tougher nick sanctions, i know it cost the country an estimates $850 million, and that of course, that s money that could have gone to the purchase of food, where, you know a big majority of the country is starving. under the february 29th green between north korea and the united states, 241,000 tons of nutritional aide was going to be sent to north korea. it was part of an agreement in which north korea agreed not to continue enriching uranium, not to continue the nuclear program or use missiletolo technology. it seems they failed to live up to the agreement and the food aide is now off the table. again, that s something that the white house and others are going
believe, to shore up the new leader of north korea and to give him more military credibility, he was given the highest rank possible this week, so all of this has been a very big show to try to accomplish him as the new leader, the third member of this dynasty. what has the u.s. had to say since he has taken office? and what have the relations been? has there been a lot of communication? well, they were actually meeting ins beijing in february and a proposal that was agreed to on all sides for the north to renounce and cancel any future missile tests and accept in return a great deal of food aide. that aide was cancelled once the north announced they would have this rocket test. and the south korean leader just hosted a nuclear security
be a provocation making the point that it would undermine that with the deal they just struck with north korea where the united states pledged a lot of food aide to north korea. a lot of people are there are hungry, starving, and need that aide desperately. we have been told in recent days that the united states continues to be in contact with it s interest national partners in the region, has continued to put pressure on them not to move forward with this launch, press secretary j carney has fielded a number of questions and said if they do move forward with it it would certainly undermine that deal for food aids. this administration has gotten some criticism for this deal. some of the critics say they never should have offered this potential olive branch in the first place that north korea has gone back on promises in the past and this time would be no
afghanistan. meantime afghan president hamid karzei is at the end of the rope with the u.s. he says he s not getting full cooperation with an investigation in the weekend massacre. the u.s. says it will not be sending food aide to north korea if it goes ahead with plans to launch a satellite. south korea calls the launch a grave provocation. osama bin laden reportedly hoped to kill president obama and david petraeus, according to the washington post, documents showed he asked followers to come up with a plan. the cofounder of invisible children has been detained and hospitalized. they created a video about joseph kony. now back to lockup. miami-dade corrections, sixsix th largest jail system is like an overpopulated city.
talking a toll. gas prices overnight jumped 3.3 cents a gallon. on fears iranian oil, which is the world s fourth biggest stash of crude, could be disrunted. if they made good on their promise to halt the crude, it would hurt consumers around the world. jim beonco said it would send the united states into another recession with gas prices possibly hitting $4.75 a gallon. the move would also devastate iran. sources tell us 80% of that nation s economy is linked to oil and natural gas. will iran do this, will it come to this? mayor rudy jewgiuliani was mayon new york on 9/11. let me start with the rhetoric. do you think it s going to get to point where iran feels threatened enough to shut off the crude oil? i do. i m not sure they will because it has a devastating impact on them. they re vargood at threatening. the threat you have to take as a real 1, and as we ratchet up the pressure on them, they may very well take the step to see what kind of pressure they can put on us. a