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Dangerous game? >> north korea passed a law back in september and 2022 to declare a nuclear first strike. they watched russia fail utterly on the war in ukraine but succeed in only one thing on rhetorical nuclear brinkmanship. inducing paralysis on the vitamin especially north korea it sees an opportunity to gain leverage and perhaps to induce the united states to tamper down on our military deployments in the region and the military exercises that kitty noted. they have been recently and this p...

This rhetoric when the u.s. and south korea are conducting joint military exercises. something seen a lot of in the last months of your show of force against the regime. but also it is interesting to note north korea has not made any public comments five days after an american soldier, travis king, ran across the border to the north. it is not clear where he is being cap to prove we do not know anything about his condition. u.s. officials say they are concerned about his well-being. they are als...

Conspiracy, laying out for them, hey, you face possible culpability if you dont cooperate and tell us the truth, has led some of them to tell the truth. we dont have, congress doesnt have the ability to charge anyone who didnt have that leverage. so my guess is theyve built upon an even stronger showing. >> can you imagine if your investigation was the floor, not the ceiling, of the facts and the universe of facts that were there? im honing in on this conspiracy again. as much as weve heard from...

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That way. they may use him for propaganda, you can see the appeal of a us soldier willingly deciding to go and live in north korea, to people who have very limited access to what is happening on the outside world. they may want to use him as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with the us. the two sides have not negotiated since 2019. north korea have not wanted to talk to the us for many years despite many us advances, but they may feel with travis king they may feel with travis king they ...

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Nuclear power. this u.s. soldier now in north koreas custody may add to his leverage to make that happen. >> bill: along that dmz if youve been there you know binoculars are everywhere. the north also test fired and icbm about a week ago and you know the sway that beijing has in north korea. china, through all of this perhaps has the biggest vote of all as to what happens inside the hermit kingdom. >> they do. they would seek to exact quite a steep price from the united states in return for any ...

>> there are a lot of unanswered questions. i can tell you our u.s. military right now is mounting a full investigation. im sure we know the identity of this soldier and im sure they are talking to anyone at that demilitarized zone who might have witnessed the soldier crossing over into north korean territory. thats one of the most heavily surveilled geographic areas on the planet. im sure we can go and look at what happened and determine how this soldier -- why he chose to make this decision an...

It is a very dangerous situation for the soldier and implications for u.s. foreign policy. >> sandra: you mentioned the leverage it would give north korea. based on what we know at this hour, dan, what would you expect from the white house? how should we be handling this right now? time is of the essence. >> i would expect the white house to be reaching out to secretary kerry who is in china now to see whether china might play a positive role. we cant really expect anything from them right now. ...