North Korea Tensions; Top Kenyan Court Orders New Election
ALLEN: South Korea says it has agreed with the U.S. in principle to revise a treaty limiting the range and strength of its ballistic missiles. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean president Moon Jae-in spoke on the phone Friday, as our Will Ripley reports from Pyongyang. There were also signals the two leaders agreed diplomacy could still work to curb North Korea's nuclear and missile program.</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Despite that tweet from the U.S. president, Donald Trump, saying talking is not the answer when it comes to North Korea, it seems as if the U.S. has not ruled out diplomacy. In a phone conversation with South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, according to the South Korean got, President Moon and President Trump reaffirmed their view that it is important to apply maximum sanctions and pressure on North Korea so that it refrains from making provocations and comes out to the dialogue table to peacefully resolve its nuclear issue. Now North Korean has long insisted that sanctions just aren't going to work. In fact, Russian president Vladimir Putin called it a dead-end road and said that provocative rhetoric could only push the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a large-scale conflict. Here in North Korea, despite a U.S. flyover involving jets and</s>RIPLEY: At least for the time being, you have both the United States and North Korea both indicating a willingness for diplomacy. But they still have very different views of how to go about it -- Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang, North Korea.</s>ALLEN: Kenya's president has criticized the country's top court for nullifying the results of last month's presidential election and ordering a new vote within 60 days. Uhuru Kenyatta originally said he respected the court's decision but later called the justices "crooks." Our Farai Sevenzo is in Nairobi and he explains how the court made its decision.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The decision is hereby issued that the presidential election held on the 8th</s>FARAI SEVENZO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The moment a Kenyan supreme court judge halted the country's political affairs, the high court ordering the country to hold another presidential election, opposition candidate and former prime minister Raila Odinga, who had been trying</s>RAILA ODINGA, FORMER KENYAN PRIME MINISTER: This is a very historic day for the people of Kenya and, by extension, the people on the continent of Africa. For the first time in history, a ruling of African democratization, a ruling has been made by a court nullifying the irregular elections of a president. This is a precedent-setting ruling and very historical.</s>SEVENZO (voice-over): While the current president, Uhuru Kenyatta, struggled to maintain his composure in the face of this massive setback.</s>UHURU KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF KENYA: I personally disagree with the ruling that has been made today. But I respect it. As much as I disagree with it, I respect it. I disagree with it because, as I have said, millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice. And six people have decided that they will go against the will of the people.</s>SEVENZO (voice-over): The decision to annul the election was actually divided, 4-2. However, the majority ruled. Meanwhile in the streets in Mr. Odinga's strongholds of Kisumu and the crowded and poor neighborhoods of Nairobi like Kibera, celebration erupted. The decision by Kenyatta's supreme court was most clearly felt in areas like this, Olympic, in the center of Kibera, the most massive, sprawling slum in all of Nairobi and, indeed, one of the largest in Africa. The court ruled Friday the country must recast their vote for a president in the next 60 days. They court did not blame President Kenyatta for the irregularities in August's election but laid the blame at the foot of the independent electoral and boundaries commission, saying the IEBC failed, neglected or refused to conduct the election in accordance with the Kenyan constitution. The court has not yet published its full ruling. But the head of Kenya's electoral commission, Afulu Chebukate (ph), suggested that the discrepancy between the electronic results and the manual count was the basis for Friday's announcement. The election process in August had been praised as free and fair by most election observers, from John Kerry of The Carter Foundation, to the African Union to the European Union. Now as voters head back to the polls, these two long-term rivals are once again center stage of Kenya's ongoing political drama -- Farai Sevenzo, CNN, Nairobi.</s>ALLEN: After a short break, we'll return to Houston and bring you a story about people going home to see what is left.