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. they call to ramp up defense capabilities in the face of ongoing aggression from the north. >> it comes as south korean officials say they expect more provocation from pyongyang in october. joining us now the president on the council on foreign relations and author of "a world if disarray," richard haase. and former under secretary at the st. department now an msnbc contributedor ambassador wendy sherman. good to have you both. >> good to be here. >> okay. kind of disturbing times, go ahea...

Iraq and other surrounding countries in addition to the united states, all strongly against the move of kurdish independence. iraqi prime minster ruled out the use of force to prevent, but take other measures and threatened to block all flights fromhe kurdish region international airport. turning now to theatest in the crisis in the korean peninsula. called for country to ramp up defense capabilities in the face of ongoing aggression from the north. comes at south korean officials say they exp...

Go irish! see that? yes! im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. back with some breaking news in the world lead another strong provocation from north korea this time accusing president trump for threating war. quote, if he thoughts of little rocket man, they wont be around much longer, unquote. today the rogue regime also threatened to shoot down u.s. planes even if they are not over u.n. air space. barbara joins me now. >> they said...

Jong-uns regime is threatening to shoot down american bombers that might fly close to north korea even if the planes are outside of north korean airspace. were getting serious warnings from former u.s. diplomats and intelligence officials that the presidents increasingly tough talk toward pyongyang might provoke a dangerous confrontation. tonight the war of words over north korea has turned into words of war after pyongyangs foreign minister said outside the u.n. today his country viewed recent ...

Secretary, and others, general -- admiral harris to really make some tough decision decisions. >> kennedy: i think that you are seeing the escalation come from north korea, and nobody wants to see a preemptive war. i agree with 70% of the people who have been told in this country, nobody wants us to go in without provocation. everybody wants the provocation to stop. if china has finally gotten on board with out with their banking and oil exports, trying to choke off north korea and force them to...

Any rules of law, or laws of land and warfare. it would be a test. it would all depend on what the results of that action would be, whether it killed people, or caused great deal of disruption on what our reaction might be to such provocation. >> dont you think it would be catastrophic, even -- i mean -- >> this represents a very dangerous escalation, and a very volatile area. think back to what actually did happen back in 1954. the united states detonated a bravo test, 1,000 times more powerful...

Its a near-ocean blast. if its an atmospheric blast like admiral woolsey said -- or im sorry, ambassador woolsey said, it could cause emp problems. but none of that is -- theres no intelligence that they can do that, they can launch it in the middle of the ocean. but the other thing you have to concern yourself with is north koreas not any signatory to any non-proliferation agreement. so if they were to do something like this, theyre literally not violating any rules of law or laws of land warfa...

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Which causes tremendous, tremendous calamity, where that plume goes.. so goes cancer, so those tremendous problems. and i want to tell you something, and im sure he is listening because he watches everywhere at and i guarantee you one thing -- he is watching us like youve never watched anybody before. maybe something gets worked out. maybe it doesnt.yb personally, i am not sure that it will.yb i can tell you one thing -- you are protected. okay? you are protected. no bodys going to mess with our...

The ocean, the pacific ocean. which causes tremendous, tremendous calamity, where that plume goes. so goes cancer, so those tremendous problems. and i want to tell you something and im sure he is listening because he watches everywhere at and i guarantee you one thing -- he is gearing watching us likee never watched anybody before. maybe something gets worked out. maybe it doesnt. personally, i am not sure that it will. i can tell you one thing -- you are protected. okay? you are protected. no o...