Purchased. All right. Tonights guest speaker is chunging min lee author of the her met king. In this comprehensive study of north korea, he puts kim jong un in her spect i by tracing the rise of the ming dynasty and how the current leaders motivations, goals and choices have been shaped. Drawing on more than three decades of experience in asia affairs, lee a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and the International Institute of strategic studies shows how kims aggressive standoffs with world powers has put him at crossroads. The countrys increasing vulnerability to famine and crisis in the region. Now, please join me in giving dr. Lee a warm welcome. Ms. [applause] thank you very much. Its a real pleasure to be here, and i know that without my friends, i think, i would have had a very different audience. Its a real pleasure to be here at politics and prose. And i think the people who are most responsible for making me write this book, two of them are sitting in the audience. My ver
Moon is unpopular as he is could very well get that simple majority, because after all he is counting the votes. The most important thing for job one, the most important thing for the opposition in korea, those who want to preserve their democracy is to make sure that they take back control of the national assembly. The main opposition party, the Liberty Korea Party currently holds 110 of those 300 300 sea. Some small conservative parties hold a scattering of others. Its important then that you actually get at least 100 seats and hopefully more. We know if they dont, moons party, the Democratic Party of korea, will try to amend the constitution. April 15, therefore, is do or die, now were never and it is now also a time to safeguard rights, democracy and freedom in the republic of korea. Since becoming president in 2017, moon has tried to return in south korea to a more authoritarian style of governance. He has taken control of the big broadcasters to reduce the airing of dissenting vi
Were some of a certain kind agreement on what kind of agreements can be concluded, what can be agreed on, various maneuvers through third countries and actually so that one can achieve ones goal but again, for now , hmm, the existing intentions are still unknown, and the only what can be said in defense of what he is supports north koreas possible transfer of weapons to russia, the fact that, in the summer, the american settlement means that china also began to transfer military technology to russia, as well as dualuse technology, so we can say here, lets say, build some logic. But is everything really like that . Well, i i think about the events that will happen soon, in particular, and we need to carefully follow the meeting if it will still happen , and after that, draw the appropriate conclusions. Well, actually, two dictators , two dictators, two dictators regimes, three regimes are possible, but they want to show the us alliance of south korea and japan that they are also blocked
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1am in london and 9. 30am in north korea, where pyongyang has fired an unidentified Ballistic Missile the first since mid september. South Korean Military Officials Say the missile flew east from a launch site near the capital, pyongyang. It reportedly travelled a distance of about 1000 kilometres before falling into the sea of japan. President trump told reporters the us can handle the situation and in tokyo, an emergency Cabinet Meeting will discuss the incident. 0ur Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams is in the south korean capital seoul. This is the first test by the north korean since mid september, and it comes, you know, after this long pause in which people had started to wonder whether there was something significant in the fact that we had not had a missile test in such a long time. Well, in the early hours of the morning, in the dead of night we got an emphatic answer. After two months without a test, north korea is back at the top of President Trumps agenda. A missile was l