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And his sports person. any attack on the united states are met with the most powerful response. >> so if the north koreans -- >> we cannot react, be cant react to every daytime or verbal provocation. >> what if they launch these four missiles into the waters just off of the coast of guam, what should the u.s. do then? >> i know our pentagon is preparing for that con ttingen -- contingency, but i have confidence that we have responses that are proportionate to the problem. >> what would a proport...

They have capabilities that are still the same from 1954, when the korean war ended. if you launch a cruise missile, they will have a thousand missiles shooting them out of the sky. this is an ant farm that you will have to go in physically to dig out, and the only way to get that nuclear program, unfortunately, is to use a nuclear weapon, and with this kind of bombast, you know, the north koreans, they love provocation, and they are going to believe thats where you are going to go ultimately. t...

>> well, its very true as andrea and the general put so succinctly. this is not a viable military option. this is not syria. this is not iran. this is a hard rock of a military target. they have capabilities that are still the same from 1954, when the korean war ended. if you launch a cruise missile, they will have a thousand machine guns up there literally shooting them out of the sky. this is an ant farm that you will have to go in physically to dig out, and the only way to get that nuclear pr...

Nuclear tests and that is 43% who say the u.s. should not. we have global coverage this morning. lets begin with our will ripley in beijing. will, given the fact that you have been to pyongyang more than a dozen times and spoken with and spent time with officials from the regime, what is your assessment of all we have seen transpire? >> reporter: well, they are going to respond. but we havent gotten the response yet. that could come at any time. it normally takes north korea around 24 hours to r...

States from any kind of provocation. that should not only be heard by the united states but by japan and korea and china as well. t >> general clark, james clapper said this about the north korean threat. listen to this. >> what is bothersome is we have heard this rhetoric coming out of north korea. we ignore it. certainly at the president yat lea level we ignore it. the rhetoric is not helpful. >> if that is the case, why do you think the president did it? >> i think the president is playing to...

Sergeant bo bergdahl appeared in court yesterday. he is charged with desertion and misbelie misbehavior and faces the potential of life in prison. pyongyang says that it is seriously reviewing a plan to strike the u.s. territory of guam with missiles. the latest provocation comes just hours after president trump issued a dramatic warning to the regime following a report that north korea may now have the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and attach it to a missile. nbc news national corre...

Really very calm, they say there is no imminent crisis, and they simply continued to watch for signs of more provocation from north korea. a calm, official statement, and under that there is real anxiety. the u.s. intelligence assessment means that the neighbor to the north of here is nuclear equipped. this is a nuclear nation, and secondly, the fiery rhetoric coming not from pyongyang, but from washington nap is new, not something they heard from any u.s. president, and they dont quite know how...

Secretary of state is doing is in concert with previous efforts in the region. the kind of rhetoric that you heard yesterday from the president is one that that kind of effort by the secretary of state and makes it very difficult from that perspective to actually change king course and to do things that would ratchet up the kind of rhetoric if there were a provocation from the north. without that direct provocation, it becomes very difficult to go even further in rhetoric or in action. >> probab...

Sort of nuclear war if russia and the united states exchanged threats? >> its clear theyve aligned themselves with north korea in the past. the past few years, north korea has been primarily operating with pretty much cold war weaponry. but the fact that theyve accomplished or attempted to accomplish this feat of miniaturizing a nuclear weapon and putting it inside of a missile deeply concerns me. so i think the united states has a responsibility to make an example verbally out of north korea, b...

United states. north korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. >> if north korea makes the wrong choices, the united states and our partners in the six-party talks will respond accordingly. >> north korea was reminded that any provocation or aggression will be met by a strong united response. >> its a crucial step toward drawing north korea into the global community. >> multilateral diplomacy is the best way to peacefully solve the nuclear issue with north korea. >> north koreas ...