to the hoods of those cars. so much rain, children canoeing throug

fault and no delays and heading into marin the of the richmond bridge a look at the camera from the seoulza those had led the west line heading toward the plate and to see no backups and no delays that is an easy ride as well. >>george: here is the upper east shore freeway to the interesting was happening here on 680 southbound there is a report of a fire on the side of the road for as it was thought to be a brush fire turned out to be a campfire a car stalled on six '80s out it was so cold out there but the partisan the car went over to the side of the road and started a small campfire the fire has been extinguished. >> james: a large landslide in san francisco for a chunk of such a ready brown slip away on monday the national park service notice that treat was starting to fall over the was not long after that the 21 the foot section of mud and arrest of the way down the hills like india from a helicopter partnership with abc seven news to the city must lie started to break loose as a progression the close above 15 under fee of the trail instead of a detour. fortunately there is a one fo

kyung lah, cnn, seoul. >> thu kyung. merry christmas to you as well.'re one of the lucky ones if you made it to your family without any travel delays. almost 3,000 flights, 3,000, were postponed because of rain and poor visibility all on christmas eve. great for santa. not good for you. chicago, dallas, philadelphia, they all had flight delays as long as two hours. more than 380 flights were just canceled outright altogether, just gone. aaa projected about 98 million americans would be traveling 50 or more miles this holiday season. if you're wondering, yes, that is a 4% increase from last year. >>> former president george h.w. bush is spending this christmas day in a houston hospital. he's going to stay there tonight as well. all of that after he experienced shortness of breath on tuesday night. the spokesperson says the 90-year-old's prognosis remains very positive and he's staying another night just as a precaution. two years ago president bush was hospitalized for bronchitis and a persistent cough and it got very bad. but his aide says this time it

seoul is the name of the group. the north korean government itself saying if they are not involved in this. it was traced back to that hotel in bangkok. >> they said this is just the beginning. >> it is quite scary because this raises the bar of concerns. >> we will get back to you later. all of these bank stocks are in focus after an inquiry recommended they raised up to $25 billion in extra capital to guard against any future crises. big four banks, they usually have a good reputation. why have they been singled out for attention? them at the man who wrote this inquiry is himself the former head of the commonwealth bank of australia. he says they are not being singled out. there is no question of their strength. however he wants them to raise more capital to guard against future crises. the treasurer commissioned this report and here is what he had to say about it. my perspective i have decided it is vitally important our banks will not be capitalized, and they are. what the murray inquiry is recommending is that

i hope we can have another very lengthy lecture time here in seoul. now, it's high time for us to invite three discussants. my first discussant will be mr. robert einhorn, who is a senior fellow at this institution. and he served as special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control of the u.s. department. also served as secretary of state for nonproliferation a long, long time ago. he's usually well known watching dictionary on north korean nuclear issues since the first nuclear crisis. if you don't mind, i will give you a very quick two questions. you know, this year iran made some new options. iran/u.s., you know, dialect, bilateral negotiation, which was very helpful. so i wonder if this kind of new formula could be applicable to north korean case? there is some -- today some comparison with today's argument on that issue. and, you know, since the agreement failures, you know, strategy colors were prevailing in u.s. side. i want to know the longevity of the strategy tolerance. thank you. >> okay. i'll answer the iran question first and then in

for more on that story, we report from seoul. >> reporter: just hours after president obama lands in hawaii for the christmas holiday, the regime lashes out via its state-run television. all of its usual bluster, the regime slams the u.s. government's investigation of the sony hack as childish. that north korea is being framed, saying it can prove its innocence without using any torture methods like the american cia, those digs come in response to president obama, that the evidence points to pyongyang. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. we will respond proportionally and will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. >> reporter: north korea directly rebuked the president, saying it is the one that should respond after insults to its supreme leader but adds it will not conduct terror against innocent moviegoers, rather target the originators of the insults. >> you two are going to be alone in a room with kim. and the cia would love it if you would cake him out. >> reporter: it got sony's bankroller and ally to respond. china. an editorial calls the movi

harry fawcett reports from seoul. >> it's been an ordeal for sho shin gna acknowledge on september theth cho then a vice president of korean air shouted to the cabin crew chief had the man thrown off. she stands accused by prosecutors of breaking aviation safety and workplace laws and more generally of abusing her more powerful high state position. stems from the fact this it all started with an argument over a bag of nuts but also because of what all of this says because of the nature of hierarchy and inequality in society. cho, who made a public apology ultrapowerful corporate giant the elite of the elite. >> this is just one instance that actually grabbed some of the public's attention but i hear almost every month a similar instance that happens within the corporation that does not -- that does not actually end up in this kind of big instance. >> it also high leads the continuing problem of cozy operations between big business, on monday, transport ministry admitsome of its ministers tried to hamper the investigation. any favorrism has well and truly evaporated. could see her hande

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cnn's kyung lah is live from seoul with the latest. the u.s. is not saying whether it did it. u.s. is not saying what it could do as it's response to the north korean hack on sony. tell us how this works. nkts north korea does not have a vibrant internet. it goes through china. it could be north korea that shut it off or it could be the u.s. >> reporter: it could be a number of factors. when you look at the possibilities are and the number of actors involved, it could be a number of things. getting to the pipe. a pipe out of north korea. think of it, north korea has pyongyang, one business and shooting a pipe out of north korea into china. someone essentially took scissors to it and cut the cord. who did it? it could have been north korea saying we will take a preemptive strike. we hear president obama. he's mad and we don't want viruses to come to us. the president said he was going to respond. it could also be china deciding that north korea has been a very bad boy and we will punish you for a while and cut the cord. it could be a rogue hacker. a number of possibilities beca

. >> we're at seoul chicken on the lower east side.hat's seoul as in south korea. >> we're going to do the korean fried chicken wung. >> fried twice. >> fried twice. i'm going to put a blender an. we have some -- >> is that garlic? >> charred garlic. and same thing with the habaneros. we'll add all these in here. some cilantro stem. dice that up. >> i never thought just to use the stem. interesting. >> this is kimchi starter. a house blend. this is some of the kimchi juice. >> that looks really spicy. >> it's just really funky and delicious. add a little bit of that. >> nice. >> and then orange juice. >> sweeten it up. >> add a little tang. this is literally going to help the blender move. >> there it goes. >> i'm going to add a little bit of honey which is a gigantic mess. >> are you going in? >> i have to taste it. want to try a little bit? >> it's not crazy. it's spicy. >> it's good. >> it's definitely spicy. >> oh, god! oh that's really spicy. we've got our saurksor wings. these were previously fried? fried once already? >> these a

paula hancocks joins us live with more in seoul and on north korea's reaction. no one expected them to think this is a comedy. paula? >> reporter: absolutely not, natalie. parody and satire simply don't exist in north korea. jim jong-un, the leader is a god-like figure. it's a cult-like personality. the leadership of north korea and certainly a film like this where hollywood suggests they would attempt to assassinate him is sacrilegious. we knew they were going to be furious. we have a statement saturday that proves just that. it's from the national defense commission, which is high up in north korea. it shows how seriously they are taking the issue. it's not just sony picture that is pyongyang is blaming. they have criticism and holding u.s. president barack obama responsible. they have effectively said they believe he's appeased the black male cinema to make sure they go ahead and release this. they are insulting him as well saying his words are reckless. he's reckless in words and deeds like a monkey. this has happened before. we have seen pyongyang being ins

nhk world, seoul. >>> officials in jordan are seeing fewer people from outside their borders coming to visit. their tourism efforts are hampered by the political situations in neighboring countries. they've now teamed up with some japanese experts to help get visitors back. >> reporter: the old town was once the capital of thejordan. it dates back to the 16th century. it has beautiful buildings. for two years, this man has been supporting south tourism promotion. for many years, he had worked on projects aimed at stimulating their tourism. >> translator: the information you provide to first-time visitors is important. >> reporter: are hagi is historic and well preserved. the old district of hagi city still keeps its historical appearance which dates back to the 17th century. local people present the entire town as a museum and that attracts more visitors. now his team are applying their know-how to provide tourism in the south. >> translator: did you make this? >> translator: yes. it's handmade. >> reporter: his group is coordinating a tour that enables visitors to interact with locals

. >> cnn's kyung lah joins us from seoul with the latest. kyung, good morning. this story just keeps moving and morphing with the strange responses now from the north koreans and sony still reeling about what to do next. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: the strange response that you are talking about, you can also say it is a twisted response. we are used to the rhetoric from north korea. they took a lot of liberties filling up three pages of rhetoric. we can tell you that the president is being cautious. take a look at a couple of lines from what north korea is saying. they are saying quote the army and people of dprk are ready to stand in confrontation including cyber war space including those sit ad citadels. at the same time, north korea saying we did not have anything to do with it. it was some of the proxy agencies. someone who feels the same way the dprk does. the united states will say that is nonsense. president obama saying that he is going to review, christine, whether or not to put north korea on the terror list. >> north korea says we did not do i

we have kyung lah live from seoul this morning. >> reporter: good morning, john.his country's concern is what's next. it is not a surprise for people in south korea. not a surprise for the tech people this happened. there is a cyber war happening here in the peninsula with the north and the south. the fact that north korea decided to take the cyber war off the peninsula and attack a large company like sony, a company that is well entrenched in america, that is what is surprising here for south korea and the people here were speaking to are wondering what is next. what is north korea capable of? the first sign this country knew something was what's happening was last year when the banks were paralyzed and media companies went dark. john, cyber war full blown in the peninsula, now going global. a big concern. >> may in fact be effective in the north koreans launched this. kyung lah for us in seoul. >>> russia facing major economic turmoil. the ruble in free-fall. as we speak, president vladimir putin questioned, grilled, by reporters. we are live with what he has to

there's rumors of spies, north korean spies in seoul and just makes it difficult. yeah, the other difficulty is doing it on such a specialist basis, we rely on our users to provide us the bulk of our revenue and we operate on a very shoestring budget as i know a lot of the other specialist providers in south korea. that's an issue for the media long term again. if we can't pay quality journalists reasonable salaries they will drift to other subjects. and, again, that's going to be a problem for maintaining high quality journalists in this field in the long term. >> we have covered north korean ne news, and every day we are doing news on north korea. i have to confess in this podium, i made a lot of error as editor and as report er -- we can't help make some mistake. everybody talking about the access issue. there are limitations from north korea, the person mentioned about the difficulty of north korea. if we think about north korea and then closed nature of north korea it's very difficult to make a mistake to cover the north korea news. but to make a correction, w

kyung lah now joining us live from seoul, south korea.at is behind the internet outage in north korea? >> reporter: we know what the data was showing us, a problem. it doesn't tell us the origin of this. we've been watching the pattern and cyber intelligence experts say basically on what they see with this pattern is that it certainly looks like it's a rogue hacker. they don't believe it's the united states or some official entity. they think it's probably most like ri given there's a sudden outage and sputtering for hours on end, it's probably a 15-year-old in jersey wearing guy fawkes mask. that's what most of the hacking community believes. >> how's the service tonight? >> reporter: the service is actually the way it was yesterday. there was a complete failure overnight. it was as if north korea was completely wiped off the internet map and throughout the day, we've seen a lot of trouble trying to get on to the state's web sites. they're failing at times. certainly looks like they're struggling to come back online. the interesting thin

us now live from seoul. paula? >> well, as you say, this was expected. we knew that pyongyang was furious about this movie release. we knew they were happy when it was put on hold and, of course, we knew they weren't going to be happy when it did decide sony pictures decided to go ahead with the release. so we've had this statement from the national defense commission. this is a very powerful institution in north korea showing how seriously they take this. and they've said this saturday they blame sony pictures but they linda stouffer personally blame the u.s. president barack obama. they're effectively saying they believe the u.s. has president put pressure on the sony pictures entertainment and they forced them and blackmailed them they say to carry out this release so they're really blaming and also ip sulting president barack obama calling him reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest. so they really are targeting some very personal insults at him. it's not the first time we've seen

out of solel seoul, south korea. someone reported an unscheduled active shooter drill. security forces swept the area, and didn't find anything suspicious, and everyone is reported to be safe. it is home to 500 u.s. troops stationed in south korea. now new information in the fallout in ferguson, missouri. president obama will discuss the situation tomorrow with his cabinets civil rights leaders and law enforcement. he'll discuss how to strengthen relationships between police officers and minorities. that announcement comes while protests continue in d.c. and other cities across the u.s. other demonstrators brought traffic to a standstill in both directions on i-395. just over in the district tonight with those latest developments, jeff? >> reporter: well, people are driving this afternoon at 1:00 on the sows east, sew soutt free, protesters came to block a portion of it. nearly a week after the decision in ferguson, and feelings remain raw. in the heart of american democracicy, protests. >> people ask me about protesters moving forward. three dozen people forming a line

last friday, there was a korean airlines flight from new york to seoul, to the airport here. and on that airline was cho hyeun, who is a vice president of korean airlines and perhaps more importantly, the eldest daughter of the chairman and chief executive of said company. as the plane was taxiing away from the terminal in jfk, she was served nuts. macadamia nuts, we are told. but she was served them in a bag. and not on a plate. and that was not the proper way, she thought, as the plane was moving away from the terminal. she complained vociferously. there was a scene. the purser was called. she then demanded that the offending nut server was put off the plane. the captain, who obviously was in a difficult position because this was the daughter of the boss, turned the plane around, went back to the gate, the purser of the plane was put off the plane, and the plane continued to be 11 minutes late. the government here decided to investigate because you're only supposed to do that kind of thing in an emergency. and one may assume that nuts served in a bag and not on a plate does

steve, thanks for being with us from seoul. >>> let's update you on some other news. reports have emerged of a militant attack on a village in northeast nigeria. the attack has been blamed on islamists from boko haram. it happened on sunday, but the news has only just come out from survivors who managed to flee. one resident who returned after the attack said he had countered 33 bodies. prosecutors in the netherlands say the far right politician is being charged with inciting racial hatred. the case centers on an election rally in march when mr. wilders promised to make sure there were fewer moroccans in the nelt net- netherlands. >>> fifa will decide whether to release a report into corruption allegations into bidding for the world cups. fifa's investigator resigned in protest. he said the findings of his 2-year-long probe had been misrepresented and that he had lost confidence in fifa's committee. he cleared qatar and russia of any wrong doing. >>> it's been hailed as an historic deal. the decision by the united states and cuba to begin talkso. president obama said