exports. after leading that charge, ambassador nikki haley talked even tougher on cnn. we re prepared to do whatever it takes to defend ourselves and to defend our allies. we have tried the say multiple times that all a options are on the table. reporter: among those options, so-called preventative war according to president trump s national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. but at the same tile, the president s chief diplomat signals a potential opening. the best signal that north korea could give us that they re prepared to talk would be to stop the missile launch. reporter: that appears to inch back from america s long held stance that the u.s. would only negotiate with north korea if pyongyang abandons its nuclear program. i think it makes sense to have that negotiation and to alu for the conditions. the challenge from what we ve seen is north korea is not giving us any indication that they re actually interested in talking to us right now. reporter: analyst says the hard
is preparing for a preventative war against north korea. there is no good answer after bill clinton tried to bribe them. they use our money to build them because of poor negotiations. i don t see a good option here? well, sean, i am sure north korea is watching western media and especially your show, and they need to know something. this is not the obama white house. there is a very different man today as commander in chief and they should not test president trump. sean: what do you make of kim jong-un and the thousand fold resxrefrj the sabre rattling the notice of icbm s literally reaching new york city and boston, massachusetts and moving
it takes to defend ourselves and our allies. we have tried to say multiple times that all options are on the table. reporter: among those options, so-called preventative war, according to h.r. mcmaster. but at the same time, the president s chief diplomat signals a potential opening. the best signal that north korea can give us that they re prepared to talk is to stop these missile launches. reporter: that appears to inch back from america s long-held stance that the u.s. would only negotiate if pyongyang abandons its nuclear program. it makes sense to allow for those conditions. the challenge, though, from what we ve seen is north korea has not given any indication they re interested in talking. reporter: analysts say the hard line of one side of trump s administration with a softer approach from the other is a carrot and stick tactic to get north korea s dictator to stop
toward generating some action against north korea. as joe mcmaster said, you know, the comments about what s going on with the military, the potential for using military actions, is still on the table. all of those things are sending a signal. is it enough? yeah, i don t know. this is increasingly complex. we are at an inflection point with north korea. they ve got to be made to stop doing missile testing and nuclear testing without warning anyone. what s your take on this, general tatum in terms of, yes, this is great, as general hu hurtling says, you ve got your 15-0 in the u.n., nikki haley helping to marshal a consensus, but at the end of the day, doesn t change the math or pressure dynamic going on with north korea. chris, wii think you re explaining exactly why h.r. mcmaster said what he said. you ve got to have preventative
december pid. the only way we re going to end this is by negotiating with kim, unless we intend that he s willing to engage in a preventative war. but that would be very dangerous because that would lead almost to an escalation on the korean peninsula that could have catastrophic implications for us and other parts of the world. and what do you do in terms of the strategy to deal with the other parts of china s reluctan reluctance, which is not wanting to see military build up by the united states or its allies around its border. interference with $7 billion in trade with north korea. the concerns if there is any type of acceleration of trade in north korea there may be a humanitarian crisis across the border into china. how do you deal with those?