north korea argued that south korea hasn't delivered anything to north korea. therefore, he's having a hard time in pushing for the idea of peace building through peace economy. diplomacy, in fact, contrary to what conservatives in south have been criticizing, we have been betting on the united states 100%. since november of 2018, we have 100% coordinating with the united states. we have shown 100% transparency to the u.s. with regard to interkorean economy and cooperation. as a result of that, interkorean relations have become completely-- and now we have a dilemma what should we do if the united states cannot make a breakthrough in its talk with north korea? i do not know what action the president will take, but sentiment in south south korea, if the united states fails to come up with a settlement with north korea, then supporters are raising voice, south korea should take independent action, okay? i will say that we are now going through very critical period, okay? south korea is a democracy and moon jae-in needs from his supporters. if he cannot deliver to

in south korea we have elections that are coming up. does this limit president moon's ability to try and engage more with north korea, does he pivot to more domestic issues with the south korean economy looking to grow more in the coming year. these are all open questions. with that, let me just get to the, some of the procedural things that are going to happen today. all of you are think tank event experts but i'm going to lay these out anyway. obviously with the number of cameras today, we are on the record, so keep that in mind. you know, as you can see by the conference itinerary, dr. moon is going to open up everything and i'm going to introduce him in a second, then we're going into our panels, three panels today, each one of our panelists, starting off with doug bando, jessica lee, they will be speaking for 10 to 15 minutes, and we'll go into the classic q and a. one thing i ask, while we may all know each other, our live audience on c-span does not know you. if you can give your name and affiliation, that's important, so everybod

also we have other events happening in south korea we have elections that are coming up and does this limit president's ability to try engage more with north korea and does eat pivot to more domestic issues with the south korean economy and looking to grow more in the coming year. i think these are all very much open questions. with that let me get to the procedural things that will happen today but all of you are pretty much think tank events experts but i will lay these things out anyway. obviously with the amount of cameras in the room today we are on the record so keep that in mind. as you can see by the itinerary doctor moon will open up everything and i will introduce him in a second but then we will go into our panels. three panels today in each one of our panelists starting off with jessica they will speak ten-15 minutes and then we will go into the classic q&a. one thing i asked during q&a is while we may know each other our live audience on species c-span does not know you. if you can give your name and affiliation that is important so everyone has an understanding of where

many people here in south korea are dissatisfied 150 were a 5 year old infected patient was released from a clinic and had contact with tens of people issues a boat they are being used as a kind of political football especially by the opposition and the backlash has also trickled out to outlying areas where the government has put in place a quarantine facility that it wants to use for those people returning those south koreans are returning from china they blockaded the facility with tractor trailers very interesting shanks nets thank you. it's an award winning film set in pakistan made by a pakistani director that no one dare can watch it's been banned by government censors after a smear campaign by a radical islamist political party to wreak back pakistan party leaders claimed a film called zindagi to moscow or the circus of life is critical of islam they came to this conclusion after watching the 2 minute trailer they threatened to stage protests and attack theaters if the film is released it reportedly tells the story of a devout muslim man who enjoys dancing in the story a video

lanka south korea and japan masks are selling out across the region and governments are working to evacuate their citizens from the city of lu han ground 0 where the virus 1st appeared. we have journalist frank smith joining us out of seoul frank how are people feeling about this. well they are certainly worried as more reports from around the world trickle in about the number of people that have been affected and infected i should say and certainly here in south korea there's a little bit of you know rest by no new. reports have surfaced of people that have been infected they are monitoring closely 28 people and some 387 people are being kept tabs on under self quarantine a particular worry here is the 3rd and 4th infections were people that had returned to south korea asymptomatic that means that they hadn't shown any symptoms and he sniffling any sore throat and headaches and a fever when they were turned in so they met people in contact with people without knowing that they were infected and that can lead to again the contingent spreading quite a bit faster now what is the government do

and north korea situation but again lies most realist i think that is largely a job for south koreaand north korea and we can be helpful in our diplomacy but i do think it is important that we shift gears from where we are, but either way, again, i think that deterrence and defense needs compelling's in offense. >> i'm a supporter of deterrence and defense versus compel its and offense but i also believe that denuclearization remains an important objective, for u.s. foreign policy vis-À-vis north korea and i think at the same time the trump administration's engagement with north korea has had some positive effect and so in a way i feel like when harry asked me to join this panel, i was checking my calendar i thought it would be january 6th 2021 rather than 2020 because here we are assessing the trump administration's approach to north korea and there is still a year left but my standards for assessing whether the trump administration has been effective is, as the administration been able to produce the north korean threat or capabilities that threat not only u.s. allies but also the

south korea is a big economic power to have a lot of influence and south korea has its own initiative towards southeast asia. in this regard, even when japan strongly promotes cooperation with southeast asia, sort of how to cooperate with south korea, is also entering sort of the scope of japan. and also with regard to the u.s./japan alliance, i think one of the key issues is how much japan and the united states can cooperate in developing infrastructure, in implementing specific projects regarding infrastructure in relevant regions in korea and southeast asia. my sense is from a viewpoint of a researcher, japanese researcher of southeast asia, southeast asia needs a huge amount of money and china cannot afford to sort of finance that southeast asia needs. in this regard, the southeast asia also seeks other sources of support. in this regard, japan and the united states have great potential to fully, effectively sort of promote infrastructure development in the region. >> thank you for the question. as for the south korea issue, both countries, japan and south korea, the politization

his arch enemy south korea right across the border is a market economy and vibrant democracy. the second archenemy, japan, is the world's third-largest economy and his real archenemy is across the pacific and all these enemies are doing well economically so he wants to transform north korea but how do you do that? that is the dilemma and the only way he can is become the next china by opening up north korea. the moment he opens it up you bring in information, capital, technology, people ask questions and his legitimacy begins to crumble. as a result although he wants to become the next bombshell king i don't think it is going to happen. so the dilemma over time would become progressively stronger. i think in my book i talk about the fact that all north koreans have avatars. if you have seen the movie by james cameron, it is where you have a body double who actually is a real live avatar. in north korea since it is the most highly monitored and surveilled city in the world, country in the world, when you are three months old, for example, all children are taken to state nurseri

south korea has the lowest fertility in asia. and like japan, which is losing people at over i think at least half a million now if not more now every year. a korea that is losing people and enters a phase of societal demoral zags changes the dynamic and the relationship between the two koreas. so i would want to ask as a question what would the dynamic have to be in the longer term future for north korea to be able to reunite the peninsula on its terms? and the reason i ask such a strange-sounding question is that if, indeed, we're beginning to see or will in the future see a decline in the optimism of south korea -- this would be something similar, say, to what happened in the era of stagnation which was decisive in the last phase of the soviet union. what would we need to do to prevent a north korea that was suddenly becoming stronger from being able to achieve the long-term strategic victory and to make the great vision the way of the land? >> michael vallejo from johns hopkins university is never at a loss for provocative que

without is there these are our top stories japan south korea and the u.k. all stepping up the evacuation of their citizens from china in response to the corona virus outbreak americans are now being advised to avoid all travel to china world health organization meanwhile declared the virus a global public health emergency so far more than 200 people have died from the outbreak nearly 10000 have been infected and as many places stone deluxe a mosque compound where palestinians were protesting against u.s. president tom trump's middle east peace plan is ready police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gap. in the u.s. republican senator who democrats hopes would support calling for new witnesses that dominance pietschmann trial says he'll be voting against it the morrow xander released a statement saying it was no need for more evidence that senators want to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton and many others but they need the support of 4 republicans to make that happen but this report from washington. after the 2nd a

we have seen it happen with vietnam and certainly with south korea. with the help and engagement from the international community on an economic basis, there's plenty of opportunity there. north korea's so much further behing than those others, probably made in decades but it's something that can be measured. we don't have to have kim jong-un change anything else. s.b. frank with the government we deal with on a regular basis in turkey and in saudi arabia. i mean, there's not a whole lot of happy and democracy and people not doing nefarious things we otherwise don't like in there, and yet we find a way to work with them especially when it's mutually beneficial kinds of things but we don't turn them into an enemy because they don't do what we want, and the same thing can be true with north korea as well and there's opportunity that can be had i can see them develop and, of course, the more you're developing, the far less likely you are having any interest in going to the military path. >> do we have another zinger from -- wayne, merry american foreign p

they are turning against south korea here. risks in the long-term to petroleum supplies, the south korean -- saying it is not see a direct impact as of yet. >> at the moment, it has not impacted south korea. south korea does have a petroleum reserve that would last three months. they also have reserves jointly run with the uae, which they could draw on if they needed excess reserves. situationk at this where it could escalate, you could have disruptions in the middle east. economyrea, 40% of its runs on petroleum and they get 70% of that from the middle east. it would have a significant impact on the south korean economy if supplies were disrupted for an extended time. haidi: there is myriad geopolitical conflicts and tensions that could arrive and a lot more we don't know. as to whether this is the end of the tensions right now, what options would be available to south korea? if they have to look at other suppliers, in terms of compatibility, norway and australia have similar sulfur content, so they might be options to increa

health it is controversial there a lot of people here are fully supportive behind this these are south korea fellows fellow south korean citizens but there also has been a protest of people trying to block the road to stop people coming in here because of the fear of this coronavirus thank for that too rob mcbride there. the news now in the u.s. special envoy for syria says at least $200.00 airstrikes have hit the last rebel held province in the last 3 days an estimated $700000.00 people in it lebanon are fleeing to with the turkish border at least 21 civilians have been killed in government airstrike specs by russia and recent days victoria getting the reports. this is what's left of. the program. we were at home with their kids when a russian warplane carried out an aerial raid against a hospital and also a residential area people are fed up with life here we don't know where to go no one can help no one can protect us from these attacks. many of the patients here have been injured and evacuated to other hospitals dozens of medical facilities have been destroyed in airstrikes in recent mon

china's deadly corona virus is spreading south korea confirms its 1st case. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up barricades and burning tires renewed protests begin in iraq capital baghdad. world powers back to cease fire in libya more shelling and oil blockade raised doubts people whole. class ship hijackings double in the gulf of guinea biting at the world's most dangerous waterway. the spread of a new and potentially deadly virus appears to be accelerating in asia the virus has killed 3 people since 1st being detected in the chinese city of 139 new cases were confirmed over the weekend south korea's centers for disease control and prevention has now reported its 1st case a chinese woman who flew into incheon city from move on sunday has been quarantined that follows one case being confirmed in japan early in january and 2 in thailand 6 days ago after london and click confirmed patient was identified in the quarantine phase and there is no community exposure and those who have come in contact are currently being investigated. let's take a closer

south korea. just. growing frustration with lebanon's economic crisis protesters are angry that 3 months of anti-government demonstrations seem to have gone nowhere what's needed to break the stalemate in the 11th leadership willing to change the political system this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey for 3 months now people in lebanon have been demanding change worsening economic crisis means many can't find jobs pay for basic goods or even withdraw money.

the mers virus from the middle east that made nearly 200 people sick 38 of whom actually died so south korea is well aware of the dangers and has in place the kind of precautions a needs to take the same cannot be said of north korea a lack of resources then means it is far more vulnerable to a public health emergency such as this one and it has done in the past for example with the above the virus put in place far more drastic measures stopping all visitors while this might guarantee that it will get no cases of the coronavirus it is very bad for its economy because a tourism especially from china is one of the few areas that are not covered by u.n. sanctions and that has been developing as a much needed source of foreign revenue and that is a stream of revenue that will now stop as long as this emergency continues thousands have been a rallying in the iraq's capital against the u.s. military presence people responded to a call by a cleric. he controls the largest bloc in the last house of parliament earlier this month and he's passed a bill asking foreign forces to leave that was in reacti

south korea is a big economic power over southeast asia and south korea has its own initiative towards southeast asia. in this regard even when japan strongly promotes cooperation with southeast asia, how to cooperate with south korea also entering japan's storage and also with regard to the us-japan alliance, i think one of the key issues is how much you can cooperate in developing in implementing specific projects regarding infrastructure in relevant regions. my sense from a viewpoint of a japanese researcher, southeast asia needs a huge amount of money. india and china cannot afford the finance that southeast asia needs. in this regard, southeast asia also seeks sources of support. in this regard japan and the united states have great potential to effectively promote development in the region. >> for the south korea issue, japan and south korea, politicization has a very big power to shape the attitude toward each other and so this is beyond -- a very big obstacle to coverage with others and on the other hand japan, china and south korea are trying to promote free trade agreement am

you have a progrowth environment, like south korea, and aging, the growth is lower. ing out for the quarter, likely to be in the low or 2%. the forecast is around 2%. the roomof korea, forward is likely to cut rates but there is not much room to cut. it is ahead of the game in terms of aging. dealing with a debt issue. the experience of japan shows in order to protect profit margin and to grow, it needs to go outside. the way it has done that is going to southeast asia, china to reduce input costs. the whole and that but europe and the u.s. and the rest of the world. i think many of these north asian economies will need to do so. south korea, deploy more capital to southeast asia since 2014 than to china. china is its largest trade partner in terms of imports and exports, but it is unlikely to be the case if you look 10 or 20 years from now because it needs to diversify, not only because of china slowing but china increasingly more capable of producing high-tech goods, and korea not able to take it vantage as much. that is the trend across the board, taiwan and south

ramy inocencio has the story from south korea. ♪ >> reporter: k-pop, korean pop music is a worldwidehenomenon. ♪ from heartthrob boy bands like bts ♪ to girl groups like black cape, it's a multibillion industry that dazzles. but the apparent suicides of two female k-pop stars in less than two months have revealed a darker side. first in october, 25-year-old choi gin ri known as sully. then in november, her close friend, 28-year-old ku hara. together they amassed millions of views on their music videos. but despite their international fame, both women were long-time targets of cyber bullying. in k-pop, perfection is a must, in discipline, performance, and in looks. >> if you aren't under a certain weight, you can definitely get cut. >> reporter: no one understands that better than k-pop artist amber liu says there is an expectation in the industry to be perfect. >> you'll told what to do, what to say, what to think. >> reporter: she was a former fan and friend. she said she can see what cyber bullying can take. >> when they hear you're getting help, they're what? why are you getting h

by the people there so south korea is now said to be considering imposing a 20 percent tax on income generated from crypto currency transactions essentially south korea is considering reclassifying returns we don't cripple currencies as a type of quote other. place in the same category as money earned from lotteries rather than as a form of capital gains as it's currently treated there and by the way here in the u.s. so obviously this would be a very positive move for group the holders as we could see that come to the us or is the us still so far behind on this in the ira so far behind on this no chance of . yeah i think and the us as you know. issued guidance just as you know as soon as new as october and you know calling it a property an asset and subject to capital gains i don't really see the u.s. tax stand stand to moving much away from that mainly because in the us crypto is still. seen as an investment as speculate of investment. so until it becomes more mainstream and you can you know go to the corner starbucks and buy buy coffee with it get paid with it and a more real you k

we got south korea g.d.p.were higher, 1.2% the third quarter in 2017 and we got a strong number out of taiwan and the economy is doing well in the fourth quarter. does that bode well for japan? >> i think so. at least it is some indication that the very negative trade that we saw in 2019 as a result of the u.s.-china trade may be bombing out and it is not nearly as high as the mashts you mentioned, korea and taiwan. there is a significant explosion that investors are mindful about. the stabilization of imports and recovering domestic demand, that form you lates the basis of why we are constructive on the market in 2020. >> there was a press conference yesterday and i know you were on an airplane and no real shocking news. they held steady and uped the outlook on the economy. these were expected and lowered some inflation targets. again, also there is caution to expect that the next move might be normalization. what do you read? >> at the end of the day it is our view that the bank of japan's ability to loosen

with the anniversary of the start of the korean war, when south korea invaded north korea, as the ball bearing press announced. and then north korea had to responded. -- to respond. question, one brief was there any sort of small north korean effort to show that, in fact, they were responding to some kind of attack? that is a minor point. a major point, i think, speaking of the technological problems the soviet side was having, in fearing the worst, was part of the american buildup connected to a mis estimate of how much nuclear capacity the soviets really had in the early 1950's? questions.ood the original plan for the invasion, which was developed by the north koreans, the soviet advisers did not like it. and they completely revised it. and stalin said, you don't just invade a country. you set up a pretext that you are the victim. and so, there has to be an incident that is simulated of a south korean attack and you response to it. -- respond to it. it was going to be a secret invasion, but then the information about the invasion and the clearing away of civilians from the border reg

not only for wednesday but possibly on to thursday as well lot of that rain begins to push toward south korea it won't be so but it will be down here across much of the south even osaka could see a rain shower or 2 there where across the philippines not looking too bad to the north down towards the south though we are picking up a few more showers in the overnight hours for parts of say boom we're going to be seeing about $28.00 degrees you there down towards the court of the expect to see some very heavy rain as we go towards wednesday and up here towards parts of coaching it is going to be a partly cloudy day with the showers in the forecast at 32 degrees and then very quickly across parts of india really not looking too bad over the next few days most of the heavy rain showers have ended we are going to see had her bad with some clouds in the forecast attempt of 30 inch knife at 31. tool to al-jazeera we were told to get to the ministry of all the russian has this been addressed by to ok we listen what is the proposal of spain for a couple and you know we meet with global news makers and t

you with al-jazeera these are the top stories japan south korea and the u.k. all stepping up the evacuation of their citizens from china in response to the corona virus outbreak americans are now being advised to avoid traveling to china thailand the world health organization's also declared the virus a global public health emergency thailand has just confirmed its 1st case so far we're looking at over 200 people killed from the outbreak china and nearly 10000. on the bin scuffles outside the locks a mosque compound with palestinians protesting against a u.s. president on trump's middle east peace plan ready to lease 5 tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering. u.s. republican senator democrats hoped would support calling new witnesses that donald trump's beach trial says he will be voting against it amar alexander released a statement saying there was no need for more evidence democratic senators want to hear from among others trump's former national security advisor john bolton but to do that they would need support all at least for republicans s

remember, north korea thinks it's democratic so if south korea is a democracy, but it's not liberal, it's not free, well, then, it looks a little bit like north korea, in at least theoretical terms. moon jae in after all, what's the name, what's the formal name of the state that he leads? it is the democratic peoples republic of korea. >> to watch the rest of this talk, visit our website book tv.org. search for gordon chang or the title of his book "losing south korea" using the box at the top of the page. >>> starting now, it's book tv in prime time. in just a moment, the impact that detroit's bankruptcy has had on the city's poor. then vanderbilt university president brian fitzpatrick offers his thoughts op class-action lawsuits. greenhouse talks about the challenges american workers face today. and later, a reairing of the former deputy assistant to president trump, sebastian gorka. find more on book tv.org. now here's more on detroit's bankruptcy. >> good evening, everybody. >> good evening. >> that's a good detroit response for c-span. my name is peter hammer. i'm a professor of

what we are also seeing in south korea as in other countries is they are trying to figure out how to s from wuhan itself, from ground zero of this virus outbreak. so they believe there's more than 400,000. south koreans will be taking a charter flight to the area. theme be taking out three dozen diplomats and their families. on top of that, they say, excuse me, could take more u.s. citizens out if they have the capacity to do that. we know japan wants to do it. australia say that they have around 100 young australians stuck in wuhan who want to get out. they're trying to figure out the logistics of how to get them out as well, rosemary. >> paula hancocks bringing us up to date on the situation there in seoul, south korea. many thanks. ♪ ♪ >> and a bombshell revelation on the ukraine controversy is adding to the trump impeachment drama in washington. "the new york times" reporting that former national security advisor john bolton wrote in a draft of his book that the u.s. president told him that he wanted to keep withholding military aid to ukraine until they helped investigate former

it has also spread to south korea, to thailand and japan. federal health officials are screening travelers from the epicenter of the virus, the chinese city of 19 million people. airports in los angeles, san francisco, new york, atlanta, chicago all screening efforts have been ramped up at those airports. joining us tonight is dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. doctor, we've had to talk about these issues over the years. this one is unusual in it's such a small number of cases both in china and now we hear about one case in the united states. what's going on? >> well, it's an evolving situation, lou. i mean, yes, there are relatively speaking not a lot of cases, but they're accelerating. just a few days ago there was 40 cases, then 45, then 60, now there are over 300 cases in china predominantly with six deaths. we were expecting that sooner or later we would see a case in the united states because of the extensive volume of travel between china and the united states. so the case that wa

health it is controversial that a lot of people here are fully supportive behind this these are south korea fella's fellow south korean citizens but there also has been a protest of people trying to block the road to stop people coming in here because of the fear of this coronavirus. today's of questioning has just wrapped up and donald trump's impeachment trial the big issue now is whether u.s. officials were about to allow. new witnesses democrats have been pushing to hear from trump's former national security advisor john bolton she has returns he is live for us in washington now she has one more republican senator has indicated they'll vote for when this is do democrats now have the numbers they nate no they don't and in fact the chances of witnesses appearing at donald trump senate trial have receded enormously because lamar alexander a republican from tennessee who is one of the 4 republicans that we've all been waiting for to decide whether he will join the democrats in all schools for more witnesses and documents has just released a statement and he says he will not now the democrat

for the people of hong kong very interesting thank you wayne hay in hong kong there we look at south korea now where a chartered plane has brought out the 1st group of south koreans from wu han they've been taken to 2 newly created. people living nearby and on happy moment private. arriving in seoul after days of delays especially chartered plane returning 368 people who'd been living in around half the number of south korean nationals trapped there and wanting to leave some were found to have fevers and taken to hospital. the rest were heading here to one of 2 makeshift quarantine centers south of the capital their presence has led to protests from people living there by the police to remove roadblocks. the government sent to minister to reassure protesters that he was met by angry shouts and eggs being thrown. of course local residents will be worried by the prospect of patients coming to the area but the corona virus is transmitted into waves by contact or by respiratory droplets so you need to be within one to 2 meters of the patient to be in danger. as the convoy bringing the evacuees

. >> now to south korea where companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence to screen job candidates. its leading jobs, but quite convinced of the benefits. >> it's a nerve racking day for this s south korean student. he is preparing to be interviewed by a computer. artificial intelligence will test his response time, hisis body language, and his facial expressions as employers in south korea increasingly usee a interviews to recruit new talented. . >> jobob seekersrs are desperat enough to e exaggerate their capabilities in order to have employers takeke another look a them. but you can't trick ai. as a job seeker i think i feel hopeless if ai interviews become popular and theajority ofof compapanies start to use t >> sk innovatation a and hyunda engineering construruction have started d using the technhnolog ththe kororea economic research institute top 131 companies either want to use or are already using ai to hire. that trend has given birth to a whole new industry training centers known as crown schools dedicated to preparing candidates for the ai interview. >> with t

is calling for an immediate end to hostilities south korea has become the 1st to confirm its 1st case of a new coronavirus that originated from china patient numbers of tripled and 3 people have died since it was 1st detected in the chinese city of han in his 1st comments on the outbreak president sees you being says the virus must be resolutely compliant lebanon's president is meeting the heads of security agencies to discuss the recent waves of approaches the survey says more needs to be done to preserve peace and stability after 2 nights of a breast lift more than $500.00 people injured frustration has been growing out of the financial crisis. leaked documents suggest africa's richest woman siphoned hundreds of billions of dollars of angolan government money to offshore accounts the international consortium of investigative journalists obtained papers which it says implicates the former president's daughter is a builder. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after inside story. growing frustration with lebanon's economic crisis protesters are angry tha

when you look at the pmi's for south korea in particular, half of south korea's gdp comes from exportsnto positive territory, at the least, things are bottoming out. well -- bodes well. a decent set up pmi's from across the asia region. let's check in on first word headlines. hong kong kicked off the new year with protests and teargas. new year'srs clashed day and into the night. protesters about to maintain their fight for more democracy at a less chinese control. president trump says he will sign the first phase of a trite deal on january 15 at the white house. he has been lenny to go to beijing to begin talks on the second phase. the first part of a deal will see an agreement on china to increase purchases of american farm goods in exchange for lower tariffs. a new trade deal between the u.s. and japan has kicked in. japan is reducing tariffs on u.s. beef, pork, and agriculture products. it is still pushing to secure its goal of reduced tariffs on cars at auto parts. japan says u.s. officials including be president have given assurances that a new tariffs will not be introduced. ten

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

the viral respiratory illness is hitting singapore, south korea and thailand. it is a large family of virus, sometimes the common cold, some have evolved into serious injuries. at this point this new virus does not appear to be as deadly or contagious. the bay area has remained clear of any confirmed cases so far but a planeload of u.s. personnel from the area will be coming to the bay area. we are live in the newsroom with more. >> reporter: the u.s. has an embassy in china and a consulate in wuhan.

and north korea, but north korea and south korea.0 miles separating north and south korea, the largest artillery and rockets concentration in the world across 137 miles wide at demilitarized zone. they are seconds away from being able to kill about 10 million people. that's always the issue of what you do with that capability. to this day, we have insulted. >> charles: there has been talk about officially ending the war and getting rid of the demilitarized zone. we know south korea's leader has been really attempting to woo kim jong un. he seems a lot more open to reconciliation and prior south korean leaders. >> yes, he certainly is. the issue for this is china. china does not want a unified north and south korea for a couple of reasons. they don't want refugees flowing into china. they love as russia does having a state like north korea to do dirty work. the chinese are never going to be okay with that combination. they have a big boat to play. >> charles: china understands dr. frankenstein at one point lost control of his monster.