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A meeting with chinas president. matt rivers is in beijing. the back channels similar to what has been used during the obama administration and others? >> reporter: it could be. we didnt get deals from the secretary of state during this relatively short briefing that we had at the u.s. ambassadors residence here. it was an off camera briefing. the fact that this is the trump administration admitting for the first time that it does have direct communication channels with pyongyang over its missil...

>> in seoul, some are more pessimistic. >> i dont think theres anyway to stop them now. no way. >> leading analyst thinks the north will resist sanctions. >> they want to get to the point where they have a sufficient number of their into intercontinental ballistic missiles destroying a sufficient number of american citizens. >> talking there about north korea building up an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the united states. we dont know exactly what this missile was...

Towards weapons development. >> in seoul, some are more pessimistic. >> i dont think theres anyway to stop them now. no way. >> leading analyst thinks the north will resist sanctions. >> they want to get to the point where they have a sufficient number of their into intercontinental ballistic missiles destroying a sufficient number of american citizens. >> talking there about north korea building up an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit the united states. we dont know ...

Live from guam with the very latest. hi, william. >> you know, there are a lot of moving parts and theres a time line here, you know, a korean missile could land out here next hour, next month, next year or never. but for some people thats unsettling especially given who is behind the threat. kim jong-un sounds at times crazy. others here are indifferent or confident that a u.s. missile defense would knock down anything incoming. on fox news sunday cia director believes, he said, that north kore...

Very aggressive missile testing program, theyre firing into areas where it is very heavily trafficked with both commercial air traffic and commercial shipping. off the coast the japan, that is a very busy, area. when the north koreans, as you just pointed out, do not follow internation international protocols. that is what the big concern is here. right now. this latest case actually leading the air france to take a very unusual step and ish a you a public statement about what happened to reassu...

Thernl is a significant move, the u.s. has been very clear, leaders have been very clear on their point they will do whatever is necessary to protect gents this north korean threat. and what weve seen on the peninsula is a ratcheting up of missile testing. more than 4 dozen missile tests in the last year. thats an acceleration of the missile testing program. there are analysts saying there are signs of evidence suggesting is we could be seeing another nuclear test from north korea. these are all...

Interest mediate range missile. lets bring our viewers up to speed. tell us what we know now about this launch and why it matters so much the type of missile the north koreans fired. >> our understanding and lets be clear, its very early, the u.s. and its partners in japan and south korea are just looking now at this projectile it seems to be an inter mediate range missile and it seems to have gone for a range about 500 kilometers. now thats not very far. this is a missile that north korea has t...

This is not a very long range missile. officials say its bad, its not earth-shattering. particularly in the obama administration, they were really careful to calibrate their response. this president is not someone who calibrates a response. you know, hes very fiery with his rhetoric, fiery with his tweets. and that goads north korea. i mean, theyre playing a game a little bit with president trump. and i think the danger is, you get into this situation where the rhetoric escalates, and then -- no...

Himself, not answering a question he clearly heard, ana. >> lets bring in ambassador chris hill, again, significant because you, ambassador, headed the u.s. delegation to those six-party talks between 2005 and 2009, had numerous opportunities to try to negotiate with north korea. i wanted to get your reaction first to what weve learned of this missile launch. >> first of all, we dont know a lot about it. it might be a missile weve seen before. it might be something else. it might be a solid fuel...

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