korea violated u.n. security resolutions even though the fact check is they did by firing the ballistic missile tests. what are the implications of that? japan is, of course, in range of north korea. there is no issue that concerns the japanese prime minister more. he came out and started the press conference by saying we are both on the same page as it relates to north korea. and then you saw that very sharp distinction with president trump essentially saying those missile tests don t bother him. prime minister abe was quick to point out he does see it as a violation of the u.n. security council resolutions and it is regrettable he said so clearly not on the same page when it comes to their messaging. how do they move forward and work together to pressure kim jong-un? that becomes the question. and then the fact that you have them taking aim at president joe biden calling him a low iq individual and siding with kim
to start with something on the mind of a lot of japanese. that s the ballistic missile tests of the north koreans. does the president agree that north korea has violated a un resolution with these tests? look, the president s focus in all of this process is on continuing the very good relationship that he has with chairman kim, and he feels good that the chairman will stay firm with the commitment that he made to the president and move towards denuclearization. that s our focus. some of the activity that s taken place as you can see from the president s twitter isn t something that s bothering the he he feels good about the relationship he has and about chairman kim s commitment he made to the president. so, the president has no qualms about not enforcing a un if you resolution? if you don t enforce it, what s the point of it? once again, chuck, the
i know that north korea has halted nuclear and missile test s. can you point to any steps of theirs to actually denuclearize? it s a major step that they re not testing, that s a major feat, all throughout 2017, we were constantly seeing ballistic missile tests. and the fact that both sides shook hands and said they wanted peace i think that s no small thing. and i think their parade where they didn t show off nuclear weapons for the first time, is an accomplishment. and i think we want to focus on denuclearization with verification. we have to make sure that north korea know what is we mean by denuclearization, we have to make sure that we enforce sanctions because we brought them to the table to start with. we re going to cut the number of refugees to 30,000 in 40
they didn t have missiles in their parade. can you point to any concrete steps that the regime has taken to actually denuclearize? first of all, it is a major step that they re not testing. that s no small feat. all through 2017, we were constantly seeing ballistic missile tests. the fact they stopped that and two leaders in korea shook hands and said they want to denuclearize and want peace is no small thing. the fact that at their parade they didn t show off nuclear weapons for the first time is a major accomplishment. look, we are far from reaching the end of this. what we want to focus on is denuclearization with verification. we need to make sure that north korea knows what we mean by denuclearization and enforce sanctions because that s what brought them to the table in the first place and i think that s what we ll continue to do. this week the administration cut the number of refugees that the u.s. would accept in 2019 to 30,000, the lowest level in 40
open to possibly renegotiate the iran nuclear deal. let s bring in israel s permanent representative to the united nations danny dannon. we should make it very clear iran is not north korea. they are different. they must be dealt with a bit differently. how do you fight the fight with iran differently than you do with north korea? they re a bad actor continuing to fund terrorism in middle east, lebanon, syria, you name it, you ll find funding coming from iran. they are continuing to build their ballistic capabilities. it was a bad agreement signed by the previous administration and it was time to change that agreement. four main issues with the previous agreement. first you have allowed them to do ballistic missile tests. second you cannot inspect. you tell iran you are coming to inspect military bases, it is a joke. third, what will happen in seven years?