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Hits that city with 10 million people and there begins a very horrible scenario, not only for the korean peninsula but for all of asia. >> thats right. thats why its called a demilitarized zone where those forces face one another. key points to remember, we do have good missile defenses. our forces in south korea are very strong. im not surprised that weve seen concerns by south koreas population about what this means for them. this really is in their backyard. but remember, china comes in here,...

Last word. >> look, the chinese calculation is if they helped bring down the north korean regime, theyre going to have a democratic westernized south korea all the way up to the border probably with nuclear weapons, and that is the last thing they want. and they have a buffer state and that -- it acts as a buffer between the west and south korea. >> bill: make them behave. keep them as a buffer. >> how do you make a great power behave? you tell me. >> bill: whos a great power? not north korea, t...

>> look, the chinese calculation is if they helped bring down the north korean regime, theyre going to have a democratic westernized south korea all the way up to the border probablyc with nuclear weapons, and thatat is the last thing they want. they now have a buffer state and thats a client state. it acts as a buffer between the west and south korea. >> bill: make them behave. keep them as a buffer. >> how do you make a great power behave? you tell me. >> bill: whos a great power?o not north k...

Going to look at this and say the we knew the americans are wig to use power. weve seen that. >> george bush lobbying us, to put pressure on north korea for his entire administration started two wars. so weve seen that the americans are able to use force. will the chinese really change their policy toward north korea? they have a lot of vested interest in take buffer state between them and not just south korea, but u.s. forces in asian and frankly the rest of the world. message sent to russia, l...

Are being struck by vladimir putin, and we are sitting by and watching it. and a recent leader of the free syrian army says weve been abandoned by the united states. weve got a huge credibility problem here that were going to have to rebuild as well. what is the morality of training young men, send them into syria and then not protect them from attacks of the russians and bashar al assad? >> but if the russians dont cooperate, what youre suggesting, senator -- correct me if im wrong -- potential...

Of its own problems, its fundamental problems itself. and the best way to do that in my view and to not excite this great rivalry that might suck us all in is to create a buffer state there, recognize crimea as being gone. create a buffer state in ukraine, get the cia out of kiev, get its equivalent in russia out of kiev, get the nab out of kiev, and let the ukrainians take care of that part of ukraine and bring it back to some part of prosperity and stability. >> the question upon which much of...

You just played reminded me he was the danish leader who drug liz country denmark into the disastrous iraq war in 2003. this is not something that anybody needs. not the west, not russia, not the world. there needs to be an end to the passion, an end to the pundittry and the solution. the solution is staring us in the face. gordon adams and john mirshimer and others have talked about it over the last few days. ukraine needs to be a buffer state between an alliance that russia hates, nato, and a ...

Moscow and kiev. the problem is few analysts think that vladimir putin will swallow this diplomatic pill. russia is in political, economic, and social decline. putins tactics led its people to depose russian backed president yanukovych last month and form a new government. by his behavior, putin has driven russias neighbors clovers to nato. russia has likely lost most of ukraine as a buffer state even if it claims crimea as a consolation prize. the world simply isnt moving russias way. chuck tod...

Director of national intelligence testify as he has in the past couple of days that this is somehow a reflection of an effort internally to show that kim jong-un is in control. we dont know whether he is in control, the generals are in control, or its some combination in between. i think youre right. china is schizophrenic about what to do with north korea. the older generation, still looks at north korea as a necessary buffer state to keep the united states away from the border with china. the ...

Action by china. thats pretty typical that is three decades of no response by china, no pressure by china on its client state. >> right, exactly. the chinese leadership is divided over how to handle north korea. the traditional few has been, theyre an ally. we want a buffer state between them and the united states. but among younger chinese leaders youre now seeing op-eds being published and discussion in the media about what an ugly piece of baggage this regime in pongyang is. we should have st...