joint military exercises and also stop the deployment of the anti missile defense shield. that is an untenable position for the united states and others. perhaps some more sanctions, perhaps some more deployment of american military power to the region and most certainly people are saying increase the sanctions and the pressure on chinese companies that do business with north korea. well, will any of this be effective? she also spoke with a former cia now with the heritage foundation who actually sat down with diplomats and he said a denuclearized is totally off the table and they would either step down or fight. really what are the options? all right. white house officials have reason to hope president trump s second european trip will be
testing surface-to-surface missiles which can travel up to 200 200 miles. seoul is 35 miles from the dmz. north korea has thousands of artillery units pointed at south korea s capital. south korea released a video simulating an attack on north korea. when asked why the pentagon did not shoot the missile down, a pentagon spokesman said the u.s. military did not employ an elaborate missile defense shield because it did not threaten the u.s. homeland. what worries u.s. officials is this two-stage missile was able to reenter the earths atmosphere and now has the range to hit alaska. the u.s. has dozens of interceptor missiles at bases in alaska and california to shoot down a rogue north korean missile in outer space. the navy has one less tool and its defense shield arsenal after the uss fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship. the fitzgerald has advanced
north korea s nuclear program it would have to stop the joint military exercises and also stop the deployment of the anti missile defense shield. that is an untenable position so far for the united states and others. so perhaps some more sanctions. perhaps some more deployment of american military power to the region and most certainly people are saying increase the sanctions and the pressure on chinese companies that do business with north korea. so that meeting between putin and president xi ahead of this meeting, this formal sitdown between president trump and vladimir putin and we re told that mcmasters says there s no specific agenda from president trump. it s whatever the president wants to talk about. what s the danger in no specific agenda and what s the likelihood of putin not having an agenda ahead of this meeting? absolutely no likelihood
the center pieces, one of the first things president trump did was meet with president xi and afterwards was very sort of flattering, they were both sort of flattering each oh and president trump believed that xi would be the key to north korea and the denuclearization. since that has not happened you ve seen the rhetoric and the action between the two countries develop, get harsher, and more belligerent and not only that, you ve seen president xi and president putin ahead of trump s visit get together in moscow as they did yesterday and put out their own north korea solution, and that was to the detriment of the united states policy, basically saying north korea should freeze, didn t even condemn it despite north korea s violation of the u.n. security council, but just freeze its program, but only in return for a u.s. freeze of military exercises with south korea and the u.s. thaad missile defense shield. so that is a no go for the united states so it s very interesting to see how tha
understand that we are not looking to necessarily unify the peninsula, and not necessarily looking to impede on their autonomy, and their insolance in their region, but the they are becoming more and more of a threat to the west, we will have to deal with it in a way that will make china more uncomfortable. and you have described what is adding to our confusion. the united states is across the world, and china does not want a missile defense shield for the reasons that you have described which are the same reasons in europe that it could be used gai against their country as well to shoot down their missiles and somehow mean that between us and japan and maybe south korea, the united states would have a very strong military foothold in that region. with that said, why would china