obligations in order to have a full fledge negotiation and we will negotiate the full set of concerns that the north has. kerry s trip succeeded in turning down the temperature on the korean peninsula, it also succeeded in using kim jong-un s own rhetoric against him with the chinese whose viewpoint may be more in line with washington s right now. beijing like the u.s. does not want to see a nuclear korean peninsula. the question now is what is going to be kim jong-un and pyongyang s next move. thanks to jim clancy who is in seoul. we want to bring in ambassador chris hill live from denver right now. he was the ambassador to south korea, he later became the head of an american delegation to six party talks which dealt with for example north korea s nuclear program. thanks for being with us. we heard in that piece there john kerry talking about thepro. thanks for being with us. we heard in that piece there john kerry talking about the
afghanistan. she was trying to deliver bo books to students in their own language and help them educate themselves to have better opportunities in life she was really doing the best kind of work that so many of our foreign service officers do in the state department in various parts of the world, full of enthusiasm, full of energy, full of high ideals. and tragically, she lost her life to an ied. to a vehicle ied. and, you know, i think we all honor what what she was doing. smedinghoff met kerry in afghanistan about two weeks before her death. five other americans were also killed in that attack. rescuers in washington state are hoping to resume their search today for this missing hiker who was buried by this massive avalanche saturday in the cascade mountains. he is 60-year-old mitch hungate, who was snowshoeing on granite
and japan. and so to break that dynamic is a bit unusual. in many cases, we ve requested that that dynamic be broken down in terms of the chinese, who truly maintain a degree of influence over north korea that none of the other parties today. albeit that s somewhat imanishing. so it s important that the united states step up and say, look, here s a potential break to this logjam, in that north korea has clearly indicated that it doesn t respond to diplomatic overtures. and it clearly is only going to do what it wants to do. so i think the fact that the secretary has said, look, let s take a different course is important. but the preconditions are absolutely essential, and again north korea has indicated no effort on their part to open up, try to achieve a degree of transparency in the development of their nuclear program so all the assessments that we re making are based on intelligence that s been selected through technical means. we have no means of penetrating in terms of their regi
pre-conditions with which the united states might be willing to talk to north korea, among those were a move toward denuclearization and no nuclear tests at all. are these conditions you think the north koreans are likely to make? well that s the big question. secretary kerry those are conditions that have been out there for shall time. north koreans agreed to those measures early on, they agreed to a joints statement in 05. so basically what secretary kerry is saying is we ll talk to them on the basis of what they ve already agreed. the question is whether they re willing to go back and do that. it s very unclear at this point. we do now know in response to secretary kerry s offer for some kind of dialogue, this is what north korea s committee for the peaceful reunification of korea said. quote, the offer of dialogue is a cunning employ to hide the south s policy of confrontation and mislead its responsibility for putting the case on tday so
told by an op-ed in the new york times today. want to talk about both stories with james spider marks, one of our cnn military analysts and part of his military service included time as a senior intelligence officer in korea. joining us from indiana, general, good morning. good morning. how are you guys? we re well. let s begin with what we re hearing from secretary kerry. he was in beijing and tokyo over the weekend. and he sat down with our jill dougherty and he is basically saying, look, america is willing to come to the table, willing to have a full negotiation with pyongyang. only if they meet certain, you know, criteria in terms of denuclearizing north korea. what conditions should those be? and do you think that s a plausible option? it is an option. the issue that we have is we ve established a construct dealing with north korea that involves six parties. the north and the south, china, russia, and the united states