North Korea Holds Military Parade
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: North Korea is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a large military parade, but taking the unusual step of not showing its long-range ballistic missiles. President Trump is taking credit for that change. CNN's Will Ripley, live in Pyongyang in North Korea with much more. Will.</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's really extraordinary, John, to have stood in Kim Il-Sung Square here in Pyongyang and seeing a military parade with no ICBMs, when just over a year ago I saw them unveil these huge missiles that they were, you know, really intended to directly threaten the mainland of the United States. It does go to show the really about face in and the public messaging of the North Korean government led by Kim Jong-un. But just because North Korea isn't parading its nuclear weapons doesn't mean that it's given them up anytime soon. In fact, denuclearization talks with the U.S. have stalled. The North Koreans have not given the U.S. a list of the weapons they possess or any of the other things that the U.S. says it needs to move forward with the denuclearization process. But the simple fact that Kim Jong-un didn't put the missiles on display apparently is enough to keep diplomacy moving, according to President Trump, who within hours of the parade tweeted a glowing message to Kim Jong-un over the weekend, part of it saying, thank you to Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong. There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other. It is extraordinary to think about where we are now compared to where we were at the height of the fire and furry rhetoric. And, in fact, journalist Bob Woodward speaking to CBS over the weekend described one moment where the president could have come very close to sparking a war with North Korea over a single tweet. According to Woodward, Woodward says that the president had drafted a tweet seeing -- saying that he was going to pull out the dependence of the 28,000 U.S. troops who were stationed in South Korea. But they didn't send that tweet because they got urgent information, back channel information, though the Pentagon from North Korea, that that would be interpreted as a direct threat from the president of an imminent attack. So it's frightening to think how close we were. Where we are now though, it seems, at least for the moment, diplomacy moving forward. Alisyn.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: OK, Will, great to have you on the ground there for us. Thank you very much. So, the Trump administration plans to announce today that it will close the PLO's Washington office. The Palestinian group calls this move a dangerous escalation amid stalled Middle East peace efforts. CNN has learned that National Security Adviser John Bolton will make the announcement in a speech a few hours from now.</s>BERMAN: A Dallas police officer charged with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed neighbor in his own apartment. Police say Amber Guyger was off duty when she shot Botham Shem Jean, a black man, after mistakenly entering his apartment at the complex where she also lives. The 26-year-old man later died at the hospital. Guyger's a four-year veteran of the force. She was released from jail on Sunday after posting $300,000 bond. At this point officials say it does not appear the pair knew each other. An investigation is underway.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, what a shocking and puzzling story that is.</s>BERMAN: It's awful.</s>CAMEROTA: We will bring you developments as soon as we get them. Meanwhile, a new report says President Trump wants to declassify some surveillance documents related to one of his campaign advisers and a Justice Department lawyer. All of that is next.