has opened talks with south korea after cutting ties. they confirm the north responded on a hotline early monday morning. a communications link between the two countries militaries has been restored. north korean leader kim jong-un vowed to get there. paula, of course communications is always a good thing. one hopes to reduce the tensions. explain what's behind this decision from north korea. >> it's being welcomed by soule and they're happy they be being restored. kim jong-un said himself in a speech he wanted the hotlines resumed could suggest that they will stay resumed for some time. we simply don't know considering back in july of this year they were restored once again. been a year where they haven't been connected but then that's only lasted a matter of days. pyongyang cut the hotlines once again saying they were happy that the u.s. and south korea were carrying out military drills they wanted canceled. pyongyang has a way of showing anger, displeasure against south korea and wanting them to do something different. this is no diff

displeasure of something south korea has done. they were functioning then in june of last year they were cut off because they were unhappy about propaganda booms. then in july of this year they were reinstated an there was much optimism along with some revelations that the leaders of the two koreas had actually been exchanging letters for a few months but then that only lasted a matter of days before north korea cut the lines off again because the u.s. and south korea had joint military drills. so there is optimism from seoul. they welcome the fact that these have been reinstated but no one knows how long they will actually last. we heard from the south korean side what their official said on the line. he said, quote, it's been a while and i'm glad that the communication line has been restored like this. i hope that the interkorean relations can develop into a new era as the communication line has been restored. now this was first talked about by north korean leader kim jong-un himself last week saying that he would be open to rei

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so north korea calling on south korea not to have double standards. if it does that, there could be better relations going forward. we even heard hints of another summit from pyongyang. >> it is interesting that they have reopened lines of communication, but state media say it's south korea that must repair relations and resolve issues. so what happens when these lines of communication are open, does anything get done? >> reporter: well, these lines, for example, the military hotlines, are effectively to make sure there's no miscalculation, no misinformation, and no inadvertent start of tensions. so they have a call in the morning at 9:00 a.m., another call in the afternoon at 4:00 p.m., just to make sure that there is communication between the two koreas, and the south korean side said today they wanted to make sure and said to north korea, if there is an issue, we need continued communication between the two koreas. north korea did agree to that. so it's just to make sure that nothing goes awry. michael? >> yeah. paula, thank you, as always. paula h

what does this mean for south korea? >> reporter: well, isa, at this point we're waiting for the final confirmation that this was 100% a success. we are expecting that any moment now as you say. it certainly looked successful from a liftoff point of view from the image we saw. what this would mean if, in fact, it was a success is that south korea would become the 7th country in the world to have its own 100% domestically produced rocket that can put a satellite into space. now, what they were going for today was to make sure that they could -- it was a satellite dummy, but put that satellite dummy between 600 and 800 kilometers above the earth. if it reaches that point, then it will be considered a success. and certainly this would be a significant step for south korea in its space program. now, experts here say they did start late, but they have caught up in recent years. just in 2013, they were able to launch a rocket carrying a satellite into space. but at that point that was a rocket that had russian collaboration as

korea was blown up by north korea because they were unhappy with south korea. it was reinstated briefly in july of this year. they did start these hotlines once again, but they only lasted a couple of weeks before north korea cut them off once again, saying that they were angry at the u.s./south korean military drills going ahead. so it is positive news that they are being reconnected. we know that south korean officials have spoken to the north korean officials on these hotlines this morning, but we don't know how long it will last. we did hear what the south korean official said. quote, it's been a while, and i'm glad that the communication lines have been restored like this. i hope the inter-korean relations can develop into a new era now the communication line has been restored. certainly seoul is putting a positive spin on it, and it was the north korean leader himself, kim jong-un, who floated the idea last week of these hotlines being reinstated. we've also been hearing from north korea that they advised south korea to abandon, quote, double standards an

also an exhibition this week here in south korea looking at the air power of south korea. we have heard from kim jong-un himself a week ago saying south korea is being hypocritical by pushing its own weapons program forward while criticizing the north. isa? >> timing certainly interesting. paula hancocks for us in seoul. good to see you. >>> now, we are now learning new details about the urgent effort to free 17 kidnapped missionaries in haiti. the wall street journal citing a top haitian official reports the gang that abducted the group is seeking $17 million for their release. a team of u.s. officials is in haiti working with local authorities. haitians angry over the kidnappings as well as surge in violence are taking part in a strike to demand action from the government. cnn's matt rivers is in the capital where he says people are expressing their frustration. take a listen to this. >> reporter: normally this street would be packed with traffic, with a lot of life, and it's a lot calmer than it normally is because many people have chosen to stay home today. schools are

north korea is saying south korea is hypocritical considering the fact that south korea has been carrying out its own weapons and missile launches in recent weeks. and also the timing is key. we noted the u.s., the japanese and south korean intelligence chiefs are here in seoul meeting at this point, talking about north korea. laura? >> all right, paula hancocks, thank you so much for that reporting. >>> let's get a check on cnn business this tuesday morning. looking at markets around the world, you can see asian shares closed higher. wow, europe is open very narrowly mixed. wall street, it was a mixed day on monday. the dow fell 36 points. the s&p 500, the nasdaq were higher. johnson & johnson and procter & gamble reported lower. >>> a record backlog at america's biggest container port, 200,000 shipping containers are gridlocked because the pandemic disrupted the supply chain. here's port of los angeles executive director jean saroka. >> we've got about two weeks worth of work sitting at anchor right now. there's product that needs to get out there in super fast speed. think about the to

skid game is the biggest hit from south korea. one of many south korean film and tv productions gaining traction around the world. >> on social media, these images are everywhere. on television, everyone is talking about it. amazon's jeff bezos tweeted, i can't wait to watch the show. already reaching number one. squid game is a south korean tv show where 400 contestants compete in child-like games to reduce debt but losing will lead to death. >> a lot of people said what is this, what the hell is this, they said it in a negative way. >> its tv shows were predominantly romantic soap operas. >> i thought will i be able to bring my show to life if i wanted if netflix is involved. i brought the script and netflix loved it. >> netflix already invested over $2 billion in content. >> i believe in the past couple of years, we've seen korean content grow four times in the region. >> parasite. >> one win after another. swept far beyond asia where it has been popular the past two decades. this show's message resonates around the world. >> t

if you look at the united states and south korea, south korea is not a developing country. the reason i use it as an example is because the first patient was diagnosed there on the same day the first patient was diagnosed here. they are blue. we're red. i mean, it's a totally different picture. and they are about a sixth of the population. still, i mean, it's really remarkable. 43 million confirmed cases in the united states. 300,000 in south korea. so, you know, a lot of different things. i think the idea, of course, wealth doesn't buy health, but also if you live in place where you don't have the luxury of saying we are going to have therapeutics, have the public health system step up to the challenge, you lean into the basic health strategy such as masking, testing, tracing, and isolating. they did that in south korea. it made a huge difference. there are other things. simple things, anderson. cultural things. many asian countries have great reverence for the elderly. not as much, you know, in other places around the world. if this had been a disease that primarily affec

like pawns for the rich. >> they try to portray south korea as this capitalist hell hole. and so, this very much fits into the narrative that south korea's this place where the people are just slaves to making money. that it's a grim existence. >> reporter: "squid game" posted netflix's most popular premiere, ever, with over 110 million people taking a look. the plot? hundreds of people heavily in debt enter a game to win a huge pile of cash. one of the fictional characters is a north korean defector. the downside? if the contestants lose a game, they're killed on the spot. >> all of that, that we see in "squid game" reminded me, frankly, of north korea. >> it's about having no way out. being completely entrapped under extraordinarily adverse circumstances. >> reporter: it is north koreans who can actually be shot on sight if they try to leave the country, like this defector who sprinted through a hail of bullets as he made a desperate dash across the demilitarized zone to south korea in 2017. as for the north korean website saying south korea is a place where the poor are

. >> reporter: south korea has large, profitable studios but the tv shows were predominantly romantic soap operas until netflix arrived. >> translator: i thoughtly be able to bring this to netflix? they said they loved it. >> reporter: netflix has invested some $2 billion on asian content and will invest in another half a billion on making new korean content alone this year. >> i think in the past couple of years we've seen korean content viewing grow four times in the region. >> "parasite." >> reporter: this is a golden age. music, film, tv shows. it's swept far beyond asia where it's been popular. kwang said this resonates around the world. >> translator: the world is getting much harder to live in. even in the last ten years wealth disparate is growing. nations are facing economic strife. >> reporter: central disparity from "parasite." content from south korea have war and military dictatorship traditionally carries a strong message. >> media is not just entertainment. media has been a very important tool for political enlightenment or political resistance. >> it is relatively chea

the narrative that south korea is this place where the people are just slaves to making money, it's a grim existence. >> reporter: "squid game" posted netflix's most popular premier ever, with over 110 million people taking a look. the plot hundreds of people heavily in debt enter a game to win a huge pile of cash. one of the fictional characters is a north korean defector. if the contestants lose a game, they're killed on the spot. >> all of that, that we see in "squid game," reminded me of north korea. >> it's about having no way out, being completely entrapped under extraordinarily adverse circumstances. >> reporter: it is north koreans who can actually be shot on-site if they try to leave the country, like this defector who sprinted through a hail of bullets as he made a desperate dash across the demilitarized zone in 2017. as for the website, saying south korea is a police where the poor are pawns for the rich and well connected, they say pyongyang don't protest too much. >> in north korea, 30% of children are malnourished. in north korea, people are starving today. north korea

content from south korea with its turbulent history have war and military dictatorship traditionalry carries a strong little message. >> media is not just entertainment like in the united states or in the west. media has been always considered very important tool for political enlightenment or resistance. >> reporter: it's not all politics. >> it is still relatively cheap to produce drama in south korea compared in america, and the "squid game," each episode cost less than $2 million, which is half of the price netflix invested in each episode of "house of cards". >> reporter: the younger generation is far more open to foreign language content. >> you look at those who watched "parasite," a big number of the kind of audiences or the audience that went to see "parasite" in the united states was younger people. and they have been really keen to kind of break that one-inch subtitle barrier. >> reporter: the success of "squid game" is helping other a asian content to trend on netflix while other streaming platforms are looking to replicate this enormous success. paula hancocks, cnn, seou

united states is orange, and south korea's blue. i mean, it's totally flat, and that's in terms of the number of cases. if you look at the number of deaths, for example, you see sort of a similar trajectory. there was -- we had some 43 million cases in this country that were formally diagnosed. they had 300,000. no therapeutic, no vaccine that they had before us, so it was really about behavior. this idea that you're going to lean into public health practices, not wait, necessarily, for therapeutics but do things that may seem, you know, less -- you know, more from a public health standpoint early makes a big difference. also, there was another thing that kept coming up as i talked to scientists in asia, pamela, and that was just this idea, which is subjective, this idea of the reverence for the elderly. a real reverence for the elderly in many of the countries that did so well during this pandemic. it's hard to know what to make of it, but you do have to ask yourself, if this was a disease that primarily affected adolescents in the

blue is south korea. red is us. i mean they're one-sixth the size of us, but how do you explain that? we're all human beings. what did they do so different that we have, you know, 43 million confirmed cases in the united states, and they had 300,000? there's something there. there are real lessons, and they're going to be important because, again, there will be more emerging pathogens. these viruses keep jumping into humans. they don't have to turn into pandemics. we can be the blue line next time around, and that's why i really wanted to write the book. >> i can't wait to read it. i had the opportunity to get it. i didn't. there it is on the screen. i said, hey, this book doesn't come out until next week, but anyway -- >> thought it was a bootleg. >> so i didn't buy it. anyway, "world war c: lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one." ike i'm going to buy it, sanjay. thank you, sanjay. best of luck. we appreciate it. >> you got it. thanks, don. >> and we'll be right back. age before bea

south korea has made the same commitment. and with china's recent announcement, we are well on the way to -- financing for new coal power as we ramp up support. for renewables. we still need the g20 to tackle domestic unabated coal power use. at the g20 meeting i urge lead toerz kick coal in the past where it belongs. >> well, a new study is painting a dire picture of what our world could look like if global temperatures just keep rising. researchers from climate central say rising sea levels will impact more than 800 million people if the earth warmed just a few degrees, and 50 major coastal cities will be under water unless they take unprecedented measures to prevent flooding. i want to put this into perspective. this is the tower of london. and this is what researchers say it would look like under water in the future. similar scenes in san francisco, california. where you can see buildings as well as high rises really immersed in water. very, very dire picture that they are painting about rising sea levels. >>> meanwhile,

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so if taiwan were suddenly to be essentially abandoned by the united states, japan, south korea, and other allies and potential allies in the region would probably recalculate their relationship with the united states so it has wider geopolitical implications. >> that was retired u.s. army general stanley mcchrystal speaking with cnn. >>> iraqis are voting in their country's general election today in a mark for boycotts and predicted low turnout. there's corruption, unem unemployment. we have the baghdad bureau chief. thanks so much for being with us. louisa, this election was brought on in large part by protests and lack of government services. you might think this would be a great day but it doesn't seem as though that would be the case. what have iraqis been telling you? >> i think because the pras protests that triggered this did not lead to the improvement they wanted to see, people are disappointed. security hasn't improved. corruption is worse than ever. we have a new election law. then anyone who wants to challenge this system is really going to struggle. independent candidat

korea and the united states in any constructive way in the future. so this is the concern at this point that north korea is not necessarily doing as many missile launches as it did in 2017, for example, but the quality and the caliber of these missile launches is higher. it shows that they are testing new capabilities and they are moving their ability further forward, isa. >> paula hancocks, thanks very much, paula. >>> now, a gang in haiti is seeking millions to free the group of missionaries it's holding captive. the latest on what officials are saying about the negotiations. we'll have that next. >>> plus, the indian government is offering compensation to the families of every covid victim in the country, but getting that money won't be easy. we'll explain next. i would've called yesterday. but... i could've called yesterday. but... i should've called yesterday, but... would've, could've, should've. we hear that a lot. hi. i'm jonathan, an insurance professional and manager here at colonial penn life insurance company. sometimes, people put off ca

from south korea, japan, and the united states. cnn's will ripley joins us live. will, the significance of this action? >> reporter: well, just like all of the other launches that have been happening in recent months, this is a violation of u.n. security council resolutions. what makes this one particularly concerning, some analysts say, is that it appears this missile may have been launched from a submarine. north korea back in 2019 tested a submarine launch missile from an underwater platform. they hadn't yet perfected the technology to actually, you know, do it from one of their submarines. an aging submarine fleet, mind you. these are not like the united states' nuclear submarines, which basically guarantee u.s. naval supremacy in the region. it is potentially a new opportunity for north korea to sneak in and launch this ballistic missile with very little warning. in the last month, they've tested a hypersonic missile, traveling five times the speed of sound. only china and russia deployed the technology. u.s. is testing it. th

policy towards taiwan has wider implications for the region especially south korea and japan. blake essig is joining us from tokyo. so president biden raising plenty of eyebrows with his comments. what has been the reaction from beijing? >> reporter: the situation playing out on the taiwan strait between beijing is a big concern around the world. the stakes are incredibly high. and from japan's perspective, given its close proximity to taiwan, there are real concerns that japan could get drawn into a conflict over taiwan. in fact japan's ground self-defense force is currently holding a massive nationwide drill -- combat drills simulating an attack right now on japan's southern islands. so the concern is real. regarding president biden's comments last night as you might expect the reaction in the region was mixed. in taiwan biden's words were met with celebration, with taiwan's foreign ministry reiterating that their government will continue to strengthen its self-defense capabilities to fully defend taiwan. in china, the foreign ministry essentially said that the u.s. should b

he told us that footage of the pontiff meeting with president moon of south korea just came out. so there is a couple hour lag. maybe they will make it faster for the u.s. president. we'll see >> that would be great. >> but what does that look and sound lookic for pope francis to want to talk climate with an american president. . >> it is clear they want want to talk climate with a lot of these leaders. he is meeting through of them. president moon is the second catholic president. tomorrow he is meeting with prime minister modi of india. all of them will be going on to the climate summit after this. pope francis, there was original talk that he would go. largely because of his sciatica that bothers him, he will stay here. he wants to plant his message that he sent to us along to scotland. >> father dwyer is obviously of busted halo. that's his thing, not mine you can hear him on sirius xm. he has a whole thing on sirius xm. you've been writing a lot about this and why. how does it stack up between other meetings between president and pontiff? . >> it is a very significant meetin

japan saying two missiles were launched, south korea saying at least one missile. if they have the technology to launch a ballistic missile from one of their antiquated, noisy submarines, no match for the modern fleet of the united states or the uk or china, but still a potentially dangerous weapon because they can sneak up and launch. the hypersonic missile that both north korea claims they tested last month and also china is now denying that they tested, this hypersonic arms race is one of the most concerning trends analysts say that we're seeing in this part of the world, because now if north korea is getting closer to hypersonic missile technology, which meanings its travels at least five times the speed of sound, it could actually travel from pyongyang to washington in less than two hours. if north korea has this, china has this, russia has this, the united states is working to develop this technology, it's also very difficult to shoot down, they can change direction, literally fly in under the radar. so if you have north korea now moving towards a hypersonic

this is south korea. not the right graphic. after the numbers started to come down they stayed down. same thing happened in 1918. there was a little surge back again february or march of that year. but what you found was that enough people had immunity really by this time in the pandemic that you started to have the cases and hospitalizations come down at this point and not really have a significant surge back. that is the key i think. it happened before and i think it can happen again. >> so even without the vaccine, and the merck pill, do you believe it's worked its way through? or are we still vulnerable to the variant that comes next if the thing is allowed to keep replicating? >> we're looking at all these variants making its way through the greek alphabet. delta, then lamda, mu. there are some that look a little more concerning than others just based on the characteristics of the virus. when i talk to these virologists and i have talked to some arountd world they're not as worried about those as delta. delta was a bad one

and the military buildup in south korea. kim made the speech about weapons and the missile defense exhibition. north korea appears to be pushing ahead with the program and started expanding its main nuclear reactor to make fuel for nuclear bombs. >>> now, u.s. president joe biden is facing one of his biggest tests as tensions soar between taiwan and beijing. china has called for a peaceful reunification with taiwan. but in recent weeks it sent dozens of military aircraft into the island's identification zone. taiwan remains defiant with the president saying the island won't bow to pressure. cnn's ivan watson joins me now from hong kong. every day we talk about this, we are seeing heightened tensions from both sides. give us a sense of what the u.s., what president biden is saying here, and how worried the u.s. is about these incursions, but also about the rise in rhetoric. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, the conversation, if you want to describe it that way, across the taiwan strait continues. and i think the most recent developm

but south korea believes it was at least one missile. japan is saying two ballistic missiles. if they were fired from north korea's submarines, they're antiquated, they're loud, pretty easy to detect, not like the united states or the uk fleet or perhaps in the coming years the australian nuclear submarines that they'll get under aukus, if they can launch ballistic missiles from their submarines and creep up to enemy shores and fire, that is a game changer. that's a bit of a cliche. we had a lot of game changers in terms of weapons testing in this region. there was the hypersonic missile test that north korea claimed a matter of weeks ago, a missile that can travel five times the speed of sound. only china and russia deployed that technology that we know of so far. you have japan moving missiles to their islands close to taiwan and the japanese prime minister talking about enemy strike -- enemy-based strike capability for japan. that's huge. japan is a pacifist country. if they're talking about being able to strike enemy bases, that's also a game changer. we're seeing militari

so we don't really know for sure but it is suspected, according to south korea and japan and others who are analyzing this that the launch did happen out in the sea and the pictures do show, you know, ballistic missile coming out of the water and then they show this submarine. the significance is that if north korea now has the capability to launch a ballistic missile from a submarine, even though their submarines are not like the u.s. or the uk or what australia's nuclear submarines will be down the road or even china, they are old, clunky, noisy, pretty easy to detect but it gives north korea potentially the capability to sneak up on enemy shores and launch a ballistic missile. and that is a -- not a good development considering that just last month they said they also developed a hypersonic missile which they claim can travel at five times the speed of sound, change direction, fly low under the radar. these hypersonic missiled deployed in russia are basically impossible to shoot down. so all of the missile defense systems in place to protect the 125 million people in japan and more t

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he started in the infantry, served two tours in vietnam, was stationed in south korea and west germany and oversaw operation desert storm in iraq. by the time he retired from the military, he was arguably the most respected and celebrated american in uniform. at that time he received his second presidential medal of freedom, this time from president clinton who said at the medal ceremony today a grateful nation observe the end of a distinguished career and celebrates 35 years of service and victory, a victory for the united states military that gave young colin powell a chance to learn and to grow and to lead, a victory for the military and political leaders who continue to elevate him based on their complete confidence and sheer respect, a victory for a nation well served, and in a larger sense a victory for the american dream, for the principle that in our nation people can rise as far as their talent, their capacities, their dreams and their discipline will carry them. after that career, colin powell could have enjoyed a quieter life, maybe dedicating himself full-time to the organi

>> reporter: so, this is the photographic evidence that the united states, south korea, japan, all of the military intelligence experts are going to be looking at. it just was published in north korean state media about 24 hours after the initial launch. and that's how it works. the launch happens. the rest of the world hears about it. north koreans don't hear about it until a day later once the images are cleared and approved. what it shows? a missile coming out of the ocean and it shows a submarine. very similar, actually, to images from a 2019 -- what north korea claimed was a submarine ballistic missile launch but actually at that time it was lunch launched from an underwater kind of a barge. so, we will see what the military experts say if they do believe, wolf, that this is a submarine launched ballistic missile. if it is, it's certainly a dangerous weapon, even though north korea's subs are pretty far behind, technologically. they can still sneak up on a target and fire a missile with very little warning. >> this is just the latest as you know, will, in a series of provocations