And we are fortunate to be with the next hour with us, north korea operates, who kim jong un is and what is going on, they both are former intelligence analysts who represent the very best of their previous profession. In addition to be informed, kind, deadly smart, they are also a ton of fun. Before i turn it over to jung and sui do want to know that the numbers of the audience and send more but send an email to events at brookings. Edu or via twitter at becoming kim. With that, we will turn it over to sue and jong. I want to speak about what it is like to cover a country like north korea and person like analyst and analyzing job as analyst of the cia, making the hard call and as you know,i started the cia 2 days before the 911 and your cia career began and your cia covered kim jong un and between us two decades of covering north korea, but we would both agree that north korea is the hardest of hard target country. Talk to us about your job and north korea analyst in the intelligence
Takes on ai trying to resolve the real life time limits caused by our financial intelligence. Syria is experiencing its biggest exodus and 9 years of civil war nearly a 1000000 people most of them women and children have now fled the province the countrys last rebel stronghold progovernment forces a valve to seize control of the region but turkey has warned of an imminent attack unless the regime ends its assault aid agencies are overwhelmed with the u. N. Calling it a humanitarian catastrophe mike hanna reports from the u. N. We have missed repeated weiland confrontations between turkish and Syrian Government forces were it support the Russian Federation is actively engaged in support of the Syrian Governments military operation. U. N. Special envoy offers a bleak view of the political crisis in syria which in turn has resulted in a devastating humanitarian situation that continues to deteriorate on a daily basis close to a 1000000 displaced people being squeezed into an ever decreasi
A government that relies on aunties ionise arab parties but the exit polls suggest he doesnt have the numbers to dictate he may not be given 1st chance to form a government 5 months ago Benjamin Netanyahu waited several hours before making his street waiting for the numbers to swing in his favor this time hes waited longer for the numbers appear to us one every other direction for 5 months ago he made a victory speech this time it was a speech of defiance it seems clear that his grip on power has weakened to be attributing to the opposition blue and white headquarters the mood was very different former army chief benny gantz didnt repeat is premature victory declaration from april instead his term was a man ready for a grave responsibility and if you had thought so we need to be patient it wasnt an easy mission as we see now netanyahu did not succeed in his mission we in comparison proved to the idea of blue and white succeeded big time and hes here to stay it was equal vindication for
James bays has more on this now from new york normally this monthly meeting deals with the grim reality of life inside yemen but it was overtaken by events on the other side of the saudi border one thing we can be certain and that is this extremely serious incident like the traditions of a regional conflict. And the report more that much. With yemen in some way or. None of that. Is good for you. And this is so far in just his 2nd appearance in the Security Council the new u. S. Ambassador made it clear washington believes these didnt stage this attack on the road claims of responsibility have been made but as secretary of state mike pompei all has clearly stated there is no evidence that the attacks came from yemen. Emerging information indicates that responsibility lies with iran are the u. S. Allies still party to the nuclear deal with iran did not apportion blame at the moment were still assessing what happened and who is responsible for the attorneys once this is been stablished we
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