with china which is a unilateral us banking sanctions.. it s not without pain. it s a painful act for americans and wall street, but i think that we immediately go to that and within one week if we haven t seen action from china. jeanine: preemptive strike, general? is that what should be done or do we wait for him to hit us or our territory, guam? a preemptive strike could result they ve got 8500 artillery pieces, 4500 rocket launches right along the dmz there that can range 30, 40, 50 miles, and that puts seoul into play. but seoul didn t want to accept themi missile defense systems. they have the system that we offer them. thaad would do nothing against all of these artillery shells that would come raining across. jeanine: but they didn t want anything. you would think.
very big financial impact and single largest economic sanctions package ever on nok. over $1 billion in cost to nk, meaning north korea. first, why do you say that these sanctions are good but they re not great? well, i think there s still more to do to get the chinese on board. we ve seen this year china has increased their trade with north korea. that s very troubling. when you look at india and the philippines and china altogether. that s 95% of exports. that s got to crack down. we still have u.s. foreign aid going to middle east countries still doing trade with north korea. that s got to end. the chinese decided to pull out the oil sanctions when nikki haley was negotiating. those are serious sanctions. i still think we can do banking
ripped and ready, the best, actually. locked and loaded is what everyone is talking about now. but the second half of the tweet is important from a policy persecutive. saying, the president s saying, if the north korean regime acts first. not the u.s. is thinking about acting first. that s key. not pre-emptive. that the optics of having not just nikki haley, we knew from the public schedule would be there, but the addition of tillerson and h.r. mcmaster, up there earlier this week. it certainly signals both to north korea but also to china, to japan, to south korea, to russia, to allies, that this is a meeting to discuss diplomatic pressure. that could mean positive diplomatic pressure, could mean the threat of more sanctions, banking sanctions, unilateral sanctions, secondary sanctions, more u.n. sanctions all options on the table. and made it clear, they wants talks. they do want to talk with north korea. although it s not clear they can agree on the basis for this. which hap
states. i think there s a tradeoff there. rick, you re shaking your head no way. a couple points. one, i agree with the ambassador richardson. i think there s more we could be doing. six party talks failed. we have to get new actors in, that s true. i m not a fan of unilateral sanctions. i think they never work except in the case of banking sanctions. we have yet to try banking sanctions on the country of china. again, that is not a solution that i think, in the words of not to interrupt you, you were shaking your head in response to accepting them having nuclear capabilities. that was my second point. i don t think we should ever accept north korea as a nuclear weapons state. never, ever. we should fight and work hard to make sure that that doesn t happen. we got to remember that the last time we had a credible threat of military action, not just a threat of military action,
not great? well, i think that we have to get implementation from china. there s still more to do to get the chinese on board. we ve seen this year china has increased their trade with north korea. that s very troubling. when you look at india and the philippines and china altogether that s 95% of exports. that s got to crack down. we still have u.s. foreign aid going to middle east countries still doing trade with north korea. that s got to end. the chinese decided to pull out the oil sanctions when nikki haley was negotiating. i wish we would have kept those oil sanctions in. those are serious sanctions. i still think we can do banking sanctions on the country of china. that s not without pain. it s certainly painful for americans who shop at walmart, they re going to buy products that are going to increase in price. our business community in wall