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Missile programs. congress has already begun the work to address these problems. key house and senate leaders are drafting legislation that would amend the iran nuclear act to strengthen enforcement, prevent iran from developing an internet -- this is so totally important. an intercontinental ballistic missile and make all restrictions on irans nuclear activity permanent under u.s. law. so important. i support these initiatives. however, in the event we are not able to reach a solution working w...

>> shepard: 15 minutes before the hour. north koreas foreign minister is accusing president trump of lighting the fuse of war with his belligerent and insane statement at the united nations. thats from an interview with russian state media. meantime, a cyber security group reports hackers likely affiliated with the north korean government tried breaking into u.s. electric companies using spearfishing e-mails. the cyber security group reports it blocked the attempted hack. lets get to sumi terry....

The brinkmanship with north korea could work. this is bad cop routine. its one of the only strategies that has not been employed. do you agree? does he have a point? >> many believe the trump administration is practicing a rational good cop/bad cop and thats the best possible interpretation. the problem with that is that they are undercutting the chance for diplomacy and the credibility of american diplomats that will be the ones to be called upon to do the hard work of negotiating north koreas ...

Now to protect ourselves and our allies. we also need more ships and planes come in ammunition to write their on chinas doorstep to encourage them to be much more aggressive iranian north korea in. look, it may come to military confrontation. we can win, but it will be ugly. but the way to prevent war is to be strong and unfortunately because of the actions we were just talking about, weve got two fewer destroyers in the pacific then we had a few weeks ago. >> dangerous moment in time for sure. ...

Revenues getting to north korea that can be funneled into its nuclear and missile programs. so certainly china on paper and its verbal -- verbally corresponding with the sanctions that have been passed. but its what happens on the ground that is the most important thing. china shares a very large border with north korea. and if china was able to or willing to, then it could really strengthen the restrictions financially on north korea and really start to make north korea feel that pinch. but cer...

Until she got quickbooks. now she sends invoices, sees when theyve been viewed and-ta-dah-paid twice as fast for free. visit quickbooks-dot-com. >> live from "americas news headquarters".the white house conference for the first time direct communication with north korea over the nuclear and missile programs. the secretary of state says the us has several lines of communication with the rogue nation. he made those comments while speaking with reporters in china.the us and north korea have several...

High-level talks in china actually help put the right kind of pressure on the rogue nation and hope, i guess, that the regime will be forced to retreat from its nuclear arms and missile programs? >> well, i think the secretary needs to convey very directly what the president said at the kwr50eu9ed nations -- united nations during his speech which is that the denuclearization of north korea is the only to way forward. and that definitely means that stopping firing missiles isnt going to be the wa...

Exports 3 billion a year, thats a very substantial amount of revenue. >> reporter: analysts say none of these sanctions are likely to give kim jong-un to give up his nuclear and missile programs. what they may do, if the sanctions squeeze kim tightly enough, get him to the negotiating table with his rivals but its only going to do that if the loopholes are closed up and the sanctions are really enforced against north korea. and jim, china, its never any guarantee that they will help enforce thos...

Sanctions aimed at north korea but kim jong-uns regime has a way to cripple the economy or slow the nuclear weapons program. cnns brian todd has a look at that. brian, what is the u.s. doing and will it work? that is the question. >> president trump is giving the treasury department more power to go after businesses that do business with north korea. but analysts who have tracked this closely, kim jong-uns web of ee li of weapons program will still go ahead. in an effort to put the squeeze on ki...

Industries, including textiles, fishing, information technology and manufacturing, that the treasury department can target with strong sanctions. and secretary mnuchin is representing the treasury department. hes here today. to prevent sanctions evasion, the order also includes measures designed to disrupt critical north american shipping and trade networks. for too long north korea has been allowed to abuse the national financial system to facilitate funding for its nuclear weapons and missile ...