the eye wind south and north korea agreed to resume high level talks on friday that to post on south street us military drills and sell after completing a three game set with a badly planned for this month. she typically think john kerry days and sold to forty two allied stores on etsy. president barack obama went back to korea as part of this central asian tour. he's moving past yesterday's disappointing performance in its ideals here's the eye medals at the skate competitions later this thursday. on sunday. her safe every thirty here in korea line from full and if i am strong when things so much for joining us. we begin with the latest progress in danger korean talks after wednesday's dialogue failed to make much progress. top officials in seoul spent thursday clarifying their stance is following the fourteen hour session the two koreas are to resume dialogue on friday at their first meeting in seventy years and south korea remains adamant that family reunions and military exercises should not be late. toronto the small. it's now been known to me i look old another round of high le

we begin with the surprise trip of former u s investor to south korea donald gray to north korea which has been seen as a possible move to secure the release of the captive american associated press television news reported that craggy is leading a four member to non governmental delegation and countdown although the reason for his visit has not been disclosed experts believe he may be in the north the winter really sets cafe a christian missionary who has been held for over a year after being sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor and charges of crimes against the state the qq it like to invite sung by a robber came was initially scheduled to visit tammy and this week in augusta in this release but the north pulled back its invitation. citing the upcoming one military drills between seoul and washington. and speaking of those military exercises between south korea and the united states to bits per cent. the two sides are to kick off the joint exercises in late february as planned in a move that could affect upcoming cross border family re unions are unification ministry course by on

in a case like south korea, yes, there was a bit of uncertainty. at the same time even when you have the transition to government leaders, the south korean government, they -- their case is somewhat unique in that you have a direct designee. and they -- their is a consensus that we really have our national security almost guaranteed by u.s. military, by the u.s.-south korea alliance. so although it does cause some concern and consternation for u.s. policy officials when there are these transitions of, when they're is a political instability, if government leaders firmly believe that u.s. bases and the alliance relations that they have with the united states is central to their own national security, to their own national defense then i think in the long run the u.s. -- i think they can breathe a sigh of relief under those circumstances . >> host: how much resources and time is the u.s. banned building relationships? >> there is no cookie cutter approach. for the bases we are seeing today and for example, sub-saharan africa, djibouti is a good exampl

three of south korea's 17 ski resorts are in the region. sports facilities already built are compact and highly concentrated allowing for easy access. they're all designed to preserve the natural terrain as much as possible. this ski jump venue is one of pyeongchang's landmarks. the hills are 125 meters, and 98 meters high, and they're built using the natural slope of the mountains so the athletes can be left affected by the wind. >> translator: our committee members in sochi are learning about facilities, accommodations, logistics, and management so we can succeed in pyeongchang. >> reporter: people here are showing their olympic excitement at a snow festival to coincide with the opening of the sochi games. >> translator: it's great you have the chance to ski here in pyeongchang where the games will be held in four years. >> reporter: for government leaders, the race is now on. pyeongchang has some major drawbacks. there are few tourist attractions to lure visitors from abroad. they will have to make major improvements to the public transp

that were precarious all sometime during the third week of this month right before the cleaning south korea a us team is all the military exercise is scheduled to start in korea cut his trip he followed up by a gazetted from the us president barack obama a couple minutes later. citing us and japanese officials the uv nation the report said president obama will be making stops to pee and the philippines and malaysia during a tour of the region in april. he is reportedly considering a visit to seoul as well. the bombing aimed at financing single ave are expected to discuss a wide ranging issues including the trans pacific by ship the territorial disputes with china ink and an eighteen year graduation of north korea has obama had to cancel his fifty two south east asia in october the federal shot down in the united states can see on the evening news. the high profile freehand trial classic pairs of socks twenty year prison term for in leftist lawmaker accused of wanting to overthrow his own government to divert on one fifty two year old piece of key is expected in two weeks' time for part two

because this time of the new united states government and south korea or so giving some consideration to most korea. but this time nuclear arms of them the aircraft carriers or of the book yet counted amongst its promise of wood out to speaking in houston texas ice this time. this is chris bridge and north korea. if something happens to read the beatitudes tweed period i mean got a really intensify the abuse to him not to condemn nations. so tonight then tending the meeting committed to the head of the reunion of feminists may be soaked in all precarious but the that i hoped it would be ok. i also started this year north korea has expressed is the willingness to reduce tensions to allow staff to reconciliation and even essential identification have you seen any sincerity in the part of north melbourne was not intentional on north korea has one too many cute. how blind policies and peaceful just applaud those of south korea and that there are huge keeps full bottle while his food all friends and has nothing to do with the barest copy of minutes with a belt and nuclear weapons developme

the negotiator from south korea saying that he couldn't police the free media in south korea. comes at the same time that the u.s. secretary of state has talks with the president and the foreign minister here. the united states would never accept north korea becoming a nuclear armed state. he has been in budget, where he processed the chinese to do more. he admits they have done more in the past year and previous years to pressure north korea to denuclearize. not huge breakthroughs, but the fact that they are talking at the level is significant, and the hundreds of families that they are hoping with greater opt fix that they'll once again meet, has been an extremely important couple of days. >> some of the families separated during the korean war lived here in the united states. we spoke to some. >> when this family escaped the korean war, they were happy to survive, in 1951. >> later they realised they'd never see the siblings left behind. >> translation: i started crying. i feel that way. >> the 83-year-old woman and 91-year-old woman hang on to their chicago, resisting a mo

but last week, north korea made an about-turn and said it would accept south koreans' requests. north korea's state-run media said the north had generously accepted the request, despite unfavorable conditions. in the first few days, the north has heard only criticism of the military exercises. experts say the north wants to extract favors from the south. >> translator: north korea is apparently trying to play up the event to display its eagerness to improve interkorean relations. there's also an economic factor. the north is probably trying to get south korea to provide food and fertilizer, and resume tourism at mount kungong. that would help solve its economic problems. >> reporter: south korea and the u.s. are on the alert in the lead-up to the military drills. officials say the possibility remains that north korea will respond with acts of provocation. observers are now focused on whether north korea's reaction to the military exercises will change its seemingly more conciliatory approach to the south. nhk world, seoul. >>> economists say construction workers in china aren't w

talks taking place between north and south korea in a demilitarized zone. the highest level talks in several years. south africa's main opposition party planning a march to the headquarters of the african national congress party. >>> in pakistan - police given another week to produce an anti-drone activist kidnapped from his home. his family say he was abducted by men in police uniform. they deny he is in their custody. >>> humanitarian operations inside homs are set to resume. the evacuation of women and children were responded due to logistical reasons. the issues have been re-seouled and they can restart. 800 civilians remain in that area. >> meanwhile, france and the u.s. work together to achieve a diplomatic solution to the war in syria. the french leader francis hollande has been talking to the u.s. president on a voist to washington. tom ackerman reports. >> the french president received a white house welcome with all the trimmings, in contrast to the frosty relations 10 years ago when france refused to join the u.s. in inviting iraq. >> the logistica

raised tensions with south korea and the u.s. by declaring its unilateral cancellation of the ceasefire agreement that ended the korean war. later north korea lashed out at south korean president park geun hye. >> reporter: not long after this north korean leader kim jong un said in his new year's speech that his country must be prepared to improve relations with the south. he said it should show a flexible policy and a conciliatory attitude. in the middle of last month north korean state media announced that the north and south should stop publicly badmouthing each other. >> reporter: the delegates from the north and south may have failed to reach a break through at the pan munn john meeting but agreed to keep talking. >> earlier we talked to an experts in our seoul studio. kim kuhn chick is a professor at kun i don't remember university and specializes in north korean politics and enter korean relations. >> translator: the kim jong-un regime established certain national development goals in 2013. these suggest the north believes

america would like is to have its allies lined upside by side but we have a spy contention between south korea and japan that john kerry needs to address. >> the strained relations are diverting attention from the real security threats, north korea and china's increasingly assertive behavior in the east china and south china sea. the u.s. is trying to get our allies to realize the closest wolf to the sled is the north korean threat and not each other. we are trying to overcome deep historic differences as well as a dispute between tokyo and seoul. >> thanks very much for coming in. thanks for the dose of realism. >> my pleasure. >> now to a side of north korea you have never seen. when you think of winter getaways the american rocky mountains beckon skiers. the world's most reclusive country has opened a new high end resort in the eastern mountains. a tour operator is billing it as the most exotic ski destination on earth. it is that and perhaps one of the most controversial. the correspondent lucy williamson now reports. >> there are not many ways to relax in north korea. here in the country'

soul was elation for south korea ensure disappointed for china. who thought they had done enough to earn a silver medal unfortunate for them they were disqualified for bumping an opposing skater. a reversal of what happened four years going think over what south korea were disqualified. the surprising into the race. all of the sultry coach answer that notice. salisbury a nation known for its speed skating premise might be tough. and these games. reading the title in the latest three thousand meter relay. it's awesome that it's nineteen seventy eight. cctv so childers on the games when i'm joined by peter from sochi. well peter gap and when our guests day four was a day of highs and lows for china on the short track on is a disappointment to the chinese ed team. but not without controversy the kids out of what is the controversial part of this and it is common to see this happen. thank you very much relate as mean as it does mention in that story the chinese team was disqualified in part it was for impeding another player you see when you see in sh

the negotiator from south korea is saying he couldn't police the free media in south korea. it comes at the same time. there were talks in seoul with the president and foreign minister. and the united states would never accept north korea becoming a nuclear armed state. it'll be in budget where he pressed the chinese to do more. >> so not huge breakthroughs in terms of relations between north and south korea, but the fact that they are talking again is zapt, and for the number of families that they will meet. it's been an important couple of address. some of the families separating live here in the united states. we spoke with some in chicago. >> when this family escaped the brutality of the korean war in 1951, they were happy to survive. >> this is my younger brother. >> later they realised they may never see the sib lippings they had to -- siblings they had to leave behind. >> i was crying all the time, going crazy, running from one room to another, crying, crying. i still feel that way. >> mrs. so, who is 83, and mr so who is 91, are hanging on to their chicago home, resis

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senior officials from north and south korea have met for the second time this week. a south korean delegates as the two sides have agreed to go ahead with the planned reunions of families separated by the korean war the officials met at the truce village of carmen jones. the meetings were the first high level talks between the two sides since south korean president cochrane entered office the south's chief delegate to you. jones told reporters that the officials agreed to hold family reunions as scheduled for six days starting on every twentieth kim said the two sides also agreed to stop making slanderous remarks about each other. but north korean officials reportedly suggested that they cannot hold family reunions. while south korea u s military exercises are taking place the north is opposed to the annual joint exercises set to start on february twenty fourth. kim said he explained that the plan reunions are a first step toward development of inter korean relations based on trust. he added the north's officials accepted the view a senior japanese government official

raised tensions with south korea in the us by declaring its unilateral cancellation of the ceasefire agreement that ended the korean war they kept north korea last note that south korean president. the day did she get the necklace on and keep coming and when you sleep in his twenty ten men don't know what historical movie handling and i'm so excited and went out and cut them again. most of its north korean leader kim jones said in his new year's speech that his country must be prepared to improve relations with the snow. he said they should show a flexible policy and it can see a tree altitude. in the middle of last month north korean state media announced that the north and south should still have to keep bad mouthing each other out. all you guys how was it looked well heeled screenings of a tingle. i will come up to monkey tumbled in handy but totally on its knees if she needed to empty out the candles on it now. it's hosted on all the time the data gets from the north and so may have failed to reach a breakthrough at

and the dprk claimed it was over no rao of the looming south korea u s military drills. kerry is set to meet south korean president park in haiti and foreign minister yoon books say to reaffirm the strength of their alliance and discuss ways of expanding cooperation on regional and global issues solar is kerry's first off on an agent of the poolside titans of ageing and jakarta in beijing kerry is expected to discuss the ear the finn's son china declared last year kerry will also discuss ways to its alrite cooperation between washington beijing seoul and tokyo with the aim of bringing the dprk back to the nuclear negotiating table did you come to kerry will co chair of the joint commission meeting on to the us into the share comprehensive partnership and meet the secretary general of the association of southeast asian nations. south korea says it will press ahead with an annual joint military drill with the us later this month. it comes despite calls from the dprk for the drills to be delayed because i overlapped with planned family reunions. south korea's defence minist

officials want south korea to downsize military drills with the u.s. let's go to korea and talk about what prompted the meeting? >> that is obviously the big question. in terms of the mechanics of all of this, it was prompted by a request from north korea, which we learnt on tuesday local time, from the south koreans, that the north koreans made on saturday, at the weekend, asking for a high level meeting, a rare event, the only in the last seven years, the last happening in 2006. the north koreans requesting the presence of someone from the presidential office from the south korean delegation, which they have got. there's a high ranking person on the north korean side of these talks. as for what they want out of it, the leader of north korea, kim jong un, talked significantly about trying to improve the economy in north korea, so it may be they are after, in the short term, the reopening of south korean tour groups are or the readmission of south korean tour groups, something that has been stopped things 2008 when a south korean tourist was shot by a n

it's from south korea dprk said why one of the family unit words are true. it's like three feet. all right the eye that's what happens when record profits. all of that amount by doing a very warm welcome to this thirty minute updates on cctv new hse ukraine's interim president on extended to channel his uniform a unity government just days after the ousting of president viktor yanukovich countries also are preparing for snap presidential elections scheduled to take place on my twenty fifth. the ukrainian central election commission released a timeline billy tuesday giving candidates until i pull the forms to register for the rights to chino said he hoped to form a new coalition government by tuesday. former prime minister you neo tymoshenko who was released from jail on saturday has ruled out becoming prime minister. on monday russia issued its strongest response yes to the ousting of yanukovich questioning the legitimacy of the interim leadership russian prime minister dimitri medvedev called the ousting and on the news today. ukraine's un ambassador here is the gay and who supp

of a four more years in south korea. >> february of 2018, south korea. wow.athletes. they did great job. >>> stay with us for "good morning america." have a wonderful monday, everyone. >> this is good morning washington the. on your side. >> some said news. we will have the latest on the towns mayor. department -- d.c. fire department is dealing with the death that occurred near a station. let's get right over to jacqui jeras. she is in the weather center. changes ine some big the air. i hope you enjoyed the weekend. a nice taste of spring won't last through the work week. we did have a few sprinkles that moved across the region in the overnight hours. that is all pushed off to our east.

when in fact he won a couple of gold medals in sheer rain in italy for south korea he then picked up a serious injury in two thousand and eight. so it had picked up a serious injury in two thousand and eight and wasn't selected for south korea during the winter olympics in vancouver in two thousand and ten he didn't fall out with the sport's governing body so much so that he looked for an alternative citizenship and he wasn't sure whether to are trying to. place in the american team or the russian in the end he decided that he would represent rush hour and this was his first games in eight years he was helping to secure the gold medal but in the end he had to settle for. all right very set up that again your so we repeat ourselves a slightly paul thanks for that all right let's get a slightly different take on the ice hockey tournament now and a look at the jerseys the players are going to be wearing when they go into battle we can talk to our tease arts and culture of course but of martin anderson joins us live the report a bit sick kids there not just any old jersey other the th

every year the dprk does object to the joint minute exercises held by us and south korea. but this year compared to last year the atmosphere is. not much but said that it comes with a different context. basically looking back to two thousand and twelve but the end of two thousand and twelve dprk village to the rough bits and then in early two thousand the team that was said and the new contest by dprk these two events cause big international calls a nation and dprk was also very unhappy about that. so the exercises lost it took place up on the tails of these. all that dramatic events on the korean peninsular this year the year started with. can you use be sure that the video dprk holding out hope for reconciliation between north and south. and then throw the proposals in january for albany that aren't important organizations here aimed at the south austin full agreement on steps towards reconciliation. so the fact that the family reunions can still go on a free of course is a good sign. hopefully the reaction is to dc is the us south korea joined with the exercises will no

host: do you still have family in south korea or north korea?ler: i have one sister in south korea. i have been living here since 1960. i have a degree from two universities in america. i am doing very well. i am 74 years old. is we have about 30,000 troops stationed in korea. nations are finding there has been a -- commissionnations took a long time to come to this kind of report. it is a little late but i am there -- i am happy about the findings. why didn't the u.s. take a to reveal alle those things? they knew about it and the korean government knew about it and the state department and cia, the whole government knew about it. why were they so late? thend question is commissioner was talking about criminal courts. as long as the chinese are the peninsula they need to give approval. that is unlikely to happen china needs north korea against u.s. interests. the call.k you for we will get a response. question, therst guarding the u.s.-south korea 30 thousandmost u.s. service personnel are in south korea and serve a very specific function. that

too little on the net and this morning the north has accepted south korea's proposal for working level talks to discuss the issue of the reunions of separated families. south korean officials say the two sides all preparatory consummate truce village of college on the talks could take place as early as wednesday. south korea has proposed that family reunions be held from every seventeenth to this one twenty seconds and malcolm gang a resort in north korea pyongyang remain strongly again south korea's joint military exercise with the united states the bill is due to start late this month in the south. attention is focused on whether north korea will use the upcoming talks to them and this pension the drill. or if it will seek to impose any other conditions for holding re unions. people in thailand when the polls on sunday but not all of them got to go watching the ducks along in bangkok has more on this story. i see government trespasses and the thai capital bangkok trip to the streets again on monday one day off saying much trouble can do in action officials on sunday had to cancel the

military exercises between seoul and washington which is scheduled to begin at the end of this month south korea and the usa the drills are defensive in nature but the north used them as i practiced for work. north korea had earlier threatened to reconsider its agreement to pull that maybe guineans should be joint military exercises take place as planned. i even speculating that the officials may be discussing a possible winner for me and some extent the talks are taking so long so really it's up to anybody's guess for now guys right as art education ministry for spot and also he with the latest on the inner korean talks. us secretary of state john kerry is due to arrive in seoul on thursday for a two day visit the presidential office of titus as president talk in the hand kerry will meet on thursday afternoon for discussion about matters of mutual concern including north korea and the recent tensions with japan carry strip comes a couple of months before us president barack obama is special to visit every day the possibility of obama making a stop in korea is also expected to be discussed the k

. >>> the leadership in pyongyang has agreed to hold working-level talks with south korea to reunite families separated by the korean war in the 1950s. the south welcomed the response, saying it will work to enable families to meet soon. >> translator: through a letter this morning the north has accepted south korea's proposal for working-level talks to discuss the issue of the reunion of separated families. >> south korean officials say the two sides will held preparatory talks in panmunjom. the talks will take place as early as wednesday. south korea has proposed that family reunions be held from february 17th through the 22nd that a resort in north korea. pyongyang remains strongly against south korea's joint military exercise with the united states. the drill is due to start late this month in the south. attention is focused on whether north korea will use the upcoming talks to demand the suspension of the drill, or if it will seek to impose any other conditions for holding reunions. >>> government officials in moscow allowed demonstrators to take to the streets sunday, just days

and south korea. south korea calls them a provocation, and preparation for an invasion. >> it is outrageous undertaking oppressive war exercise against the other side when both sides intend to sit together to discuss and implement important issues of achieving national reconciliation and unity. >> al jazeera's harry fawcett is in seoul. >> north and south korea have been talking for most of the day. we don't know what has been discussed. the south korean delegation on the way to the village deep inside the demilitarized zone said they wanted to discuss the smooth running of upcoming family reunions between north and south korean families separated by the end of fighting in 1953, and want to make it a regular event. it's scheduled to happen between the 20th and 25th of february. the only real information that we have from the talks themselves has come in a circuitous route through a newsagency quoting an unnamed government source, stating that each delegation has been listening calmly. the talks, accor

there are even some in south korea. some calling for a joints north/south 0 lick pim team. ld welcome a north korea ian team. the sprays expect of a joint team is pretty small. they are saying that relations to the peninsula would have to improve for that to happen. no are snow is in the forecast this week. kevin corveau is up next to tell us where. consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america . >> we are back. kevin, i had gotten used to this warm weather in the northeast? >> it was great. we had a weekend. it won't last long. we had cold air coming in. before i get to the cold air, i will finish off with the rain showers tha

taiwan ranked 50th, and south korea 57th. china is 175th, ahead of north korea at 179th. >>> prime minister abe has been asking companies to pay employees more. the labor unions are demanding the same. and ron madison has more on this one. ron? >> that's right, gene. annual wage negotiations in full swing here in japan. the outcome in the car industry will have a strong impact on other industries. leaders of the auto union say they'll stick to their demand for higher base of pay. the confederation of japan automobile workers unions wants to secure seniority-based pay increases. all its member labor unions plan to seek a basic wage hike for the first time in five years. union leaders at toyota motor, honda, mazda, suzuki, and fuji heavy are all asking for an average increase of nearly $40 a month in the basic wage. >> translator: we have tried to reinforce the foundation of our business, and improve quality. management should accept our request. >> he added that unions may face tough negotiations with their managers. that's bec

joining us tonight my sister and perhaps in another efforts with our relations between the two koreas south korea has offered aid to north korea to hope that the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in pics. there is to liberty would be souls first government level humanitarian aid to pyongyang since two thousand ten the south's unification ministry said monday that the offer includes a proposal for talks with north korea to discuss the humanitarian assistance. your state news agency reported last week that the animal disease had broken early last month and has since spread inspecting the roughly thirty two hundred animals. there are an estimated one hundred thousand korean american families in the us with ties to north korea and with the car around every unions many has been left wondering if they will ever get the chance to re unite. well i did as a second with seventy separate families outside and dividing it there was a ray of hope for eighty year old single day when the two koreas agreed to proceed with the unions for families separated since the korean war. earlier this month. more than sixty

that i'm easily annoyed me at the county remains john reid and south korea is a joint military exercise with the united states. the drill is due to start late this month in the south. and i say attention has focused on whether north korea will use the upcoming toxic to demand a suspension of the drill where they will seek to impose any of the conditions for holding re unions. i the american women who traveled an ancient pilgrimage through it in western japan have documented that bench as the journey known as okinawa affected them so deeply. these handmade an illustrated book to capture the experience the forty page book called temple by a temple uses traditional japanese washy paper to depict a distinctive culture of all handle odierno is a religious journey. which more than one hundred thousand pilgrims try of the year. many wear traditional white rule. there are eighty eight temples to visit on the western island of chico creek. pilgrims can take any route they wish with each journey cannot be less than one thousand km pilgrims motives family some worship of those looking to themselve

headline south and north korea at three hundred high level talks to better facilitate reunions of separated families despite the authority last week electric drills between south korea and the plants the real korean cooperation she orders policymakers and chart the welfare of labor in gender equality in many minds regulations to build up well for assistance to help create jobs and spur. verse nineteen sixty five years. i had a wonderful form of government government talks despite the team's refusal to recognize the self governing island sovereignty to the stores and more than one hundred. apartheid years it's too stiff add very eleven here in korea. life is full on abc and sean went into so much for joining us. we begin with a possible sign of a fawning inter korean relations for the first time in seven years the two koreas will hold high level talks tomorrow spots of the trees fell into prominence and come before next week's much anticipated re unions for families separated since the korean war. he has our top story. anti kerry ads will need for high level talks at the south korean side of

almost ninety percent of people living in south korea. so wouldn't that be. d i hope for a second conversion will have more chances to study english. celts the zoloft for athletes in two thousand include weather conditions in that area are expected to be ideal for competition. three of south korea seventeen ski resorts are in the region sports facilities of a bpo are compact and highly concentrated allowing for easy access. the all designed to preserve the natural train as much as possible. this ski jumping and a swirl of contents and then marks the hills center one hundred twenty five meters and nine eight meters high and they are built using the natural slope of the mountain to the athletes candy that's affected by doing. and i are still shooting on twenty wins and i were committee members and so too are learning what facilities. accommodations logistics and management. so we can succeed in killing turning it to be. here are sharing their olympic excitement as the festival to coincide with the opening of this she gains. you have the chance to speak here in

he has been meeting south korea's president. security and nuclear issues involving north korea is topping the agenda. >> the highest level talks between north and south korea in several years are taking place under a veil of secrecy, it is ahead of planned reunions of families parted during the kore korean war. north korea plans to cancel it if exercises between the u.s. and south korea take place. talks will continue, but no time line has been offered. >> we'll break down the development with jim walsh. a research associate with the security studies program at the massachusetts institute of technology. good morning. good to have you here. not a lot came out about why the talks happened or the substance of them. what is your take on why the north may have reached out to south korea. >> it is a bit of a surprise. we were talking about bad weather in britain and the east coast. along the north korean, seen border there's a thaw. they are the highest level talks. there was breaking news that they had spoken yesterday, they met three

i am thinking of south korea >> that is when the concede the democratic force of unleashing. if you're regime is highly autocratic. there are no protests. lead in this period of democratization there is said period of instability about basis and the trick is that on one hand we please send a business on stability in to encourage democracy so in their case like south korea there was a benefit of uncertainty but when you had to transition to government leaders their case is unique with the border across north korea and our national security is almost guaranteed by u.s. military presence. although it does cause consternation with political instability that the u.s. bases to their own national defense that in the long run they could breathe a sigh of relief under those circumstances. >> host: how much resources or time does the u.s. began building relationships of those countries? period there is no cookie cutter approach so djibouti is a good example. so i am sure in that case there is discussion of military officials and for them it is a quid pro quo to exchange a door foreign

but the analysts describe relations between japan and south korea as poor and they say u.s. officials are growing increasingly concerned. they say tension between the american allies is hindering policy coordination over two other asian nations, north korea and china. the report discusses a visit by japanese prime minister shinzo abe to yasukuni shrine in december. it says the visit contributed to the deterioration of ties with south korea. the shrine honors japan's war dead. those remembered include leaders convicted of war crimes after world war ii. the report says abe went to the shrine ignoring the advice of u.s. officials. it says his decision may have breached a degree of trust between washington and tokyo. >>> defense officials in seoul say a boat from north korea strayed in to south korean waters repeatedly, crossing the country's maritime border. it eventually turned back after south korean officers issued warnings. a defense ministry spokesperson said the vessel crossed the border known as the northern limit line three times between monday evening and early tuesday

across the border and communication has been banned in the sense of lawfully system is used in south korea to decide who among the seventy thousand hopefuls will see their relatives again. richard kell has the details. yet me mentally to the florist family were unions in the first the years. it came in after the red cross officials from both sides held tight to the border village of pam and john. he tells including the date and venue were discussed. our meeting this first meeting it is i believe a very important starting point for the improvements of our bilateral relations. up on the grounds of the principles of the red cross blessed delivered good news to the separated families waiting for the three unions the size and read every yen yen to be held at the dprk seen a man came down resort so is the need for panic and every seventeen to twenty seconds for the re union spent that day was like we could smack ice free day to take place between february the twentieth to twenty fifth every uni n program is one of several cross border cr operation projects that have been stalled in recent years

it's thursday said gary thirteenth and catherine comanche and telltale delegates from north and south korea have met for their first high level talks in use and the first in south korean president of finance his office just meeting suggested the me want to work toward better times the delegates walked away without making much progress senior officials met in the chase village upcoming film inside the doula time zone that separates the country as they do that for more than twelve hours an official with the south korean unification ministry said the north koreans want their counterparts to postpone the annual military drills with us for sids the north koreans want to go ahead first with dreams of families separated by the korean war. now those are scheduled to start in a weekend and five days later the trails this gadget to bt and during that period the south korean delegates and smoothly unions will be the first step toward improving times but they certainly unions and the drills are unrelated and they turned down the request to postpone the exercises still negotiators from both sides have a

japan needs south korea, and south korea needs japan. and at some point they will understand that they need each other, but it might be too late to patch up relations. >> kerry is scheduled to make a stop at united arab emirates. >>> nearly $3 million in bitcoins were stolen from silk road site and it's users. silk road acts as a middle man between buyers and sellers and does not use traditional currency. >>> meanwhile, cyber crime is on the rise. look at what happened to the market. as jonathan betz shows us, one school in new york is trying to teach how to hack, but in a good way. >> reporter: every week students order pizza, play music and fire up their laptops. >> you're hacking into website here. how simple is that? >> it's scary when you think about it. >> it's called hack night. here the website broken into are fake. built to teach these students at nyu's poly tech institute to teach guys how to fight off cyberattacks. >> the best way to fight off attackers is to find out how it's happening in the first place. >> they exposed the

. >> i want to ask you about south korea.just talked about it going from first to worst here in 2014. it has dropped. has weakened since december 31. people like south korea. everybody else is getting the money out. [laughter] >> it is a bet. last year, we were very pessimistic with the philippines. then we saw what happened. south korea, i still think is the best story in asia for this year. very a very solid economy, solid economic policy, a very solid manufacturing sector, reacting very beautifully to what japan is trying to do. we don't have to forget that south korean -- the south korean economy and japanese economy are very similar. when the yen depreciates, it is bad news for south korea. see this negativity that others see in korea. >> all right, we appreciate your views. chief asia-pacific economist, luca philip o. more coming up next. shaping up how a single yoga studio in hong kong built itself into a global player. we are going to take a look at here group strategies. ♪ when your business is working out, fitness,

. >> reporter: already north korea has put in doubt. it warned that the south korean exercises must be canceled, adding that dialogue and acts of war cannot go hand-in-hand. last week, the worst break down in many years, with north korea making repeated threats of nuclear war. washington has come up with strategy for scenarios. and they plan to continue that in the next weeks. >> still ahead on aljazeera america, the winter games are not now underway. >> i'm paul brennan at the olympic park. >> finally, the winter games are underway, and the opening ceremonies are within the hour. in washington, heightened travel warnings, and the games taking place amid the backdrop amid the protests of russia's gay propaganda laws. let me see if i can catch a sneak peek, but have we seen anything out of the ordinary? >> security wise, no, there has been very tight security here, approximation no problems reported. because of the way the security is led, the people have had a gradual security tightening when it comes to the stadium. and not a big bottleneck. as far as the open

turning to the korean peninsula now south korea and the dprk has agreed to have family reunions as checking it at a press conference following high level talks the south korean chief delegates that family members will meet from the twentieth to twenty fifth of fabric. south korea dprk have a three hour meeting at the border village of common john on friday meeting came just in two days off to the first round of talks which fail to reach any agreements. the dprk who was demanding and today in an email that read rails between south korea and the united states. so refused a request is saying he cannot blink humanitarian issue of may unions to another tree issue south korea with sand and abbas team to the dprk on set today to the path for the re union of families separated by the korean war. it would be the first such activity in more than three yes. if only so much through the use of every day expresses some are times when retirees a common form stands at the reunion often separate families and the us all scream nature trails are completely separate teachers can all be eating. in thailand's tw

south korea calls it the east sea. >>> did you feel anything last night?ssive astroid risked right past earth, 2 million miles away. it's as large as three football fields, and traveling of 27 miles per hour when it dipped right toward our planet. it happened monday night. it was eight times as far from us as the moon. the astroid comes a year after a smaller one shattered windows, and injured more than 1500 people. that will do it for this edition of aljazeera news, i'm thomas graden in new york. >>> hi, i am lisa fletcher and you are in "the stream." states spend more on prisons than schools, but could a push from washington change that? we are going take a look at renewed efforts to store restore rights to ex-cons ♪ ♪ th

the president here in south korea offered to resume those reunions as soon as possible. 've been suspended sinc since 2010. north korea initially rejecting that offer saying that that could not happen at the same time of the exercises and then appeared to change its mind agreeing to a date for those reunions, february 20-25th was agreed between the north and south. but the very next day north korea coming out with a strong statement saying dialogue and military exercises could not go hand in hand. now the ball is very much back in north korea's court. >> those military exercises by the way are scheduled to begin on february 24th. >> wall street seals to be in a wait and see mode. testimony before congress tomorrow it will be the first for janet yellen the dow down 22 points after 50' posting it's bt week this year laugh arsenal week. >>> mcdonald's say the bad weather taking its toll on u.s. sales which fell 3.3% but global sales were up 1.2%, better than expected. gains in europe and china offset the weak sales of the big mac in the u.s. >>> hasbro earn eggs fell to $130

forces ear in south korea.o sets of them. the first is computer simulation of scenarios involving thousands of troops every year north korea calls these acts of war and aggression and rehearsals for invasion. this year north korea is links these exercises to the prospects of family ruines rue reunions. ithe reunions have been suspendd since 2010 but north korea saying that that cannot happen during these exercises, then appeared to change its mind and agreed to a date of those reunions february 20-25th has been agreed to between the north and south, but then the next day north korea coming up with a strong statementing saying dialogue and military exercises could not happen hand in hand. now it is back in north korea's court. >> those exercises are set for february 24th. >>> when both sides sit down at the table to talk, the question stilquestionis who will run syr. >> i think even though things were bad in the first round of talks it's quite possible now they are even worse than they have been before, and that

both of my parents were born in south korea. of my grandfathers were born in what is now north korea. they both fled south before the war started. >> these are really tough stories. some hours of celebration for those families. jean beck, it's great to have you on the program. >> thank you for having me. >> the idea to bring music to imaged square. he -- independence square. he tells his story in tonight's first person. >> i participated in mass demonstrations, i did a lot of things but probably the biggest thing that i did was that project with the piano, me playing in front of the riot police. i did a similar project in my city, in the half year before the revolution that was more like a cultural experiment. i've put a piano on the street just to see if people will play it and what will happen. so i decided that maybe it can bring something good into this revolution, and to facilitate the conversation between the people and the police. i bought the piano. i took it there. and i painted it with my friends. it was black, and we

also mom and had to run for my launch south korea. i never knew my wife had been pregnant checking the us and should in fact false cent in the dprk find out in the nineteen nineties. is it that she's probably dancing now. newsmax and nomads who wants to causeway to meet you living in seoul now he has a new family and a father of two thoughts come will be accompanied by his older child to beat the sixty four year old son in the dprk would never known his father i know i will have no regrets about to meet human faeces. we use to see the two sides reunites so that's sam and i can get together always keen to stay well to see that d ca. khan's family and still have prepared food and other living goes for their long lost family in the dprk in the hopes that the small gifts to make up a little for the dearest of their separation. john a cctv and at that time in more than two thousand thomas diving fact is another bombing it comes to hitting from a time in center region to call and get political tactic to prominence a nationalist government t

and that complicates this relationship in particular with japan and south korea and japan south korea are very close american ally. so you have a historical american interest in the region and you have of emergence of china. creating conflict with two very close allies. and then you have the united states as the only superpower in the world facing a rising economic power in china. so i think that those three things make it inevitable that the united states would be paying much closer attention from and one would think that china would realize that today would see that coming up and i think to a certain degree that they have bought. there are also pressing. is there an agenda with their pressing their claims. relatively aggressively on if you think about it and i'm eyeing the supposed that they believe that the united states isn't going to act very forcefully and given that the united states doesn't want to upset the world economy it's them and given the fact that a lot of people in asia pacific are looking to see what washington would conduct field despite the claim of rebalancing was

. >> high-level talks between north and south korea have been completed. delegation of senior officials meant counterparts in the border village. harry fawcett is live for us in the south korean capital of seoul. what is the latest there. the latest is there's a briefing going on, three hours after the talks finished, and what we are hearing is that the south koreans, laul the way through were insisting that the family reunions would go ahead as planned, despite north korea's sentence that if military exercises between the united states and south korea hap as scheduled, they would not take part in the family reunions. the reunions will take lace, this is something they have secured from the talks. there has been an agreement that there'll be no more cross-boarder slandering. that's something that the south koreans said must stop. the big issue so far that we have yet fully to ascertain is exactly whether any concession has to be made upon the issue of u.s. and south korean military exercises. certainly john kerry, the u.s. secretary of state who was here, t