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Pushing the envelope with the u.s. and its allies. tens of thousands of north koreans paid tribute to their young dictator kim jong-un today rallying in pyongyang, in a square named after kims grandfather. but tonight, some analysts say kim may have beaten back an even bigger challenge without launching a missile after president trump and south korean president moon jae-in agreed in a phone call not to hold joint military exercises during the winter olympics in pyeongchang, south korea. they wer...

Uniformly. >> harris: what does that mean? >> sandra: very romantic dinner. you remember, there were flowers and roses. >> harris: why we want this job? >> i dont know. >> harris: a moment away from secretary of state. now you make the point even bigger why would you want this job? >> katie: he cares about utah. they saved the winter olympics in utah. he has close connections. he went to byu. he cares about the state and people there that might be a reason why he wants to run. >> he does have to...

Studies. guys, weve got a lot to break down. jeremy, lets talk about the presidents tweet. do you buy the idea that by threatening north korea he is forcing kim jong-un to seek talks with south korea as a way to bring down tensions? >> no, i dont think so, stephanie. i mean theres deterrence and then theres needless provocation. the way that our president conducted this needless provocation was in a very juvenile, immature and embarrassing fashion. i think it erodes our credibility when the pres...

Olympics and that could be a game changer. >> what is the -- why do you think they do that? why have an overture and then something, a provocation? >> because if the overture is not accepted immediately on north koreas terms then they think they have, you know, a justification for using force. what theyre also doing is keeping everybody else including the south koreans, including us, off balance. this really works very well for them. theyve done this now, since, you know, for 70 years. it has be...

He remains in many ways still a vulnerable figure surrounded by older military and intelligence figures, he has no choice but to respond to a personal provocation of this kind. because if he doesnt, then he risks his own domestic political stability, his own survival politically and otherwise. so in a sense, this is not the kind of thing that a north korean official, a north korean leader can allow to go unanswered. so im afraid that we are now back into this dynamic where instead of pointing us...

Theres a real concern is if you go back seven decades, before the korean war, you see the korean regime make these peace overtures and they follow them within weeks by some provocation. in june 1950 was actually started the korean war. we saw this in 2010 when the north koreans killed 50 south koreans. two horrible incidents. both proceeded by overtures. we saw this again in 2014. and im concerned that if some reason things go sideways this time, were going to see the north koreans do something ...

Can annihilate america. this is a very touchy issue. how does the presidents provocation with kim jong-un affect south koreas attempts as peaceful talks recently? >> i think certainly south korea wants to talk to north korea. i can understand their motivation. they are sitting under the potential barrage of thousands of artillery rounds landing in seoul. that is a motivator. but the fact is, this is a chapter out of an old playbook. kim jong-un and his father and grandfather before him have alwa...

Pyongyang, and analysts from the north korean government had been up overnight responding and thinking about it and trying to figure out what to make of the presidents tweets. as they said to me, we cant decide if he is irrational or too smart. they werent sure if this was improvisation or this was part of a plan. but what it does is something quite clear. which is in the north korean political system where kim jong un is young. he remains in many ways still a vulnerable figure surrounded by old...

Cameras that they dont say in public, but ive never heard it even behind the scenes the kind of macho talk that this president engages in, and clearly enjoys. >> professor chang, you were saying theres a pattern to north koreas sort of bellicose statements. >> yeah, the one thing that theres a real concern is if you go back seven decades, before the korean war, you see the korean regime make these peace overtures and they follow them within weeks by some provocation. in june 1950 was actually st...

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