so this is an advance for kim jong—un, if thatis is an advance for kim jong—un, if that is truly whats the border from that area, they were undoubtedly shaken terribly. how do you think those countries will react? well, i think china will be very unhappy, japan, south korea, this is not a happy development, and one to which i think the world is going to want to have serious sanctions put on north korea, in addition to what already exists. in terms of washington, the rhetoric has been increasing over the last few weeks, over the last few months. how do you think a trump white house will deal with this? well, i think they have got to take a combination of actions. i think they will want to explore actions like saying that any more missile tests will be intercepted, if they can be. i think they will want to consider more reconnaissance flights near north korea. i think they will probably want to start taking some internal political actions against north korea, for example describing the fact that kim jong—un's grandfather on his mother's side was a japanese collaborator. the people of no

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meanwhile we are seeing increasingly war of words between two leaders president trump and kim jong-un. trump calling kim rocket man and a mad man. and kim calling the president a rogue, a beggangster, and a dot which means an old senile lunatic. it's an escalating war of words with no end insight. president trump tweeting this morning, kim jong-un of north korea who is obviously a mad man, who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before. this after north korea supreme leader fired back at trump. the first time the regime has ever released a statement in his name. accusing the president of being a mentally deranged u.s. dotard. the extraordinary personal barbs coming at the president remark, where he did the nickname for the dictator. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. and for his regime. >> reporter: kim is warning that mr. trump would pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the dprk. >> the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to t

then kim jong-il died and the current kim jong-un took over and he has been able to just move ahead. there has been no negotiations under the obama administration. strategic patience. nothing has really worked and the kind of sanctions that the world united to bring against iran which has to be said did not have a weapons program but to stop its nuclear reactor energy program, those kind of global coordinated sanctions have never been brought against pyongyang. now this is what's happened, despite the sanctions that are on. and most people who have engaged with the north koreans believe that what has to happen is a strategic framework where they can engage and keep this, you know, walled off. keep this in a situation where even if they are moving ahead with gaining status of another global nuclear power that they are engaged with and they're not, you know, they know clearly there are lines and detente. >> if you are just joining us and wondering what does that mean? we want to continue to bring you the developing breaking news out of north korea. the country says it has just successf

monarchy and we're now on kim number three and this kim is different i mean goodness knows his father kim jong il his grandfather kim il sung were difficult enough north korea establish an early reputation as a provocateur as a rogue state that basically wouldn't do what anyone including gets crazy i are lies told it too but usually they were smarter father and grandfather because of a certain point they would throw the rest of us a saw they would tell us what they wanted it might be something outrageous a diplomatic track would start and sooner or later the crisis would diffuse but kim jong un about whom we know all too little or no it was a real shame that no one other than dennis rodman seems to have actually met him is just going on and on and on and we don't really get a clear notion is there a diplomatic track should we fear conquest of south korea i can't really fear that because illyria this is not an islamic state kim is not a fanatic we do know from mr rodman he lives well seven star he called it a north korea has built this very tightly controlled in its own way surprisingly stable

>> here is what the president said last month about kim jong-un. >> kim jong-un, i respect the fact thatieve he is starting to respect us. i respect that fact very much. and maybe, probably not, but maybe something positive can come about. >> joining is tom and sarah. we talked this morning about some of the inconsistencies between the president and members of his cabinet and if that is just members on different pages or strategy. i think we need to pay attention what the president has said. he said fire and fury if kim jong-un threatens the u.s. and says they are respecting us. then he says the time for talking days later for talking is over. what room has the president left himself for a response to this nuclear test, tom, that would be -- that would match the latest rhetoric or any of it? >> it's really interesting. right? we need to see what he is going to say and tweet. we are all anxious to see how he is going to respond today. if you look at north korea and kim jong-un what is going is a constant trajectory and constant increasing of what their capabilities and displays and everyt

at that point, kim jong-nam wrote a letter to his half brother, pleaded with kim jong-un to top strstop trying t assassinate him. it appears the younger brother was just waiting for his moment. >> brian todd, thanks very much. >>> coming up, breaking news, after a series of stinging defeats, president trump unveils a plan to cut taxes and simplify the tax code. he denies that it will benefit the wealthy. can republicans sell their plan to the public and push it through congress? duncan just protected his family with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cost him? $100 a month? $75? $50? actually, duncan got his $500,000 for under $28 a month. less than $1 a day! his secret? selectquote. in just minutes a selectquote agent will comparison shop nearly a dozen highly rated life insurance companies, and give you a choice of your five best rates. duncan's wife cassie got a $750,000 policy for under $21 per month. give your family the security it needs, at a price you can afford. since 1985, selectquote has saved over a million families millions of dollars on life insuran

the unauthorized biography of kim jong-il.atchers said they expected it in the near term. should washington have been caught off guard by this potential nuclear blast? >> they should be caught off guard that the technology is advancing faster than expected. but they should not be caught off guard that north korea is escalating their actions. they are going to get more and more aggressive and force america to grovel. this hayes a scheme of theirs to have a power position over if the united states. this is a gangster government. the quick government are basically a gang of thugs who rule their country with complete force demanding a tribute from their people. what would be the next step if they continue on with this escalation. we heard the reports and have seen pictures of the hydrogen bomb being load on to an icbm. what would you see as the next step by north korea? >> they have already taken two next steps coming to light today. first of which is kim jong nun april ordered the government to stockpile 4 million barrels of mail

and then it didn't work and kim jong-il died and kim -- the current leader, kim jong-un, succeeded him, and it has been confrontational ever since. what they want, we have been told now by the only diplomats, only officials from the united states that have actually met, seen the north korean diplomats and officials, is that they want to be taken seriously as a nuclear power. i think you just have to look at, for instance, iran which is not a nuclear weapons power, however, was able to develop its nuclear program under sanctions. so the idea that these countries can actually perfect engineering and this kind of technology themselves despite some of the heaviest sanctions in the world is something that, you know, the world sort of needs to pay attention to. now we need to know which way diplomats, analysts, officials, governments, what they're going to do to deal with this. some analysts right now are saying this may not be a game changer. we'll see what happens. but it is clearly everything points to north korea moving in one inexorable direction, and that is to perfect its nuclear tech

while the president initially complimented kim jong-un for his restraint -- >> kim jong-un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. i respect that fact very much. >> reporter: now the administration is making clear its patience is running thin. as this dangerous foreign policy crisis escalates. >> mr. president, will you attack north korea? >> reporter: on sunday secretary of defense james mattis told reporters that military action is under consideration. >> any threat to the united states or its territories, including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response. >> reporter: as trump ramped up threats of economic pressure, tweeting, the united states is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. and at an emergency meeting of the united nations security council today, u.n. ambassador nikki haley fired off this warning. >> war is never something the united states wants. we don't want it now. but our country's patience is not unlimited. we will defend our allies and our terr

received --ime, and in from kim jong-il to kim jong-un. how did we get here? one argument that is made explaining the resilience of the kim regime is the fact that eastern europeans witnessed other political systems, good, bad terrible. the regime is truly the result three vision of totalitarian political systems. all, korea was under japanese occupation. made isment that is that this dictatorship of the regime is truly the result of free totalitarian political systems. we know for sure is this is a criminal regime. in february, a you and tomission submitted a report the human rights council -- a report that found what is happening in north korea amounts to crimes against humanity. perfect human a rights record. only one country in the face of the planet where there are prison camps and that is north korea. women,re 120,000 men, and children being held in prison camps, up to three generations of the same family. this is the only country on the face of the planet that classifies its own citizens based on their perceived degree of loyalty to the regime. there is

what would be considered an adequate response to kim jong-un?> if i were president of the united states what i would be doing is saying to china and russia we are going to response a resolution for an embargo of north korea also no transfers of oil to north korea, complete isolation. and i'd say to china and russia, if you don't agree with this, that's your prerogative. but we will then impose severe costs on both of you for supporting north korea because we don't have very much choice. we know the north korean when they are confident in their arsenal are going to use it to blackmail the united states to get troops off the peninsula so kim jong-un can achieve the ultimate goal of the north korean regime which is the destruction of the south korean state and kim jong-un has been talking to his generals recently about final victory. this is a point where the united states has no room for margin. we don't have much time to figure this out and we got to move very quickly. >> gordon, in the past everyone has been saying we have been having words and

kim jong un and president trump who are relatively new to. this deterrence game and i don't mean that flippantly but the dynamic of that interaction you referred to some of their their comments so yes we could have a situation in which there's an escalation in north could do would have threatened to do which is splash down some missiles around. i don't think the rhetoric itself will cause an escalation to war fairly confident of that but i think a miscalculation is plausible and now we are dealing not only with the possibility of nuclear war which i think is relatively remote but the possibility of a major conventional look at engagements on the on the conventional point union corn you're in seoul your country's capital has a population nearly ten million less than sixty kilometers from the border with north korea even a conventional non-nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences for your country feel city tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands dead how worried are people in south korea right now or to you about the prospect for

>> yes. >> in north korea similar to what kim jong-il, kim il-sung and kim jong-un could have but it denuclearize north korea. nuclear weapons in north korea will lend itself to strife in the region and beyond the region as we see right now. the status quo with the kim jong-un government, that is respectful to china, that depends heavily on china, and the china that has a 1961 peace and friendship treaty that china is committed to, but a denuclearize north korea. i think that's what china would like. they certainly don't want, my personal view, reunification has to be way down the line. because they do not, i think it's fair to say, i think the concern has to be if there is reunification on south korea's terms, that would bring the u.s. potentially into the north and that would be part of a a discussion that would have to be separate with china. >> is there a possibility we could agree to some of these objectives that china may want it we would agree to remove our troops from south korea? >> i'm sure there's a dialogue going on with china as we speak. there's a question on that. when

is kim jong—un likely to respond to diplomacy?some time that they want to renegotiate the relationship between the united states and north korea. they have developed this programme under all the sanctions, so i think ruling out military intervention, which would bea military intervention, which would be a catastrophe on a scale we have not seen, talks seem like the best outcome. we're looking at pictures of kim jong—un inspecting what the north koreans are saying is a hydrogen bomb, and their press release from the news agencies in pyongyang, they say that all the components of the h—bomb were home—made. do you think that is realistic, in terms of where they are technology is at? —— where their technology is at? well, they rely on external help, so with more sanctions, they are compelled to develop indigenous technologies. so i wouldn't be surprised if this was something they developed on their own. of course, we were saying earlier that getting these missiles, with whatever is on the top of them, up with whatever is on the top of

that comes hours after kim jong-un himself delivered a rare televised statement in which he directly responded to president trump's speech this week at the united nations general assembly and kim called president trump, quote, a frightened dog who barks louder says saying he will face results beyond his expectation and i will tame the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. we have reaction from ben wedeman in tokyo. first let's get to cnn global affairs correspondent elise labott in new york. you've been covering the u.n. general assembly here and we're hearing from secretary of state rex tillerson this morning. >> that's right. while he was talking about the nuclear options the military options that really do exist. there is all this taunting, as you said, about between president trump and kim jong-un and a lot is rhetoric, but i think that president trump and certainly secretary tillerson wants the north korean regime to know if they even think about any kind of nuclear test, or any kind of hydrogen bomb over the pacific, as kim jong-un had said, there will be real sorry situation

ambassador saying that that jiang kim jong un is begging for war. well i think united states is extremely frustrated because we have very limited options when it comes to north korea so we want to make this point to north korea that you know if you know if the kim jong un regime continues on this path that you were lead to some sort of a destruction for the north korean regime the problem is no matter what we say it's not really credible because i'm not sure if military option is truly on the table even though we keep saying it is you are korean correct yes i'm korean born how do you regard i guess the other way to put it is your fellow temperament in the north where it's very sad you have to separate the region from the people the people are not all different different from south korean people they are these are the same people and they share a sip thousands of years of the same history they've been a united country for thousands of years they've been only separated since nine hundred forty five also the people are the same they speak the same lang

here's our diplomatic editor mark urban on what we know about kim jong un.ong—un, ringmaster of the north korean circus, but a man who apparently has ordered generals who did not applaud enthusiastically enough to be executed, killed his own brother and now forges ahead with nuclear weapons, even if it threatens to impoverish his nation. yet, and man also, who those who meet, often take two. i know people who have met him and they describe an affable young man, a nice sense of humour and easy to be with, very affable in all kinds of ways. very much a family man, devoted to his wife and children, a man who enjoys the nice things in life, he entertains personal guests on his luxury yacht, usually moored up near a port in the west and he likes nice food and drink. he meets foreigners, his father never did. on new year's day, every foreign ambassador gets to shake his hand. that never happened under his father. emerging from the slaughter of the korean war, the leader kim il—sung built a personality cult around himself. he also began, he also personal quest for

he does. >> reporter: kim jong-un also had his older brother killed according to intelligence in a bizarrered deadly nerve agent in his face. many analysts think kim wanted to eliminate a rival. >> the more they can eliminate any possible contenders, the longer he'll be in. >> reporter: kim jong-un has several ways to keep higgs country's elites in line. >> he's got to have people who he feels are going to be unquestionably loyal to him, who are not going to undermine him, who are going to protect him under all circumstances. >> and that's something which analysts say china is hoping for as well. the chinese are believed to dislike kim and disapprove of his nuclear buildup, but many experts believe the schchinese would rather see him in place with nuclear weapons than see him loose his power or the regime collapse and have millions of chinese at the border. >> thanks. we want to turn to what we're seeing in texas and the recovery from harvey and now this political fight here. new jersey governor chris christie on cnn said senator ted cruz is telling lies while being surrounded by harvey st

they are not saying generals, they have a statement from kim jong-un, in which kim jong-un says the mentallyged behavior of the u.s. president expressing on the u.n. arena, the unethical will destroy a sovereign state beyond the threat of regime change. it continues to say things like, i will make the man holding the per ogtive of the u.s. -- continues to say whatever trump expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. trump denied the existence of me and my country in front of the eyes of the world. says trump will pay dearly. jeff zeleny is out front. this statement is upping the ante. >> reporter: it certainly is, erin, no question about it. i heard back from white house press secretary, sarah sanders and she said the white house would not have comment or reaction to this at this time. erin, i can tell you, watch the president's social media over the next 12 hours or so. he likes to comment on this. there's no doubt that the president has laid down a marker here. he was meeting earlier today at a, you know, putting a unified face forward, meeting with the south korean president,

but if kim jong-un looks at the history here, he may not believe the u.s. sist the temptation to participate in regime change if there was an uprising in north korea against cam and -- against kim himself. while we have assumed self-preservation is the number one objective here, i think it is very possible that blackmail, using a weapon to get aid, these are secondary but important advantages that he sees. that means the u.s. government will have to make a fundamental decision. which means, do you accept north korea as a nuclear power the way you've accepted pakistan, india, or others that did not sign the npp? or do you continue to say we will never tolerate you as a nuclear power. i don't think they have made the fundamental decision yet. charlie: but we have come to that decision quickly now, have we not? david: the moment is here. i would be interested to hear if david is hearing the same thing, that every time i talk to them, they say our goal is full denuclearization of the korean peninsula and we will not ignore -- acknowledge north korea as a nuclear

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the trumpet administration says north korea is begging for war with its nuclear missile tests kim jong un's as a push for new and sanctions means the u.s. will suffer the greatest fame what's next i'll talk with the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations bill richardson on this edition. of politicking on larry king while his administration contends with multiple natural disasters at home tension with north korea continues to rise well the standoff with the rogue nation and donald trump says kim jong un is begging for war with his nuclear missile tests while pyongyang says the u.s. will suffer pain if a push for new sanctions succeeds we'll get the perspective from bill richardson former democratic governor of new mexico new mexico and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. the governor says he believes kim jong un may be unpredictable but he's not suicidal he joins me from woods hole massachusetts or i build a subject at hand north korea celebrated its sixty ninth founding anniversary sunday on the ng warned it might carry out another missile test it did not give me a full assessment

north korea's kim jong-un vowing retaliation against the u.s.fter president trump's defiant speech at the u.n. north koreans foreign minister threatening a hydrogen bomb test. >> i'm dave briggs, kim jong-un calling president trump mentally derang deranged, a frightened dog. >>> first hurricane maria. deadly potentially catastrophic storm surge expected, as much as 12 feet above normal. that could submerge the already battered island chain. the devastation left behind by mayweath maria in puerto rico, the flooding described as harvey-like with over 40 inches of rain in some areas, an additional four to eight inches on the way. >>> rescuers are ongoing in the country's hardest hit areas. british royal fleet rescue helicopter team saving a woman and two children. right now more than 4,000 members of the u.s. army reserve are on the ground in puerto rico reporting massive destruction and nonexistent communications. let's go live to san juan. where nick valencia is reporting. the roads are submerged, infrastructure is broken and lights are out. >>re

why should they bribe kim jong-un in any event.t don't let it be prosecco. british dentists are upsetting the prosecco industry in italy because they have said that it can rot your teeth quite badly.|j can't believe how badly annoyed the italians got over this. you can't listen to dentists about dental hygiene, they will tell you to eat broccoli and drink water. it is called the prosecco smile, apparently dentists transported at ten paces. you get a haze to look about your face if you have been drinking prosecco. i can't leave it... somebody who likes prosecco is not necessarily going to turn to a pale ale. it is our retaliation for brexit, but is what it is. it's a conspiracy. thank you very much, stay with us on bbc world news. hello again. today marks the first day of the meteorological autumn, so i thought we would start with a summary of summer. a decent start. temperatures soared up to 35 celsius back in june, but since then it has been rather disappointing. a cool second—half, especially in august. the first few weeks terrib

and reminder the main stories here on al-jazeera the war of words between north korea's kim jong un and donald trump is escalating the u.s. president has branded kim a madman after he called trump to ranged and a barking dog kim jong un lashed out at trump following his threat to destroy his nation young is now considering a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean. or russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has spoken about the tensions on the korean peninsula during a press conference at the u.n. he says everyone involved in the dispute needs to take a deep breath and find a diplomatic solution. with the more we need to calm down the hotheads and understand that we need pauses we need to context together with our colleagues will continue to strive for a reasonable and not be emotional approach instead of a kindergarten fight between children where no one can stop them. britain's prime minister has proposed a two year transition period after the u.k. leaves the european union in a speech delivered in florence uneasily aimed at breaking the deadlock over breaks it to reason may said she

. >> quijano: he is kim jong-un. the trump administration warned him that the u.s. is running out of patience after north korea's latest nuclear test. also tonight, what's in the water. >> it's pretty ugly out here. >> quijano: harvey's filthy floodwaters may pose a health risk. >> i know the water is probably pretty bad, a lot of bacteria. >> quijano: irma, a powerful category four hurricane, is threatening the caribbean. fear of deportation as the president nears a decision on the future of undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. and an irregular air force takes to the sky to help houston recover from the disaster. this is the "cbs evening news." >> quijano: good evening. i'm elaine quijano. this is our western edition. as america celebrates the labor day holiday, there is talk of war. at the united nations today, ambassador nikki haley said the united states does not want war, but north korea's president is begging for it. after kim jong-un's most powerful nuclear test yet, haley warned there are limits to america's patience. she pressed the secu

and i think the other big risk is miscalculation that maybe kim jong un -- it's been assumed that kim jong un really, what he wanted to do was preserve the regime's -- make sure that the regime is, in effect, invulnerable to change. but what happens if he uses this weapon, this putative weapon, this arsenal for black mail? he might even miscalculate and think he could unify thecine peninsula by force. these are all calculations which americans and allies are having to figure out now. i also want to echo what nick burns said because this is a time when the trump administration needs to bring the allies close and japan as well as south korea and i think the notion that president trump would threaten to abandon the south korea free-trade agreement at a time he's trying to hug them close doesn't make sense. they need an integrated policy. they need to assess the military calculation but also to pursue diplomacy at the same time, integrated policy, not this sort of ad hockery we've seen in the last few days. >> rose: everybody says there is no military solution but is there something that

the government says he believes kim jong un may be unpredictable but he's not suicidal he joins me from woods hole massachusetts or i build the subject at hand north korea celebrated its sixty ninth founding anniversary sunday pin on the ng warned it might carry out another missile test it did not give me a full assessment of the situation with north korea. well the fact that they did not have a missile test is good news it's they had a terrible six nuclear test days before and i was really worried i think i've never seen the situation so tense i think it's important that we have a strategy larry that we not the vide ourselves with south korea we're going in different directions of the u.s. and south korea i think the key is continue the very strong sanctions pressure at the united nations but also think of diplomacy think of a way that we have a dialogue with north korea it's going to be very difficult but maybe involve china involve the u.n. a third party negotiations that freeze the nuclear development and missile activity of north korea in exchange perhaps for some economic assistan

kim jong-il did. d but nonetheless he engaged with international powers and including with the chinese leadership and so did, obviously, his father kim il-sung, the founder who met the forler u. former u.s. president at the time jimmy carter and led to range of improvements in terms of trying to limit the damage from their nuclear program. kim jong-un has been completely different. he hasn't gone to beijing, he hasn't met with the chinese leadership. he hasn't met with any other leadership as far as we know around the world either. he also has got this incredibly ruthless streak he has been very careful to sort of develop into this savage personality. the machine gunning of family members who he decided were pont opponents and nerve gassing his brother in malaysia, i think it was and knocking off the competition and at the same time racing toward this nuclear ambition. having said that, those who have engaged william perry, former defense secretary, they don't believe that he is suicidal. he may be vol

shows north korea under kim jong—un in a little overfive the data shows north korea under kim jong—unmendous progress. one would say he is on the cusp of this capability. yes, indeed. we have associated north korean missile tests with failures for a long time. we are seeing much more successes. the north korean regime can't really stop testing because it would be a sign of weakness. there is a signalling aspect, but the technical timeline and a goal from already a couple of months ago that north korea would race towards this capability is something of transparency on the north korean part. the exact timing of these tests, they are correlated with particular offence, that is an open source of debate. the statistics. you mention it is amazing in terms of the activities in the ballistic missile development site and the nuclear water testing. really ha rd to site and the nuclear water testing. really hard to get insight into the character of kim jong—un and exactly what he is thinking and his gameplan. but there are things we can glean by looking at him in contrast with his father. that i

>> matt: he is kim jong-un. color="#ffff00">the trump administration warned him that the u.s. is running out of patience after north korea's latest nuclear test. also tonight, what's in the water. >> it's pretty ugly out here. >> quijano: harvey's filthy floodwaters may pose a health ri >> i know the water is probably pretty bad, a lot of bacteria. >> qnouija: irma, a powerful category four hurricane, is threatening the caribbean. fear of deportation as the president nears a decision on the future of undocumented