They are no exit places, where one goes if you are believed over imagine by the north korean government of having done something wrong, of having been a wrongdoer or a wrong finger. And you go there wrong finger. You go there without trial, usually taken away at night and you stay there for the rest of your life. And very often you go with kids and with your parents. I was at a conference yesterday on a concentration camp and the latest information i is that haf of the people in the camps now are believed to be just a relative of wrong doers or wrong thinkers. So collective guilt is very much a part of this system. And reasoned the camps exist that have existed for more than 40 years is because they are an instrument of terror, of the kim family dynasty. What they do is they put away those who might cause trouble, and they terrorize a 23, 24 Million People in the country to not even think about causing trouble. To that and theyve been pretty darn successful. North korea has been the lo
Certainty, and with the degree of anger. Which i share. So whatever you have come from, go back safely. And i thank you. This hearing is adjourned. Thank you. [inaudible conversations]. This week a debate on americas greatness. Veterans health care, and the center cdc, we visit the Atlanta Press club and take a history tour looking at the civil war. Cspan primetime, monday through friday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. You can call us or email us. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Now, a conversation with authors featured in chances latest book. We look back at author interviews from our book notes and q a programs. Next, Blaine Harden talks about his book escape he escaped by going through an electrified fence and climbing over a dead companions body. This program is just under an hour. Host your booking escape from camp 14 but your preface is, his first memory is an execution. Guest the stor
And for whatever reason, i did this time see a story, and the reason for seeing the story is that every book, particularly in history, has what i like to call scaffolding, which is the structure that holds everything together and makes sense of it. This story has so many elements to it that there is no obvious scaffolding beyond the fact of the chronology, from 1939 to 1945. But within that, what do you do . And the second time around, i saw some scaffolding. Not all of it. It sort of evolved as i went along. But im very grateful to peter for being so persistent because at the end, i ended up with a book i had no idea i was going to write. And that is the one id like to tell you a little bit about. Why does it matter . It matters because world war ii literally shaped the world we live in today. It preserved at it easy to forget this because it sounds like a cliche but it preserved the world for democracy. World war i had the slogan that Woodrow Wilson called making the world safe for d
Coming up in the next sixty minutes an elite gathering of the worlds top. Business finance and politics i ride for that annual get together. Top of the agenda how to distribute the proceeds of growth family. Welcome to the program. U. S. Vice president mike pence has told israels knesset that the u. S. Embassy to move to jerusalem by the end of next year is visit comes as the palestinians receive fresh assurances from the European Union that it still supports that claim to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future palestinian state i prezs visit to israel is a first by us politician since the trumpet ministrations controversial announcement that it recognizes jerusalem as israels capital israeli arab lawmakers made their opposition to the move clear right from the start of mr pences speech. The protests kicked off even before mike pence had begun his speech out of his really lawmakers were ushered from the knesset after waving signs at the u. S. Vice president following Donald Trumps i
And brazilians are on the verge of electing a populist far right president. Its the countrys most part arised election in decades. Challenges same democracy is at stake. Im christine one welcome to the program voters in the german state of has have to live in a blow today to chance and im going to machall in Regional Elections the vote is widely being seen as a test off the National Popularity of the paci the conservative c. D. U. Lets take a look at the latest projections chancellor merkels c. D. U. On twenty seven point eight percent thats a fall of ten point five percent since the last his the election in twenty thirteen the social democrats or s. P. D. At nineteen point five percent a draw. Eleven point two percent the greens nineteen point five percent thats a rise of eight point four percent the left party their own six point nine percent an increase of zero point eight percent the liberal free democrats or if seven point nine percent rise of two point nine percent and the far ri