Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “We are hopeful. We heard early, right around Christmas, that President Kiir was going to release eight of them.”

We are prepared to have an open dialogue with the North Koreans without preconditions. We want to pursue diplomacy.

In our resolution, we clearly condemn the new settlements in both in the West Bank and as well in Gaza.

We have held the doors open for meaningful diplomacy and we remain open to dialogue, real productive dialogue without preconditions.

We're working on A.I., the private sector, the business sector is moving forward very, very quickly on A.I.