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CNN Live At Daybreak

International Wrap, Eye on World

Aired December 03, 2002 - 06:38   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's turn our attention to more international stories right now. Our senior international editor David Clinch joins us again. And...
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Right.

COSTELLO: ... December 7 instead of December 8...

CLINCH: Yes.

COSTELLO: ... Nic Robertson says no big surprise here.

CLINCH: Right. We've got a couple of developing stories I want to talk about, but just very briefly on that, not just what Nic is reporting that it's not a surprise they want to give this report on the 7th rather than the 8th.

We need to remember, though, we had the U.S. administration, Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, saying yesterday, putting Iraq in a very difficult position on this declaration, saying basically that if they said they do have weapons, then they'd be lying and they're in breach of the U.N. resolutions. And if they say they don't have weapons, then, in his words, they are misleading the world. In other words, the U.S. administration is not really prepared to believe them.

So, we'll have to see the U.S. reaction to that declaration.

COSTELLO: Well, you wonder where this list will go. Who will get it, who will read it first?

CLINCH: I suspect everybody, through us, we'll get it all at the same time.

COSTELLO: Gotcha.

CLINCH: So, we'll see.

COSTELLO: So, journalists will have access to that, and we'll know what it says.

CLINCH: It will go to the U.N. presumably in New York, and we'll get our hands on it very quickly and tell the world, although it may be thousands of pages long, so we'll have to sift through it.

COSTELLO: Exactly.

CLINCH: Two, quickly, developing stories. One very fascinating story we've looked at before, but developing again.

We've got our first pictures today of a U.S. defector, who walked across the lines in the North Korean war -- in the Korean War, and has been living in North Korea ever since. The story has come up again recently, because he -- his wife, who was abducted from Japan and brought to North Korea, has been brought back to Japan. We got our first video today of Mr. Jenkins, the abductor -- the defector, I should say, in North Korea.

COSTELLO: This is the American, right? He's an American.

CLINCH: Yes. A fascinating story, because he wants to come to Japan and leave North Korea now to be with his wife, but the U.S., of course, still has pending charges against him as a defector in the Korean War.

So, the interesting thing today was, and what we heard from him today, is that his health is seriously deteriorating. So, we'll do a report on that later on.

Another story that's developing, believe it or not, there is another royal butler trial that started today. We weren't making a very big deal of it, because we expected it to go for a long time. But now, it's collapsed, just like the last...

COSTELLO: That was him getting into the war, the Bird (ph) guy.

CLINCH: Exactly. Just like the last royal butler trial, this man was accused of stealing materials from Diana's estate. His trial has collapsed basically because the other one collapsed, and so they don't feel they can prove the case against this man.

The real story here is the millions of pounds that the British government has spent getting these cases to this point, only for them to fall apart.

COSTELLO: Oh, it's just insane! And it's making the royal family look so bad.

CLINCH: I know. But it's a good story, and you know, we'll milk it for everything it's worth.

COSTELLO: I don't mean to laugh.

CLINCH: So, another royal trial collapsed, and we'll follow up on, again, the millions that it cost to get to this point.

COSTELLO: Gotcha. David Clinch, thanks. We'll let you get back to work.

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Aired December 3, 2002 - 06:38   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's turn our attention to more international stories right now. Our senior international editor David Clinch joins us again. And...
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Right.

COSTELLO: ... December 7 instead of December 8...

CLINCH: Yes.

COSTELLO: ... Nic Robertson says no big surprise here.

CLINCH: Right. We've got a couple of developing stories I want to talk about, but just very briefly on that, not just what Nic is reporting that it's not a surprise they want to give this report on the 7th rather than the 8th.

We need to remember, though, we had the U.S. administration, Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, saying yesterday, putting Iraq in a very difficult position on this declaration, saying basically that if they said they do have weapons, then they'd be lying and they're in breach of the U.N. resolutions. And if they say they don't have weapons, then, in his words, they are misleading the world. In other words, the U.S. administration is not really prepared to believe them.

So, we'll have to see the U.S. reaction to that declaration.

COSTELLO: Well, you wonder where this list will go. Who will get it, who will read it first?

CLINCH: I suspect everybody, through us, we'll get it all at the same time.

COSTELLO: Gotcha.

CLINCH: So, we'll see.

COSTELLO: So, journalists will have access to that, and we'll know what it says.

CLINCH: It will go to the U.N. presumably in New York, and we'll get our hands on it very quickly and tell the world, although it may be thousands of pages long, so we'll have to sift through it.

COSTELLO: Exactly.

CLINCH: Two, quickly, developing stories. One very fascinating story we've looked at before, but developing again.

We've got our first pictures today of a U.S. defector, who walked across the lines in the North Korean war -- in the Korean War, and has been living in North Korea ever since. The story has come up again recently, because he -- his wife, who was abducted from Japan and brought to North Korea, has been brought back to Japan. We got our first video today of Mr. Jenkins, the abductor -- the defector, I should say, in North Korea.

COSTELLO: This is the American, right? He's an American.

CLINCH: Yes. A fascinating story, because he wants to come to Japan and leave North Korea now to be with his wife, but the U.S., of course, still has pending charges against him as a defector in the Korean War.

So, the interesting thing today was, and what we heard from him today, is that his health is seriously deteriorating. So, we'll do a report on that later on.

Another story that's developing, believe it or not, there is another royal butler trial that started today. We weren't making a very big deal of it, because we expected it to go for a long time. But now, it's collapsed, just like the last...

COSTELLO: That was him getting into the war, the Bird (ph) guy.

CLINCH: Exactly. Just like the last royal butler trial, this man was accused of stealing materials from Diana's estate. His trial has collapsed basically because the other one collapsed, and so they don't feel they can prove the case against this man.

The real story here is the millions of pounds that the British government has spent getting these cases to this point, only for them to fall apart.

COSTELLO: Oh, it's just insane! And it's making the royal family look so bad.

CLINCH: I know. But it's a good story, and you know, we'll milk it for everything it's worth.

COSTELLO: I don't mean to laugh.

CLINCH: So, another royal trial collapsed, and we'll follow up on, again, the millions that it cost to get to this point.

COSTELLO: Gotcha. David Clinch, thanks. We'll let you get back to work.

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