Many people say the victory for kim jongun is standing on the same stage as the president of the united states. He gets that stage now after a brutal reign. The surveillance seen around the world, youre about to see it right here. Who is the man about to sit across from President Trump . Reporter he is the 34yearold leader of north korea. Kim jongun. His official birth date has never been confirmed. His grandfather was north koreas founder known as the great leader. His father kim jong il power when his grandfather died. Known for his dress, right down to his platform shoes, and his pursuit of nuclear weapons. When his father died of a heart attack at 70 from what the north koreans said was over work, it was his youngest son kim jongun who would take over. Kim jongun has proven to be ruthless. He has tested more missiles than his father and grandfather combined. Hes conducted four nuclear tests. Just last september he tested what was believed to be a hydrogen bomb. Much larger than the
always have to look at, who s attacking them and why? what s the agenda behind this person who s being attacked and why are they being why were they the hero of the country two minutes ago and now they re being it s a very interesting phenomenon. anyone who deals with this subject, and i wrote a book and you re now in this movie, i think ends up having to deal with the central question. was the u.s. right or wrong to drop the bomb on hiroshima? where do you come down? such an impossible question. i remember talking to ben affleck s grandfather, who was a marine. he had in the pacific. he had done niece beach landings. he had lost a lot of men. and they were told in advance of the mainland invasion that they were going to lose 6 out of 10 men. and he said, when we heard about the bomb drop, we cheered. he said you know, this is 50
years later he s telling me this. he goes, i lived with the fact, but this is what they were telling us, that they were going to fight to the last man. you cover it in your book. they said between 250,000 and 1 million americans. you read my book? it was fantastic. countdown 1945, available on amazon. it really is great. but your point is exactly right, which i think people fail to realize, and i didn t until i wrote, studied and wrote the book. which is, it s not like you re going to kill all these people in hiroshima or nothing s going to happen. right. if you don t kill them, there s gas going to be an invasion of japan by the u.s. soldiers. it s going to extend the war at least another year and a half. and probably more people were going to die in the invasion, americans and japanese, than died at hiroshima and nagasaki. the political calculus as no-brainer. the moral question, it s what would you have done? boy. i probably i probably would
how he got the job, yeah. oppenheimer, he plays a huge role in ending world war ii because he develops the bomb that s dropped on hiroshima, that gets the japanese to surrender. on the other hand, after the war, he is swept up in the red scare and seen as a communist or a communist sympathizer and is shunned. and the question i have as i watched the movie is, do you see any parallels to the politics of today in all of that? clearly, oppenheimer was targeted politically. post-world war ii, he came out against the hydrogen bomb, which was an even bigger bomb. a lot of the scientists went from their ambition and that kind of scientific and very humankind of curiosity of, can we do this? to, oh my god, what have we done? apropos your question of the politics of today. you see that repeated out all the time. you see that borne out in our culture all the time when somebody s being attacked, you
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