mention the names of dissidents, talk about the human rights problems, talk about the advantages that the u.s. offers when it comes to these important universal values. again, something that s been missing for four years now. former president trump seemed to ignore the kind of human rights element of the u.s. role in the global stage. thank you all for being here. that s it for inside politics sunday. coming up next, state of the union with jake tapper and dana bash, jake s guests this morning including energy secretary jennifer graholm and senator angus king. thank you, again, for sharing your sunday morning with us. have a great rest of your day.
global cobalt production comes from congo oil higher revenues from mineral extraction can be a good thing activists say that s not the case for the country n.g.o.s say miners like swiss giant glencore are responsible for environmental degradation and air pollution at the end of last year the charity bread for release a report which said glencore is not fully exercising its due diligence in the democratic republic of congo the scale and number of air and soil pollution incidents remain high in addition in some cases the group did not initially acknowledge its responsibility for environmental and human rights problems glencore says it has been working to reduce the damage to the environment but the swiss minor is just one of many players in congo where more than 90 percent of exports a mineral extractions all fossil fuels. our reporter. who filed this report has dug a little deeper into the subject for us is there s been no talk about carbon
and this quasi-capitalism. they created a huge middle-class. we should want to sell them a lot of things because they have money to buy. what is upseting to them there is no rule of law and they don t have private property rights. they would like to take theirical tap and move it somewhere else? where do they want to put it? in the united states because it s safe and you have rule of law. i would love to have somebody in the united states stand up for the human rights problems. bernie sanders doesn t talk about that at all in the interview. i don t see how the democrats are differentiating themselves from president trump as all on china. the president, however, has started, in the state of the union, he said the united states will never be a socialist country. the democrats are doing anything to stop that. they are just moving
appropriate. he s talked about what he s doing. he s not happy with the testing. it s a very small testing that we did. he wasn t happy with the testing, he put that in the letter. but he sees a great future for north korea. joining us now is senator ben cardens. you have the president attacking south korea, continuing to complain about their lack of, i guess i wouldn t say cooperation, but really their ability to pull their own weight. i m paraphrasing, obviously. does that make any sense to you? this makes no sense at all. north korea is a country that has a nuclear weapon, they re testing delivery systems. they re discriminating against their own people with human rights problems, they present a major national security issue for the united states and
forward. right now of course we focus on disarmame disarmament. and as many people have pointed out the north koreans have gone backwards on that. in the last year where there has been this relationship building attempt the north koreans have been mpincreasing the pruvoduct of fissile material and they ve been upgrading their facilities for ballistic missiles. so this has not been moving in the right direction. victor cha, what do we know about the human rights problems that have been so emblematic of kim jong un and what he has done, whether it was inspectors from the iaea who on their way moving from one site to another would see x, y, or z to actual reports andor those who escaped? richard engel interviewed one as hege was mentioning earlier tha escaped from north korea. well, i mean, let s be clear. this is the worst human rights-abusingn regime in the world today. and the president is legitimizing these human rights abuses every time he meets with