The world. The president firing back, trump, at kim jongun on twitter last night asking in part if the dictator has anything better to do with his life. Then hours after that tweet from trump, the white house delivering another major revelation, that this weeks g20 meeting between President Trump and russian president Vladimir Putin is no longer being held on the sidelines and is now being called a full fledged bilateral meeting. That actually coming from the kremlin. More on that in a moment, but first, Cnn International correspondent Paula Hancocks is live for us in seoul, south korea, with more on north koreas claim. Paula . Hello, fredricka. We actually heard from russia as well from putin, when it comes to north korea, saying that russia and china both agree on the way to deal with north korea, saying that north korea has to freeze its missile test. Its quite unusual for the two to be talking in this way. In fact, moscow doesnt even react to north korea missile tests. So quite unu
Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Wednesday, july 59, 8 00 in the east. We begin with north korea releasing new video of its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test. The u. S. And south korea responding to the escalating threat with a show of force of their own, conducting a joint military drill to send a message to kim jongun. The north korea threat likely to dominate the g20 summit this week. President trump is expected to depart for europe at any moment. In fact, you see movement there. During the summit, the president will hold a longawaited, facetoface meeting with russias Vladimir Putin. Cnn has every angle covered so lets get the latest from cnns barbara starr. She is live at the pentagon. Reporter keeping an eye on Andrews Air Force base outside washington as marine one approaches, the president taking off for g20, north korea likely to be near or at the top of the list after they fireded that Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, north korea putting out additional vid
Almost 40 in the first quarter, so much for china working with us but we had to give it a try. We also have this new video of what kim jong un calls, quote, a basket of gifts for american bastards. The missile test by north korea. This missile here that experts say could reach alaska. Let me say that again. Missile test that could reach alaska and u. S. Defense officials call a brandnew weapon never seen before. Elise is working this for us. Shes our cnn Global Affairs correspondent. When you hear from secretary tillerson that the u. S. Will never accept a Nuclear Armed north korea, how has the u. S. Responded to this . Reporter well, clearly, its a game changer, brooke. The u. S. Called an emergency session of the u. N. Security council today. I think what were really looking at initially is maybe some kind of president ial statement of condemnation but then the u. S. Is really going to put the screws to the International Community to try and tighten those sanctions against north kore
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Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Hell be back on monday night. Day 533 here of the Trump Administration. And the pressure is on. The president is facing a complicated week ahead with high stakes at home and abroad. Its all still taking place beneath the cloud of the russia investigation. There is brandnew reporting tonight about negotiations for a facetoface interview between President Trump and Robert Mueller. The New York Times says the chances that the president would be voluntarily questioned were growing ceincreasingly unlikely. The article goes on to say that the special counsel needs to pro prove, before mr. Trump would agree to an interview, that his testimony is essential to completing the investigation. Tonight it appears the president and his legal team are taking an even more aggressive stance regarding the russia investigation. Meantime President Trump now just three days away from announcing a decision that could well de