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Many sanctions will affect the government versus how many sanctions will cause a humanitarian crisis and will affect the millions of people that live in north korea. one of the concerns of china, as im sure mr. chang will tell you, is the humanitarian crisis, it would cause an implosion in north korea, and a huge humanitarian crisis in north korea. its what south korea has looked at, if the border opens up, if the dear leader is deposed and you have millions of north koreans who then need humani...

Ballistic missile from north korea. the exact type of missile we dont know yet, the exact flight path we also dont know. joining us know, ambassador hill who headed the u.s. delegation to six-party talks and who has negotiated with the north koreans numerous times in his career. also with us, athena jones. i want to start with you, athena, as i understand the president has recently come before cameras. did he say anything in reaction to what weve learned about north koreas missile launch? >> rep...

Implosion. china doesnt like to talk about those issues but its very important that we be willing to do that and establish, dare i say it, some level of trust with the chinese. its been a bit of a rocky start for the trump administration. but as i mentioned, i thought that conversation the other day in which president trump did accept the one-china policy is a good step. and i know theres a lot of talk about whether russia could be helpful. in my experience theyve never been helpful on this. ill...

Missile. theyre still doing that. they still have a lot of problems in their missile program. this is another launch where theyre tweaking japan, the united states, china, and others, saying we still have the capability and we will continue to do this. >> gordon, i know you spoke earlier that the chinese could have an important role here. what could the u.s. do in collaboration with the chinese that could effectively count counter north koreas development of nuclear missiles? >> it could cut off...

Not, still to be determined but elise, is there danger in overreacting? >> i think there is. we said any time north korea tests a missile of this range they are continuing too perfect the program. its not like this is not important but its not a development that the u.s. needs to kind of ramp up in a significant way its posture its already doing it, u.s. south korea and japan have been looking at increasing deterrence and bigger defenses in the region. the u.s. this new administration is clearly...

Japan, and south korean trilateral alliance is for the pacific. it will be interesting to see how and when the national security council responds. >> were monitoring president trumps twitter feed because we often know he likes to respond there first, we havent seen anything yet. elise, this launch we do know was anticipated for some weeks. the warning by north korea back on january 1st that it is soon to having an intercontinental ballistic missile ready to go. and again, we can confirm that thi...

Interest mediate range missile. lets bring our viewers up to speed. tell us what we know now about this launch and why it matters so much the type of missile the north koreans fired. >> our understanding and lets be clear, its very early, the u.s. and its partners in japan and south korea are just looking now at this projectile it seems to be an inter mediate range missile and it seems to have gone for a range about 500 kilometers. now thats not very far. this is a missile that north korea has t...

Want to negotiate with north korea until its ready to give up its nuclear program and some people think they delayed themselves into a very substantial north korean nuclear and missile program. they dont have the luxury of continuing to delay this any longer. demanders in the pacific have said that north korea could have an icbm within a year and as they continue to perfect their nuclear capability, thats a very dangerous trajectory. >> thanks to both of you for the information. again, just to r...

From overseas. now confirmed, a launch of a missile, some kind of ballistic missile from north korea. our white house correspondent athena jones is in south florida where president trump is playing host to the japanese prime minister this evening. with us, retired general hertling. athena, youre learning that the president has been briefed. >> reporter: thats right, ana, the president has been briefed about this north korea missile launch. and as you said, we saw video just a short while ago whe...

Give an indication. the north koreans have often filed these launches toward the sea of japan. the accuracy of their weapons just are not very good. they aim and shoot and dont care where they land. theyre trying to get distance. theyre trying to read things like does the missile fall apart. they may have been testing some type of heat shield on the reentry vehicle. they may have been testing whether or not the missile could withstand gs. it could have been a weighted payload, not a nuclear payl...