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New executive order that targets banks, companies and individuals, that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. in another significant move, the president said china told its central bank to stop doing business with the north. provides us with powerful new tools, but i want to be clear, the order targets only one country, and that country is north korea. the regime can no longer count on others to facilitate its trade and banking activities. that move comes two days after the president threatened it provoked to totally north korea. today, the country s foreign minister slapped back, he said the president s words were just the sound of a dog barking. joining us now nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker at trump tower. and from washington, jordan ....
And daly beast columnist, jordan chang, author of nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world someone we like to have on when discussing this because you lay it out in easy to understand terms. gordon, i want to jump off what ron was just talking about. those in that region seeing america as not a country speaking with one voice. the president tweets fire and fury, talks about fire and fury. he tweets threats to the south koreans. he tweets threats to china. he tweets threats to the north koreans. general mattis is saying diplomacy is still on the table. secretary tillerson, the same. what is the concern, the biggest concern right now, about how we can respond? well, i think the big concern is our allies. for instance, you have a conservative newspaper in seoul, very pro-american, now saying the united states is not the united states that we knew. so we have unnerved the south koreans. and certainly, if there is going to be a solution short of war, ....
I know that a measure of success may take longer than i d like, may take longer than you d like, but there will be success in the end one way or the other. joining me now, jordan chang, author of a book tonaek taknort korea takes on the world. do you agree that all will be fine? there is very little margin of area. we have maybe 12, 18 months before the north koreans can position a nuke to reach the lower 48. and then the policy make community will have to make a decision whether we can deter north korea. so this is an existential issue. and i hope it works out, but it will need a lot of good diplomacy on the part of the trump administration. and as we ve seen over the prior administrations, they have made ....
And the rising tensions in asia. the president travels, the white house travels with him. thank you so very much. joining me now to discuss, jordan chang is here. author of nuclear show down. great to have you. a lot of statementing coming from north korea. the latet statement coming out is we will mercilessly destroy all the choices of the u.s. and has to come to its senses and opt for a proper solution to the problem. what should folks take from this? the holiday is important. because it is actually a birthday, 105th anniversary. most important day of the year for the north koreans. they need to appear strong. kim jong-un has had problems inside his regime. especially since the end of january. we ve seen these four instances of instability. so i expect that kim jong-un just needs, to look strong. ....