this is bbc news. the headlines: in an exclusive interview, a former senior military officer in north korea s intelligence agency has told the bbc doesn t believe kim jong un will ever give up the country s nuclear weapons. kim kuk song, who achieved the rank of colonel in north korea s powerful spy agencies, defected to seoul in 2014. police in britain are dropping a review of sexual assault allegations by an american woman, virginia giuffre, against prince andrew. london s metropolitan police say they have completed that review and no further action will be taken. the prince has consistently denied all allegations. fully vaccinated residents in australia s most populous state, new south wales, are enjoying new freedoms is lockdown begins to be lifted. people in greater sydney have been on stay at home orders for three and a half months, but some social distancing measures and limits on public gatherings remain.
in an exclusive interview, a former senior military officer in north korea s intelligence agency has told the bbc doesn t believe kim jong un will ever give up the country s nuclear weapons. kim kuk song, who achieved the rank of colonel in north korea s powerful spy agencies, defected to seoul in 2014. police in britain are dropping a review of sexual assault allegations by an american woman, virginia giuffre, against prince andrew. london s metropolitan police say they have completed that review and no further action will be taken. the prince has consistently denied all allegations. fully vaccinated residents in australia s most populous state, new south wales, are enjoying new freedoms is lockdown begins to be lifted. people in greater sydney have been on stay at home orders for three and a half months, but some social distancing measures and limits on public gatherings remain.
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to push for and i think he said that in that call he it would be in his interests if the u.s. made an official request for information or for an investigation that would then allow him to put it through to be wrecked bureaucratic machinery and not create the impression of taking sides or doing some underhand favor for the trump ministration that congress has accused the trump administration of delaying a 250000000 military aid package how important is the u.s. and the aid it s providing for ukraine. or that u.s. help the ukraine is crucial especially since in recent times the u.s. has begun to seoul become begun to sell ukraine lethal weapons javelin missiles which are you would be used as a kind of final defense protect ukraine the case of a russian intervention there not being used car in so that the military side is the financial side and special time where lots of european countries notably france all
denuclearization. on north korea you said you believe in complete denuclearization. what does that mean exactly? xxxx . it means they get rid of their nukes. starting that process very quickly. very, very quickly. we were at the dmz yesterday. the word denuclearization was one i did not hear once during the president s visit there, including his time with the north korean leader. joining me david sanger, national security coordinator from the new york times. he helped break this story and cnn s will ripley live in seoul, south korea. david, first let s begin with you, does this amount to capitulation? the phrase, complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization, that is not a freeze. that s right, jim. in fact, in 2017 when secretary then secretary of state tillerson went to seoul, he explicitly said that they