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Pentagon. >> this gets a perspective from south korea. paula joins from seoul. hello. >> hello natalie. well weve heard on thursday in hamburg from the south korean president moon when it comes to north korea really outlining his policy what he thinks should happen. he is proengagement, pro diplomacy, dialogue with north korea. but since that icbm launch earlier this week he had been pushing for stronger sanctions alongside the united states. but what we heard in this think tank speech was that ...

Military solution it is going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale. >> reporter: military options have been updated for the president but the problem is unchanged. a limited u.s. strike poses significant risk. kim jong-un could quickly attack seoul, south korea, killing millions. >> we would have to be prepared to go all in meaning all out korean war. >> reporter: the u.s. does have a limited missile defense capability on land and at sea but there are questions about its reliability in some cas...

Than what weve seen in the press. the big question is, have we worked through a pathway in which we understand what were looking for as an outcome without creating a major war? after all, realize, seoul is 30 kilometers from the artillery of north korea. and if they were to test a missile and we were to respond to attack north korea and north korea, within seconds, could attack seoul, you could have tens of thousands of people dying in a very short period of time. and so this is a very -- i dont...

Go and incept it and weve spent $300 billion since the eisenhower era. it just doesnt work very well which is why the president ordered this effort for left of launch trying to sabotage the missiles prior to their liftoff. >> in the piece we showed that you wrote about, you cited it could be simple incompetence. doe put too much stock in the polish for them to attack california and not enough focus on what they can do right on the korean peninsula, specifically that they could attack seoul. >> t...

Launch trying to sabotage the missiles prior to their liftoff. >> the piece that we showed, that you wrote about this whole program. you cited it could be simple incompetence. the north koreans are just not that good at creating the technology they boast about. do they put too much stock in the potential for them to attack california and not enough focus on what they can do on the korean peninsula. specifically that they could attack seoul. >> they can attack seoul with nuclear and nonnuclear as...

Grievously wounded in that north korea will attack seoul, south korea and tens, hundreds of thousands of people could die. number two, you pressure china really hard in a way that risks our bilateral relationship with china which is hugely important economically, strategically in all kinds of ways. or you bargain. and mike pence did say today or yesterday, he did hold out the possibility that we could have talks with north korea. but were going to have to make some really grievous, painful conce...

>> in the piece we showed that you wrote about, you cited it could be simple incompetence. do we put too much stock in the polish for them to attack california and not enough focus on what they can do right on the korean peninsula, specifically that they could attack seoul. >> they can attack seoul with both nuclear and nonnuclear assets. and this is the reason this problem hasnt been solved in the past 20 years. the distance between the northern and the demilitarized zone where you saw mike pen...

And i think thats dangerous, because that will signal to the north koreans, hey, they better do something first before we take them out. fundamentally, fundamentally, kim jong un believes these weapons that he has, his nuclear capabilities, his missiles are the guarantors of his survival. if he thinks his survival is under threat, he will use those weapons. dheel so p hell do so prematurely and then well be at war. >> michael, what are the good options to solve this, to cool it down before a sho...

We let you go. you have the world stage obviously watching this and hearing about this as well. but asia, china specifically with the president meeting with president xi jinping in florida when these strikes were ordered -- how do you think this might be taken given that and especially with north korea? >> well, i think probably there was something in the administration that this would be a signal to north korea that nobody is going to stand idly by while it builds missiles that could attackhe u...

Joining us now from seoul, janice mackey frere. lets talk a little bit about the air strikes in syria and how thats playing out in the korean peninsula. what message does that send to the korean peninsula and, more importantly, to allies and enemies across asia? >> well, it will certainly reframe the discussion that presidents trump and xi will be having on north korea. trump has now shown he is willing to use force as a deterrent in problem areas of the world. north korea has certainly been a p...