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Militaritily, in terms of missiles and now tests and, of course, the united states had ongoing military exercises with the south koreans and japanese. and ended that a few days ago with a massive fly over the korean peninsula with the strongest planes they have in the arsenal along with some fighter flaens from south korea and japan. many experts said that was meant to send a message to north korea. but clearly they have shrugged that off in that they conducted this detonation today. condemnatio...

This miniaturized nuclear warhead. this is one of the key aspects that they were trying to accomplish was to get a nuclear warhead small enough and light enough but powerful enough to put on an intercontinental ballistic missile to strike the u.s. something kim jong-un said he is doing this year and he is now saying he accomplished it. major milestone in terms of north korea. major provocation for the region that nuclear test that followed one after another today was massive. as somebody iting s...

But you are saying short of regime change there is nothing that china can do to rein in the north korean regime, right? >> i think that the chinese view is that the north korea issue is not simply of north korean provocation. beijing believes and they are not allow that part of what is driving north korea is a sense of profound insecurity and fear of the united states and that ultimately, addressing the issues between pyongyang and washington is the key to unlocking this and that absent meaningf...

Provocation by north korea that the pentagon calls defense of defensive exercises. last night, north korea put photos of kim jong un what you call a new thermonuclear bomb that can hit the u.s. and hours after a massive explosion took place, and the u.s. intelligence agency had seen increased the dividend north koreas nuclear test site beginning in late march anticipated a new test is coming. it was just a matter of when. the explosion was five times more powerful and less nuclear testing a year...

About the latest provocation on the korean peninsula. we have many military options, and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them. we made clear that we have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies, south korea and japan from any attack and our commitments among the allies are ironclad. any threat to the united states or its territories including qualm or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. kim jong-un should t...

Speaking there. our john roberts is going to be joining us shortly with more. meanwhile, it is quite ominous but here we are, on a holiday weekend of all things. that it is demanding such attention that this press conference albeit brief was just held. and now this emergency meeting happening tomorrow on labor day. >> thats right. lets go back to the statement from secretary james mattis in case folks are just joining us lets listen. >> good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen, we had a small group ...

Vulnerability there. when people want to conduct u.s. dollar transactions, its the u.s. government that can stop that. china and russia value their access to the u.s. dollar more than they value north korea. i think we get ourselves into what we like to call the provocation response cycle where north korea does a provocation. we convince ourselves that we have strong sanctions at the u.n. and we really dont. we have to somehow break out of that cycle. the way to break out of that cycle is to foc...

Japan. a clear threat to the global community including the main land united states, isha. >> yes, indeed. thank you. stay with us. lets go to our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. thank you for joining us. it has been confirmed by pyongyang they did indeed conduct their sixth nuclear test, afternoon sunday in pyongyang. your reaction? really, christiane, i guess the essential question is how much does this escalate the crisis with north korea? >> well, isha, it is no doubt ...

Youve got it. this is one of the most capable militaries in the world. im not sure the north koreans quite understand that about their south korean cousins. the south koreans have one of the best militaries in the world. its up there with any nato member. they spend a lot of money on their military. everybody in south korea is a part of that. we dont need a pep talk. >> ambassador hill, i have to interrupt. lets listen to secretary mattis, secretary of defense, now speaking at the white house. >...

Jong-un continues to develop missile technology that can hit america, if diplomacy fails to stop him, there will be an attack by the united states against his weapons systems. im assuming the worst. let me tell you how the war ends, it ends with his utter destruction. >> shaun, what do you make of the senators comments? >> well, one thing to keep in mind is that lindsey graham is, you know, comes from the more hawkish traditional republican sort of school of thinking. he is somebody who tends to...