ails at this point. he was the beatification of north and south korea. he just sat down to his breakfast, bfs to start eating and a man named kim in his 50s attacked him with a knife on his right cheek and also on his hand. now, the man that was overpowered, he has been detained. he also now, we understand been taken to a clinic himself as he has been injured, but the ambassador was rushed to the hospital before being transferred to a larger hospital. now, as for the motive we heard the suspect as he was being transferred on a gurney where he was being taken to a clinic. he was being shouting about the u.s. military drills with south korea. he was condemning those drills saying that they prevent unions between north and south koreans. we also know this is not the
proposed, my proposal will assure minimum level of value of life to be enjoyed by north koreans and recover common sense of identity between north and south koreans. with that principle in mind, we will pursue the initiative. president obama and i shared a view that while detention and conflict persist, we must actively seek ways to promote peace and collaboration into northeast asia. in that context, i strongly support the u.s. policy to rebalance toward the asia pacific region as it contributes positively to the peace and cooperation. i firmly believe that president obama s asia trip demonstrate his strong commitment toward his policy of rebalancing toward the region and his pledge to implemented the commitment.
you just mentioned. the north koreans get resentful if somebody takes them off the world stage. and for a while they were at the top of the world stage, but now the situation in egypt and syria especially syria, has literally taken them off of the front pages, even at a time when they ve been making moves like small moves on conciliation with south korea, they restarted their telephone talks, their red line, they restarted the facility on the border south, north, facility which employs 50,000 north and south koreans. so they kind of, if they re not at the top of the world stage they do things to get this attention and this is what they re doing. but still we don t know what they re up to. this new, young lead, nobody can figure him out. no one s talked to him at a
our nuclear program. the good news is that north koreans are very cagey. they know that we detect this. so they may be sending a sign, okay, western world, u.s., south korea, six-party countries, as suzanne mentioned, we re ready to deal. but it s going to cost you more. that s they send these signals, fortunately i m going to use a pun, smoke signals, that are basically putting out two messages. they re very skillful at this. they scare, they up the ante, and then they say, okay, you want to deal with us it s going to cost you more because you don t want us to restart our nuclear program, do you? ambassador, on that point, talk about the timing of this. do you think that because the world s attention is now on syria that this is something where they think, well, they ll look the other way and we can move forward on this? i mean, are these two incidents related in any way? well, they are related, as
welcome back, everyone. the u.s. says it would consider restarting its food aid program to north korea, but only if american monitors are allowed into the secretive country. that s the thing. u.s. special envoy to north korea robert king says washington would need to know that the food is actually going to the north korean people, not, for example, to the military. he says that despite bellicose redrick out of pyongyang in recent weeks, the u.s. doesn t tie humanitarian needs to political considerations. u.s. shipments of food aid to north korea stalled in 2009. and that s not the only thing that stalled. family reunions between north and south koreans have also been halted for three years amid the growing tensions on the peninsula. and that s causing heartbreak for many families, especially a former p.o.w. who is nearing the end of his life. anna koryn reports. reporter: in a small humble