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Giving that press conference behind the podium. i can tell you that there is a sense from some sources that ive talked to that the president as well as secretary of state have a good cop/bad cop relationship in terms of the communicative strategy theyre using on a host of foreign policy and geopolitical situations. most notably, north korea. but the president with his calm before the storm comment raising a lot of questions about whether or not this is with regards to north korea ahead of columb...

Koreas launch of an icbm is a clear and sharp military escalation. the north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now, it has greater capacity to do so. >> thats u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley again showing just how seriously the administration takes north koreas missile launch test. andrea mitchell remains with us and joining the kufgetting us v just penned "the right way ...

States that its missiles are intended to deliver nuclear weapons to strike cities in the united states, south korea and japan. and now, it has greater capacity to do so. >> thats u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley again showing just how seriously the administration takes north koreas missile launch test. andrea mitchell remains with us and getting us victor cha who just penned "the right way to play the china card on new york." and blues clingner now a north korea expert at the heritage fou...

Blustering camera gm but how did tensions escalate to where they are today? we will take you back to the 1990s. they axley had a deal called the agreed framework that incentivized north korea to stop pursuing nuclear weapons in exchange for normalized relations with the u.s. but after almost a decade, the country withdrew from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, scraping that agreement and 2006, that country inducted the first five nuclear test, the last of which was last september. those were ...

Nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent. and as kelly was telling us, vice president pence in the air on his way. we expect him to have wheels down about 3:00 a.m. more or less here. put that all together if you can for us, andrea. along with the discussion of president xi and his inability, it appears, to keep north korea from doing this missile launch test. >> this is going to be very offensive to china. because china had just appeared to both the u.s. and north korea to dial down the rhe...

Were planned before the trump executive orders. all right, so, lets dive into our top story about north korea and that missile launch test. nbcs keir simmons is in seoul, south korea, for us. keir, what have we confirmed so far about that test launch? >> reporter: well, thomas, good morning. its evening here in south korea and people have had a chance to take in the news that, look, many people here do believe that this was not just a north korea missile testing, it was a test of president trump...

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>> im dave briggs. 4:00 am in the east. moments ago, vice president mike pence on the border last night between north and south korea, visiting the demilitarized zone, dmz, delivering a message to pyongyang. the administration now speaking with one voice, all options are on the table. the vps visit comes amid growing tensions with north korea and hours after the failed missile launch test, to get its client state under control, pence quotes tillersons words from a month ago, the era of strategic...