six-party talks may reap benefits very soon. paula, you did conduct an interview with south korea s foreign minister. let s take a listen. i believe that we are getting closer to the kind of consensus which may trigger the resumption of dialogue. but the devil is in the details, so we have to work very hard on the details. that could be accepted by all members of the six-party talks. paula, asking you this question is the tone one of optimism? is it one of caution? what do you suspect from what you heard there with that interview? certainly it s interesting that the six-party talks appear as though they may resume fairly
quickly. that was certainly the indication i was given. i was surprised a deal could be offered to north korea within weeks. certainly when you re hearing this harsh rhetoric from north korea, threatening war and threatening all sorts, even retaliation for these war games as they see as a prelude to an invasion, which the u.s. and south korea say are defensive in nature. at the same time on a separate track, we could see these wider talks in the region restarting again. to it just shows that there are a number of different tracks being pursued at the same time. the military obviously is not positive but the talks may resume. george? cnn s paula hancocks in seoul, south korea. thank you for your reporting. back here in the united states two llamas are back in custody. this time in vancouver, washington after they made a run for freedom. tv news crews did not get there in time to shoot footage of this
he was very good. we understand he was in good health which is why he was allowed on that flight. of course, the question is, why was he leased? it was a very sudden move. of course, north korea made a sudden move when they decided to arrest him back in october. they worked with newman during the korean war. more than 60 years ago. they say he was leading part of an antique communist guerilla group. this was basically carrying out undercover operations in north korea. this could well have been the reason that north korea arrested him in the first place. remember that video they released last weekend where he was apologizing for his actions during the korean war and allegedly killing civilians. it s not clear whether that was a coerced statement. it could well have been. this was likely the reason he was taken in the first place. we ll talk more about that paula hancocks in seoul. thank you.
moment? well, i think it was pretty clear from the information we were getting in the days before this that they had fully fueled the rocket and that the launch pad was ready. i guess it was just a matter of finding the right weather conditions under which to launch this rocket. very clearly, they had the right launch conditions today. politically, they were able to elevate this young fellow to the highest position within the party the day before yesterday, so politically the stage was set. now they have done what they said they were going to do for several weeks now. so what are we watching for at this hour? as this rocket takes off, obviously for it to sit there fully fueled, the longer it sat there, the longer the greater the chance something could go wrong. they finally have this thing away from the tower as far as we know. what are intelligence services around the world looking at right now? i think they re going to track it very carefully. they re going to look
kind of makes you a little jealous. we have reports here on two of them. this is from paula hancock in seoul and here is tokyo. reporter: this is the image that the world has of the japanese worker, serious and buttoned up and hard worker. guess what, that stereotype is true. according to japan s government, the average japan worker gets 18 paid holidays a year but half, 50% of those take only eight of the 18 days. that s less than half of their paid vacation. the reason why? there s this long standing notion incorporate japan that if you take all of your vacation days that you are lazy or considered a better employee if you leave those vacation days on the table. little wonder that there is a legal term here in japan called karochi, which means death by