survival in sub zero temperatures in the mountains of nevada. a missing family, two adults and four children found alive two days after they vanished during a day out to play in the snow. well, they survived in two-days temperatures below zero by burning their spare tire around warming up rocks to avoid frostbite. the family s jeep was spotted laying upside down in the distance through binoculars. it just went you teup on a s embankment and tipped over. this community came together and helped it come to a successful conclusion. james glanton and his girlfriend had food and waut ten the jeem. no one had frostbite. all six are expected to be just fine. evacuations are lifted this morning after scary moments when an ice dam broke.
efforts at tunneling to create a space for an underground nuclear device to be tested and it could happen sometime soon, only this time, it may be a uranium bomb instead of plutonium. will they do it in your judgment, and what then? it s impossible to know for certain but yes, it looks pretty likely, the way this usually comes out, south korean intelligence starts leaking information to the south korean press. that has happened. it looks like preparations are underway. the uranium bomb is a little scarier of a prospect because it s the simpler design of pru tonium bombs that north korea has tested before with mixed results. our first bomb was a uranium wuks the first one we dropped in combat so you likely have the evolution of the north korean program, so we step look at this and it looks like a failure by northie contraof its rocket o north korea of its rocket but it s power by the jeem. gregg: and engineers always learn from the failures in terms of tell emmettry and so forth te
obama administration agreed to give food aid to north korea in return for that country s pledge to, among other things, stop all long range missile tests. for some reason, the united states did not get it in writing. and immediately, of course, pyongyang violated the agreement. senator jon k qulvment said the administration was naive. do you think he s right? did the president get suckered here? yeah, i think the administration was naive. like its predecessor. the kim family is in competition with yasser arafat for selling the same thing over and over again and never delivering. once again, you have food aid being offered to come back to talks. north korea, actually, that doesn t ever make it to people in need in north korea. they get food assistance gets diverted to the regime late and it can be sold on the black market. so it s another way of really giving cash, giving support to the jeem. it pocket it is and never delivers the goods. gregg: satellite images on the opposite side
terms of advancement of the program. given that, should president obama consider changing course and restoring investments in missile defenses as many members of congress have urged him to do? i think that s right. you know, the one takeaway from this, and particularly from our ally, japan, is it cannot count on the u.s. to be a tough negotiating with north korea. what it can count on is its own missile defense capability. i think you ll see a lot of governments around the world and of course the supplies to iran and the situation as well that we need to invest in missile defense but also look at per teshing the jeem. doesn t mean we need to go to war or act belligerently but hold back defectors, who want to help the refugees, things like that. gregg: bottom lining north korea has a long history in playing diplomatic ping pong with the west, they ve lied, cheated on previous agreements, did it again
parties. jenna: we ve had a variety of guests come on our show, robin, and talk about how we could better support potentially these civilian parties that may be more liberal, but the big question of who these people are is still one that it seems we re trying to figure out, or at least the policymakers are. a quick question on syria as well. we had news about the arab league sanctions. about these sanctions be effective, will they promote a change in syria and what will that change look like? in the uprising we re seeing a turning point with the arab league, 19 of 22 countries turning decisively against the jeem, cutting off business with the central bank, cutting off business with the syrian government. but this is as much psychological as it is political in terms of its impact. the regime in damascus is under extraordinary pressure now from its own community, as well as the european union, which buys the bulk of its oil and the outside world, including the united states. it s going