The. It said he always has his finger on the Nuclear Button locked in a high stakes poker game with the us we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. But does Kim Jong Gordon really have Nuclear Warheads and the missiles to deliver them some experts dont think he does at least not yet. There are no real plugs this would vibrate it looks like its from the local Hardware Store and. Hes not negotiating until he has his full full Nuclear Deterrence and the world knows it. Its early in the morning and were heading to a depot for decommissioned rockets. Im accompanied by an arms and security expert marcos. He studied north koreas bomb and missile tests though hes never visited the country. Ive been there several times as a reporter. All i ever saw its allegedly combat ready army were trucks powered by wood gas. This is footage shot in secret of a starving in far as the landing. Gear in the fog schiller is sure well find rockets just like the ones north korea has we are in fact in ukraine and driving to an old soviet military base near odessa. Sure does not believe north korea has the capability to develop missiles why itself or at high speed. Any explanation in my view is that they have received tell us that it is easier if you buy stuff than if you build it all yourself. This rocket looks familiar to show that. Theres an official focus is a solid propellant rocket with how surprising that north korea suddenly had some that what. Hes going to compare what we found at this depot to photos from north korea this is a turbopump a key component in any rocket. Fuel and typical Boston Chamber of the rocket engine for the tanks its like a fuel injection. Of. Such advanced Metals Technology is not something any country could develop overnight. Back at the airport in Odessa Schiller compares his for. It was with propaganda material from north korea. On the left a rocket in the air that was twenty twelve if you see how similar the calories the white band around the nose and another one of the rear on the motor column. Of the part as in if he had to operate we see the shape quite clearly as it is identical with the same model. And that russian turbopump also reappears in p. R. Pictures with came from twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. This is the turbopump we just saw. A look at the exhaust outlet and then look at this one on the engine and hear often these and they look surprisingly similar they have the same shape and the ties. In front of. Kim jong un may boast about the capabilities of his homemade rockets but are they really up to snuff or is he putting on a show to intimidate the United States range Ballistic Missiles capable of hitting the us mainland. German Aerospace Engineer professor. Is convinced to kim is bluffing hes based in munich he was a u. N. Weapons inspector in iraq and he used to design rockets himself with me right there. Good chiller have worked together on analyzing north koreas Missile Program they conclude that kim jong own must have received considerable help from abroad. In particular from the former soviet union. These is the player is in didnt see this engine was built in the night in seventies then came disarmament and they were decommissioned. And that means lots of these engines are lying around somewhere in depots and if a dozen or two go missing whos going to notice thats. Simply copying the design he says is not an option because if you think the engines are extremely complex that scene inside its three thousand degrees kelvin thats almost as hard as the sun. And the pressure is a mans plus the engines have to be very light made of thin sheet metal to get all that right takes a long time and a lot of practice. To be. What about the submarine launched Ballistic Missiles north korea claims to have developed the evidence is not convincing on some photos they have rather flaps on others they dont hear entire sections are missing. That can really observe the first launch from such close quarters is unthinkable. Ten tons of solid fuel were flying out of the water if it had exploded kinship would have been totally destroyed. Huge missiles are regularly on display at military parades in pyongyang our experts say theyre fakes amateurish fakes says they want to show off how much theyve got but its just cobbled together smoke and mirrors. That examples of the very same model of missile look different. If you compare the same spot on the one missile the gap between the fins is much greater than on the other. This one has a trap the other doesnt. Lose so badly made you really have to feel sorry for them. I head to south korea and to discuss the matter with experts there they also think the norths Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missiles program is more blood than substance. With south korean capital seoul is just fifty kilometers from the border within reach of conventional artillery for. From the north twenty five Million People live in the metropolitan area. The last time north korea reversed a large scale attack was in spring two thousand and seventeen human joan was there to watch. These great enemy the United States has close to thirty thousand servicemen and women stationed in south korea. In seoul and i go to see chad ocarroll hes a security analyst and journalist and runs the n. K. News website he says it would be wrong to underestimate north koreas military capabilities. Not really were in for the buff theory from a u. S. Military perspective the department of defense has to take seriously any risk that i miss all and reach the east or west cards to the United States and were now basically at that point so even if its a one in five chance that twenty Million People can die what is you know what does that really mean we have to take that seriously. Ok earl agrees that north korea receives assistance from abroad he shows me satellite images of a recent military parade in pyongyang. To the left of the crowd or a row of missiles on trucks he says many of the transporters were imported from china and there are more of them than previously believed. Ok we can see about two or one or two kilometers away from kim il sungs square where the viewing took place pipes and there is one spare unit of every missile type tank you name it. Japan is evidently the source for other equipment such as special crane crane in these fight sides which come from north korean state media you can see the crane is actually being used to to lift the missile from the same gone on to the transporter erector launcher and its just the idea that in full twenty seventeen where theres so much scrutiny on north Korea SpecialWeapons Programs is very difficult to sort of understand that. It looks like United Nations sanctions on north korea including an extensive trade embargo are not being fully implemented we drive along the hundred virtue or disaster wary to look across at north korea. Nearby as the joint security area had been one jump the only spot on the border where soldiers from the two koreas come face to face. In january delegations from the north and south met here. Such a handshake a rare and stunning event. This is the north from making nice. But last december it showed its a cruel face at the same spot. A north korean soldier defected and came under fire from the north even after he had crossed into the south. That was a violation of the korean honest disagreement he was rescued by south korean soldiers and flown das battle is since recovered from his wounds. While the border between the two koreas is closed the one between the north and china is open. This is the chinese city of dun dun. And this is the view across the yalu river to north korea the friendship bridge links the two countries and is a major conduit for goods going in both directions. I mean we have a couple sources in done as well this is a convoy of trucks going through the chinese Customs House just before they cross the friendship bridge for you can see the share amount of cob varies you would need an army people to be coming here with the current u. N. Sanctions ostensibly recall it has to be very thorough he says to ensure it is night and materials that may breach sanctions but on a good day you might have two three hundred of these kind of trucks passing the bridge. And each one of them you know maybe forty tons past the its a lot of stuff. But. These arent north korean weapons but those of south korea and the United States. They regularly conduct joint maneuvers in the south which regularly rile kim jong on his enemies flexing their muscles all the more reason he feels he needs Nuclear Weapons to defend his country and himself who would want to end up like those other dictators Saddam Hussein and iraq and walmart gadhafi and libya first year burns aboard the korean war ended in one nine hundred fifty three but a peace treaty has yet to be signed u. S. Bombing devastated the north people there have not forgotten while relations between the two koreas have been mainly tens there have also been episodes of engagement and determined. In two thousand south korean president kim dae joan visited pyongyang to meet north Korean Leader kim jong il the father of kim jong un. Kim de jong received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. An architect of his sunshine policy of reconciliation was join me and moon there was a time when north korea and the United States even talked to each other was that possible very simple ok when i would there was a trained you succumbs to insist unites to the United States listen to what North Koreans was saying ok and they didnt deny north korea they treat north korea is a normal count and leadership commitment was one of the important that and it was a very effective and a communication channels. Says things might not be so bad now if the Current Us Administration were willing to negotiate instead the us president derides and threatens kim jong un has. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime those kinds of socalled hostile rhetorics could be very very counter productive and honestly he has been elevating convinced that has to he stands. Tells us he remains committed to dialogue even though he too has been the target of verbal attacks from north korea. Or vietnam and ive not. Met the North Koreans and i told the north koreas ok ok i came ok here the dog of american imperialist here how the hell do you you can criticize me in that way i havent walked meet you with all my heart and i made a big shouting at the North Koreans and the north korean delegation told me that. Mr moon to provoke handle the situation and. Organisation to put them with to be united for him to have a different view work what propaganda to propaganda dont be detracted dont be disturbed by the pope and. Where you are outsiders its even harder to distinguish between propaganda and policy reliable information about the kim dynasty which has ruled north korea for three generations now is also hard to come by. The current leader kim jong un has seen more of the outside world than one might imagine. We are heading to a suburb of burn in switzerland to meet a teacher. In the late ninetys there was a north korean boy in his seventh grade class. It was said he was the son of somebody who worked at the embassy. Is to stand tall he was introduced as own pocket for me he was just a regular boy he spoke a german we were able to communicate like sporty clothes i basketball attire n. B. A. Gear bosc both i and i think he was one of the first people i knew who had an m p three player false to a small i named peter i played. Years later facial analysis concluded with ninety five percent certainty that the boy really was kim reason says he was confident but not brash despite the expensive gear. So i think of course told the truth and her shirt like that cost a hundred francs the night the trousers to the nike air trainers three hundred and he had lots of hair salon but it was a show off and i know he didnt flaunted them he did not try to be anything special. I found him to be a well adjusted young man with money. While the Young Kim Jong un enjoyed his ninetys in switzerland starvation was killing countless children back home crop failure any patient agriculture economic mismanagement but the regime always blamed its arch enemy the United States. In two thousand and one came jones oldest half brother kim jong nam was arrested at tokyo airport trying to enter japan on a fake Dominican Republic passport he said he wanted to visit disneyland. In the one nine hundred seventy s. And eightys north korea abducted a number of children and young adults from japan so they could teach japanese to it spies decades later a few were allowed to return home. In two thousand and two north korea finally revealed what it had done people in japan were aghast. Junichiro koizumi was Prime Minister of japan at the time in his diplomats had persuaded north korea to make that admission and to apologize as a precondition for moves to start normalizing bilateral relations. But laying the groundwork took a lot of preparation this process highlighted the tricky moral issues involved in dealing with despots itoshi to knock out a Senior Advisor to koizumi held many secret talks with the north. The five to thirteen times. Negotiations. Took place in the weekends there are a couple of gives me. Well is the trip by the japanese Prime Minister to north korea because in the eyes of kim jong il. The getting Prime Minister to come to. Itself is a kind of big story to tell to the people here we are the former. Prime minister came to this country to apologize for north korea. The regime said that five of those abducted were still alive and they would be allowed to visit japan without issue seemingly resolved to signed a joint declaration relations looked like they might be on the man. Prime is immediately that we would like to see by survivors so. That sort of meeting to take. To see them so we beat that is a key element for us. To question of trust trust me its difficult to verify. Anything north korea says because its a secret nation and its not democratic nation therefore there is no accountability those five survivors remained in japan north korea said they had to be sent back and accused the japanese government of breaking its promise chargeable that you broke a promise no i said. Youre kidding because also our job is who up ducted value how could you sort of. Decide the fate of the old people. Another act of terror any given the estranged half brother was evidently considered a threat so kim jong un had him murdered which you doubt it was used during the attack took place in public at kuala lumpur airport. Kim jong nam was about to fly to macau where he was living in exile he was caught on Surveillance Video just minutes before he died. In the malaysian authorities wont talk about the case all requests for interviews with investigators and other officials were rejected but we did find a journalist willing to discuss it. I get a phone call from my phone tech the police were saying we just figured this out there was this sort of an assessment as a suspicion of poisoning attempts. By jekyll and be a seal because i was soft put it thats what it is a lot and hes the son of. Kim jong il. Kingery as theyve already yeah hes a half brother gift of us you know our so what happened so we dont look like us price it right every father a fair bit of money if i had a few thousand u. S. D. It was bag. Investigators determined that two young women one from vietnam and the other from indonesia had each smeared something on kim jong uns face the components of a chemical weapon the v. X. Nerve agent. This tool with a smile that it meant a very off. The state that faith which is all to add up all that sort of measure for he said he wasnt feeling well he was something that you could say clearly david took a basically five she did it leave it we gave figures in a hospital and he died they were called fifty cars so who would have to live it was. The first account was that this tool was actually his people one was hes made a decision was made the vietnamese lady was his good friend and it changed on a did not he did not know who he was. And what they would they were hired to do this Police Identified further suspects men with ties to the north korean embassy. North korea responded by detaining malaysian nationals in pyongyang as hostages so they could do a prisoner swap. He wanted to arrest them because they did not have diplomatic status. I do what happened was that a standoff between the malaysian government and the north was the impression from outside is that theres a country there was a case they were doing an excellent job investigating arresting and then they led the ones go that were to be charged actually they were going to be let go if i dont they are clearly the deal but they would elect bush in exchange when i missions from back because we have such a special relationship with direct flights we could good have people come here with a visa as it was such a special relationship effect after last year we have lost with what this looking you know who minds is it important that youre right that you know doesnt because were good because we dropped the ball yeah but you know in the scheme of all the things people talk about leisure corruption. Financial scandals political intrigue is here is this on