just like sarah huckabee sanders tamped that down in the press conference yesterday, secretary mattis is in india today and he also tried to lower the tensions. let s just listen to what he had to say. our goal is to solve this diplomatically, and i believe president trump has been very clear on this issue. lindsay, what do you make of the responses to the north korean foreign minister? i think the challenge that we see here is this is a repeat game we re in where you see different members of the trump administration go out and say, hey, we want to solve this diplomatically. but then you see the president go out and give a different message. you know, we re going to totally destroy north korea if we have to. we don t want to, but we would if we were put in that position. and the problem here, and you saw this in the statement that kim jong-un made over the weekend, is that we re giving mixed messages to the north koreans, and it really
implementing sanctions which they agreed to pass, they can focus on really making things harder economically for north korea, and i think that the chinese and the u.s. can have is a dialogue also. you know, the chinese are not wrong when they say this kind of rhetoric is not helpful from the u.s. president. and the president and this administration are not wrong when they say the chinese could do a lot more. so i think when the president goes out to asia in the next month or so that this is obviously going to continue to be at the top of the list. all right, lindsay, always good to see you. thank you very much, lindsay ford, director of the asian security at the asian society. you make a good point here, stephanie. before we get to war and shooting down planes and all that, there is a lot of room to either impose more sanctions, deal with the chinese productively and see how that plays out than to jump to war. how about to institute the sanctions already imposed? that s what we h
your country, people tend to be more open to these ideas. matt, thanks, very much and hans as well. all right. whenever something happens in the korean peninsula we re on the phone with my next guest who knows this stuff better than pretty much anyone. lindsay ford, director of political security affairs with the asia society. talk to me about what you make of this, because it s becoming hard for people in the world to understand what pyongyang is hoping to achieve with these increasingly more threatening tests. i mean, albeit, this one is not as threatening as potential hydrogen bomb that went off the other day, but it went farther. what s the goal? i think the goal here is that they want to get the united states to recognize a north korean regime and do it on their terms. so the practical point here is, we demonstrate we have a credible nuclear ballistic missile program that we can strike the united states and
only block one. and 6 is greater than one. rethink your allergy relief. flonase sensimist. welcome back. you re watching quts velshi and ryu. nikki haley, ambassador to the united nations speaking a few moments ago. you speak about the crisis situation we re facing, this comes a day after telling the u.n. security council that north korean leader kim jong-un is begging for war with his recent provocative acts. amid that warning, growing speculation that north korea is preparing to conduct another long range missile test days from now. joining us now, lindsay ford, political affairs for the asia policy institute and former pentagon adviser on asia and
iranian culture and belief of the government. they are still who they were prior to the deal. one of the things that you mentioned we re listening to nikki haley. lindsay, she talked about iran and in iran we did two interesting we did two interesting things, we took them off the swift banking system. you couldn t use credit cards to pay for anything, couldn t use wires, anything like that. we put pressure on banks around the world who did any business with iran. it really helped. north korea doesn t help taking them off the swift banking system because they re so isolated. but there is power in leaning on the banks, particularly the chinese banks that continue to do work with north korea. it seems to me there is a lot of distance between where we are and war. i think that s true. i think we need to recognize when we re talking about the idea of secondary sanctions, there is two targets here. and one is north korea and one is china. and the goal with the idea of secondary sanct