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Story that weve all been talking about, that everybody has been following all day and into tonight i expect it will be the main story in the news tomorrow and tomorrow night as well. weve got a really important guest tonight on that subject. for years she was the senior korean analyst and linguist at the cia, a tremendous amount of practical experience in terms of dealing with north korea and the development of their nuclear program and their missile program. were going to be joined by her here ...

Killed. unleashing god knows what fury in asia. so a military solution really is not an optimal, its unimaginable at this time. >> youve heard some of the presidents critics saying hes deliberately for whatever reason blowing up this crisis now with north korea for political reasons maybe to change the subject. they refer to a tweet he posted back in 2012 referring to president obama. polls looking bad for obama, looks like hell have to start a war or major conflict to win. dont put it past him....

Presence on the ground in north korea. we dont have an embassy. we dont have an intersection. so its very difficult for us to accurately gauge whats going on there. as far as the intelligence on the missile program, its probably fairly accurate, because we can watch that and see it. what we cant see is the inner workings of working on the warhead. thats all done in underground bunkers and in smaller workshops. so we dont know exactly how far along theyve come on the development of the warhead. w...

Platforms. the entire country of north korea is within range. weve got good coverage there. we dont have good human assets. weve never had them. general clapper alluded to that, as well. we dont have a presence on the ground in north korea, we dont have an embassy or intersection. its very difficult for us to accurately gauge whats going on there. as far as the intelligence on the missile program, its probably fairly accurate because we can see it. what we cant see the is the upper workings of w...

The important word there being "produced." is it deployable, can it be put on an operational missile? could you fire the missile or hit a target? there are a lot of challenges ahead. but again, the key point here is north korea continues its march on. they are making progress, making rapid progress in their missile program in their warhead program. the big challenge for them on warheads right now, if theyre going to fire these longer range ballistic missiles, can the warhead reenter the earth, w...

Territory island of guam in the pacific. u.s. navy submarines and special operations forces in guam, part of a force of about 6,000 troops. since 2015, as north korea accelerate its missile program, the u.s. military decided to deploy a thaad antimissile battery. the first time it was deployed outside the continental united states. there is a thaad battery and south korea. the south korean government recently fast-track to an environmental impact study to get four more lodgers added. thaad was t...

But much of this is obsolete. a lot of this patrol -- they are estimates a lot of these dont actually work. the issue here, a lot of human power, more than 1,000 missiles and a lot of artillery guns. joining me, former ambassador robert galucci, chief u.s. negotiator during the north korean crisis of 1994 until president bill clinton and jeffrey lewis, an expert on north koreas missile program and director of the east asia nonproliferation committee at monterey, california. gentlemen, thanks for...

Type of language that has never, ever been uttered by an american president in the modern era toward north koreans over anything? >> right. they see it as justification of their worst fears. that the whole point of the united states is to eliminate kim jong-un. theyre very narcissistic in their own way. they think the whole world revolves around them. so when the president threatens them like that, they go, see? we told you so. what do they do? they accelerate their military programs. look, year...

Level. and in the coming hours, we expect for some sort of a response from the chinese government here in beijing, which often kind of stands in the middle, urging all sindes t remain calm. they tell the united states not to escalate the situation with military exercises. they tell north korea not to escalate the situation by launching more missiles. but now you have a situation where the rhetoric on both sides is white hot. its never really been like this before. and we know in the past, that n...

Deal with all the countries around the world and these complex problems of which north korea is an intense one right now, that it is the fact that the lead other this enterprise can be spending his time on twitter, making complaints is abnormal, as youve heard in other contacts with all the other guests. just one other point i make, the main lesson i took working for a president years ago, i worked for jimmy carter when he was in the white house, and the way this president spends his time again ...