in better behavior, to possibly enter into a deal where they re denuclearizing themselves. i think for the north koreans, that is one that can potentially be a good thing in reverse while china might be, they have their own selfish goals. we have ours, south korea has theirs, japan has theirs, for korea to know they have a neighbor that wants to do business with them and smell, see the prosperity that is elusive for them. that relationship is a good thing, and if it s ignored, actually i don t think there s any way we re going to achieve the results we re looking for. one other thing i would point out is the president, and he has good people around him. mike pompeo is the secretary of state, and john bolton now the national security adviser, president trump is not going to get played, and i think that it s important up-front to make sure that the north koreans are willing to get the results we re looking for. mark: we re going to expand on this in a second. go to levin tv, crtv.com, wh
verify it, and that s just the ball game, and if kim, look, if kim is understanding that all this pressure is bringing bear to him because of this program that he s clinging to, perhaps that may be a reason for him to say, you know what? i may solidify myself and power if i can do this, but it s not going to be where we re giving them money and hoping that they follow through. that is totally off the table. mark: let me ask you about this, i m a little confused about something. on the one hand, china is stealing our technology to build up its economy, certainly the military. they have committed acts of cyber warfare against us, developing weapons that have as their purpose to attack us or neutralize our most sophisticated weapons. they ve been very aggressive geopolitically including in the south china sea and in the east china sea. in other ways very, very provocative, on the other hand, we rely on them to help us with north korea. in the end, who wins out here?
north korea. in the end, who wins out here? china? i think that china will, i think everybody ends up winning out if we re successful here. south korea will be stronger, japan, the united states, that s one of the great things about this entire conversation and all the prospects that are possible right now. nothing is certain. and i think that for china specifically it s a complex situation, but we haven t really stood up for ourselves as a nation in pushing back on all of the complexities of that relationship. so president trump wants to he is showing an ability to look multidimensionally at the relationship with china. we understand there isn t a good option that doesn t involve china so working with them on north korea, but at the same time, we re trying to fix a trade imbalance. we re pushing back on patent infringement and other ways the products may be coming to market where ideas are stolen
. mark: welcome back. congressman desantis, what s china want to get out of this? i go back and forth. do they want the peninsula denuclearized? maybe, because maybe they think the young fella is out of control and can t control him completely, and maybe it creates problems for their geopolitical agenda. on the other hand, i look at china, they re enormously aggressive. they re aggressive geopolitically, economically, militarily with the phony islands they built. they now militarized. they threaten the philippines, threaten japan, threatened vietnam, vietnam is looking to us for help. you look at cyber warfare. they re stealing us blind on our technology through a multiple of methodologies that they re using and so forth and making alliances with enemies like iran. they have ties with russia. what does china want to get out of our discussions with north korea, do you think? well, look, north korea in
and yet it was a one-day story because it didn t fit the media s narrative. china is not somebody. they re a competitor at best and it s somebody that we re going to continue to deal with. trump instinctively is tough on china. he s been tough on china rhetorically for decades now, so what i want to see is we have this issue with the zte phone company. there s kind of some of the side negotiations going on. how does that play into the overall north korea situation, and very well may be that some of the negotiations are kind of a prelude to getting china to be a little more productive than how they ve been with north korea. mark: does north korea answer to china? i think so. i can t think of any option that deals with the north korean issue that doesn t involve china. if we came up with top 14 different ways, plans to tackle a situation with north korea involves china, and i believe that china s influence is helpful in getting the north koreans to the table to engage