north korea stated it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it won t happen! well, it looks like it s going to happen unless something dramatic is done and quickly to stop it. you wrote a letter to the president urging him to engage in talks with north korea, which kim jong-un said he doesn t want to do. what s left here besides military confrontation? well, i think we need some new approaches in diplomacy and sanctions. i would continue the military exercises with south korea. i would increase them. i would continue the cyber efforts to try to degrade their missile and nuclear capability. i think their new kind of sanctions we re looking at at the un, hopefully china and russia won t veto them involving chinese banks squeezing the north korean leadership under the bush administration that seemed to work. but we took those off.
hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all, exclamation point. the north korean threat is certain to be a major focus of donald trump s second overseas trip as president with vladimir putin in the offing. barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, what leads u.s. officials to believe this could have been an intercontinental ballistic test with the range potentially of at least hitting the united states? reporter: jim, administration officials are making it clear they don t want this situation to escalate, but they are also saying looking at the latest intelligence from satellites and other sensors, that is what is convincing them this most likely was an intercontinental ballistic missile. so a step forward, but you re hearing that officials don t believe that today a north korean icbm could directly
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kbashs wi impatience with the regime, and he went a step further, signalling north korea to do more. this guy just fired another missile. does this guy not have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this once and for all. for all the issues on this eve of the president s very important trip, we got another tweet from the president moments ago and this is what he s thinking about. he wrote, quote, gas prices are the lowest in the u.s. in ten years. i would like to see them go even lower. this is not a topic we ve heard the president talk all that much about, and it comes right before a major trip with some major issues in front of him.
their defense obligations, what he said about china and needing china s help in resolving this situation. this is very difficult. you look at the incredible tweets he s had not only over the last 24 hours, but the last six months where he s continued to ratchet up the rhetoric. then all of a sudden, last night. hopefully china, south korea and japan can figure this out on their own. jack kingson, what is president trump doing that his predecessors did not regarding north korea to stop or slow its nuclear program? i think he has the advantage of history, and they have been very disingenuous. they re not using their nuclear capabilities, which is the treat i that president clinton signed almost 20 years ago. i m talking about today. but if you look at what they re doing, they re inching along every day. not even inching. i think getting six of thus.