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Deescalate this. >> deescalate is exactly the right word. were at the point where the north koreans do the capabilities to reach targets through the united states, including new york and los angeles with a nuclear weapon. what weve seen is sanctions at the end of the day have not made a difference. they arent strong enough to keep the north koreans from building missiles and they arent painful enough to make the north koreans make a different choice. were forced to accept the fact this is a real...

Taken a long time to realize it was a mistake to walk away from the deal that bob negotiated. that was the best deal we were going to get. we have to realize we are where we are, that sanctions may play a role in creating pressure but at the end of the day, just like in the case with iran, you have to give the north koreans some way out and that way out involves admittedly some concessions and you know, you end up with a deal thats maybe not perfect but is better than where you are right now. >>...

But much of this is obsolete. a lot of this patrol -- they are estimates a lot of these dont actually work. the issue here, a lot of human power, more than 1,000 missiles and a lot of artillery guns. joining me, former ambassador robert galucci, chief u.s. negotiator during the north korean crisis of 1994 until president bill clinton and jeffrey lewis, an expert on north koreas missile program and director of the east asia nonproliferation committee at monterey, california. gentlemen, thanks for...

No north korea. washington should make clear the united states does not have hostile intentions toward north korea and wants to explore peaceful paths forward. now, the signers include a number of heavyweights, diplomat robert galucci. former defense secretary william perry, former secretary of state george shultz and my next guest, former u.n. ambassador and new mexico governor bill richardson. why do you endorse that strategy? why do you think there might be something to gain from direct commu...

To achieve nuclear-tipped missiles that could reach japan or the u.s. tillersons comments reflect an intentional escalation of sorts of pressure designed by the state department. president trump meanwhile striking a similar note but in bumper sticker form tweeting, north korea is behaving very badly. they have been playing the u.s. for years. china has done little to help. for a simple response to that simple message, consider china is north koreas strongest ally and largest trading partner. the...

Koreans to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that could be mated with a nuclear weapon, if they went to test such a missile -- not attack but test such a missile -- we would contemplate at least striking it, striking north korea to destroy that missile, that would be new. that wouldnt be a preemptive strike that would be preventive war. >> ambassador, this is diplomatic speech. are you saying it was vague and open to those interpretations? if so, was it strategically vague? >> i thin...

Trade issues, china can be bent in some way? >> we have had a theory of dealing with north korea by going to beijing and having the principal supporter of north korea use its influence in pyongyang to bring the north koreans around. that we tried in the clinton administration. it has been tried in the bush administration, the obama administration. and is every reason why we should keep trying. this is something of a chinese phenomenon in that sanctions are limited in their impact because china m...

Of terrorists, has mostly been a threat that people talked about but had not addressed. the defense secretary estimating the worlds stockpile of nuclear materials at 1600 tons of highly enriched uranium and 500 tons of plutonium. that is enough to make 120,000 nuclear weapons. think concerns about nuclear terrorism are alarmist? group of 200 experts now holding a parallel summit to say theyre not. former u.s. ambassador robert galucci, the chief u.s. negotiator during the crisis of 1994 telling ...