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60 Minutes

Sunday, January 14, 2018

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A U.S. scientist who has seen the North Korean nuclear program up close warns against underestimating the dictatorship's capabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In all of the years we've been coming to Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul,

0:19.7

it's never been this dangerous.

0:22.4

So dangerous that American personnel rarely drive on the city streets.

0:28.0

You can hear how bad it's become in the Afghan president's voice.

0:33.0

Your soldiers and your policemen are dying in unprecedented numbers.

0:37.3

Indeed.

0:38.1

How long can that be sustained?

0:40.7

Until we secure Afghanistan.

0:43.2

How long is that?

0:44.7

As long as it takes generations if need be.

0:48.8

The US isn't going to be here for generations.

0:50.5

We will be here for generations.

0:52.3

We do not need others to fight our fights.

0:56.8

You might think it's impossible to know what's going on inside North Korea's nuclear program.

1:02.8

Here I am.

1:03.8

But this American scientist was given a red carpet tour.

1:07.8

We got up to the second floor, looked down at a hole.

1:11.7

And you saw?

1:12.7

I was just flabbergasted.

1:14.7

I could not believe what I was seeing.

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