the north korean economy grew by almost 4% in 2016 according to south korean central bank estimates.eir rare time off, like this group of factory workers having a picnic and singing karaoke. they're happy to share their meal with us and seem even happier to let loose. we expect north koreans to work hard. this, we don't expect. ♪ this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. >>> cnn has been reporting from north korea for more than 25 years. the aircraft we're boarding today has been flying for 50. this antonov an-24 is part of an aging fleet of soviet planes operated by air koryo, north korea's only airline, still flying despite sanctions, with regular international flights to russia and china. our flight takes us 400 miles north of pyongyang to a place cnn has never been allowed before. as a western journalist, even setting foot here is extraordinary. samjiyon county, right along the chinese border is a mountainous region. north korea's nuclear test site is in the very next province. we're n

in order to put maximum pressure on the north korean regime. this robust resolution trengthens and indeed widens and does this in a way which is very significant and targeted. it winds the sanctions regime in several -- widens the sanctions regime in several areas. i'm referring to unprecedented constraints on the sectors of the economy which directly feed the north korean regime, such as, for example, the textile sector and north korean workers. i am referring also to the important restrictions placed on the exports of oil to north korea. and this resolution also strengthens the tools we have at our disposal in order to present the wardens of sanctions, in particular in the maritime area. the last report of our exports confirmed this, the north korean regime is becoming increasingly creative when it comes to avoiding sanctions that have been placed on it. well, let's react to it by also being very creative. mr. president, this is not just simply being determined and resolute in words. the sanctions are not a light motif without a goal. they're

north korean government to halt its efforts to develop a long-range nuclear missile. the sanctions imposed will ban all natural gas imports and textile exports. and cap north korea's annual oil and petroleum imports. here's the hour-long debate. >>> the 8,042nd meeting is called to order. the provisional agenda for this meeting is nonproliferation. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rule 37 of the council's provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of the republic of north korea to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda. members of the council have before them document s/2717/769. the text of the draft was initially submitted by the united states of america. the council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. i shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. would those in favor of the draft resolution contend in document s-2017-769, please raise their hand. the result of the voting is as follows. the draft resolution received 15 vo

so we have got to show some -- get involved with the north koreans and -- i'm sorry, the south koreans and the japanese and formula a regional plan where you use the american strategic nuclear umbrella to protect them. >> we're joined now by a lecturer of north korean studies. thanks for being with us. we very much appreciate it. as we try and process this use of unlikely nuclear tests, a likely sixth nuclear test by north korea, whatter your thoughts? what are your thoughts on the timing of all of this? what are your thoughts on how much this escalates the crisis there in the region? . >> i am not surprised. i have been covering north korea since 2008, so i've been here for the last five nuclear tests. i always felt it was a matter of when this test was going to happen, not if. remember, that north korea tested a nuclear device a year ago and made clear a year ago that they were going to continue testing. so it is not entirely a surprise. now, in terms of the timing, we have given north korea plenty of reasons to rationalize a nuclear test, the joint military drills, some of the tough

remember on the korean peninsula, the korean war from the 1950s is still ongoing.here is no peace treaty. there's a truce but over the past 50 years or so, there has been a back and forth between the north and the south about dominance in this particular region. and the north sees the nuclear weapon as the ultimate weapon that it can have to defend itself. the united states of course is very concerned about the unpredictable leader, kim jong-un having this sort of weapon. but many experts will tell you that the option that the united states has to try and stop this escalation, to stop this development are limited. north korea has been under sanctions now for the better part of a decade yet it is still able to acquire materials to continue this development. during the reign of kim jong-un they have fired off some 80 missiles during the past number of years which is a huge escalation and the missiles are of ever increasing sophistication and there was partly yet another nuclear test. the claim by the north koreans this morning is they had a hydrogen bomb which is mor

a lot of concern about what the north koreans have done here. >> for south koreans, is this another day in seoul or is this rattling them at all? what's the reaction there? >> reporter: it's not just another day but i don't think people are rattled either. they have lived with the threat for several decades, if you remember, in fact the korean war has not been solved. this is of course what we believe to be the sixth nuclear test by the north koreans. so the south koreans are well aware of what's going on. it's in the news every day. the government has been issuing warnings for some time about a possible next round of nuclear testing by the north. people are not running for shelters or cover. there are regular drills that happen here and in japan, especially in japan after the long range missile was flown over japan by the north koreans late last week. people are well aware of what's going on. they're not running to take cover. but something about this particular time seems different. because of the magnitude of this blast, because of the back and forth, the threats and counter threats

they just finished that statement about an hour after the north korean statement and the north korean claims of the success of the hydrogen bomb, the two-stage hydrogen bomb they say they were able to test, a miniaturized version that would be put on top of a delivery advice. again, the south koreans finishing their statement from the national security office not too far from where ron allen is standing in the streets. once we get that translation, we will share that with you. i want to bring in simon henderson. simon henderson is with the washington institute. what richard and ron allen were bringing up were missile defense systems that have also been part of the mix, part of the stew here. it was only wednesday of last week that it was released that a successful test of a missile defense system was conducted here and the timing given what the claims are that are coming from north korea are quite close here, simon. what do you make of the missile defense systems that have been tested by the u.s. military? >> well, i think this is absolutely essential because it was giving a signal to

today is a milestone for the north koreans. you can be sure they will be celebrating this in the days ahead as well as the september 9 foundation day that is coming up on saturday. but there is a chance that kim jong-un said he needed to protect the country from the threat of the u.s. he may be ready to take a step back and talk to the u.s. i think it's very important for washington to make sure they get their messaging right and they coordinate with the allies in the region so they are all on the same page. >> that's an interesting idea. and potentially a silver lining if i follow your analysis, you're essentially telling us there might be a level of military readiness for north korea. when it attains that level, may be ready to talk to the u.s.? >> indeed. i cannot speak for the north koreans -- >> but you see a potential window of opportunity there? >> there have been windows of opportunity that the trump administration has missed from the start of this administration. so it's very important right now to make sure to read th

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in order to put maximum pressure on the north korean regime. this robust resolution strengthens and indeed widens and does this in a way which is very significant and targeted. it widens the sanctions regime in several areas. i'm referring to unprecedented constraints on the sectors of the economy which directly feed the north korean regime, such as, for example, the textile sector and north korean workers. i am referring also to the important restrictions placed on the exports of oil to north korea. and this resolution also strengthens the tools we have at our disposal in order to prevent the avoidance of sanctions, in particular in the maritime area. the last report of our exports confirmed this, the north korean regime is becoming increasingly creative when it comes to avoiding sanctions that have been placed on it. well, let's react to it by also being very creative. mr. president, this is not just simply being determined and resolute in words. the sanctions are not a leitmotif without a goal. they're not an end in themselves. area united r

my father was a korean war veteran. i would hope the very last thing that is on everybody's mind is to try to exercise more influence by putting more american troops in south korea. that is not the path to a solution to this problem. so what are the solutions? obviously we're being told even from everything you're saying in terms of economic sanctions, i agree with mr. sherman. i'm very skeptical any of that is going to have impact. i remember being here and sitting a little bit over there at the time when president clinton proposed and passed through this congress a plan that would give north koreans billions of dollars of american assistance. of course we did that with iranians. -- what is the solution? first of all, what's the challenge. am i mistaken that i have heard quotes from the official head of the north korean government threatening to rain mass destruction of some kind upon the united states? has he actually made threats to in some way kill millions of americans with a nuclear attack? i can't hear you. >> i

and the korean war set the two super powers against each other with koreans caught in the middle h. 3ied. technically the war never ended. an armistice left north and south cory facing each other down along the 38th parallel, the dmz. my tour guide -- when you actually live here, does it feel tense? do you feel like you're on the brink of a war? >> translator: i think it's not an exaggeration to say we are living at the brink of war given that we are constantly receiving threats of war. >> south korean and american soldiers staring down north korean soldiers and vice versa. they call this the demilitarized zone, but it's the exact opposite. both sides have masses of soldiers up and down this heavily fortified border pointing weapons at each other. it's considered one of the most dangerous flash points in the world. >> and it's getting worse. a lot has change since i came here back in 2015. more nuclear tests, dozens of missile launches. does it feel more tense now? >> translator: yes. we can say the state of affairs is more tense, but it's rather the united states' continued hostile p

>> around 1:00 p.m., we will bring you the north korean speech. we're going to leave this rally when they returned to the lincoln memorial. while we wait, we will show you where marks may buy south korea's president last week at the u.n.. -- u.n. >> we welcome him to the united nations and invite him to address the assembly. >> >> on behalf of the people and the government of korea, i would like to take this opportunity to give my sympathy to the people of the earthquake and their families and government of mexico. i offer might respect and gratitude to all the states and the staff of the united nations for the country vision to world peace and security. the president of the general assembly. i expect the session will reap all of the results under his excellent leadership. i also wish the secretary general great success. the republic of korea thanks -- takes a strong stance in support of the u.s. -- the u.n. goals in sustaining peace. look forward to the rebirth of the united nations and an even stronger organization for peace and prosperity for a

and the korean war set the two superpowers against each other with koreans caught in the middle.d. technically, the war never ended. an armist disagreement left north and south korea facing each other down across the 38th parallel. the dmz. my tour guide is north korean lieutenant colonel jin. when you actually live here, does it feel tense? do you feel like you're on the brink of a war? >> translator: i think it's not an exaggeration to say we are living at the brink of war, given that we are constantly receiving threats of war. >> south korean and american soldiers staring down north korean soldiers and vice versa. they call this the demilitarized zone, but, it's the exact opposite. both sides have masses of soldiers up and down this heavily fortified border pointing weapons at each other. it's considered one of the most dangerous flash points in the world. and, it's getting worse. a lot has changed since i came here back in 2015. more nuclear tests, dozens of missile launches, does it feel more tense now? >> translator: yes. we can say the state of affairs is more tense, but i

then the north koreans say "game on." at that point, the american president has to decide the south koreans can probably handle this themselves, they probably don't need our help in terms of with standing on north korean invasion. north korea has one million people in its army, but the south korean army is extremely robust. maybe they don't need our help, maybe they can handle this. why would a u.s. president blink, why would a u.s. president hesitate? because to join in the fight against north korea is to create the possibility, certainly the northan zero, koreans would attack the u.s.. given pretty fanciful, the disparity and what we know to be the north korean capabilities, why would they ever attack north korea -- attack south korea? ,he north koreans also believe just ask one of them, that somehow south korea is a creature, and a creation of the united states. if you can just get the u.s. off of the peninsula, many south koreans would somehow welcome some kind of unification. when, pretty hard to take you look at the

determination to peacefully solve the north korean nuclear issue. the un security council sanctions resolutions against north korea that have articulated principles of peaceful, diplomatic and peaceful resolutions. once again, here at the general assembly where nations pledge , i make the following point very clear to north korea and the international community -- we do not desire the collapse of north korea. we will not seek reunification by artificial means. if north korea makes the decision, even now, to stand on the right side of history, we are ready to assist north korea together with the international community. acknowledgeshould all these facts as soon as possible. it must immediately sees making immediately cease making reckless decisions and choose the path of dialogue. i urge north korea to abandon hostile policies against other countries and give up its nuclear weapons program in a very viable and irreversible way. the efforts of the international community should also be further strengthened. it has to struggling and certainly respond u

orchestra to a north korean audience. there was a moment where it looked like there might be a breakthrough, and, indeed, that visit and negotiations around it led to a very visible halt in their nuclear program. this, of course, was a plutonium nuclear program, it wasn't the uranium nuclear program. we went into the reactor. we saw them literally moth ball it. we saw them taking apart very, very important components, literally saran wrap them, put them away from any kind of ability to use them. we watched them from a certain distance actually blow up the identifying cooling tower of the nuclear reactor there at yongbyon, outside of pyongyang, the capital. for a moment it looked like there was a possibility there could be a halt or at least a stop to this program. 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 actua

i ask about a time most north koreans didn't have enough to eat, the north korean famine of the lateousands, possibly millions of north koreans died of starvation. >> we ate tree bark after going up to the mountain for food and wondered just how long we'll have do this but it's not a problem now compared to that. this is all home grown. after farming for a year, we get rice and money to live off of, which is great. this house, i got it for free. >> he gives me a tour. like every north korean living room, there portraits of the late leaders. >> translator: this is a photo of our family and the general when he came to visit. >> you have a dvd player here. what kind of dvds do you like to watch? >> translator: cooking and lifestyle, new songs, movies. i watch a lot of them. >> you have ever seen any western movies? >> translator: no, we don't watch them. we wouldn't even if we could. >> he does watch state tv, and he listens to propaganda broadcasts on the radio. but his favorite ritual, like many of his generation, reading the newspaper. how important is the state media to getting info

should be fulfilled on the korean peninsula. the basic pillar should be wisely combined. the spirit of the united nations is to realize global peace through multilateral dialogue. the korean peninsula is where the this spirit is most desperately needed. the realization of peace is the issue for which the united nations was created and is aiming, and is in the process of achieving. we need the united nations to play a more active role on the korean peninsula. the most important role the united nations is apt to play today is to come up with fundamental measures to stop the vicious cycle of increased provocations and heightened sentience. -- heightened sanctions. on many occasions, i have announced a new economic map for korea and the economy. i believe that genuine peace and prosperity for northeast asia will begin when the foundation for the economic community is solidified on one side and multilateral security cooperation is materialized on the other. distinguished president, secretary general and delegates, the olympics had no

in our cases, they go to north korean capabilities. in our case, the question is, or to north koreans want in return? we know some of that because they tell us. host: based on what we know of kim jong-un, the way he killed his uncle in that horrific way, his half-brother, is he capable of negotiations? is he stable? some have said he is nuts. guest: i am not capable of determining whether kim jong-un is nuts. what is important to us is if he is rational, is he possible achieving a plausible outcome. if the answer to those questions is no, then one has to think about the military assets we have to defend the security of our country and allies we have committed to defend, but these are difficult judgments to make. the only way i know of making them with confidence is to try and negotiate. if they fail, you know you must choose between deterrence and military force to deal with the threat. host: i realize this is a "what if" question, but based on what you know of china, if the u.s. did begin some military operation, china support that ef

to advance on the korean peninsula. they don't want a unified korean peninsula that would mean a long-term u.s. presence on chinese and russian borders. they would prefer we leave the peninsula altogether and that is why you hear in the north korean responses to things, we want the u.s. and south korea and japan to stop doing nuclear -- to stop doing military exercises together. we want the u.s. off the peninsula. this will continue to be the position. but i think that in the last -- it's not even the last decade, but in the last few years there has been a reassertion of russian power in many places in the world. in the middle east, toward western europe, in the arctic, and in east asia as well. and this is another place where they've been throwing additional pieces onto the board, additional resources, in a way that they haven't been able to do for a long time, to regain influence in north korea, to be able to in some way shape the direction of the coming standoff between north korea and everybody else on their nuclear

korean people in that contest for korean legitimacy to much of the world it's clear who has won south korea is a global leader in electronic shipping and open prosperous society north korea not so much what that means is the sheer existence of the south korean state a society as a magnet for the north korean people presents an existential challenge for the kim regime by the conventional indices of measuring state power military power economic power culture soft power and so on south korea is way ahead of the north except for in the field of military power so kim has a compelling need to be a menace not only to south korea to try to isolate him ask and to dominate seoul but also a threat a credible threat to the united states to get the u.s. troops out of there to get washington to downgrade its alliance and support for the south and be able one day to be prevail over south korea so the past quarter century north korean nuclear saga in this story there are many constants of course but north korea has gained the most billions tens of billions of dollars in aid from the world's biggest c

north korean capabilities grow. will become more difficult so that's why we are trying to strengthen our defense capabilities so that we will be able to remain committed in the case of crisis contingencies and. always so we are trying to strengthen a trilateral u.s. south korea japan. nation and the security partnership in all of the prevent the kind of consequences from my knowledge and so japan and south korea are sticking to the idea that sanctions will force him to dialogue in an outlet for the new york times japan's prime minister shinzo has called on the international community to stay united and force the sanctions but meanwhile even the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley said that maybe sanctions aren't working so why insist on them. sanctions and no walking because because sanctions are not team place yet and already have already adopted the sanctions. it's the time for us to start implementing them and. you know attempts to implement them effective the chinese cooperation is the inevitable indispensab

workers raising money for the north korean regime and also a total ban on oil and petroleum sales to north korea the original version also had the north korean leader designated for an asset freeze and a travel ban those will come out of the new draft the aim is to get the russians and chinese on board so it is a weaker resolution and i put to the british ambassador was arriving to the meeting matthew ryecroft the fact that you've added some new sanction areas here particularly on textiles but north korea hasn't taken any notice of sanctions in the past first of all these are significantly tougher sanctions secondly you're right that's actually take time to have an impact but it's only over the last year also that the security council has been sanctioning sectors of the economy and the textile sector is the final sector of the economy that is not until tonight subject to a battle on exports so this is a very significant tightening up still further of the constraints on the north korean regime. the big question is how russia and the chinese are going to vote they clearly didn't like t

he is publishing my book and korean. let me invite him up to the stage. >> thanks for the introduction. welcome. it's perfect timing. i think we are going through one of the most important phases in our nations history. and of course on bilateral relations. i think this kind of forum is exactly what is needed at this particular juncture. i would like to thank you for -- cohosting this occasion. the alliance by lateralization goes, it is much more multidimensional than a lot of you would suspect. we have the most important policymakers with us. mike actually mentioned it briefly, we ought to have the future of our bilateral relations here. other than organizing events we also send over 20 that she would have an odd number interning at various organizations, ink tanks and ngos here. always incredibly grateful. let me just try to identify you. i would like to take this opportunity to ink you for welcoming them to washington dc. making it their second home. and the kind of networks and connections they are creating here and

i think we are concerned about north korean rhetoric i mean we are the only country which. is and the strength. of the united states and is a kind of violation of so core. a sort of cold up a conduct among nuclear powers and this kind of behavior is very interest and. american policymakers and. policymakers very much concerned that worried charles what's the mood in china is people in the west getting really upset concerned hysterical is a real danger war and in that part of the world. i go back to your previous question. i think one has to think also about the fact that. a certain american president some years ago declared an axis of evil. whether or not that was the beginning of the bad rhetoric when there's no but as far as china is concerned. there is the short term the medium term in the long term and the key to long term strategic peacefulness or stability and. security for north asia will depend on whether or not the u.s. and china are covering eighty percent and twenty percent russia come to some understanding of north asian or north east asian stability the fundame

non-north korean bank for facilitating north korean financial activity. demonstrates our commitment to take action. we look forward to taking action with the chinese were possible and in the event that is not possible we will move forward to safeguard the international financial system. >> assistant secretary billingslea thank you very much. let me make a point. in terms of when we have seen sanctions that were effective, in 2005 we had sanctions on the bank. at that point in time and talking to a senior defector that works in their missile program he indicated death because we cut off the hard currency they had to shut down their icbm program. one of the things he indicated also or was indicated by the conversations we had with senior defectors was that during that period of time the ability of the regime or the dictators they called him, to get his hands on our currency was blocked and the inability of the dictator to be able to pay his generals and this was that quote, it's a bad position for a dictator to bn. in retrospect we therefore see two things

japan and koreans. without being participan particn that discussion of course we are told it is for the peace and security for these patients we have to take it, and we did take it. but this time as i mentioned that of course why we appreciate very much japan alliance and yet as i say that kind of source of critical security problems may differ from japan and the united states engines of icbm. so we have to be there. we have to state are positioned very clearly. japan was one of those key players, and for the first time that the six-party talks involved all the relevant players in the region. so that's i kind of sort of menu we have to seek for that. in doing so in particular i have one small personal sort of position. and to propose. and that is why not for japan? y within the framework of six-party talks but we call upon the new sort of initiative calling for emergency five countries, ministers meeting. five countries across japan, united states, china, south korea and russia. it is last sort of scena

and the korean trade minister, mr. kim. of course, we do not know the details of what happened to the meeting, and simply expect there will be soon another meeting between the two parties. however, just before leaving seoul for his conference, we heard the news that the president trump would discuss about the chorus fta on the fifth of september, which is today, with his staff, including the possible u.s. withdrawal from the chorus fta. this is a situation we're facing. let me start my introduction and move to our discussion. hopefully we can come up with a few constructive suggestions to both governments. in our session, we have excellent speakers with extensive experiences from both the u.s. and korea. in the interest of time, i will not go over the detailed bios of the speakers as they are available in the conference packet. let me now introduce the location of the session, i would first like to give seven minutes to each speaker for their initial remarks. i then ask a couple questions to speakers for another short round

korean capital seoul north korea's not officially on the agenda but the south is hoping to discuss how to calm regional tension the wife of pakistan's prime minister nawaz sharif has won his parliamentary seat in the byelection in the city of lahore hyder reports. right in the meantime human rights groups say thousands of women have been raped and sexually assaulted during the four year war in south sudan they blame the abuses on government troops of president salva kiir an opposition forces loyal to the former vice president riek machar a catholic priest who was rescued after being held for four months by eisel supporters in the philippines has made his first public appearance was rescued on saturday when the military overran the fighters control center inside a mosque in memoirs city he was taken hostage during the first day of fighting here there in may general motors has announced a recall of more than two and a half million vehicles in china over concerns about airbags made by the japanese giant. and those are the headlines news continues right here on al-jazeera after upfront you

south korean alliance. the center for stratic and international studies hosted this hour and 15 minute event. >> well, welcome back from your break. i'm michael green. i'm the senior vice president for asia and japan chair here at sic and a professor at georgetown and like victor cha, a veteran of the long forgotten bush administration. this panel is going to look at our alliance in the context of northeast asia. the previous panels touched on bilateral defense issues, on ways to deal with the rising threat from north korea. those issues will come back in this panel, but what i hope we can do for the next hour and 15 minutes is provide the larger geopolitical context within which we're now working. the north korean nuclear challenge cannot be divorced from the larger geopolitical memory and vision for the future of northeast asia. and we are confounded, we are obstructed in our effort to find a diplomatic solution by the fact that there are different ideas in north east asia about what the region's past was

the south korean government of course do favor a strengthening of u.n. sanctions against north korea particularly targeting the oil sector something that will very much appreciate as an escalation in this crisis the russians of course have favored diplomacy negotiation long term and that still seems to be the case aside from that it's very much business as usual here for quite literally there's delegations here from over fifty countries several thousand people in attendance here hoping to sign trade and business deals last year that equaled about thirty two billion dollars so very much significance in the asia pacific region. well russia and china did offer their solution to the standoff over north korea at an emergency u.n. security council meeting on monday more sco in beijing to propose what is being called a double freeze initiative and under the plan north korea would stop its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and then in return the u.s. and south korea would hold their joint military exercises however the u.s. has dismissed the proposal as insult

like a d nuclear is korean peninsula? -- denuclearized korean peninsula? removed?y like kim nuclear weapons and north korea will lend itself to strike in the region and beyond the region as we see right now. status well with the kim jong-un governments that is respectful to china and dependably on china, and a china that has the that china is committed to. earized north korea. reunification has to be way down the line. i think that is for to say. if therern has to be is reunification on south korea's terms, that would bring the u.s. potentially into the north and that would be part of a discussion that would have to be separate with china. is there a possibility that we could agree to some of these objectives that china may want if we would agree to remove our troops from south korea? >> i'm sure there's a dialogue with china going on as a snake. -- as we speak. there is no question about that. that hasis something to be very sensitive to our south korean allies and our commitment is to south korea. we all member the korean war and what that entails. this is our di

-- plaguing the korean peninsula. situation,nfolding there is an urgent need to maintain a cool head, to refrain from any action that can further escalate tensions. we reaffirmed the need for comprehensive and full withiance by all states the relevant security council statements and resolutions, including the recent resolution 2371 adopted by a consensus. many today, delve into the history when it comes to the dprk nuclear and ballistic program. -- this excursion into history only serves as evidence of the fact that we failed to resolve this issue through security council resolutions. which were only geared toward privileging -- leveraging session mechanisms. off all stakeholders to immediately returned to dialogue and negotiations as that is the only way to comprehensively settle the issues we setting korean peninsula, including nuclear issues. we reaffirm our willingness to engage in concerted efforts along these lines, including the context of implementation of the russo-chinese roadmap. the russiant, federation ca

and american side as well as on the north korean side but south korea and the u.s. to course have lots of troops there on the korean peninsula should stop their military exercises those one carried out just a few days ago here because bombs are probably still in themselves and they should of course as well china doesn't like the fact that it's anti missile fab system is deployed in south korea and again they say that withdrawing would be a sign the north korean the u.s. is unthinkable divider but quite right china who've said all along sent leave this one to us we can deal with problems in our region don't seem able to rule to bring it down on rule neighboring and donald trump amusements trajan will be taking it as another sign by our right and a. set of actions is required or that standard thomas reporting from the south korean capital seoul let's take you back now to washington d.c. and speak to our correspondent there mike hanna we know of course mike the rhetoric that all transfers employed as regards the issue of north korea the other thing i guess to consider

on north korean territory.hat's why i think we have the chinese in position where if we cut off all trade with them, they would fold. we have other options back at home. let's just bring all our trade back home. invest in south america. the chinese are in a position i think right now where they hould obey what we're doing. host: steve from maryland this morning. keep calling in as we continue to have this discussion about north korea but want to return to that topic we mentioned at the top of our program. reports that president trump has decided to end kaka -- alka, the -- daca, the so-called dreamers. president trump deciding to end the obama program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrive in the country as children according to two children they have familiar with the thinking, the white house aides huddled sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm and fulfill one of the president's core campaign promises and a nod to reservations held

over the japanese island of hokkaido before landing in the pacific ocean but it's the second north korean missile to fly over japan in less than a month prime minister shinzo condemned the launch and called for international action. now is the time for the international community to come together the latest sanctions need to be imposed in full north korea needs to be made to understand that if it continues on this path there is no bright future for it. well the u.s. secretary of state is calling on all nations to take new measures against north korea specifically he said china and russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless launches by taking direct actions of their own well we have our correspondent craig least in tokyo with reaction from japan but first let's cross live to hundred thomas he's in the south korean capital seoul and to the south koreans had been expecting this launch i suppose how they've been responding so far . well they certainly were expecting it and north korea had made no secret after the u.n. resolution was passed on monday imposing tougher sanctions o

korean names, et cetera. sitting next to him is ambassador galucci, a distinguished would h professor at georgetown university. serving various government positions. including special envoy for the state department. also, chief u.s. negotiator in the early 1990s next to me i have the vice president of research, a premiere independent think tank he also served as a senior adviser during the kim jong-il administration. how this is going to work, i'm going to ask each panelist to give brief opening remarks. we'll use that as a spring board for further discussion. i'll open it up for questions from the audience. let me ask all of you two basic questions. given the current state of tension, and given that president un is -- does this new tension mean that u.s./south korea alliance is getting stronger as we talked about earlier? and what are some of the challenges and opportunities for both administrations in terms of north korean policy. and if the koreans can talk about the administration, the americans can talk

a south korean official said that today.as observed preparations for a north korean and her continental ballistic missile test a ministry official told lawmakers. the south korean military carried out drills today in response to the test. jets and ground forces, firing missiles in a simulated attack on the north nuclear site. they have asked the united states to employ strategic assets including an aircraft carrier group and bombers. by the new york times. today, labor day. former president obama except the annual jfk profile in courage award. jonah goldberg. >> you should not play all of your hopes in any politician. read the founders and the federalist, they say this over and over and over again. you should have a healthy distrust of any ticker leader. particularly the ones that claim to be speaking for you. at 9:00 p.m., amber professor. six corporations own much of the american news media. revolution has transformed the economy. daily newspapers no longer set our national agenda growing polarization seems to split us int

of denuclearizing the korean peninsula. just a few weeks ago when he was out in aspen he said the same thing, that there's really no hope for that, that diplomacy really has to be the way forward here. but throughout all that time, the u.s. military has continued to have a strong and constant presence in the region. and they are very open about talking about that presence with the american people. and, you know, so that that message is relayed to north korea. >> yeah, as you noted, secretary mattis' first trip to asia, the air asian theater, then-secretary of state hillary clinton, her first trip was to china, then also to asia. guam with the b-bun bombers, i spent a week there last year, you'd look and up there would be a b-1 bomber arrive organize leaving just about every couple of hours, it seemed. i did not have my stop clock, my stopwatch out. courtney kuby, nbc news pentagon producer, stand by if you can. i want to bring in colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient, msnbc analyst. colonel, as you look at the claim