a tougher line while earlier he spoke to journalist jason strother in seoul and we asked him if this puts moon in a difficult position. this was one of the hallmarks of moon s presidency ever since he took office just less than a year ago you know after a very. rhetoric filled year in two thousand and seventeen where we saw all most daily diatribes going back and forth between washington and pee on young president moon has succeeded in bringing north korea to the punch on the lympics and frankly it s been a real reprieve ever since kim jong un announced his intention to join the games however now talk of the sanctions a new sanctions we don t know what exactly the trumpet ministration might have in mind that i m sure is not going over well here in seoul who just i believe president just wants everyone to come the pm jiang and play nice for the
essentially so really this missile test this what looks like an i.c.b.m. shouldn t come as a surprise jason thanks so much for that from seoul south korea. pope francis has celebrated an open air mass and me and mar some one hundred fifty thousand people mainly from the country small catholic minority attended the service in yang gong the pond have called on people to embrace forgiveness and reconciliation as their country emerges from nearly five decades of military rule on tuesday a part of met with the de facto leader aung san suu change in what is both a spiritual and a diplomatic visit pope francis avoided discussing the persecution of range of muslims which the u.n. and u.s. have described as ethnic cleansing francis is the first pope to ever visit myanmar . abbas in hartogs joins us now from ragon young going for the latest on what
it is a situation that we will handle. north korea s immediate neighbor was less restrained within minutes south korea responded by firing missiles into the sea to demonstrate its ability to strike pyongyang s launch sites the south korean president said the international community had no choice but to continue applying pressure and sanctions. vision action does not only increased tension on the korean peninsula but gravely endangers the international peace and security we strongly condemn north korea s reckless behavior. seoul has warned the situation could spiral out of control on wednesday the u.n. security council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the situation. earlier i spoke with journalist jason strother in seoul south korea i asked him for his
even a broch obama flew stealth bombers here to south korea but they always stayed below the intercranial border but this is something different yesterday we had reports of a minor quake near north korea s nuclear test site. being confirmed as a nuclear explosion or a natural event. it would appear according to south korea s meteorological so that these were aftershocks tremors caused by the september third nuclear explosion that did trigger an earthquake now according to the meterological association here there are actually two tremors reported on saturday night there s been no detection of any sort of radioactive gases or under other indicators that this might have been another nuclear test jason strother in seoul thank you. thank you maybe america s president is also engaged in
forward to meeting came within mere weeks what can we expect in that meeting. well you know i think the agenda was pretty much set on friday during the moon kim summit no one was expecting any breakthroughs to come through but i think now north korea least the pledges that north korea has made to denuclearize and dismantle its very nuclear test site at least gives washington the ability to say look kim is earning the talk with donald trump so let s move ahead but still we don t know exactly when or even aware that summit will take place jason strother in seoul thank you for your insight thank you. tens of thousands of protesters have rallied across spain to condemn a court ruling which has cleared five men of gang raping a young woman at the twenty sixteen running festival and pump one up it fell in the incident and then bragged about it on what s up demonstrators say sentencing the