most cutoff nation on earth. he s flatout wrong. the u.s. has been holding back on a number of sanctions and only last week, the u.s. sanked a chinese bank and we know there s evidence for a lot more. right. in talking with the north koreans, just last month, bruce, what else did you take away from that? that you can share. right. that they were just very emphatic that they were not interested in denuclear azing or returning to negotiations. and that when we tried to offer different options or suggest options, they became irritated. they just said, stop thinking of different options. we are a nuclear state. and they were much more self-assured self-assured, even cockier given the recent successes in their nuclear missile test. did they say anything about otto warmbier or the other americans that were over there. our meetings were in between times that state department official was meeting with them. we didn t know that at the time but certainly in the meeting we
saturday, participate in this event on sunday and monday against american objections, i might note, and here yet again at this moment when presumably things are going in directions that china wants to encourage, giving north korea yet again one more option to, you know, show a smiley face to the world and instead what we get is the next logical step in this development program that bruce klinger has accurately talked about. so, you know, here s a case where xi jinping despises kim jong-un. so in this case when the chinese have been telling us privately and publicly, please, please, make concessions to north korea, get them back to the negotiating table because we think there s really room here for something good to happen, instead what we
variant of a medium or intermediate-range missile and because it s solid fuel, that s more dangerous because it can fire quicker than a liquid fuel and harder to detect and if necessary attack during a conflict. bruce klinger, thank you very much. let s go back to jonathan at the brookings institution. we spoke with you earlier. what else have you found out? i think the most important thing to note here right now is political and it involves china. the chinese sunday in beijing are opening their one belt, one load summit. they have dozens of heads of state descending on beijing. this is a real loss of face for china because the north koreans whom the chinese did invite to the summit and supposedly the north korean minister of external economic relations was to arrive in beijing on
u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is asking 46 u.s. attorneys to resign. they served under the obama administration. sessions says that i m stepping down help the uniform transition. half of them have already left their post. within two years. a former cia official claims that north korea is closer than people realize to developing a nuclear missile which could cross the ocean and strike the u.s. bruce klinger with a former division chief were korea believes that they could be ready in a few years. president trump has dismissed threats of an issue, where such marks are intended to make the world scary. rex tillerson prepares to head overseas to meet with asian leaders. and tesla founder elon musk is making a bet with the australian government. he says he can solve their blackout crisis within 100 days of signing a contract by building an energy storage farm. if he doesn t solve the problem,
welcome back. it s such a great school. terrible success rate but i ll do my best. hard to get into these days. she s so excited, it s the coolest place ever. vanderbilt, nashville, got everything going for you. anyway. back to you. now homeland security secretary jeh johnson with the sony hack and with us from washington the cia s former director for the korean branch bruce klinger and cyber security consultant for ibm steve buchi. bruce, let me begin with you. i ve been talking about those satellite pictures that show north korea dark at night, south korea with actual electric light bulbs that thomas edison inconvenient ad few years ago. it doesn t seem the north