united nations just 24 hours ago, you heard a diplomat say his country didn t yet trust the u.s. enough to move forward with disarming its nukes. but you then again, if you listen to president trump in west virginia just last night, you heard this you know the interesting thing, when i did it, and i was really being tough, and so was he, and we were going back and forth, and then we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they are great letters. we fell in love. but you know what, now, they will say donald trump said they fell in love! how horrible, how horrible is that. so unpresidential. and i always tell you, it is so easy to be presidential, but instead of having 10,000 people outside trying to get into this packed arena, we d have about 200 people standing right there. gordon chang is author of nuclear showdown north korea
his people, you see the ferver, they have a great ferver. he wants to do something great with his country. he wants to make his country great. he wants to do what s right. he was really very gracious and i think we understand each other. got along very well. i think he trusts me and i trust him. outfront now, gordon chang, author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world and the former army commanding general for europe of the seventh army m thank you very much. gordon. president trump. says he wishes americans stood at attention for him like the north koreans do then when he was asked about it said oh, this is just a joke. what was your reaction when you howa heard him say it first time? this is more pernicious than people think. this is not russian meddling in our democracy. this is an all out saul on our democracy. and so at this particular time when we face a threat, no
talk too and washington are firmly of the opinion that dialogue for the sake of dialogue is meaningless. the daily noting kim jong-un s to washington highly around the world except for in south korea. that s they said they said. who knows what will happen. if it happens, doesn t happen, we may leave fast or it may be for the greatest deal of the world or these country and including north korea. that s what i hope happens. i want it bring in daily beast columnist and author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world. back with us again ken vogel and dorene superville as well. mike pompeo did the morning round this morning talking about north korea. take a listen who what he said and i ll get your reaction it it. trump isn t doing this for
gordon chang is the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world. let s start with the president s claim of credit. the president says if he were not involved that these conversations between the north and the south would not be happening. true? i hate to say this, but, yes, and no. yes, because kim jong-un, the north korean leader, is, i think, hurting. we heard this in his new year s address. he talked about sanctions being existential threat to his state so clearly he needs to talk to the south koreans to get eight but no, what we are seizing their regular cycle. this is a seven decade old playbook. first the north koreans refuse to talk to south korea and then demand sessions and some of those could be quite big and if they don t get what they want, they throw a tantrum. this is sort of the kim family
patty: 1 back to fox and friends first, 4:16 on the east coast. north korea launching an intercontinental ballistic missile that has the power to reach the us mainland. donald trump promising to, quote, take care of it. how should we respond? the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world. really appreciate it. thank you. heather: let s talk about what happened yesterday. this includes 2800 miles into space, 2800 miles up, the highest it has ever gone, 53 minutes and landed off the japanese coast 600 miles away and then we hear it could reach any city in the us. are you surprised what happened yesterday? i was surprised they launched at this time.