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Them? the olympics are giant, juicy target. it may be something that kim jong-un can't resist trying to disrupt especially if he feels he doesn't distract as much as he should from these talks. >> reporter: south koreans officials are yardered as saying they may reunite korean families. that's not going to be negoti e negotiated in this round of talks. the regime envisions a unified korean peninsula under a north korean dictatorship. the south koreans, wolf, are clearly nervous about pulling off a peaceful winter olympic. so a lot of veteran diplomats are telling us they're concerned the south...

Ta creating a dialogue. the third part is negotiation. they hope to go to the negoti e negotiating table and hash out a peace deal and put an end to the war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. missing from this is isis and the al qaeda affiliate formally known as al nusra and the rpg. the forced backed by the united states. >> ian, president assad made news yesterday. he talked about president-elect donald trump saying there is optimism of a trump presidency. >> reporter: let me read you the statement. part of the optimism could be related to the better relations with united states an...

I would bom the hell out of those oil fields. >> he favors renewed diplomatic relations where cuba. he insists there, along with everywhere else, the u.s. is making bad deals. >> but i know the best negoti e negotiators in the world. believe me, folks, we will do very, very well. >> and, of course, there is china. china is accused of makingoff with iraqi oil so many times and video has become an internet sensation. >> china. china. china. >> mind you, he's not guilty blaming the chinese. >> they have tough, smart people. it's time that we have tough, smart people. we're not guiloing to be able...

Yet? >> yeah, i think the bottom line is, physically, he's fine. mentally and emotionally, maybe not so much. and so it's been hard to question him and that's part of the reason that he's been in germany for so long and part of the reason it's taken so long to debrief him. that needs to come in time. and in accordance with whatever investigation there is, if there are appropriate military sanctions or judgments that come from that, so be it. but the focus we've had is regardless of those things, regardless of him, what about releasing these five guys from guantanamo, what about negoti e negoti...

Kind of thing that can really get in the way of these peace negotiations. one of the things on this side that has been so helpful so far and has given the diplomatic maneuvering a bit of breathing room, the iron dome missile defense system which has proven to be so successful here. it has limited the collateral damage on the ground in israel significantly. there were three deaths but after that there haven't been any. as a result, they can talk about these. if there was an incident that killed a lot of people here, we would be in a different situation. >> stephanie gosk and richard engel, tryi...