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Making this visit if you are an ambitious communist party member. it shows you want to learn from the experiences of the party's most important person in decades. it's the kind of propaganda push driven by a cult of personality that the country hasn't seen since the days of mao zedong, founder of communist china. not far from xi's village, we see where mao once lived during world war two. similar caves, similar photos. mao held up as a great revolutionary leader with no mention of his ruthless reign that saw tens of millions die from starvation and political violence. his unchecked power led t...

All of us bear. >> bret: olivier, north korea also a topic in the wake of the north korea games, the cia director essentially saying, wake up. we need to be clear about the threat. >> there were a few interesting comments about north korea. one was, let's see through this propaganda push they made at the olympics. another one was, if they are trying to divide south korea and the united states, they are going to fail. the one that popped out at me was, cia director pompeo saying he has reason to believe that kim jong un is not good incomplete information about his domestic standing or his count...

And of course, part of this effort to thaw relations was as you say, north korean athletes, 12 of them, ice hockey players, crossing the border, they are tonight with their south korean teammates. many of whom are a bit unhappy that the north koreans are joining their team at this late stage, including the american coach. meantime, united states has imposed more sanctions on north korea, on 16 individuals, mostly based in china and russia. and on two chinese companies that will not go down well in beijing. but all the time the united states trying to keep the pressure on, trying to push back a...

Two koreas. it's a hard argument to make, but it's doable. if we fail, because of the progress they've made, you have to ask, what would a president do if he sees an icbm judged on being capable of reaching the united states when we don't know what's under the nosecone? that is the real concern and it's coming. >> kennedy: that's it so difficult about this. what you're saying is we have to ask why the military option which could leave millions of north koreans dead because their leader doesn't care about them. that's part of their biggest propaganda push is the west is coming, they want to kil...

Any, where given the right conditions with the dictator from north korea, kim jong-un. he did say providing sweeteners as it were for that, saying he didn't want to see the collapse of the north korean regime. he wasn't looking for a typical unification of the korean peninsula where the north is folded into the south. certainly trying to appeal to the north koreans but saying any kind of precursor to talks would be for pyongyang to freeze its march toward becoming a nuclear power. just today they said out-of-state media not an option. it's not on the negotiating table. you had big celebrations...