the release valve the north koreans are using in their punishing the south koreans rather than the northkoreans. ultimately, unless we get more real about what is happening, then we are just on a collision course north korean armed icbm capable posture for the rest were lives, do you agree that? >> i agree, but i think what you said earlier is just as important, which is, you have to open the way to negotiation. >> that is the key. and [inaudible] our terms, but talks about talks to get them to stop. in the circumstance in which they have suspended testing and their fissile material production. that is much more secure. we want to prolong the suspension as much as possible and go beyond it to get them to dismantle the facilities they have for producing more missiles. and then ultimately get the weapons. the weapons are going to come last to come down a very long road because they need to be assured the relationship is changed. that's the structure of the different that is at least remotely possible. is it likely? i went bad on that. negotiations are not guaranteed. the sanctions seem to

should be stead fast, it should save a preemptive strike for imminent north korean attack. others push for a return in negotiations, but we have been down that path many times before and all were unsuccessful. north korea pledged in several international agreements to never develop nuclear weapons, and once caught with its hand in the nuclear cookie jar acceded to several agreements to give up the weapons they promised not to build in the first place. the u.s. has offered hue tan tarian assistance. turning a blind eye to violations and not implementing u.s. laws. which word and deed, north korea has repeatedly and emphatically shown it has no intention of abandoning its nuclear weapons under present circumstances. it's also difficult to have a dialogue with a country that shuns it. north korea closed the north korea channel in july 2016, serving the last official link between our governments until allowing dialogue recently to facilitate the return of the comatose and dying otto warmbier. north korea literally refuses to pick up the phone in the -- both in the joint security

what it could do, china could really hurt or even threaten the existence of the north korean economy,l of north korea's trade is coming through here and it has massive links to china. what is it realistically prepared to do? well, this is another question. because what does china fear more than a nuclear armed north korea? it's raging collapse in north korea. china isn't really going to see that government fall if it means a united korean peninsulas us troops on the border and that's the equation. —— regime collapse. it isn't going to happen so you are able to put more pressure on the north korean is the americans have a few ways of doing it. in short, they have big list of chinese companies, including banks especially, that they can start applying secondary sanctions to. the other part of the chinese equation is a nalysts other part of the chinese equation is analysts tell us north korea is keen to separate the us from south korea and get those troops and weapons of way from its border. u nfortu nately, weapons of way from its border. unfortunately, that isn't aimed at china and russ

north koreans are facing some pressure.ple seemed to have missed this, but over the past month they imposed gas rationing in the capital city in pyongyang, and to the chairman, an embarrassing thing to do. to have gas rationing. i think they're feeling some pinch, and the question is, is there a way to get everyone around the table? i say that this is important first because, history shows that the north koreans are better behaved when sitting at a negotiating table then without the negotiating table throwing stones. secondly, to at least keep it from getting worse, i would say, third, finally, you want to talk to the north koreans. hold your friends close, your enemies closer. the real danger is not someone will go off are and start a war. the real danger, something small escalates. a mistake, miscalculation, misperception and if the parties are not talking to each other, that danger is much higher. >> jim, thank you. stand by. i want to bring in cnn international correspondent will ripley, live from beijing right now repo

were you urged they take direct immediate talks with the north koreans, possibly send a high-ranking y to north korea? why do you think that's a good idea? >> for a variety of reasons. i think that people who favor negotiations do so partly because the alternatives are miserable. there are fundamentally three options in dealing with north korea, and there always have been since the end of the korean war. one is to contain the north koreans, and we've done that for decades and have been doing that for the eight years of the obama administration. i would say that's a containment or strategic patience type of policy. the problem with containment is it doesn't stop with north koreans from developing assets and capabilities and threat that we would rather not v. so a second option is to negotiate and to see whether we cannot reach an agreement with the north koreans where they agree to give up a capability which we believe they should not have and is threatening to friends and allouis, that is what we attempted to do in 1994 with the agreed framework. a third option is to use military forc

the nature of the north korean regime is clear. only the skill of the damage it does could become different. that's why yesterdays escalation is so alarming. if north korea will treat an innocent young student the way it treated otto warmbier, we should not be surprised if it acts barbaric way on a larger scale. the united states does not seek conflict. in fact, we seek to avoid it. we seek only the people -- denuclearization of the korean peninsula and the end of the threatening action by north korea. regrettably, when witnessing just the opposite. make no mistake, north korea's launch of an icbm is a clear and sharp military escalation. the north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now it has greater capacity to do so. in truth it is not only the united states and our allies that are threatened. north korea's destabilizing escalation is a threat to all nations in the region and beyond. their actions are quickly closi

i spoke a little earlier to brian myers, professor of north korean studies at dong—saw university in an city of busan. i asked him how much of a game changer this missile test is. the american estimates of how powerful a weapon this is seen to be getting higher and higher. you know, a couple of hours ago people were saying such a missile could only reach alaska then they were saying it could reach seattle and now they're saying it could reach san francisco so it's very worrying indeed from an american perspective. does north korea has the technology needed to miniaturising nuclear warhead and to protect a missile as it re—entered the earth's atmosphere? i'm not a technical person, i'm trying to figure out how gunpowder works, but i've had the impression from the last 15 years that the americans have constantly been wrong in saying the north koreans aren't able to do this or aren't able to do that. the north koreans have consistently outperformed american expectations andi outperformed american expectations and i think it would be very dangerous for anybody in washington now to sit bac

host: what does the north korean leader want?st: the north korean leader, unusual regime, the only dynastic system that has ever existed in the marxist-leninist world. whoucceeded his father, succeeded his father, so it has been a kim dynasty from its origins. he wants is subject to a lot of questions because north korea remains on the whole a very isolated from the outside world, except for some economic relations with china and others. indeed, it is my own belief that he tries to keep it that way because if the outside world were permitted in in terms of ideas, information, technology, significant foreign presence, these would represent remarkable dangers to this very idiosyncratic regime, which has a manufactured history for its entire existence, which now approaches 70 years, so the ung-un ise with kim jon he has greatly accelerated the missile development programs in the north in the last 2-3 years, and to be frank it has in a surprise to me and other specialists the kind of progress he has been able to make in quick order,

host: who buys north korean coal? guest: mostly china. host: up to them to agree to do this? guest: yes. to influence gs chinese banks and businesses engaging with north korea, vast majority of transaction in the denominated in dollars. north korea and china. it goes through u.s. banks, that gives us leverage. host: that was target of the actions a week ago? guest: exactly. u.s. finally sanctioned r identified as money laundering concern the bank, that was first time we had gone fter a chinese bank in 10 years. the u.s. sanctioned $12 billion n european banks for money laundering for iran. we've not imposed single penny banks, therechinese is a lot of evidence they are engageed with north korea. calls time for a few more with bruce klinger of heritage foundation, also former c.i.a. korea division chief for from 1996 to 2001. taking your calls. wanda in michigan, line for democrats, go ahead. caller: yes, you know, when they sent that kid back from north korea, almost dead and he did korea flexing their muscles and this eagle like to raise its head they did with osama bin laden

by the north koreans. this hour, the secretary of state has released a statement, saying, in part, "global actions to solve a global threat. aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons and n we attempt toor bring north korea's provocative actions before the u.n. security council." take a look at where the icbm traveled. it was a splash down about 480 miles away but believed that the missile, two-stage midsole, could reach alaska. that's the big question, about whether north korea has been able to miniaturize its nuclear weapons to put it on the tip of one of these missiles and this has changed the dynamic because this icbm could reach the united states. just within the past hour, in this show, the u.s. announced their joint exercises ongoing with the south koreans. to test what they are calling the army tactical missile system. in response to this. this is ongoing. we expect to have video from

by the north koreans.thin this hour, the secretary of state has released a statement, saying, in part, "global actions to solve a global threat. aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. all nations should publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons and n we attempt toor bring north korea's provocative actions before the u.n. security council." take a look at where the icbm traveled. it was a splash down about 480 miles away but believed that the missile, two-stage midsole, could reach alaska. that's the big question, about whether north korea has been able to miniaturize its nuclear weapons to put it on the tip of one of these missiles and this has changed the dynamic because this icbm could reach the united states. just within the past hour, in this show, the u.s. announced their joint exercises ongoing with the south koreans. to test what they are calling the army tactical missile system. in response to this. this is ongoing. we expect to have video

the question could the north koreans weaponize this with a small nuclear device to survive reentry? the trump administration doesn't want to take chances to give north korea the possibility of developing that kind of technology. this morning president trump before he left for europe made two important tweets. the first, quote, the united states made some of the worst trade deals in world history. why should we continue with these deals with companies that do not help us? the reference perhaps there to china. then he followed it up with this tweet. trade between china and north korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter. so much for china working with us but we had to give it a try. the president has left for europe. he will talk about trade with his european partners. specifically, for instance, trade regarding steel. whether or not china and other countries are dumping steel on the worldwide market. he will meet with vladmir putin. of course it was russians and chinese after the test of the north korean icbm which said both north korea needs to de-escalate and stop the missile testi

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 tru

the north koreans will make promises, but they're not going to fulfill them. it is a real win-win for north korea. we need to make it very clear very fast. years, 50-100 years in advance of any nation on the planet and the chinese better be made aware of the fact that the patients of the united states is unitedence of the states is at an end. host: patrick in pennsylvania referencing the proposal for new negotiations put together by the chinese and the russians. speaking of the russians, as we noted earlier, president trump and vladimir putin will be meeting face-to-face for the first time this week before the group of 20 meets on friday. president trump will be meeting today with his ally in warsaw to give what the white house bills as a major policy speech to the polish people about the future of america's relationship with europe. he will meet with leaders of those eastern european countries 12 as part of an effort known as the three c's initiative, on cannot -- and energy driven economic partnership. a preview of the days ahead on foreign policy for the pre

bob the north korean north the north korean dictatorship has no regard for you dictatorship has no regard for and the safety and security of its people or its neighbors and and has no respect for human life. and that's been proven over and over again. millions of north korea's own youmillions of north korea's own citizens have suffered and as a starved to death. you and the entire world just are witnessed what the regime in power did to our wonderful otto warmbier. warm and i thank president moon for expressing his condolences know what you on the travesty of otto's death. a our thoughts and prayers remain with his wonderful family. you the year of strategic patience, with the north korean regime, has failed. many years and it's failed. bravely and frankly, that patience is over. we're working closely with south you korea and japan, as well as and will partners around the will partners around the you world, on a range of diplomatic, and security and economic measures to protect our allies and our own citizens from this menace known as north korea. known as a menace known as north korea. u

the north korean dictatorship has no regard for the safety and security of its people or its neighbors and has no respect for human life. that's been proven over and over again. millions of north korea's own citizens have suffered and starved to death. world justire witnessed what the regime did to our wonderful otto warmbier. i thank president moon for expressing his condolences on the travesty of otto's death. our thoughts and prayers remain with his wonderful family. the era of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed. many years that it's failed. the era of strategic patiencefr. we're working closely with south korea and japan, as well as and world on aound the range of diplomatic and economic measures to protect our allies and our own citizens from this menace known as north korea. the united states calls on other regional powers and all responsible nations to join us in implementing sanctions and demanding that the north korean regime choose a better path and do it quickly, and a different feature for -- future for its long-suffering people. our goal is peace, s

the nature of the north korean regime is clear. only the scale of the damage it does could become different. that is why yesterday's escalation is so alarming. if north korea will treat an innocent young student the way it treated auto, we should not be surprised if it acts barbaric lee on a larger scale. the united states does not seek conflict. we seek to avoid it. we seek only the peaceful denuclearization of the peninsula. regrettably we are witnessing the opposite. make no mistake north korea's launch of an icbm is a clear and sharp military escalation, the north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now it has greater capacity to do so. in truth, this not only the united states and our allies that are threatened, north korea is destabilizing escalation is a threat to all nations in the region and beyond. their actions are quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution. the united states is prepared to

seoul is very close to the north korean border. horea has rocket artillery trained on seoul. so the price would be very high. james mattis said it would be unlike war we've seen in decades. so pressure on china, economic sanctions, the possibility of talks. where does that lead in the end? the world recognizing north korea is a nuclear power and contain north korea. that's remarkable, as well. >> acceptance is not something a lot of diplomats are willing to deal with. jim sciutto, thank you very much. >>> perspective now from someone who dealt with kim jong-un's father, william cohen, former republican senator, currently ceo of the firm the cohen group. thank you for being with us. when you hear the commander of u.s. forces in the korean peninsula say that self-restraint is all that is preventing war, that sounds pretty terrifying to a lot of people. how long do you believe this self-restraint can or should last? >> it's been lasting for some time now. the north has been engaged in provocative action for years, building its nuclear

officials concede that north koreans have changed the entire dynamic with the launch. the u.s. telligence community is not sure how far north they are to nuclear as a weapon to put on a missile, they say that it testfired last night, might have been able to reach alaska. and reports from the region suggests that it was launched from a mobile launcher, providing yet another challenge for the u.s. kevin corke has a breaking details, the reaction tonight from the white house. >> happy independence day to you. t and you are right, a dramatic day of the white house. trump officials had to be considering their options in dealing with north korea in response to the provocation, this is very interesting. talking about whatever i do should north korea be able to reach u.s. soil. now they are looking for the truest response. >> it was a historic first for the road regime, a little bit morele than a half an hour, the intercontinental ballistic missile, and the sea of japan, a 568-mile long journey they could go much m further, and the regi. taking to the sky at approximately 2:40:00 p.m.,

duly, north korean videos. first north korea showing the world its new intercontinental ballistic missile. then hours later, a u.s. and south korean show of force, holding a drill, firing missiles that could destroy north korean targets. the pentagon warning even the test of the north korean missile poses new dangers. >> this missile flew through busy air space used by commercial airliners, it flew through space, it landed in japan's economic zone in an area used by commercial and fishing vessels. all of this completely uncoordinated. >> reporter: there is an internal debate between u.s. and allied circles about whether this never-before-seen missile really shows a north korean capability that hit a target 3400 miles away, the definition of intercontinental range. the current calculation is it's right on the edge of being able to go that far but would need extensive improvement. exactly what defense secretary james mattis recently said would not be allowed. >> is it the policy of the trump administration to deny

north korea's successful launch of its first ballistic missile capable of reaching u.s. escalated a faceup and threatened to shift the decades old balance. the south koreanilitaries conducting exercise on wednesday morning. north korea's" unlawful actions." the trump administration estimated global action after concluded that have launched an intercontinental missile. rex tillerson said, global action is -- a global threat. or fails to fully implemented resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime and all nations it should probably demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons. plan tend to bring their provocative actions before the security council, and an act stronger measures to hold them accountable. as we along with others have made clear when one of her except in nuclear armed north korea. arepresident and his team assessing the situation in" nation with allies and partners. this morning our program we want to hear about how you think the u.s. should deal with north korea. options include containment, military action, negotiations or another option. we have phone lines for each one of those opti

something like 90% of north korean trade is with china. it does give you an idea of how powerful china could be. china will tell you and quite rightly that it is implementing all of the sanctions on north korea and is a signatory to the u.n. sanctions against the country. it says that's the way forward is pushing for dialogue. we've just heard from the ministry of foreign affairs just in the last half hour or so. they note the reports, they're still gathering information. certainly this stage, you can't detect a change of tone from china, from the foreign affairs. we've stated our position many times. china opposes the launch of this missile m. it urges north korea to stop action that's breach the united nations security council resolutions, et cetera, et cetera. we've heard all that before. interestingly, given the fact that we've got the g-20 coming up next week with all the key players, virtually all the key players involved, that may be the time for china to start pushing for more dialogue, a concerted attempt to bring north korea to th

it was fired from a mobile launcher, had a re-entry vehicle, and was two-stage, as seen on north korean immediate american response was its own launch. the u.s. and south korean militaries fired tactical missiles today that can be rapidly deployed. and south korea released a video of what an attack on north korea would look like... ( explosion ) ...blowing up north korean missiles... ( explosion ) ...and video game graphics of a south korean jet bombing pyongyang. but as of now, the focus is very much on diplomacy and increasing pressure on north korea. secretary of state rex tillerson released a statement hours after the missile launch, saying any country that helps north korea is "aiding and abetting a dangerous regime," and that all countries must show north korea "there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons." in a tweet this morning, president trump expressed frustration that china hasn't done more, writing, "so much for china working with us. but we had to give it a try!" so, the administration is casting a wide net. today, mr. trump talked with egyptian president ab

but the possibility of north korean missiles reaching the us is a significant step forward that presidentrlier this year just wouldn't happen. in a tweet, he again urged china to put pressure on north korea to end this nonsense once and for all. a message echoed by allies. the government will be escalating this at the 620 and the un in the course of the next few days. but the real pressure has got to come from china. but so far, china has been reluctant or unable to turn the screw on north korea. president xi of china was in russia today. both he and president putin called for a freeze on north korea's nuclear weapons programme, but also the suspension of us and south korean military exercises. but this supreme leader is enjoying his growing nuclear capability and shows little sign of listening to anyone. the balance of power is shifting in the region, and the outside world seems powerless to stop it. james landale, bbc news. we'll have more on what the launch means and the changing threat from north korea injust a few minutes‘ time. our other top story: narendra modi has become the first

any country that hosts north korean guest workers 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 consequence to their pursuit of nuclear weapons. it says rex tillerson goes on to say, we intend to brick north korea's provocative action before the u.n. security council and enact stronger measures to hold the d.p.r.k. which is north korea, accountable. what is your reaction to that, especially the part where he's saying that if you house guest workers of which we know a number of nations do, right? what's his message here? >> they do. this is something we dealt with under the obama administration, was trying to put sanctions on places where these north korean workers are able to function because that money goes right back to the regime. i'm not really surprised by what i heard in that statement. it certainly is ratcheting up the tension. it is using the state craft to do it. they are obviously using the u.n. security c

stating, the business conducted by some of these networks generates significant revenue for the north korean regime, and pointed out that most of the financial activity was denominated in u.s. dollars, euros, or renminbi. the panel found that despite financial sanctions imposed in 2016 and before, north korea's networks are adapting by using agents experienced in moving money across borders, and by foreign businesses, banks, and companies that are complicit in this effort. they did identify chinese financial institutions as the number one culprit among others throughout the international community. last year, the u.s. treasury department said this network of front companies directly supports north korea's weapons of mass destruction program. department of treasury also said north korea is a threat to the u.s. financial system. our legislation will target these intermediaries and facilitators, imposing mandatory sanctions and finds on the banks, companies, and financiers that conduct business with north korea. we intend to present a clear choice. you can do business with us or you can do busi

officials concede that the north koreans may have changed the entire dynamic with this launch. while the u.s. intelligence community is not sure how far the communist north is in its effort to put a nuclear weapon on a missile, they say that missile test fire last night might have been able to reach alaska. reports for whom the region suggest it was launched from a mobile launcher, providing yet another challenge for the u.s. kevin corke has that breaking details and reaction from the white house. >> happy independence day and a dramatic day at the white house. trump admitted officials, whenu consider that administration has talked about what it might do should north korea finally be able to reach u.s. soil. of course now they're looking for a true response to the latest missile provocation from pyongyang. it was a historic first for the rogue regime. for little more than a half an hour, and intercontinental ballistic missile fired from north korea blasted across the asian sky before coming down in the sea of japan. a 568-mile long journey that could go much further in shaping f

so you can't really trust a deal with the north koreans at all. what you have to have is a deal with china that gets china working with you and puts real pressure on north korea. particularly financial pressure. >> you are saying there is a possibility of a nuclear crisis here, and nikki haley's comments. >> i agree with him, and this is why it's such a clear and present danger. figuring out the way forward requires a deliberate and clear-eyed strategy. china remains the critical path, and there are two ways of bringing china along. one is to make it clear to china, as we did during the obama administration, especially in the last year, that if china was unwilling or unwanting to help exert real leverage, we would have to do things that weren't aimed at china, but they wouldn't like. more military exercises and sanctions including on chinese companies and individuals, doing business with north korea. that ups the pressure on china because they are seeing things they didn't like. but at the same time, we have to have a real conversation with china a

echoing concerns that our top diplomat about the provocative actions of north koreans with a different tone here. at issue, whether now is going to be a change in sentiment and tone and approach to north koreans who flagrantly go too far. we're going to look at the history and i should say if the markets are nervous about any of this, or the brirng nk of a flg crisis, they have a funny way of showing it. by and large, we're barely bulging on the day. i do want to go to warsaw, poland, where the president will outline some of these concerns as well, when he meets with his polish counterparts, and begins to send the message, enough is enough is enough. kristin. >> reporter: president trump says we can't get a better delivery system, and now, north korea has done just that. so as president trump lands here in poland, the big question is, will he follow-through. in so, how? well, the un security council held an emergency meeting while president trump was in the air, and he was already planning to meet with many of north koreas neighbors at the g20 in germany, japan, russia, and china. part

then there is the idea of talks with north koreans. that is what the chinese and russians are urging, what the south koreans and japanese would like us to do. and third is cents president trump has rejected that path, you're left with china trying to increase pressure and more sanctions, but that is unlikely to have an effect. you're basically saying that if you continue the current course you are ready to accept a north uclear north korea. this is about providing security for his own regime and him. with thefies himself state as a whole. this is to stop the united states from doing what he thinks we want to do, attack north korea and overthrow his government. military says. u.s.-backed syrian forces have reached the historic wall around the old city of raqqa. it is the militant group's de facto capital. 2000 fighters i believed to be there. iraqi forces say they are close to taking the few remaining el.eets from i.s. in mos reporter: on the front lines in raqqa. it is looking increasing vulnerable -- increasingly vulnerable. syrian dem

so when the time comes to negotiate with the north koreans, you're at a great disadvantage. so we have to talk in terms of even talking about regime change in north korea, because we haven't been doing that. and i think if this regime continues on the path it's going, we should start talking about it, if not considering -- >> how do you change the regime? >> from within. you start, again, crushing the economy. i think we can do more to make it much more painful for the north koreans to continue what they're doing and enjoy an increased quality of life. the economy of north korea has been improving because other countries have helped them to feed and fuel them and continue their guns policy. that has to stop if we want to negotiate a settlement. >> secretary cohen, fascinating discussion. your impression from the inside the last several decades. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> president trump's first face-to-face meeting with vladamir putin just days away. forget the fact that he said he met with him during the campaign. what is on the agenda or lack thereof and whether the

the north korean crisis and possibly the most dangerous period we've seen from the korean peninsula inong time. and what he said came from a position of strength. but it was low on details. >> we must also confront the threat from north korea. that's what it is, a threat. we will confront it very strongly. president duda and i call on all nations to confront this global threat and publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences for their very, very bad behavior. i have some pretty severe things we're thinking about. that doesn't mean we're going to do them. i don't draw red lines. >> reporter: well, certainly, those red lines, he says he doesn't draw. but on the table, potentially, could be some kind of military option. most analysts say that could be disastrous for cities like seoul, permanently in the firing line of north korea. and you have russia and china, who have drawn the wagons over their approach, saying that the u.s. and south korea could stop their provocations in their view, to get to the negotiating table. chris? >> yeah. that was a strong statement that c

the north koreans say it isa in a month.th koreans say it is a stern warning to washington that the entire us mainland is now within striking distance. in response, two bombers have conducted exercises over the north korean pen until. us b—1 bombers dominated the sky as tensions mount over the korean peninsula. escorted by fighterjets as part of a drill it was a direct response to what is being seen as an increasingly belligerent north korea. the us president is blaming china, pyongyang's biggest trading partner, for letting it get this far. taking to twitter president trump said: but china's influence could be overstated. historic ties have become looser and chinese imports of north korean coal have been cut after un sanctions last year. china also condemmed friday's second ballistic missile test. this powerful rocket flew faster and further than the one before and could soon be armed with a nuclear weapon. it's all about getting america to listen. the north korean side is definitely sending a message to the united states.

north korean very high on that agenda. what did we hear? >> that was here in mouse cow and it coincided with the missile launch in north korea. both countries put out a joint statement where they expressed concern about the missile launch but stopped short at condemning it. both russia and china are signature tors to united -- which banned north korea from nuclear weapons test and further developing its miss t technology. the two leaders put forth a proposed plan for de-escalating principaling on the peninsula kaubling for a double freeze. that means north korea will suspend its nuclear weapons program and simultaneously the u.s. j chinese will -- they also went further and took the opportunity to make jabs against the u.s., saying they don't want the u.s. to use the missile launch as a pretech for adding more weapon systems to south korea. both moscow and beijing do not like the missile deployment of the u.s. miss t system known as that had. in the same joint documents they say they generally oppose the presence of u.s. troops in south kore

it was ambushed on april 1968 by north korean communists in a flagrant, daylight raid across the koreand u.s. infantry division and the korean group were killed in this truce violation, had been on their way to lunch. some time later on in august, as the men of the 76th battalion aligned up for supper, their suddenly hit by heavy machine gun fire from communist raiders. two u.s. soldiers, one korean, killed. 26 other people wounded, including two korean laundry women. this is where a barracks building stood, located at a camp. it was demolished by a planted timebomb. two soldiers were killed in their sleep. these are only a few variations on the communist theme. 30 miles north of seoul, the joint military armistice commission meets to discuss violations. the north korean side in ly flaunts- invariab the line, blandly ignoring all charges, and pulling up a smokescreen of fabrication and countercharges. in the first nine months of 1967 alone, there were seven times as many communist violations as in entire year of 1966. all have been ignored or denied. not only does it provide a spectacle

north korea is a really bad idea. >> well, there is no military resolution of this conflict with north koreans, north korea has nuclear weapons. north korea has thousands of rockets and missiles on the north korean side of the border with south korea with 25 million south koreans living within 50 miles of the border. it would be catastrophic if the president is signaling that there is potentially a nuclear or military confrontation with north korea which is possible. the only alternative is is direct negotiations between the united states and north korea. that is what the chinese have been requesting the united states to engage in for years. it ultimately is going to be the only route towards any potential productive resolution of this conflict. it would have to be done in conjunction with tightening chinese sanctions on the north koreans but that is the direction we should be heading in towards the diplomacy not towards an escalation. that ultimately could result in a catastrophic war on the korean peninsula. >> senator marky, thank you for joining us. >> senator ed markey, rking member of th

china doesn't want that. >> eric: 1950, the north koreans attacked the south koreans, china helped the north koreans and may be russia a little bit as well. >> eboni: i am ready for them getting called out which is aiding and abetting a nuclear north korea north korea. >> eric: she's a former political host, former host of a show on rt and a political writer for the daily banter, but she specializes in trying to bring post partisanship to the news. good luck with that. alyona minkovski is here. he is the author of "gop gps," how to find the millennials and urban voters the republican party needs to survive and he's a former communication staffer for florida senator bill nelson and rudy giuliani's presidential campaign. he specializes in strategic communications. evan siegfried is here. evan, we will start with you. you published an article about this topic. i read your article and i'm going to call you out a little bit. you're brilliant, very smart but you are focusing on more sanctions. we haven't had -- china's ability to get the table for 60 years. >> evan: obama, bush, they tried t

we did see on north korean television a photo of the north korean leader signing something. we assumed that was the test order. that's something we have seen north korea do in the past as welsh and then showing an image of his signature. it also says that it was conducted at 9:00 a.m. pyongyang time. so that's about four and a half hours ago. now the missile traveled for 39 minutes for just over 930 kilometers. the altitude just over 2,800 kilometers. now as far as north korea is concerned, it has successfully test fired an icbm. experts now going through those numbers, trying to figure out if technically it is an icbm. but they are saying that it is a historic rooeevent for north ko north korea saying with this icbm they can hit anywhere in this world. this is a north korean claim that they can hit anywhere in the world. certainly experts will be looking to see how far the exact range would be for that, though. and also saying that north korea is a nuclear state and will defend its nation against u.s. threats. so this will be of course great concern to all countries in the r

and legitimacy be give ton his regime, that's a huge carrot. >> brangham: what do you think the north koreansually want in what would work for them? >> they certainly want a treaty of peace to end the korean war and replace the armistice. after that, the north koreans now want something they didn't want a long time ago, they want recognition as a nuclear weapons state and that's something i would argue we should not give them. that's going to be a sticking point. that's a second thing. the third thing is the kind of thing we put into the agreed framework those 25 years ago which at the time were two light order reactors, 1,000 meg awatt reactors which ultimately escalated in cost to about $6 billion. so think, to substitute for that, substantial economic assistance. but fundamentally, they want a nuclear weapons program at least in order that they could be sure to prevent the united states from attempting regime change. they may want it for more than that. >> certainly a very tough pill for the administration to swallow. bob gallucci, michael pillsbury, thank you very much. >> brangham: yeste

reaffirms the 2005 statement, those comprehensively dealt with the complete dismantlement of the north koreanuclear program and establishment of a peace regime on the korean peninsula. without doubt, there were close coordination between korea and the united states. calling for peace is one thing but making it happen involves , extremely arduous endeavors. the truth that was driven home to us was never translated into any action for 10 years, even after its implemented procedures were agreed upon. moreover, the tim johnson -- the kim jong-un regime of the north has a misguided conviction that nuclear weapons and missiles will keep itself in tact. notwithstanding this, i'm confident it now presents an opportunity to restart this daunting task. president trump made tackling half -- the north's nuclear and missile problems his top foreign policy priority, a decision that no previous u.s. government has made made thus far. this is why i believe we have a better chance of solving the north korean nuclear issue now. i'm committed to doing my utmost to leverage this opportunity. rok-u.s. alliance sh

the measure will further reduce the number of encounters north koreans have with foreigners. nd north korea. john, tell us about where you are at the moment? it does look like there are quitea the moment? it does look like there are quite a view tourist is behind you. are they possibly headed to north korea? some of them will be. chinese travellers make up by far the bulk of visitors to the north korea. like all other visitors, they ci’oss korea. like all other visitors, they cross over korea. like all other visitors, they cross over north korea's northern border, the only way into the country. travellers come in either across chinese north korean airspace, or rather the chinese north korean friendship ridge, by train, which you can see behind me. asa train, which you can see behind me. as a result of this us travel ban, when it comes into effect in about a month's when it comes into effect in about a months time, this is already very isolated country on that side of the river will be a little bit more cut off. about 1000 american citizens travel there every year. they will of