This morning the regime launched a Ballistic Missile over japan and into the Pacific Ocean. Analysts say it flew far enough to hit the u. S. Territory of guam. The u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley spoke at the white house briefing. She said if north korea continuing its aggression, she could hand over the situation to james mattis, the defense secretary. Theres not a lot the Security Council will do from here when you cut the trade and the oil. So having said that, i have no problem kicking to it general mattis. I think he has plenty of options. The United Nations Security Council holding an Emergency Meeting this hour after north koreas launch. John roberts is live for us at the white house. John, what else did the white house says about north korea . Good afternoon. The president left on a helicopter a short time ago to go to Joint Base Andrews for the speech that will be coming in about 40 minutes. He was asked if he was running out of options on north korea. The p
unacceptable. even the nominal allies of north korea, russia and china also speaking out. nobody really knows how to harness this kim jong-un regime heading towards a real nuclear missile arsenal. back to you, trace. trace: greg palkot live in south korea. let s bring in gordon chang, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. great to see you. these launches are semi routine. they launch and everybody condemns the launch and the u.n. has an emergency meeting. they do something and everybody shrugs their shoulders. you pointed out something incredibly important. that is that we have to break this chain of events. president trump can say fire and fiery, locked and loaded but now we re passing from the point that we should be doing things. we should be imposes costs on