and they just launch these things willy-nilly, and they land where they will, and japan is routinely concerned about it. you know, anderson for years, guam is the target that north korea talks about. they want to try to bring some type of destruction only because it s u.s. territory. it s close. it s not on the south korean peninsula. it is something in fact they can reach. and we don t know upon launch, we don t know where missiles go. they are literally going vertically. you got to start reading telemetry data. and then you start reading the tellemry data. the key thing for any missile launch, when you want to go after it, you want to go after it in the first minute of launch. it s slow. it s burning fuel whether it s liquid or solid. it s close to the ground. how do we do that very, very well? we can pick up the burn? how do we engage that? we don t have the ability to do that. guam is fine i think is the bottom line.
they could reach the american mainland. we have to assume that is the case. if you were secretary of defense what would you be doing? intensifying the sanctions that s being done. i would build up the defense capability on the south korean peninsula. i d be doing the same thing with japan and perhaps even talking about giving them offensive capability in the region in order to have a really strong deterrent in addition to ours. a number of other things, but i would intensify the sanctions to say to the north korean regime we re going to try to bring about a collapse of your economy. so that you can t keep doing this. it may not be possible. we won t have the support of the chinese or russians so it will have to be unilateral or as many friends as we can get to shut down their ability to generate the revenue. you travel all over the world and speak to world looereaders. this worked with iran when we
sheila about pete iran knows they are surely pursuing nuclear capabilities there is a possibility that terrorists get their hands on a small nuclear weapon and i think that the time has come to start recommissioning the sort of people who can think about actually deterring this convention wasn t made clear weapons. but you run the risk here. are you saying that as a first strike or as a deterrent in the korean peninsula? i m saying put everything on the table. i m not going to sit here and say we should do it first strike against software but i think he should think about doing it first strike and try to game out how that would work. so mary, you lived, worked in asia and you heard john say that he did not think that we should press her china but more persuade them that nuclear north korea is not in their interest to d.c. china coming around to that point of view? i think is a very difficult thing to achieve a lesser exhibit kind of pressure that ambassador bolden talked about.
acquiescing to the north korean nuclear threat. that is right. and look, if you read the media today, some academic publications in the country, people are already being prepared to accept a nuclear north korea. i will not accept a nuclear north korea. i accept and understand the danger to the south korean peninsula. but donald trump is not president of south korea. he is president of the united states and i am not willing to risk an erratic communistic dictatorship with nuclear weapons training our civilians are those in other countries in hopes that they won t lose their way. okay thank you ambassador. we dig deeper into the diplomacy surrounding the north korea troubles. what can the president do and what roles will his adversaries and allies play? our panel joins us, next.
range surface to surface missiles. they can fly up to about 200 miles, far short of the 4,000-mile intercontinental ballistic missile tested by north korea in the last 24 hours. first time north korea has tested such a long-range rocket. it s important to point out that in 1991 president george h.w. bush pulled out america s tactical nukes officee south korean peninsula. this test was a response to north korea. we have a statement from dana white, spokeswoman for the pentagon. the united states strongly condemns dprk s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. we are monitoring and continue to assess the situation in close coordination with our regional allies and partners. the launch continues to demonstrate north korea poses a