This morning president trump tweeted, our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for 25 years giving billions of dollars around getting nothing. policy didn t work. and over the weekend, he tweeted that only one thing will work when dealing with north korea. he didn t specifically say what that one thing is. north korea sometimes test weapons on major holidays that country today marks the anniversary of the ruling party s creation. it is unclear thus far whether the dictator there has anything planned. gordon change is here, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes the world. you say our actions may disarm him. what are you talking about? president trump has a september 21 executive order. the executive order says anybody that does business with north korea does not do business with
North korea with chinese help. let s go to gordon chang, author of nuclear show down: north korea takes on the world. gordon, thank you. thanks, shep. shepard: a bit of a muted response. something about dogs barking. your thoughts? yeah, this is extremely significant. what president trump did and what treasury secretary mnuchin is now doing is shutting off the money to the north korean regime. every bank gets a free pass for what they did in the past with their relations with pyongyang. what mnuchin said, look, going forward, if a bank violates u.s. law, it will be designated. you heard that word designation in the press conference. that s under 311 of the patriot act. if a bank is so designated, it s cut off from the global financial system because it can no longer transact business in dollars. what the north koreans now will do is try to transact business in other currencies, what the
Would be beamed around the world. shortly thereafter defense secretary james mattis told pentagon reporters the u.s. military has military options in north korea that would not put seoul, south korea at risk, but he declined to provide details. this all comes one day after the president channeled the great british song writing duo of bernie top pin and elton john and wrote on twitter about his ongoing diplomatic process, quote, i spoke with president moon of south korea last night, asked him how rocket man is doing. long gas lines forge in north korea. too bad. joining us now among the great experts in the field, two of them, gordon chang, daily beast columnist, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world, and sue my terry, former north korea analyst at the cia. gordon, i m not joking when i
Unacceptable. even the nominal allies of north korea, russia and china also speaking out. nobody really knows how to harness this kim jong-un regime heading towards a real nuclear missile arsenal. back to you, trace. trace: greg palkot live in south korea. let s bring in gordon chang, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. great to see you. these launches are semi routine. they launch and everybody condemns the launch and the u.n. has an emergency meeting. they do something and everybody shrugs their shoulders. you pointed out something incredibly important. that is that we have to break this chain of events. president trump can say fire and fiery, locked and loaded but now we re passing from the point that we should be doing things. we should be imposes costs on
Briefing earlier today. this is just days after the north koreans claim they tested a hydrogen bomb. scientists say it was the north s most powerful nuclear test ever and last week, the regime fired a ballistic missile over japan, which is obviously a close u.s. ally. president trump said a military strike against north korea is not his first choice but we ll see what happens. that s a quote. he also talked by phone with chinese president xi and the two leaders agreed to strengthen coordination, whatever that means. the reuters news agency says the united states is asking the united nations to put an oil embargo against north korea and to go after kim jong-un personally, freezing his personal assets and putting him under a travel ban. fox news can t confirm that report. gordon chang is here author of nuclear show down: north korea