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Breaking news overnight
out of North Korea.

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The country's leader, Kim Jong-Un
flexing military muscle.

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The launch was
intercontinental ballistic missile.

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The North Koreans releasing
these images of the missile,

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which could threaten the U.S.

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North Korea has become the most
dangerous country in the world.

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The global community
needs to understand

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every country is in danger
from the actions of North Korea.

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Driving this military machine

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is the young, ruthless dictator,
Kim Jong-Un.

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He executed his own uncle
with an anti-aircraft machine gun.

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Whether he's a madman
or a calculating genius,

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Kim Jong-Un will do anything
to stay in power,

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even at the expense
of his own people.

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They're forcing us
to work until we die.

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The regime now threatens
the very existence

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of the United States.

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They now have the capacity...

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to put a nuclear weapon
on New York City.

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How did we get here?

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How did this tiny country
become a global menace?

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And what happens now?

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We face the risk of a nuclear 9/11.

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They will be met with fire, fury,
and frankly, power.

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The likes of which this world
has never seen before.

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North Korea,
for decades this secretive country

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has remained isolated
from the world.

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About the size of Pennsylvania,

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this land of 25 million people
is known as the hermit kingdom.

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It shares an 880-mile-long border
with China to its north,

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and to its south, the 38th parallel
separates it from South Korea.

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Since they were divided,
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one of the world's
strongest economies.

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North Korea's growth has been
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to their military.

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Now, their latest ruler
has turned that lone success

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into a threatening calling card
against the United States.

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But how did the U.S.
become the primary target

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of North Korea's wrath?

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In the early 1900s,
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their brutal colonial ruler, Japan.

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It was a hellish existence.

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Koreans are very proud
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and they suffered terribly
under Japanese rule.

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There was an attempt
at ethnic cleansing.

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Korea remained a forgotten nation
without a real identity.

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But Japan's expanding aggression
would become their undoing

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when they attacked
the American naval base

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at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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Forced to fight,

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The U.S. won the war
by developing the ultimate weapon.

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"On August 5th, 1945,

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a single bomb destroyed
the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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Unconditional surrender.

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Victory over our last enemy, Japan.

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Korea, now the scene
of mass evacuation.

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As thousands of Japs
pull out for their homeland."

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With Japanese forces expelled
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the Soviet Union saw an opportunity
to create a new communist state,

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but the U.S. insisted on keeping
a democratic foothold

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on the Korean peninsula.

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A lot of Koreans,
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view the U.S. decision
to partition the Korean peninsula

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into two states,
or two halves in 1945.

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As the root cause
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the Korean peninsula today.

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The original sin.

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"In North Korea, the Soviet Union
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a communist puppet government.

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In the south, the United States
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strove to establish
an independent democratic republic."

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It was done with no Korean voice.

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Koreans had no say in the matter.

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The Soviets had
the perfect candidate to lead

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the new communist north.

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A Korean national
who had served in the Soviet Army

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and could be trusted
as a staunch ally.

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They installed the Kim Il-Sung
regime in North Korea.

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They had been planning on
this during the war with Japan.

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In 1948,

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the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea was officially founded

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with 36-year-old Kim Il-sung
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Just two years later,

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he invaded the south,
showing the world his true goal,

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reunification of the north and south
by any means necessary.

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"A highly trained
and well-equipped North Korean Army

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stormed across the 38th Parallel

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to attack unprepared
South Korean defenders."

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The United States commits
to defending South Korea.

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(EXPLOSION)

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And the war dragged on
for three years until July, 1953,

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there is an armistice signed,

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not with a formal peace treaty
but a temporary ceasefire agreement.

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We have won an armistice
on a single battleground,

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not peace in the world.

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With North Korea's
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the seeds had been sewn
for a hatred of the United States

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that persist to this day.

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Meanwhile, Kim Il-Sung
turned his attention inward,

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developing a cult of personality

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to secure his power
for the long term.

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Kim Il-Sung was really given
a supernatural quality.

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They really likened him
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descending from the heavens.

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Even his birth date was interpreted
to have divine significance.

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Titanic sank
on the 15th of April 1912.

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That was the same day
Kim Il-Sung was born.

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North Korean propaganda has always
presented the sinking of the Titanic

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as the day the symbol
of British Imperialism sank

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while the son of the world
was being born.

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Even Kim Il-Sung's military exploits

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were exaggerated
to superhuman levels.

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Some claimed he singlehandedly
drove out the Japanese.

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As North Korea's leader,

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he was also said to be infallible
and even immortal.

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His mythology was only enhanced
by his outgoing personality.

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He does come across
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big smiles,

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big gestures with his arms,
and good looking.

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Kim Il-Sung consolidated his power

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by imposing a nationalistic ideology
called "Juche", or "Self-reliance,"

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which called for the closing off
of the outside world

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and trusting him
as the sole saviour of his people.

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Many absurd claims were made.

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Reports even went
as far as saying that

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Kim Il-Sung never used
the restroom

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because he was a perfect being,

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untarnished
by base human functions.

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Meanwhile, it's estimated that
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he had erected nearly
35,000 monuments to himself.

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But the real secret
of Kim Il-Sung's success

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wasn't his popularity
with the public,

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it was the build up of his military

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and his brutality
against his opponents,

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which began almost immediately
after he assumed power.

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It was Kim Il-Sung who established

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those abysmal political
prison camps,

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and so many people
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brutally tortured, killed
on Kim Il-Sung's orders.

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According to reports,

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prisoners were subjected
to severe punishments,

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like electric shock,

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hanging by the wrist,
and even beatings with shovels.

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And Kim Il-Sung's brutality
extended beyond his borders.

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He became infamous
for kidnapping foreigners,

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seizing people who could
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or even provide training
to Korean spies.

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Evidence of this came to light
in 1987,

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when two North Koreans
snuck explosives

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onto a South Korean airliner
that exploded in Abu Dhabi.

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One of these spies later confessed
she had learned Japanese

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from someone who had been
abducted from Japan.

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Estimates of this abductions
reach into the thousands.

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Internally, Kim Il-Sung's government
was known to canvass schools

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looking for attractive girls
to hijack into his harem.

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The regime claimed that these girls,
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were becoming part
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of singers and dancers,
and they were trained as such.

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But the real function
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was understood by all.

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Kim Il-Sung would rule for 46 years
until his death in 1994.

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At 53, Kim Jong-Il
took over his father's position

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as leader of North Korea.

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He would remain in power
for 17 years.

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But even before he took over,
he had already spent a lifetime

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developing his own cult
of personality.

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It was said that Kim Jong-Il was
born on Korea's sacred Mount Paektu,

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and that a new star
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It was also claimed that
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from winter to spring.

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The truth is far less interesting.

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Kim Jong-Il was born
in a Soviet Army barrack

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in the Russian Far East in 1941,

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when his father was in
the Soviet Army.

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According to
North Korean propaganda,

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Kim Jong-Il was a brave fighter
in World War II.

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Fending off the Japanese.

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Quite the accomplishment,
given his age.

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The war ended in 1945,

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so Kim Jong-Il
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In a country
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the leaders are made into Gods.

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Kim Jong-Il's list
of accomplishments

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include outrageous claims
like he invented the hamburger,

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and his first time on a golf course
he shot 11 holes in one.

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Such tales were a sharp contrast
to his obvious shortcomings.

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He was not known to be
an aspiring charismatic leader.

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As far as we know he has spoken
in public only on one occasion,

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at a military parade.

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And he uttered just one sentence,

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"Glory to the warriors
of the D.P.R.K."

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Kim Jong-Il suffered
from many complexes

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and one of these
was his high-pitched voice.

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And perhaps this was the reason

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why he did not really speak
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he was very short.

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He wore high heels.

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He was not a very good looking man.

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Perhaps that was the reason

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why he always appeared in public
wearing sunglasses.

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But Kim Jong-Il's legacy
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not by his personal quirks,

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but by his ability
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Kim Jong-Il was a terrible manager.

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The fundamental defining feature

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of Kim Jong-Il's rule
was the great famine

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that killed up to
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The table had been set
for this disaster in 1991

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with the collapse
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The loss of this major supporter

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put North Korea
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In 1994, the same year
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they were unable to afford fuel
and fertiliser for their farms.

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Then a series of floods
decimated much of their farmland.

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The starving masses got so desperate

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there were reports
of cannibalism in rural areas.

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Even today one of the desperate
trends of that time continues.

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There is still a significant
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in North Korea.

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And yes, they do use
human faeces as fertiliser.

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During the famine,

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the U.S. State Department estimated
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to be $6 billion.

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Had Kim Jong-Il spent
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with which to buy food,

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not a single North Korean
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While his people were starving
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Kim Jong-Il was able
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to pursue the nation's nuclear
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He also continued his father's
human rights violations.

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He was not only
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but his international kidnappings

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which began during
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included a famous movie couple.

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Kim Jong-Il was a big movie buff

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and fancied himself
a movie director.

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He even abducted
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and his former wife,
a very famous actress,

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in order to have them
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But the great leader
would soon fall victim

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to the one thing
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his health.

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Kim Jong-Il suffered
a serious stroke in August 2008.

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So when he died
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it didn't come as a surprise.

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"Kim Jong-Il's reign of terror
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menacing his neighbour's
with nuclear weapons,

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holding his own people hostage
with prison camps and starvation."

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When Kim Jong-Il died
in December 2011,

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you saw an entire nation mourning.

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Did they mean it?

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There's no love loss for
the "Dear Leader" as he's called.

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John McCain said,

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"I can only express satisfaction

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that the Dear Leader
is joining the likes of Gaddafi,

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Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin
in a warm corner of hell."'

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Kim Jong-Il's demise
had left him little time

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to groom his successor.

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Kim Jong-Un took only after
only three years of preparation

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at the age of 27.

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He was taking over a country
that neglected its people

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and was at continual odds
with the rest of the world.

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Five and a half years ago
it would have been hard to imagine

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that anyone could be more brutal
than Kim Jong-Il,

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but Kim Jong-Un has surely managed
to accomplish that.

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America's role in dividing Korea
made the U.S. a target

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of North Korean hatred.

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Dear leader, Kim Il-Sung,
and his successor, Kim Jong-Il

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played off this hatred
to build their brutal regimes.

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At the age of 27,

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Kim Jong-Un
the third dictator of North Korea

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was handed a legacy of abuse
toward his country's citizens

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and antagonism
toward other countries.

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And yet he has proven
to be the most problematic leader

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of North Korea yet.

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The possibility of armed conflict
is the strongest it's been

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since the Korean War.

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President Trump stepped up
his personal insults

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against Kim Jong-Un,
labelling him, "Little Rocket Man."

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And tweeting,
"He won't be around much longer."

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The war of words

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has included North Korean's foreign
ministry calling Trump, "Old."

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And Trump referring to Kim Jong-Un
as, "Short and fat."

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Making tensions escalate.

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As a young leader,

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Kim Jong-Un could rule the country
for decades to come,

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just as his grandfather did.

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Who is this young leader,

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and how did he become
such a huge threat?

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Kim Jong-Un was born in 1984,

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the youngest
of Kim Jong-Il's three sons.

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Intelligence agencies confirm

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he spent part of his youth
attending a simple public school

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in Bern, Switzerland,
under a false identity.

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Former classmates
describe him as a shy child

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who struggled with his English,
as well as other subjects.

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His peers would later joke

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that he could have been called,
"Dim Jong-Un."

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While his school work lagged,

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he developed an affinity for movies,
video games, and basketball.

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These Western influences
are still evident today.

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After his time in Switzerland,

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it's believed Kim Jong-Un
returned to North Korea,

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where he attended
Kim Il-Sung university.

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In 2008,

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Kim Jong-Il suffered
a debilitating stroke

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and began to groom Kim Jong-Un
to take the throne.

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But why was the youngest
of the three sons chosen?

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The older brothers who had been
considered for this role,

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all had sorts of different problems.

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One particular brother, Kim Jong-Nam
made various statements

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that there could be reforms
for North Korea.

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He also went to Disneyland
on a fake passport and got caught.

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This was a great embarrassment
to Kim Jong-Il,

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that's when he decided
to banish him.

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He was sent away to Macau.

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The other brother, Kim Jong-Chul,

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his problem is that he was also
an international playboy.

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Loved to take off,
and go to Eric Clapton concerts,

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and he got caught doing this.

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Kim Jong-Il thought,
quote unquote that,

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"Kim Jong-Chul, the older brother
from the same mother

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was too effeminate."

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These things are obviously not good
for a regime

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that wants to project power,

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that wants to project that
it doesn't need the West,

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so quite simply Kim Jong-Un
was the only one that was left.

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Kim Jong-Un was quickly
given credentials and titles

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to legitimise his power.

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He was promoted to four-star general

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despite the lack
of military training.

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These hyped up credentials
would be tested

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after only three years
of preparation,

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when his father died,
leaving him in charge.

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With a tenuous grasp on power,

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Kim Jong-Un did everything
he could to secure his position.

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North Korean propaganda
has been very busy

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forging a personality cult
for Kim Jong-Un.

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As soon as he became
leader of North Korea,

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they showed a documentary.

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You see stories about Kim Jong-Un
having been able to drive a car

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at a very young age.

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You will see Kim Jong-Un giving
advice to this K.P.A. officers

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on how to fire a pistol.

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These are professional soldiers,

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but then again they just have
to bow deeply and listen.

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(GUN SHOT)

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It's apparent that Kim Jong-Un
has tried to revive

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the nostalgic fond memory
of the founder.

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Kim Jong-Un tries to imitate
Kim Il-Sung's gestures,

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smiles,

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even the tone of his voice
when he's reading a speech.

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(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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Kim Jong-Un's most obvious
attempt to emulate his grandfather

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is his haircut.

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He also put on weight and possibly
took even more extreme measures.

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There are experts who believe that

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he may have had some type
of plastic surgery

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in order to enhance his resemblance
to his grandfather.

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You see him wearing those Mow suits
that Kim Il-Sung used to wear.

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You even see him
wearing the straw hats

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that Kim Il-Sung used to wear.

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Kim Jong-Un even evoked
his father's anti-Japanese stance

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by changing North Korean time
by 30 minutes

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to avoid being on the same time
as Japan.

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However, Kim Jong-Un
has made key departures

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from North Korean tradition,

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including sharing the spotlight
with his wife.

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In fact, his wife is a pop star.

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She has been spotted in many places
inside North Korea

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dawning an expensive
Christian Dior handbag

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and much more fashionable attire

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than what's common
inside North Korea.

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Previous leaders of North Korea
did not really appear in public

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with their spouses.

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So this is a new-cult
of personality.

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Kim Jong-Un has
at least one daughter

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who's probably
four or five years old now.

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And we know this primarily
thanks to Dennis Rodman,

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the former NBA star,

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who has visited North Korea
several times now.

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Kim Jong-Un's love of basketball
and all Western culture,

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stems from his childhood days
in Switzerland.

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Dennis Rodman told the world
that he had drunk with Kim Jong-Un,

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stayed up late with Kim Jong-Un

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and even held his
baby daughter in his arms.

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Happy birthday to you!

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(ALL CLAPPING)

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While one third of North Korea's
children are malnourished,

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Kim Jong-Un has a pleasure island

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that Dennis Rodman
compared to Ibiza.

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As Kim Jong-Un dines on caviar
and French cheese,

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he tells his population
that dog meat is a super food

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they should enjoy,

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and if they
beat the animals to death,

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it will taste better.

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In addition, Kim Jong-Un is said

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to have 17 palaces scattered
throughout the country.

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Many with a runway
for his private jet,

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jokingly called "Air Force Un."

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He is also reported to spend upwards
of $30 million per year

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on fancy imported liquor.

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He owns an armoured Mercedes
for local travel

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and he has a thoroughbred
horse collection

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that costs more than $10 million
annually to train and maintain.

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Kim Jong-Un has also built
many spectacular constructions,

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amusement parks, a water park,

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an aquarium, a dolphinarium,

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a luxury ski resort.

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Kim Jong-Un has effectively
turned all of North Korea

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into his own playground.

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Everything that's made
is made for him first,

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like he's the star of his own movie.

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But by sharing his indulgences
with the elite of his country,

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he helps ensure their loyalty.

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Kim Jong-Un is following
the father's model,

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he rules through gift politic.

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Especially by creating
consumption space

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for the elites.

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He also rules through fear politic,
through terror.

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Jang Song-Thaek, he is the uncle
of the leader Kim Jong-Un,

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has been executed.

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Now, this is a surprise move

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because until recently Jang
was considered

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North Korea's second
most powerful man.

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Kim Jong-Un had his uncle,
Jang Song-Thaek executed

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just two years into his own rule

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because Uncle Jang
had become too powerful.

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When arrested this week,

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he was accused of double-dealing
and acts of treachery.

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The once trusted envoy was executed,
reportedly with a heavy machine gun

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and described as worse than a dog.

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He executed his own uncle

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with a ZPU4 anti-aircraft
machine gun system.

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Bodies are pulverised.

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These persons who are executed
in North Korea

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are even denied this fundamental
human right of leaving the corpse.

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Kim Jong-Un's uncle wasn't the only
family member he had killed either.

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We're back now with yet another
stunning twist in the assassination

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of North Korean leader
Kim Jong-Un's

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estranged half-brother.

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He killed his brother Nam,
using assassins

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who wiped VX on his face
in a Malaysian airport.

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"The man believed to be

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the North Korean dictator's
half-brother

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and one-time rival
is wheeled away on a stretcher,

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later pronounced dead
at a hospital."

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VX is the most nasty element
ever made by humans.

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It's the element that been described
as something

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we wish we could uninvent.

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It's a neurotoxin
with extraordinary lethality.

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It's an oily substance that
if even a drop of it gets on you,

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you die in spasms

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and your own muscles crack
your own bones.

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It is a brutal, brutal weapon.

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And Kim Jong-Un decided to kill
his own brother with this weapon.

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During the first five years
of the Kim Jong-Un regime

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340 officials
were purged or executed.

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But no one suffers more
than the Korean people.

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Kim particularly enjoys trying
out new ways to kill people.

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He travels around the country
with an anti aircraft weapon.

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And where he has somebody
criticise him or anything

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he lets fly at them
with a huge anti-aircraft weapon.

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He's out of it.

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It's pretty hard to get any crazier
than Kim Jong-Un.

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But crazy doesn't necessarily
mean ineffective,

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it may just mean evil objectives.

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And the first step toward
accomplishing those evil objectives

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is to brainwash an entire country.

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Kim Jong-Un has proven
that he'll kill his own family

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to stay in power.

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With that kind of resolve,
what chance do his citizens have?

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The North Korean regime

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has spent the last 70 years
conditioning their people

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to blindly pledge their loyalty
to the Kim dynasty.

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Today the leadership
has such absolute control

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over the Korean people

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that they even hold elections
every five years.

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The dear leader gets
100 percent of the votes.

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In fact, when Kim Jong-Un
ventures out into the public

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the people can be seen
making dramatic displays

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of admiration towards him.

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Some people are true believers,
some people are pretenders,

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but everyone has to show
maximum respect.

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But just what is life
like in North Korea?

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How does the Kim regime
maintain control

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over 25 million people?

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The brainwashing runs deep.

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It starts very early,

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and continues
throughout one's formal education.

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There are loud speakers
playing hymns.

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They're playing
ultra nationalistic music

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about the leaders themselves.

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What I wanted to share with you
right now is our wakeup call.

498
00:26:02,340 --> 00:26:06,180
From early morning at 5 a.m.
to the next night until 2 a.m.

499
00:26:06,220 --> 00:26:08,140
they broadcast live announcements.

500
00:26:08,180 --> 00:26:10,440
Constantly songs about Kim Il-Sung.

501
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,480
(CHILDREN SINGING
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

502
00:26:14,380 --> 00:26:16,400
As for the Korean War,

503
00:26:17,020 --> 00:26:20,440
we learned in North Korea
that the United States started it.

504
00:26:21,060 --> 00:26:25,060
So, before I came to South Korea
that is what I knew.

505
00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:30,060
Children are taught target practice.

506
00:26:30,100 --> 00:26:33,340
They use silhouettes
of American GIs.

507
00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:37,340
Korea even maintains
a museum in Sinchon

508
00:26:37,380 --> 00:26:41,440
that depicts fabricated atrocities
committed by American soldiers.

509
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:46,160
One scene shows GIs pounding nails
into a woman's head.

510
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,320
Everyday of your life
the regime will remind you

511
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,220
that you're perpetually under siege.

512
00:26:52,260 --> 00:26:54,480
Meanwhile, they project
a very different image

513
00:26:55,020 --> 00:26:56,320
to the outside world.

514
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,260
In Pyongyang,

515
00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:00,100
tourists are taken
through neighbourhoods

516
00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:02,400
that demonstrate
and upscale lifestyle,

517
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,280
but the stores
don't actually sell anything.

518
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,480
The restaurants
aren't open for business.

519
00:27:08,020 --> 00:27:11,140
And the well-kept building
are actually empty shells.

520
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,460
For those who live there,

521
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,060
day-to-day life in North Korean
is governed by a strict set of rules

522
00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:20,120
including personal appearance.

523
00:27:20,300 --> 00:27:23,340
There is a limited number
of approved hairstyles

524
00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:25,020
for both men and women.

525
00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:26,360
They cannot get very creative

526
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,160
because they'll be stopped
by a security agent in the street

527
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,140
and there will be consequences.

528
00:27:32,180 --> 00:27:33,200
It's been reported that

529
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,080
men are actually forbidden
to copy Kim Jong-Un's hairstyle

530
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,240
in deference to their dear leader.

531
00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:43,200
They tell us that women
should be feminine,

532
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,040
and they make us wear skirts.

533
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,320
If you wear the prohibited pants,

534
00:27:47,460 --> 00:27:49,280
they would just tear it off
with scissors

535
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,040
in the middle of the street.

536
00:27:52,220 --> 00:27:54,200
And while the propaganda machine
claims that

537
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,200
North Korean medicine
can cure aids and cancer,

538
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,340
the reality is much darker.

539
00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:04,380
There is endemic shortage
of antibiotics, painkillers,

540
00:28:04,420 --> 00:28:07,160
that's why there are so many
amputations in North Korea

541
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,080
because so many infections
go directly to gangrene.

542
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,380
They amputate with no anaesthesia.

543
00:28:12,420 --> 00:28:13,420
You're talking...

544
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,060
the Dark Ages.

545
00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:18,480
Even the social hierarchy
of the country is dictated

546
00:28:19,020 --> 00:28:20,060
by the government.

547
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:24,420
North Korea is the only country
on the face of the planet

548
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,400
that classifies its own people
into three categories

549
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:34,340
depending on the perceived level
of loyalty to the regime

550
00:28:34,380 --> 00:28:38,280
of parents, grandparents,
and other relatives.

551
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,140
My whole family
was kicked out of Pyongyang

552
00:28:41,180 --> 00:28:43,080
because my grandfather
made a mistake,

553
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360
which is playing
foreign culture music

554
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,240
inside a big conference.

555
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:52,000
From that point
their life went straight down.

556
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,100
At the top of the core class
made of the elites of North Korea,

557
00:28:57,140 --> 00:28:59,340
high ranking party officials
and their families

558
00:28:59,380 --> 00:29:03,120
enjoy comfortable lifestyles
in the nation's developed cities,

559
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,020
like the capital, Pyongyang.

560
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,140
If you're an elite in North Korea,

561
00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:12,360
you get a lot of benefits
from showing loyalty to North Korea

562
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,120
and you can have a privileged life.

563
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,020
In the middle is the wavering class
made up of peasants and workers

564
00:29:19,060 --> 00:29:21,280
who have shown exceptional loyalty
to the regime,

565
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,260
despite the hardships
they're forced to endure.

566
00:29:25,220 --> 00:29:27,100
When I was about nine years old,

567
00:29:27,220 --> 00:29:30,280
the electricity was cut-off
and there was no running water.

568
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,400
So, I had to get water
from the streets.

569
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,060
At the bottom is the hostile class,

570
00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:41,040
made up of families that oppose
the regime at one time or another.

571
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,340
If you are designated a member
of the hostile class

572
00:29:45,380 --> 00:29:50,160
all the major decisions
are made by the state for you.

573
00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:55,340
Habitation, education, employment,
food, water, clothing.

574
00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:59,060
Everything has been
distributed by the state

575
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:01,400
according to your political rank.

576
00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:06,380
They are condemned regardless of
how bright or smart they,

577
00:30:06,420 --> 00:30:12,380
you know, might be, to a very low
class and low level opportunities.

578
00:30:12,420 --> 00:30:16,240
The Kim regime not only dictates
the level of luxury one has,

579
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,380
they also attempt to control
the influx of any information

580
00:30:19,420 --> 00:30:23,060
that could shed an alternative light
on the state of the world.

581
00:30:23,260 --> 00:30:27,240
The only TV channels,
TV programmes, and radio programmes

582
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,180
inside North Korea
are state-managed,

583
00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:32,260
state-operated stations.

584
00:30:33,140 --> 00:30:35,340
The internal news media
would have people believe that

585
00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:39,180
crimes like robbery and murder
are virtually non-existent.

586
00:30:39,220 --> 00:30:41,200
But extreme poverty forces many

587
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,100
to take desperate measures
to survive.

588
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,100
Not only are these
transgressions punished,

589
00:30:47,140 --> 00:30:50,220
but even watching the wrong media
can get a person sentenced

590
00:30:50,260 --> 00:30:53,080
to three years
in a forced labour camp.

591
00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:55,380
You enter the political
prisoner camp

592
00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:57,300
you lose the will to live.

593
00:30:57,340 --> 00:30:59,340
They exploit you
by forcing you to work

594
00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:02,360
until your body breaks down
and loses all strength.

595
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,340
You're forced to sacrifice
your life that way.

596
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,400
And the odds of a lawbreaker
getting caught are extremely high.

597
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:17,220
There are 270,000 agents
who conduct strict surveillance

598
00:31:17,260 --> 00:31:20,220
of North Korea's 25 million people.

599
00:31:20,340 --> 00:31:26,300
More over each and every person
in North Korea is an informer.

600
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,460
Many times you'll get sent to jail
just on suspicion of doing something

601
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,320
with no actual evidence or anything
that you've done anything wrong.

602
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,400
It was a system where neighbours
would spy on neighbours.

603
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,200
Even if I was a normal person

604
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,260
and expressed slight dissatisfaction
towards the party,

605
00:31:46,380 --> 00:31:48,100
they would report you,

606
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,380
and your entire family
would be captured

607
00:31:50,420 --> 00:31:53,100
and brought
to a political prison camp.

608
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,080
What happens in these camps,
is nothing short of apocalyptic.

609
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,060
They're on the par with the Nazis
did to the Jews and others

610
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:05,240
during World War II.

611
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,480
But citizens of North Korea
don't need to be in prison camps

612
00:32:09,020 --> 00:32:11,080
to experience atrocities.

613
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,460
They're subjected to torture,
forced labour,

614
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,480
and public executions.

615
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,120
When I was young
I watched a public execution,

616
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,320
90 bullets within one person
with AK 47s.

617
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,300
I saw nine people
getting burned to death,

618
00:32:32,340 --> 00:32:36,300
and I saw public executions,
I think seven times.

619
00:32:36,340 --> 00:32:40,160
I saw how they hanged nine people
and they burned them,

620
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,340
and it was horrible.

621
00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:45,280
They don't just go
after the dissident,

622
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,140
they go after three generations
of the dissidence family.

623
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,000
This mafia style approach
to punishment

624
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,060
isn't North Korea's only similarity
to the mob.

625
00:32:56,340 --> 00:32:59,300
The entire country is essentially
a criminal syndicate

626
00:32:59,340 --> 00:33:02,040
operating as an independent state.

627
00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:08,400
With the North Korean people
brainwashed and under firm control,

628
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,180
Kim Jong-Un can continue

629
00:33:10,220 --> 00:33:12,220
the frightening
military build-up started

630
00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:13,420
by his grandfather.

631
00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:15,260
Over the past 70 years,

632
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:18,200
North Korea has developed
the kind of nuclear weapons

633
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,360
only available to superpowers.

634
00:33:21,140 --> 00:33:23,480
The cost of this pursuit
is enormous.

635
00:33:24,020 --> 00:33:28,400
How has this small country managed
to fund their dangerous operation?

636
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:37,100
Through much of the 20th century
the North Korean economy relied

637
00:33:37,140 --> 00:33:39,200
on their rich supply of minerals.

638
00:33:40,140 --> 00:33:42,120
But as the country became isolated

639
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,320
the market for
their resources dried up,

640
00:33:45,060 --> 00:33:48,060
so they turned to alternate ways
of making money.

641
00:33:49,340 --> 00:33:53,400
Spearheading these operations
is the clandestine agency known

642
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,340
as Office 39.

643
00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,080
Office 39 has been estimated

644
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,100
to bring in $1 billion
per year or more,

645
00:34:02,140 --> 00:34:04,140
largely through illegal activities.

646
00:34:04,180 --> 00:34:06,240
Kim Jong-Un really
sits atop a criminal network

647
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,480
that would make Don Corleone
or Tony Soprano proud.

648
00:34:09,020 --> 00:34:12,380
One of North Korea's approaches
was the literal printing of money,

649
00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:16,100
duplicating U.S. dollars
with surprising accuracy.

650
00:34:16,140 --> 00:34:21,240
The notorious Supernotes,
the North Korean counterfeit bills.

651
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,320
The quality was very good.

652
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,480
There is a simple reason
behind that.

653
00:34:26,020 --> 00:34:29,160
The same (UNCLEAR) presses
made in Switzerland

654
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,120
used to produce
North Korean currency

655
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,060
were used to produce
counterfeit dollars.

656
00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:37,480
North Korea also committed
some of its farmland

657
00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:40,040
to a different brand
of counterfeiting.

658
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,060
North Korea is notorious
for producing counterfeit cigarettes

659
00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:46,460
and exporting contraband cigarettes.

660
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,220
North Korea is one of the world's
top 25 tobacco producing countries.

661
00:34:51,260 --> 00:34:53,040
Their high quality imitations

662
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,060
bring in an estimated
$160 million each year.

663
00:34:57,100 --> 00:34:59,240
Quality is very good
for a simple reason.

664
00:34:59,380 --> 00:35:02,280
Elsewhere it's criminal organisation

665
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,120
that produce these
counterfeit cigarettes.

666
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,240
In North Korea,

667
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,220
the Kim regime
is a criminal organisation

668
00:35:09,260 --> 00:35:11,460
masquerading as a sovereign state

669
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:17,320
that uses state assets in order
to produce counterfeit cigarettes.

670
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,400
And cigarettes are not
the only vice they exploit.

671
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,320
North Korea
is a complete drug cartel

672
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,060
with product flowing both internally
and externally.

673
00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:30,280
There is a huge drug problem
in North Korea.

674
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,040
I've spoken with many young
North Koreans who defected

675
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,240
and they very casually stated
that they had used drugs

676
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,380
on multiple occasions
in North Korea.

677
00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:43,460
They hadn't realised that this
was not acceptable behaviour.

678
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:47,040
Arguably people who are oppressed

679
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,240
and experience
substance abuse problems

680
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,080
are easier to control.

681
00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:56,120
From cocaine to methamphetamine,
to counterfeit Viagra,

682
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,260
North Korea has been
caught smuggling drugs

683
00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:00,300
to countries all over the world,

684
00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:04,340
including a cash of heroine
headed to Australia in 2003

685
00:36:04,380 --> 00:36:06,440
worth $80 million.

686
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,400
North Korea's drug trade

687
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,320
generates hundreds of millions
of dollars each year.

688
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,220
And sanctions designed to shut down
their multi faceted flow of money

689
00:36:15,260 --> 00:36:17,240
are expertly dodged.

690
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:22,280
North Koreans survive
on black market activity,

691
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,480
primarily through
establishing shell companies,

692
00:36:27,020 --> 00:36:31,300
fake corporations inside China
and in other countries.

693
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,180
By disguising
how transactions are paid for.

694
00:36:35,220 --> 00:36:36,380
They transact money

695
00:36:36,420 --> 00:36:39,020
from another shell company
and another one

696
00:36:39,060 --> 00:36:43,040
and would basically test
the patience of custom investigator

697
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,180
to go through four or five levels
of shell companies

698
00:36:46,220 --> 00:36:48,260
before he finds out that
there's a bank someplace

699
00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:51,000
in an offshore island
in the Caribbean

700
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,140
that is doing transactions
for North Korea

701
00:36:53,180 --> 00:36:55,220
that they never would have known
unless they had gone through

702
00:36:55,260 --> 00:36:58,240
and found all the shell companies
that were involved in financing it.

703
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:04,480
North Korea also dodges sanctions
against illegal activities

704
00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:08,220
by disguising their ships to look
like there from other countries

705
00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:11,000
in a process called "Reflagging."

706
00:37:11,340 --> 00:37:15,400
They have developed a complex
network of relationships

707
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,280
in order to have their ships
registered under foreign flags

708
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:25,080
and thus enabled to bypass
international scrutiny

709
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,160
and sanctions.

710
00:37:27,140 --> 00:37:29,360
One of the most frightening
exports from North Korea

711
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,320
involves weapons themselves.

712
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,060
North Korea has provided arms
to terrorists groups

713
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:40,140
like Hamas, Hezbollah,
to the Iranian State, Pakistan.

714
00:37:42,060 --> 00:37:45,400
International terrorism,
drug dealing, counterfeiting,

715
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,440
North Korea's flow
of dirty money

716
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,060
has helped them become the nuclear
state the U.S. has tried to prevent.

717
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,460
And unfortunately nuclear arms
are no longer the only weapon

718
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
the U.S. has to worry about.

719
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,240
North Korea's oppression
of its people has created a country

720
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,300
that appears to be stuck in time

721
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,340
with technology lagging behind
the rest of the world by decades.

722
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,180
If you looked at a world map
at night, what you tend to see is,

723
00:38:14,220 --> 00:38:18,300
China and Asia and South Korea
glittering with lights.

724
00:38:18,340 --> 00:38:21,140
And then there's North Korea,
the dark spot in the middle.

725
00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:22,140
In North Korea,

726
00:38:22,180 --> 00:38:24,260
for people they don't
have a water system.

727
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,160
They don't even have electricity.

728
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,420
It is very, very, very rare
to have somebody the computer.

729
00:38:30,180 --> 00:38:32,200
But underneath that backward façade,

730
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:34,420
North Korea has become
a technological threat

731
00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:37,180
that's already in our own backyard.

732
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,460
Their massive flow
of black market money

733
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,280
has helped them fund
a cyber warfare programme

734
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,120
that can hit anyone.

735
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,420
The average citizen in North Korea
doesn't have internet.

736
00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:54,160
But, you know, academics,
university researchers,

737
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,020
government employees,
and clearly their cyber hackers

738
00:38:57,060 --> 00:38:58,340
all have access to the internet

739
00:38:58,380 --> 00:39:01,220
and are able to conduct attacks
all over the world.

740
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,260
North Korea is probably among
the top five in the world

741
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:08,360
when it comes
to cyber hacking capability.

742
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,160
North Korea apparently trains
its best and brightest students

743
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,100
to become cyber warriors.

744
00:39:17,180 --> 00:39:21,200
Sony Pictures says it has no further
release plans for "The Interview."

745
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:23,360
An announcement
that has rocked Hollywood.

746
00:39:24,020 --> 00:39:25,300
In 2014,

747
00:39:25,340 --> 00:39:28,320
a cyber attack from North Korea
prompted Sony Pictures

748
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,480
to cancel the release of,
"The Interview"

749
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,140
a satirical comedy
that involved a plot

750
00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:35,120
to assassinate Kim Jong-Un.

751
00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:37,440
North Korea wipes
all of Sony's network,

752
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,300
but then also stole all
of their emails and released those.

753
00:39:40,340 --> 00:39:44,180
North Korea threatened blowing up
American theatres

754
00:39:44,220 --> 00:39:46,240
that would show "The Interview."

755
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,460
Sony made its decision after
the country's largest theatre chains

756
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,020
announced they were
pulling the movie.

757
00:39:52,060 --> 00:39:53,180
Concerned when the hackers

758
00:39:53,220 --> 00:39:55,140
threatened locations
showing the film.

759
00:39:55,180 --> 00:39:59,360
This will go down in the annals
of U.S.-North Korea relations

760
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,280
as the first time that
a foreign government

761
00:40:03,380 --> 00:40:07,380
imposed on Americans
self-censorship.

762
00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:09,420
The Sony hack proved

763
00:40:09,460 --> 00:40:12,060
that North Korea
can make a significant impact

764
00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:13,380
on American business.

765
00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:16,440
Emboldened by their success,

766
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,320
North Korean hackers
set their sights

767
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,320
on more lucrative targets.

768
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,200
They got into the Bank of Bangladesh

769
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:25,260
via what we call,
"Email Spearfishing."

770
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,480
They just sent emails
to particular people

771
00:40:28,020 --> 00:40:29,160
inside the Bank of Bangladesh,

772
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,120
tricked them into running
the attachments.

773
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,020
They attempted
to transfer $1 billion

774
00:40:34,060 --> 00:40:36,400
and if it was not
for a very small typo

775
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,440
they would succeeded.

776
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,200
They did get away in the end
with $81 million.

777
00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:43,460
The theft of tens of millions
of dollars is only the beginning

778
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,020
for North Korea's cyber criminals.

779
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:49,140
Their reach is now
more widespread than ever.

780
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,460
When the WannaCry outbreak
happened in May of 2017,

781
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,380
they basically upped their game.

782
00:40:54,420 --> 00:40:57,300
We're well aware of
the rising threat from Ransomware

783
00:40:57,340 --> 00:41:00,100
it has perhaps become
the number one cyber threat

784
00:41:00,140 --> 00:41:01,080
around the world right now,

785
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,220
but we've never seen anything
on this scale.

786
00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:08,360
This worm was able to jump
onto computers

787
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,200
by using what we call an exploit.

788
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:13,120
A piece of code that allows it
to get on your machine

789
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:14,180
without you having to do anything.

790
00:41:14,220 --> 00:41:17,040
Your computer just needs to be on
and connected to the internet.

791
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,340
We saw hundreds of thousands
of computers infected

792
00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:21,240
just over a few hours.

793
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,160
When WannaCry
got onto your machine,

794
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,140
it pretended to be
what's called Ransomware.

795
00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:28,360
Ransomware basically encrypts
all of your files on your machine

796
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,200
and then tells you,
"If you pay us $300,

797
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:33,440
we'll give you the key
to decrypt all of your files."

798
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:36,420
However, their goal was essentially
to just trash your computer.

799
00:41:36,460 --> 00:41:39,140
Unfortunately, it hit a variety
of organisations in Europe,

800
00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:42,140
including things
like hospitals in the UK,

801
00:41:42,180 --> 00:41:43,320
which were completely shutdown.

802
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,020
The German train system
for example was impacted

803
00:41:46,060 --> 00:41:48,140
as well as the telephone networks
in Spain.

804
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,120
There's nothing that,

805
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,100
is stopping North Korea
from doing the same thing,

806
00:41:54,140 --> 00:41:56,240
potentially to some
sort of power supplier.

807
00:41:59,260 --> 00:42:02,020
Often you can get
into one or two key points

808
00:42:02,060 --> 00:42:03,280
and cause a domino effect

809
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,360
and really impact
the entire U.S. grid.

810
00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:10,460
Once the power's out,
there's no banking going on anymore.

811
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,220
Potentially water flow
doesn't happen anymore,

812
00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:14,420
traffic lights are out.

813
00:42:14,460 --> 00:42:16,420
Everything ceases
to operate normally.

814
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,420
The most vulnerable countries

815
00:42:20,460 --> 00:42:24,300
are the ones that
have the most of their society

816
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:26,200
linked together by electronics.

817
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:29,080
It's not just a computer somewhere

818
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,020
that is connected
to your washing machine.

819
00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:34,140
Your washing machine is through
the web connected to your dryer.

820
00:42:34,180 --> 00:42:36,140
Everything's connected
with everything.

821
00:42:36,180 --> 00:42:39,200
What could possibly go wrong?
The answer is, everything.

822
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:42,020
We are constantly probed
in the cyber world.

823
00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:45,000
We, we... And have been
for sometime.

824
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,220
And we are alert
and we recognise the probes

825
00:42:49,260 --> 00:42:51,400
and we are responding.

826
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,040
And what would the U.S.'s
response be? A cyber attack back?

827
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,020
Unfortunately,
it's very asymmetrical,

828
00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:00,140
North Korea does not rely
on the internet,

829
00:43:00,180 --> 00:43:04,280
does not rely on all these computers
that we do to run our country.

830
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,320
So a cyber attack on North Korea
would be very ineffective.

831
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,280
This is not the first time
we've seen attacks

832
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,420
by Nation States
against U.S. companies.

833
00:43:12,460 --> 00:43:14,160
There have been
other types of attacks.

834
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:17,100
There have been other countries
who actually have capabilities

835
00:43:17,140 --> 00:43:19,160
and are inside
our corporate networks right now.

836
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,100
This is gonna require
strong government policy

837
00:43:22,140 --> 00:43:23,140
by the United States.

838
00:43:23,180 --> 00:43:26,420
A real thing that we're worried
about for North Korea in the future

839
00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:30,040
is their willingness to do
something much greater

840
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:31,240
than just that cyber attack.

841
00:43:34,060 --> 00:43:36,040
We have radar systems
that are watching

842
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,040
if there's incoming missiles,

843
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,140
so you could have a country
like North Korea

844
00:43:40,180 --> 00:43:42,300
basically conduct a cyber attack
on those radar systems

845
00:43:42,340 --> 00:43:45,220
to show that Russia has launched,

846
00:43:45,260 --> 00:43:47,160
you know, a tonne of
nuclear missiles at the U.S.

847
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,060
causing the U.S. to retaliate

848
00:43:52,060 --> 00:43:53,280
and essentially start a war

849
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,440
when there was no missiles to launch
to being with.

850
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,140
The mob like money machine
of North Korea

851
00:44:04,180 --> 00:44:06,120
and their aggressive cyber warfare

852
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,140
show how ruthless
they're willing to be

853
00:44:08,180 --> 00:44:09,300
against their opponents.

854
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,240
And now Kim Jong-Un
has nuclear capabilities

855
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,360
that rival those of the U.S.

856
00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:18,440
How did this regime develop
such a deadly arsenal

857
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,300
that requires such
specialised knowledge?

858
00:44:26,020 --> 00:44:27,140
In the 1940s,

859
00:44:27,180 --> 00:44:30,200
North Korea's first leader
Kim Il-Sung became obsessed

860
00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,320
with acquiring nuclear technology.

861
00:44:33,140 --> 00:44:36,040
Having seen the deadly power
of the bomb.

862
00:44:36,220 --> 00:44:39,260
In those days the U.S.
and the Soviet Union

863
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:43,140
enjoyed a near monopoly
on nuclear weapons.

864
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:46,340
North Korea pleaded
with the Soviet leadership

865
00:44:46,380 --> 00:44:48,360
for technology transfer.

866
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,240
The Soviet Union
did not trust North Korea,

867
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:55,160
so withheld providing
a blueprint for a bomb.

868
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,360
But the Soviets did help North Korea

869
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:02,280
with building a nuclear reactor
for power generation.

870
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,400
The Soviets told them,

871
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,220
"This is for peaceful
nuclear application."

872
00:45:07,260 --> 00:45:09,000
The problem is,

873
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,100
Kim Il-Sung decided that they had
to have their own capabilities.

874
00:45:13,140 --> 00:45:15,460
Blatantly ignoring their deal
with the Soviets,

875
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,060
North Korea would spend
the following decades

876
00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:20,300
pursuing nuclear ambitions
in defiance

877
00:45:20,340 --> 00:45:22,100
of the international community.

878
00:45:22,140 --> 00:45:25,140
The nuclear reactors
were used to generate plutonium,

879
00:45:25,180 --> 00:45:27,280
which can be used
as fuel for weapons.

880
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,440
The programme was past
from father to son,

881
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,320
when Kim Il-Sung died in 1994.

882
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,060
Kim Jong-Il took over,

883
00:45:34,100 --> 00:45:37,040
and put the country's
plutonium production on hold,

884
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,260
appearing to bow
to international pressure.

885
00:45:39,300 --> 00:45:41,400
But he was actually
switching his focus

886
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,140
to a different nuclear fuel,
enriched uranium.

887
00:45:45,180 --> 00:45:48,140
Unlike plutonium,
which requires a nuclear reactor

888
00:45:48,180 --> 00:45:51,060
that can easily be seen
by enemy satellites.

889
00:45:51,100 --> 00:45:55,140
Enriched uranium can be produced
in hidden underground facilities,

890
00:45:55,180 --> 00:45:57,180
and helping them develop
this technology

891
00:45:57,220 --> 00:45:59,400
was a man named A. Q. Khan.

892
00:46:00,100 --> 00:46:04,040
A. Q. Khan from Pakistan
was an entrepreneur

893
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:08,020
in the illicit dissemination
of nuclear technology,

894
00:46:08,060 --> 00:46:10,020
particularly uranium enrichment.

895
00:46:10,060 --> 00:46:14,140
A. Q. Khan traded uranium enrichment
technology with North Korea

896
00:46:14,180 --> 00:46:17,120
in exchange for
ballistic missile technology.

897
00:46:18,260 --> 00:46:20,400
The icing on the cake
was the revelation

898
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,220
that during this
whole period of time

899
00:46:22,260 --> 00:46:26,140
the North Koreans had built
a large uranium enrichment plant

900
00:46:26,180 --> 00:46:27,480
in an underground location.

901
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,180
A. Q. Khan provided the knowledge
and technology

902
00:46:31,220 --> 00:46:34,440
to produce highly enriched uranium
by using centrifuges,

903
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,420
designed to separate
the most volatile isotopes.

904
00:46:37,460 --> 00:46:42,340
The centrifuge
is a very rapidly spinning tool

905
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,480
that then spins this gas
and allows uranium 238,

906
00:46:47,020 --> 00:46:49,420
which is the common stuff
to go to the outside.

907
00:46:49,460 --> 00:46:52,320
Uranium 235,
which is the bomb fuel type,

908
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:53,420
stays on the inside.

909
00:46:53,460 --> 00:46:56,040
And you do it over and over and over

910
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,000
in what are called
centrifuge cascades.

911
00:46:59,260 --> 00:47:01,080
Throughout the 1990s,

912
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,040
North Korea was secretly mining
raw uranium

913
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:05,400
within their open borders.

914
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,360
For the mine workers
it was hard and dangerous labour.

915
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,460
They were reportedly only
given one day off per month,

916
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,420
while being directly exposed
to radio active materials

917
00:47:14,460 --> 00:47:16,240
known to cause cancer.

918
00:47:16,460 --> 00:47:19,000
Their work has paid off
for the regime.

919
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,140
In 2002, it was successful enough

920
00:47:21,180 --> 00:47:24,480
that North Korea admitted
they had a secret nuclear programme.

921
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:26,240
North Korea said,

922
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:30,020
"Yes, we are enriching uranium,
what are you going to do about it?"

923
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,060
They even invited
Dr. Siegfried Hecker,

924
00:47:33,100 --> 00:47:36,120
former director of
the Los Alamos National Laboratory

925
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,040
to take a tour of the facilities.

926
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,440
Most of the U.S. Government
did not want me to go

927
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:45,040
because people thought that I would
be used for propaganda purposes.

928
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,480
But there were a few courageous
individuals in the U.S. Government

929
00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:50,420
that said, "Why not?
We might learn something."

930
00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:55,380
Hecker visited North Korea
seven times from 2004 to 2010.

931
00:47:56,100 --> 00:47:59,200
He's the only American to have seen
the most secretive parts

932
00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:02,020
of the North Korean nuclear
weapons programme.

933
00:48:02,060 --> 00:48:06,480
In 2010, in one of my visits to
the North Korean Nuclear Complex,

934
00:48:07,140 --> 00:48:10,080
they actually showed me
a modern centrifuge facility.

935
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:11,400
My jaw just dropped.

936
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,140
I was stunned

937
00:48:13,340 --> 00:48:17,020
to see what looked like hundreds
and hundreds of centrifuges

938
00:48:17,060 --> 00:48:19,300
lined up
at three different locations.

939
00:48:19,340 --> 00:48:21,220
It was just stunning.

940
00:48:21,260 --> 00:48:24,160
The growing power
of the North Korean programme

941
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:28,420
had already been put on display
starting October 3rd, 2006,

942
00:48:28,460 --> 00:48:31,320
with their first underground
nuclear test.

943
00:48:32,020 --> 00:48:36,000
The first one was
a very small explosive field.

944
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,240
We know that they've tested.

945
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,120
Because when you test underground,

946
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,020
you send seismic signals
throughout the entire Earth

947
00:48:42,060 --> 00:48:44,020
and you can read
those seismic signals.

948
00:48:44,060 --> 00:48:46,200
In 2009 in May,

949
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:49,000
they conducted
a second nuclear test

950
00:48:49,180 --> 00:48:54,320
and that had about half of
the destructive power of Hiroshima.

951
00:48:55,460 --> 00:48:59,460
North Korea subsequent nuclear test
each showed a significant increase

952
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,320
in destructive force.

953
00:49:05,180 --> 00:49:09,020
By 2016, we saw big advancements

954
00:49:09,060 --> 00:49:11,260
in North Korea's
nuclear weapons development.

955
00:49:11,340 --> 00:49:15,160
And estimates really range
from around 20 to 30 kilotons,

956
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,220
which is roughly
the size of the bomb

957
00:49:17,260 --> 00:49:19,100
that was dropped on Nagasaki.

958
00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:23,380
North Korea's most recent
nuclear test in September of 2017,

959
00:49:23,420 --> 00:49:26,040
yielded its biggest blast yet.

960
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,460
Although difficult to pinpoint,

961
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,320
estimates for this latest blast

962
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:33,300
range from 70 kilotons
to 280 kilotons.

963
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,300
It's been so many years
since Hiroshima and Nagasaki

964
00:49:39,340 --> 00:49:42,120
that perhaps we are forgetting
the devastation

965
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,480
that these things yield,
but it is biblical.

966
00:49:47,460 --> 00:49:50,100
If North Korea could accurately drop

967
00:49:50,140 --> 00:49:52,340
one of their current nuclear weapons
on New York City,

968
00:49:52,380 --> 00:49:56,280
then the death toll could easily
be over 5 million people.

969
00:49:57,060 --> 00:49:59,020
Nuclear weapons are only dangerous

970
00:49:59,060 --> 00:50:01,340
if they can be delivered
to their target,

971
00:50:01,380 --> 00:50:05,400
and recent missile testing has shown
that North Korea is well on its way,

972
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,000
if not already there.

973
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,280
North Korea's first intercontinental
ballistic missile test

974
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:15,060
was conducted on July 4th, 2017,

975
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,040
as sort of North Korea's
present to America.

976
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,420
Every country
that's ever tested an ICBM,

977
00:50:23,460 --> 00:50:26,160
their first few tests are failures.

978
00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:31,040
So we were surprised that
their first test was so successful.

979
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,400
It is clear that North Korea's
moving forward

980
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,000
in trying to develop
ICBM technologies.

981
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,180
So they're getting better
and better and better.

982
00:50:39,220 --> 00:50:41,200
And we can keep issuing
press releases here

983
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:43,440
and have a lot of people in the West
ring their hands and say,

984
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,060
"Look my goodness,
but they're not there yet."

985
00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:47,440
The answer is,
I think they are there.

986
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,380
It's simply a matter of time

987
00:50:51,420 --> 00:50:55,300
before all targets
in the United States are vulnerable

988
00:50:55,340 --> 00:50:57,300
and really around the world.

989
00:51:01,020 --> 00:51:03,280
North and South Korea
have technically been at war

990
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,220
for the last seven decades.

991
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,120
Since the Korean War,

992
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,480
the Kim regime has dreamed of
dominating the Korean peninsula.

993
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:12,440
And they've now developed
the weaponry

994
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,320
to make any confrontation
catastrophic.

995
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,000
Under Kim Jong-Un,

996
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,080
threats to Seoul
have been escalating.

997
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,120
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

998
00:51:23,180 --> 00:51:26,080
What are his secret plans?

999
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,380
They want to unify
the peninsula violently.

1000
00:51:33,420 --> 00:51:35,360
They believe they need to be
in control of the peninsula

1001
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,080
and that they'll
use weapons to do it.

1002
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:42,080
Reunification is a desire expressed
by both North and South Korea.

1003
00:51:42,220 --> 00:51:45,200
But each side wants it
under their terms.

1004
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:47,400
If North Korea
took over South Korea,

1005
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,400
Kim Jong-Un would have
to convince 50 million people

1006
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:54,360
who are used to freedom
to submit to total state control.

1007
00:51:55,420 --> 00:51:58,460
Or build enough prisons
for those who won't.

1008
00:51:59,060 --> 00:52:01,220
If South Korea
took over North Korea,

1009
00:52:01,260 --> 00:52:03,480
it would be over the bodies
of Kim Jong-Un,

1010
00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:07,200
his 9 million military personnel,
countless civilians,

1011
00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:10,160
and as many South Koreans
as they could take with them,

1012
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,420
a price far too high to pay.

1013
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:18,320
But Kim Jong-Un could tip the tables
in his favour if he had the bomb.

1014
00:52:19,460 --> 00:52:22,220
North Korea's growing
nuclear capabilities

1015
00:52:22,260 --> 00:52:24,340
combined with their
provocative missile launches

1016
00:52:24,380 --> 00:52:25,440
and reckless threats

1017
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,320
have created unprecedented tension
along the DMZ.

1018
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:35,000
The DMZ stretches from
the Yellow Sea on the West

1019
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,340
to the Sea of Japan on the east.

1020
00:52:37,460 --> 00:52:40,240
It is the most militarised piece
of terrain

1021
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,260
that you would ever see
in the world.

1022
00:52:42,300 --> 00:52:46,400
It has 15-foot concertina
and barbed wire fences

1023
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,340
that go below the ground,
multiple feet,

1024
00:52:49,380 --> 00:52:51,360
mines on both sides,

1025
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,400
and it's patrolled
by the best soldiers

1026
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:59,300
the South Korean military
and the United States has 24/7.

1027
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,100
Just across the border
from South Korea lies Kijong Dong,

1028
00:53:04,140 --> 00:53:07,020
an entire town
that is completely fake.

1029
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,200
Known as propaganda village,

1030
00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:12,060
it was intended to project
and inviting lifestyle

1031
00:53:12,100 --> 00:53:14,180
to lure defectors
from South Korea.

1032
00:53:14,380 --> 00:53:17,460
Instead most defectors
are going the other way.

1033
00:53:20,020 --> 00:53:24,340
In November, a North Korean soldier
made a daring dash toward the DMZ.

1034
00:53:24,380 --> 00:53:26,340
He raced past a guard post,

1035
00:53:26,380 --> 00:53:30,120
then sprinted across and open
section of a joint security area

1036
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:31,280
entering the South.

1037
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,280
As North Korean soldiers
tried to gun him down.

1038
00:53:35,060 --> 00:53:39,120
He sustained four major wounds,
which drained him of half his blood

1039
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,140
before South Korean soldiers
could pull him to safety.

1040
00:53:42,180 --> 00:53:43,240
At the hospital,

1041
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,400
doctors found his digestive tract
riddled with parasitic worms,

1042
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,420
indicating a severe lack
of nutrition and hygiene.

1043
00:53:50,460 --> 00:53:53,180
It's especially troubling
considering soldiers

1044
00:53:53,220 --> 00:53:57,280
have preferred status
and receive the best provisions.

1045
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,360
South Korea immediately broadcast
news of the successful defection

1046
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,320
toward North Korean soldiers,

1047
00:54:03,420 --> 00:54:08,180
part of an ongoing propaganda war
between both sides along the DMZ.

1048
00:54:08,300 --> 00:54:11,020
South Korea even blares
Korean pop music

1049
00:54:11,060 --> 00:54:13,380
at the North Korean soldiers
to wear them down.

1050
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:16,320
(POP MUSIC)

1051
00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:20,320
In 2015,
this started a small fire-fight,

1052
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,340
when North Korean troops shot
at the speakers.

1053
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:29,360
The DMZ has become
increasingly militarised.

1054
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:33,140
Primarily because of the growth
of the North Korean military.

1055
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,220
It is the fourth largest military
in the world

1056
00:54:38,260 --> 00:54:42,200
with probably one of the largest
standing militaries

1057
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:45,280
in terms of infantry,
and armour, and artillery.

1058
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,080
With a tremendous emphasis
on their rocket, artillery

1059
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:50,300
and missile capabilities.

1060
00:54:50,340 --> 00:54:54,040
Capable of reaching Seoul
with zero warning.

1061
00:54:54,140 --> 00:54:56,380
The military of North Korea
should not mistake

1062
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,320
the resolve of
the United States of America

1063
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,420
to stand with our ally.

1064
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:07,300
The alliance between South Korea
and the United States is ironclad.

1065
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,200
The United States has only
three bilateral defence treaties.

1066
00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:13,360
The first is Japan,
the second is South Korea,

1067
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,120
and third is the Philippines.

1068
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:16,360
And we take this very seriously.

1069
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,220
The U.S. Military presence
in South Korea today...

1070
00:55:21,380 --> 00:55:23,380
is about 30,000.

1071
00:55:24,220 --> 00:55:27,160
We have billions of dollars
of defence and armaments there.

1072
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,120
We run regular military exercises
along the border.

1073
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,160
We guarantee we will defend them
if they are attacked.

1074
00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:36,360
If North Korea decided
to invade the South,

1075
00:55:37,020 --> 00:55:40,060
it would begin with the insertion
of special operation forces

1076
00:55:40,100 --> 00:55:41,040
along the coast.

1077
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,140
Hundreds and hundreds of aircraft

1078
00:55:43,180 --> 00:55:46,020
from which they would
launch airborne forces.

1079
00:55:46,180 --> 00:55:48,380
The dispersal of North Korean
special ops

1080
00:55:48,420 --> 00:55:50,320
across the lower parts
of the peninsula

1081
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:55,040
would draw resources away from
North Korea's primary target, Seoul.

1082
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:59,240
The South's capital is only 35 miles
from the DMZ.

1083
00:55:59,380 --> 00:56:02,400
There would be an artillery
and rocket barrage into the south.

1084
00:56:03,380 --> 00:56:06,220
That would be devastating
and catastrophic.

1085
00:56:06,380 --> 00:56:10,180
Almost immediately on the heels
of that would be an invasion...

1086
00:56:11,020 --> 00:56:15,160
down to principle corridors
that lead directly to Seoul.

1087
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,280
The idea of a war on
the Korean Peninsula is horrifying.

1088
00:56:23,300 --> 00:56:27,340
There are so many people,
tens of millions of people in Seoul

1089
00:56:27,380 --> 00:56:31,140
right in the crosshairs
of all of Kim's weaponry.

1090
00:56:31,260 --> 00:56:33,180
The ability to fight a war

1091
00:56:33,220 --> 00:56:36,020
and not have that
entire city destroyed

1092
00:56:36,060 --> 00:56:39,160
and those people killed
is extremely difficult.

1093
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,420
If the North Korean forces
were to exercise

1094
00:56:44,460 --> 00:56:47,020
their tremendous inventory

1095
00:56:47,060 --> 00:56:49,200
of artillery, and rockets,
and missiles.

1096
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:51,380
A large percentage
of those are located

1097
00:56:51,420 --> 00:56:55,380
in the northern slopes
of the mountains along the DMZ.

1098
00:56:55,420 --> 00:56:58,020
So the United States
or the South Korean forces

1099
00:56:58,060 --> 00:56:59,320
would have to fly to the north

1100
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,360
and then from
the north fly back down

1101
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,180
with an attack angle
to go after those caves.

1102
00:57:04,220 --> 00:57:07,320
North Korea's attack
would take place over the course

1103
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,360
of 30 to 45 minutes

1104
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,440
before the United States
and South Korea

1105
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:15,420
would even be able to start
to interdict these capabilities.

1106
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:20,460
That intervening 45 minutes
would be catastrophic to Seoul.

1107
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,000
Tens of thousands of families
would be destroyed.

1108
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,340
The devastation
would be unbelievable

1109
00:57:27,380 --> 00:57:30,220
and the panic would be unbelievable.

1110
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:36,360
The psychical presence of U.S.
troops in harms way in South Korea

1111
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,440
sends the loudest message
to North Korea,

1112
00:57:41,420 --> 00:57:42,460
"Don't do it."

1113
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:44,140
If you attack...

1114
00:57:44,460 --> 00:57:48,080
Americans will be among
the first to be sacrificed.

1115
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:53,100
We will march right into Pyongyang

1116
00:57:55,100 --> 00:57:57,220
and end your regime.

1117
00:58:03,420 --> 00:58:07,120
Kim Jong-Un has dreams
of taking over South Korea,

1118
00:58:09,060 --> 00:58:11,120
and he's added a nuclear arsenal

1119
00:58:11,260 --> 00:58:14,400
to go along with the fourth
largest military in the world.

1120
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,440
But he knows starting a war
would draw quick decisive wrath

1121
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,180
from the Unites States.

1122
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:24,100
If Kim Jong-Un
has serious military ambitions,

1123
00:58:24,140 --> 00:58:27,300
his only hope might be
to break America's will first

1124
00:58:27,340 --> 00:58:30,040
with a decisive pre-emptive strike.

1125
00:58:37,380 --> 00:58:40,000
North Korea may actually believe

1126
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,480
that they have to attack us
to prevent us from attacking them

1127
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,340
because they're
a massively insecure, poor,

1128
00:58:46,380 --> 00:58:48,020
and dangerous regime.

1129
00:58:48,220 --> 00:58:52,260
It is a possibility that the U.S.
has been preparing for.

1130
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,160
U.S. policy is extremely clear.

1131
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,220
If North Korea or Kim Jong-Un
decided to launch a nuclear attack

1132
00:59:02,260 --> 00:59:03,260
on the United States,

1133
00:59:03,300 --> 00:59:06,320
we would respond
with overwhelming force.

1134
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,140
The United States
would have a range of options

1135
00:59:10,220 --> 00:59:13,440
to basically turn North Korea
into a giant nuclear parking lot.

1136
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,140
We don't want war,

1137
00:59:15,180 --> 00:59:18,260
we don't want to have to take
military action against North Korea,

1138
00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:21,460
but there should be no doubt
in Kim Jong-Un's mind

1139
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:26,040
that if forced and if we believe
that's the only alternative,

1140
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,160
we will flatten his country.

1141
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,080
Together we are facing
the threat of the reckless

1142
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,180
and brutal regime in North Korea.

1143
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:38,140
The nuclear and ballistic missile
programmes of that regime

1144
00:59:38,180 --> 00:59:42,040
require a determined response.

1145
00:59:42,300 --> 00:59:46,060
But Trump's approach might cause
more problems than it solves.

1146
00:59:46,100 --> 00:59:50,220
This is an individual who shows
publicly observable behaviours

1147
00:59:50,260 --> 00:59:52,480
that are consistent
with narcissism.

1148
00:59:53,020 --> 00:59:57,160
He lives according to pure emotion
in the moment.

1149
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:00,120
He will send out tweets
in the moment

1150
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:01,480
that may be incendiary.

1151
01:00:02,020 --> 01:00:03,320
And so what you end up,

1152
01:00:03,460 --> 01:00:09,060
practically speaking is a battle
between two adolescents.

1153
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,280
In the face of this
blustery standoff

1154
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:15,480
Kim Jong-Un's unpredictable
and defiant behaviour

1155
01:00:16,020 --> 01:00:17,340
cannot be discounted.

1156
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:22,120
I think that Kim Jong-Un
could somehow get the idea

1157
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:26,220
that he could succeed with causing
the United States to back down

1158
01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:28,140
if he uses a nuclear weapon
against them.

1159
01:00:28,180 --> 01:00:29,200
That's nuts,

1160
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,240
but then so was
Hitler invading Russia.

1161
01:00:33,180 --> 01:00:35,480
And another week, another launch
from the North Koreans.

1162
01:00:36,020 --> 01:00:37,140
But this one was different.

1163
01:00:37,180 --> 01:00:39,120
For a start it didn't fail,

1164
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:43,220
and it appears to be a new type
of rocket with a longer range.

1165
01:00:43,260 --> 01:00:47,160
One that North Korea says
can carry a nuclear warhead.

1166
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,120
I testified to Congress on record

1167
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,180
that I believe North Korea
had the ability to produce

1168
01:00:53,220 --> 01:00:55,360
a intercontinental ballistic missile

1169
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,200
with a miniaturised nuclear warhead
with a re-entry vehicle

1170
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,280
that could successfully target
the United States.

1171
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,180
And I stand by
that assessment today.

1172
01:01:04,380 --> 01:01:07,080
Well, let's say in a scenario
that North Korean decide

1173
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:08,160
to make the fateful decision

1174
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,280
to launch a nuclear weapon
at the United States.

1175
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,480
In that scenario
they would fire their missile

1176
01:01:13,020 --> 01:01:16,120
presumably various types
of U.S. missile defences.

1177
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,300
Would try to intervene

1178
01:01:17,340 --> 01:01:20,040
and stop the North Koreans
from launching their attack

1179
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,020
and successfully hitting
the U.S. homeland.

1180
01:01:23,340 --> 01:01:25,360
The defended area encompasses,

1181
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:29,340
Alaska, Hawaii, and the 48 states
of the continental United States.

1182
01:01:32,460 --> 01:01:34,380
The ground base missile
defence system

1183
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:39,040
is designed to detect
the launch of a ballistic missile,

1184
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,320
begin tracking
that ballistic missile,

1185
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:46,100
which then determines the best time
to gauge that ballistic missile

1186
01:01:46,140 --> 01:01:49,020
so that the debris
will burn up in space

1187
01:01:49,060 --> 01:01:50,480
and will not fall on the homeland.

1188
01:01:54,020 --> 01:01:56,360
They need to understand
I dropped bombs for most of my life.

1189
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,060
Should North Korea launch

1190
01:02:00,100 --> 01:02:01,220
and Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile.

1191
01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:03,080
The ground base
missile defence system

1192
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,080
will engage and destroy
that target,

1193
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:07,360
I have high confidence in that.

1194
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,340
But not all experts agree
that America's missile defence

1195
01:02:12,380 --> 01:02:13,480
is impregnable.

1196
01:02:14,260 --> 01:02:18,320
If our friends in North Korea
launched a ballistic missile.

1197
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:20,320
We have a very small

1198
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,140
and very partial ballistic missile
defence system.

1199
01:02:24,180 --> 01:02:27,460
It is almost entirely focused
on attacks

1200
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,200
from the north or the northwest

1201
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,180
because of the enemy
that we've been working

1202
01:02:33,220 --> 01:02:36,160
on trying to defend against
with Russia and China.

1203
01:02:36,380 --> 01:02:38,460
If they take a SCUD missile

1204
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,020
and comes up close
on a container ship

1205
01:02:41,060 --> 01:02:42,280
to the American coast

1206
01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:44,060
and launches up,

1207
01:02:44,100 --> 01:02:48,040
we're not deployed in such a way
with our ballistic missile defences

1208
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:49,300
as to stop that.

1209
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:51,300
President Bush wanted to create

1210
01:02:51,340 --> 01:02:54,020
a national missile
defence capability.

1211
01:02:54,060 --> 01:02:56,460
We will develop and deploy
effective missile defences

1212
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:00,180
to protect America and our allies
from sudden attack.

1213
01:03:00,220 --> 01:03:03,160
But under the Obama Administration
it was brought to a halt.

1214
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:04,320
We will redouble our efforts

1215
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:08,160
toward a more robust international
non-proliferation regime

1216
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,280
that all countries
have responsibilities to meet.

1217
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,440
We're not completely
without defences,

1218
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:18,140
but we could be in much more
secure shape today

1219
01:03:18,180 --> 01:03:20,460
had the Obama Administration
not gutted

1220
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:24,020
the Bush 43 Administration
Missile defence effort.

1221
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,300
There is also a possibility that
North Korea could cripple America

1222
01:03:39,340 --> 01:03:42,340
without a nuclear bomb
ever hitting the country.

1223
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,220
An electromagnetic pulse or E.M.P,

1224
01:03:46,260 --> 01:03:50,240
is a burst of radiation that could
damage and disable a power grid.

1225
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,200
An E.M.P could be triggered
by a nuclear blast

1226
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:57,420
many miles above its target,
eliminating the need for accuracy.

1227
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:01,320
(COUNTDOWN)

1228
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:07,280
There is something called

1229
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,020
a fractional orbital
bombardment system

1230
01:04:10,060 --> 01:04:11,200
or a FOBS,

1231
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:15,240
which the Russians developed
and for reasons known to them,

1232
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,320
they've shared
with the North Koreans.

1233
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:21,440
And what a FOBS is, is a launch
of a nuclear weapon on a satellite,

1234
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,180
but the launch goes to the south

1235
01:04:25,100 --> 01:04:26,420
instead of the north.

1236
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:30,280
Our sensors aren't really very well
designed to pick that out

1237
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:34,160
of the other satellites
and space junk and so forth.

1238
01:04:36,140 --> 01:04:39,280
It detonates
50 to a 100 miles into space.

1239
01:04:40,220 --> 01:04:44,400
The area that it is over could
have its electric grid knocked out

1240
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:48,000
and not just temporarily
with the lights off for a few hours,

1241
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:51,360
but very solidly
for a long period of time.

1242
01:04:52,140 --> 01:04:54,360
We'll lose millions of people
in the United States

1243
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:58,360
from starvation, and lack of water,
and social breakdown.

1244
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:02,200
We're not talking about

1245
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,120
any particularly
sophisticated capability.

1246
01:05:06,020 --> 01:05:09,000
It's just a satellite in orbit

1247
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,140
getting blown up by the North Korean
command and saying,

1248
01:05:13,180 --> 01:05:16,480
"Okay, on this PAT Track around
let's blow it up over Omaha."

1249
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:27,320
For the last 25 years,

1250
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,040
from President Clinton
through President Trump,

1251
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:31,340
the United States has attempted

1252
01:05:31,380 --> 01:05:34,020
to halt North Korea's
nuclear development

1253
01:05:34,060 --> 01:05:37,120
through diplomatic sanctions
rather than by force,

1254
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:38,440
to little affect.

1255
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,260
The Kim's have all lied
through their teeth

1256
01:05:42,300 --> 01:05:45,100
about their commitments
not to go nuclear and the rest.

1257
01:05:45,140 --> 01:05:47,080
I think this would be
our fourth time

1258
01:05:47,180 --> 01:05:49,400
in negotiating with them,
having them lie to us

1259
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,480
and then break their agreements.

1260
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:55,240
The U.S. knows it will need
international cooperation

1261
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,000
to combat North Korea's
rogue actions,

1262
01:05:58,040 --> 01:05:59,300
and world leaders have agreed

1263
01:05:59,340 --> 01:06:02,360
on bringing the harshest
international sanctions yet.

1264
01:06:03,060 --> 01:06:05,480
But even this may prove ineffective.

1265
01:06:10,340 --> 01:06:13,460
The purpose of levying sanctions
against a dangerous regime

1266
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,020
is to make it crumble from within.

1267
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:21,080
Either the leader capitulates
or the people rebel.

1268
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,400
The brutal conditions inside
North Korea are well documented.

1269
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,180
Is there a chance
the people will rise up

1270
01:06:28,220 --> 01:06:30,040
and topple the regime?

1271
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:36,340
The military has never been
able to challenge the Kim's.

1272
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:41,200
And that dynamic has been maintained
under Kim Jong-Un as well.

1273
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:45,400
So the danger or the risk
of a military coup d'état

1274
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:48,480
inside North Korea is quite low.

1275
01:06:49,260 --> 01:06:55,080
The military remains beholden
to the Kim leaders themselves

1276
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,280
and the party that supports
the supreme leader.

1277
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:04,320
Kim Jong-Un is by far less beloved

1278
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,380
than either of his predecessors
and that's a problem.

1279
01:07:07,420 --> 01:07:10,380
It's difficult to maintain a tyranny

1280
01:07:10,420 --> 01:07:16,360
when the one unifying factor is the
Cult of Personality around a leader

1281
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:21,040
who is as off as Kim Jong-Un is.

1282
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:24,060
The possibility that eventually
the people see through it,

1283
01:07:24,100 --> 01:07:26,360
and some sort of popular
uprising happens,

1284
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,120
goes up everyday.

1285
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:29,340
It's just unlikely,

1286
01:07:29,380 --> 01:07:31,380
and we may not be able to afford

1287
01:07:31,420 --> 01:07:34,000
to wait long enough
for that to happen

1288
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,260
while he goes headlong down
the path of nuclear domination.

1289
01:07:37,300 --> 01:07:39,420
I think a revolution from within...

1290
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:43,340
the framework of
the North Korean state is improbable

1291
01:07:44,020 --> 01:07:46,400
because the police
and military structures

1292
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,340
are so powerful and oppressive.

1293
01:07:48,380 --> 01:07:52,380
Many people wonder why North Korean
people would stay in that situation,

1294
01:07:52,420 --> 01:07:54,360
why they would choose
to live that way,

1295
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,420
why there wouldn't be
some sort of civil uprising.

1296
01:07:57,460 --> 01:07:59,300
And when asked about this,

1297
01:07:59,340 --> 01:08:03,180
defectors from North Korea
quickly dismissed these ideas.

1298
01:08:03,220 --> 01:08:07,340
And they say there's no thinking,
there's no free thought.

1299
01:08:07,380 --> 01:08:09,020
It's just fear.

1300
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:14,060
They brainwashed us to think that
all other countries in the world,

1301
01:08:14,100 --> 01:08:15,420
except North Korea,

1302
01:08:15,460 --> 01:08:18,360
were filled with beggars
and poor people.

1303
01:08:19,340 --> 01:08:20,300
We were taught

1304
01:08:20,340 --> 01:08:24,440
that in the United States
or South Korea or other countries,

1305
01:08:24,480 --> 01:08:27,300
that those countries
were filled with beggars

1306
01:08:27,340 --> 01:08:30,200
who did not even
have porridge to eat.

1307
01:08:30,340 --> 01:08:32,300
We believed that was the truth.

1308
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:37,300
To put diplomatic
and economic sanctions on the regime

1309
01:08:37,340 --> 01:08:40,280
in a way that almost
starves it out of existence

1310
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:42,280
and forces him to capitulate,

1311
01:08:42,380 --> 01:08:44,420
give up his nuclear ambitions

1312
01:08:44,460 --> 01:08:48,420
and essentially plead for food
and energy to run his country.

1313
01:08:48,460 --> 01:08:52,120
That runs the risk
of him waiting us out

1314
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:54,340
to the point where his country
is starving

1315
01:08:54,380 --> 01:08:56,180
and the people are dying,

1316
01:08:56,220 --> 01:08:59,240
but he's still got
all those military capabilities

1317
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,400
because he'll just divert resources
to those things

1318
01:09:02,440 --> 01:09:05,100
while the people die
in the streets.

1319
01:09:07,380 --> 01:09:11,180
The brazenness of Kim Jong-Un
has gone beyond verbal volleys

1320
01:09:11,220 --> 01:09:13,180
at the U.S. and South Korea.

1321
01:09:13,220 --> 01:09:17,420
And has graduated to overt actions
toward another neighbour, Japan,

1322
01:09:17,460 --> 01:09:20,040
that has them feeling on edge.

1323
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:23,440
This morning new worries,

1324
01:09:24,180 --> 01:09:26,260
the Japanese Prime Minister
warning North Korea

1325
01:09:26,300 --> 01:09:30,240
may already be able to send
a missile loaded with sarin gas

1326
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:31,420
into Japan.

1327
01:09:31,460 --> 01:09:34,320
A deadly arsenal
and an unpredictable leader

1328
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,360
who's not yet backing down.

1329
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:38,440
The recent North Korean
missile test,

1330
01:09:38,480 --> 01:09:42,140
which flew directly
over the islands of Japan.

1331
01:09:42,180 --> 01:09:44,100
We are on a pretty heavy warfront.

1332
01:09:44,380 --> 01:09:47,440
Even if these reckless actions
are meant merely as taunts,

1333
01:09:47,480 --> 01:09:50,180
they could lead
to serious consequences.

1334
01:09:50,220 --> 01:09:51,420
I think the greatest threat
that we face

1335
01:09:51,460 --> 01:09:53,300
when it comes to North Korea's
nuclear weapons

1336
01:09:53,340 --> 01:09:57,040
and missile programmes
is the vent of an accidental war.

1337
01:09:58,420 --> 01:10:00,360
The greatest example
I could think of

1338
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:03,460
is if the North Koreans decide
to test another missile.

1339
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:07,140
And that missile goes over Japanese
or South Korean territory

1340
01:10:07,180 --> 01:10:08,260
and crash lands.

1341
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,220
If lives are lost,

1342
01:10:10,260 --> 01:10:12,340
if people hurt, or maimed,
or injured,

1343
01:10:12,380 --> 01:10:15,380
I guarantee you either Seoul
or Japan in that instance

1344
01:10:15,420 --> 01:10:17,180
would want to retaliate.

1345
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:21,240
Ready to fight tonight
is the slogan at Osan Airbase.

1346
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,460
Its fighter jets
just a three-minute flight

1347
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:25,120
from the North Korea border.

1348
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:27,260
Every time the North Koreans
test fire a missile,

1349
01:10:27,300 --> 01:10:29,000
my hands literally start to shake

1350
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:30,400
because I always
wait 30 minutes later

1351
01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:33,000
to make sure that missile
didn't crash land somewhere

1352
01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:34,260
because I know where it can lead,

1353
01:10:34,300 --> 01:10:36,460
and I think that's
the greatest pathway to war.

1354
01:10:37,440 --> 01:10:39,340
Nuclear weapons
are dramatically different

1355
01:10:39,380 --> 01:10:41,300
than any other tool in our arsenal.

1356
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:47,220
Don't forget that a nuclear weapon
is harnessing the power of the Sun.

1357
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,420
Not only would a nuclear exchange be
perhaps the worst thing

1358
01:10:51,460 --> 01:10:53,400
to have happened in world history,

1359
01:10:53,440 --> 01:10:56,360
but what may follow
could be even worse.

1360
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,240
We could trigger
a global nuclear winter

1361
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,140
that could kill billions of people.

1362
01:11:01,180 --> 01:11:03,340
The horror of this is
just immeasurable.

1363
01:11:06,260 --> 01:11:08,260
(CHANTING "KIM JONG-UN")

1364
01:11:08,480 --> 01:11:12,160
We have entered a period
of consequences.

1365
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,160
We cannot go on kicking the can
down the road.

1366
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:18,420
Our freedom, way of life,
will be compromised,

1367
01:11:18,460 --> 01:11:20,180
if we take no action.

1368
01:11:22,220 --> 01:11:25,180
Many would argue the United States
and South Korea let this happen.

1369
01:11:25,220 --> 01:11:27,060
We had a policy
of strategic patience,

1370
01:11:27,100 --> 01:11:28,460
North Korea kept doing its thing.

1371
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,140
We did nothing to
alter their behaviour.

1372
01:11:31,300 --> 01:11:32,460
They now have nukes.

1373
01:11:33,140 --> 01:11:34,220
It's a done deal.

1374
01:11:34,380 --> 01:11:37,280
That genie is not gonna
get back into that bottle.

1375
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:44,280
North Korea's long ranged plan
has finally paid off.

1376
01:11:44,420 --> 01:11:46,220
It started with Kim Il-Sung

1377
01:11:46,260 --> 01:11:49,040
relentlessly pursuing
nuclear technology

1378
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,340
while taking oppressive control
of his people.

1379
01:11:51,460 --> 01:11:53,280
Nothing was beneath him,

1380
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:56,460
including kidnapping foreigners
to further his cause.

1381
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:00,280
His son, Kim Jong-Il
continued his legacy,

1382
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,000
neglecting his citizens
during famine

1383
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,140
while boosting
his black market operations

1384
01:12:05,180 --> 01:12:07,100
like drug running
and counterfeiting.

1385
01:12:07,300 --> 01:12:12,000
And now grandson Kim Jong-Un
has put the pieces together.

1386
01:12:12,180 --> 01:12:14,440
Achieving long distance
nuclear weapons.

1387
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,420
His success
and the dangerous flaunting of it

1388
01:12:17,460 --> 01:12:19,400
has the world
on the brink of war.

1389
01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:22,020
This is not something
we can lightly,

1390
01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:24,340
the global community
needs to understand

1391
01:12:24,380 --> 01:12:28,040
every country is in danger
from the actions of North Korea.

1392
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:32,260
The question is,
"What can be done now?"

1393
01:12:40,340 --> 01:12:42,240
One strategy that has been debated

1394
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,040
is the so-called
decapitation approach.

1395
01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:50,440
Taking out Kim Jong-Un
either by assassin

1396
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,400
or by surgical strike.

1397
01:12:54,420 --> 01:12:57,280
It's an idea fraught
with complications.

1398
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,340
In the context of Korea
something has to be understood.

1399
01:13:02,380 --> 01:13:05,480
But it is very tightly organised
and tightly secured,

1400
01:13:06,020 --> 01:13:07,440
tightly controlled on its borders.

1401
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,140
The only way that you could succeed

1402
01:13:11,180 --> 01:13:14,120
in trying to assassinate someone
is to penetrate that.

1403
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:17,040
And I think you find that
the commander of special operations

1404
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:18,420
would tell you
they couldn't penetrate it,

1405
01:13:18,460 --> 01:13:20,320
and if they tried
they would be killed.

1406
01:13:22,140 --> 01:13:25,060
The possibility of assassinating
Kim Jong-Un,

1407
01:13:25,300 --> 01:13:27,480
number one is difficult to pull off

1408
01:13:28,020 --> 01:13:30,440
from just a pure can we identify

1409
01:13:30,480 --> 01:13:33,480
where he will be
and hit and kill him.

1410
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:35,260
We can't guarantee it.

1411
01:13:35,300 --> 01:13:38,240
He knows that's a goal,
he knows that's a problem,

1412
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,480
and he's an extremely
paranoid individual.

1413
01:13:41,020 --> 01:13:42,200
So, he's got body doubles,

1414
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:46,160
he's got every means of trying
to avoid being assassinated.

1415
01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:49,140
In addition, it is almost certain

1416
01:13:49,180 --> 01:13:52,040
that he's got some sort of
dead man switch.

1417
01:13:52,140 --> 01:13:55,440
He's got whatever
his most trusted allies are,

1418
01:13:56,100 --> 01:13:59,240
with the authority, and the power,
and the order,

1419
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:03,220
to go ahead and do something awful
if he's taken out.

1420
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:08,080
Let's say in the future
the United States

1421
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:09,140
has satellites overhead

1422
01:14:09,180 --> 01:14:12,300
and Kim Jong-Un is inspecting
a missile that's gonna be tested.

1423
01:14:12,340 --> 01:14:14,100
The North Koreans love putting out

1424
01:14:14,140 --> 01:14:16,420
a demonstration platform
for Kim Jong-Un to sit upon

1425
01:14:16,460 --> 01:14:18,480
and U.S. satellites might be
able to pick that up.

1426
01:14:19,020 --> 01:14:21,180
We might be able to
quickly launch a tomahawk

1427
01:14:21,220 --> 01:14:24,340
and take out that missile platform
and take out Kim Jong-Un.

1428
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:27,480
Nobody can answer the question of,
"What happens after?"

1429
01:14:28,020 --> 01:14:30,380
Imagine a scenario
where we do take out Kim Jong-Un

1430
01:14:30,420 --> 01:14:32,480
and the country does
devolve in a civil war.

1431
01:14:33,020 --> 01:14:36,000
That would be a civil war that could
be fought with nuclear weapons,

1432
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:38,420
chemical weapons,
biological weapons.

1433
01:14:39,100 --> 01:14:42,420
Huge amounts of military power
that are in North Korea.

1434
01:14:42,460 --> 01:14:43,260
Keep in mind,

1435
01:14:43,300 --> 01:14:46,020
a North Korean civil war
fought with nuclear weapons,

1436
01:14:46,060 --> 01:14:47,360
would not stay in North Korea

1437
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:50,040
just because of the nature
of nuclear weapons.

1438
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,040
Atomic fallout spreads.

1439
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:53,420
All we have to do is
look at the wind patterns

1440
01:14:53,460 --> 01:14:55,360
to figure out who is going to die,

1441
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,080
so there is no way that
we can entertain the idea

1442
01:14:58,120 --> 01:14:59,280
of some sort of assassination.

1443
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:00,400
That's just crazy.

1444
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:05,200
If there's any attempt
to remove Kim Jong-Un from power

1445
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:07,120
it will most likely have to be done

1446
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:10,180
with North Korea's long-time ally,
China.

1447
01:15:11,020 --> 01:15:14,140
I think the only way to stop

1448
01:15:14,180 --> 01:15:16,300
the North Korean
nuclear weapons programme

1449
01:15:16,340 --> 01:15:18,140
is to eliminate the regime.

1450
01:15:18,180 --> 01:15:22,100
I think the best way to do that
is to reunite the two Koreas.

1451
01:15:22,140 --> 01:15:24,000
To convince China

1452
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:27,400
that the merger of the two Koreas
is in their national interest,

1453
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:30,220
as I think it's in
America's national interest.

1454
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:33,300
China has the unique ability
to bring this about.

1455
01:15:33,340 --> 01:15:36,460
It supplies over 90 percent
of North Korea's energy,

1456
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:41,080
supplies enormous amounts of food
and other humanitarian assistance.

1457
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:43,100
In 2017,

1458
01:15:43,260 --> 01:15:45,440
the Trump administration
has very publicly

1459
01:15:45,480 --> 01:15:48,000
and repeatedly reached out to China

1460
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:50,020
in an attempt to find
common interest

1461
01:15:50,060 --> 01:15:51,460
in taking out the Kim regime,

1462
01:15:52,220 --> 01:15:55,340
and to reunite North and South Korea
as one nation.

1463
01:15:55,380 --> 01:15:58,040
I met with the President of China.

1464
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:02,320
I believe he wants to
get that situation taken care of.

1465
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:06,120
They have tremendous power
and we'll see what happens.

1466
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:08,160
Well, President Trump
has made it clear,

1467
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:10,480
as have other American Presidents

1468
01:16:11,020 --> 01:16:13,320
that he will not accept
a nuclear North Korea.

1469
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,340
And I think the point that
needs to be made to China is,

1470
01:16:16,380 --> 01:16:19,080
that means
we will use military force.

1471
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:22,060
That is the kind of scenario
we could avoid

1472
01:16:22,100 --> 01:16:25,080
through negotiation
with China to agree

1473
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,340
to a collaborative collapse
of the North Korean regime.

1474
01:16:29,020 --> 01:16:32,180
I wish we had this conversation
a long time ago.

1475
01:16:32,220 --> 01:16:35,140
But we didn't
because we followed the false,

1476
01:16:35,180 --> 01:16:38,220
misleading, hopelessly naive policy

1477
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:41,200
of believing that we could
either chitchat North Korea

1478
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:44,020
out of its nuclear weapons,
or pressure them out.

1479
01:16:44,060 --> 01:16:47,100
And both those options
have been tried for 25 years

1480
01:16:47,140 --> 01:16:48,200
and they've failed.

1481
01:16:48,440 --> 01:16:51,120
But getting China
to turn against their neighbour

1482
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:54,020
may have too many hurdles
to overcome.

1483
01:16:54,140 --> 01:16:57,100
Even if we were able to get
the Kim family out of power,

1484
01:16:57,140 --> 01:17:00,180
you now are left with potentially
a massive refugee problem.

1485
01:17:01,100 --> 01:17:04,100
That's part of why China
is so concerned about this issue.

1486
01:17:04,140 --> 01:17:07,160
If North Korea goes up
in flames one way or the other,

1487
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:09,160
the refugee flow into China

1488
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:12,080
or the massive humanitarian crisis
on their border

1489
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,460
would be extremely expensive
and horrific for them,

1490
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:16,440
as it would be, of course,
for South Korea.

1491
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:20,040
The Chinese,
when they survey all their options

1492
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:23,220
nobody's dying right now in China
because of what's happening.

1493
01:17:23,260 --> 01:17:25,000
They can live with that right now.

1494
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,400
They don't want to live with
something that would be far worse.

1495
01:17:29,220 --> 01:17:32,300
There's a different option
that would require less planning,

1496
01:17:32,340 --> 01:17:35,040
but much greater political risk.

1497
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:38,460
You have to be ready to do something
that no one in the United States,

1498
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:40,400
certainly in Washington
has talked about,

1499
01:17:40,440 --> 01:17:43,320
which is to ultimately
leave the peninsula.

1500
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:46,400
In doing this we're effectively
defusing the crisis.

1501
01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:49,160
And that's a very important
development for the Chinese

1502
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:52,040
because they've lived
with this nightmare

1503
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,480
that at some point
we would sponsor an invasion

1504
01:17:55,020 --> 01:17:56,360
through Korea back into China.

1505
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,400
Now, you and I
and other Americans may say,

1506
01:17:58,440 --> 01:18:00,060
"Well, that's ridiculous."

1507
01:18:00,100 --> 01:18:01,100
It's not very ridiculous

1508
01:18:01,140 --> 01:18:03,300
when you look at it
from the vantage point of Beijing,

1509
01:18:03,340 --> 01:18:06,260
that has lived with this threat
for hundreds and hundreds of years.

1510
01:18:09,480 --> 01:18:12,440
The idea that
the United States should withdraw

1511
01:18:12,480 --> 01:18:16,460
from the Korean Peninsula
is completely inconceivable.

1512
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:19,280
United States has signed
a treaty with South Korea

1513
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,380
that we defend them,
but more than that,

1514
01:18:21,420 --> 01:18:24,420
that we provide a nuclear umbrella
to South Korea.

1515
01:18:24,460 --> 01:18:26,360
Further more,
the North Koreans know

1516
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:30,120
if they ever launched an attack
on South Korea or our forces there,

1517
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:31,440
we would respond.

1518
01:18:31,480 --> 01:18:33,460
That would be the end of the regime.

1519
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,460
That's why they're there,
that's why they have to stay there.

1520
01:18:38,140 --> 01:18:40,440
If the U.S. wants to prove
its resolve,

1521
01:18:40,480 --> 01:18:44,220
one option would be to flex
some military might of its own.

1522
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:48,100
At some point President Trump
is going to determine

1523
01:18:48,140 --> 01:18:51,280
that continuing to allow Kim
and the regime

1524
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:55,260
to perfect their
nuclear ICBM capabilities

1525
01:18:55,300 --> 01:18:59,080
is more dangerous than conducting
a demonstrative strike.

1526
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:02,180
That's where we would pick
a particular military target

1527
01:19:02,220 --> 01:19:04,120
and destroy it, to show Kim

1528
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:07,260
that this is what could happen
to all of his military hardware.

1529
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,300
And hope that that focuses his mind

1530
01:19:11,340 --> 01:19:14,080
in a way
where the calculation changes.

1531
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:17,040
Where he says,
"Okay, maybe I won't survive this."

1532
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:21,340
But such a show of force could
have the worst consequences of all.

1533
01:19:23,100 --> 01:19:24,360
The North Koreans have a big ally

1534
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,200
and that's the people's republic
of China

1535
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:28,060
that would be World War III.

1536
01:19:28,100 --> 01:19:29,300
That's something we have to avoid.

1537
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:35,120
While nations continue to debate on
how to deal with the hermit kingdom

1538
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:36,380
and their tyrannical regime,

1539
01:19:36,420 --> 01:19:40,160
the United States continues
to prepare for the worst

1540
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:41,400
from North Korea.

1541
01:19:42,220 --> 01:19:44,260
The problem we have
with North Korea,

1542
01:19:44,300 --> 01:19:46,380
we don't have any good options.

1543
01:19:46,420 --> 01:19:50,340
What we have is a cornucopia
of bad answers,

1544
01:19:50,380 --> 01:19:54,100
and at some point we're gonna
have to pick the least bad answer

1545
01:19:54,140 --> 01:19:55,040
and live with it.

1546
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:57,080
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