country withdrew through. you did a hell of a job. general, did we win? we accomplished our objectives early on. i think the iraqi people have a long way to go. i think our president said it best when he said the country deserves a state where it is stable and self reliant. we have been working toward each of the objectives that made tremendous progress but they are not there yet. they are going to have to keep working at it in order to achieve all of the objectives. i don t know how you felt but the fact that you cased the colors in baghdad the prime minister of iraq mr. mal key who has the job who is back from exile because of the united states and sacrifices choose to snub the closing ceremony in baghdad does that bother you? it bothers me. i wouldn t use that word. i don t think he snubbed anybody. the ceremony iraqis had on the
kt and i were just discussing she was saying there will be mass confusion among the people of north korea as they look to see what will happen next door them. we are going to take a look back at the life of kim jong-il and what we know about him. this is how they will remember kim jong-il. the leaders line like the country he ruled with an iron grip for some 30 years was for the most part off the limits of the outside world including his birth. he was born in eastern russia february 15th while his father was stationed there with the red army. north korean law insists he was born at the base of an important peak a mountain which was japanese occupied korea. kim s father would become a
intelligence even from the south koreans. the country is extremely unstable. now we have to turn a lot of efforts to find out what exactly is going on what will happen after this event. we are very blind when it comes to north korea. largest artillery force in the world. it is a huge concern and the instability with a change like this is something we have to pay attention to. we used artillery to hit the north korean island knowing there was going to be the flow of international aide into the starving country. why did they do things like that and also putting aside the
reports coming out of north korea also suggested kim named a successor the youngest of three sons kim jong um. he was thought to be from the same cloth which means it will be one of the world s last communist dictatorships for some time to come. just to show you how isolated a nation this is, covering breaking news for decades now and looking at this normally there would be some information-coming out of the country. the information is triblging very slowly but the news agency in north korean television now reporting that kim jong-il died of fatigue on a train run in a south korean wire service also saying they can confirm that somehow that kim jong-il died of fatigue on a train ride 69 years old saturday at 8:30 a.m. local time. it is already monday there.
weapons and that s a whole new problem an texture to how the administration has to think about north korea today. that it really didn t have to think about it seriously until kim jong-il s death this weekend. the fact is that the hermit kingdom still is a hermit kingdom. so little intelligence. we had no warning. neither did their neighbors, neither did the north korean people. we knew he was sick. we knew he had had a stroke, but we were not getting very good intelligence from the chinese, i m told, about just how sick he was. they at least had eyeballed him. p.j., why do we have such difficulty with intelligence here? for the reason you outlined. unlike virtually any other part of the world, arab awakening as your report on egypt points out, this is a very insulated, opaque country. i think in the long-term, can they continue to have this mote