that site is ready for other additional tests, so some concern there. it is also more military drills involving the south koreans and united states. there were four south korean f 15 s. still continuing to show this strong show of force that we ve been seeing over the past few weeks, especially ahead of this u.n. ga meeting. certainly a heightened focus. this one a very dangerous moment indeed. thank you. secretary of state rex tillerson and his russian counterpart sergey meeting sunday in h new york to discuss the conflict in syria. the state department says they talked about deacon flicting military operations there.
think you will see officials continuing to press up world leaders to turn up the pressure on north korea to find a diplomatic solution. thanks. president trump keeping the lines of communication open with south korean president moon jay in. after the latest ballistic missile test. let s go live to seoul. good morning to you. diplomats from both north korea and south korea will be in the audience for the speech on tuesday. what should they expect to hear? reporter: good morning, dave. for the south koreans, they re expecting talk of unity and trenth strength. you ll likely hear more talk about sanctions and pressure. for the north koreans, that s what they re going to probably be expecting as well, although
this week you will see officials continuing to press world leaders to turn up the pressure on north korea to find a diplomatic solution. all right. elise. thank you for that. president trump keeping the lines of communication open this weekend with the south korean president. the two leaders agreed to intensify sanctions against north korea after the latest ballistic tests, we re going to bring in ian lee. what is the latest from seoul this morning? reporter: good morning, christine. diplomats are going to be watching to to see what he has to say but a lot of the tension is on the korean peninsula. they re in the final stages of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile and also pointed out that where the nuclear bomb took test, they say
they won t be as receptive to that sort of talk. and we heard from korean state media recently saying that kim jong-un has called for an equilibrium of real force with the u.s. and make the u.s. rulers dare not to talk about military options against the state of north korea. so you re having tough talk there from the north. talking about an equal wilib rem would be tough to match the u.s. but when it comes to the region it could be an arms race. there s talks of either south korea developing its own nuclear weapon or bringing in american nuclear weapons although the president said he s still committed to a denuclearized peninsula. but it does make for a dangerous situation and the youtunited st
korea. on sunday the president alluded to those sanctions, taking a swipe at the north korean leader in a tweet saying, quote i spoke to president moon on south korea last night, asked him ow rocket man is doing. long gas lines forming in north korea. too bad. his top national security officials fanned out across the sunday morning talk shows, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley told cnn s dana bash on state of the un that the u.s. security counsel is running out of options and the united states may have to turn the matter over to the pentagon. take a listen. i think we all know that basically if north korea keeps on with this reckless behavior, if the united states haed to defend it sev or it allies in any way, north korea will be destroy the. we all know that and none of us want that none of us want war. despite the hard line, i