Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in new york, where diplomatic efforts to try to ease the tension on the Korean Peninsula are stepping up a gear this friday. The us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson will attend a Un Security Council meeting. The United States and its allies are expected to turn up the pressure on china to use its leverage to rain in kim jong un. Speaking to the bbc, republican Senatorjohn Barrasso explained the renewed diplomacy drive. Well, of course the goal is a peaceful resolution of the process, thats what we want. We want north korea without Nuclear Weapons and this whole thing peacefully resolved. Thats the deliberations and discussions with china so they can get much more involved because you know after all, that 85 of the trading that north korea does is with china and i think china right now realises theyre interests are aligned with the United States with regard to a Nuclear Armed north korea because the question is really can t
Concerted diplomatic strategy to focus on funding the threat of a nuclear and Ballistic Missile capability. Its exactly the sort of threat that requires us to act responsibly. And the carrier do you think thats responsible as well . I think its important for both china and south korea and japan to realize the United States has the resources and will make absolutely every effort to reach a demented diplomatic resolution but we also stand ready to defend ourselves. As the leadership of north korea i do think its appropriate for us to make sure we have the resources in the region and 30,000 american troops that are on the peninsula. Is it a direct threat to the u. S. Mainland . Its clear that kim jongun intends to develop both Nuclear Weapons and the capability to deliver them against the American People. At some point there will be a very pressing National Security threat. I think it is constructed for us to be having a bipartisan conversation as the entire senate with the leaders admini
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Of testimony on us military strategy in the asiapacific region focusing on north korea, that is at 9 30. Follow live coverage from the Senate Armed Services committee on cspan3, online at cspan. Org and streaming on the cspan radio apps. Now a look at the Trump Presidency and how it compares to previous administrations your presence here is true of every hour of every day of your life for other people who are in your presence conjures up the specter or the memory or the muscle memory and some of us of the experiences for decades ago with watergate. As we sit here in the tent tentk or the beginning of the 11th week of the Trump Presidency, obviously one of your themes over the last 70 days has been this question of whether the Trump Presidency is an unprecedented event, or whether it evokes, uncomfortably, evokes the period in which you were a major actor. Do you think that we are in uncharted territory, or is the territory all too charted, shall we say . Well, we are not at watergate 2
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