thank you for that. >>> breaking news right now, we're getting a new statement from north korea's kim jong-un about president trump's tough talk as president trump orders expanded sanctions against the kim regime. let me bring in my colleague athena jones. this is a statement from kim jong-un. what are we hearing? >> reporter: jim, that's right. we heard the president's tough talk. now we're hearing reciprocal tough talk via north korea's news agency. i'll read to you some of the things he said. he said, "i will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the u.s. pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the dprk. that's a reference to north kore korea." he also said that president trump is unfit to hold the supreme command of the country and is surely a rogue and a gangster, fond of playing with fire rather than a politician." again, this is the reaction from kim jong-un to what we heard from president trump earlier this week. he ends these remarks saying, "a frightened dog barks louder." so some tough talk from north korea's leader in response to what we h

and as for things we did see coming, the president escalated war of words with kim jong-un on twitterhow this on screen. 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 coming day after kim called the president rogue and gangster, a dotard which i guess was not a word that i was completely familiar with. dotard, i keep mispronouncing it. anyway, what do we make of this escalation? i mean, is this just sort of par for the course? are we heading towards something that people need to worry about? >> i sure hope not. the unpredictability of north korea is intelligence officials as well. i do think though from a united states standpoint, trading barbs back and forth with the leader of north korea is very in effective. i think silence is devining in many ways. to try to second guess what our military options will be at the same time adding the sanctions in and really trying to put him in a strangle hold will be a more effective way to try to get what we need, the concessions we need out of them. at t

we're looking at some of kim jong—un silver platter. silver platter. we're looking at some of kim jong—un inspecting what is thought to be, what is described by north korea newsagency is as a hydrogen bomb capable of fitting onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. these pictures are coming in to us in the last few hours. we can see him there taking a look at, inspecting it with scientists. he really isn't backing down, is he? he's going to push the united states, japan, china, south korea, to their limit. that's it looks like. sure, definitely. he is on a course, he is sprinting towards the finish line right now. should not expect him to any time soon. kim jong—un will achieve his goals which basically is nuclear tipped icbm, nuclear missiles, and so if we leave the situation unchecked, he will reach that. he is basically trying to achieve what the bill objectives, achieve technological advance —— adjectives, nuclear tipped missiles, political objectives by gaining lethbridge, if and when negotiations ever do begin with the united s

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

>> 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

s existential important says it for the regime of kim jong un he believes that without. nuclear weapons his regime and his very existence is is under threat absolutely i mean he's taken a leaf from what's happened to one of gadhafi in libya libya give up its nuclear weapons programs what happens that and saddam hussein when he gave up his nuclear weapons program so so you know if you look at things from kim jong un's for a point of view he's not taking any chances. he's he's taken confidence in the utility of nuclear weapons in sending off this perceived foreign aggression and no nuclear or blackmail of any sort. to achieve the end of changing the regime and removing kim jong un from power so i'm convinced that he was hold on to his card at all costs and quite right i agree with my but with my counterparts on the shore that he is going to be difficult to remove that capability from him and he's constantly getting this is nuclear posture and increasingly with a range of technical measures and operational measures that will be difficult to weed out and a neutralize john yo

publications and killing and kim jong un fire is yet another missile over japan.

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

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

but, talking right now would be the wrong strategy because it's at a time when kim jong-un thinks he s the upper hand. you talk to kim jong-un when he believes he has no choice but to disarm, when he has no choice but to do what we tell him to. and we can maneuver him into that position but we need time to do it and certainly now is not the point where the administration is i think organized to put together an effective response. so, yeah, we should talk to him. but much later down the road. >> tell me more about the pressure that could be applied to china. obviously china is one of north korea's largest backers financially and with everything else. what other sanctions could be taken and embargoes for china to really put the pressure on north korea to stop this? >> all we have to do is enforce u.s. law. bank of china, one of china's so-called big four banks was named in a 2016 u.n. report for devising and operating a money laundering scheme for the north koreans. that is a violation of under section 3-11 of the patriot act, they could no longer do business in dollars which means it w

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

kim jong-un, he's not hiding behind generals. s directly from him to trump calling him mentally derang deranged. >> this was a classic airing of just really laying it all out and expressing kim jong-un's personal anger at donald trump. now, president trump, of course, was really looking to check korea's, north korea's nuclear power, nuclear efforts as well as the missile efforts to develop an icbm that could attack the united states. so, both sides are basically getting into their corners at this point and time. the way in which this statement was phrased, the fact it came from kim jong-un, himself, indicates he is angry and feels he has lost face. that is a huge, huge deal for the north koreans. >> colonel, the question is losing face. when he says trump denied the existence of and insulted me and my country. is it proof rocketman worked? >> in some ways, i think it is. rocketman, the term, the fact that he not only used it, the president used it not only in a tweet, but directly at the united nation's show two things, in my opin

kim jong-un reportedly oversaw the fine stages of that work. we have images released by north korea apparently showing that. president trump spoke with japan's prime minister shinzo abe. the joint chiefs of staff in seoul saying south korea's military has strengthened monitoring and readiness and is mulling over a variety of possible responses that may be pushed together with its ally, the united states. we would like to bring on the phone with us. gordon chang. thanks so much for joining us here as we begin to digest this. your take on this? obviously a lot of steps here. north korea escalating thing on a holiday weekend in the united states. what your takeaway from this apparent nuclear test. >> they were just waiting for a political decision from kim jong-un, the north korean lead tore set this thing off. i think it was done on a day that is meant to disrespect the united states. a day when president trump set aside to remember texas. the north korean's paper ran a piece talking about putting the entire united states under water. i don't thi

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

and does anyone, including kim jong-un, really think we're ready to go to armageddon tomorrow? >> the issue with kim jong-un, and let me put it in the president's words because he put this on twitter, he said the u.s. has been talking to north korea and paying them extortion money for 25 years. talking is not the answer. he's not wrong that the u.s. in different ways has been in discussions with north korea for a very long time. longer than 25 years. a whole lot of presidents have had strigs administrations in discussions with north korea. sanctions have been tried and during that time, north korea has tested a ton of missiles, and six nuclear weapons. 108 missiles, 28 this year alone, and now six nuclear weapons. so talking hasn't done anything, at least not yet. so why would -- go ahead. >> john, that's a little bit of revisionist history. when we were talking and engaging and relieving some of the sanctions under bill clinton, they rolled back and froze their nuclear development program. it wasn't without effect. i'm not saying carrots alone will make this go away. and we may

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

we just opened yesterday from north korea with kim jong—un inspecting opened yesterday from north koreaed to bea with kimjong—un inspecting appeared to be a fairly large nuclear device soi to be a fairly large nuclear device so i think we were all quarter was with offguard. —— caught a little bit offguard. how alarmed are you to see those pictures of kim jong—un looking at what they say is a hydrogen bomb and now tremors being detect that close to where they have carried out tests before? right, so we are starting to get information right now, still a little early but if the size of the earthquake is correct, it holds true as more information and announcements come through it will be the largest nuclear tests north korea has ever conducted. and if it is the largest what would you make of that? the north korean have been saying that they are developing these weapons, testing those missiles, which these weapons would be used so this was bound to happen sooner or later. should we be alarmed? how alarmed are you? yeah, we should definitely be alarmed any time north korea carries out a nucle

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 don't like kim jong-un, they have not invited him to beijing.ink he is a troublemaker in the region. the chinese do not want a conflict in the korean peninsula. not for security reasons, not for economic reasons. i think president trump has been focused -- right to focus on xi jinping from the beginning. but we have to be careful, as david sanger says, about what we will get act. they would prefer the status quo. to a situation where the north korean regime dissolved and there is the capital aligned with the united states. that would bring the united states right up to their border. henry kissinger wrote a very thoughtful op-ed a couple weeks ago in "the wall street journal," where he said in essence, the u.s. can't just ask china to do it's in the interest of the united states. there has to be a diplomatic joint venture, closely intertwined with the government. -- governments of japan and south korea, where the four of us would have a diplomatic agreement to leverage the north koreans to get them to negotiate. that would entail some very painfu

>> 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

north korea's kim jong-un vowing retaliation against the u.s. ter 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. >>rep

this man in seoul said, "both kim jong-un and trump are unpredictable leaders. to be honest, it would not be strange if a war broke out." kim jong-un has rapidly accelerated his weapons program, conducting 18 missile tests so far this year, and what he would actually do with a nuclear-tipped missile is still not clear. >> the good news is that north korea is rational, they want to survive. >> reporter: daniel pinkston teaching international relations in seoul and is an expert on north korea's weapons program. is getting north korea to abandon these weapons a realistic goal, or is that a fantasy? >> it would be analogous to the pope coming out tomorrow and abandoning jesus christ. it's something so embedded in their belief system and their identity that it would be that >> reporter: the south korean defense ministry says it is seeing signs that north korea might be preparing to launch another intercontinental ballistic missile that could coincide with a major holiday that takes place in north korea this coming weekend. elaine? >> quijano: ben tracy in seoul. ben,

if donald trump talks to kim jong—un, that would be strings. imjong—un, that would be hugely... donald trump will tweet, and kim jong—un will keep on firing missiles. the north koreans want money, look at how many billions the americans have been channelling to bribe north korea not to set off their nuclear weapons... the chinese and the russians want america out of the region. what do we get in return in the west, if the americans to reduce a bit of their power over there? why should they bribe kim jong—un in any event. there? why should they bribe kim jong-un in any event. after that, we need a drink, but 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

. >>> concerns that president trump's talking about kim jong-un could backfire ahead. >>> today, areasorthwestern >>> concerns that president trump's talking about kim jong-un could backfire ahead. >>> today, areas in northwestern puerto rico were evacuated when a dam suffered structural damage less than 72 hours after hurricane maria's catastrophic hit of the island. the dam at the northwestern end of guajataca lake which holds 11 billion gallons of water is a structure 1,000 feet belong built in the 1920s by the army corps of engineers. the governor of puerto rico saying, "close to 70,000" is the estimate of people that could be affected in the case of a collapse. we don't know the details, it's time to get people out." today flash flood warnings continue to be issued for parts of puerto rico, which has already suffered extensive flooding from the hurricane. governors said the island was beginning to get deliveries of generators, mattresses, food and water from fema. >>> ahead, president trump and the north korean leader in a dangerous escalation. that's next. >>> the united states h

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

here's our diplomatic editor mark urban on what we know about kim jong un. ng—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 s

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 of t

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

this is not forcing kim jong-un to back down. do you think it's only making matters worse? king matters worse. i think the trump administration is trying a number of ways to dissuade kim jong-un from continuing testing. they've offered diplomacy, they're threatening greater sanctions, they're threatening military force. none of that is working. which is not much of a surprise. the u.s. has very limited means to stop north korea from its testing program. the best we can do is capitalize on these actions by increasing the price to kim jong-un. i think this latest nuclear test, and if there is another icbm test, gives us a good opportunity to work with china to strengthen economic sanctions at the u.n., and i expect we'll see another u.n. resolution with stronger sanctions in the near future. >> you and ambassador nikki haley said the strongest sanctions possible would be really the only thing that could stop north korea. what might that look like, the strongest sanctions? >> well, there are a range of sanctions that haven't been imposed yet. obviously the most potent would be

the president calling kim jong-un a madman. and kim jong-un, i want everybody to just have a look at what he had to say about president trump. the head of the regime, kim jong-un, saying, he, trump, is unfit to hold the perogativ of a supreme country, and i will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the u.s. pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the dprk. he will face results beyond his expectation. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged the u.s. dotard with fire. could he put some sort of hydrogen bomb on a cargo ship and missile and detonate it on or over the pacific ocean, john and poppy. >> another issue the u.s. has to deal with with another regime. iran revealed a long-range missi missile this morning. missiles are not part of the nuclear deal, per se. >> of course these missiles are essentially the delivery vehicle, just like in north korea, for a bomb or a nuclear device, a nuclear warhead on the front end of these ballistic missiles. that's what the threat is

tell us about kim jong un's response to president trump's remarks and the latest threat of a hydrogen bomb. things are escalating quickly. >> yeah, this statement from kim jong un was published on kcna, the official state news agency. this is the first time any korean leader and there have only been three since 1945 has directed such a statement in the first person singular. this is sort of one insult after the other. he calls president trump a rogue and a gangster. he ends the statement saying i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. the original korean is not dotard, but it's actually old lunatic. this is a crude vivid language that is unusual in a society like korea where age commands respect. in this case, jim, the statement is oozing with the lack of it. regarding this threat about the possibility use or explosion or detonation of a hydrogen bomb that came from the north korean foreign minster who is attending the united nations and he said after this original statement was issued by kim jong un that korea might detonate a hydrogen bomb over

we saw today in the president's tweet where he referred to rocket man, presumably kim jong-un, also saying the long gas lines in north korea. that would be a reference to the sanctions which widely are viewed as significant but not yet obviously deterring kim jong-un's behavior. as the leaders come together in new york city is there something else that can be done? can pressure be applied more broadly? notably china will not be there and so that means that a big voice won't be a part of the conversation but we'll hear a lot about that this week. alex? >> kelly, specifically relevant to the president's speemp, are -- speech, are we getting any guidance on what to expect? any details? >> reporter: there is a great deal of pressure on president trump to deliver a speech that will have impact. it will be a challenge in part because this is the first time he's before this group. it is not the rally style crowd where he can feed off of a response. there will be many people listening with translation in terms of themes. what the white house is telling us is that the president will want to talk ab

i understand at the moment there is some tension between president she of china and kim jong-un. d i ready kim jong-un seems to be testing his relationship with the chinese. i think that to is a great miscalculation. china must ultimately decide whether it wants to stand with the world and stand against north korea, or whether or not it wants to permit kim jong-un to continue to play china against the rest of the world. this is a moment of truth for china. a test of what kind of nation they want to be in the world stage. i hope this administration could nudge it china in the right direction. without them, you are right, there's no hope of containing this program or denuclearize in the peninsula. with them, there is a small possibility. >> arthel: a strong assessment there. president trump later tweeted today that the u.s. is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade within a country doing business with north korea. is this a plausible, adequate, diplomatic move? >> i think it is one that secretary mnuchin scale back himself in an interview with fox news. that w

also with the trace gallagher e danger of kim jong un. >> martha, kim jong un's and i trump statements marked the first time that kim the younger has ever issued a comment directly against. and and a sign it is escalatingd that kim might be willing to live up to his threats, which is saying something, considering the north korean leader has reportedly put his uncle in front of a firing squad, had his half-brother poisoned, and presides over one of the poorest countries in the world, yet has used its resources to build a nuclear weapons program. kim jong un himself has gone on state-run television claiming his country has successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb underground. some remain skeptical of those claims, but there are no doubters when it comes to north korea's rapid firing of ballistic missiles. 22 this year alone, including one the pentagon says could have reached the shores of the united states. some korean analysts believe kim jong un's nuclear weapons are nothing more than insurance policies for his regime to maintain power. but they also believe his behavior is getting errat

whether he mentioned mccain's announcement today and whether he continues to bash kim jong-un in what is likely to be a red meat-filled speech before an enthusiastic crowd. >> we will be watching for the fireworks. thank you very much as kim jong-un and president trump throw barbs at each other. they are running an above ground test of a hydrogen bomb. cnn pentagon correspondent star story. >> reporter: the question is could the north koreans want some sort of h-bomb attack or test as they might call it and what would the u.s. do about it? north korea already is getting ready for its next missile launch, according to administration officials, possibly a missile that could hit the u.s. kim jong-un now threatening the highest level of heart lane countermeasure in history following president trump's speech at the u.n.. north korea's foreign minister suggesting the regime may launch potential devastation. >> i think this could probably mean the strongest ever hydrogen bomb test on or above the pacific oaks. >> reporter: detonating the hydrogen bomb above ground could change everything. >>

kim jong-un already saying that he's considering the strongest actions. i want to break this down for people at home. they already tested a bomb more powerful than what we saw in world war ii. they've tested several intercontinental ballistic missiles. overnight they were talking about the detonation of an h-bomb in the pacific. how do we stop them? they have done everything they said they were going to do already? >> well, david, we are quite challenged but our diplomatic efforts are continuing unabated. we have put in place the strongest economic sanctions to ever have been assembled against kim jong-un so he is being tested with the sanctions. voices from every corner of the world are calling on him to cease his program and come to the table and let's talk about the future of north korea and the north korean people. >> you heard the president say this week in front of the u.n. if he has to defend the u.s. he will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea calling him rocket man on a suicide mission. this morning he called him a manman. this kind

korea's missile program and it comes just as president trump is taunting the north korean leader kim jong-une, rocket man. let's bring in cnn's brian today. >> reporter: a short time ago a u.s. intelligence official told me unless russia and china step in there's no reason to believe kim jong-un is going to stop his provocations. development of its longest range missiles that could hit the united states is, quote, in the final stage. it has north korea's rivals conducting live fire drills. >> reporter: multiple bombs explode simultaneouslsimultaneog a target in a narrow valley. fire jets scramble, part of a massive show of force over south korea. at the same time, u.s. and japanese forces conduct urban warfare drills near mount fuji japan. this is what the region looks like when it's on edge. these drills all in response to kim jong-un's forces launching what's believed to have been an intermediate range missile which flew over the japanese island of hokkaido on friday. the distance that missile traveled could have been meant to send a message to america. >> this missile flew about 320 miles

donald trump and kim jong un is also fueling fears. s kyung lah. >> reporter: down this skylined staircase, through an air lock steel door ichiro welcomes us into his insurance against kim jong un and donald trump. tell me what we're sitting in. a shelter against nuclear fallout. 55 years ago when i started selling shelters in japan, people thought i was crazy, he says. whose crazy now, he asks? as north korea edges closer to a long-range missile capable of hitting the u.s. america's new president engaging in a war of words with kim jong un. >> they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. >> reporter: japan caught in the crosshairs of any conflict. in trump's first six months as president, he has sold more than a dozen of his tropical themed concrete fortified shelters. while that's not a lot, that's more than he sold in 55 years. housing developer kazumi koshiyama wants in. are customers asking for this? >> yeah. >> how many of these are you thinking of building? >> maybe 100 home. >> reporter: it may not seem as

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

foreign minister speech at the united nations donald trump again refer to north korea's leader kim jong un as the little rocket man and warned if the angry rhetoric continues he and his foreign minister quote won't be around much longer transferee came after north korea's foreign minister told the un general assembly the insults towards kim jong un make a north korean rocket launch towards the u.s. mainland inevitable diplomatic added to jane's base reports from the united nations democratic people's republic of korea this was the podium where four days earlier president trump threatened to totally destroy north korea now it was time for the country's top diplomat to give his blistering reply. due to his lack of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my country by referring to it as a rocket by doing so however he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets visit to the entire us mainland inevitable all the more none other than trump himself is on a suicide mission this clearly rankled the north koreans rocket man is on a suicide m

. >> why do you consider your leader, kim jong-un, like your father?anslator: he's affectionate and more caring than my own parents. he gives us more love than even our parents could give. >> che jin song, who just turned 14, says his own parents can't afford to give him a meal like this. many of north korea's 5 million children come from towns and villages where the basics -- electricity, clean water, nutritious food -- are not always available. >> translator: i declare i will become a true member of the children's union who studies better in order to repay the love of respected leader kim jong-un. >> these young people are the future of north korea, an entire generation brought up to worship their supreme leader. no skepticism, no dissent, no questions. only loyalty for life. ♪ we just got to take it one game at a time. next question. odell! can you repeat everything you just said? my livestream won't load. (blows whistle) technical foul! wrong sport. wrong network. see, you need unlimited on verizon. it's america's largest, most reliable 4g lte netw

>> well, you know, it's hard to know because kim jong-un has not engaged internationally the same waydid. it was limited 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 suici

doesn't take options off the table, but again laying down pretty clearly the message to kim jong-un. don't attack, don't even think about it, because we will have overwhelming force, and this is right now the u.s. strategy. to convince kim jong-un that if he were to attack, if he were to use these weapons, his very existence would be threatened, that his regime, he and the people who support him, would be wiped out. that this is the only way to get through to kim, to convince him that he cannot survive if he were to use these weapons and for kim, the u.s. thinking has always been, his survival is job number one for him. so really extraordinary that you are seeing mattis and dunford come out and talk to the world media. >> yeah. you know, barbara, while we're talki talking, i'm hoping we're in a position to rerack that. a very short statement but nice to hear it again. we do have it. let's hear that statement one more time from john -- james mat is -- mattis. succinct, the language used have very important. here we have it right now. >> ladies and gentlemen, we had a small group nation

trish, kim jong un is not afraid of us. despite our overwhelming military power, he doesn't believe we will use it. he believes we are tired n -- in retreat. but overall, kim jong un is convinced that even though -- china will back him and putin will back him and we won't fight. i have tremendous respect for nikki haley, she's really amazing, i think she has a great future ahead of her but she didn't talk about key economic issue which is smuggling. so much of this, the sanctions are being undercut by chinese and russian smugglers. putin loves this because the putin gang gets a cut of all major smuggling operations in the far east. so we -- you know, we've got to be real about who will help us and who won't. i agree with you 100% than you, we could do a lot more with china and we need to do a lot more. trish: i don't understand why we haven't. >> he said the right things and now you have to do them. trish: you have to do them, absolutely. okay, china, we are going to take this hit economically, we will not do business with y