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But that remains to be seen and it is something u.s. officials will be watching very closely, shep. >> shepard: thanks. one of the best verse humans on north korea in the united states is with us now. the former new mexico governor, bill richardson is here and has visited north korea several times and has a decent idea what is happening. whats happening? >> what is significant about these sanctions is that china not just signed on but my understanding they helped draft this. cowboy is very upset...

States. how seriously are u.s. officials taking this threat? >> seriously, shep in the sense they do not like being threatened by anyone, least of all an unpredictable dictatorial man like kim jong-un armed with a nuclear weapon. but u.s. officials appear confident that north korea is in no position to carry out its threats. >> the united states is fully capable of defending against a ballistic missile attack. furthermore, were continuing to update capables capables and wen firm with the protect...

National interests of the united states if theres imminent danger. >> shepard: a problem with the law. >> but theres some circumstances where those tough choices need to be -- theyre very tough choices. >> shepard: there are difficult circumstances and one circumstance which were dealing with now is agents from two governments, following an american citizen for 48 hours, knowing exactly where he was so they could send a drone down to kill him and killed his son, too when it appears they could ha...

>> right. the concern i have is conflagration with south korea and some of their neighbors. it seems the north korean military have the upper hand over the civilian side there. thats troublesome because the foreign ministry, the people we met with when i was there, they seemed more moderate, but it seems the young new leader is being influenced by the hardliners, perhaps his uncle, by the military. so thats a little troublesome. the rhetoric, you have to take it not that seriously, but this time...

That could possibly reach and strike hawaii, for instance, or alaska, or the u.s. lower 48, shep. >> does anybody anywhere think these sanctions might make a difference? >> well, certainly the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, thinks these are some of the most sweeping sort of punishments ever leveled by the security council. listen. >> taken together these sanctions will bite and bite hard. they increase north koreas isolation and raise the cost to north koreas leaders of defyi...

Funding for the disabled kid or the poor kid? do i close this navy shep yard or some other one? when you are doing things in a way that is not smart, you know, you cant gloss over the pain and the impact its going to have on the economy. and the broader point is, virginia, we cant just cut our way to prosperity. we cant just cut our way to prosperity. we cant ask seniors and working families like yours to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthie...