number of significant milestones. testing an icbm twice basically successfully. claims that appear to be credible they can miniaturize. no if not now, soon. they have tested thermonuclear device. if this is indeed a boost fission as opposed to hydrogen bomb they are not far away. what is the point of sanctions an what other tools do we put at our disposal. that is, what is the role of diplomacy, deterrence and detainment of the north korean regime. colonel jack, president trump has said a lot of things about this. he wants to break off trade with north korea. the time for talk is over. general mattis said the time for talk is never over. then this is what general mattis said just yesterday. let s listen in together. any threat to the united states or its territories, including guam, or our allies
fission explosion device which is a little simpler and they ve mastered so far. at the same time, though, north korea could have potentially taken a couple of steps further and developed a little bit more of a complicated device. that device, though, would be more of a one-stage thermonuclear device, which is a lot easier to build compared to a two-stage fission/fusion but a little more complicated than their past models. however, brooke hang on. can i just jump in? i m sorry. trying to follow you through the phases. when you re looking, clearly you are quite bright on all of this, when you re looking at all the satellite imagery, what are you looking for? okay, brooke, just a quick note. we just received our first batch of satellite imagery a couple of hours ago. it took us a fair amount of time to get those in. at the moment, i was able to peek at one image before running here, and what we re looking for is activity relating to signatures at the site. so what i can tell you for
i fear he has miss judged the current situation. that was a bit chilling as i think you ll agree, jeremy. what do you think he is referencing there? i think what he s referencing is that the white house has asked the pentagon and the joint chiefs for military options. i m told that the president has repeatedly asked his senior military advisers to present those options and to lay out what would be required for the military to deploy forces to the pacific to undertake military action. i don t think the president has made a decision to undertake military action, but i think he clearly wants that option available to him. look, we ve had five of the most provocative acts con sooebl here in the last interval of time. we ve had two icbm tests. a nuclear test of a probable two-stage thermonuclear device, an underground test. the sixth by the north korean regime. and then we ve two intermediate tests over our ally japan.