new intelligence appears to show kim jong-un is taking evasive action to protect his weapons. even as president trump moves closer to a second summit with the 35-year-old dictator. kim s regime is working to make sure its nuclear and missiletak by u.s. air strikes. the more they disburse it, the more confidence their assets may be able to survive a conflict. reporter: details of a u.n. report were confirmed to cnn by a u.n. security council diplomat. the regime is using civilian facilities like airports to assemble and test ballistic missiles to evade so-called decapitation strikes. they know that would create a dilemma for the united states military planners if we knew that there were an asset we needed to destroy but civilians might be injured. reporter: north korea is r d rendering u.n. sanctions ineffective thanks to ship to ship oil transfers. north korea continues to try to
restrained in any way. this is the diplomatic challenge for mike pompeo and i m glad he is the one leading the way with his team, envoy from north korea, who is very exceptional talent as well in this area but that is the challenge. mike pompeo has to convince south korea to stay the course, to pressure china and russia to the extent we can. north korea is exporting their labor and weapons, conducting ship to ship oil transfers, breaking sanctions enough that their economy doesn t completely fall apart, while they pressure is not to push them too hard on denuclearization. shannon: one mit professor nuclear expert says this. so long as there is no deal and there is no deal it would be foolish for kim jong un to stop improving his short-range missile operating bases.
in any way. right. this is the diplomatic challenge for secretary pompeo and i m glad he s the one reading the way with his team and our envoy for north korea s team, very, very exceptional talent as well in this area. but that s the challenge. secretary pompeo has to convince south korea to stay the course. he has to pressure china and russia to the extent that we can. but north korea is still exporting their labor and weapons in their conducting ship to ship oil transfers. breaking sanctions enough, they hope so that their economy doesn t completely fall apart while they pressure us not to push them too hard on denuclearization. shannon: one mit professor and nuclear expert says this, also in the wall street journal. so long as there s no deal, and there is no deal, it would be foolish for kim jong un to give up or even stop improving his short-range missile operating bases. the singapore summit was positive, these guys have some kind of relationship now but
korea mission center along with secretary pompeo. this shows the president making a very deliberate decision based on v intelligence and the best diplomatic advice he could get from secretary pompeo. i think we should be reassured by that process, which was spot on. judge jeanine: a few seconds left, morgan. what about the satellite imagery that seems to indicate they are still working on north korea on denuclearization? don t they know we can see that stuff? [laughs] you would think they would knowo that by now. we also saw that secretary pompeo went to the u.n. a few weeks ago and called out the russians and called out the chinese for these ship to ship oil transfers in which they were alleviating sanctions. i think the president might be considered going back to the maximum pressure campaign. i think from his tweets, he is still trying to keep a relationship with kim jong un because from his perspective,
now keeping its eyes on how north korea can skirt these sanctions by using an illegal network of ships. south korean authorities have been raising red flags. authorities are saying that back in november they seized a hong kong based ship that had left port in south korea carrying oil that it used to make an illegal transfer to a north korean ship. that s a blatant violation of u.n. security council orders. it came from south korean media about these ships. they say chinese ships were being used to make these oil transfers to north korean ships. again, a violation of u.n. security council sanctions. the ministry of foreign affairs here in beijing was asked about those reports earlier this week even before that tweet from president trump. they denied the accusations, denied the allegations. they said china remains committed to upholding all of the tenants of the u.n. security council allegations. if there was evidence that these