a clear reference to north korea. to my knowledge, that is the first time the president of china has ever implicitly criticized north korea. what we should do right now is make clear that what north korea has done, it will not get rewarded. far from it, it will have the international community come together in a consensus around it. at some point in the future, of course, it has always made sense for us to negotiate. we have tried, by the way. we did in the clinton administration, we signed an agreement with them. even the bush administration signed two agreements with them. they broke all of them. they cheated on all of them. this is a country that right now shut down a joint industrial park with south korea, which was giving them $90 million, which was employing 1 in 6 of the north koreans in that city. why? nobody really understands. remember, this is a regime that has starved 2 million of its own people. it's easier to say we should negotiate with them. practically it hasn't achieved very much in the past. >> fare

they could have a real impact with north korea. they need to stop letting them get away with these temper tantrums. >> tommy, thanks very much. admiral fallon, and christopher hill, guys, we'll continue this conversation. >>> if cooler heads can't prevail and shooting actually begins, many important u.s. targets could be within range of north korea's guns. and thousands, tens of thousands of u.s. troops. also coming up this hour, pictures from my own rare visit to north korea. so, i'm working on a cistern intake valve, and the guy hands me a locknut wrench. no way! i'm like, what is this, a drainpipe slipknot? wherever your business takes you, you can save money with progressive commercial auto. [ sighs ] [ flo speaking japanese ] [ shouting in japanese ] we work wherever you work. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> north korea isn't the only country doing some serious military muscle flexing right now. a pair of stealth bombers has made the round trip from missouri to south korea and back. plenty of other u.s. fire

the north korea blog 38 north says you can see new construction, a possible effort by north korea to restart its plutonium reactor weeks before the regime announced it was going to do so. >> it reactivates that part of their program and gives them now two routes to producing material for nuclear bombs. >> reporter: another worry, could north korea be planning a new nuclear test? south korean and u.s. officials say there's some activity again at the site where pyongyang tested the device in february, but they don't believe a nuclear bomb test is imminent. >> any future nuclear tests or missile launch would be in direct violence of u.n. security council resolutions. >> reporter: north korea has sit april 10th for all south korean workers to leave the kaesong industrial park and can't protect diplomats in the capital pyongyang after that. >> that would be the kind of action before it initiated some kind of highly escalation or provocative behavior. >> reporter: as we are here this evening, u.s. officials believe now indeed north korea could be ready to test fire those ballistic missiles

north korea. the same in pyongyang. embassies are not yet telling their people to leave. >> we'll see what happens over the next few days. these are critically important symbolic days leading up to april 15th. the birthday, if you will, of the founder of the north korean regime. what do you make, fareed, of senator mccain and some others who say, you know what, if they launch a missile, shoot it down. intercept it. destroy it. even if it's heading into the middle of the water. obviously if it's heading toward a populated area in tokyo or guam or south korea, that goes without saying. but just knock it out to make a point. >> i think it's a very good example of the difference between what a john mccain foreign policy would be and what president obama's has been. president obama throughout this has been trying to show some restraint. not to play into the kind of the yank your chain that the north koreans are trying to do. the north koreans are desperately trying to get attention, to get some kind of

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let's talk about north korea. the key question is have they miniaturized to the point where they could endanger south korea, endanger japan. >> we do not have any independent information. but they will continue to improve their technology. that will be against the resolution. the resolution most recently to refrain from generating nuclear weapons. clearly, the sanctions aren't working. >> sanctions are working. but it needs full cooperation. >> resolution 2094 is very comprehensive. >> how long will it take for it to bite? >> i don't have any idea. but it is very important that the whole member state of the united nations united nations should fully cooperate in implementing this resolution. >> you just came from the oval office, where you met with the president of the united states. are you on the same page with president obama, as far as north korea is concerned? >> we are on the same page, and i was very much assured by president obama that we will take very firm, but measured response to that. i have asked him

of the worker's party of north korea. this is how people are celebrating. they're literally dancing in the streets. railroad foul the small changes we've seen, the larger question remains, is the new young leader the son of the last any different? for now, it doesn't appear so.

north korea, here, south korea here. let's say north korea did launch a missile and it went out over here and into the sea, what happens? >> there will be a tracking. the telemetry of that will be tracked. we'll identify where the launch is, what the arc is. >> we would know within seconds? >> instantaneously we would pick this up by sea, ground, air, space. this integrated target system. the japanese have an aegis system. >> if it went out there and it was not headed towards any target. it went to sea, as north korea said, would there be any response? >> there would be no kinetic response. we would not fire back. if we knew it was going to land harmlessly, we would collect intelligence. >> let's look at another scenario. let's say that north korea with a missile or artillery started shelling some sort of target down here in south korea, specifically let me say a south korean military target. no u.s. troops involved, not a civilian target. what happens then? >> very important to differ enshe say the between striking a u.

the north korea bloc 38 north say that you can see new construction a possible effort by north korea to restart its plutonium reactors. >> reactives that part of their program and gives them now, two routes to producing material for nuclear bombs. >> reporter: another worry, could north korea be planning a new nuclear test. south korean and u.s. officials say there's some activity again at the site that tested the defense in february. >> any future nuclear test or missile launch would be direct violation of u.n. security regulations. >> reporter: it says that it can't protect diplomats in the capital after that date. >> the kind of action that the country would take before it initiated some highly's can la toir or provocative behavior. u.s. officials believe that north korea could be ready to test-fire those ballistics missiles on east coast at any moment. >> barbara starr at the pentagon for the very latest. let's go to the south korea. in case this crisis does escalate into some sort of war. what are you seeing, what's going on? >> well, wolf, many of the preparations that we're se

a clear reference to north korea. to my knowledge, that is the first time the president of china has ever implicitly criticized north korea. what we should do right now is make clear that what north korea has done, it will not get rewarded. far from it, it will have the international community come together in a consensus around it. at some point in the future, of course, it has always made sense for us to negotiate. we have tried, by the way. we did in the clinton administration, we signed an agreement with them. even the bush administration signed two agreements with them. they broke all of them. they cheated on all of them. this is a country that right now shut down a joint industrial park with south korea, which was giving them $90 million, which was employing 1 in 6 of the north koreans in that city. why? nobody really upses. nobody really understands. remember, this is a regime that has starved 2 million of its own people. it's easier to say we should negotiate with them. practically it hasn't achieved very much

north korea. we want to start off a little more broadly and get your views on the role of the u.s. military worldwide. here is the "new york times" article reporting on defense cretary hagel's speech yesterday. budget con strants forcing an overhaul in military operations, hagel says. facing inevitable steep cuts in military spending even as globalt threats remain high. said wednesday that he is being forced to consider fundamental changes in how the pentagon defends american interests and conducts its daily business. in his first major address as secretary -- addressing an audience, mr. hagel offered no specific cancellations, trims or shifts in pentagon spending accounts, >> host: again, role of the u.s. military worldwide is our topic this morning. here's a little bit more from defense secretary hagel. >> in a decade where our country has grown we'rey of war and skeptical of foreign entanglements, questions arise about the merits of america's role in the world. america's global leadership. amer

they could have a real impact with north korea. they need to stop letting them get away with these temper tantrums. >> tommy, thanks very much. admiral fallon, and christopher hill, guys, we'll continue this conversation. >>> if cooler heads can't prevail and shooting actually begins, many important u.s. targets could be within range of north korea's guns. and thousands, tens of thousands of u.s. troops. also coming up this hour, pictures from my own rare visit to north korea. #%tia[ nehey!r! [squeals] ♪ [ewh!] [baby crying] the great thing about a subaru is you don't have to put up with that new car smell for long. introducing the versatile, all-new subaru forester. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf., and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy. we've shared what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. bp's also committed to america. we support nearly two-hundred-fifty thousand jobs and invest

we're all talking about what north korea says. this is something north korea is doing. north korea is willing to cut off its nose in spite of its face. because this is a place where they make so much money, 50,000 north koreans are employed here. they work side by side with south koreans, the only place where north and south koreans work together, and they're willing to risk it. all of that money coming into the country, just to make a point. >> but richard, again, in terms of what they actually have militarily, they don't have -- they can -- they've released this photo showing a map of -- their patterns for an atomic attack in the u.s. they don't have the capabilities to launch an atomic missile, warhead to the united states. >> absolutely not. what they probably have is a half dozen to a dozen warheads, so much of which might be able to go on short-range missiles so a threat to south korea, japan, to the 28,500 american troops. in south korea, all that. again, what i think a lot of this about, if you look at the past with north korea, this type of stuff is often the p

korea and north korea has used this in a way to actually say we want to start dialogue it's and lag period which can use this into getting washington to come and perhaps get on the dialogue table we keep hearing from other people such as secretary general honeymoon or secretary u.s. secretary of state john kerry that dialogue is the next step while both north korea and the united states seem to be interested in dialogue it doesn't seem that either side are wanting to back down now with april fifteenth in april fifteenth it is going to be north korea's founding father cutie's hong kong is earth day and we've seen last year that they did their first satellite launch attempt so i can i heard dick and i think as well as many experts they say that something might happen in mid april whether that would be an attack or whether that would be a celebration an easing of the tensions we aren't quite sure yet but it can be seen that historically be done celebrations to mark to mark certain things to happen whether it was the anniversary of thousands others that was the third nuclear test so we

north korea. the same in pyongyang. embassies are not yet telling their people to leave. >> we'll see what happens over the next few days. these are critically important symbolic days leading up to april 15th. the birthday, if you will, of the founder of the north korean regime. what do you make, fareed, of senator mccain and some others who say, you know what, if they launch a missile, shoot it down. intercept it. destroy it. even if it's heading into the middle of the water. obviously if it's heading toward a populated area in tokyo or guam or south korea, that goes without saying. but just knock it out to make a point. >> i think it's a very good example of the difference between what a john mccain foreign policy would be and what president obama's has been. president obama throughout this has been trying to show some restraint. not to play into the kind of the yank your chain that the north koreans are trying to do. the north koreans are desperately trying to get attention, to get some kind of

bombers skirted north korea space. picks up the story for us. to north. intense buildup of military power in the region to that north korea responds with even more threats even though defense secretary chuck hagel called north korea real and clear danger the white house says they had a large scale movements from north korean military forces suggesting that it may be just rhetoric but while north korea talks washington acts apart from f. twenty two fighter jets and other bombers that it sent to the region for the ongoing military exercises with south korea the pentagon is now deploying an advanced missile defense system to guam a major u.s. military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the u.s. as they tell us north korean rockets can't really reach the u.s. mainland but they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty thousand u.s. troops just across the border in south korea so could we see the worst nuclear standoff since the cuban missile crisis between

korea north korea is under sanctions basically sort of north korea how the few options to to resist and but yet i'm sure you talk about you talk about international law here and the issues of sanctions i mean is there some already saying that in north korea playing with fire for example by restarting its yongbyon nuclear facility or it is it a vital move for the country at this point you're saying that south korea has has an exemption when it comes to using ballistic missiles it's not the same for north korea. you know as far as starting the nuclear facility as a symbolic move on north korea it's harder it really makes little difference that serves a nuclear weapons program or take many months to restart the facility and the best it can produce enough for tony and for one per year i think the rhetoric coming out of north korea and the restarting of the young beyond nuclear facility are symbolic on north korea's part and they basically said you know message the united states look you're hitting us with sanctions including sanctions on the north korea's foreign trade back which its pr

>>> all eyes right now on north korea. inside a window for a possible missile launch that could come at any time. the country survives on a cult of devotion to the kim dynasty fueled by a massive propaganda machine. one defector tells us that the brainwashing begins at birth. kyung lah is in the capital of seoul right now. you had a chance to speak to one north korean defector about this brainwashing. what does she tell you? >> reporter: it wasn't so much what she told us, wolf, it's what she showed us. she had not seen north korean propaganda in ten years. see for yourself what happened. bizarre, over the top. welcome to the one and only television channel available in north korea. korean central television. to the outside world, the state-run images run from the weird and ridiculous, to unbelievable, and outlandish propaganda. but look what happens as this woman watches kc tv. they're god, she says, referring to north korea's trinity kim jong-un, his father and grandfather. but how can people think of him as a god? that'

that's the birthday of north korea's founder. a lot of folks we talk to say they expect to see a test on or before that date. >> what about the new intelligence assessment coming from the penalty gone that north korea may be further along now than we thought in terms of actually being able to put a nuclear war head on a missile? >> reporter: that's right. that was part of a bigger assessment that came from the defense intelligence agency. part of their job is to look at the missile capability of other nations. now what we've seen since that came out are all kinds of u.s. officials basically throwing water on it, putting it into context, putting restrictions on it, saying what they think is basically. they don't believe north korea today has the capability to launch a nuclear missile. they don't think they mastered all of the steps along the way, minimum tarizing the war head, matching a missile and having the accuracy to hit what they're aiming for. >> is there deep concern, chris, that the missile that they may test in coming da

to north korea. the theme has changed. we have sent, obviously, just recent behavior, the strengthening of behavior with our actions with washington, and coordinatored actions and military exercises, i think china has taken notice of this and realized finally that this situation is decivilizing. >> if north korea doesn't listen to the admonishments from china, then what? >> we'll see. the real question is, and this is something we're debating ourselves among north korea watchers and china watchers as well. is that what kind of leverage does china really have? the answer is we don't quite know because china has never really exercised oppression of the north for fear that they fear destabilizing situations and they fear instability in north korea. so we have to see how serious china really is in suppressing the north. to really find out if it has the leverage that we think it has. >> senior research scholar at columbia university, thanks so much for your time. >> sure. >> up next, headed straight to th

north korea of course topping the headlines with. dr. takes a closer look into whether david cameron's initiative will be at all welcomed by british. he made the case in a newspaper for renewing britain's nuclear deterrent saying it was underlined by what's happening in north korea at the moment and the escalating tensions and he said it would be foolish for anyone to think of scrapping that meet it a tyrant right now at a time of such global uncertainty well the prime minister was in scotland on board the hate victorious which is one of the four vanguard submarines that make up the tritone twenty four hour around the clock nuclear deterrent that always sees one submarine out now trident quite an old system it's being full bankcard submarines being phased out by twenty twenty and the conservative government the prime minister arguing for a like for like for placement where these submarines are not tried an system will be replaced out of the signal is going to be made in just a couple of years time and it's thought it's going to cost the

korea the north korean issue because then north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we said. look like we're doing your job or she or anything like that. so ten minutes past the hour moscow time of the prisoner's hunger strike at guantanamo bay has been continuing for a full two months now despite no sign of a conclusion the inmates protest has managed to bring the guantanamo issue back into the spotlight after interest in the camp appear to fall by the wayside mainstream journalists are once again asking us all authorities rather uncomfortable questions about the prison earlier i talked to my colleague. about the latest verbal exchange at the u.s. state department press briefing.

over north korea. nd north korea's behavior is causing not just the united tates but others in the region to take actions which, if the chinese find them -- find of things they don't like to see, there is an easy way to address that, which is to talk to the north koreans about stopping these provocations. more broadly, the rebalance as i indicated earlier is the perpetuation of the pivotal american military role in the asia pacific region, which has had the effect as i said in the speech of providing the peace and stability that has allowed e countries of asia, first japan, than r.o.k., southeast asia, now china and india, to develop politically and economically in a climate that has been free from conflict. that's a good thing. and that's a bit -- been a been fit to china in my judgment as well. i think that's the best proof that the u.s. military presence and u.s. rebalance is not aimed at anyone. it has allowed all of that political and economic development take place. we welcome that. we have a ver

korea the north korean issue because their north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we. like to. do your job or she or anything like. and now britain isn't ignoring the invading crisis the potential threat to pyongyang could post to europe u.k. prime minister david cameron is calling for a renewal of its submarine based nuclear deterrent system but it will come at a cost as what he saw first reports. the prime minister was in scotland today on board the hague victorious which is one of the four vanguard submarines that make up the trident twenty four hour around the clock nuclear deterrent that always sees one submarine out now he made the case in a newspaper for renewing britain's

north korea calculates it can do it again. cause problems, back down, and then get the world's greatest powers to return to talks. >> so in other words, north korea just wants to make noise. they just want to matter. so bluffing is worthy. >> that's right. it's a fundamental aspect to regime preservation. if they were docile or a normal peaceful country, they would be relegated to the status, the economic political status that they are. a small country and impoverished country of $23 million, presided over by a cruel dictatorship. and no one in the world would accord north korea the kind of respect that we do. >> so professor wong, do you think that north korea is just bluffing and it just wants to make noise, it just wants to be noticed and doesn't mean to follow through? >> well, yes and no. while i do agree they are trying to elevate the level of risk and tension, i think we have to be careful because we have the tendency to dismiss north korean actions as being just bluster and show. very often the metaphor used is they ar

so north korea and south korea, that element as north korea looks at south korea and south korea is then viewed as in bed with the united states, in conducting these exercises, so it all becomes even moreen raging to the nark -- to north korea. >> why is no one talking about north korea is developing nuclear weapons at an increasing rate? >> for its own defense. >> they now say they are taking aim at japan and japan will be their first target. why should the u.s. not be there to at least show our strength and power in defense of our ally japan? >> if this is the case, south korea and japan, who are very powerful rich nations a lot stronger than north korea, build their own nuclear deterrents? that is exactly what is going to happen john. this guy he doesn't have it yet, but he is getting close to be able to put nuclear weapons on intercontinental ballistic missiles. >> on my part this is not for north korea by any means, but i do see we are exerting a what? we are exerting a kind of taunt against them. and it is only serving the interests of those, it is not serving their interests. >> i

we don't do anything -- we can't sanction north korea. because they don't do any business with us anyway. the one country that does business with them is china. it's not that we're outsourcing, we're going to the country that has influence. >> because we have no connections. >> they do business with iran. they sell stuff to iran. they do some business with syria. they've sold some stuff -- they do business with other countries. and that presumably brings in a little bit of foreign currency for them. >> you're going to ask mr. assad to help us with the north koreans? >> i want to bring this up, because all of us remember how the u.s. indeed -- i think the whole world miscalculated saddam hussein in 1990, on the eve of his invasion of kuwait when he moved 100,000 u.s. -- or iraqi troops from the iranian border to the kuwaiti border, and all the top u.s. officials were telling me, i assume they were telling you, he's bluffing, he's not going to go in and invade a fellow arab country, maybe he wants the kuwaitis to raise the price of oil a li

one, is north korea a failing or failed state? two, is it capable of surviving indefinitely, and, three, why and how does it present such risk to asia, east asia especially, and the united states, and its allies? i think it's going to be important to talk about the kinds of things i accomplice my book. north korea's domestic foreign and military policy challenges and the implications this presents to kim jong-il, kim il-sung's son, and i will look at four key threats that north korea presents to our allies. i'll talk about the north korean nonnuclear threat. all the threats they present militarily that are nonnuclear. i'll talk about the north korean proliferation threat. the north korean nuclear threat which is probably more written about than anything else. and i'll talk bat threat that people don't analyze as bag threat and that the north korean's region session unstable that that causes and how that's a threat to the reason. the succession from kim ongoing toil his son, jim -- kim jong-un. so arrest get into the nonmilitary th

north korea, come on north korea, you have to feel bad for the masses over. there you know what north north koreans call the fortunes in fortune cookies? delicious filling. [laughter] that's our show. join us tomorrow night our guest the dolly -- dolly parton. here it is your moment -- ♪ ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight documentary filmmaker. his latest film is called "the central park five." >> the lawyer said we're going to lose this case. we plan to get you a plea deal. >> i remember telling them, you know, you guys can cop out, but if i did something, i would cop out. i would want the least amount of time for what i did. if i didn't do anything you can give me the rest of my life in prison. i didn't know what that meant back then but i knew there would be no way i would cop out to something i didn't do. >> jon: please welcome back to the program ken burns. [cheers and applause] so, this is the story of famous central park jogger. five young men in the park that night convicted of this really

to cross up north korea iran and much more i'm joined by richard white's in washington he's a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute also in watched and we have zachary an assistant editor for the diplomat and in philadelphia we cross to dave lindorff he is an investigative reporter author of the book the case for impeachment and the founding editor of the online newspaper this can't be happening dot net right gentlemen in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want but richard if i can go to you what is a rogue state we hear the term all the time what is it it define. it's an out of fashion charm under the bush administration that used the term rogue state to describe states which whose behavior was so. so it redeemable that they were considered to be equivalent of a criminal state and that was a ran that was iraq under sadam hussein and that was north korea where those of the three common ones other countries went in and out of that category the obama administration that was revise that category they now find these kind

military base in asia north korea the north korean army has announced that it has the final approval for a nuclear attack on the u.s. as they tell us north korean rockets can't really reach the u.s. mainland but they can potentially attack u.s. bases in the region there are twenty thousand u.s. troops just across the border in south korea so could we see the worst nuclear standoff since the cuban missile crisis between the soviet union and the u.s. even though the rhetoric is probably as hostile as it's ever been no one really believes that north korea is actually going to carry out an attack north korea itself knows that if it did it for the attack the united states it would be committing national suicide the united states would retaliate in a tremendous fashion north korea does not want to commit suicide i believe north korea is doing all this so it can get to a point to actually negotiate some kind of peace agreement with the united states in the u.s. media to you have all pundits basically saying the same thing that north korea is not going to strike because they know it's a suic

i haven't -- whitest north korea stand out? >> we've had many dictatorships that survived numerous coups and assassination attempts. i think with the north korea we had many attempts against kim il-sung and kim jong-il that were not successful. like other dictatorships like a donkey and saddam, they survived of them. on me, there's a very pervasive service, services and north korea. there's four of five and to keep track of each other track of each other as well as the citizens. even the most brutal dictatorship in the middle east i think really pales in comparison to north korea. the security services, there's the extremely cowed population. there's a lack of a scene in. you don't have access by foreign media so you can't have that image of the atrocity when the troops shoot on citizens which then are shined to the world and that generates pressure both in the country and outside of the country. recommendations inside the country is extremely limited, very difficult for people to plan anything, or even just as we've seen in ot

could never accept north korea as a nuclear eventual shift in policy accepting north korea d.c. andacto -- eventual shift -- do you see an eventual shift in policy excepting north korea as a defacto nuclear state? >> the central take away from me. there are some who argue it is time to acknowledge the obvious, that north korea has nuclear weapons and is not going to trade them and that we should not necessarily to acknowledge them but basically live with this for a long time and hope we can bound the problem. of thisral take away crisis for me is that we now know very clearly what north korean intentions are when they ballisticfledged missile capability and a full- fledged nuclear weapons program, meaning deliverable nuclear weapons. the north koreans have made it clear what they plan to do with these weapons. they to not yet have the capability to hit colorado springs. clearly,have said very our intention is to strike. for anyone making the case that somehow we should acknowledge or deal with or live with a nuclear-armed career, think about that. own wordsorth korean's about th

korea the north korean issue because their north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we. do you've never seen anything like. the u.s. state of arkansas has launched a probe into an oil spill and this is how the mayflower which affect at least sixty homes there local government along with two households which filed federal law suits is seeking when bassman from one of america's of america's largest oil companies responsible for the disaster and chris harrow whose home was affected by the pegasus pipeline rupture told us here about it right i got off work early and was headed back to my home and the police officer at the entrance to the neighborhood not allowing anybody in i asked why

korea the north korean issue because then north korea would be free to not spend all their money on the military not have to be consistently concerned with being invaded by the united states and by south korea and other nations allied with america it would be able to at least potentially prosper and that would send the wrong message it would send a message that independent countries countries that are non capitalist countries that decide not to kowtow to the united states and western nations could in fact succeed and so by keeping up the pressure on north korea militarily and by sanctions it sort of forces them into a fortress like mentality which makes it look like the least desirable place in the world to live and that's very valuable to us propaganda in terms of saying to other countries you should do what we said of course other client states like saudi arabia behind just human rights violators we don't hear much about that you but we constantly hear about north korean and rights abuses but i think the korean war and people think about this it's totally forgotten almost omitted from

north korea signed the nonproliferation treaty. it needs to come back into compliance with its international obligations. obviously it does have an arsenal in being or at least the materials for a number of devices and on several occasions, we sought to negotiate with them to at least halt any further addition to that arsenal and then eventually to start rolling it back, to actually take steps as it did before to move towards dismantling the weapons arsenals, the weapons complex that supports it. again that's the kind of thing we'd like to get back to in negotiations, but i think it's up to north korea to demonstrate some kind of good faith that it's ready to get back on the denuclearization path. >> charlie: that should be a precondition to any direct talks. >> i think it has to be at this point in terms of we need some serious action that indicates a change of course on their part. you know, we've had a number of negotiations over the years. as my old boss, secretary gates, used to say, we have to avoid buying the same horse twic

the north korea blog 38 north says you can see new construction, a possible effort by north korea to restart its plutonium reactor weeks before the regime announced it was going to do so. >> it reactivates that part of their program and gives them now two routes to producing material for nuclear bombs. >> reporter: another worry, could north korea be planning a new nuclear test? south korean and u.s. officials say there's some activity again at the site where pyongyang tested the device in february, but they don't believe a nuclear bomb test is imminent. >> any future nuclear tests or missile launch would be in direct violence of u.n. security council resolutions. >> reporter: north korea has sit april 10th for all south korean workers to leave the kaesong industrial park and can't protect diplomats in the capital pyongyang after that. >> that would be the kind of action before it initiated some kind of highly escalation or provocative behavior. >> reporter: as we are here this evening, u.s. officials believe now indeed north korea could be ready to test fire those ballistic missiles

of the worker's party of north korea. this is how people are celebrating. they're literally dancing in the streets. railroad foul the small changes we've seen, the larger question remains, is the new young leader the son of the last any different? for now, it doesn't appear so. and north korea remains sealed. >> when you see what's going on now this incredible tension that has developed over the past few weeks and you've been there and you see the faces of real people on both sides of the demilitarized zone, you have to be nervous. you have to be worried about the potential disaster. >> i am. and, you know, you look at the leader, kim jong un and here is a young man we don't know his age. he looked like a kid when i saw him 2 1/2 years ago in 2010. he said to be 28, 29, maybe

north korean crisis. north korea may -- may be ready to launch. the u.s. is tracking missile movements that could push the region closer to war. he's armed and dangerous, we are taking a closer look at what may be driving kim jong-un to make brazen threats and defy the world. >>> and dialing it down, the obama administration addresses concerns that its response to this crisis has only made matters worse. so one of the world's most dangerous regimes right now and now north korea it is on the brink of war. u.s. officials fear it may be planning a missile launch soon. the reports have been amping up every single day from a nation under the thumb of a young and unpredictable leader. kim jong-un is armed with a nuclear program, and this hour our correspond ecents are looki at the threat to the united states and the world. and president obama's response. and christiane amanpour and fareed sa carious will give us a global view. let's begin with barbara starr who is watching this unfold. it is pretty intense. what's the latest, barbara? >> well, the talk has been

of influence on north korea at this time. we understand there is little communication between north korea and china and i think there is a growing debate right now officials and experts are pointing to in china about whether it is time to abandon its unequivocal support for north korea that perhaps this unabashed support for north korea is ant thet call to its interesting. >> elise, thanks so much from washington. >>> in texas now police are taking every threat seriously following the killings of two state prosecutors and the wife of one. someone called in a bomb threat the night before hundreds gathered for a funeral of mike mclelland and his wife cynthia. so far police arrested two men for threatening public officials. martin savage is in texas following the case. martin, are the men arrested being further investigated for any possible links to the murders? >> no, fred, according to authorities they say they have been taken into custody because of the threats they made. one did it over a telephone and the other over the int

north korea gets its food by fuel to china. keeping the border seal would north korea, it basically reinforces the camp. ann applebaum had a post, you open up the border to north korea, just like opening the border to east germany. >> but, of course, that's why the chinese know that. and the south koreans know, in a weird sense, nobody wants north korea to collapse. >> one thing from the chinese, they love north korea so much, they want them to be two of them. that's what they said about germany. until they get out of that mode, i don't see what is going to change. >> if you with are in the security council, it looks like everything tom and i are saying is probably true. but don't you have to plan for the prospect that they might actually launch one of these missiles and they probably can't get to the u.s. or get to guam or something like that, or japan? what do you do? >> you plan for it.