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And also calmer tensions in the region. >> if republicans want to help this president, if the members of this administration want to help this president be successful, help the country be successful, be good for the region and frankly for the tens of millions of people that live in a prison state in north korea, you have to be deal. last time it was like the first time that a girl had ever said yes to a date. we're going to nominate him for the nobel peace prize. and then it's like calm down. see what happens. tap the brakes. see what happens. don't set expectations too high. that's not good i...

Years ago. recreational use of marijuana is legal in nine states and washington, d.c. vice president pence arriving in south korea for the winter olympics as kim jong-un was watching over a military parade attended by thousands of supporters. pence sounding the alarm about north korea's record on human rights. >> for decades the cruel dictatorship in north korea has subjected its people to life in what president trump rightly called a prison state. as the president observed in his remarks to the south korean national assembly last october, in his words, an estimated 100,000 north koreans suf...

Hers that they could get ahold of. south korean media, one channel, has found an interesting parallel. they said, hey, north korea's dictator is sending his sister down to the games, and president trump is sending his daughter ivanka to attend the closing ceremony of the games. they're drawing some parallels there. but it certainly is an interesting development. >> interesting. and just real quickly, ivan, what else is the vice president up to during his visit? >> well, he's had some very harsh words in his speech alongside the japanese prime minister. he called north korea a prison state. he ...

Talking about north korea overnight, ivan. >> reporter: that's right. alongside the japanese prime minister, beating the drum, criticizing north korea and calling it a prison state and this is the theme of his journey, he wants to make clear that north korea should continue to be isolated and that the world should not be taken in by its last minute agreement to cooperate with the olympics. take a listen to an excerpt of what he had to say. >> to that end, i'm announcing today that the united states of america will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on nort...

The korean miracle extends exactly as far as the armies of free nations advanced in 1953. 25 miles to the north, there it stops. it all comes to an end. dead stop. the flourishing ends, and the prison state of north korea sadly begins. workers in north korea labor grueling hours in unbearable conditions for almost no pay. recently the entire working population was ordered to work for 70 days straight, or else pay for a day of rest. families live in homes without plumbing, and fewer than half have electricity. parents bribe teachers in hopes of saving their sons and daughters from forced labor....