What's up, everybody, and welcome to CNN 10. Happy Friday. I'm Ryan Young, filling in for Coy Wire.

 

Today your 10 minutes of news starts now.

 

Let's start with North Korea, also knownas the Hermit Kingdom due to its extreme isolationist policies and limited contact with the outside world. The sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is now suggesting new communication out of the nation's capital Pyongyang could be possible with the United States.

 

hermit [ˋhɝmɪt] n. 隐士

 

Kim Yo-Jong said North Korea might be willing to sit down with the U.S. once again, but only if President Trump drops its demand that North Korea give up their nuclear weapons.

 

But North Korea's nuclear program is one of the biggest points of contention among global diplomacy efforts. CNN's Will Ripley explains what role Kim's influential sister could have going forward.

 

North Korea breaking its silence on Donald Trump, the messenger, not Kim Jong-un, but his powerful younger sister Kim Yo-jong on the far right, believed to be in her late 30s.

 

This week in North Korean state media, she said her brother's relationship with President Trump is not bad, signaling talks with the U.S. could happen again.

 

But only if the U.S. drops its demand for denuclearization and accepts North Korea as a nuclear power.

 

Kim's sister also called South Korea the enemy, slamming their new president Lee Jae-Myung, rejecting any chance for dialogue.

 

She exuded confidence. She exuded arrogance even.

 

exude [ɪgˋzjud] v. 发散（气味等）

 

She's a major architect of her older brother's carefully choreographed image, like this recent meeting with Russia's foreign minister on one of Kim's yachts.

 

She was also by his side when Kim met President Trump. His sister, who is always around him, kind of acts as his chief of staff.

 

And Kim's enforcer, when South Korean activists sent anti-Kim leaflets north by balloon last year, she publicly defended flying trash-filled balloons south, triggering cell phone alerts for millions.

 

enforcer [ɪnˋforsɚ] n. 执法者，执行者

leaflet [ˋliflɪt] n. 传单；单张印刷品

 

She also ordered the dramatic demolition of this border office shared with the South. Kim Yo-jong has been rising in power for years, promoted to the Politburo, the senior body of North Korea's Communist Party.

 

demolition [͵dɛməˋlɪʃən] n. 破坏；毁坏

Politburo [ˋpɑləbjʊro] n.（共产党中央委员会的）政治局

 

She represented her brother at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

 

Kim's sister is most known for her fiery rhetoric and fierce loyalty to her brother, one of the only people North Korea's most powerful person can trust.

 

fiery [ˋfaɪərɪ] adj.（感情等）激烈的，热烈的

fierce [fɪrs] adj. 强烈的；极度的

 

Notably, neither statement from Kim Yo-jong was published in North Korea's state newspaper, a sign her comments may be aimed more at foreign leaders than her own people.

 

And with Trump heading to South Korea in October for the APEC summit and set to meet President Xi of China and South Korea's new president, Lee Jae-myung, the question now, could a fourth Kim-Trump summit be at play?

 

Now to a story that has a bunch of scientists scratchingtheir heads off Western Canada. Some orcas, you know them as killer whales, are giving gifts to humans, and by gifts I mean their prey. Yep, a new study documented 34 cases of orcas offering their prey to people, including researchers and boaters near Vancouver Island.

 

boater [ˋbotɚ] n. 乘船的人

 

In one case, an orca dropped a seal right there near a research vessel. In another, a whale offered a small seabird. Orcas already share food with family members, but with humans, that's a whale of a twist.

 

Researchers think these super smart creatures might be curious about us or maybe even trying to connect across species.

 

If you're a researcher and want to return the favor and had to pick one meal from the grocery store, what meal would you give an orca?

 

And now it's time for a 10-second trivia.Who was the first musical artist born in the 2000s to have a number one album?

 

Was it Olivia Rodrigo? Benson Boone? Billie Eilish? Ice Spice? You can see her in a crown.

 

It's Billie Eilish. That's your answer. She was born December 18, 2001, and her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, topped the charts in 2019.

 

Deadly flash floods in Texas, ravaging storms in the Northeast, sweltering heat waves. Meteorologists say that the consequences of a warming planet are becoming more evident every day. And sometimes, as individuals, we might feel it's impossible to combat such an overwhelming problem from our small corner of the earth.

 

But superstar singer, songwriter Billie Eilish is using her platform to create positive change and reform her industry for the better. Take a look.

 

Billie Eilish immediately set out to bend the industry around her values.

 

bend [bɛnd] v. 使致力（于）

 

Haters and big oil companies be damned.

 

hater [ˋhetɚ] n. 怀恨者

 

Yeah, it was funny that video really went kind of viral in the kind of, oh my god, she's satanic world, which was really funny to me because I was like, no, no, you guys, this is a metaphor for climate change. I'm a bird falling into a thing of oil.

 

satanic [seˋtænɪk] adj. 撒旦的；恶魔似的，极恶的

 

That's kind of the whole point. I have been trying to change the way that the industry has been running for a really long time. So for like food, backstage, all of my catering is vegan.

 

backstage [ˋbækˋstedʒ] adj. 后台的，幕后的;在后台，在幕后

 

Yeah, we have like refillable water stations. We don't sell like plastic water bottles. And I have like a no idling policy for all the trucks, you know, to save all those fossil fuels.

 

refillable [ˌriˈfɪləbəl] adj.（容器）可重新充装的

 

And save your lungs. Save your lungs. And save all the things.

 

So it's leading by example, sort of.

 

As someone who attended the first Lollapaloozas and Coachellas and Bonnaroos, I can testify that the influence of Billie and others like her is catching on.

 

You can now get a concert t-shirt in exchange for filling a plastic bag with recyclables.

 

I talked to one guy, said it took him 45 minutes because the place is too clean. We've reached a point where it is cool to refill your own water bottle.

 

We didn't plan that at all.

 

I have never met her.

 

Today's story, getting a 10 out of 10, two bold and brave Baltimore police officers making an emergency landing in their helicopter to save a swimmer's life.

 

Tactical Flight Officer Andre Smith Jr. and Flight Officer Craig Hoover were soaring to another service call on Saturday night, this summer, when they received a very serious signal from a dispatcher saying a person was in deep distress, drowning at a neighborhood pool.

 

The pool was prohibited, closed for the evening, but a man and some climbing companions hopped the fence and there was no lifeguard on duty.

 

I'm putting the helicopter down in the field. This guy looks like he's not breathing, not moving.

 

He's in cardiac arrest.

 

I knew right away just looking at him on the video that he was in bad shape and he needed compressions pretty quick, so I just did it.

 

compression [kəmˋprɛʃən] n. 压缩，压挤

 

Yeah, you can see the moment Hoover lands the chopper in the field near the pool before Smith swiftly springs into action, running to perform CPR on a 25-year-old man until he becomes responsive.

 

It feels good. To me, it's just a regular day in the office. We do stuff like this all the time.

 

I'm just glad we were able to get in the field.

 

Officer Smith says he hopes the incident reminds people to not go pool hopping after hours and that swimming without a lifeguard presents and always is dangerous, even if you are an excellent swimmer.

 

pool hopping 指的是在未經許可的情況下，偷偷溜進私人住宅或不屬於自己的公共泳池。

 

after hours 下课后; 下班后

 

All right, superstars.

 

Our shout out of the day goes to Mr. Gillis at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Atlanta. River, I hope you're having a great day. Thanks for sharing so much and being a part of this Friday with me.

 

Coy will be back Monday. And as always, I'm Ryan Young and this is CNN 10. ♪♪♪