position between south korea and north korea. a considerable level of trust between these leaders, since -- seems to be established. talks through the exchanges. a certain to have confidence this moment some may be quite serious. withe in negotiation president trump. anticipate something positive afterwords. .his is their sense we are not sure because we have not seen the outcomes. this is the decision. the north korean leader hopes to shift to economic development thethe completion of military and the economy. on third one is confidence domestic probabilities with south korea. are focusingt they on how to improve between the south and north korea. the main focus is to build a better relationship with south korea. is -- he triede over for the left north korea summit. south korean government, particularly president moon credit tonts to give president trump. we didn't have any detail guidelines or policies about denuclearization. just basic principles and may be policy directions. over forerything left the u.s. north korea summit.

well, in the south.ulturally nascar, which i know we are all familiar with being close to bristol motor speedway, nascar begins to emerge as a national sport. it begins to get coverage on the television networks. all along, there has been this southern presence on tv going back to the 1960's. most of you are familiar with the "andy griffith show," set in a small town in north carolina, more or less. it is about small-town values. it is about a sheriff who does not wear a gun. think about law enforcement and the civil rights movement. it is about family. it is about community. and even as the civil rights movement is going on on tv in the 1960's, the "andy griffith show" from 1960-1968 is per -- is portraying these values, and they are connecting up with the south. granted, and this criticism has been raised about the "andy griffith show," you don't see african-americans by and large on that show. it is very much a white vision. another vision of the 1960's is "the beverly hillbillies." folks from the oza

south korea may join a historic summit between the u.s. and north korea in singapore. sam is a guy and this is al jazeera live from dell also coming up a staunch critic of the fog peace deal in colombia gets the most votes in the first round of presidential elections straightly and then the english cricket boards deny any involvement in a match fixing after an al jazeera investigation plus. the passengers have a strong determination to break the siege whatever the circumstances palestinians turn to desperate.

you have a modern south pitted against a traditional south, a south of technology pitted against that harkens back to an older time. deliverance are these vestiges of southern and in many ways the south has been the other in american history, and that is part of the theme for today. 1974, a fellow by the -- called theducatio americanization of dixie in which he explored how in the wake of the civil rights movement and the 1970's, the south seem to be disappearing, but in another way the south seem to be expanding. one term a historian has used, which i'm not sure how good of a term it is to use, but we will use it, malignancy. like a cancer, the south spreading into the rest of the nation, spreading its characteristics, most negative. his questions had to do in part with southern identity, will the south survive? south becoming too much like the rest united states to retain its regional identity? that has been a long time search, longtime question. 1950's,ack to the asking a similar question with the emergence of the civil rights movement. what we are talking about given world war ii

the peaceful reunification must be preceded by south korean government. there are some radical people who think. military unification is an option but majority of people think the peaceful unification is the only option for the prosperity of south korea north korea should the new could nuclearize in order to. pursue more cooperation with south korea how do you feel about president moon it's clear he's interested in a policy of engagement with north korea. he's poli sci it's the only option we have both making more engagement with north korea what do you think of north korea where most of the military i was been taught the north korean people are not the enemy. the enemy is sort of those korean regime but those korean military. i think there's something important to know that i did research service for twenty one months and this compulsory for all of those men in there when you go to the military you get too exposed to the view north korea is your enemy. this very different from society where you can have different views about those in the square in the gy

south africa's president to really run a poll says he's bringing reforms opposition parties insist he must do more to end corruption so a hundred days after he came to office what has been opposed to achieve and what challenges lie ahead this is the inside story. hello and welcome to the program fully back to south africa's fifth democratically elected president syria rama posa is marking one hundred days in office he came to power after jacob zuma was forced to resign after years of corruption allegations raposo was elected in february following his victory as leader of the ruling a.n.c. party in december he made a number of promises and commitments during his first state of the nation address including improving the economy and fighting corruption so how has he failed we'll put that to our guests in just a moment but first malcolm webb has a report from johannesburg. they called its rama the reaction of many south africans went so far as a became president in february. things have gone from bad to worse for his predecessor jacob zuma his eight years were blighted by a series of corr

forces in south korea and offshore of south korea. that is going to raise the question, perhaps as early as the summit, subsequently certainly -- what should our response be to that? do we agree to that? or do we basically tell the north, there will have to be taken in terms of agreements and implementation regarding denuclearization before we could begin to talk about u.s. troops? or, you might say, u.s. troops are off the table completely in a denuclearization negotiation? what kind of thinking do you think we should be doing about this? i think this is very crucial. >> chris hill -- >> chris hill has related that he was told throughout the talks, you americans eventually are going to have to come to terms with the issue of u.s. troops with us. that time is about here. as a military person, i don't think we can sacrifice readiness. we have to maintain the rok military capabilities. inould not make any changes u.s. for status contingent on north korea's nuclear status, and on the dismantlement, but they could be discussed as part of

military forces south of the d.m.z. operates about eighty military installations until it has basically conducted these joint military exercises with south korea that are the largest in the world that i'm simulate to the invasion and occupation of north korea that simulate the decapitation of north korea's leadership and that also as recently as just a couple of weeks ago in this operation max thunder simulate operations that in. a potential nuclear first strike against north korea so when we're talking about the question of peace and we're talking about the question of denuclearization the united states has to realize that it has commensurate obligations denuclearization is not the task of north korea alone the united states has to withdraw that regionally it has to rethink its entire regional cost posture and actually give security guarantees to north korea that actually remove the possibility of what has been possible from the middle of the twentieth century to now which is on the united states threatening north kore

the president of south korea has always offered to his services as a mediator saying south korea will do all it can to keep the dialogue going of course south korea obviously has a vested interest in all of this it wants to improve into korean relations and with the downturn in the frostiness the relationship over the past week or so including of course military drills that have been continuing up until this weekend into korean dialogue has been put on hold we understand from the government here their hope is that from this week coming they can resume the high level talks which had been planned between north korean and south korean officials is there a sense where you are of that maybe the japanese have nailed this right in the past twelve hours or so when they their foreign minister is now on record as saying look you can have a summit all you want unless you actually achieve something you're not going anyplace. that is quite true but the reverse of that is it seems to be the trump young model of diplomacy let's meet and shake hands and see where it goes from there so you could say t

the peaceful reunification must be preceded by south korean government. there are some radical people who think. military unification is an option but majority of people think the peaceful unification is the only option for the prosperity of south korea north korea should the new could nuclearize in order to. pursue more cooperation with south korea so how do you feel about president moon it's clear he's interested in a policy of engagement with north korea. he's poli sci it's the only option we have both making more engagement with north korea what do you think of north korea where most of the military i was been taught that those korean people are not the enemy. the enemy is sort of those korean regime and those korean military. i think there's something important to know that i did research service for twenty one months and this compulsory for all of those men in there when you go to the military you get too exposed to the view north korea is your enemy. this very different from society where you can have different views about those in the square in th

and south korea. i want to bring in david preece, a former cia officer, who is going to help us understand this. this is breaking, david. what do you make of this? >> if on someone could have anticipated this because almost literally every expert anticipated this. this is what all of the korean negotiators had said -- >> thattes not goi eit not goin smoothly as -- >> specifically that the north koreans are going to find an advantage. we haven't seen signs have changed and this is more evidence that they've played the same games they've played before where we've gone through cycles that they pretended to walk back but then want concession after concession -- >> does this seem arbitrary to you? >> i expect now there is an investment of the president of the united states. he's committed to these talks, he said great things are happening. he's not talking about little rocket man anymore, he's talking about his legacy of being able to do something that president obama could not do. once north korea knows h

the result that brings anthem play china south korea and russia and as a way to unravel this enormous military apparatus that the u.s. as much as half of tax dollars approximately one point five trillion annually goes into the pentagon's budget and you know i think the pentagon burns to one hundred fifty thousand gallons of oil a day or something extraordinary at say their thousands or millions or something unbelievable so it's an unbelievable drain on our energy resources so just as a single point of failure or a single point of leverage and same like trump is maybe playing a very interesting game here now let's move on to the block chain a bit going to china is relaxing of heavy handed response to bitcoin is that true what are your thoughts i think china china has to users there's been going in there is blocking the block she was actually incorporated in the last five strategic five year plan from the chinese government angulo of april twenty eighth announced a one point six billion dollar investment on blocking startups three offices free human resources or handled the bank of hong

look for me the issues in south africa south africa has a lot of problems i look at the mix there and i want to move on to another showdown . that's moving let's move on to the other issue because they are a lot of them as you say and i want to get your thoughts on all of them as many as we can anyway let's move on to the economy now and syria iran a post a promise to overhaul south africa's economy and this is what he's done so far its currency the rand strengthened against the dollar as soon as i'm a post i was elected he appointed envoys to attract one hundred billion dollars in foreign investments and struck a deal worth seventy five million seventy two rather million dollars with the u.k. south africa's business confidence index has hit a three year high by eleven points and the government has increased the rate of its value added tax to fifteen percent the first in twenty five years the hog seems to be saying all the right things when it comes to the economy but can he implement them. good optics substantially so far i think the markets have responded to the level of belief in i

as a south african economy is in south in africa number two after nigeria about far more connected in a ball than the nigerian economy than my jory tell south africans are still poor the majority and there is. huge inequality and therefore you have the economy and the and then london very much. connected and from my point of view the land is so important because it captures the history of south africa i happen to believe that the problems of south africa especially the economic and social problems are the result of our party we now have a high reconstruction after our party which which ruined the country for generations even centuries so you cannot talk about what is going on in south africa today without thinking about up and without thinking about the line ok this is my concern that the over our focus on corruption seems to say well we have problems only because i was corrupt no south africa has problems because of our power food and medicine left has not been cleaned up and is on a pizza line this issue still hasn't been resolved behind the a.n.c. has long been pushing the governme

>> 59% said china or south korea north korea summit and a second to south korean and china and third with military exercises. so i think the summit is still the safe prediction. [laughter] clearly but one more note it is an easy answer but it is unique that is the modality and how those states in the region are being integrated so in the organic way maybe we don't know which sum we have tried a different path like a bilateral in the '90s and multilateral try to have everybody at the table with a multilateral arrangement. so it is a tricky issue it isn't just the 2 liters multiple countries but then they will figure out to be a part of the process. so the interesting thing about the present moment is it seems inevitable that in some way the multiple countries that have a stake in this issue are going to get in on the action. so also letter a as well. >> while we do the six party talks a long time ago to say that is the only way to save the world. but now we talk about the summit but why has it changed so drastically? >> i think the president of south korea more than anyone else was wo

further south, down are levelling off across the country.the risk of showers. saturday, things are said to warm up across europe. temperatures could be hitting the net, possibly the high 20s across the south by the bank holiday weekend. i'm babita sharma with bbc news. our top story. the eruption of kilauea volcano on hawaii's big island enters a more violent phase. experts say lava is now flowing twice a fast as it was earlier in the eruption and fountains of molten rock are reaching 180 metres in the air. a summit to rescue a summit. donald trump is to meet the south korea president, moon jae—in, at the white house later today. their mission — to try to get the us president's meeting with the north korea's kimjong un back on track. and the royal wedding is still trending online. three official photographs have been released of saturday's royal wedding between prince harry and the former us actress, meghan markle who are now the duke and duchess of sussex. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: ken livingstone has resigned fr

full scope see if guards etc etc but what that means for south korea is that of course they have this civil of very extensive civil nuclear program but there will be no strategic forces on their territory and they want to even be an extended deterrent to south korea provided by the us so long as there is complete nuclearization of the north now the parallel fact which north and south korea frankly need to work out because the nuclearization is a sensually a topic of discussion between north korea and the united states with regard to conventional forces what the disposition of the end of the day needs to be that the peninsula is is kind of insulated from the larger the geopolitics off the north east asia south the south korea has already shown that it is not not terribly interested in getting into things like a regional ballistic missile shield well it's not interesting i'm going to eilat for a line we're going to final we're going to find actually let's yeah we're going to find out just how far the pentagon wants to go along with it john let me go to you because if you get if you look

he remained committed to white role in the south. but crucially he was not committed enough to satisfy his critics. i will give you an example. in august of 1868, while visiting new york, longstreet gave an interview with the new york tribune and in this interview he endorsed grant for president. the tribune reporter asked longstreet about race relations in the south and about whether free blacks would be a reliable and laboring class. longstreet said they would. the reporter then asked whether blacks should serve on juries. longstreet began by saying not in all instances. he claimed african americans were generally ignorant on matters of businesses and not suitable for juries. he then proposed a compromise position on this he said if it -- if a district is supposed to do right by them, the jury may be divided. the next question the reporter posed was about negro supremacy. longstreet replied that cannot never be. it is silly to think of it. the whites of the south know it but they are misled by politicians. in this interview, longst

/south korea alliance. and we will try to seek economic benefits from south korea. as donald trump is patting himself on the back for, you know, threatening kim jong-un with the resumption of maximum pressure, kim jong-un is sitting in panmunjom with moon jae-in, the south korean president, talking about economic coordination, the reconnection of railway lines and roads across the dmz. he really does thrive in the space between the alliance. and that's why it's just so critical that the united states and south korea have the same message here and the same coordinated position. >> but, adam, this economic development and potential alliance here between north and south korea and whatever china might bring to the table. can any of that happen without denuclearization? >> ideally, this would all be part of the same process. denuclearization would lead to, you know, an increased normalization of relations between the united states and south korea and north korea, all at the same time. economic incentives would be phased and made contingent upon process in the nuclear are

the south and the north have talked about it. the south wanting to reunify the peninsula as a capitalist society. north korea wanting to reunify it under its own vision. i asked the president. >> you'll start off with two koreas and then it will be up to them whether or not they get together. i see two koreas and ultimately in the future, not now, but some day they get together and you'll get back to one korea. >> president trump said after that that he would like to see korea reunify. he said only if they want to do it. saying the united states certainly wouldn't try to impose its will or its vision on the two koreas. president trump was rather sharp in his displeasure with the meeting that kim jong-un had with president xi may 8. the president said he saw a notable change in kim's posture towards a summit after that meeting saying i didn't like what i saw there. so that was a direct message to both xi jinping and kim jong-un to say no more meetings like that before june. the president saying xi jinping is a world class poker pl

i was in the team of south korea i can say it because i was on the team of south korea making the china policies. chip pan is the only regional great power to deter china. they try to strengthen their alliance with the united states to show to china how important the japanese are. everything is indication. >> ok. we will move along with questions. three questions in a row. >> this has been a tremendous dialogue we have here. dr. kim i agree with you, there , is a china factor, and then there is an american factor. without trump's high pressure diplomacy none of this would happen. however, i am happy it is happening. we have an opportunity to go somewhere as asia. however, it is difficult for me to confident about mr. kim's determination. is he going to give up his nuclear arsenal? because of the past history, we do this: we do that, none of this came about. it is difficult for me. he has to understand one thing now that everybody in the world , knows who he is, what he has committed to, his back is against the world -- against the wall. he cannot turn around and say no,. he cannot say t

south koreans. younger south korea south koreh korean nationalists. they don't see the unification as a big deal. kennedy: that's a generational thing. very interesting. >> politics in south korea are divided and age oriented. some moon comes from the 386 generation, it's 65. they grew up trying to get democracy for south korea and they mistakenly agree that the u.s. owzen the sides of the generals preventing democracy. moon and his generation are largely anti-american but those are the guys running the country right now. they're driving the political system and you've got older south koreans and younger south koreans who have different attitudes. kennedy: and it's interesting because the greatest export that south korea has culturally is k pop. and their pop culture which is so intoxicating for the rest of the world, particularly in the united states, people are very intrigued by it. we'll see -- and the cold war, there is an argument to be made that rock and roll brought down the wall. so maybe th

looks dry in the south—west.rove in the south—east. across scotland and northern ireland. to move their way northwards as well. perhaps in the south—west of scotland. from the south—east, across england and wales. these could be pretty nasty as well. some localised flooding too. 20s or so. in scotland on saturday and perhaps into the south—west on sunday. the south—east, eastern england largely dry, some sunshine. 00:02:21,486 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 hello. this is bbc news. prime minister. by carlo cottarelli, a former economist at the imf. and kim jong—un. dismantle pyongyang's nuclear weapons. mh370 is due to officially end on tuesday. on a flight to beijing. now on bbc news, it's extra time with rob bonnet. welcome to extra time. i'm rob bonnet. the harder you hit me, the harder i come back at you. boxer, maybe? actually, no.

secretary of state mike pompei o south korea says it will continue to work with the u.s.in pursuit of talks with the north mierda me ask for advice foreign minister kim statement we see no change of a sincere will by the relevant countries when it comes to resolving the current situation through dialogue the government will continue our diplomatic efforts to further extend this momentum for the talks. the announcement came just hours after north korea's said it had blown up its only nuclear test site in a gesture of goodwill to reduce regional tensions reporters were given rare access to witness the event however international nuclear inspectors weren't invited. in other news dutch investigators have concluded that the missile used to shoot down a civilian passenger plane in twenty fourteen came from a russian military unit all two hundred ninety eight people on board the malaysia airlines flights seventeen were killed the plane was traveling over eastern ukraine the russian president vladimir putin said russia doesn't trust the investigation. at least one thousand people

freed from jail as a goodwill gesture by north korea also last month for the use of the north and south took his stark steps during their unprecedented meeting in the demilitarized zone both committed to finally signing a peace treaty to formally end the korean war and for his first foreign trip kim went to china to see his ally president xi jinping well let's now get the thoughts of our guests joining us from washington d.c. is meant our over former u.s. diplomat and career desk officer in the arch mason lecturer at university of east anglia is also author of japan's relations with north korea and recalibration of risk and on skype from seoul is the one crew publisher of korea exposé he writes about korean politics and current affairs a very warm welcome to all of you must over president trump has said that this is a loss for north korea and for the world but are you surprised one not surprised president trump has been as reactive about canceling the summit as you was about initiating or responding to its invitation in the in the first place i am a bit surprised. that he wasn't investe

held by south korea and the united states.he state news agency called the exercises a rehearsal for an invasion, and said they cast doubt over the imminent summit between kim jong—un and president trump. andrew plant reports. they codename this max thunder — american and south korean military taking part in joint exercises. these pictures are from last year, but they are training together again right now. the pentagon says the max thunder drills are routine and defensive in nature, but they appear to have provoked north korea, its central news agency releasing a statement saying... donald trump and kim jong—un are scheduled to meet in singapore on 12june. the white house has said there is no change to that plan. we are operating under the idea and the notion that the president's meeting is going forward with chairman kim next month. since the last military drills, in 2017, north korea has become more open to the outside world, kim jong—un meeting with the south korean leader in april and releasing american prisoners earlier th

looks dry in the south—west. conditions should improve in the south—east.weather here because it is probably not going to last, pressure is lowering, which is why we're finding more downpours coming in from the near continent, and they will start to move their way northwards as well. we may have a few storms across northern ireland on thursday, perhaps in the south—west of scotland. more cloud around here certainly, and more storms pushing back from the south—east, across england and wales. these could be pretty nasty as well. some localised flooding too. but everything is moving northward so that by friday, the wettest of the weather moves towards northern ireland, northern england, up into central and southern scotland, allowing something at long last a little bit drier across more southern parts of england and wales, and temperatures typically into the low perhaps mid—20s or so. over the weekend, i think you will see some heavy rain storms in scotland on saturday and perhaps into the south—west on sunday. the south—east, eastern england largely dry, some

and south korea that are now under way. we'll talk about it with congressman eric swalwell of the intelligence and judiciary committees and with leon panetta the former defense secretary to president obama. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's get the latest from cnn chief national z-urt correspondent jim scuitto. the white house clearly was caught off guard by this? >> reporter: that's right. we now have the full statement here from north korean state media on this and just damning language here, threatening that planned summit between the u.s., president trump and the south korean and the north korean leader kim jong-un. it says the following, the u.s. will have to think twice about the fate of the dprk u.s. summit now on high agenda before a provocative military racket against the dprk in league with the south korean authorities there. the statement goes on to say that they will closely watch the ensuing behavior of the u.s. initially reactions from the white house and the state department,

troops from south korea. he has made some comments regarding alliance commitments, even before he was elected. so i think that it is hard to say, what president trump will ultimately do when he sits down with kim jong-un. what i will say kim jong-un will come to a meeting that will offer up something that will appear to be good. we need to be prepared for that possibility instead of thinking he will come, i've seen the last couple months have shown me that this guy is very astute. he has been -- by the way north koreans have been completely focused on us, united states, 100% policy. why we're divided, we're thinking about a million different things, right? think they, we need to prepare for that possibility, grand bargain or something that the north could offer, what would we do in response. >> let's do an easier question then, and let president trump -- >> there is no easy questions when it comes to north korea. >> let him speak in his own words. yesterday he tweeted, and always good to be aware of mr. trump

from south africa a carrier. doubt in accordance with the country's laws we cannot comment on possible customer relations for reasons of competition and in part due to contractual obligations. seems to use its foreign activities to circumvent german regulations we spoke to the industry federation. of the federation of the german security and defense industry. our first priority is german arms exports which keeps us busy and will do so in the future. issues with the previous government and we expect to have them with the next while. in other countries where companies operate either alone or as part of joint ventures have other rules i can't tell from here whether they exploit that. is also president of the federation he declined several invitations to take part in an interview for this report. a presentation on the strategic targets of the arms of munitions division reveals the thinking behind the overseas activities one stated goal is to free the company from german export regulations and ensure profitability the

one senator who wanted to be there, south south carolina liny graham talked about his hopes saying i would like to know if there was a confidential informant used to surveil member of a political party there. may be a good reason but that is unusual to have an investigation of nominee of a political party during political season. you need to make sure there are checks and balances. and did it happen and was there a good reason? this has been a rapidly involving situation. it's supposed to be a republican meeting at first. and then it was made bipartisan to try to squeeze some of the politics out of these meetings. >> harris: mike, thank you very much. can you squeeze politics out? that is a question. oklahoma congressman steve russell, a republican on the house oversight committee. great to see you today. i see you cracking a smile because i think you heard what i just said. how do you squeeze out politics? what do you expect to come out of the meetings? >> the last time you had a bipartisan meeting related to these issues, it actually was favorable. and the people that came away fro

we helped south korea. and south korea is one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that. that is where you are. that is where you are from. same people. same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it doesn't work out, honestly he can't be happy. but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. i think it would be, if you look 25 years into the future, 50 years into the future, he will be able to look back and be very proud of what he did for north korea. and actually for the world. but he will be very proud of what he did for north korea. >> reporter: mr. president, what do you want to ask president moon about his own summit? [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> president trump: just to finish that, because it's a very important question. south korea, china, and japan, and i have spoken to all three. one i happen to have right here. they will be willing to help and i believe invest very, very large s

seoul, south korea, where we find paula hancock. the korean delegations were just hours away from leaving for this latest round of talks. this is quite sudden. tell us how it is being received there in south korea? >> reporter: well that is right, jake. it is just about two and a half hours away where the delegation would leave seoul and head to the dmz with the high-level talks, suggested by north korea on tuesday so less than 24 hours before they had an about turn and decided they don't want to go ahead with the talks. and now mentioning the military drills, which is going to take south koreans by surprise because when that south korean delegation a couple of months ago went to pyongyang and met with kim jong-un. he said he understands the need for the u.s. and south korea to carry out the joint military drills. it is just before the massive spring drills, which in the past have infuriated pyongyang, seeing them as a dress rehearsal for an invasion but in this case kim jong-un said he understands the need for it. the state-run med

south korean war exercises makes all the sense in the world for them to have complained why in the world we have to do these twice a year the largest military exercises in the world we're not sure that our stuff is going to work what are my tax dollars paying for and the fact that it was reported that the f. twenty two b. fifty two were used of course it looks to north korea like a practice for an invasion or a decapitation strike so part of the problem is the united states has no humility we're the number one superpower the war machine runs on autopilot if we have these planes ready to fly these military exercises we're going to do and eat our dust and like and that just doesn't set a good tone for diplomacy and i think when you had the great thaw with the olympic truce and at first north korea not complaining about the war exercises the earlier version of the war exercises that was an astonishing concession by them and then we have to rub their nose in it by saying ok well now these air force exercises are going to include the f. twenty two and b. fifty two although i did see a report

now, notice that calhoun is from the south. south carolina. so the most southern of the southern states. and from the standpoint of those looking ahead and knowing that there is tension between north and south, it's south carolina where the tension always starts. south carolina, of course, is the first to secede. daniel webster from the north. originally from new hampshire. he moved to boston when he was trying to expand his law practice. he is a member of congress, a senator, claimed by new hampshire and massachusetts. but he is the spokesman of new england, which is sofrt the most northern part of the northern. the most southern part of the south, the most northern part of the north. henry clay is from kentucky. kentucky was considered the west at the time. so we've got this regional arrangement among the three. and because, i said, these threesomes are kind of unstable. one of the striking parts of the story is the alliances, the shifting alliances among the three. because at any given time two are lined up against the other and which two i

korea you know if we had a the same all the conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condense testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything up the fact of the matter is that mungy is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong un out into the sunshine and has open and shown him a pathway to global integration and as well as not south reconciliation. in the south korean progress of government has a lead this process of free conciliation which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is north and south they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged the other parties along including the united states credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less the same question here because the dynamic changes considerably if there is a peace

south korea. and most recently, he was vice minister, foreign affairs at the foreign ministry prior to coming to this assignment. if you could join me giving a welcome welcome >> everybody gathering here on this morning and ladies and gentlemen, well, jim, thank you very much indeed for your nice introduction about myself. jim and i spend quite a number of times, to begin with, i think i can tell you that among these times that we share, a really unforgettable moment was march 11th, really, the time that we had catastrophe and jim and i were discussing something i can't discuss with you because that still is something we wouldn't be able to make it open. you know, no more so than things between the u.s. and japan kind of behind the scene secret talks, by the way. at the time i was, i think for asia and he was dcm deputy chief of mission in the u.s. embassy, but anyway, then after that was something did manage to see pm or something. we are just taken aback by the huge earthquake being felt, even i

south africa, almost 20 years to satisfy that south korea suddenly committed to nonproliferation. iraq u.s., george bush , administration rent through iraq, the group consisted of 1400 experts supported by military and took less than two years only to prove that they existed in iraq. -- only to prove there was no wmds in iraq. you have to be realistic about the scale that you're talking about when you talk about north korea. and also the long-term commitment that would be required for us. if we were to lift all sanctions, we might expect to see a revival of the recent play of a rack sanctions. -- of the recent play of iraq sanctions. we don't want to have -- i mean, iranian sanctions, the iranian nuclear deal, they complied with the deal. the trump administration is not happy about the missile products and other activities with iran, which were incorporating the previous sanction regimes. but it started with the iranian nuclear deal. we have to have more long-term comprehensive perspective when we are talking about this. let's be pragmatic. that's my concern. yuki: that's a really

south korea and the u.s. are like one body will cause another war the north koreans are all law is and they use military force and don't respect human rights. dialogue just for the sake of dialogue won't do any good. presidential office the blue house now says that course you sleep optimistic that the summit will go ahead in singapore i'm going to joey to you people in south korea would agree with them these people may be against it but opinion polls show around three quarters of south koreans support ideas policy of engagement let's speak to say well he's the managing editor of korea exposé which has a strong focus on north korea he's joining us from seoul thanks for speaking to us again so are you surprised that this summit has taken place second some of the tween south korean president and the north korean president well i am astonished to be honest with you and i'm sure i'm not the only one in south korea to feel this way i think the blue house system the tremendous draw keeping this secret until the very

and south korea.ut now north korea has put out a statement threatening to cancel the summit amidst the military exercises. so the south korea president coming to the white house to say how serious north korea is to denuclearization. we know that's husband goal. we know the only alternative this administration sees to these talks is possible military action. the president signalled so last week when he said he did not view the libya model as denuclearization libya and subsequent military intervention years later as the model. but he said if there is no deal to be struck, north korea could face a similar face to libya and iraq as well as far as military intervention and the removal of power of kim jong-un. >> good reporting, jerry, thanks very much. the president tweeted earlier this morning, china must continue to be strong and tight on the border of north korea until a deal is made. the word is the border has become more pourous and filtering in. i want this to be successful but only after signing. he

when the cyrus more now on our breaking news story the unexpected meeting between the north and south korean leaders to discuss the proposed u.s. north korean summit under thomas joins us now live from seoul so what we know about the sandra. well first of all what a surprise it was nobody saw this coming not the south korean media not politicians outside of the korean peninsula it's all a complete shock and a complete contrast to the summit that was held very publicly on april twenty seventh the the first big summit between the leaders of north and south korea this one the follow up clearly organized at the last moment clearly organized in secret held in secret and it's just happened it's clearly happened in the context of the on again off again summit between donald trump and kim jong un and the blue house the home of the south korean president has put out a very brief statement saying that of course what was discussed was trying to get that big summit back on track now we'll know more details of what exactly was discussed on sunday morning south south korean time at the moment thoug

south korea is one of them along with ireland.on the issue while on thursday the ban on abortions for south korean women will be challenged in the country's supreme court. earlier i got more details from hyosin kim, who is doing her doctorate on south korean abortion law at brandise university in waltham, massachusetts. this abortion is not entirely new, but it is getting more attention because there was an interesting online petition recently which requested the legalisation of the abortion pill. this drew so much support from a lot of korean citizens in a short amount of time and this makes the government publicly respond to those needs and express their willingness to make changes to the abortion policy. also the korean ministry of gender equality and family recently submitted an official statement to the constitutional court, that the current criminal penalties are unconstitutional and therefore should be removed. for those who are surprised that abortion is illegal in korea, it dates back to the korean war, can you give us so

us and south korean officials meet to discuss the summit with the north. the us secretary of state suggests that pyongyang could get financial help — if it gives up nuclear weapons. if chairman kim chooses the right path, there is a future brimming with peace and prosperity for north korea and the north korean people. the french economy minister says european nations should not allow the us to police the world's economy. kenyan authorities say a dam which burst earlier this week, killing at least 45 people, was illegally built. and banned from showing eurovision — a chinese tv network is stopped from broadcasting the contest after a censorship row. in the last hour, us secretary of state and his south korean counterpart have been discussing their hopes for the historic talks with north korea, taking place next month. mike pompeo said he was confident that washington and pyongyang had a shared understanding of the meetings objectives. and he held out the carrot of economic assistance if the north did get rid of its nuclear weapons. the united states and the