Big question for the world tonight. Thanks for joining us. You can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. Have a good weekend. See you monday. Ac 360 begins right now. Good evening. We begin with more startling headlines from President Trump. In just a last four days, hes threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasnt enough of a threat. Said American Forces are Locked And Loaded and late today he said even more. Appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. When he was over, he raised the possibility of u. S. Military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out. But this has been going on for many years. It would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that theyre in. But we will see what happens. We think that lots of good things could happen, and we
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threat, others took it as deterrence and a warning. how would read what the united states is signalling? the problem is right now there aren t very good options available. that s what we ve all recognized. i mean, we would love to have a diplomatic option, but that s not viable at this point. the military options, we know what the consequences would be, the potential of a nuclear war or the destruction of seoul and south korea. those are unacceptable. i think the only course of action here is to tighten the noose around north korea in terms of containment and deterrence. we ve got to continue to build up our military, we ve got to strengthen our presence both in south korea and japan. we ve got to create a missile shield that can actually prevent these missiles from leaving north korea. and we ve got to be able to do that, and at the same time, obviously, strengthen the
there are no good military options. you have to have a military option. you have to be prepared to execute it. but that s the last thing you want to do. any military action, no matter what it is, is going to precipitate the destruction of seoul and the ultimate destruction of the north korean government. they know that, everybody knows it, and we all agree no one wants to have a war. but somebody in this equation is going to have to back down or change their position, because if, as peter says, if the president is going to stick to this position that we will not tolerate a nuclear armed north korea with an icbm and the north koreans insist that it s part of their constitution, that they re not going to get rid of their nuclear weapons, all we re doing is kicking the can down the road. i think what s probably going to happen is we re going defuse this diplomatically and be right back where we are and have this same conversation a couple of years from now. coming up, as the rhetoric ge
lumatic out. i talked to a number of former diplomats works trying to negotiate with north korea. and talked to general hayden who said if there is a military confrontation, obviously in all the war games they have ruled out, the u.s. wins but there s not a lot of great military options. you agree with that? from a human life standpoint? yeah, acbsalutely. you have to have a military option. you have to be prepared to execute it but that s the last thing you want to do. any military action, no matter what it is, is going to precipitate the destruction of seoul and ultimate destruction of the north korean government. everybody knows it and as everybody has said we all agree no one wants to have a war but somebody in this equation is going to have to back down or change their position because if, as peter said, if the