point, saying he also said, quote, we genuinely wish for peaceful resolution with our southern border. also saying that he would be willing to send a delegation to the winter olympics which start in february being held here in south korea. that would certainly be music to the ears of the south korean president moon jae-in. a different kind of speech that we are hearing this year from north korean leader kim jong-un. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. thank you for that reporting. a chilling new assessment of north korea s threat to the united states and it comes from the former chairman of the joint chiefs admiral mike mullen. listen. we re actually closer in my view to a nuclear war with north korea and in that region than we ve ever been and i just don t see how i don t see the opportunities to solve this diplomatically at this particular point. our global affairs analyst kimberly dozer joins me from
the last time they spoke putin told the president moscow did not meddle in the u.s. election an the president chose not to push back because he said putin seemed to believe what he was saying. and putin probably ask believe what he was skig saying. did the president and the rest of america? the call is not expected to focus on that. it s expected to focus on the civil war in syria. we don t know if president trump will once again discuss election meddling with putin. let s bring in our global affairs analyst kimberly dozer. election meddling aside but noting its importance to be discussed and dealt with, syria, where is it that the two presidents can actually get something done for the people of syria? well, this is the task that acknowledgement, poppy, that russia holds all the cards to negotiating the peace there. in that russia is the only one that can negotiate both with the assad regime and with the iranian forces on the ground. the only one that has any influence in them with
as part of the trump administration just following through with a diplomatic checklist. if you re telling all of your allows, which the allies which the trump administration did in the tour through asia you are going to take every possible measure before choosing military action, this is one of the things you just have to do. it also signals china, how serious the u.s. is about it, but increasingly we go back to the fact that china may not have as much leverage with north korea as the u.s. thinks it does and relations have been increasingly icy. china sent an enjoy there over the weekend who reportedly had no luck, came back empty handed, so again, we go back to that conversation between president trump and putin today. they may also talk about north korea. all right. kimberly, great to have you with us. thanks so much. thank you. major questions this morning surrounding the death of a border agent. what happened? man s inner voice: why do i have to be stuck here?
united states would do to develop this, this is not long term. this is a crash program to get a capability that the rest of the world is going to have to take into consideration and they believe this will provide that deterrent against any military action against north korea. let s bring in global affairs analyst kimberly dozer. this is one of the first serious tests of this white house especially when it comes to the sanctions and the relationship with china. absolutely. and it comes after a number of u.s. officials, including pentagon chief jim mattis has been trying to emphasize the diplomatic options. it s an on-purpose, in-your-face provocation that could put this white house in the frame of mind that it has to do some sort of controlled strike on capability. now that s something that they have discussed, but with some
heightened alert. every vessel would be taking extra precautions, nevertheless this accident happened overnight. kimberly dozer, this is the fourth time it s happened in that part of the world. all eyes now are on north korea, as we see what s happening in north korea, how does this compromise the u.s. ability to deal with that situation? it draws attention to the fact that the naval mission is possibly overstretched. that you have in the proponent in the words of proponents on capitol hill who want a bigger navy, you have too few people, too few ships, at too high an operational tempo trying to keep up. they have everything from monitoring what s happening with north korea to offsetting chinese naval attempts to expand chinese territory, and it s just a tough up-tempo. when you talk to people on the hill fighting for things like the end of sequestration, they say this is why you need a