get legitimacy, and you can actually remain a bad actor, and this president, at least, will just take a meeting. and andrea, let s talk really briefly for people who may not be aware of it, but talk about how the north koreans have made fools of every american president since bill clinton. bill clinton, george w. bush, even though he then called them the evil empire, and barack obama, all three fooled. a former president, jimmy carter, going in 1984 and getting fooled and misled by kim jong-un s father. i was there during negotiations with the previously the highest ranking american to ever meet with a north korean leader was madeleine albright. so in october of 2000 we went, and they were going to normalize relations, and then george w. bush hit the pause button on that when he was elected in march of 2001. but they ve all been they ve cheated in every instance. and even the madeleine
in pyongyang in october of 2000 when we thought there was going to be an opening of diplomatic relations. george w. bush reversed that policy to south korea s surprise and certainly to the surprise of his own secretary of state at the time, colin powell. what is the possibility you a and i were there in 2006, i believe. yeah. what is the possibility of china looking for a way out of this escalating crisis? i think it s difficult, because if you listen to everything the north koreans say, it sounds like they re not willing to give up their nuclear weapons for anything. at the same time, though, gas prices have gone up in north korea year on year by 90%. rice prices are up by 60%. this is all a function of the sanctions that have been put on the north korea regime. not just by the united states and south korea, but china and all the u.n. member states now are participating in, what, seven u.n. security council
brigadier general, second highest ranking lawyer in u.s. marine corps. i told you there was something nuts that you needed to know that may pertain to the terror attack. what is nuts here tonight, that marine corps brigadier general, second highest ranking lawyer in the united states marine corps tonight is locked up at guantanamo. he s not in the prison cell blocks with the orange jump suit guys but he s locked up, confined in quarters at guantanamo. this is about as insane as it sounds. starts in october of 2000, less than a year before the 9/11 attacks when ship pulled in to yemen to get refuelled. two suicide bombers zipped up and detonated explosives they had packed on board.
brigadier general, second highest ranking lawyer in u.s. marine corps. i told you there was something nuts that you needed to know that may pertain to the terror attack. what is nuts here tonight, that marine corps brigadier general, second highest ranking lawyer in the united states marine corps tonight is locked up at guantanamo. he s not in the prison cell blocks with the orange jump suit guys but he s locked up, confined in quarters at guantanamo. this is about as insane as it sounds. starts in october of 2000, less than a year before the 9/11 attacks when ship pulled in to yemen to get refuelled. on that morning,
october of 2000 when there was even talk of normalizing relations, and that, of course, is completely gone off the rails. ambassador, from where you re sitting where is the conversation with china? what is the best hope that rex tillerson can have when he sits down in beijing? first of all there is no conversation with the north koreans, which is quite right. the real action should be with china and it s been rather episodic. we haven t had the deep dive we need to have with the chinese. there have been the sort of vague knows we can outsource it or use them as a contractor. i m not sure the chinese are prepared do that. i think it s an important trip and hope secretary tillerson gets his airplane fixed to get over there. a lot of stuff to get done. what is left for secretary of state rex tillerson in terms of pressure he can put on china? what s still out there? it s not just a matter of pressure. it s a matter of saying to the chinese, you don t want this, we don t want this,