of the korea policy institute in just a moment and as they try to sell their wildly unpopular so-called health care bill republicans are unintentionally making the case for single payer health care explain how in tonight's rumble with scott rear and christian. donald trump and the leaders of south korea and japan issued a joint statement today urging new sanctions on north korea that statement comes just days after the north tested a ballistic missile but experts say is capable of reaching alaska and as the trump administration has started openly talking about the possibility of war on the korean peninsula cable news of course is flush with cartoon portrayals of north korea and its leader but what's really behind the latest bios about of tensions and how can we make peace in the two koreas once and for all joining me now is humanly managing editor of zoom in korea and fellow at the korea policy institute here only welcome to the program or long about having me it's great having you first off i want to talk about this missile the so-called lost song fourteen and please correct any of my

from the korea policy institute. i think it's a great deal exaggerated. first of all the croissant fourteen missile that it recently launched there's some question whether or not that's even an i.c.b.m. so russian monitoring equipment had a very different result than what we're here in the united states officials are saying about the capability of the missiles so russian affairs or the saying it's actually intermediate missile but even if you take the us position that it's that i.c.b.m. and the range is only capable of hitting alaska and that's with apparently most likely an empty warheads if you add the weight needed for the weapon that would be free range further but this is only a single test of any kind of operation old nuclear weapons program we would require a year with testing and multiple multiple tests. united states has nearly seven thousand nuclear warheads north korea right now probably no more than ten it would be suicidal for north korea to launch a nuclear first strike and with north korea is quite explicit about the purpose of its program

korea's most advanced missile test to date. over night the u.s. demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic ballistic missiles. he is president of the policy institute. >> these small little steps, a fly over, joint military activity. all are designed to let the opponent know we are ready, prepared. we have our eyes opened. >>> north korea reacted on state run television saying inthe u.s. continues to resort to military sanctions they will respond with its act of justice. the white house is pressing the global community to act. president trump tweeted i am very disappointed in china. they do nothing for us with north korea. >> calling on china, other countries, saying this isn't just our problem. >> we need international support but we also need american leadership. >> reporter: china condemned the launches saying they violate united nations resolutions but says the country does not hold the key to solving issues. >> president trump is calling this week american dream week. starting tomorrow he will be dealing with changes to healthcare. also the first day on the job for his new chief of staff. >> reporter: president trump will begin his week with a

host: jonathan pollack with the brookings institution, the east asia policy studies center, a senior fellow there, keeping an ion the latest on north korea their missile launches. thank you for joining us here on "washington journal" this morning. that will do it. we are back on c-span and c-span radio tomorrow morning with another addition of "washington journal." we will talk about social, political aspects of the democrats and campaign 2018. we will hear from bill archer tomorrow morning, talking about republican efforts on health care and other issues. jagoda talks about tax proposals put out by the president and capitol hill. all that tomorrow morning 7:00 eastern. i hope you have a great sunday afternoon. we will see her tomorrow morning. thanks. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] 7] ♪ announcer: president trump's be to law enforcement officers in new york. congressman joe kennedy and members of the lgbt community react to president trump's statement regarding transgender's

policy institute focusing on foreign policy and national security. what changed in the world yesterday, anthony, with the launch of this north korean missile? >> well, north korea's leader, kim jong-un, fulfilled his they get from his new year's message, which was they were going to do an icbm test this year, and that brings alaska into range. i don't think it's going to be that long until the west coast and the western united states is within range. i think we have to assume that newark has the nuclear weapon that's the appropriate size that it can use on a missile of this character. >> john: nikki haley was just saying there are further sanctions that the united states can impose on north korea, and perhaps other nations, who are supporting that regime, but north korea is already the most sanctioned nation on earth. is it not? that hasn't stopped them to this point. >> it's not the most sanctioned on earth. i mean, according to our research, it's probably number four after iran, russia, and syria. frankly that only went up after the law that passed last year. it was well below, well lower than that number. there's more areas there. the trump administration goin

korea's most advanced missile test to date, overnight the u.s. demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in a planned test of the thad missile defense program in alaska. the president of the global policy institute at loyola, marymount university. >> these small steps, flyover. joint military activities. all of those are designed to let the adversary, maybe the opponent know that we are ready, we are prepared, we have got our eyes open. >> north korea reacted on state run television staying if the u.s. "continues to resort to military adventure and tough sanctions the dprk will respond with its resolute act of justice." the white house is pressing the global community to act. president trump tweeted. i am very disappointed in china. they do nothing for us with north korea. during a trip to estonia, vice president pence echoed the president's frustrations. >> we believe china should do more. >> the united states calling on china, other countries, saying, this isn't just our problem. >> it's true, we need international support. but you need american leadership. we are whether we like it or not. whether we we want to be or not, donald trump wants to be or not. the leader eer of the west and world.

korea's most advanced missile test to date. overnight the u.s. demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in a planned test of the thaad missile defense program in alaska. michael genovese is president of the global policy instituteloyola marymount university. >> these small little steps fly over joint military activities, all are designed to let the adversary, maybe the opponent know, we are ready, prepared we've got our eyes open. >> reporter: north korea reacted on state run television saying if the u.s. "continues to resort to military adventure and further sanctions, the dprk will respond with its resolute act of justice." the white house is pressing the global community to act. president trump tweeted, i am very disappointed in china. they do nothing for us with north korea. during a trip to estonia vice president pence echoed the president's frustration. >> we believe china should do more. >> the united states calling on china, other countries saying this isn't just our problem? >> it's true we need international support but you also need american leadership. we are whether we like it or not, whether we want to be or not, whether donald trump wants to be or not, we're the leader in the west and in fact the

policy challenges, the most pressing oi course north korea. elliott engrams is senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. michael hanlon at the brookings institutiongentlemen, standby. we received a statement from rex tillerson, in part it reads. "united states strongly condemns north koreans launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. testing an icbm represents a new escalation of the threat to the united states. our allies and partners, the region, and the world. global action is required to stop a global threat. any country that hosts north korean guestworkers,, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to fully implement u.n. security council resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons.po we intend to bring north korea's provocative action before the u.n. security council and enact stronger measures to hold the dprk accountable. the united states seeks only a peaceful denuclearization of the korean peninsula and the end of threatening actions by north korea. as we, along with others have made clear w

policy challenges, the most pressing of course north korea. elliott and grams his senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. michael hanlon at the brookings institution. gentlemen, standby. william received a statement -- we received a statement from rex tillerson, in part it reads. "united states strongly condemns north koreans launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. testing an icbm represents a new escalation of the threat to the united states. our allies and partners, the region, and the world. global action is required to stop a global threat. any country that hosts north korean guestworkers, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to fully implement u.n. security council resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons. we intend to bring north korea's provocative action before the u.n. security council and enact stronger measures to hold the d prk accountable. the united states seeks only a peaceful denuclearization of the korean peninsula and the end of threatening actions by north korea. as we, alo

policy challenges, the most pressing of course north korea. elliott engrams is senior p felw for middle eastern studies at the council on foreignli relations. michael hanlon at the brookingst institutiongentlemen, standby. we received a statement from rex tillerson, in part it reads. on the north korean situation. "united states strongly condemns north koreans launch of an intercontinental ballisticti missile. testing an icbm represents a new escalation of the threat to the united states. our allies and partners, the region, and the world. global action is required to stop a global threat. any country that hosts north korean guestworkers, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to fully implement u.n. security council resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to theiry pursuit of nuclear weapons. we intend to bring north korea's provocative action before the u.n. security council and enact stronger measures to hold the dprk accountable. the united states seeks only a peaceful denuclearization of the korean peninsula and the end ofe threatening actions by north korea. as we, alo

syria, sanctions, north korea all expected to be discussed joining us by phone is deputy director of the institute at the woodrow wilson center. as we await any details of policy discussion we did get a little bit of tape william it showed a very cordial exchange of pleasantries between the two world leaders. what signal does that send as we await more detail? >> they'reoff to a good start from president trump's perspective and president putin's perspective and it's going to be far more important to see what they have to say after the meeting than before but the pleasantries were straightforward and obviously that was not the place where there was going to be any difficult conversations and we just wait to see what the results are of the conversation. >> so you really gamed this out. walk us through what each leader wants from this discussion and whether there's any room for an actual deal to be made of some ki kind. >> well all the talk about better relationship with russia is beginning to bare fruit but he needs to achieve that without causing domestic consequences. but i don't think he came to the meeting with an advanced agenda. putin did and putin's point

institution. there is no question the white house is trying to increase pressure on the chinese to try to influence them in their dealings with north korea. david: let's get back to the economic policy to be elected. chancellor merkel said she wanted the g-20 summit to be about trade and international economic growth. is there a chance we will get back to that agenda by friday? >> there is a chance. from the white house perspective, they want to talk about trade and bilateral agreements. first international decisionsident trump's to remove the united states from the paris agreement is going to europeaning counterparts will have to deal with. there are several prominent business leaders and politicians in the united states who are going ahead as if the united states is still in the agreement. david: thank you. jonathan: to give you an idea of how news works behind the scenes, you get an instant messenger of headlines as they come through. i spoke to the king of saudi arabia and and something else came through. david: we are just getting started. jonathan: the morning has just started in the united states. the president will be speaking to bring much every leader on the planet if he k