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First lady melania trump arriving with him. the president has his first stop here at yokata air base. this is the first stop of five countries in asia. shinzo abe will be meeting with the president. this is a 12-day trip, china, the philippines, vietnam, also on this list. the president will speak to what you see right here, u.s. troops stationed there at the yokata air base, when he does get off of air force one. the air base, his first public event on this trip. we ll, of course, get straight to the president when he does come off of air force one. joining us right now is jonathan pollack, senior fellow, brookings center, for east asia policy. we also have bill powell. ....
Jonathan, let s start with this, the president has john park by the way, director at the korea working group. aroujohnathon if you can for us. what s the unique objective of president trump as he sits with shinzo abe. each country has a different people. i think his meetings with abe will be the easiest. they already have a very comfortable relationship, abe was the first one in the door after trump was elected president. and he s cultivated nose relatithose relations, and trump has returned the favor. the japanese want to see his summit visit to japan, as essentially a risk free summit. lots of pomp, meeting with the emperor and emporess and other kinds of activities, of course, golf with shinzo april. ....
September 5 through seven, margin of error, 3.1%age points. jonathan pollack, this is really the dynamic here. south carolina the residents there wanting to stand up to a potential north korea that has nuclear weapons? richard, i wouldn t take these polls too seriously. this is more an emotional response than a rational response. for many years, there has been some of this sentiment in south korea, and, of course, some of this has been heightened to be sure. given the recent events. but it s more set in the abstract. the challenge here, very simply put, this is true with japan, though in a different way. what the united states can and must do to reinforce unambiguously, unequick of coursely, the degree of our commitment, security commitment ....
Are part of this number that we are talking about related to daca who could lose either eligibility or lose status. this effects a big fabric, a large piece of the fabric of america. ximen a, v ximena, victoria, thank you. breaking news, the south korean news agency reporting that south korea has conducted a ballistic missile drill. in response to north korea s latest nuclear test in the last 24 hours, the u.n. security council are now planning to have an emergency meeting in the morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern time, to discuss how to handle pyongyang s latest actions. joining me now, jonathan pollack, senior knell fefellow center for east asia policy at the brookings institution. things are moving here quickly. we have the u.n. security council moving again, though some would argue their moves in june did very little to mitigate some of the actions and activities coming out of north korea. we also have the response coming out of the white house. ....
Agreement. you just don t do this to an ally that s under extraordinary threat, extraordinary pressure. but the administration, words can t do it. we have to look at this in a way that s candid, but more than this, there has to be message discipline coming from the white house that we just haven t seen. well then, jonathan, following that line of thought, is that why south korea has now conducted this ballistic missile test? not knowing, they re unsure of the support coming from the united states. i think there s some symbolism in it. i just wouldn t really i mean what the capability they have perhaps under some circumstances is to hit an incoming ballistic missile. north korea does not need nuclear weapons to threaten south korea. their pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability has much bigger ideas in mind, much bigger fish to fry, if you will. but there s definitely a feeling, i think, in south korea that they have to demonstrate to ....