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Rational and strategic with its core goal for 70 years and breakdown of the soviet union and empire and arab spring, the demise of other dictatorships from taiwan to indonesia. look at the world from kim jong un's perspective. by the time he came to power, the world viewed it as a nutans often voting to sanction it at the united nations. the post powerful country in the world, the united states, often expressed a desire to see wholesale regime change in pyongyang. so, kim jong un accelerated the policy of his father and grandfather, which was to buy insurance. but it would take a great deal to...

And how has managed to bring an american president to his doorstep. ♪ december 28th, 2011. kim jong-un had just inherited the cruelest, most repressive dictatorship on earth. his father kim jong-il was dead from a heart attack. in icy pyongyang, tens of thousands lined the streets. for many mourners, it was a chance to catch a glimpse of their new leader. >> people believed he's too young. he's too inexperienced. >> there were real fears that kim jong-un still in his 20s was not up to the job. >> he looked like a boy. there he is sobbing over his father's casket. >> some doubted that he coul...

Living in and around the south korean capital. including almost 30,000 american troops. >> it would be tens of thousands of people that would die almost immediately in seoul. obviously with seoul under attack, the south is going to go to pyongyang. >> tens of thousands more would die there. and another twist. china could enter the conflict. >> there's an awful lot for china to lose here if this peninsula gets out of control. there's so much uncertainty here, fareed, with our president, with kim jong-un, with china. it's very, very difficult to predict how this is going to come out. >> one thin...

Backward place. >> the first lady ri sol-ju is a big part of the image makeover. >> north korea's image makers are turning kim jong-un and ri sol-ju into william and kate in the united kingdom. >> she became a fashion icon in north korea. >> rules of how women can dress changed. >> shorter skirts, taller high heels. >> luxury items or fake luxury items. faux cha nal bags, fake louis vuitton. >> there's a new moneyed elite. comrade kim is even allowing something that looks suspiciously like capitalism to grow. in a sense, kim jong-un is buying the support of pyongyang. but there is a problem. k...

To make north korea destroy its entire nuclear capacity. pz it is willing to do so only in return for the end of the u.s. and south korea military alliance, former recognition by washington and large amounts of aid. the negotiations contain serious risks, any deal that leaves north korea with nuclear weapons and yet eases sanctions and provides aid would cause dismay in asia and leave south korea and japan vulnerable. since pyongyang cheated often in the past, the treaty would have to be far more intrusive than the iran deal. but wravr whatever the risks, it's worth talking to north korea. we'...