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Breaking news overnight out of North Korea.

The country's leader, Kim Jong-Un flexing military muscle.

The launch was intercontinental ballistic missile.

The North Koreans releasing these images of the missile,

which could threaten the U.S.

North Korea has become the most dangerous country in the world.

The global community needs to understand

every country is in danger from the actions of North Korea.

Driving this military machine

is the young, ruthless dictator, Kim Jong-Un.

He executed his own uncle with an anti-aircraft machine gun.

Whether he's a madman or a calculating genius,

Kim Jong-Un will do anything to stay in power,

even at the expense of his own people.

They're forcing us to work until we die.

The regime now threatens the very existence

of the United States.

They now have the capacity...

to put a nuclear weapon on New York City.

How did we get here?

How did this tiny country become a global menace?

And what happens now?

We face the risk of a nuclear 9/11.

They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power.

The likes of which this world has never seen before.

North Korea, for decades this secretive country

has remained isolated from the world.

About the size of Pennsylvania,

this land of 25 million people is known as the hermit kingdom.

It shares an 880-mile-long border with China to its north,

and to its south, the 38th parallel separates it from South Korea.

Since they were divided, South Korea has become

one of the world's strongest economies.

North Korea's growth has been almost exclusively confined

to their military.

Now, their latest ruler has turned that lone success

into a threatening calling card against the United States.

But how did the U.S. become the primary target

of North Korea's wrath?

In the early 1900s, Korea had a different enemy,

their brutal colonial ruler, Japan.

It was a hellish existence.

Koreans are very proud and nationalistic

and they suffered terribly under Japanese rule.

There was an attempt at ethnic cleansing.

Korea remained a forgotten nation without a real identity.

But Japan's expanding aggression would become their undoing

when they attacked the American naval base

at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Forced to fight,

The U.S. won the war by developing the ultimate weapon.

"On August 5th, 1945,

a single bomb destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Unconditional surrender.

Victory over our last enemy, Japan.

Korea, now the scene of mass evacuation.

As thousands of Japs pull out for their homeland."

With Japanese forces expelled from Korea,

the Soviet Union saw an opportunity to create a new communist state,

but the U.S. insisted on keeping a democratic foothold

on the Korean peninsula.

A lot of Koreans, including South Koreans

view the U.S. decision to partition the Korean peninsula

into two states, or two halves in 1945.

As the root cause of all that is wrong with

the Korean peninsula today.

The original sin.

"In North Korea, the Soviet Union lost no time in setting up

a communist puppet government.

In the south, the United States and the United Nations

strove to establish an independent democratic republic."

It was done with no Korean voice.

Koreans had no say in the matter.

The Soviets had the perfect candidate to lead

the new communist north.

A Korean national who had served in the Soviet Army

and could be trusted as a staunch ally.

They installed the Kim Il-Sung regime in North Korea.

They had been planning on this during the war with Japan.

In 1948,

the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was officially founded

with 36-year-old Kim Il-sung as its leader.

Just two years later,

he invaded the south, showing the world his true goal,

reunification of the north and south by any means necessary.

"A highly trained and well-equipped North Korean Army

stormed across the 38th Parallel

to attack unprepared South Korean defenders."

The United States commits to defending South Korea.

(EXPLOSION)

And the war dragged on for three years until July, 1953,

there is an armistice signed,

not with a formal peace treaty but a temporary ceasefire agreement.

We have won an armistice on a single battleground,

not peace in the world.

With North Korea's ambitions defeated,

the seeds had been sewn for a hatred of the United States

that persist to this day.

Meanwhile, Kim Il-Sung turned his attention inward,

developing a cult of personality

to secure his power for the long term.

Kim Il-Sung was really given a supernatural quality.

They really likened him to being God-like,

descending from the heavens.

Even his birth date was interpreted to have divine significance.

Titanic sank on the 15th of April 1912.

That was the same day Kim Il-Sung was born.

North Korean propaganda has always presented the sinking of the Titanic

as the day the symbol of British Imperialism sank

while the son of the world was being born.

Even Kim Il-Sung's military exploits

were exaggerated to superhuman levels.

Some claimed he singlehandedly drove out the Japanese.

As North Korea's leader,

he was also said to be infallible and even immortal.

His mythology was only enhanced by his outgoing personality.

He does come across as a charismatic person,

big smiles,

big gestures with his arms, and good looking.

Kim Il-Sung consolidated his power

by imposing a nationalistic ideology called "Juche", or "Self-reliance,"

which called for the closing off of the outside world

and trusting him as the sole saviour of his people.

Many absurd claims were made.

Reports even went as far as saying that

Kim Il-Sung never used the restroom

because he was a perfect being,

untarnished by base human functions.

Meanwhile, it's estimated that by the 1980s,

he had erected nearly 35,000 monuments to himself.

But the real secret of Kim Il-Sung's success

wasn't his popularity with the public,

it was the build up of his military

and his brutality against his opponents,

which began almost immediately after he assumed power.

It was Kim Il-Sung who established

those abysmal political prison camps,

and so many people were victimised in prison,

brutally tortured, killed on Kim Il-Sung's orders.

According to reports,

prisoners were subjected to severe punishments,

like electric shock,

hanging by the wrist, and even beatings with shovels.

And Kim Il-Sung's brutality extended beyond his borders.

He became infamous for kidnapping foreigners,

seizing people who could provide expertise for his regime,

or even provide training to Korean spies.

Evidence of this came to light in 1987,

when two North Koreans snuck explosives

onto a South Korean airliner that exploded in Abu Dhabi.

One of these spies later confessed she had learned Japanese

from someone who had been abducted from Japan.

Estimates of this abductions reach into the thousands.

Internally, Kim Il-Sung's government was known to canvass schools

looking for attractive girls to hijack into his harem.

The regime claimed that these girls, as young as 13,

were becoming part of an entertainment troop

of singers and dancers, and they were trained as such.

But the real function of this pleasure squad

was understood by all.

Kim Il-Sung would rule for 46 years until his death in 1994.

At 53, Kim Jong-Il took over his father's position

as leader of North Korea.

He would remain in power for 17 years.

But even before he took over, he had already spent a lifetime

developing his own cult of personality.

It was said that Kim Jong-Il was born on Korea's sacred Mount Paektu,

and that a new star appeared in the sky.

It was also claimed that the seasons immediately changed

from winter to spring.

The truth is far less interesting.

Kim Jong-Il was born in a Soviet Army barrack

in the Russian Far East in 1941,

when his father was in the Soviet Army.

According to North Korean propaganda,

Kim Jong-Il was a brave fighter in World War II.

Fending off the Japanese.

Quite the accomplishment, given his age.

The war ended in 1945,

so Kim Jong-Il would have been a toddler.

In a country that officially atheistic,

the leaders are made into Gods.

Kim Jong-Il's list of accomplishments

include outrageous claims like he invented the hamburger,

and his first time on a golf course he shot 11 holes in one.

Such tales were a sharp contrast to his obvious shortcomings.

He was not known to be an aspiring charismatic leader.

As far as we know he has spoken in public only on one occasion,

at a military parade.

And he uttered just one sentence,

"Glory to the warriors of the D.P.R.K."

Kim Jong-Il suffered from many complexes

and one of these was his high-pitched voice.

And perhaps this was the reason

why he did not really speak in public that much,

he was very short.

He wore high heels.

He was not a very good looking man.

Perhaps that was the reason

why he always appeared in public wearing sunglasses.

But Kim Jong-Il's legacy would be defined,

not by his personal quirks,

but by his ability to handle a crisis.

Kim Jong-Il was a terrible manager.

The fundamental defining feature

of Kim Jong-Il's rule was the great famine

that killed up to 3 million North Koreans.

The table had been set for this disaster in 1991

with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The loss of this major supporter

put North Korea under severe economic strain.

In 1994, the same year Kim Jong-Il assumed command,

they were unable to afford fuel and fertiliser for their farms.

Then a series of floods decimated much of their farmland.

The starving masses got so desperate

there were reports of cannibalism in rural areas.

Even today one of the desperate trends of that time continues.

There is still a significant shortage of fertiliser

in North Korea.

And yes, they do use human faeces as fertiliser.

During the famine,

the U.S. State Department estimated North Korea's defence spending

to be $6 billion.

Had Kim Jong-Il spent about $200 million,

with which to buy food,

not a single North Korean needed to die.

While his people were starving by the millions,

Kim Jong-Il was able to comfortably continue

to pursue the nation's nuclear and missile programmes.

He also continued his father's human rights violations.

He was not only a prolific womaniser,

but his international kidnappings

which began during his father's reign,

included a famous movie couple.

Kim Jong-Il was a big movie buff

and fancied himself a movie director.

He even abducted a South Korean director

and his former wife, a very famous actress,

in order to have them make movies for him.

But the great leader would soon fall victim

to the one thing he could not control,

his health.

Kim Jong-Il suffered a serious stroke in August 2008.

So when he died in mid December 2011,

it didn't come as a surprise.

"Kim Jong-Il's reign of terror lasted 17 years,

menacing his neighbour's with nuclear weapons,

holding his own people hostage with prison camps and starvation."

When Kim Jong-Il died in December 2011,

you saw an entire nation mourning.

Did they mean it?

There's no love loss for the "Dear Leader" as he's called.

John McCain said,

"I can only express satisfaction

that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi,

Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell."'

Kim Jong-Il's demise had left him little time

to groom his successor.

Kim Jong-Un took only after only three years of preparation

at the age of 27.

He was taking over a country that neglected its people

and was at continual odds with the rest of the world.

Five and a half years ago it would have been hard to imagine

that anyone could be more brutal than Kim Jong-Il,

but Kim Jong-Un has surely managed to accomplish that.

America's role in dividing Korea made the U.S. a target

of North Korean hatred.

Dear leader, Kim Il-Sung, and his successor, Kim Jong-Il

played off this hatred to build their brutal regimes.

At the age of 27,

Kim Jong-Un the third dictator of North Korea

was handed a legacy of abuse toward his country's citizens

and antagonism toward other countries.

And yet he has proven to be the most problematic leader

of North Korea yet.

The possibility of armed conflict is the strongest it's been

since the Korean War.

President Trump stepped up his personal insults

against Kim Jong-Un, labelling him, "Little Rocket Man."

And tweeting, "He won't be around much longer."

The war of words

has included North Korean's foreign ministry calling Trump, "Old."

And Trump referring to Kim Jong-Un as, "Short and fat."

Making tensions escalate.

As a young leader,

Kim Jong-Un could rule the country for decades to come,

just as his grandfather did.

Who is this young leader,

and how did he become such a huge threat?

Kim Jong-Un was born in 1984,

the youngest of Kim Jong-Il's three sons.

Intelligence agencies confirm

he spent part of his youth attending a simple public school

in Bern, Switzerland, under a false identity.

Former classmates describe him as a shy child

who struggled with his English, as well as other subjects.

His peers would later joke

that he could have been called, "Dim Jong-Un."

While his school work lagged,

he developed an affinity for movies, video games, and basketball.

These Western influences are still evident today.

After his time in Switzerland,

it's believed Kim Jong-Un returned to North Korea,

where he attended Kim Il-Sung university.

In 2008,

Kim Jong-Il suffered a debilitating stroke

and began to groom Kim Jong-Un to take the throne.

But why was the youngest of the three sons chosen?

The older brothers who had been considered for this role,

all had sorts of different problems.

One particular brother, Kim Jong-Nam made various statements

that there could be reforms for North Korea.

He also went to Disneyland on a fake passport and got caught.

This was a great embarrassment to Kim Jong-Il,

that's when he decided to banish him.

He was sent away to Macau.

The other brother, Kim Jong-Chul,

his problem is that he was also an international playboy.

Loved to take off, and go to Eric Clapton concerts,

and he got caught doing this.

Kim Jong-Il thought, quote unquote that,

"Kim Jong-Chul, the older brother from the same mother

was too effeminate."

These things are obviously not good for a regime

that wants to project power,

that wants to project that it doesn't need the West,

so quite simply Kim Jong-Un was the only one that was left.

Kim Jong-Un was quickly given credentials and titles

to legitimise his power.

He was promoted to four-star general

despite the lack of military training.

These hyped up credentials would be tested

after only three years of preparation,

when his father died, leaving him in charge.

With a tenuous grasp on power,

Kim Jong-Un did everything he could to secure his position.

North Korean propaganda has been very busy

forging a personality cult for Kim Jong-Un.

As soon as he became leader of North Korea,

they showed a documentary.

You see stories about Kim Jong-Un having been able to drive a car

at a very young age.

You will see Kim Jong-Un giving advice to this K.P.A. officers

on how to fire a pistol.

These are professional soldiers,

but then again they just have to bow deeply and listen.

(GUN SHOT)

It's apparent that Kim Jong-Un has tried to revive

the nostalgic fond memory of the founder.

Kim Jong-Un tries to imitate Kim Il-Sung's gestures,

smiles,

even the tone of his voice when he's reading a speech.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Kim Jong-Un's most obvious attempt to emulate his grandfather

is his haircut.

He also put on weight and possibly took even more extreme measures.

There are experts who believe that

he may have had some type of plastic surgery

in order to enhance his resemblance to his grandfather.

You see him wearing those Mow suits that Kim Il-Sung used to wear.

You even see him wearing the straw hats

that Kim Il-Sung used to wear.

Kim Jong-Un even evoked his father's anti-Japanese stance

by changing North Korean time by 30 minutes

to avoid being on the same time as Japan.

However, Kim Jong-Un has made key departures

from North Korean tradition,

including sharing the spotlight with his wife.

In fact, his wife is a pop star.

She has been spotted in many places inside North Korea

dawning an expensive Christian Dior handbag

and much more fashionable attire

than what's common inside North Korea.

Previous leaders of North Korea did not really appear in public

with their spouses.

So this is a new-cult of personality.

Kim Jong-Un has at least one daughter

who's probably four or five years old now.

And we know this primarily thanks to Dennis Rodman,

the former NBA star,

who has visited North Korea several times now.

Kim Jong-Un's love of basketball and all Western culture,

stems from his childhood days in Switzerland.

Dennis Rodman told the world that he had drunk with Kim Jong-Un,

stayed up late with Kim Jong-Un

and even held his baby daughter in his arms.

Happy birthday to you!

(ALL CLAPPING)

While one third of North Korea's children are malnourished,

Kim Jong-Un has a pleasure island

that Dennis Rodman compared to Ibiza.

As Kim Jong-Un dines on caviar and French cheese,

he tells his population that dog meat is a super food

they should enjoy,

and if they beat the animals to death,

it will taste better.

In addition, Kim Jong-Un is said

to have 17 palaces scattered throughout the country.

Many with a runway for his private jet,

jokingly called "Air Force Un."

He is also reported to spend upwards of $30 million per year

on fancy imported liquor.

He owns an armoured Mercedes for local travel

and he has a thoroughbred horse collection

that costs more than $10 million annually to train and maintain.

Kim Jong-Un has also built many spectacular constructions,

amusement parks, a water park,

an aquarium, a dolphinarium,

a luxury ski resort.

Kim Jong-Un has effectively turned all of North Korea

into his own playground.

Everything that's made is made for him first,

like he's the star of his own movie.

But by sharing his indulgences with the elite of his country,

he helps ensure their loyalty.

Kim Jong-Un is following the father's model,

he rules through gift politic.

Especially by creating consumption space

for the elites.

He also rules through fear politic, through terror.

Jang Song-Thaek, he is the uncle of the leader Kim Jong-Un,

has been executed.

Now, this is a surprise move

because until recently Jang was considered

North Korea's second most powerful man.

Kim Jong-Un had his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek executed

just two years into his own rule

because Uncle Jang had become too powerful.

When arrested this week,

he was accused of double-dealing and acts of treachery.

The once trusted envoy was executed, reportedly with a heavy machine gun

and described as worse than a dog.

He executed his own uncle

with a ZPU4 anti-aircraft machine gun system.

Bodies are pulverised.

These persons who are executed in North Korea

are even denied this fundamental human right of leaving the corpse.

Kim Jong-Un's uncle wasn't the only family member he had killed either.

We're back now with yet another stunning twist in the assassination

of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's

estranged half-brother.

He killed his brother Nam, using assassins

who wiped VX on his face in a Malaysian airport.

"The man believed to be

the North Korean dictator's half-brother

and one-time rival is wheeled away on a stretcher,

later pronounced dead at a hospital."

VX is the most nasty element ever made by humans.

It's the element that been described as something

we wish we could uninvent.

It's a neurotoxin with extraordinary lethality.

It's an oily substance that if even a drop of it gets on you,

you die in spasms

and your own muscles crack your own bones.

It is a brutal, brutal weapon.

And Kim Jong-Un decided to kill his own brother with this weapon.

During the first five years of the Kim Jong-Un regime

340 officials were purged or executed.

But no one suffers more than the Korean people.

Kim particularly enjoys trying out new ways to kill people.

He travels around the country with an anti aircraft weapon.

And where he has somebody criticise him or anything

he lets fly at them with a huge anti-aircraft weapon.

He's out of it.

It's pretty hard to get any crazier than Kim Jong-Un.

But crazy doesn't necessarily mean ineffective,

it may just mean evil objectives.

And the first step toward accomplishing those evil objectives

is to brainwash an entire country.

Kim Jong-Un has proven that he'll kill his own family

to stay in power.

With that kind of resolve, what chance do his citizens have?

The North Korean regime

has spent the last 70 years conditioning their people

to blindly pledge their loyalty to the Kim dynasty.

Today the leadership has such absolute control

over the Korean people

that they even hold elections every five years.

The dear leader gets 100 percent of the votes.

In fact, when Kim Jong-Un ventures out into the public

the people can be seen making dramatic displays

of admiration towards him.

Some people are true believers, some people are pretenders,

but everyone has to show maximum respect.

But just what is life like in North Korea?

How does the Kim regime maintain control

over 25 million people?

The brainwashing runs deep.

It starts very early,

and continues throughout one's formal education.

There are loud speakers playing hymns.

They're playing ultra nationalistic music

about the leaders themselves.

What I wanted to share with you right now is our wakeup call.

From early morning at 5 a.m. to the next night until 2 a.m.

they broadcast live announcements.

Constantly songs about Kim Il-Sung.

(CHILDREN SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

As for the Korean War,

we learned in North Korea that the United States started it.

So, before I came to South Korea that is what I knew.

Children are taught target practice.

They use silhouettes of American GIs.

Korea even maintains a museum in Sinchon

that depicts fabricated atrocities committed by American soldiers.

One scene shows GIs pounding nails into a woman's head.

Everyday of your life the regime will remind you

that you're perpetually under siege.

Meanwhile, they project a very different image

to the outside world.

In Pyongyang,

tourists are taken through neighbourhoods

that demonstrate and upscale lifestyle,

but the stores don't actually sell anything.

The restaurants aren't open for business.

And the well-kept building are actually empty shells.

For those who live there,

day-to-day life in North Korean is governed by a strict set of rules

including personal appearance.

There is a limited number of approved hairstyles

for both men and women.

They cannot get very creative

because they'll be stopped by a security agent in the street

and there will be consequences.

It's been reported that

men are actually forbidden to copy Kim Jong-Un's hairstyle

in deference to their dear leader.

They tell us that women should be feminine,

and they make us wear skirts.

If you wear the prohibited pants,

they would just tear it off with scissors

in the middle of the street.

And while the propaganda machine claims that

North Korean medicine can cure aids and cancer,

the reality is much darker.

There is endemic shortage of antibiotics, painkillers,

that's why there are so many amputations in North Korea

because so many infections go directly to gangrene.

They amputate with no anaesthesia.

You're talking...

the Dark Ages.

Even the social hierarchy of the country is dictated

by the government.

North Korea is the only country on the face of the planet

that classifies its own people into three categories

depending on the perceived level of loyalty to the regime

of parents, grandparents, and other relatives.

My whole family was kicked out of Pyongyang

because my grandfather made a mistake,

which is playing foreign culture music

inside a big conference.

From that point their life went straight down.

At the top of the core class made of the elites of North Korea,

high ranking party officials and their families

enjoy comfortable lifestyles in the nation's developed cities,

like the capital, Pyongyang.

If you're an elite in North Korea,

you get a lot of benefits from showing loyalty to North Korea

and you can have a privileged life.

In the middle is the wavering class made up of peasants and workers

who have shown exceptional loyalty to the regime,

despite the hardships they're forced to endure.

When I was about nine years old,

the electricity was cut-off and there was no running water.

So, I had to get water from the streets.

At the bottom is the hostile class,

made up of families that oppose the regime at one time or another.

If you are designated a member of the hostile class

all the major decisions are made by the state for you.

Habitation, education, employment, food, water, clothing.

Everything has been distributed by the state

according to your political rank.

They are condemned regardless of how bright or smart they,

you know, might be, to a very low class and low level opportunities.

The Kim regime not only dictates the level of luxury one has,

they also attempt to control the influx of any information

that could shed an alternative light on the state of the world.

The only TV channels, TV programmes, and radio programmes

inside North Korea are state-managed,

state-operated stations.

The internal news media would have people believe that

crimes like robbery and murder are virtually non-existent.

But extreme poverty forces many

to take desperate measures to survive.

Not only are these transgressions punished,

but even watching the wrong media can get a person sentenced

to three years in a forced labour camp.

You enter the political prisoner camp

you lose the will to live.

They exploit you by forcing you to work

until your body breaks down and loses all strength.

You're forced to sacrifice your life that way.

And the odds of a lawbreaker getting caught are extremely high.

There are 270,000 agents who conduct strict surveillance

of North Korea's 25 million people.

More over each and every person in North Korea is an informer.

Many times you'll get sent to jail just on suspicion of doing something

with no actual evidence or anything that you've done anything wrong.

It was a system where neighbours would spy on neighbours.

Even if I was a normal person

and expressed slight dissatisfaction towards the party,

they would report you,

and your entire family would be captured

and brought to a political prison camp.

What happens in these camps, is nothing short of apocalyptic.

They're on the par with the Nazis did to the Jews and others

during World War II.

But citizens of North Korea don't need to be in prison camps

to experience atrocities.

They're subjected to torture, forced labour,

and public executions.

When I was young I watched a public execution,

90 bullets within one person with AK 47s.

I saw nine people getting burned to death,

and I saw public executions, I think seven times.

I saw how they hanged nine people and they burned them,

and it was horrible.

They don't just go after the dissident,

they go after three generations of the dissidence family.

This mafia style approach to punishment

isn't North Korea's only similarity to the mob.

The entire country is essentially a criminal syndicate

operating as an independent state.

With the North Korean people brainwashed and under firm control,

Kim Jong-Un can continue

the frightening military build-up started

by his grandfather.

Over the past 70 years,

North Korea has developed the kind of nuclear weapons

only available to superpowers.

The cost of this pursuit is enormous.

How has this small country managed to fund their dangerous operation?

Through much of the 20th century the North Korean economy relied

on their rich supply of minerals.

But as the country became isolated

the market for their resources dried up,

so they turned to alternate ways of making money.

Spearheading these operations is the clandestine agency known

as Office 39.

Office 39 has been estimated

to bring in $1 billion per year or more,

largely through illegal activities.

Kim Jong-Un really sits atop a criminal network

that would make Don Corleone or Tony Soprano proud.

One of North Korea's approaches was the literal printing of money,

duplicating U.S. dollars with surprising accuracy.

The notorious Supernotes, the North Korean counterfeit bills.

The quality was very good.

There is a simple reason behind that.

The same (UNCLEAR) presses made in Switzerland

used to produce North Korean currency

were used to produce counterfeit dollars.

North Korea also committed some of its farmland

to a different brand of counterfeiting.

North Korea is notorious for producing counterfeit cigarettes

and exporting contraband cigarettes.

North Korea is one of the world's top 25 tobacco producing countries.

Their high quality imitations

bring in an estimated $160 million each year.

Quality is very good for a simple reason.

Elsewhere it's criminal organisation

that produce these counterfeit cigarettes.

In North Korea,

the Kim regime is a criminal organisation

masquerading as a sovereign state

that uses state assets in order to produce counterfeit cigarettes.

And cigarettes are not the only vice they exploit.

North Korea is a complete drug cartel

with product flowing both internally and externally.

There is a huge drug problem in North Korea.

I've spoken with many young North Koreans who defected

and they very casually stated that they had used drugs

on multiple occasions in North Korea.

They hadn't realised that this was not acceptable behaviour.

Arguably people who are oppressed

and experience substance abuse problems

are easier to control.

From cocaine to methamphetamine, to counterfeit Viagra,

North Korea has been caught smuggling drugs

to countries all over the world,

including a cash of heroine headed to Australia in 2003

worth $80 million.

North Korea's drug trade

generates hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

And sanctions designed to shut down their multi faceted flow of money

are expertly dodged.

North Koreans survive on black market activity,

primarily through establishing shell companies,

fake corporations inside China and in other countries.

By disguising how transactions are paid for.

They transact money

from another shell company and another one

and would basically test the patience of custom investigator

to go through four or five levels of shell companies

before he finds out that there's a bank someplace

in an offshore island in the Caribbean

that is doing transactions for North Korea

that they never would have known unless they had gone through

and found all the shell companies that were involved in financing it.

North Korea also dodges sanctions against illegal activities

by disguising their ships to look like there from other countries

in a process called "Reflagging."

They have developed a complex network of relationships

in order to have their ships registered under foreign flags

and thus enabled to bypass international scrutiny

and sanctions.

One of the most frightening exports from North Korea

involves weapons themselves.

North Korea has provided arms to terrorists groups

like Hamas, Hezbollah, to the Iranian State, Pakistan.

International terrorism, drug dealing, counterfeiting,

North Korea's flow of dirty money

has helped them become the nuclear state the U.S. has tried to prevent.

And unfortunately nuclear arms are no longer the only weapon

the U.S. has to worry about.

North Korea's oppression of its people has created a country

that appears to be stuck in time

with technology lagging behind the rest of the world by decades.

If you looked at a world map at night, what you tend to see is,

China and Asia and South Korea glittering with lights.

And then there's North Korea, the dark spot in the middle.

In North Korea,

for people they don't have a water system.

They don't even have electricity.

It is very, very, very rare to have somebody the computer.

But underneath that backward façade,

North Korea has become a technological threat

that's already in our own backyard.

Their massive flow of black market money

has helped them fund a cyber warfare programme

that can hit anyone.

The average citizen in North Korea doesn't have internet.

But, you know, academics, university researchers,

government employees, and clearly their cyber hackers

all have access to the internet

and are able to conduct attacks all over the world.

North Korea is probably among the top five in the world

when it comes to cyber hacking capability.

North Korea apparently trains its best and brightest students

to become cyber warriors.

Sony Pictures says it has no further release plans for "The Interview."

An announcement that has rocked Hollywood.

In 2014,

a cyber attack from North Korea prompted Sony Pictures

to cancel the release of, "The Interview"

a satirical comedy that involved a plot

to assassinate Kim Jong-Un.

North Korea wipes all of Sony's network,

but then also stole all of their emails and released those.

North Korea threatened blowing up American theatres

that would show "The Interview."

Sony made its decision after the country's largest theatre chains

announced they were pulling the movie.

Concerned when the hackers

threatened locations showing the film.

This will go down in the annals of U.S.-North Korea relations

as the first time that a foreign government

imposed on Americans self-censorship.

The Sony hack proved

that North Korea can make a significant impact

on American business.

Emboldened by their success,

North Korean hackers set their sights

on more lucrative targets.

They got into the Bank of Bangladesh

via what we call, "Email Spearfishing."

They just sent emails to particular people

inside the Bank of Bangladesh,

tricked them into running the attachments.

They attempted to transfer $1 billion

and if it was not for a very small typo

they would succeeded.

They did get away in the end with $81 million.

The theft of tens of millions of dollars is only the beginning

for North Korea's cyber criminals.

Their reach is now more widespread than ever.

When the WannaCry outbreak happened in May of 2017,

they basically upped their game.

We're well aware of the rising threat from Ransomware

it has perhaps become the number one cyber threat

around the world right now,

but we've never seen anything on this scale.

This worm was able to jump onto computers

by using what we call an exploit.

A piece of code that allows it to get on your machine

without you having to do anything.

Your computer just needs to be on and connected to the internet.

We saw hundreds of thousands of computers infected

just over a few hours.

When WannaCry got onto your machine,

it pretended to be what's called Ransomware.

Ransomware basically encrypts all of your files on your machine

and then tells you, "If you pay us $300,

we'll give you the key to decrypt all of your files."

However, their goal was essentially to just trash your computer.

Unfortunately, it hit a variety of organisations in Europe,

including things like hospitals in the UK,

which were completely shutdown.

The German train system for example was impacted

as well as the telephone networks in Spain.

There's nothing that,

is stopping North Korea from doing the same thing,

potentially to some sort of power supplier.

Often you can get into one or two key points

and cause a domino effect

and really impact the entire U.S. grid.

Once the power's out, there's no banking going on anymore.

Potentially water flow doesn't happen anymore,

traffic lights are out.

Everything ceases to operate normally.

The most vulnerable countries

are the ones that have the most of their society

linked together by electronics.

It's not just a computer somewhere

that is connected to your washing machine.

Your washing machine is through the web connected to your dryer.

Everything's connected with everything.

What could possibly go wrong? The answer is, everything.

We are constantly probed in the cyber world.

We, we... And have been for sometime.

And we are alert and we recognise the probes

and we are responding.

And what would the U.S.'s response be? A cyber attack back?

Unfortunately, it's very asymmetrical,

North Korea does not rely on the internet,

does not rely on all these computers that we do to run our country.

So a cyber attack on North Korea would be very ineffective.

This is not the first time we've seen attacks

by Nation States against U.S. companies.

There have been other types of attacks.

There have been other countries who actually have capabilities

and are inside our corporate networks right now.

This is gonna require strong government policy

by the United States.

A real thing that we're worried about for North Korea in the future

is their willingness to do something much greater

than just that cyber attack.

We have radar systems that are watching

if there's incoming missiles,

so you could have a country like North Korea

basically conduct a cyber attack on those radar systems

to show that Russia has launched,

you know, a tonne of nuclear missiles at the U.S.

causing the U.S. to retaliate

and essentially start a war

when there was no missiles to launch to being with.

The mob like money machine of North Korea

and their aggressive cyber warfare

show how ruthless they're willing to be

against their opponents.

And now Kim Jong-Un has nuclear capabilities

that rival those of the U.S.

How did this regime develop such a deadly arsenal

that requires such specialised knowledge?

In the 1940s,

North Korea's first leader Kim Il-Sung became obsessed

with acquiring nuclear technology.

Having seen the deadly power of the bomb.

In those days the U.S. and the Soviet Union

enjoyed a near monopoly on nuclear weapons.

North Korea pleaded with the Soviet leadership

for technology transfer.

The Soviet Union did not trust North Korea,

so withheld providing a blueprint for a bomb.

But the Soviets did help North Korea

with building a nuclear reactor for power generation.

The Soviets told them,

"This is for peaceful nuclear application."

The problem is,

Kim Il-Sung decided that they had to have their own capabilities.

Blatantly ignoring their deal with the Soviets,

North Korea would spend the following decades

pursuing nuclear ambitions in defiance

of the international community.

The nuclear reactors were used to generate plutonium,

which can be used as fuel for weapons.

The programme was past from father to son,

when Kim Il-Sung died in 1994.

Kim Jong-Il took over,

and put the country's plutonium production on hold,

appearing to bow to international pressure.

But he was actually switching his focus

to a different nuclear fuel, enriched uranium.

Unlike plutonium, which requires a nuclear reactor

that can easily be seen by enemy satellites.

Enriched uranium can be produced in hidden underground facilities,

and helping them develop this technology

was a man named A. Q. Khan.

A. Q. Khan from Pakistan was an entrepreneur

in the illicit dissemination of nuclear technology,

particularly uranium enrichment.

A. Q. Khan traded uranium enrichment technology with North Korea

in exchange for ballistic missile technology.

The icing on the cake was the revelation

that during this whole period of time

the North Koreans had built a large uranium enrichment plant

in an underground location.

A. Q. Khan provided the knowledge and technology

to produce highly enriched uranium by using centrifuges,

designed to separate the most volatile isotopes.

The centrifuge is a very rapidly spinning tool

that then spins this gas and allows uranium 238,

which is the common stuff to go to the outside.

Uranium 235, which is the bomb fuel type,

stays on the inside.

And you do it over and over and over

in what are called centrifuge cascades.

Throughout the 1990s,

North Korea was secretly mining raw uranium

within their open borders.

For the mine workers it was hard and dangerous labour.

They were reportedly only given one day off per month,

while being directly exposed to radio active materials

known to cause cancer.

Their work has paid off for the regime.

In 2002, it was successful enough

that North Korea admitted they had a secret nuclear programme.

North Korea said,

"Yes, we are enriching uranium, what are you going to do about it?"

They even invited Dr. Siegfried Hecker,

former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory

to take a tour of the facilities.

Most of the U.S. Government did not want me to go

because people thought that I would be used for propaganda purposes.

But there were a few courageous individuals in the U.S. Government

that said, "Why not? We might learn something."

Hecker visited North Korea seven times from 2004 to 2010.

He's the only American to have seen the most secretive parts

of the North Korean nuclear weapons programme.

In 2010, in one of my visits to the North Korean Nuclear Complex,

they actually showed me a modern centrifuge facility.

My jaw just dropped.

I was stunned

to see what looked like hundreds and hundreds of centrifuges

lined up at three different locations.

It was just stunning.

The growing power of the North Korean programme

had already been put on display starting October 3rd, 2006,

with their first underground nuclear test.

The first one was a very small explosive field.

We know that they've tested.

Because when you test underground,

you send seismic signals throughout the entire Earth

and you can read those seismic signals.

In 2009 in May,

they conducted a second nuclear test

and that had about half of the destructive power of Hiroshima.

North Korea subsequent nuclear test each showed a significant increase

in destructive force.

By 2016, we saw big advancements

in North Korea's nuclear weapons development.

And estimates really range from around 20 to 30 kilotons,

which is roughly the size of the bomb

that was dropped on Nagasaki.

North Korea's most recent nuclear test in September of 2017,

yielded its biggest blast yet.

Although difficult to pinpoint,

estimates for this latest blast

range from 70 kilotons to 280 kilotons.

It's been so many years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki

that perhaps we are forgetting the devastation

that these things yield, but it is biblical.

If North Korea could accurately drop

one of their current nuclear weapons on New York City,

then the death toll could easily be over 5 million people.

Nuclear weapons are only dangerous

if they can be delivered to their target,

and recent missile testing has shown that North Korea is well on its way,

if not already there.

North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile test

was conducted on July 4th, 2017,

as sort of North Korea's present to America.

Every country that's ever tested an ICBM,

their first few tests are failures.

So we were surprised that their first test was so successful.

It is clear that North Korea's moving forward

in trying to develop ICBM technologies.

So they're getting better and better and better.

And we can keep issuing press releases here

and have a lot of people in the West ring their hands and say,

"Look my goodness, but they're not there yet."

The answer is, I think they are there.

It's simply a matter of time

before all targets in the United States are vulnerable

and really around the world.

North and South Korea have technically been at war

for the last seven decades.

Since the Korean War,

the Kim regime has dreamed of dominating the Korean peninsula.

And they've now developed the weaponry

to make any confrontation catastrophic.

Under Kim Jong-Un,

threats to Seoul have been escalating.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

What are his secret plans?

They want to unify the peninsula violently.

They believe they need to be in control of the peninsula

and that they'll use weapons to do it.

Reunification is a desire expressed by both North and South Korea.

But each side wants it under their terms.

If North Korea took over South Korea,

Kim Jong-Un would have to convince 50 million people

who are used to freedom to submit to total state control.

Or build enough prisons for those who won't.

If South Korea took over North Korea,

it would be over the bodies of Kim Jong-Un,

his 9 million military personnel, countless civilians,

and as many South Koreans as they could take with them,

a price far too high to pay.

But Kim Jong-Un could tip the tables in his favour if he had the bomb.

North Korea's growing nuclear capabilities

combined with their provocative missile launches

and reckless threats

have created unprecedented tension along the DMZ.

The DMZ stretches from the Yellow Sea on the West

to the Sea of Japan on the east.

It is the most militarised piece of terrain

that you would ever see in the world.

It has 15-foot concertina and barbed wire fences

that go below the ground, multiple feet,

mines on both sides,

and it's patrolled by the best soldiers

the South Korean military and the United States has 24/7.

Just across the border from South Korea lies Kijong Dong,

an entire town that is completely fake.

Known as propaganda village,

it was intended to project and inviting lifestyle

to lure defectors from South Korea.

Instead most defectors are going the other way.

In November, a North Korean soldier made a daring dash toward the DMZ.

He raced past a guard post,

then sprinted across and open section of a joint security area

entering the South.

As North Korean soldiers tried to gun him down.

He sustained four major wounds, which drained him of half his blood

before South Korean soldiers could pull him to safety.

At the hospital,

doctors found his digestive tract riddled with parasitic worms,

indicating a severe lack of nutrition and hygiene.

It's especially troubling considering soldiers

have preferred status and receive the best provisions.

South Korea immediately broadcast news of the successful defection

toward North Korean soldiers,

part of an ongoing propaganda war between both sides along the DMZ.

South Korea even blares Korean pop music

at the North Korean soldiers to wear them down.

(POP MUSIC)

In 2015, this started a small fire-fight,

when North Korean troops shot at the speakers.

The DMZ has become increasingly militarised.

Primarily because of the growth of the North Korean military.

It is the fourth largest military in the world

with probably one of the largest standing militaries

in terms of infantry, and armour, and artillery.

With a tremendous emphasis on their rocket, artillery

and missile capabilities.

Capable of reaching Seoul with zero warning.

The military of North Korea should not mistake

the resolve of the United States of America

to stand with our ally.

The alliance between South Korea and the United States is ironclad.

The United States has only three bilateral defence treaties.

The first is Japan, the second is South Korea,

and third is the Philippines.

And we take this very seriously.

The U.S. Military presence in South Korea today...

is about 30,000.

We have billions of dollars of defence and armaments there.

We run regular military exercises along the border.

We guarantee we will defend them if they are attacked.

If North Korea decided to invade the South,

it would begin with the insertion of special operation forces

along the coast.

Hundreds and hundreds of aircraft

from which they would launch airborne forces.

The dispersal of North Korean special ops

across the lower parts of the peninsula

would draw resources away from North Korea's primary target, Seoul.

The South's capital is only 35 miles from the DMZ.

There would be an artillery and rocket barrage into the south.

That would be devastating and catastrophic.

Almost immediately on the heels of that would be an invasion...

down to principle corridors that lead directly to Seoul.

The idea of a war on the Korean Peninsula is horrifying.

There are so many people, tens of millions of people in Seoul

right in the crosshairs of all of Kim's weaponry.

The ability to fight a war

and not have that entire city destroyed

and those people killed is extremely difficult.

If the North Korean forces were to exercise

their tremendous inventory

of artillery, and rockets, and missiles.

A large percentage of those are located

in the northern slopes of the mountains along the DMZ.

So the United States or the South Korean forces

would have to fly to the north

and then from the north fly back down

with an attack angle to go after those caves.

North Korea's attack would take place over the course

of 30 to 45 minutes

before the United States and South Korea

would even be able to start to interdict these capabilities.

That intervening 45 minutes would be catastrophic to Seoul.

Tens of thousands of families would be destroyed.

The devastation would be unbelievable

and the panic would be unbelievable.

The psychical presence of U.S. troops in harms way in South Korea

sends the loudest message to North Korea,

"Don't do it."

If you attack...

Americans will be among the first to be sacrificed.

We will march right into Pyongyang

and end your regime.

Kim Jong-Un has dreams of taking over South Korea,

and he's added a nuclear arsenal

to go along with the fourth largest military in the world.

But he knows starting a war would draw quick decisive wrath

from the Unites States.

If Kim Jong-Un has serious military ambitions,

his only hope might be to break America's will first

with a decisive pre-emptive strike.

North Korea may actually believe

that they have to attack us to prevent us from attacking them

because they're a massively insecure, poor,

and dangerous regime.

It is a possibility that the U.S. has been preparing for.

U.S. policy is extremely clear.

If North Korea or Kim Jong-Un decided to launch a nuclear attack

on the United States,

we would respond with overwhelming force.

The United States would have a range of options

to basically turn North Korea into a giant nuclear parking lot.

We don't want war,

we don't want to have to take military action against North Korea,

but there should be no doubt in Kim Jong-Un's mind

that if forced and if we believe that's the only alternative,

we will flatten his country.

Together we are facing the threat of the reckless

and brutal regime in North Korea.

The nuclear and ballistic missile programmes of that regime

require a determined response.

But Trump's approach might cause more problems than it solves.

This is an individual who shows publicly observable behaviours

that are consistent with narcissism.

He lives according to pure emotion in the moment.

He will send out tweets in the moment

that may be incendiary.

And so what you end up,

practically speaking is a battle between two adolescents.

In the face of this blustery standoff

Kim Jong-Un's unpredictable and defiant behaviour

cannot be discounted.

I think that Kim Jong-Un could somehow get the idea

that he could succeed with causing the United States to back down

if he uses a nuclear weapon against them.

That's nuts,

but then so was Hitler invading Russia.

And another week, another launch from the North Koreans.

But this one was different.

For a start it didn't fail,

and it appears to be a new type of rocket with a longer range.

One that North Korea says can carry a nuclear warhead.

I testified to Congress on record

that I believe North Korea had the ability to produce

a intercontinental ballistic missile

with a miniaturised nuclear warhead with a re-entry vehicle

that could successfully target the United States.

And I stand by that assessment today.

Well, let's say in a scenario that North Korean decide

to make the fateful decision

to launch a nuclear weapon at the United States.

In that scenario they would fire their missile

presumably various types of U.S. missile defences.

Would try to intervene

and stop the North Koreans from launching their attack

and successfully hitting the U.S. homeland.

The defended area encompasses,

Alaska, Hawaii, and the 48 states of the continental United States.

The ground base missile defence system

is designed to detect the launch of a ballistic missile,

begin tracking that ballistic missile,

which then determines the best time to gauge that ballistic missile

so that the debris will burn up in space

and will not fall on the homeland.

They need to understand I dropped bombs for most of my life.

Should North Korea launch

and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

The ground base missile defence system

will engage and destroy that target,

I have high confidence in that.

But not all experts agree that America's missile defence

is impregnable.

If our friends in North Korea launched a ballistic missile.

We have a very small

and very partial ballistic missile defence system.

It is almost entirely focused on attacks

from the north or the northwest

because of the enemy that we've been working

on trying to defend against with Russia and China.

If they take a SCUD missile

and comes up close on a container ship

to the American coast

and launches up,

we're not deployed in such a way with our ballistic missile defences

as to stop that.

President Bush wanted to create

a national missile defence capability.

We will develop and deploy effective missile defences

to protect America and our allies from sudden attack.

But under the Obama Administration it was brought to a halt.

We will redouble our efforts

toward a more robust international non-proliferation regime

that all countries have responsibilities to meet.

We're not completely without defences,

but we could be in much more secure shape today

had the Obama Administration not gutted

the Bush 43 Administration Missile defence effort.

There is also a possibility that North Korea could cripple America

without a nuclear bomb ever hitting the country.

An electromagnetic pulse or E.M.P,

is a burst of radiation that could damage and disable a power grid.

An E.M.P could be triggered by a nuclear blast

many miles above its target, eliminating the need for accuracy.

(COUNTDOWN)

There is something called

a fractional orbital bombardment system

or a FOBS,

which the Russians developed and for reasons known to them,

they've shared with the North Koreans.

And what a FOBS is, is a launch of a nuclear weapon on a satellite,

but the launch goes to the south

instead of the north.

Our sensors aren't really very well designed to pick that out

of the other satellites and space junk and so forth.

It detonates 50 to a 100 miles into space.

The area that it is over could have its electric grid knocked out

and not just temporarily with the lights off for a few hours,

but very solidly for a long period of time.

We'll lose millions of people in the United States

from starvation, and lack of water, and social breakdown.

We're not talking about

any particularly sophisticated capability.

It's just a satellite in orbit

getting blown up by the North Korean command and saying,

"Okay, on this PAT Track around let's blow it up over Omaha."

For the last 25 years,

from President Clinton through President Trump,

the United States has attempted

to halt North Korea's nuclear development

through diplomatic sanctions rather than by force,

to little affect.

The Kim's have all lied through their teeth

about their commitments not to go nuclear and the rest.

I think this would be our fourth time

in negotiating with them, having them lie to us

and then break their agreements.

The U.S. knows it will need international cooperation

to combat North Korea's rogue actions,

and world leaders have agreed

on bringing the harshest international sanctions yet.

But even this may prove ineffective.

The purpose of levying sanctions against a dangerous regime

is to make it crumble from within.

Either the leader capitulates or the people rebel.

The brutal conditions inside North Korea are well documented.

Is there a chance the people will rise up

and topple the regime?

The military has never been able to challenge the Kim's.

And that dynamic has been maintained under Kim Jong-Un as well.

So the danger or the risk of a military coup d'état

inside North Korea is quite low.

The military remains beholden to the Kim leaders themselves

and the party that supports the supreme leader.

Kim Jong-Un is by far less beloved

than either of his predecessors and that's a problem.

It's difficult to maintain a tyranny

when the one unifying factor is the Cult of Personality around a leader

who is as off as Kim Jong-Un is.

The possibility that eventually the people see through it,

and some sort of popular uprising happens,

goes up everyday.

It's just unlikely,

and we may not be able to afford

to wait long enough for that to happen

while he goes headlong down the path of nuclear domination.

I think a revolution from within...

the framework of the North Korean state is improbable

because the police and military structures

are so powerful and oppressive.

Many people wonder why North Korean people would stay in that situation,

why they would choose to live that way,

why there wouldn't be some sort of civil uprising.

And when asked about this,

defectors from North Korea quickly dismissed these ideas.

And they say there's no thinking, there's no free thought.

It's just fear.

They brainwashed us to think that all other countries in the world,

except North Korea,

were filled with beggars and poor people.

We were taught

that in the United States or South Korea or other countries,

that those countries were filled with beggars

who did not even have porridge to eat.

We believed that was the truth.

To put diplomatic and economic sanctions on the regime

in a way that almost starves it out of existence

and forces him to capitulate,

give up his nuclear ambitions

and essentially plead for food and energy to run his country.

That runs the risk of him waiting us out

to the point where his country is starving

and the people are dying,

but he's still got all those military capabilities

because he'll just divert resources to those things

while the people die in the streets.

The brazenness of Kim Jong-Un has gone beyond verbal volleys

at the U.S. and South Korea.

And has graduated to overt actions toward another neighbour, Japan,

that has them feeling on edge.

This morning new worries,

the Japanese Prime Minister warning North Korea

may already be able to send a missile loaded with sarin gas

into Japan.

A deadly arsenal and an unpredictable leader

who's not yet backing down.

The recent North Korean missile test,

which flew directly over the islands of Japan.

We are on a pretty heavy warfront.

Even if these reckless actions are meant merely as taunts,

they could lead to serious consequences.

I think the greatest threat that we face

when it comes to North Korea's nuclear weapons

and missile programmes is the vent of an accidental war.

The greatest example I could think of

is if the North Koreans decide to test another missile.

And that missile goes over Japanese or South Korean territory

and crash lands.

If lives are lost,

if people hurt, or maimed, or injured,

I guarantee you either Seoul or Japan in that instance

would want to retaliate.

Ready to fight tonight is the slogan at Osan Airbase.

Its fighter jets just a three-minute flight

from the North Korea border.

Every time the North Koreans test fire a missile,

my hands literally start to shake

because I always wait 30 minutes later

to make sure that missile didn't crash land somewhere

because I know where it can lead,

and I think that's the greatest pathway to war.

Nuclear weapons are dramatically different

than any other tool in our arsenal.

Don't forget that a nuclear weapon is harnessing the power of the Sun.

Not only would a nuclear exchange be perhaps the worst thing

to have happened in world history,

but what may follow could be even worse.

We could trigger a global nuclear winter

that could kill billions of people.

The horror of this is just immeasurable.

(CHANTING "KIM JONG-UN")

We have entered a period of consequences.

We cannot go on kicking the can down the road.

Our freedom, way of life, will be compromised,

if we take no action.

Many would argue the United States and South Korea let this happen.

We had a policy of strategic patience,

North Korea kept doing its thing.

We did nothing to alter their behaviour.

They now have nukes.

It's a done deal.

That genie is not gonna get back into that bottle.

North Korea's long ranged plan has finally paid off.

It started with Kim Il-Sung

relentlessly pursuing nuclear technology

while taking oppressive control of his people.

Nothing was beneath him,

including kidnapping foreigners to further his cause.

His son, Kim Jong-Il continued his legacy,

neglecting his citizens during famine

while boosting his black market operations

like drug running and counterfeiting.

And now grandson Kim Jong-Un has put the pieces together.

Achieving long distance nuclear weapons.

His success and the dangerous flaunting of it

has the world on the brink of war.

This is not something we can lightly,

the global community needs to understand

every country is in danger from the actions of North Korea.

The question is, "What can be done now?"

One strategy that has been debated

is the so-called decapitation approach.

Taking out Kim Jong-Un either by assassin

or by surgical strike.

It's an idea fraught with complications.

In the context of Korea something has to be understood.

But it is very tightly organised and tightly secured,

tightly controlled on its borders.

The only way that you could succeed

in trying to assassinate someone is to penetrate that.

And I think you find that the commander of special operations

would tell you they couldn't penetrate it,

and if they tried they would be killed.

The possibility of assassinating Kim Jong-Un,

number one is difficult to pull off

from just a pure can we identify

where he will be and hit and kill him.

We can't guarantee it.

He knows that's a goal, he knows that's a problem,

and he's an extremely paranoid individual.

So, he's got body doubles,

he's got every means of trying to avoid being assassinated.

In addition, it is almost certain

that he's got some sort of dead man switch.

He's got whatever his most trusted allies are,

with the authority, and the power, and the order,

to go ahead and do something awful if he's taken out.

Let's say in the future the United States

has satellites overhead

and Kim Jong-Un is inspecting a missile that's gonna be tested.

The North Koreans love putting out

a demonstration platform for Kim Jong-Un to sit upon

and U.S. satellites might be able to pick that up.

We might be able to quickly launch a tomahawk

and take out that missile platform and take out Kim Jong-Un.

Nobody can answer the question of, "What happens after?"

Imagine a scenario where we do take out Kim Jong-Un

and the country does devolve in a civil war.

That would be a civil war that could be fought with nuclear weapons,

chemical weapons, biological weapons.

Huge amounts of military power that are in North Korea.

Keep in mind,

a North Korean civil war fought with nuclear weapons,

would not stay in North Korea

just because of the nature of nuclear weapons.

Atomic fallout spreads.

All we have to do is look at the wind patterns

to figure out who is going to die,

so there is no way that we can entertain the idea

of some sort of assassination.

That's just crazy.

If there's any attempt to remove Kim Jong-Un from power

it will most likely have to be done

with North Korea's long-time ally, China.

I think the only way to stop

the North Korean nuclear weapons programme

is to eliminate the regime.

I think the best way to do that is to reunite the two Koreas.

To convince China

that the merger of the two Koreas is in their national interest,

as I think it's in America's national interest.

China has the unique ability to bring this about.

It supplies over 90 percent of North Korea's energy,

supplies enormous amounts of food and other humanitarian assistance.

In 2017,

the Trump administration has very publicly

and repeatedly reached out to China

in an attempt to find common interest

in taking out the Kim regime,

and to reunite North and South Korea as one nation.

I met with the President of China.

I believe he wants to get that situation taken care of.

They have tremendous power and we'll see what happens.

Well, President Trump has made it clear,

as have other American Presidents

that he will not accept a nuclear North Korea.

And I think the point that needs to be made to China is,

that means we will use military force.

That is the kind of scenario we could avoid

through negotiation with China to agree

to a collaborative collapse of the North Korean regime.

I wish we had this conversation a long time ago.

But we didn't because we followed the false,

misleading, hopelessly naive policy

of believing that we could either chitchat North Korea

out of its nuclear weapons, or pressure them out.

And both those options have been tried for 25 years

and they've failed.

But getting China to turn against their neighbour

may have too many hurdles to overcome.

Even if we were able to get the Kim family out of power,

you now are left with potentially a massive refugee problem.

That's part of why China is so concerned about this issue.

If North Korea goes up in flames one way or the other,

the refugee flow into China

or the massive humanitarian crisis on their border

would be extremely expensive and horrific for them,

as it would be, of course, for South Korea.

The Chinese, when they survey all their options

nobody's dying right now in China because of what's happening.

They can live with that right now.

They don't want to live with something that would be far worse.

There's a different option that would require less planning,

but much greater political risk.

You have to be ready to do something that no one in the United States,

certainly in Washington has talked about,

which is to ultimately leave the peninsula.

In doing this we're effectively defusing the crisis.

And that's a very important development for the Chinese

because they've lived with this nightmare

that at some point we would sponsor an invasion

through Korea back into China.

Now, you and I and other Americans may say,

"Well, that's ridiculous."

It's not very ridiculous

when you look at it from the vantage point of Beijing,

that has lived with this threat for hundreds and hundreds of years.

The idea that the United States should withdraw

from the Korean Peninsula is completely inconceivable.

United States has signed a treaty with South Korea

that we defend them, but more than that,

that we provide a nuclear umbrella to South Korea.

Further more, the North Koreans know

if they ever launched an attack on South Korea or our forces there,

we would respond.

That would be the end of the regime.

That's why they're there, that's why they have to stay there.

If the U.S. wants to prove its resolve,

one option would be to flex some military might of its own.

At some point President Trump is going to determine

that continuing to allow Kim and the regime

to perfect their nuclear ICBM capabilities

is more dangerous than conducting a demonstrative strike.

That's where we would pick a particular military target

and destroy it, to show Kim

that this is what could happen to all of his military hardware.

And hope that that focuses his mind

in a way where the calculation changes.

Where he says, "Okay, maybe I won't survive this."

But such a show of force could have the worst consequences of all.

The North Koreans have a big ally

and that's the people's republic of China

that would be World War III.

That's something we have to avoid.

While nations continue to debate on how to deal with the hermit kingdom

and their tyrannical regime,

the United States continues to prepare for the worst

from North Korea.

The problem we have with North Korea,

we don't have any good options.

What we have is a cornucopia of bad answers,

and at some point we're gonna have to pick the least bad answer

and live with it.

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