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>> that might be a strange thing to happen but its certainly a possibility. if that did happen, it would be a good thing for, i can tell you, for north korea. but it would also be good for lots of other places and it would be good for the world. so certainly it is something that could happen. i dont know that it will. but it would be very, very nice if it did. >> can you decode these messages coming from the president? >> well, hes leaving the door to diplomacy open. right now, president trumps ...

Monumental step forward which was the executive order which told the world if you do business with north korea youre not doing business with the u.s. these are starting to have been a fact because are reports unconfirmed that lower-level officials in pyongyang are not getting rations from the government. thats an indication the ruler there doesnt have the money to do what he would like witches to build missiles and nukes and give politics to serve as give mercedes and rolexes to the regime eleme...

And it doesnt know how to respond to china. what trump just did was he intimidated china into getting their banks to stop all their business with the north koreans. thats a really big deal, because of gift politics. we talk about the money going to the weapons programs. as important is the money going to the regime elements, because thats how kim keeps the loyalty. >> so youre agreeing with ambassador burns that really the big news of this week, put on the bombast aside, the big news of the week...

>> one could argue that, for instance, trumps u.n. speech on tuesday was to intimidate the chinese and north koreans. fine. but you didnt have to carry it on today. >> why are people still intimidated by president trump seeing that he walks back from pretty much everything he says ever? >> yesterday sanctions were enough, i think, to actually get to kim. and we can see this because the north korean foreign minister was supposed to give his u.n. general assembly speech today. that has been indefi...

Leverage that the united states could use would be to go after chinese banks. >> chinese banks, small and large ones, have been laundering money for the north koreans, thats a violation of the u.s. patriot act. and the united states can actually declare or designate a bank a primary money landering concern and essentially deny it access to dollars. in other words, thats a death sentence for many any bank especially chain intos big banks. the threat of that i think is enough to push china in the ...

Poppy and both sides are really digging in here. >> alexander field for us in seoul. thank you for that. north korea takes on the world, also joined by u.s. army major general james spyder marks. the presidents tweets ripping into china and saying china could easily solve this problem two. part question to you. a, is that factual? is there anything that china could do to easily solve that problem and, b, you wrote a column about this and you said that china should fear what the president is sa...

Will go in there and concede something and not be tough enough in effect on the russian leader? >> that would be my concern no matter who is president. what we have learned from vladimir putin and the russians is that they will continue to take -- it was similar to when we gave up missile defense shield in europe. we never got anything in concession. you have to deal with president putin as he is. he respects power. he respects strength. he will back down when presented a brick wall that he cann...

Border without having agents surrounding him everywhere he goes. >> absolutely. china has an economic stra stranglehold and diplomatic stranglehold, but the most important thing china supplies is confidence that they are safe from the united states, south korea and the international community. beijing could convince those around kim jong-un that it was no longer in their interests to support the weapons programs or even kim jong-un himself. i dont think what i jink can actually convince kim jong...

Determent that if you conduct another act we are going to act. >> basically what hes saying is you are going to pay heavy price. to me is tax against regime elements and headquarter and military elements and of the assad regime. we have to put pilots in the skies of syria. to do that, we have to push russia out of the way. >> i think the white house is unwilling to cross russias deadline. >> is it important to note that red lines especially in that country can be a tricky business? >> slopestyab...

Manifestly changing sort of tactical picture, without encouraging regime elements or anti-regime elements to consider a leadership change. i think thats, thats the sort of standalone thing. the question as you say is what happens next and whether theres another use of chemical weapons. we just dont know that yet. >> thank you very much. now coming up, u.s. missile strikes overshah to key meeting between u.s. and chinese leaders. how chinas leader learned about the attack. well take you live to...