by the kim jong-un, regime.o you believe the north koreans should be held responsible for his death? >> yes. this had happened while mr. warmbier was in the detention of north korean authorities. we cannot know for sure north korea killed mr. warmbier, but i believe it is quite clear that they have a heavy responsibility in the process that led to mr. warmbier's death. >> how does this -- affect your efforts to restart the dialogue with north korea? >> i believe me must now have the perception that north korea is an irrational regime. working with such a country we must achieve the goal of the complete dismantlement of north korea's nuclear program. >> how do you sit knee to knee as you promised with an irrational leader and negotiate. >> iieve tha dialogue is necessary. we were unable to resolve the north korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure. >> the idea of engaging in dialogue with north koreans before they are denuclearized, is fundamentally at odd with long standing u.s. policy. so wh

>> whitaker: the man who could order an assassination is kim jong-un.amily to rule north korea. they have controlled the impoverished country with an iron-clad fist for 70 years. this missile test was in february. kim devotes a quarter of his country's economy to weapons like this, and his million man army, despite widespread food shortages. >> thae yong-ho: kim jong-un strongly believes that once he possesses i.c.b.m., then he can easily scare off america. >> whitaker: right now, how dangerous is north korea to the stability of south korea and as a threat to the united states? >> thae yong-ho: kim jong-un's capability to wreak harm, not only to america but also to south korea and the world, should not be underestimated. >> whitaker: during his five years in power, kim jong-un has expanded north korea's nuclear arsenal, despite international sanctions that have brought his country's economy to its knees. electricity is scarce. from space, north korea is a black hole. that's it, wedged between the shining lights of south korea, and china to the north. th

when kim jong un came to power, things changed dramatically. they're now averaging about 15 to 13 tests per year. this is indicative of missile development programs. in fact, north korea is pursuing the development of more than one system. the they lose track of them because they seem to introduce something new each day. i want to talk a little bit about their kpap blilts, where they are and then project some timelines and maybe at the end offer some not policy prescriptions but some ideas and limitations we have in trying to halt philadelphia development. the scud missiles were launched during the kim il sung jet stream. there was virtually no flight testing. indicative of having received the technology from a foreign source, in this case it was very likely russia and to be more specific, the mackay design bureau and elements ie 2567d to mackayev. what we've seen north korea do is leverage that existing scud technology. you'll recall that last year, they tested what is called the scud er for extended range. this is a scud that was modified. th

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kim jong un is going to do what he wants to do.ndeems bent on a compass -- on accomplishing his goals. host: we are talking with mark bowden of the atlantic about his piece, how to deal with north korea, in the next issue of the atlantic. he is also the author of several oaks, including black hawk down, the bases of the film, as well as guests of the ayatollah and the best game ever. bill is calling from illinois. caller: good morning. a couple of comments before my question. sanctions have sometimes produced better results. before world war ii, i think we had imposed a lot of sanctions against japan regarding oil. to thehave contributed move at pearl harbor. the second thing is, why would one ever think that some regime that has been in power for 30 years whose goal is to stay in power whatever voluntary relinquished their nuclear weapons. my question is strategic patience has worked pretty well for the last 20 years. why the big brush to do something -- why the big rush to do something? why would north korea do something knowing

kim jong-il under his reign, there were 16 or so tests. this includes a few satellite launch attempts. but they came in clusters of 1998 you saw the one and then in 2006, ii and a number of other missiles were fired in a single day and then in 2009 you saw a cluster of testing. this is inconsistent with testing to develop nuclear systems. even though they were attempting to develop the satellite launch as it turns out to be. it seemed that rational for testing was to train troops, you know, to create operational readiness and for political purposes. especially the july 2006 testing. under kim yojong-un, we've seen the ramp up of testing. i think he's now done 78 missile launches. there may have been more that failed. i don't know. i think the numbers are right around there. that's 13 to 15 tests per year. that's xiconsistent with the missile development program. compare that to say what iran is doing. iran tests maybe three to five missiles a year. they make minor modifications and test them out. they use others systems. that is far less a

moon and kim jong-un?er. >> i mean that's the question i said, can you get it done this year, and he said he's hopeful that the conditions would be set for such a meeting. so they're working towards that. he wasn't, you know, willing to say that he hopes it happens this year, but that is certainly a goal to set the conditions for that. and he's the one who brought up that president trump in the past has said that he'd be willing to share a burger with kim jong-un. so the possibility, imagine, of even president trump having a face-to-face meeting with kim jong-un. those, i think, are in the distance, not likely to happen any time soon, if at all, but the fact that that's being raised is an interesting diplomatic tool that's being used at this time. >> does moon jae-in want to see a north korea and south korea united, something that the chinese are very opposed to? mean,ah, i mean that's a great question, charlie, because not only is he promising a freeze in ons and weapons and a ultimate denuclearization, h

also in the regime foundered took more than two decades to teach kim jong il his son how to rule the regime because a very difficult thing to do now kim jong il took just about five years because the regime you know is not a monolith it's a composite of various elements like the security services korean people's army. and the guard even more complicated and then you have kim family members who are also part of the regime it's a balancing effort on the part of a north korean leader kim jong il and has not only tried to consolidate his own position by putting his own people in place he's also to change the composition of the regime moving it away from the military first policy of his father towards one where the korean workers party is dominant and so that's why there's been so many deaths and that's why i think the regime his own state. out forces that might be opposing his changes and he's killing anybody who might actually be a threat to him and so in the middle of january this year demoted and detained his minister of state security general could warhol a very important figure then

negotiating with kim jong-un goes like this.ou do everything i say and i won't feed you to a boa constrictor, that is a deal, mom? "where's waldo" they think is for kim jong-un's daughter, who i think is 5 years old. they love american books in north korea. they adapt them to suit the north korean lifestyle. there's "good night un." "oh the places you'll never go." "the very hungry caterpillar and millions of other people." the caterpillar's hungry because there's no food. it really is amazing dennis rodman and kim jong-un are friends. especially considering kim jong-un doesn't speak english and dennis rodman doesn't speak english. i don't know what they're saying to each other. i don't know if trump has read "where's waldo" but i have to say i feel like he has. i've noticed when he gives a speech, he always seems to be reading it aloud. >> where's leo, is leo around here? where is he? he's got to be here. where is he? where is franklin? he's around. where is robert? where's jim? where are they? where is general flynn? where are

one, we've seen this new pattern of missile testing under the regime of kim jong-un. his grandfather, kim il-sung, under his reign for making 84 84-1994, i know he began before 1984, but they started missile testing in 1984. he conducted a total of i think it was 15 test, want and have missile tests per year kim jong-il, under his reign there were 16 or so tests, this includes a few satellite launch attempts but they came in clusters. in 1998, and then in 2006 along with a number of other missiles fired in a single day and then again in 2009 you saw a cluster of testing. in both instances this would be inconsistent with testing to develop new systems even though i'm to develop the satellite launch as it turned out to be. but it seems the rational for testing was to train troops come to great operational readiness and for political purposes. especially the july 2006 testing. under kim jong-un we've seen this wrap up of testing, i think he has now done, at last count 78 missile launches. there may have been more that failed, i don't know what i think the number is right

under kim jong-un, we've seen this ramp-up of testing. he's now done at last count 78 missile launches. there may have been more that failed, i don't know but i think the number is right around there. at 13 or 15 tests per year. that's consistent with a missile development program. compare that to say what iran is doing. ran on average test read five missiles a year, they make minor modifications and test them out. they use them in wargames. >> that is far less and it's not enough testing to develop a new capability in the short period of time and when i say a short period i'm talking 3 to 5 years. >> so it's clear to me and what we've seen is a number of new systems emerge and i'll talk about them in a moment but what is clear is north korea is trying to create new capabilities and they're going about it in a reasonably technically valid way. >> the second point i want to make is that we've seen north korea move bond the legacy skype technology. all the missiles up until kim jong-un came to power were basically powered by either the star

he killed his own half brother. >> kim jong-un is more frightening.ems to be more reckless. he has anger management issues. >> he's acting very, very badly. i will tell you, he's acting very badly. >> reporter: the new administration views its predecessors north korea poll sill as something else to repeal and replace. >> the policy of strategic patience has ended. >> reporter: by april, the warmbier family has also changed it's approach and broken its silence. >> john kerry was secretary of state at the time. did he help you in any way? >> no. absolutely not. >> did anyone in the state department help you in any way? >> no. >> this sense of frustration and anger, i've heard it before, and i understand it. >> reporter: this past april, we were in north korea again, walking the super clean streets and hearing this chilling remark. is it more dangerous now in terms of relationship between the u.s. and dprk than ever before? "i can say that the situation of the korean peninsula is much more tense." later that month, one week after parading its military mi

he has met kim jong-un. and we know he was on "the celebrity apprentice," president trump's former reality show, two different occasions. >> that's right, wow. >> reporter: so, he knows the president. actually endorsed him in 2015. so, in terms of how this is going to play out diplomatically, we just don't know. we'll find out more. he has landed in pyongyang. >> sean spicer, get ready to answer questions about dennis rodman. matt, thank you. >> and the t-shirt product placement for the marijuana crypto currency is a little -- >> banking for the marijuana industry, they say. >> seems like he's sort of playing us somehow. >> they win. >>> tech stocks raising the market to record highs. have they lost steam? we'll talk a little bit about this tech slump that we've seen lately. you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4

is fed up with the north korea regime, but can kim jong-un working to develop a nuclear weapon that can hit the united states, what will the trump administration do to stop it? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> we're following breaking news. a shooting rampage at a major new york city hospital. police say a gunman who injured multiple people at bronx lebanon hospital has killed himself and that the body of a woman was found nearby. sources tell cnn the shooter was a doctor and former hospital employee. we're also following new developments of president trump's very public feud with msnbc host joe scarborough and mik ark mika brezinski. they claim the president threatened them unless they apologize to mr. trump. mr. trump threw a wrench into the process with a tweet that said congress repeal obamacare now without a replacement which he said could come later. >>> the president voicing his frustration with north korea. he said, patience is over with the kim jong-un regime which is aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapon capable of striking the united states. we're covering

it is the latest of provocations from kim jong-un's regime and adds to the urgency of efforts to cut h flow. brian todd has more on this developing story for us. brian, what is the latest you're learning? >> reporter: a u.s. intelligence official told me they are closely monitoring the situation on the korean peninsula. while the u.s. officials meet their chinese counterparts here in washington tonight, kim jong-un seems to be thumbing his nose at both nations and ramping up his threats. the mysterious underground mountain site where kim jong-un tests his nuclear bombs, two u.s. officials tell cnn spy satellites have detected new activity there for the first time in several weeks. the officials say there appear to be modifications around a key tunnel entrance to an underground test area. >> it would look like they're preparing for another nuclear test. the tempo has increased the last couple of years. >> reporter: u.s. officials say military options for north korea have been updated and will be presented to president trump if kim's regime conducts another nuclear test, but it is not c

rodman for actually trying to legitimize kim jong-un. id say a number of things about how good kim is. rodman, really is so bizarre himself that, you know, i'm not so sure that he actually helped kim because when you have someone like rodman saying the things about kim, you have to believe the opposite. >> all right. in terms of bizarre, alec mentioned it earlier, you have covered north korea for a long time and there's been a lot of reaction and some comparison to comments that meshs of president trump's cabinet made yesterday at the white house praising president trump comparing that interaction to that we would see in north korea. take a look. >> on behalf of the entire senior staff around you, mr. president, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you've given us to serve your agenda. >> mr. president, thank you for the honor to serve the country. >> i can't thank you enough for the privilege you've given me and the leadership you've shown. >> thank you for the opportunity to help fix the trade deficit and other things.

infractions as minor as not showing the proper affection for the dear leader kim jong-un can earn youulag of secret prison camps known as kwanliso. >> these camps are places of unimaginable suffering. they're the very machinery of a a widespread and systematic campaign of enslavement and of executions. >> reporter: scott edwards of amnesty international says the facilities are so secretive, the only way to see what they look like is from space, through satellite imagery. what's this we're looking at here? >> so, this is one of these political prison camps that amnesty has recently imaged. this area is about the size of all of new york city. the north, kwanliso 16. it's about three times the size of d.c. >> reporter: edwards says within these gargantuan facilities -- whole industries are devoted to slave labor. >> the different areas are different sorts of commercial or agricultural or mining activity. what goes on in the camps that isn't visible from space is torture, is the intentional starving of populations. it's infanticide. it's rape. it's mutilation. >> reporter: how do you know

death involving north korean actions does cross a red line. >> reporter: a military strike against kim jong-un'sts say is too dangerous an option. kim might retaliate by firing his missile at seoul or japan. or he could attack the 28,000 american troops in south korea. but a cyberattack on kim's growing missile program could be an option. there may be attacks, yes, we can take on missile launches. there may be attacks we can take on the command and control center to send a signal to north korea. um not see the result of that, but kim jong-un will. >> reporter: experts a hacking the internal calls and e-mails and putting them out in public is a possible retaliatory move. the u.s. and the u.n. have economic sanctions already in place against north korea. targeting luxury and imports and exports which help kim's military. those could be expanded. but what could hurt north korea more analysts believe is if the u.s. applies so-called secondary sanctions against kim's chief ally, china. >> it's pretty well known there are an extensive set of chinese entities that help north korea evade those arms sanc

even more unpredictable than it was with kim jong-un than his father or grandfather. regime changes kind of off the table. the only thing you can do, the chinese regard the north koreans as being like a very embarrassing young relative. they know they own it and are responsible for it and they hated anything needed. only with the chinese eat can you do anything. >> eric: how to get the chinese to understand that any sort of conflict on the korean peninsula would be a floodgate of refugees into mainland china? >> douglas: the chinese know it. they don't want south korean style capitalism on the border either. the only way you can do it is to persuade the chinese that the price for them not bringing pyongyang into line is worse than the price of bringing them into line. you're dealing with literally the most insane leadership on the planet. >> eboni: how to be demonstrated? it's been my question i ask 15 different ways every time this comes up. how do we incentivize china to get on board? >> curtis: we already do it. we attack iran on a regular basis but we give the red

the news south korean president said he would like to meet kim jong-un before the end of the year. must play a prominent role in regional politics and a presidential visit to pyongyang was a good idea. he says he shares president trump's desire to resolve tensions on the peninsula, but dealing with the north is tricky. >> kim jong-un is not a rational person, but president trump even mentioned that he is willing to talk with kim jong-un. he has another point he mentioned, that it would be an honor to meet kim jong-un, so i believe president trump went much further than i did. paul: prime minister theresa may steps into a new political reality on wednesday with the heavily rewritten legislative program big on brexit and light on controversy. the stripped-down queen's speech will be without most of the usual pageantry as it starts the beginning of a two-year parliamentary a sessio session. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. rishaad: the black stuff tumbled into a bear market over concerns of a s

you mentioned it would be an honor to meet kim jong-un.ident trump what much further than i did. isthe belgian prime minister to convene the national security council after a terror attack. shotcutors say a man was after detonating a baguette central station. the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on what is said to have in an explosive else. no one was hurt but it continues a month of violent events. i'm paul allen. .his is bloomberg are in >> we are seeing quite a bit of red on this screen. oil pricesammy with as well. that could hurt the rest of the market. >> it looks like there could be little it helps markets. overnight weakness and commodities, based metal copper following almost 1%. on, a look at what is going following a most wanted a half percent there. -- almost 1.5% there. numbers for export the first 20 days of this month coming out better than expected, that is not sitting the cost be on a positive track, down about .9%. the countryat space. we are seeing nervousness. that drop in metals probably weighing on the au

it probably means it will discourage a lot of behavior from someone equally unpredictable, kim jong-un although in this case, the situation with otto is something both parties, bipartisan issue, there needs to be a response, what will it be. >> the president is putting out this response just days before meeting with officials in washington. you read the tweet and wonder, is he saying the u.s. is going at it alone. gosh at least china tried doesn't it weaken trump's hand when it comes to talking with the chinese and trying to take a hard line. >> i've been struck how often new presidents come in and say they are going to bend china to our will by being tougher more resolute, smarter, bill clinton did it, george w. bush did it, it's common then you find there's so many irons in the fire at once it's impossible to let any one issue dominate the relationship with the exclusion of all others. china saying we haven't got the results we want out of north korea obviously with this horrible incident but you don't blame you it's not your fault. it points to him wanting a relationship with china

we have to hope that as unstable as kim jong-un is, that he's not suicidal, and i do not believe he wants to commit suicide. so he has to understand that any attack on the part of his regime against us or our allies would be met with a devastating response. to that end, we are building up our military again. we just finished the markup of the national defense authorization act this week in the senate. we marked a $640 billion number, higher than in the past. higher than the house was able to, but they marked to $621 billion. so suffice it to say the house and the senate are building up our military. the president's called for over 350 ships in our naval fleet up from 276, where we are now,

kim jong-un is not.eep his military insecurity services happening, as his father did, he could let millions of north koreans starve to death. this is as close to an intractable problem i've ever seen in the world stage. liz: i completely understand president trump saying we have a lot of options, and we're going forward, and we've got to smack down north koreans. but the south korean piece of this puzzle seems to be a bit more problematic to find its fit. i was just looking. 35 miles. that is how close the major city of seoul in south korea is to the dmz or the demilitarized zone of north korea. they have to be really careful because that's within nuclear warhead hitting targets; right? >> it is. it's even within the range of some conventional. and it's a pretty short drive from the border to seoul. seoul is not only a capital politically, it's a financial capital, it's really -- it is south korea to a great degree. and that's the single block to military operations because if we are compelled to do ever

missiles, that it could be seen as provocative and they're worried about their northern neighbor, kim jong-un at this moment in time. the pentagon would like to have six missiles as part of that thad battery. they only made two of them operational. they were hoping to get the other four in place in order to have a solid system to defend seoul as well as the u.s. troops there. we had just heard in the last week from the assistant secretary of defense for asian affairs, david helsey, he was on the trip with defense secretary

[ light laughter ] even kim jong-un is like, dude, have some self respect, you gotta -- [ applause ] now you may remember that in his testimony last week comey said trump had tried to get him to end his investigation of former national security advisor, michael flynn. telling comey in a private oval office meeting, "i hope you can let this go." which, of course, is usually what world leaders say to trump when he's shaking their hand. [ light laughter ] i hope can you let this go. i have to use this to eat and drive. [ light laughter ] wrap it up! now, this of course has raised the question of whether the president committed obstruction of justice. trump in return, has accused comey of leaking the conversations to the press despite the fact that comey was a private citizen at the time, and the conversation was not classified. at a press conference on friday with the president of romania, trump continued to defend himself. although, he seemed to wanna keep his comments brief. >> no collusion, no obstruction. he's a leaker. >> seth: oh, no. [ laughter and applause ] oh, no.

stuart: what is kim jong un? >> he's marshal. stuart: all right. marshal kim jong un. >> yes.re. >> yes. stuart: i'm sure he receives daily briefings on how things stand. he must be aware of president trump's difficulties. is he trying to exploit them? >> i think what he's more aware of is, look, president trump's doing a tour of all his enemies, meeting with the japanese prime minister abe, and all of them are saying we're discussing the north korean problem. so if there was someone i hated and they're meeting with every single one of my enemies, that's going to make me paranoid and get into my head. i think president trump, he's very good at playing mind games, and he's really gotten into kim jong un's head which is a great way to -- stuart: wait, wait, repeat that. you think our president has gotten inside the head and has gotten to marshal kim jong un. >> oh, there's no question. first of all, he should be paranoid because our force is so much stronger than theirs, but if there's a bunch of people that you hated and someone is meeting with them individually and parading th

negotiating with kim jong-un goes like this.ou do everything i say and i won't feed you to a boa constrictor, that is a deal, mom? "where's waldo" they think is for kim jong-un's daughter, who i think is 5 years old. they love american books in north korea. they adapt them to suit the north korean lifestyle. there's "good night un." "oh the places you'll never go." "the very hungry caterpillar and millions of other people." the caterpillar's hungry because there's no food. it really is amazing dennis rodman and kim jong-un are friends. especially considering kim jong-un doesn't speak english and dennis rodman doesn't speak english. i don't know what they're saying to each other. i don't know if trump has read "where's waldo" but i have to say i feel like he has. i've noticed when he gives a speech, he always seems to be reading it aloud. >> where's leo, is leo around here? where is he? he's got to be here. where is he? where is franklin? he's around. where is robert? where's jim? where are they? where is general flynn? where are

maybe kim jong-un wanted warmbier to suffer as a lesson to the united states. we don't know his thinking on this. that is a real possibility. we saw the assassination of kim jong-un's half brother, five of his senior subordinates. there's something wrong in this regime and otto warmbier may be another symptom of that. >> shepard: restrictions, travel restrictions in order? >> yes. for a couple reasons. first of all, we don't want other americans to become hostages. the regime earns 100% of the dollars from tourism. your waitresses or tour guide, they get north korean wong, which are worthless. every time you see a missile arcing into the sky, it's tourist dollars at work. >> weekend travel to every country on the face of the earth except for cuba. it's unusual for the united states to restrict the movement of its own citizens. it's more normal to put out warnings about what you're about to get into. >> which is north korea's case. there's no travel ban. i look at this as an issue of trying to restrict the flow of funds to the regime. they're making fast pace on

why would kim jong-un ever agree to freeze his nuclear weapons program? what are you going to give him? >> ( translated ): kim jong-un currently has a blind faith that his nuclear and missile programs will protect him and his regime, so we must show and teach north korea that this belief is incorrect. if north korea gives up its nuclear program and missile programs and wants to start a dialogue, then i believe we can send a message that we will not threaten kim jong-un's regime, and we can even provide assistance to them. and that is why i fully agree with president trump that we need stronger sanctions and pressure on north korea to the level that we have never reached before, maximum pressure. >> mason: norah o'donnell will have more from south korea this week on "cbs this morning." coming up next on the cbs evening news, just-released video shows a minnesota officer's deadly encounter with a driver. jumped into city life as a kid... ...raised two rough and tumble boys... ...and kept my town moving. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer.

hall of famer dennis rodman says the president should follow his example and go meet with kim jong-un. rodney did not see the dictator on this trip but in the past they rode horses and sang ca karioke. >>> breaking news, the white house says the president has no intention of firing special counsel robert mueller even though the president is once again criticizing mueller, calling his friendship with the fired fbi director james comey bothersome. saying his staffers are hillary clinton supporters and suggesting his future is up in the air. the day after finally admitting he has no tapes of his talks with fired fbi director james comey, president trump now says his whole six-week deception was an effort to influence comey to tell the truth. the white house denies that the president sought to intimidate comey. there are stunning new details about russia's effort to tilt the u.s. election. they gave dreblgt evidence that vladimir putin personally ordered the campaign to influence the vote in favor of trump. the post was inside the infrastructure and left office before it could be implemen

is sending a clear message to kim jong-un. carrier strike groups launching a show of force today conducting military exercises with japanese navy ships. according to the military, 12 warships and to carrier air wings are involved. they come two days after the u.s. military successfully shot down a intercontinental missile. michael, let's start with you. >> michael: i don't think this is a loud and clear message at all. we have been sending them ambiguous messages. you had president trump pricing kim jong-un, saying he would like to talk to him, and then you have other members of the administration saying we are done talking. contradictory messages but we don't know what they're going to be doing there's a lot of smoke and mirrors. we have seen something like this, this has gone back. in the '70s, the americans wanted to prune a tree on the dmz and the north koreans chopped it up. we launched operation paul bunyan. we came back with troops and ships and pruned the tree and left the stump. this has been going on for decades. >>

liz: he talked about his quote friend kim jong un being misunderstood. are your thoughts about that? >> really give me strength. back in the cold war the communities to talk about useful idiots, people on the western side that they can dupe and make it dupe and making the propaganda tools for them and i think we have seen a 21st century version here. liz: ambassador bolton were to cisco? we have north korea saying we didn't murder otto warmbier. what is your reaction when you heard that? >> will these people are guilty of what many people have just called their boundless mendacity. there is nothing that the north koreans are not prepared to say whether it has any relationship to reality or not. the way they treated the entire warmbier affair including lying about it demonstrates their character. not of the north korean people but of the regime. they won't be honest about this. why does anybody think you can take anything they say on their nuclear ballistic missile program with any validity at all? this is got to be the final proof this regime can't be af

for months the white house has been lobbying china to exert more influence over the kim jong-un regime. >> last night in iowa, president trump praised china's president but also sent a message that he expects more from beijing. >> we've had a very good relationship with china in all fairness. and i do like president xi. i wish we would have more help on north korea from china. that doesn't seem to be working out, but i do like the president a lot. >> the meeting with top chinese officials comes days after the death of otto warmbier. the american college student spent 17 months hard -- before he was sent -- hard labor before he was sent home in a coma. we have more on the high-level meetings and where the two countries go from here. good morning. it's a question of what the chinese are willing to do, what they're willing to do to push the north koreans. do you get any sense of where they'll go here? >> reporter: well, this is a question that successive administrations have been asking starting with the clinton administration going on down the line to the trump administration. they all w

kim jong un and his regime should be held responsible for the heinous murder of an american, a united states citizen. >> that tweet is interesting to me. i think we're going to see the beginning of the gas lighting of north korea. he should tweet tomorrow "we are changing the executive order against assassination." and then with a little happy face emoticon, and a hashtag, say nothing more. it's refreshing to be the unpredictable force in this equation as an american. for so long we were the ones that were solving for x. trying to figure out the crazy people. now it's their turn to figure out what we are going to do next. i think we should target the countries that are doing business with north korea, and make sure they are not making any money and possibly losing money. just to mess with on all counts. do whatever we can to make their lives hell -- take it back to the neighborhood metaphor. if there's a creep in your neighborhood, tell your kids to stay away. that's what you do. and we are the parent here, week to tell these other countries to stay away from him. or else. >> there ha

that is kim jong-il looking at that. you have a nuclear war head and the u.s.f capability it is positive for our country. >> lou: positive for the country and another positive p to add to a long list since president trump was elected. slog ans with make america great again. and what we are watching is a contimium a reassert by this president stepping in challenges whether the pacific region or south china sea or middle east. the administration is responding. >> we had eight years that the adversaries knew they could get away with a lot. they are now on their heels. they see a president rebuilding the military and it doesn't give them freedom of movement. >> lou: and turning to politics. intelligence committees in my opinion right now and issuance by the house seven subpeona and three directed to the cian and nsa. three individuals named, what do you make it. it looks like an investigation of the obama administration? >> i think it is encouraging. you had a leaking of the flynn phone call and that is a huge no- no to use it for political purposeses. the only cri

the republican us senator says otto warmbier was murdered by the kim jong—un regime. a fellow traveller who met him on a trip to north korea in 2015. it was on that trip he was arrested and imprisoned for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel. he died yesterday, surrounded by his family in a cincinnati hospital. here's what the president had to say today. it's a total disgrace what happened to otto, it should never ever have been allowed to happen. frankly if he had been brought home sooner, i think the result would have been a lot different. he should have been brought home that same day. the result would have been a lot different. it's a disgrace. such a sad story with so many questions and everyone saying what a great guy otto warmbier was and how he fell victim to the regime. but we do not really know what happened, at what stage she got these brain injuries that put him into, and what the circumstances where. well among those who aided in otto's release was former us ambassador to the un bill richardson. he joins us now from massachusetts. there are

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rodman is one of the only americans who have ever met with kim jong-un face-to-face.as visited that country at least four times, the last visit coming in 2014 when he and other former nba players took part in an exhibition basketball game, which was a birthday gift for kim. wolf, a u.s. official telling cnn tonight the state department was aware of rodman's plans to travel to north korea but stress he is not going in any official capacity with the u.s. government. >> interesting that we spotted him. we have that video of him in beijing at the international airport. you want to go to pyongyang, you have to fly to beijing first, then get a visa in beijing, then fly into north korea, payongyan. a lot of us remember the negative publicity for the last visit. >> that's right, he was heavily criticized for not bringing up the case of american kenneth bae, who spent more than two years in north korean custody. rodman had an expletive laden outburst during the trip. he did say after his return he was sorry for what was going on and meant the trip to be an instance of, quote,