ian, back to you. the u.s. president also slammed the iran nuclear deal. he hinted he would rip it up. the french president, emmanuel macron, told cnn that s not a good idea, especially when it comes to dealing with north korea. i want to play an interview that christiane amanpour did with emmanuel macron. listen to this. i think it would be a big mistake. i think if president trump i don t think that this iran deal, this nuclear deal with iran is of everything about how to deal with iran. if president trump considers it s not sufficient, i do agree with that. we have this deal. i think that the outcome of this deal is that now we have the monetarying process. with the international agency forming the situation, and i think it s better than nothing, okay? why? because if we stop with this, if
important day at the united nations. met with leaders of many nations who agree with much or all of what i stated in my speech. joining us now for more on this, ian lee live in seoul, south korea. and here in los angeles, political analyst peter matthews. ian, clearly the president was trying to belittle kim jong-il. north koreans don t usually take well to this. given this was a whole new level by the president in front of the united nations, how is pyongyang expected to react? well, we re expecting them to up their rhetoric, as well, with their own fiery brand that we ve seen time after time again. and you wouldn t be surprised if we see a missile test or some sort of action from the north as a response, something that they ve done in the past to show that they are serious about this. you know, the interesting thing too was the reaction from the
donald trump to turn up on that stage, but they got candidate donald trump from last year s campaign. this is very much about it was for the base. it was. it s unfortunate, because this is a golden opportunity for donald trump to be a states person, to actually reduce the tensions by offering something to the world and to north korea saying we re willing to work with this and to redouuce tensis and prevent any car. he didn t do it. he took that attitude, campaigning again, appealing to his america first gbase, which s out of whack with what the world feels. golden opportunity missed. intentionally. it s almost as if steve bannon wrote the speech. peter, thank you for being with us. ian, thanks to you, as well. and with that, we ll take a quick break.
international crisis. and you do need to reassure your allies in the region that the united states is behind them. right now, though, it does seem like they are they do have this one voice. they are united. we saw that in the u.n. security council. and we re also seeing it with these military exercises. i went out just yesterday to one such military exercise. and i was speaking with some of the soldiers about how important it is to work with their korean counterparts. and they say that it s extremely important, that they have this cohesi cohesion. because if war does break out and there have been many threats from north korea, if war does break out, it s going to be important for these allies to work together, george. cnn correspondent ian lee live for us in seoul, south korea, following the situation. thank you for the report, ian. we ll stay in touch with you. unicef says that up to 400,000 rohingya refugees will
program. it just seems like they haven t found the equation yet. and the u.s. clearly indicating that, you know, it is considering its military options in this situation, though, referring diplomacy along with allies. but the question here, ian, is there still some daylight being seen stwe it wasn t south korea and united states, given some of the president s comments? reporter: yeah, you re right. when you have an international crisis. the most important thing is for allies to come together, to show that they are one voice united. and we did see some daylight between the united states and south korea, where president trump was seen by south koreans as a slight against their president. president moon. you also had president trump talk about trade deals with the south that he feels is unfavorable to united states. these are things that really do not help when there is an