dr. henry kissinger. some ideas he think the united states might consider. ck in a moment. ♪ ♪ charlie: dr. henry kissinger is here. he served under president nixon and ford. he is a recipient of the nobel peace prize. his latest article in the wall is "how tonal resolve the north korean crisis ." government i remember has been trying to resolve that. how do you do that? dr. kissinger: it is a way to approach it. the point of the article is the major steps of a report -- our foreign policy has been to bring -- threaten north korea with consequences. the other, to ask china to help us. the threat is not fully effective because for the north koreans, they have spent decades of oppressing their people and depriving them to build these weapons. so, they are not going to yield to threats very easily. charlie: threats of sanctions and the like? dr. kissinger: it is going to take tremendous physical threats even to imagine them yielding to it. on the other hand, china helping us, they are not there to help us. they are there to help themselves. but the point of the

dr. henry kissinger and his analysis of north korea, ideas that he thinks the united states might consider♪ ♪ charlie: dr. henry kissinger is here. he served under president nixon and ford. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. you're looking good and i assume feeling well. that is a heavy title there, "how to resolve the north korean crisis" because every government i remember is trying to resolve that. how to you do it? >> it is a way to approach it. the basic point of the article is our foreign policy has been to bring it out north korea with consequences, and on the other ask china to help us. this threat is not fully effective because for the north koreans, they spent decades of oppressing their people and depriving them to build these weapons. so they are not going to yield to threats very easily. charlie: threats of sanctions and the like? dr. kissinger: it is going to take tremendous physical threats. on the other hand, china helping us, they are not there to help us. they are there to help themselves. but the point of the article is we are at a moment when the inte

dr. henry kissinger when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: president trump continues to weather the fallout from his defense of white nationalist protesters in charlottesville, virginia, putting him at odds with top military and business leaders, as well as fellow members of the republican party. yesterday the president disbanded two business advisory councils after a series of resignations from prominent executives. today he insisted via twitter that it was sad to see united states history ripped apart with the removal of beautiful statues and monuments. joining me from washington robert costa, "the washington post" national political reporter, also the moderate of "washington week" on pbs. bob, tell me where you think this presidency is in the context of the week that we have seen. >> it's another week of upheaval in washington, and the president

dr. henry kissinger in january , of 1972 just one month before the historic trip to china that february. nixon: [inaudible] >> before we start the program, i wanted to introduce a special guest in the audience today, president nixon's younger brother ed nixon. , [applause] with that, dr. stoner, the stage is yours. very much.u thank you mr. nixon for having us here. we had a wonderful tour of the library and we all enjoyed it very much. i'm going to start our discussion by picking up on the tape that jonathan played for us which was nixon's idea of former , -- formulating friendly relations to counterbalance soviet power. he turned out to be very prescient in terms of not worrying about china necessarily in 1972 but worrying about china farther down the road. we find ourselves now in 2017 in an interesting and new situation where china and russia are important to the u.s. and global affairs. since mr. nixon was president of the u.s. and opened relations with china, rather infamously, we have had the collapse of communism in eastern europe, uprisings in tianemen square and the collapse of

dr. henry kissinger in january of 1972 just one month before the historic trip to china that february. xon:ident ni [inaudible] >> it wanted to introduce a special guest in our audience today, president nixon's younger brother, ed nixon. [applause] , the stage isat yours. , thankk you very much you for having us here. we had a wonderful tour this afternoon at the library and we all enjoyed it very much. i'm going to start our on theion by picking up tape that jonathan played for us nixon's idea of former leading relations to counterbalance soviet power. he turned out to be very prescient in terms of not worrying about china necessarily in 1972 but worrying about china farther down the road. we find ourselves now in 2017 witnessing a new interest -- situation where china and russia are important to the u.s. and global affairs. was president of the u.s. and opened relations with china, rather infamously, we have had the collapse of communism in eastern europe, nemen square and the collapse of the soviet russiaa period of a weak in the 1990's under born -- boris yeltsin as it recovered fr

dr. kissinger has been an advisor from time to time to president trump and henry kissinger wrote in his white house years said a bluff taken serio seriously. what we have now is something has been taken as a bluff. when it may in fact be serious. we now have to kind of walk it back and say if you take action, which threatens us or our allies, then you will have a response which will be quiet devastating to your regime. we will start moving in the direction of a regime change. saying we tried to work with you. we're going to look at regime change the at some point in time in the not too distant future if you continue along this way. >> you talked about squeezing north korea. you mentioned earlier today squeezing them like a python. what were you talking about? is it just the continuation of sanctions? how do you mean by "squeeze"? >> we've been imposing sanctions on an incremental basis. they've been eroded. we know there is a black market and gray market. we know china is dealing the north koreans and the russians. we have allowed the north koreans to do this. they've been developing the guns