infection just overwhelms someone s immune system. tributes pouring in on social media. espn producer and friend melinda adams tells nbc news, ed was a bright light, dimmed way too soon. while his reporting was superior, it s his kindness and joy for life we will miss. ed died tuesday on his 34th birthday. he was engaged to be married next year. writing about his fiance in his final instagram post, love you, babe. thanks for putting up with my ak a.m. coughing fits. i m edward ashoff, espn. kerry sanders, nbc news. what a heart breaking story. still ahead in 2019, demonstrators took to the streets around the world to demand change. we will take a look back at the year in protests and how they might spill into the new decade. back in a moment. decade. back in a moment
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gigantic weapon than the many smaller weapons they do have. makes it much more difficult, indeed, impossible, to conduct a preemptive strike. and colonel, kim jong uncelebrates his 34th birthday tomorrow. do you think he surprised the u.s. last year with his commitment to the nuclear weapons program? oh, yeah, definitely we were spliced. we were all sanguine about how long it would take the north koreans to develop weapons, to develop the capability to deliver them. and when kim came to power, he accelerated the north korean program to result in exactly what we see now. we were caught completely flat-footed, and now can t do very much about it. i think it s it s interesting to note that we became really sanguine about it because we relied very heavily on sanctions. we thought that sanctions would really make it impossible. certainly more difficult for north korea to do what it s