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Who north korea claims was a spy, and they have already tried and convicted him of many years of hard labor. its a difficult and tenuous situation. the secretary of state rex tillerson saying last week when asked about the detainees it is a delicate situation, and we are working on it. we know that the tour group that took otto warmbier into north korea has now this tuesday decided it will no longer accept u.s. citizens when traveling to north korea. other tour groups are reviewing their options...

Secretary tillerson saying its a delicate situation. its a balancing act. if they put more pressure on china, theyre asking china to do more when it comes to the nuclear program that north korea has. its an awful lot that theyre asking for. you see there is real anger, not just in washington and the u.s. but around the world and shock that this situation has been allowed to happen. ive spoken to a number of north korean watchers. they say nobody would have expected this. they were blind sided th...

United states could be putting more pressure on china to try and do more. of course, theyre in a fairly tricky situation because you have to remember there are still three americans being held in north korea. there are two academics working at the pyongyang university for science and technology. there is also a businessman who north korea has accused of being a spy. he has been convicted and sentenced to hard --. its a very -- to hard labor. its a very tricky situation to find themselves in at t...

Because one of these restrictions now is that you cannot -- americans are prohibited, even if they appear on something thats allowed on a type of feevisa thats allowed, they cant spend money on a hotel that has any direct ties to the military. thats very tough to do in cuba, because so much of this economy is tied to the cuban military. >> exactly. so well have to see how its implicated. its a broad coalition, then you cant buy a bottle of water. sometimes you cant grab a taxi. it will be ---io ...

Actually stating that they applaud the president for making this change to the obama policy because they feel that the obama policy was giving way to too many concessions to oppressive regime who did not want to change its culture and developing tourism to the military. the president will probably try and strike a new deal with cuba as it moves forward. >> shannon: what we are hearing as part of the policy that the president wants to restrict the flow of money to oppressive elements of the cuba ...

Biooh bio -- he looks at that map and when hes making big decisions, he has fidelity to that map. >> he also thinks the idea of action and having an event in miami, you know, saying things could actually trump the substance of his actually policies. weve seen his pattern, these big events in the white house on infrastructure and you actually look at the fine print and theres not much there. >> the health care bill you later call mean. >> sub stan dstantive bill. cabinets dont actually want to ch...

Being there? >> sure. the north koreans, when did we find out otto was going to north korea? the north korea lure americans to travel to north korea via tour groups run out of china, who advertise slick ads on the internet proclaiming no american ever gets detained off of our tours, and this is a safe place to go. so otto is a young thrill-seeking, great kid who was going to be in that part of the world for a college experience, and said hey, ive heard some friends who have done this, i would li...

[ inaudible question ] >> sure. was otto treated differently? the quick answer is the results speak for themselves. and youll hear more about it at the medical conference today. >> yes, sir. >> with nbc 4 in columbus. from the beginning of the situation, can you speak to us about when you found out -- [ inaudible ] >> sure. the north koreans, when did we find out otto was going to north korea? the north koreans lure americans to travel to north korea via tour groups run out of china who advertis...

Ups of bills. we know that some of those are starting to be canceled. there was a house natural resources committee on gun legislation. that has been canceled until further notice. you can see tour groups are still going on behind me. certainly everyone is cognizant of whats going on. i want to add some context because i lived for sheers a short distance from that park. that dog park, thats where i would take my dog. it is right adjacent to these fields, the ymca, where the bullets came through ...

Provide a place to put it. >> the united states to have the thaad missile system there and had to convince south koreans to let us put it there, am i right, and it even has caused a lot of blow back from the russians and chinese to south korean companies who even sold the land to put the thaad system on. >> yeah, china and russia are staunchly opposed to thaad believing that it could be used to spy on them. south korea has said that china has retaliated, hitting them in the pocket when it comes ...