This is hosted for north korea and japan, marc knapper. All right, good morning, everyone in d. C. , good evening everyone in korea, good day to everyone around the world. Im mark lippert, host of the cs csis, and by kia motors. And secretary pompeos trip to northeast asia and the implication for north korea. 1010 marks party day in north korea. And the development in the disappearance of the dprk ambassador to rome who is now in south korea apparently. As well continuing developments in the reporting shooting death of the south koreaen minister apparently at the hands of the north koreans. And a new vice ministerial. Our next guest and frequent guest is giving us insights into this. And he and everyone knows well, Deputy Assistant secretary for korea, marc knapper, refresh the highlights, Director Office of Japanese Affairs at the state department, director of Indian Affairs and multiple assignments throughout asia with language skills, excuse me, korean, japanese, and vietnamese and
We saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. Emily to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wakeup call, if you will, that the president , with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. Can contract the virus. You see republicans. They have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. Look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. We have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible for having
Half past the hour on aljazeera these are the headlines white house adviser Stephen Miller has become the latest trumpet ministration official to test positive for covert 19 the man seen as the architect of Donald Trumps and immigration policies about a dozen white house officials have not tested positive including the president and top pentagon officials are in quarantine after the u. S. Coast guards 2nd in command tested positive mike hanna has more from washington. Steven miller whos a very close advisor of the president has now tested positive for the coronavirus has been in close proximity of the president for a long period of time he was also in close proximity to some of the other assistance to the president to have tested positive in recent days and certainly that list is growing and growing indeed a large number of members of the president s staff now have tested positive a number of journalists who work there and as well as a number of military aides it is said who are also w
Capitals government buildings across this is led to the results of sundays parliamentary election being a no talent staff that has the latest from diskette people you can see behind me supporters and representatives of various Political Parties a number of which are members of the set up yesterday and what i said i guess they called the Coordination Council which represents around 8 Political Parties and theyve been making some pretty fiery speeches this morning so far theyre demanding all that theyre demanding that the president is impeached there demanding that. All parliamentary members come together for a meeting a session we had a parliamentary session yesterday but it was we understand only around 20 employees took part in that emergency session. White house adviser Stephen Miller has become the latest Administration Official to test positive for the covert 19 around a dozen white house officials have now tested positive including the president the virus has also spread to the De
Working hard to get me all the way back i have to be back because we still have to make America Great again we do a good job of that but we still have steps to go and we have to finish. It was secretary of state has decided to cut short his asia tour following the president s hospitalization my pompei will be Holding Meetings in japan on sunday but will not go to mongolia or south korea 2 days ago when news of chinas infection became public on pay had said he had no plans of canceling his trip which was. Azerbaijan says it has liberated territories from Armenian Forces around the disputed nagornokarabakh Region Military and civilian casualties have been reported on both sides if they meet each other for the latest violence and the decades old conflicts. Voters heading to the polls in kyrgyzstan parliamentary elections but there are widespread allegations of parties trying to buy ballots throwing doubt over the legitimacy of the vote. People on the archipelago of New Caledonia are votin