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north korea and south korea plan to hold a summit on the 27th of april and of course, donald trump and kimjong—un april and of course, donald trump and kim jong—un that will be meeting hopefully, after that, in the month of may. if we take a look at this revised deal, us automakers will get greater access to the south korean market. at the moment, far more cars are shipped from south korea to america than in the other direction, making upa america than in the other direction, making up a big chunk of the annual trade deficit between the two countries. as the south korea, it has secured a partial exemption from president donald trump's new steel tariffs, it will be pleased that it did not have to give ground on opening up its agricultural industry the us imports. korea is america's sixth largest trading partner, totalling $145 billion worth in trade in 2016 and this deal will hopefully reduce america's trade deficit with the rear of around $26 billion. according to both sides, it isa billion. according to both sides, it is a win—win situation. billion. according to both sides, it

for we have a liberal president in south korea with president then we had the olympic games the winter games also we have a very self-confident north korean leader now with the atomic weapons program and we have a very pragmatic donald trump now right well let's talk a little bit about the role that south korea place because they've been pushing really hard to broker this meeting between president trump and the north korean leader talked about that yes south korea definitely was here the crucial the most the size of facilitating the whole process as we know president. at his brilliant speech here last year he invited north korea to participate in the winter olympic games and this gave the north koreans a very good opportunity without losing face coming back into dialogue which was very much much needed for them also within south korea the un to reproach him and our forces the right to conservatives are now in a crisis they are very weak because two of the former presidents are embroiled in big scandals convolving corruption so this was very important for a lot of it has to do with just

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attackor on south koreorth korea because he knew very well that that war was still into south korea and lead to a ll-scale war. they have a lot at stake. >> that is tim of thepeational news thank you s.r joining an increasing number ofh young britslim women are choosing to wear a headscarf. some women in muslim countries are campaigning against it as a symbol of oppression. here in britain, some women are seeing an opposite view as empowering. >> the spotlight is on the hijab. many muslim women choose to wear it proudly. for someit is an act of desty, for others encounters like a ron forced to wear, it is a simple to remain protest. the hijab is going high-fashion. 20-year-old model has been signed up by an agency that und a supermodel kate maas. -- moss. she is one of the first british models with the hijab taking the catwalk. >> i deftly don't want to be considered a token. 'i don'want these ethnic models are models with different religious backgrounds to just pave the way. i want the way to stay there. it is the norm outside the normal news fair. >> she is coming the face of modest f

the rest iss from canada, europe, japan, south korea. those are the countries to have trade restricted. it's that simple. >> the president was asked as far as the trade war is concerned i will play his response. >> when we are behind in every single country do you understand what i mean? with 60 billion in 100 billion the trade war hurts them, not us t-3 unfortunately trade wars are bad. nobody wins from the trade war yesl some steel companies could benefit but there are tremendous cost to the economy and innocent bystanders will be hit so you are a farmer of soybeans and cannot sell to china you will suffer. if you make bluejeans or a cranberry farmer you are caught up in this you will not benefit at all from steel or aluminum tariffs now you are hurt as well. i disagree in that respect there are no winners. >>host: independent line from arkansas. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. two comments. first, i agree as soon as you he is the tariffs on steel they will raise prices by 22%. i guarantee so all the money for the military you wi

the talks have been brokered by south korea and are already being seen as a success for those within trump's administration. i think as we've seen in the last twenty four hours a policy that was put in place and has been executed by the state department over the past year has exceeded this summit meeting between the u.s. and north korean leaders is expected by me with the world waiting to see if two months is enough time to dampen down fire and fury into meaningful dialogue. let's get more on this from one of the most who's professor of korean studies a balance of free university you know welcome to the doubly let's start about port about whether each can trust the other and whether this will actually happen do you think it will happen this meeting well that's a point of time very difficult to say because there could be a lot of different obstacles to actually then have having the meeting but as of now both leaders quite straightforwardly said they want to beat even from said yes uneaten so as of now we have to expect that it will be yet except vats in the last few minutes it's been

we've got south korea we've got north korea we've got china we've got russia those countries can solve this tension on the peninsula all by themselves but the us will not let that happen the us will not allow south korea full sovereignty over its defense planning and this is the real problem here i think it could be solved with regional players go ahead. i would agree in fact i just made a made a comment on our blog recently they were talking about there was some type of conference in vancouver that canada was hosting of course the us was there and and other players but two players to discuss the resolution what direction to go forward on korea and of course the two players that probably should most importantly be there russia and china were not invited and so i think it's. it i agree that i think and i also think the new president south korea is open to dialogue with north korea i think you saw that during the olympics a potential you know mel maybe a slight melting of some ice there but. i do not think the u.s. sees it is in their interest to actually have a dialogue unless it's unde

well here is what south korea's top security official had to say. the north clearly expressed its willingness for denuclearizing the korean peninsula and clarify that there's no reason for them to retain nuclear weapons if military threats against them are removed and if the safety of its regime is guaranteed. josh smith is a reuters correspondent in seoul south korea and i asked him how significant a development this is well these were some of the most historic talks in recent memory this is the first time that such senior south korean officials met directly with kim jong un and this signaled that there is some seriousness on both sides you know what hard progress comes out of these talks remains to be seen and many observers will be especially looking closely at what the response out of washington is right we'll talk about that in just a moment josh if north korea follows through on its offer to freeze nuclear testing what are they likely to want in return. that is the big question is this declaration that they might be willing to give up their nu

defense these fat systems in south korea now and. the threat of an of an independent united korea historically korea has stronger ties with china and greater animosity with japan however right small amount that is that would be a break in the u.s. containment of china that they cannot allow so that they can't allow this go for this is why i think the deep state is actually trying their behind all of this trying to interject in the process i think they know for what trump was doing now quietly from what i understand south korea talking with china china has been talking about russia and china providing some security guarantees to. north korea and south korea has been making some promises that under theoretically you know far down the road. in the event of reunification korea would join any anti the chinese that eight zero design are going to be the ad and they've also promised to limit the number of systems not allow anymore to be erected you know what's really interesting here is that again our viewers may not know this is that under

you're a former ambassador to south korea. there's currently no u.s. ambassador to south korea. famously, the north korean envoy for the state department resigned, retired a couple of weeks ago. the infrastructure, the normal diplomatic infrastructure is not in place for something so huge as this. >> it is huge. frankly, in a certain way, in terms of foreign policy, in terms of national security, he's betting his presidency on this. that would put it in the huge category. i would like to say though there are a lot of extremely talented people in the state department who are still there, working every day. i hope the president notices that because he can't -- this is not a one-man sport. he needs a whole team, and he needs to go to the state department. >> but he says that he has feelings, he works on his gut, and he says that his gut, his -- you know, these tweeted insults and then the return insults, all of that kind of stuff, the maximum pressure, the savsancti that has done what no other president has been able to do. >> what i would like him to do since he doesn't want to li

making headlines, obvioususly, n south korea. dheepthika: this is the front page of the "korea times," looking forward to the inter-korea summit announced for late april. the two officials from north korea met with kim jong-un -- from south korea met with kim jong-un yesterday, and really hailed kim jong-il's "warm welcome" to the officials, who were able to visit the buildings that house his official quarters, inching closer and closer into the life of their neighbor. the paper does urge north korea to carry on the "post-olympic momentum of peace by considering denuclearization." genie: the u.s. press is a little more skeptical about why this may not be as hopeful as everyone seems to think. dheepthika: the "washington post" has a theory, looking at possible reasons for why north korea is suddenly interested in denuclearization. one is that there is a natural gas pipeline between russia and north korea that has been in the works in whihich russia would tt this pipeline through north korea. so if the talks go well with ipe would

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korea and was open to improving relations not only with south korea but potentially with the united states since then we've seen them reach out to international leaders around the world what he has said he is interested in is international recognition for north korea as a responsible nuclear power the united states on the other hand has said that it will settle for nothing short of north korea completely giving up its nuclear weapons so whether all sides can find some kind of compromise within the summit so it means to be seen josh we're also hearing that japan is considering a summit with north korea can you tell us anything about that. japan has a lot of worries about what's been going on japan has quite poor relations with north korea next to the states japan is often singled out for threats from north korea and as this flurry of some planning has gone on they've being increasingly worried that they could be left behind and possibly some of their security concerns be left by the wayside so they've been reaching out to pyongyang and trying to arrange their own meetings to make sur

it's welcome to do business in south korea has agreed to cut steel exports to the united states by thirty percent in order to avoid. korea's trade minister described negotiations with the u.s. as fierce but insists that his country wasn't in a weak position the asian countries the third largest steel exported to the us off the canada and brazil pledge to reduce steel exports as part of revisions being made to the existing free trade deal between the u.s. south korea finally some good news regarding world trade let's cross over to our financial correspondent who's standing by at the frankfurt stock exchange germany's economics minister is looking at a similar way to avoid u.s. steel tariffs what equity markets saying about this recovering slightly. yeah well let me tell you carol this is actually a very interesting and dia and it also means that car companies from the u.s. will be able to export the double amount to south korea without paying terrorists for donald trump remember that cars are always a very important he stated in the past that he doesn't really understand why you see so man

coming from south korea and the briefing room at about 7:00. keep watching for that. >> juan: thank you, john. any thoughts, congressman? >> jason: i don't believe kim jong un has ever met with another world leader. if it's happening with president moon, it will be very significant. i think you have to give some credence to what donald trump has been doing. the rhetoric combined with the military might has been having an effect. i hope this is as positive as it sounds great >> dana: i didn't realize the south korean national security advisor, i had read about it this morning. when the news first broke, i thought it was coming from south korea. one of the things the north koreans had tried to do was drive a wedge between the united states and south korea. it appears the united states and south korea have remained strong enough in their alliance forcing kim jong un to come to them. pretty good developing. >> kimberly: i think it's auspicious. i am looking forward to the announcement in detail. i think this is a tremendous forward progression deve

a step in the right direction and it was south korea that appears to have convinced trump and kim to soften their war of words and embrace diplomacy. this is the man doing the running between pyongyang and washington d.c. and he's failing reached a major milestone. poor president president from you know meeting north korean leader kim jong un he is committed to do do provide. him pledged to both korea are really good friends from any for the nuclear war this sort of tests that he stressed is that you're going to see the new president from that so on as possible it is a sentiment shared by the u.s. president who confirmed that a meeting is being planned. at the historic breakthrough comes after south korean negotiators held talks simpy only on on monday it was here they learned that denuclearization was on the menu is. far from giving up their bombs in recent years north korea has been ratcheting up its missile program and the threats. from fired back with warnings of annihilation and insults for kim jong il. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. on the fr

and, yes, it probably is significant south korea and the us wa nts significant south korea and the us wants this out of the way ahead of important summits at both the end of this month and potentially at the end of may. remember, south korea is agreeing to meet with kimjong—un by the end of april. and president trump says he will meet with kim jong—un at the end of may. they are looking for a deal on this peninsula, a big deal, on trying to get north korea to get rid of its nuclear weapons. so perhaps these kind of trade—offs, if you excuse the pun, are a way of getting this out of the way before this major political summit, summits, take place. thank you. you can watch more of the interview with the director—general of the world trade organization on hardtalk. that programme is on ubc world news at the times you should see a new moment on your screen. if you are in the uk you can watch it in full. watch hardtalk on the bbc iplayer. there are growing concerns about the safety of self—driving cars in the united states. that led shares in the chipmaker, nvidia, whose technolog

, south korea, and the u.s. but china has always been there and is still there. sometimes, diplomacy has to be quite diplomatic. phil: what part did sanctions have to play in ringing the meeting about? >> we can guess recently strengthening sanctions had an impact on north korea because within north korea domestically, north korea now tries to get the next step of economic development. if it was only for survival, they could have survived with the sanctions. but they want to develop economically. that is very important to the north koreans. that might have pushed them to reenter dialogue. phil: let's be optimistic and say the meeting happens. are there risks to it? >> there are always risks, of course. i think these can be reduced by the beforehand exchange of special envoys of the different parties. in this process, south korea will continue to play a very important role. phil: thank you. ♪ >> donald trump has made good on his threats, signing off on import tariffs. 25% on steel, 10% on aluminum. he blames ot

the president also launched an attack on close american allies including south korea accusing south korea of ripping off the u.s. for decades and poaching american work force. the president threatened pulling american troops stationed in south korea if seoul does not make the concessions he wants. >> donald trump said we lose money on trade and military. we have 32,000 soldiers on the border. let's see what happens. for more on that story, let's bring in david mckenzie live in seoul. it is a complete break with american philosophy and values for the last half century. >> reporter: that's right, christine. in terms of the troops, they are the frontline between north korea and south korea. the korean war just ended in stalemate in the armistice agreement. for president trump to make the perhaps offhand comments will in private irritate the south koreans. in public, they said they cannot comment anytime president trump says anything or makes remarks. it comes at a critical juncture. the foreign minister of south korea on her way right now to washington, d.c. where she will meet with the acti

right josh smith in seoul south korea thank you very much for that assessment. that we now bring you up to feed some of the stories making news around the wasn't nobel peace laureate malala yousafzai has returned to her home country pakistan it's a first visit since she was shot in the head six years ago by the taliban for promoting education for girls malala went to britain for treatment and now lives in studies there a ceremony was held in the prime minister's office in pakistan to welcome her british prime minister to resign may is on a day long two of the u.k. to mock the one year ounce down to britain's departure from the european union may visited a textile factory in scotland she told people that the drugs it would provide the u.k. with opportunities she'd also make stops in england wales and northern ireland. british police now believe the former russian spies set against the palin's daughter junia were poisoned at their home detectives identified the highest concentration of the military grade agent on the front door of the house in the town of silence

and kim's visit made it possible for china to know what north korea will be talking about to south korea and the united states in these discussions on the nuclearization china has also learned what north korea's demands will be which will help china. india it's a visit the would have seemed unimaginable just a few months ago where north korea was ignoring chinese appeals for restraint at an exhibition showcasing some of china's technological achievements the message appeared to be we can help you with all of this if you behave china's leaders are fond of metaphors that are lavish banquet she told his guest that in the beautiful season of spring everything comes to life kim replied i believe our meeting will yield abundant fruit that could mean making good on his commitment to give up nuclear weapons the fruits of spring were apparent in the garden of the state guesthouse where friendship also seemed to blossom she accepted an invitation to visit north korea and told him he was welcome to visit china again the visitors left happy adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. well china and north korea

you had an experience trying to manage and keep up the alliance with south korea. it seems he's playing his hand quite well bringing the two sides together but at the same time we've obviously seen a lot of statements from president trump about what he thinks of the alliance. do you think they are in some ways trying to erase as much as they can to keep up with and keep ahead of the u.s. in some respects when it comes to the policy? i think that is true though they are a sovereign country. there's a lot of american commentary that talks about it as an appendage of what we want to achieve and i think that is a very good point they have their own interests involved and certainly they are in the worst possible position to be in princely. they want a strong alliance with the united states, they want to improve relationships, they don't want to go to war. that would obviously affect them immediately. so i don't think they would do anything to breach trust so i think they are on pretty solid ground. i think the way forward for us though is going to be chained dog just wi

korea. to the to keep talking about the night had slipped a in south korea. to the to keep talking about the night had slipped a in this :h korea. with a do you think in this potential meeting on the commitment north korea to de— nuclearised? potential meeting on the commitment north korea to de- nuclearised? so the role of china was well—documented last year. north korea said it would commit to freezing its nuclear and missile testing, and in return, the united states and south korea would freeze their military exercises. -- denuclearise of. —— denuclearise. the ongoing dialogue, the chinese are very supportive of, so the notion of denuclearisation, the early stages the diplomatic process, all of these were very supported by the chinese side. thank you so much for joining the chinese side. thank you so much forjoining us. as wejust mentioned a few minutes ago, president donald trump has formally accepted the invitation of north korean leader kimjong invitation of north korean leader kim jong want to meet, invitation of north korean leader kimjong want to meet, and invitation of

to recommend talks among the united states, south korea and north korea. that presumably is where this announcement tonight is going, that south korea says we are offering to actually do this thing, that, you know, they are recommending is a good idea to do. >> howard, if this is what it is, he's getting talks with north korea, is this victory for donald trump diplomacy? >> yeah, in a way. because any talk is good at this point. so he'll be able to -- he'll be able to take some credit, if, as we expect, the south korean national security advisor is going to be coming into the briefing room to brief. and if he says, you know, there are going to be some talks, that would have to be viewed as a positive thing. it was different than in the past because china's not part of the mix here at least initially. >> what do you make of that? >> from what i hear, or others not how much china's motivation is, how much they want to really see a deal, how much they really want peace in the peninsula, and trump who is skeptical of china, even though he praises the leader of

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korea and in addition there are now plans in the works for a summit between north and south korea a peninsula wide summit between the two governments this is quite a breakthrough this is what the national security director of south korea had to say on these new developments. north korea has clearly expressed its willingness to launch the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. now furthermore we have seen an interesting tweet from u.s. president donald trump u.s. president trump tweeted about possible peace on the korean peninsula however we've heard from other officials and from trump himself some rather mixed messages there's been talk of a quote big stick approach to dealing with north korea and we've heard this from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson this is tillerson. north korea threatens the entire global community through its unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile programs and political activities including its arms exports to africa. now at this point hopes are optimistic not just on the korean peninsula but across the planet people are looking at these development

place somewhere in south korea if not into the camp rossini maybe one of the resort areas also south korea is the one place i would be watching for the summoning. b.j. kim a don't force a concert which is why i say enjoyed having the conversation with you thank you very much indeed and thank you too for watching you can see the program again and its time by visiting a website i was just dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for was last a.j. it's i sorry you can also join the conversation on twitter i'll handle a.j. inside a story from the house and the whole team here by financial and in . a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way you try. a couple service remains but none comes breaking. revolutionary business plans. the old forces for the sake of fairness to. whether conducting business or sharing a special journey. with a list of all the search one of its. branches of mine in the depths trying to smile. you'll centuries in the sky introduce a. list of newsgroups. as owens going places together. when the w

state department confirmed it will hold a meeting with south korea later this week to discuss potential de nuclearization talks with pyongyang the north and south have agreed to hold a historic summit next month. president donald trump welcome the news saying he believes the north's motives for the talks are genuine i think that they are sincere but i think they're sincere also because these sanctions and what we're doing with respect to north korea including you know the great help that we've been given from china and they can do more but i think they have done more than certainly they've ever done for our country before so china has been a big help i think that's been a factor but the sanctions have been very very strong and very biting and we don't want that to happen so i really believe they are sincere i hope they're sincere we're going to soon find it's being robbed mcbride he's live in seoul and i'm just wondering how this is being viewed from south korea and the regional neighbors that. i think generally jane there is a sense of optimism here in south korea supporters of the gov

you could argue south korea just did by having an all-expense paid trip to the olympics. victor choa writing in "new york times "this morning i learn the regime never gives anything away for free. everyone should be aware this dramatic act of diplomacy by these two nuls leaders who love flair and drama may also take us closer to war. negotiations at the summit level leave all parties with no other recourse for diplomacy. this is not gorbachev and regan, although reagan was a former actor. this would be a monumental win for the president if they denuclearize. >> i think victor cha is pointing out important point. this could go one of two ways. it could go either the way of gorbachev and reagan where we have peace in our time to borrow phrase from another era or it could be something very different. it could bring us closer to war. the reason it could do that. if the two leaders are disappointed in each other and one doesn't get what they think they are due, it is going to create even more ridged positions on their part and once those ridged positions are created, it is goi

korea and then we had the winter olympics here in south korea which saw a delegation from north korea and now we're looking forward to all of these high level meetings between kim jong il and other world leaders and the question is why is kim jong un changing his tune why now there are some who believe that the campaign of sanctions against north korea is starting to bite and they're forcing kim jong il into the negotiating table he rather says that he is in a more strong position that because of his leadership and because of the development of his nuclear and missile program he's more in a position now to leave the country to come to the table to talk with people like she jinping and donald trump and the warning from skeptics here in south korea is that if kim jong un is able to extract any concessions perhaps the lowering of sanctions against. south korea and its allies in a more difficult bargaining position when it comes to the end goal of denuclearization all right kathy thank you very much kathy novak there live in seoul in apologies for that tiny glitch on the line but that was

, the south korea/u.s. alliance. those things are in place and as recently as two days ago, the north korean newspaper demonstrated again their reliance on nuclear weapons for regime survival. that's something blessed by the kim family. i'm very happy for this development. it's very good. there could be some possibilities there. but again, i'd like to see what the talking points are going to be, what the ongoing strategy not only of the united states but of north korea. they are going to want to eliminate any kind of sanctions because it's really hurting them. all indicators from the intelligence community says that's what's hurting. but will they also ask for u.s. forces off the peninsula should they also ask for no more. they knew the combined force operations will continue, will they ask eventually for that to stop? will they ask for forces to be delayed and what are our questions going to be other than denuclearization. are we going to ask for north korean forces to move back from the dmz to keep seoul

korea's then lida are we seeing something similar here and is south korea more prepared than their previous governments have begun and then the u.s. is now well the south korean summit is is interesting in the sense that it's going to be very very soon and we strongly that they've motivated it almost equally in the same way as the north korean interest in particular using this idea in conjunctions new speech full this summit or this into crittur parchments take place both careers were very last year about the threat of war and i think that selfishly for the right reasons. oh beijing and pyongyang are kind of all in the same page with regards to probably won't wind wanting to provide optics that will satisfy trump at least until the end of his in his generation and so whatever it can take from those three i'm not saying they can be working side by side. they are coming from the same feel of concern and so if they can come to an agreement where north korea on the set face agrees to give up more amount of its nuclear program and if it before on the cephus then that could satisfy trump for a sh

not as cold as south korea? actually, it is warming up in south korea, turning milder there and also for us. this was one of our spectacular pictures from the day fells fells covered in snow underneath sunny skies, a glorious day. but the weather is changing, and looking at the south there is low pressure and a waving weather front that will bring pulses of heavy rain northwards across the uk. that process is underway at the moment with the rain already arriving in southern england, into wales and the midlands and east anglia. you can see it turning increasingly heavy in central and southern england, london and the south—east in the next few hours. the rest of this evening and overnight, this rain will extend northwards into northern england and northern ireland. we will have clear skies for a time in scotland but with the south—westerly winds strengthening it will bring up some mild airand by strengthening it will bring up some mild air and by the end of the night we will have temperatures of ten or 11 degr

korea and japan are condemning the terrorists south korea is one of the biggest exports is of steel to the us. we would actively consider filing a complaint to the world trade organization with agreement between major countries the trade minister kim already discussed this with the european union trade commissioner. could do with her it is extremely regrettable that the measures were decided i believe there is a concern that a broad trade restriction mechanism on the grounds of national security could disturb not only the u.s. but also the global steel and aluminum markets including those in the asian region and it could also cause a grave impact on economic relations between allies japan and the us as well as the multilateral trade system overall and the global economy. now it's the trade deal trump didn't want to be a part of the trans-pacific partnership has been signed in chile and what's being healthy is a powerful move against protectionism the revised deal will reduce tariffs for eleven countries and connect economies worth ten trillion dollars our latin america to see newman

and north korea told china jan reports. a south korean delegation delivered p. on yang's invitation to president trump during a visit to the white house he expressed this that even if the president felt that's on as a possible. president trump appreciated the briefing and said he would meet. by may to achieve prominent need to provide situation. north korea has carried out six nuclear tests under kim jong un since he took power seven years ago in january of two thousand and sixteen it announced the successful testing of its first hydrogen bomb and in november north korea announced it had tested a new long range missile on with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the u.s. mainland the growing nuclear threat caused a global outrage on tough sanctions were imposed against the north trump and kim jong un have exchanged a war of words for months last summer trump or north korea against making any threats or he will be met with what he said fire and fury he then said he would totally destroy north korea and called kim a rocket man at the united nations it's a pember

leeds university and he explained how the most recent talks and the care to change in south korea's policy towards the north i think it's so hard to read kim jong un and s.s. why i think it's a really helpful that some south koreans have gone and actually met him and have a chance to see what he is like but i think maybe at some level he gets it their differences north korea has made itself because of its nuclear missile developments a global look at the local threats are now the u.s. will for it i mention is just as important as the into korean dimension that's very frustrating for south korean president mungy in because of course the u.s. is a close ally but he's a veteran of the sunshine era he went to pyongyang as as chief of staff to the then south korean president and he wants to south korea back in the driver's seat i would say he's done that really very much have the donald trump who is rather hard to predict shall we say on many things will just give the south koreans you know some time. russia's military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and

and south korea have agreed to a revision of their trade agreement south korea agreed to a quota of two point six eight million in steel exports to the united states in exchange for exemption from recently enacted tariffs the new quota is equivalent to seventy percent of south koreans average annual sales to the u.s. over the past three years on the other side of the ledger south korea agreed to double to fifty thousand the number of u.s. cars that are imported to that country without making meeting local safety requirements. and china was the most active block chain patent filer last year data from the world intellectual property organization so that china has filed more than four hundred six block chain patents last year china filed two hundred twenty five patents compared to i'm sorry that many in total china filed two hundred twenty five patents compared to the us which filed a mere ninety seven patents however this does not take into account that not every company patents all discoveries and it doesn't guarantee that the patent will lead to any viable products some of the applicant

seizing the moment south korea's president moon jay in has been quick to credit both north korean and u.s. leaders can john young johnny president from leadership will be highly praised by the residents of both class korea and north korea by people around the world were hoping for. moon's liberal government says the way is now open to achieving denuclearization of the korean peninsula through peaceful means something almost inconceivable until recently but many conservatives say it's only been made possible by the u.s. threat of force so i think the south koreans and the north koreans kind of put their heads together and said well we need to come up with something otherwise we might all wind up having u.s. rockets landing in pyongyang where they're acting out of fear or seeing an opportunity much credit will go to south korea special envoys went to pyongyang on a mission of hope bringing back a landmark agreement and seoul exploited its good fortune in hosting the winter olympics just when the world needed a path to peace it's still early days but this is being seen as a major diploma

it how is it going to impact upon us south korea relations. yeah there's a there's some debate right now actually on just how much the how serious the concessions are in south korea my sense is they're actually not terribly onerous in fact i think it's actually not a bad idea for the south koreans to throw donald trump a few bones let him sort of feel like you've got a wind that you can actually move on to things that are more important now south korea's economy grows pretty well it's three percent so the south koreans can afford to take a minor hit the real issue is as you said his house is going to go down in the south korean public we know that donald trump is really unpopular here is a poor reading of something like twenty five percent and it looks like you know donald trump is going to use trade to bludgeon south korea regarding north korea which is a shared opponent for the two regimes that's just going to make him even more popular than it can be hard to sell any kind of a major deal i just i just don't understand what the game plan is

and south korea. and that's a very important concession, john, because pyongya pyongyang's position in the past has been that removing its nuclear weapons, getting rid of that arsenal is a red line. it's taboo, non-negotiable. here he is floating this possibility. then we had an extension of an invitation to xi jinping to visit north korea in the future which we hear the chinese leader has accepted. what does this say? well, north korea's isolation which has been extreme in recent years is coming to an end and also some of the differences have been smoothed over which may give kim jong-un a stronger bargaining point when he goes in to talks with the south korean president next month, and then the expected historic face-to-face meeting with president trump sometime after that. john. >> very interesting to watch. kim saying the words he knows he needs to say to get the progress he wants. ivan watson, thanks so much. >>> questioning the president under oath. the lawyer for stormy daniels asks a judge to

korea and japan condemning the tariffs as well south korea one of the biggest exporters of steel to the u.s. . we would actively consider filing a complaint to the world trade organization with agreement between major countries the trade minister kim chung already discussed this with the european union trade commissioner. could do with her it is extremely regrettable that the measures were decided i believe there is a concern that a broad trade restriction mechanism on the grounds of national security could disturb not only the us but also the global steel and aluminum markets including those in the asian region and it could also cause a grave impact on economic relations between allies japan and the us as well as the multilateral trade system overall and the global economy and further to the steel and aluminum tariffs there is the prospect of a us china trade war regular al-jazeera contributor richard job it had darien has written about that out for al-jazeera dot com and he says what's clear is that almost overnight the u.s. has transformed from a preeminent advocate of free trade

the winter paralympics are under way in south korea. north and south korea didn't march together under a unified flag in the opening ceremony as they did at last month's winter olympics because they failed to agree on which version to use. britain is being represented by 17 athletes, as kate grey reports from pyeongchang. the biggest winter paralympics to date. drummers and dancers, the traditional charms of korea opening the show. the weather playing its part too — nothing could be done about the fog—covered fireworks. and heavy snow had prevented a full rehearsal so a slight flag hiccup could be forgiven. but the flags were in full flight when it came to the parade, some more than others. and here they come, great britain. 0wen pick leading the way, a great honour for the soldier turned snowboarder. and the british team certainly enjoying the party atmosphere. the international pa ralympic committee had wanted north korea and south korea to march out under a unified flag but these games will be north korea's debut winter paralympi

place somewhere in south korea not in the but can proceed in may be one of the resort areas also south korea is the one place i would be watching for the summoning. b.j. kim aden force a concert which is why i say enjoyed having the conversation with you thank you very much indeed and thank you too for watching you can see the program again and it's i'm by visiting a website i was just dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for us last a.j. it's i saw it you can also join the conversation on twitter i'll handle a.j. inside a story from the house i'm about law and the whole team here by financial and in . on counting the cost in what's been a big week for global trade we'll look at how the u.s. is up bending the rules of commerce and if free trade is really worth fighting for plus the latest mind bending concept cars from the geneva auto show counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. now. now. it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a lab