It's Thursday, June 20th.

Vladimir Putin wants guns and he wants nukes.

We start here.

The leaders of Russia and North Korea

strike a deal in Pyongyang.

That is bad news for the rest of the world.

Why the US is concerned about a new pact between its adversaries.

His former associate went to prison,

now a witness is pointing the finger at Matt Gates.

Looking into some of the more explosive allegations

behind the scenes of a congressional ethics probe and for a century it's been too toxic to

swim so why are Olympic athletes the guinea pigs? So there's no plan B? No no

plan B. We don't need a plan B. We just need a good weather.

Everything flows downstream, even in Paris.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milkie. When we talk about North Korea, we talk about how isolated it is, shunned from the world economy through sanctions. Families in South Korea

separated by a demilitarized zone. People who go to Pyongyang talk about stepping

into what feels like a different century. But when you look at a map, you remember North Korea

does border other countries beyond South Korea.

There's China, of course, it's comrade and communism

for so many years, and then way off in a corner,

it also shares a tiny border with Russia.

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