negotiating table. and directly to america he said there s no bigger mistake than the u.s. believing its land is safe across the ocean. a lot of that was restating old threats, but of course, as this crisis grows and the north s capability grows, those threats become ever more menacing. rex tillerson has been working in by laterals very hard to pile the pressure on north korea, to get all these countries, and they are pretty much united, 26 against one, to pile the pressure and to try to stop north korea doing these what everyone calls are provocative tests. even china gave north korea a very public dressing down by saying stop the tests. they are provocative. the north korean issue, katy is far from finished. it s just growing in intensity. back to you. bill kneely from the philippines. bill, thank you very much. and joining me now is gordon chang, the author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. he s also a columnist for the
beijing, the chinese talks about negative factors affecting the two nations. let s bring in gorden chang, author of nuclear show down. did the chinese just say without using his name donald trump just stabbed us in the back? yeah. shepard: is that what they said? that s what they said. also in the context of what the foreign ministry spokesman said, it s clear he s talking about the united states and south korea. you never hear government officials use language like this in public. much less diplomats. shepard: from china. from anybody. this is just unprecedented. especially from china. so what we have right now is somewhat distressed and anger inside the chinese political superior. obviously they re directing it against the united states. there s a number of theories why this is occurring right now. indeed, relations between the u.s. and china are growing to
bombers over the peninsula in a show of force against north korea. let s to the gordon chang, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. two senators, john mccain and marco rubio saying that the north koreans murdered warmbier. as a journalist, i have to ask, where is the evidence of this. what do we know about the circumstances, the horrible circumstances surrounds his death? the most important thing we know is otto warmbier suffered brain damage. brain tissue died. normally that happens after a loss of blood flow to the brain. sort of cardiac arrest or something like that. could be trauma. clearly murder seems to be the number 1 situation. some people are talking about an attempted suicide. warmbier lost consciousness after his trial in march of 2016. so maybe he fell into depression or despair. whatever the cause, shep,
another reason to have one. another nuclear missile test. again, the 11th this year. gordon cheng author of nuclear show down. we re eventually becoming a big threat. not yet follow-through. we make it clear that we want to do and plan to do something. what do you think that is? i don t think the united states will create a military conflict. the reason is as secretary right field of defense mattis said, a war there would be unbelievably tragic. there s a lot of things that we can do, neil. like? we can put sanction on chinese banks. the missile that flew yesterday is from china in all probability. we have to ask questions why these end up in north korea?
military muscle and nuclear force. fox news has told the u.s. ships will arrive near the peninsula in two weeks. let s turn to gordon chang, the author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. help us understand this. we re sending the carl vinson into the sea of japan. in 2010, we had a kerfuffle with beijing because the north koreans sunk a frigate. killed 46 sailors. we wanted to send another aircraft carrier in the region. beijing objected. we pulled back. and the north koreans killed another four southern koreans shelling an island. there s a history to us sending carriers around the peninsula.