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Obligations in order to have a full fledge negotiation and we will negotiate the full set of concerns that the north has. >> kerry's trip succeeded in turning down the temperature on the korean peninsula, it also succeeded in using kim jong-un's own rhetoric against him with the chinese whose viewpoint may be more in line with washington's right now. beijing like the u.s. does not want to see a nuclear korean peninsula. the question now is what is going to be kim jong-un and pyongyang's next move. >> thanks to jim clancy who is in seoul. we want to bring in ambassador chris hill live from denv...

Afghanistan. >> she was trying to deliver bo books to students in their own language and help them educate themselves to have better opportunities in life she was really doing the best kind of work that so many of our foreign service officers do in the state department in various parts of the world, full of enthusiasm, full of energy, full of high ideals. and tragically, she lost her life to an ied. to a vehicle ied. and, you know, i think we all honor what -- what she was doing. >> smedinghoff met kerry in afghanistan about two weeks before her death. five other americans were also killed in ...

And japan. and so to break that dynamic is a bit unusual. in many cases, we've requested that that dynamic be broken down in terms of the chinese, who truly maintain a degree of influence over north korea that none of the other parties today. albeit that's somewhat imanishing. so it's important that the united states step up and say, look, here's a potential break to this logjam, in that north korea has clearly indicated that it doesn't respond to diplomatic overtures. and it clearly is only going to do what it wants to do. so i think the fact that the secretary has said, look, let's take a di...

Pre-conditions with which the united states might be willing to talk to north korea, among those were a move toward denuclearization and no nuclear tests at all. are these conditions you think the north koreans are likely to make? >> well that's the big question. secretary kerry -- those are conditions that have been out there for shall time. north koreans agreed to those measures early on, they agreed to a joints statement in '05. so basically what secretary kerry is saying is we'll talk to them on the basis of what they've already agreed. the question is whether they're willing to go back an...

Told by an op-ed in "the new york times" today. want to talk about both stories with james "spider" marks, one of our cnn military analysts and part of his military service included time as a senior intelligence officer in korea. joining us from indiana, general, good morning. >> good morning. how are you guys? >> we're well. let's begin with what we're hearing from secretary kerry. he was in beijing and tokyo over the weekend. and he sat down with our jill dougherty and he is basically saying, look, america is willing to come to the table, willing to have a full negotiation with pyongyang. on...