Mr. Thae chairman royce, Ranking Member engel, distinguished members of the House Committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. First, i would like to express my sincere gratitude to chairman royce, who kept his promise to accommodate my wishes to visit the United States and gave me this opportunity to testify before the House Committee on foreign affairs. As you are all aware, i worked at the front line of north korean diplomacy until i defected to south korea in summer of 2016. But my story is quite different from other defectors who may have experienced political oppression, Inhumane Treatment in prison camps, or to avoid hunger and other difficulties. Economic difficulties. Rather, today i would like to tell you about my life as a north korean diplomat, why i defected to the free world, why kim jongun is developing nuclear and icbm programs, and how best to deal with the north korean regime. I went through causes in north korea, which cannot be dreamed by ordinary citi
You can even try. Your own cough fib. Death becomes big business in japan the cemetery space starts to run out. All of your sport including chinas capitol and the city go head to head in the battle for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Question of years of confusion the Afghan Taliban has confirmed that its leader is in fact, dead. It hasnt said where or when he died. The Taliban Supreme Council instead focusing on its future. He has been acting as the deputy for the past three years. He has been notable for asserting his position by standing up, who is in charge of the so called Islamic State of levant. He told to back off from afghanistan. He served in the government as minister of Civil Aviation. Al jazeera jennifer glass has this update for us from the afghan capitol. Kabul. Not clear what new changes we will see under the new taliban leader. The taliban sources tell us that he has been involved in making political decisions for the taliban over the last few years. Now there are obviously
Paralympics main stadium are standing by their plan. They say the facility could be built for less. And south Africas Deputy president visits japan in search of stronger business ties. Japans Prime Minister schenn zoe abe and u. S. President barack obama have agreed to closely coordinate policies over north korea and plunges in share markets. The two leaders talked over the phone for about 40 minutes on wednesday. With the u. S. Side proposing the discussion. In the conversation, they welcomed the news that north and south korea have reached an agreement on easing tensions between them. The leaders also agreed to koord nate views on stock plunges around the world. Obama expressed a positive view of the statement abe made to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. Obama also touched on alleged spying by a u. S. Intelligence agency on the japanese government and businesses. That information was disclosed by wikileaks. He apologized for causing any trouble, saying his govern
Where it points it right now. This is the big concern. Very andrewesque. This whole tip of florida, its lowlying stuff. Its extremely lowlying. And well inland, too. Were looking at storm surges over 10 feet. It would be a bigger storm surge except the storm is moving rapidly and that right front quadrant is out of the strike zone or looks like it will be. If you look at all the various model solutions, everybody is saying, yes, something similar to this. Im hoping and most forecasters are hoping that as we get towards miami, that those blue lines to the right become that becomes the path. That keeps the eye offshore. That keeps the right front quadrant out to sea but its a big story. You know all about it, and yes, miami is being evacuated. Storm surge, wind and rain. The storm is a big one and it continues to play havoc on the island so when i come back, well talk more about your forecast, which includes a chance of rain and update on irma. Bill, thank you. South florida is obviously
Are all over social media. The sound the sad part is i had to delete friends that think this is funny. They want to go downtown on friday and saturday night dress up like a clown and scare people. Diana wilson said security personnel sent spent half date thursday checking out reports of clowns near elementary school. We had security onsite interview the kids the cars, check our Video Surveillance tape. Reporter nothing was found. The threat unfounded. Kids and parents still have to take the clown reports seriously. Meaning quite simply if you encounter anyone wearing something over their fate you need to run the other way. You need to alert the nearest adult. Some of the clown hoaxes are they generate eight response to a particular location. Tte locationnexists but the emergency does not. Parents need to tell their children not to engage with a clown unless they authorized it. What a strange and unnerving trent. We have a full list of where these clowns have been reported on thedenverc