this was a really important ditch lomatic win by the trump administration. they got a 15-0 vote on the sanctions on north korea. the key is going to be in the limp plesm station and that is very much down to china, which is north korea's primary trading partner. if the chinese entities and banks and companies don't enforce those sanctions then it's up to the chinese government to shut that down and if that doesn't happen, the next step are so-called secondary sanctions. so the united states sanking chinese entities. robert: so the military is on pause but ready. the state department is engaged in talks but the world is on edge and on friday german chancellor angela merkel criticized the president's provocative warning, his talk touch -- touch talk, to north korea, saying i believe that anesque lace of rhetoric will not contribute to a solution of this conflict. she said i do not see a military solution to this conflict. as expected, the president remained defivente when asked about his critics. president trump: my critics are only saying that because it's me