plates. starters, north korea fired a ballistic missile flew from japanese air space and it flew far. and despite increasing sanctions. u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley didn t take military options off the table. in fact, warned about them and said to let sanctions take their course. you have to look at how much has been cut off. already started to feel it, but they re getting ready to feel 90% of their exports going away. 30% of their oil. imagine what that would do to the united states if that was there? if you look at what i was looking at what north korea was saying. a full-scale economic blockade suffocating its state and people. this is dramatic. dramatic and that s north korea. look over here across the atlantic ocean. authorities in london are investigating an explosion aboard a subway train.
they re calling it a terrorist incident but as they work to treat the wounded and find the person or people responsible, british prime minister theresa may forced to take time to respond to something that president trump tweeted. let s get started at the white house. hallie jackson standing by for us. give us a full rundown of an interesting press conference in that we had nikki haley there and h.r. mcmaster. big heavy hitters on foreign policy add what is normally the regular white house press briefing? reporter: plenty of foreign policy issues to talk about here, ali. start with north korea. that took up a lot of the focus for both general mcmaster and ambassador haley. you heard notable comments from both. nikki haley begging for folks to let sanctions run their course. you might remember president trump called these sanctions the u.n. security council voted on last week a small step, and seemed to intimate that the
sanctions on north korea on monday. that was in response to the last test, which north korea suspected hydrogen bomb test on september 3rd. it s one thing to analyze distances and trajectories on a board here. it s another thing entirely to be there in japan, or in south korea, listening with this day to day. matt bradley is in tokyo, hans nichols, keeping track of things at the pentagon. let me before i get to matt, start with hans. hans, just give us some relevance about this distance and the payload and the missile. the fact that this thing went 2,300 miles into the oacean doesn t necessarily mean an armed missile can hit guam? no, it doesn t. they haven t factored in and don t know what the payload was or is on that missile. it went quite high. 500 miles up into the air. could have teased it out a little more. they re still doing the analysis
shortly, he really doesn t want to spend time having to deal with an erratic north korean regime right now, and the u.s. government made pretty clear basically where they are is the chinese can more fully implement the sanctions that are on the table, and you saw u.s. officials this past week basically saying in testimony on the hill that they suspect both the chinese an the russians, and said they have evidence, really aren t implementing sanctions fully. the way they should be. or that secondary savg arary sat will take a swipe at chinese companies are coming shortly. the chinese are looking at basically additional sanctions with an impact on their companies. or they re going to have to actually more fully follow through with the existen sanctions in a way they really haven t wanted to so far. let me ask you something. the president has been talking the last couple of days about the iran deal, with suggestions that in october they re going to have some decision, and the implication
here. this is not the icbm. they still have something a little more powerful than this, quite a bit more. has quite a bit more range and we still don t know just what the re-entry was on this one. live to what was said at that briefing earlier today, this idea sanctions have taken effect. ali, they re not answering the question whether or not sanctions are having an effect. that s a crucial distinction. arguing for stronger sanctions, got watered down, weak eer sanctions and now the two of them haley and mcmaster seem to be playing for time. interesting question. curious what sort of internal conversations there are in the white house, in the pentagon and the state department on how much time they re willing to play for. ali? hans, thank you. stand by. matt bradley is in tokyo for us. matt, talk about what happened in japan. this is on one hand very frightening. alarms go off when an actual