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American b-1 bombers and south korean fighter jets flew over the korean peninsula and the u.s. military says a test of its missile defense system thaad was successful. the system was designed to track and intercept missiles before they reach their targets. weapon experts fear that the latest launch of this intercontinental ballistic missile believes that north korea now has the capability to threaten major u.s. cities. i am joined by msnbc contributor steve collegeons who is editor-at-large for the atlantic and author of a nuclear showdown, north korea takes the world. good to have you here. let me begin with you because you heard the vice president saying china could do more. what are we asking them to do more than we already know? first of all, we re asking china to stop the flow of money into the north korean regime. we re asking them to stop money laundering for north korea which the banks are doing, and the one ....
Thing we haven t asked and what we should be doing is saying to the chinese, look, stop the flow of ballistic missile technology and equipment to the north koreans because this is, of course, critical with these issues today and we re not talking about these things. no, that was a great read. i was looking at the article that you put together about chinese technology that s going into these weapons that we re covering right now and talking about. that would be a good start, a logical start. steve, we repeatedly heard there are no good options. so let s talk about the fact that there s so much distraction from the white house. the real test is going to come for president trump and his team at a crisis moment. is north korea going to be that moment? i think it is. unless another natural disaster of some sort comes along first, but north toria is turning out to be a defining moment for this administration. i agree with everything that gordon just said and to a certain degree, it s too ....
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Country like china. chinese president xi jinping is in a sensitive period. just a couple of months before the communist party in either october or november. this is a period in which he could lose his position. the united states has a lot of say whether he stays or goes and we should be trying to exercise that leverage over china right now. to make sure that we have someone there that is a willing partner in what s going on. but, steve, with the fact that north korea has advanced and you said that it s gone too far in terms of what they ve been able to accomplish, should we cut china out as the middle country, so to speak and have direct talks with kim jong-un and their diplomatic representatives about this? i don t think one should cut china out. china is, i think, basically a smart cal braibrator. they have this notion that china will just do this for us. that was a ridiculous notion which you and i talked about ....