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Secretary of state john kerry is making it clear the burden on ending the north's nuclear ambitions fall squarely on pyongyang. here he is in asia over the weekend. secretary of state vowing to protect america's allies. earlier today north korean leader kim jong-un made what is believed to be his first public appearance in two weeks. here he is, it includes visiting the mausoleum where his grandfather, kim il-sung and his father kim jong-il lie in state. jim clancy has the latest from seoul, south korea. jim. >> reporter: brooke, john, yes, there were major celebrations going on this day in no...

The korean peninsula is close -- more closely aligned with that of washington than pyongyang's. listen to what he had to say. >> i'm very hopeful in the day as head we will work -- we are going to work because we've agreed to very closely with china to try to change this dynamic from the past and not simply keep repeating this, you know, year to year. >> reporter: that's essential, you know, to try to get off the nickel. we've been through it so many times. china doesn't want a nuclearized peninsula and kerry says the united states doesn't either. the u.s. and china very much on the same page ...

What was he doing? >> reporter: well, he slipped out of the shadows. we assume he was right there in the leadership position in pyongyang. he just wasn't being seen in public but he emerged exactly at the stroke of midnight to go to the great hall where the bodies of his grandfather kim il-sung, the founder, first leader of north korea alongside his own father kim jong-il are entombed in glass coffins there paying as we were told the humblest respects to the leaders. the day is being celebrated in north korea obviously there's a two-day holiday today and tomorrow that it's monday and tuesday a...

Listen. >> what i simply did was repeat that we are open to talks, but the conditions have to be met where the north has to move towards denuclearization, indicate seriousness in doing so by reducing these threats, stop the testing and indicate it's prepared to actually negotiate on denuclearization. those are the conditions and that's what we need to see met. >> reporter: now, the north has said that it's still attached to that nuclear program, brooke, and what we see right now is the two sides are very far apart, indeed. back to you. >> what we know that john kerry, he was in beijing and in ...