korea, north korea in 2020, north korea in 2021, i don't know if you're doing north korea in 2022, but if you were to write something now, or maybe you've already thought about this, what do you think would be the main story, if we talked about north korea in 2021? >> thanks, victor, that's a great question. and briefly on those, i did do two. the two was enough. i retired, but it was a great exercise, those are wonderful, very-- i've used those before. they're useful. those year enders, that asian survey does for many countries in the region and so i really enjoyed doing those as kind of practice, what was important in 2019 and in 2020. and those were relatively quiet years. i'm glad i didn't have to do 2017 and 2018. it was in a way easier, although by 2020, and this gets to your question, it was getting hard to figure out what to say because it was getting so quiet and our sources of information, which are again the black box title of our project, you know, our source are are limited, but even that limited pool is drying up and the humanitarian groups who certainly i think we all ta

north korea marks 10 years since kim jong-un became supreme leader. we look at the impact of his time in office. ♪ jane: welcome to "world news america" on pbs and around the globe. we begin tonight with more evidence that the omicron strain of coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the globe. the worst figures are coming from europe, in particular the u.k. in the last one he for hours, the number of infections in britain has reached a new high for a third consecutive day. even in places where omicron hasn't yet taken hold, governments are worried. many of them are scrambling to ramp up their vaccination campaigns before a new wave of cases. bbc's correspondents from around the world report now on how the rise of the omicronariant is affecting people in their countries. we start in france. >> the figures in france are not good. we are heading towards a new spike. 60,000 to 65,000 cases of covid every day, which we have not seen for a long time. most are not omicron. the vast majority are delta variant. but it is widely believed the number of omicro

they will think, well, north korea has nuclear weapons, it is not that big of a deal. >> north korea has been hit by crippling sanctions to curb its weapons program but it has made little difference. >> the north can never give up its nuclear weapons. it considers it to be vital to the survival of the regime. >> the country is now in crisis. the border has been sealed shut to prevent the spread of covid-19. vital supplies have not been able to get through for nearly two years. >> in the end, if there are no's -- is no section relief, it is trouble and kim jong-un knows this well so i am sure he will come to talks. >> this key anniversary has kim jong-un at a crossroads. what he does next will decide his future and that of his people. bbc news, seoul. jane: yes. what will kim jong-un do next? constant question for successive administrations in washington. before we go tonight come over the course of this pandemic, many of the world's health officials have tried to stay calm when speaking to the public. one official in australia really rose to the occasion at a covid briefing today eve

to reach some sort of a conversation with north korea. well, president moon has been invested in seeking reconciliation with, with north re spend a lot of personal capital and political capital on that. i, however, of his, his term is coming to an end. so he's thinking about legacy issues. i would argue that the national interests are much longer term and out live the personalities. so i don't expect any kind of a sudden reconciliation or some kind of piece agreement. i think we can be in this equilibrium, this sub standard or sub optimal equilibrium for a long time into the future. daniel kingston lecture, if international relations at troy university, thank you for your time. my pleasure. well, d, nicolai's, asian off the korean peninsula is one of the u. s. president j biden's foreign policy priorities 2022 may see a pivot from the oval office and pressing global issues. and the growing threats from china and fish explains if the white house was a circus. joe biden would be plate spinner in chief as he enters into his 2nd year in the o

the well, north korea has new your weapons, not that big a deal. laura: north korea has been hit by crippling sanctions to curb its weapons program, but it has made little diffence. >> the north can never give up its nuclear weapons, as it considers it vital to the survival of the regime. laura: the country is now in crisis. the border has been sealed to prevent the spread of covid-19. vital supplies have not been able to get through for nearly two years. >> in the end, if there is no sanctionselief, the regime could be under threat. kim jong-un knows this well, so to release sanctions, hampshire he would come to talks. laura: this key anniversary has kim jong-un at a crossroads. what he does next will decide his future and that of his people. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. lewis: that is it for me f the moment. i will be back with headlines in a couple moments. meantime, more line on the bbc news app. you can get me on social media, on twitter i am not -- i am at @lvaughanjones. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided b

so you could leverage north korea is quite limited for business. and in terms of military deter, provided by alliance between south korea and allies, which in japan are quite functional and solid. so status quo is not such a bad option for neighboring punches. at least for a while. in the run up to the summit meeting, we're showing pictures as you're talking to us, the summit meeting between donald trump, the, than us president and kim jong in. and there was a lot of speculation in the world media that his sister might have been positioning herself to take over from him. because it's very difficult because we're all by definition outside the country. very difficult to get a handle on how big their respective power bases are within the political mechanisms that run pyongyang. how likely is he to either be deposed or just turn away from the job that he, he now does? well, i guess the chance is so near 0 because they said that there's no alternative available. there is no money in ex dial and no consistent with the 2 separate line system only can have

s. china and north korea, but south korea didn't agree to it. and no peace treaty was signed 71 years later. so an pyongyang, a still technically at war. i know crank is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of defense for east asia. he joins us now live from washington at good to have you with us, sir, sir. so that pyongyang, the u. s. and china have agreed in principle to declare the conflict of what does in principle mean. what would the u. s. want from north korea? would the usb prepared to make concessions of its own? well, thank you very much for having me. i would say that the devil is in the details as it always is when negotiating with the gym regime in north korea. i think in principle, yes, none of or declaration is a laudable objective. but let's remember that it is in essence more symbolic than anything else. what the korean peninsula needs is a comprehensive peace treaty. and a component of that would have to be the north koreans agreeing to the nuclear arising. so i would say that one of the things that the united stat

and, also, don't go to north korea. how here it is, your moment of zen. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's as likely-- and you're right, you pointed it out in your great monologue-- that we don't know much about omicron-- but it is as likely that omicron is a good thing than something we should panic over. respiratory viruses mutate. that's what they do. they more often than not-- not an ironclad law-- but more often than not mutate into something more benign. as you pointed out in south africa, it sounds benign. if we all get omicron and achieve natural immunity, it can achieve natural immunity, it can be a good thing. so i was watching this movie the other night. it was a world war ii movie, and, uh, there was nazis in the movie, and i noticed that the nazis in those movies always had, like, two separate heils. they had, like, the regular heil that they would do, and then, when they were around the offices, they had, like, this casual heil. do you remember that one? did you ever notice that? they come in the office, "yeah, heil, how

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it's been 10 years since kim jogan became the leader of north korea . it took control in 2011 after the death of his father, kim jong il, or his leadership style is widely criticized. few dare to question his grip on power. godzilla was already on reports. he became north korea's leader before turning 30, had the time many hope king jam own would lead the country into a new era. one, there were opened the recluse of nation and its economy to the world. a, i finally got up and stand. kim's decade and power has been defined by brutal violence, nuclear weapons, and meetings with donald trump. it's my honor. we will have to work with them. it wasn't easy to get here. and all prejudices and practices worked as obstacles in a way forward, but we are became all of them and were here today. unprecedented meetings to gradually the nuclear rise, the north in exchange for sanctions relief, ultimately failed, and threats against a regional neighbors and their allies continued. you will want to let you know he will. the entire united states is within range of all nu

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milley: we are always paying attention to north korea. that is a country that is extraordinarily well armed. they have 70% of their military arrayed within striking distance of the demilitarized zone. seoul, korea, is only 27 miles from the demilitarized zone. and with the regime of north korea is a brutal, tough regime, very aggressive, and led by an individual that is very difficult to figure out. they are always doing provocations over the course of time, whether it is missiles or other things. so north korea is something that we always are watching very closely. our intent in north korea or china or russia, we want to maintain a military capability and a diplomatic level of effort to deter war. we don't want any conflict. we want to deter war. but if deterrence fails, we are determined to fulfill our treaty obligations with south korea. so far since 1953, deterrence has worked, and we are hopeful that will continue to work. david: we have heard of cyberattacks from china, north korea, russia in the united states. we don't know if they

in north korea developing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons are closer to russia and they are the united states. moses points, yes, there's a proliferation of missile defenses but that's because this proliferation of ballistic missile capabilities, lots of nations are developing those capabilities and lots of nations feel vulnerable to them and want defense as a way to protect themselves. it is not ballistic missile defenses that kill people, it's ballistic missiles that kill people so i think you had a transition of mission but at the same time the technologies were coming she had capabilities against omitted attacks, particularly tactical peter ballistic missiles. if you think about what the israelis have done to develop capabilities against those missiles as well as our own, it's a pretty good story. it's not perfect but a good story. we should come back later on this issue about the russian and chinese threats and what the role of most missile defenses and back. to answer your question, the mission changed and we had a good shot at developing the technologies that were able to

most decided wonders 97 country north korea probably wins. one of the most hostile countries north korea is probably on there. so here is how is it we ended up with essentially two different halves of the global system, global economy, south korea is probably the most democratic, most vibrant, open civil society in all of asia east asia most west northeast asia. so how exactly did we get here? the clue is in this geography. because if you look very carefully it is all about geography. geography is destiny when it came to korea. he will see here i tried to put a little bit of a dagger to the best icon i could find. what you see as that for centuries actually for a millennia for well over 2000 years the korean peninsula the geographical jutting point that is the last point on the map on the asian continent that is the furtherance east. it is essentially a peninsula dangling on one of these wonderful historians describe korea like a foot dangling off the first child asian continent. that is exactly what korea has been. but you are looking at her

missile defense system focused for example on north korea has a track record in testing not a perfect, it certainly. for its efficacy we might expect we would want one missile fired at a time and optimal conditions . what would be a reflection of the extent to which the benefits of withdrawal are an extension of technological defense? >> is a technological progress but also a change in the mission. so star wars, my recollection is the star wars vision ronald reagan promulgated as interpreted and applied by the defense department was to use the strategic defense initiative to mitigate the leading edge of the soviet ballistic missile act -- attack. it was an anti-soviet conception and an effort by ronald reagan to sort of say we should not base on our security on threatening to obliterate each other, but we should agree that we will defend against each other's system. at that is a more humane and more away as a space -- moral way as a base for a deterrent. the bush 41 hundred different conception of the missile defense. a senator push this hard at the time. we called it global protectio

coming up, remembering the founder of north korea. also, the forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes. why us police bombed philadelphia and afghanistan first man in space. we start with the story of a true trailblazer who made history in 1960. he became the modern world first female head of government when she was elected prime minister of sri lanka as it was known. her daughter spoke to witness history. you are the first woman prime minister. would this make your influence less or more strong? considerably more strong. do you think they'll be more capable than the problems the men are? that remains to be seen. my mother was incredible. she shed her reticence, she came forward and on every political platform, she spoke. my father was prime minister first from 1956 to '59 of sri lanka. sadly, his enemies assassinated him. my mother had no intention of going into politics. her three children were fatherless and she wanted to devote all her time to bringing them up. but there was such a pressure from the party and the people in general th

coming up, remembering the founder of north korea. also, the forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes. why us police bombed philadelphia and afghanistan's first man in space. we start with the story of a true trailblazer who made history in 1960. she became the modern world's first female head of government when she was elected prime minister of sri lanka — or ceylon, as it was known. her daughter spoke to witness history. you are the first woman prime minister in the world. would this make your influence less or more strong? considerably more strong. do you think they'll be more capable than the problems than men are? that remains to be seen. my mother was incredible. she shed her reticence, her shyness, she came forward and on every political platform, she spoke. my father was prime minister first from 1956 to 59 of sri lanka, ceylon as it was known then. sadly, his enemies assassinated him. my mother had no intention of going into politics. her three children were fatherless and she wanted to devote all her time to bringing them up

we're looking back at kim john urns decade long rule as the leader of north korea. and the body of archbishop desmond tutu arrives at cape town cathedral for people to pay their respects well, well, continues to battle. the covered 19 pandemic with both delta ann arbor con variance fueling what the w at j coles astronomy of cases. the u. s. has broken another record for infections, an average of 267000 new cases every day. this past week. infections there have increased 60 percent, although deaths and hospital admissions remain low. we'll start with this mileage a castro in washington dc. as the highest daily new cases ever in the u. s. were now at 267000 new coven cases. that's the daily average, 60 percent of which is now tribute to the omicron variant and the nation's for most infectious disease expert. doctor anthony thought she is predicting that it will only get worse before it gets better. he says the peak of this current surge will likely come in late january. we're seeing much of this happening now in the north eastern part of the u. s. with places like new

long rule leader of north korea. ah, hello, run a jury in net new york has found british so schlecklein maxwell guilty on 5 counts in her sex trafficking trial charges against the former associate of american financier and convicted pedophile, jeffrey epstein and creed, sex trafficking of underage girls debrel. alexander has a report it took the jury 5 full days more than 40 hours of deliberations. elaine maxwell guilty on 5 of the 6 charges she faced convicted of grooming young girls, her sexual abuse by her former boyfriend, jeffrey epstein. and even sometimes joining in the british socialite remained calm and whispered to her lawyer and drink a sip of water. as the verdicts were read out, outside court maxwell's friend, lee sat in a regular throughout the trial, and he left with our comment, your chance to give a reaction to the verdict for the prosecution. the verdict was a welcome relief. the road to justice has been far too long, but today, justice has been done. i want to commend the bravery of the girls now g

it's been 10 years, believe it or not, since kim jong and became the leader of north korea. he took control in 2011 after the death of his father, kim jong il. and while his leadership style is widely criticized, few would dare to question his grip on power. how taylor was over yon reports. he became north korea's leader before turning 30 at the time many hope king jam own would lead the country into a new era. one though it opened the reclusive nation and its economy to the world. listen, i am wondering if i got up and stand kim's decade and power has been defined by brutal violence, nuclear weapons, and meetings with donald trump. it's my honor, we will have to work with them. it wasn't easy to get here. and all prejudices and practices worked as obstacles in a white forward. but we are became all of them. and we're here today. i'm president of meetings to gradually the nuclear rise, the north and exchange for sanctions relief, ultimately failed and threats against regional neighbors and their allies continued . you will want to join it, he will. the entire united states i

we're looking back the decade of north korea under the rule of kim jong own and converting animal waste into fuel. how soon the u. k is leading the way in creating renewable energy . ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle airways. how i once again got a real blast of when she weather returning to march of japan isn't really let up if the truth be no, but we have got some very heavy snow for coming in as we go on through the next couple days and lordly wency picking up that moisture as it pushes in over the years see of japan and we will see further heavy snow fall into good particle kado pushing down into particular western areas of han, she widespread snow could see $40.00 to $50.00 centimeters of snow for many areas. then as we go on through the next couple of days, it's cold enough to tokyo sang in single figures as we go on through. sat down, sheltered by the mount, is not see too much of that snow, but we will still see some eventually pushing its way through single figures there for soldiers. 2 degrees celsius, 6 celsius of beijing. much of china w

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with china and north korea. certain everyone has unalienable rights, long them, the right to the pursuit of happiness, more than the brutal communist regimes. tomorrow's mississippi case will test that proposition, however, the reversal of roe will not reverse abortion. and there are several states even on roe's demise. the effort of my colleagues and millions of americans to defend life will continue regardless how the supreme court rules in the coming months, my state of kansas, civil persuasion of our neighbors and responsive states and federal legislators, will need legislation to protect the unborn and assist new families in caring for their child. tomorrow the supreme court will hear the mo he is significant abortion case in the last 30 years. dobbs versus jackson women's health organization. to relinquish the legislative power it has assumed and return it to the people and their rements. the court will be better for it and so will our politics. and most importantly of all, millions of future voices will g

south korea's president has hinted a formal end. the war with north korea may be on the horizon. north korean troops invaded the south in june of 1950 in the bid to unify the peninsula with support from the then soviet union. and u. s. lead force entered the war in support of south korea than china joined in, in support of the communist north. millions of koreans were killed in the fighting, which lasted for 3 years. it ended with an armistice, but in the us, china and north korea. but south korea didn't agree to it's and no peace treaty has ever been signed. 71 years later. so them young ang are still technically at war. let's talk to b. j. kim. he's an affiliate professor at the hancock, university of foreign studies and a former south korean diplomat. he joins us from sole b. j. kim, is this piece in our time? or is it step changed towards what might become peace in our time? what might become? i would say because this is an agenda, the president when jane has been working with ever since 2018 when trump and kim joel were meeting. that's the time when the president, when jane

that is like trump went to russia, north korea, and saudi arabia. he is in bed with all these dictators. host: when you make that claim, how do you base that claim? what do you used to back it up? caller: because i have been watching since day one what is going on. host: but give me some reasons why you think that is taking place specifically. caller: first of all, my grandpa was an apache scout in new mexico in the calvary. there is something wrong with what is going on because we are experts at tracking people. host: that is ricardo in california. that's hear from loretta in cleveland, ohio, independent line. caller: well, i guess the topic would be my issue of why the republicans are holding everything up? like we can't see they are the ones holding everything up. what is wrong with them? host: give me an example of what they are holding up. caller: holding up the build back better bill. they do not want to pay for the $8 trillion trump debt. i really want to know what is in that package, pedro. how do you spend $8 trillion in four years? i reall

we have not gotten traction with north korea over the course of the year. we have committed our willingness to engage and we continue to enforce our sanctions and align closely with our allies, south korea nad japan, and the north koreans have continued to test certain capabilities, have refrained from other forms of provocation. we continue to indicate to them directly and publicly,, as i'm doing that we are prepared to engage, to try to make progress against the basic points that were laid down in the singapore summit in 2018. mr. haas: when you say we have not gained traction, does that mean they have or have not specifically rejected something for something? mr. sullivan: when i say we have not gained traction's, we have not sat down at the table with north korea to have that conversation at the table. mr. haas: i will open it up. you just had a democracy summit. i would be curious what you think was accomplished. more broadly, what impact is january 6 have on the ability of the united states to operate in the world? when you go about your business, mee

let's throw the one up with the dear leader of north korea. at the border of north and south korea. i liked kim. the world was a safer place. if our election was not rigged, we would by now have a deal with north korea. >> probably right. when obama visited korea he was 30 miles away in the dmz. my dad crossed the border. this is incredible stuff. i'm an inside were and i didn't know a lot of these stories. you see disaster after disaster. the economy, giving russia pipe lines, but canceling them for americans. we are told today you are lucky joe biden saved you 10 cents on gas prices. but you should be blessed. like you saved 16 cents on your 4th of july barbeque, so you should be grateful. joe biden is overseeing the destruction of america in a short 10 months. going through these pictures i said we have to show america all the pictures they didn't see. we didn't have big tech functioning as our marketing department. the handwritten comments on the pictures, we are just going with this. you see the true trump personality shine. it's a lot of fun. jesse: it's called "our journey to

host: this friday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of north korea's second supreme leader kim jong-il. hundreds flock to pyongyang to place flowers at the for the statue. reporter: bearing the cold and flowers in hand, north koreans have been gathering at the monument and pyongyang for the 10th death anniversary for the second supreme leader. citizens flock to play tribute. placing bouquets at his feet. >> as i, pure and see the image of our great general with his smile i cannot stop my tears. the old saying is that time moves on and everything changes. even though time goes on, we still miss our general. reporter: the day also marks tended -- 10 years of his son and absolute power. he inherited leadership aged 27. he has been accused of removing all potential rivals including his half-brother by nerve agent and his uncle for treason. he is the first ruler to hold a summit with the u.s. president meeting with president trump and 2018. the relations with the u.s. have not since developed. they have seen rapid progress in nuclear arsenal in the last decade. defying the un securi

and south korea as president has hinted a formal end to the war with north korea may be on the horizon. north korean troops invaded the south in june of 1950 in a bit to unify the peninsula with support from what was then the soviet union. the us lead force entered the war in support of south korea, then china joined in, in support of the communist north. millions of koreans were killed in the fighting, which lasted for 3 years. it ended with an armistice between the us, china and north korea, but south korea didn't agree to it. and no peace treaty was signed 71 years on. so i'm showing an a still, technically at war b. j kim is an affiliate professor at the hancock, university of foreign studies and formerly a south korean diplomat. he says the south korean president luigi and wants to officially end the war before he leaves office. this is an agenda, the president when jane has been working with ever since 2018 when trump and kim joel were meeting. that's the time when the president, when jane began airing, the idea of introducing that declaration of the end of the war. and his term

the declaration will help revive peace talks with north korea. the countries are still t war and no peace deal was reached in 1953. swiss prosecutors say they are closing a corruption investigation into spain's for marking one car. -- former king juan carlos. spanish authorities are still investigating the case. long lines have formed outside covid vaccine centers across the u.k. after the government "to reduce this to anyone 18 and older -- the government opened up booster doses to anyone 18 and older, as cases of the omicron variant search. he is warning of a tidal wave of infections in the coming weeks, and other european countries are bracing for something similar. reporter: rolling up their sleeves for a third time. thousands of people in the u.k. lined up for their booster shots, after prime minister boris johnson told the country they were facing in omicron emergency -- an omicron emergency. >> we can see omicron spiking now in london and some other parts of the country. here in the capital, it represents about 40% of the cases. by tomorro

if we get along great with north korea. a rough first patch, but they understood we are not playing games. not very much. >> sean: you once told me that really you thought we were on a path to war with north korea. >> i did and so did president obama. we thought we were going to end up in war and that would have been a nuclear war and that not would have been good. did you ever call them? anyway, doesn't matter what his response was, i decided let's see how we do when we met in singapore and, we met in vietnam, we had great meetings and we established a very good relationship. i liked him, he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: and we got the remains of our soldiers. you gave him nothing but some of your time and i was at both of those summits. he stopped at the test firings of missiles and the pursuit of nuclear weapons. obviously, that was a good thing at a very different situation now we will get to in a minute. the second one that stood out to me is signing the largest tax cut in the history of the

north korea claims to be one of the world's only countries to have not reported even a single case of cove with 19 or is of enclosed and other measures imposed to prevent an outbreak. 30, i'll tell you dealing with one of the 1st places in the world to see in the new year old and traditional midnight. fireworks were replaced with a light show due to the pandemic. how is the world prepared for the new year? ahead? let's take a look now, and some of the biggest stories covered by al jazeera in the year 2021. take a look at this. let's walk down pennsylvania avenue ah, the u. s. capital building under su. cannot, however, tara, from our responsibility to validate with joseph robin bye. your new songs were notions of what is known to go to is cherry always just ma, mazda and aquatic re elected leadership retained as the military stage, to the general thought of a bit bloodless qu, they couldn't be more wrong. taliban has taken the final departure of the u. s. military officer. 20 years. i believe this is the right to switch a violent day over dangerous days still ahead. nowhere in gaza fe

north korea has held a concert and fireworks display to celebrate the beginning of $2022010.00 to the event of the capital. north korea claims to be one of the world's only countries to not have reported a single case of coven. 19 forties have been closed and other nations opposed to prevent an outbreak newsheel and was one of the 1st places in the world to see in the new year fulton's traditional midnight firewood so replaced with a light showed you to and amec hasn't yet been any community spread of only chrome there, but gatherings are being discouraged. now we're coming to the end of the news hour and the end of a tough year for many across the world. the coven 19 pandemic. continuing, claiming more than 5400000 lives will leave you with a look back at some of the biggest stories covered by al jazeera in 2021 see next year. but let's walk down pennsylvania avenue ah, the u. s. capital building under c cannot. however, tara, from our responsibility to validate with joseph robinson by your new songs, long notions of what is known to guilty is always just mia mas democrats. he electe

we got along great with north korea. a rough first patch, but they understood we are not playing games. not very much. >> sean: you once told me that really you thought we were on a path to war with north korea. >> i did a and so did president obama. we thought we were going to end up in war and that would have been a nuclear war and that not would have been good. did you ever call them? anyway, doesn't matter what his? response was, i decided let's see how we do when we met in singapore and, we met in vietnam, we had great meetings and we established a very goodna relationship. i liked him, he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: and we got the remains of our soldiers. you gave him nothing but some of your time, and i was at both of those summits. he stopped at the test firings of missiles and the pursuit of nuclear weapons. obviously, that was a good thing at a very different situation now we will get to in a minute. the second one that stood out to me is signing the largest tax cut in the history

in the pacific those missile threats emanate from china and north korea. earlier this year china tested and advanced bombardment system that deployed a formidable hypersonic light vehicle capable of evading existing u.s. missile defenses. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley characterized the test as very close to a sputnik moment referring to the 1957 satellite launched by the soviet union that shocked america and demonstrated the kremlin's military technology prowess. in its annual report to congress on the chinese military released on november 3, the department of defense noted that the people's liberation army rocket force launched more than 250 ballistic missiles for testing and training in 2020 alone calling this more than the rest of the world combined. meanwhile, north gray continues to work on developing a range of missiles that threaten both south korea and japan including are forward station forces and increasingly threatening the united states. this -- their symmetry is expect both china and north korea will increase we att

sullivan: our approach with north korea when we came in was to look the last two administrations. the obama administration especially as the policy evolved over eight years adopted patients which i would call none for none. let things go. then, the trump administration in hanoi pitched all for all, the grand bargain. essentially, the puppies -- purpose of our policy would be to come between the two. to engage in diplomacy, to make step-by-step progress toward denuclearization. we have not gotten traction over the course of this year. we have communicated our readiness to engage in that diplomacy and in the meantime, we continue to enforce our sanctions and ally closely with south korea and japan. the north koreans have continued to test certain capabilities. they have refrained from other forms of provocation. we continue to indicate to them directly and publicly that we are prepared to engage to try to make progress against the basic points that were laid down in the singapore summit in 2018. richard: when you say we haven't gained traction, does that mean they have or have not r

north korea has come to a standstill for 3 minutes of silence and memory of the formerly the kim jong il is the 10th anniversary of his death state media called for national unity during the hardships of the panoramic last year. north korea faced its worst economic contraction since 1997 feel straight in children, remain critically injured after a gust of wind blew a bouncy castle that they were playing on. 5 of their playmates were killed when they fell around 10 meters of the inflatable was held in the air. the 11 year olds was celebrating their last week of primary school that has mania in tasmania before the christmas holidays. missionaries could not in haiti 2 months ago, have now all been released. it's all clear. if a ransom was paid for the 17 americans and canadians, some of them children, the gang had demanded $1000000.00 for each of the christian 8 workers. the final 12 were released on thursday. they were captured in october sophisticated village near the capital port. her prince chili's, 2 presidential candidates have made last ditch effort to win the voters before sunday