korea targeting luxury and imports and exports which help the military. what would hurt north korea more is that the u.s. apply so-called secondary sanctions against kim s chief ally, china. it s really well known there s a set of chinese entities that help north korea evade those armed sanctions by the united nations. we ve had a lim t number of cases where weave gone after chinese firms for those reasons. we could greatly ex papd their numbers. reporter: the president s fallen short. tweeting quote, while i greatly appreciate the effort of president xi in china to help with north korean it has not worked out. at least i know china tried. the u.s. say it s looking at a ban to travels to north koreans. in any more danger.
american troops in south korea. but a cyberattack on kim s growing missile program could be an option. there may be attacks, yes, we can take on missile launches. there may be attacks we can take on the command and control center to send a signal to north korea. um not see the result of that, but kim jong-un will. reporter: experts a hacking the internal calls and e-mails and putting them out in public is a possible retaliatory move. the u.s. and the u.n. have economic sanctions already in place against north korea. targeting luxury and imports and exports which help kim s military. those could be expanded. but what could hurt north korea more analysts believe is if the u.s. applies so-called secondary sanctions against kim s chief ally, china. it s pretty well known there are an extensive set of chinese entities that help north korea evade those arms sanctions by the united nations. we ve had a limited number of cases where we ve gone after chinese firms for those reasons. we coul
congressman, what do you think of the travel ban itself? so, i think the president has a right to say, hey, as any new president would, we need to take a look at how we re vetting. i thought the travel ban in and of itself, it s okay to look at, it s okay to do. i thought the execution and how it was actually presented was terrible. you know, for instance, iraq is on the travel ban. iraq has some of the most intense vetting procedures for people to get iraqi passports. they re also our chief ally right now in the war against isis. to put them in the same level as you re putting syria and somalia i think was an entirely big overstep. this was ruled out terribly. it was rolled out basically instead of being explained on a friday night, and i think it s gotten a little out of control on t. but i think every president has a right to look at how we re vetting things and i would actually give him the leverage to do that. service members i know, friends of mine who have served in iraq h
this hour covering the u.n. vote. i think the president-elect s comments are appropriate for a president of the united states to change bipartisan ton with three weeks left, and appear back i do believe israel, has orchestrated this vote behind the back of our chief ally in the region is really unprecedented. so i believe that s appropriate with all due irs to my friend julian, this was a change elecon, no question about it. president obama has been the incredibly shrinking president. he was really he in charge of at the change, if you will, of washington from a democratic majority to a republican majority, and presidesing over a change in state legislatures, attorneys general and so forth. he s at 5 a%, most of his
analysts say he could help kim build up his arsenal. with the sony hack north korea has shown it can and will strike americans where they live. why is kim pivoting toward russia? he has had a falling out with his chief ally china because of north corekorea s. now they are tilting toward russia. that coincides with a russian interest in reminding washington we can cause trouble if you press too hard on the ukraine. reporter: now the big question here is will kim jong-un accept putin s invitation to go to moscow in may for a big celebration of the end of world war ii? the russians say the north korean leadership has accepted but it s not clear if kim himself is going to go. analysts say kim may be reluctant because he has never been outside north korea as its leader. there s the possibility of a