Mr. Thae chairman royce, Ranking Member engel, distinguished members of the House Committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. First, i would like to express my sincere gratitude to chairman royce, who kept his promise to accommodate my wishes to visit the United States and gave me this opportunity to testify before the House Committee on foreign affairs. As you are all aware, i worked at the front line of north korean diplomacy until i defected to south korea in summer of 2016. But my story is quite different from other defectors who may have experienced political oppression, Inhumane Treatment in prison camps, or to avoid hunger and other difficulties. Economic difficulties. Rather, today i would like to tell you about my life as a north korean diplomat, why i defected to the free world, why kim jongun is developing nuclear and icbm programs, and how best to deal with the north korean regime. I went through causes in north korea, which cannot be dreamed by ordinary citi
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Cia where she worked for years, hired by the cia right out of college in 1967. She spent two and a half decades rising through the agencys ranks and assignments working against the soviet union and Eastern European countries. She was about to resign in 1991 when she was asked to stay for one more assignment. That assignment involves joining a five person team charged with figuring out why so many of the cias most valued soviet assets ad been executed or imprisoned several years earlier. The investigation ended up exposing one of the most destructive traders in u. S. History, aldrich ames, a cia counterIntelligence Officer. Since his conviction in 1994, ames has been serving a life entence. Her book, circle of treason, was the first account from inside the cia not only of how aldrich ames was caught, but of the men that he betrayed. Sandy wrote it with another longtime Agency Member who participated in the investigation. Their book was First Published a little over a year ago in 2012 an
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its political gaffes through the decades. The great edward r. Murrow said when politicians complain that tv turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there and that tv has merely demonstrated that not performers are well trained. Today on through the decades, we look at politicians who didnt give their best performances on the political stage as they attemped to run for office. And the Television Cameras were there to capture their gaffes and preserve them for all of history to remember. So we begin the doomed decision of a president ial hopeful. The 1972 race for the white house was never really close themselves an even deeper hole when their nominee George Mcgovern picked Thomas Eagleton to be his running mate. Senator george h. Mcgovern is hereby declared the 1972 democratic nominee for president of the United States. Heading into the 1972 democratic convention, George Mcgovern was har
The controversy overshadowing Donald Trumps rock star arrival in cleveland. What donald trump is saying about it today, tuesday july 19th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from cleveland. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Here we are. Day two of the convention. Were right here on the floor of the quicken loans arena. No surprises. Were talking about the speech that Melania Trump delivered to this Convention Last night. We knew we would do that on Tuesday Morning. What we didnt realize is we would talk about a couple portions of that speech lifted almost word for word from a speech that Michelle Obama delivered back in 2008. Mrs. Trump said it wouldnt be a campaign without drama and excitement but this is probably not what they had in mind. Here to break it down is Peter Alexander across from us at the q. Peter, good morning to you. I was on the C