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What north korea would want in exchange, would they want the united states and south korea to continue to postpone their joint military drills, economic sanctions lifted, but clearly it is a diplomatic effort on the part of the north koreans, even as the united states has been calling on south korea to disengage after the olympics and join the united states in this campaign of maximum pressure. >> will ripley live for us in pyeongchang, thank you. a cnn exclusive gold medal winning gymnast aly...

Of over at the stadium. the signals are crashing because everyone is on their cell phones. a lot of excitement in the air. the political situation is overshadowing the sporting events. two very different scenarios untu unfoldi unfolding. vice president mike pence with fred warmbier talking about how the freedom. also saying that south korea needs to disengage with the north after the olympics are over and continue and join with the united states with the campaign of maximum pressure and engageme...

Hijack the games and he promised an increase in u.s. military aid. on wednesday, north korea announced that the sister of kim jong un, kim yo jong, would be part of the olympic delegation. the 28-year-old will be the first immediate kim family member to cross the border since the korean war. skeptics say the north are using the ola picks a buy time, advance the missile technology, and drive south korea and the u.s. >> we are not playing into their hands because we know theyre up to and we are go...

Another thing that has been mentioned where great promises were made and where bipartisanship is possible but we will see if that really happens ok in terms of foreign policy the big issue is a return to a very robust nuclear deterrence that was underlined in the speech i lets lets take a listen to what he said about north korea. like no regime has oppressed its own citizens for totally brutally then the cruel dictatorship in north korea. north koreas reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could v...

Everyone to contribute their fair share. my administration is proud to have led historic efforts at the united nations security counsel and all around the world to unite all civilized nations in our campaign of maximum pressure to denuke the korean peninsula. we continue to call on partners to confront irans support for terrorists and block irans path to a nuclear weapon. were also working with allies and partners to destroy jihad into terrorist organizations such as isis, and very successfully ...

Compared to even three weeks ago? >> yeah. as president moon has said, it is the presidents policy, his ability to rally international support behind the campaign of maximum pressure that has made a significant difference. what you see that is fundamentally different from a year ago is the common commitment across all nations that denuclearization is the only acceptable outcome on the peninsula. second, that the international community and china in particular does have a great deal of coercive p...

To where we are now and how big of a threat is north korea now compared to even three weeks ago? is. >> yeah. well as president moon as said, it is the presidents policy. his alt bility to rally international support behind the campaign of maximum pressure that made a significant difference. what you see thats fundamentally different from a year ago is the common commitment across all nations that denuclearization is the only acceptable outcome on the peninsula. second, that the international co...

Weekend. north korea has missed a series of registration deadlines, technically they havent qualified for the olympics. we also have to consider that there are u.n. sanctions in place. so that puts a ban on cash transfers. there are also travel bans on certain regime officials. it has stirred the skepticism among some people of north koreas willingness to do this deal. japans foreign ministry used the term charm offensive, saying he believes its a means of the regime trying to buy time in order ...

By the senate. will the white house renominate them or are you looking for other people? >> secretary sanders: i dont have any personal announcements on that front. we will keep you posted. >> the president and a tweet this morning said that distinctions and pressures arent having a big impact on north korea, but we learned this afternoon that kim jong un is apparently making preparations for another missile launch either this week or next. there was a rhetoric of the weekend but theres a nuclea...

This mans system, that tells us a whole story. well be able to find out what wr that was weaponized. we suspect they may have an offensive capability, but no one is sure. that would involve for instance bursting a ricin you know, explosive that would protect the ricin because its killed by heat over something like seoul and you could close the city down, but thats the nightmare scenario. we do not know whether theyve done that. but agree with general, theyre so advanced on the chemical, nuclear,...