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welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. im kim brunhuber. ahead on "cnn newsroom," it happened again, u.s. fighter jets called to shoot down something flying over america. though the death toll in turkey and syria is rising, people are still pulled from the rubble. and more questions around elon musk and spas ex-and whats needed on the battlefield. we are once again waiting to learn more, anything, really, about an unidenti...

Same border where president kim jong un are trying to meet, and the north korean guards didnt want him to escape in south tkorea, opened fire o him. he dropped to the, ground. and then the south koreans had to wait till the cover of darkness to try to pull his body onto north korean -- onto south korean territory. he survived. he kaip he escaped. he is now living in south korea. you can see this is stilt a very n sensitive area, an area where tensions run very, very deep. and it is also describe...

That you get an understanding of the layout. not intuitive. there arent that many places in the worldt that are like this, where you have south korea or an independent state, then an international buffer zone in the middle controlleder by the u.n. and then a heavily fortified enemy statevi right on the othe side. also the border area there dsht dmzre has a straight line throu it. there are hills and mountains. sought border is not a straight line. there are parts where theyai cue around. and it ...

This --e we also just saw this with iran, right? where the president was willing to gift leadership of iran a pass in saying it could have just been a rogue general. so while yes, the president may have an assurance from kim jong un that his safety is assured, there are potentially rogue elements on the other side. and theresen no guarantee that everyone on that north korean side doesnt wish president trump or presidentth kim jong u ill will. and thats aon huge risk. and i think we should acknow...

And that gives the prospect, the possibility that they will talk aboutth real issues, namely, ho is north korea going to completely denuclearize and crucially whatmp will the verification regime be. there are a lot of issues between the north and the u.s. on this. you saw it collapse in hanoi. they have serious and substantive differences. they need to iron those out. this is an attempt to get that back onem track. and it is going to be quite a historic moment there in the dmz. richard? >> you k...

Think what youre kind of giving a head nod to is theres a lot of nothing youre look at for a greatlo expanse. 150 miles wide you were saying, some two miles deep. >> reporter: so the dmz, the demilitarized zone, is this band of territory set up after the korean war to prevent a resumption of hostilities. 2 1/2 miles wide, 160 -- excuse me. 160 miles across. and 2 1/2 miles deep. and it is an area that are multiple structures,th multiple guard towers.s, there are an estimated 1 million landmines ...

Korean war. generally, u.s. presidents come here to pay.s respects, to hono the sacrifice, to see the conflict that never truly ended. the korean war still lives on in many ways in the dmz because you have these built-up forces on either side -- you have these built-up military zones on either side of the dmz with their guns pointed at each other and theres always this fear that should thingser escalate, should things go wrong in a very short amount of time it could start firing guns. the dmz fr...

Out there and as a result, the entire country has less fuel than it used to. now lets look at how fuel gets from the refineries from the pumps. even after refineries started getting back up running and its not actually full capacity yet, theres an issue of how you get the fuel to the pump. it has to be going to the pipeline. you have to have enough fuel going into pipelines to keep the pressure up. think of it as a garden hose. if theres not enough fuel, not enough pressure going in, its harder ...