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Welcome back. we've got a couple quick headlines for you. high level military talks taking place overnight between the u.s. and north korea at the demilitaryized zone. they talked about the return of american service members killed in the korean war. there's still work to be done. the return of american remains was part of the agreement made by president trump and kim jong un at their summit last month. a second story for you now. a firefighter killed battling a raging wildfire. braeden varney died while driving a bulldozer, trying to prevent the blaze from spreading near yosemite national par...

To resume reunions between relatives who have been separated for more than half a century by the demilitaryized zone, the holdover of the korean war of the 1950s. now when relations were better between seoul and pyongyang, there were these emotional meetings taking place, in some cases between siblings who haven't seen each other for decades. again, highly emotional. what we have heard from the south koreans is that in response to this proposal last tuesday, the north koreans raised an entirely separate issue. that being the defection of april of 2016 of 13 workers from a north korean restaura...

Let's talk about conventional war, too. they have over 10,000 conventional artillery zeroed in on seoul, and so it's a very concerning situation. >> not to mention the fact that in february the population inside south korea will grow further because it happens to be the site of the next winter olympics, which will add to the population, 50 miles from the demilitaryized zone. add that about the things to worry about. this is the current cia director this week talking about the posture the u.s. ought to have toward north korea. take a listen. >> and it is the case that they are close enough now ...

>> this has been through four presidents now, president clinton, president bush, obama and now trump. assuming he is a rational actor, if we could go into a district bilateral negotiation and guarantee that we would not pursue regime change, it seems to me that we should give that a shot before we would have to pre-emptively strike their icbms. >> a pre-emptive strike would result in enormous casualties south of the demilitaryized zone, and in japan, tens of thousands of people within a day or two could be killed. >> that's the reason why we should give negotiation a chance, recognizing that i...

North korea in check? >> reporter: well, the secretary of state and the primary focus here on this trip to asia really is addressing north korean aggression, its nuclear program, ballistic missile program. secretary of state says north korea has to give that up, and to do so, the world needs a new approach to nor korea. >> the diplomatic and other efforts of the past 20 years to bring north korea to a point of denuclearization have failed. so we have 20 years of failed approach. and that includes a period in which the united states provided $1.35 billion in assistance to north korea as an enco...