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>> page can only be truly turned in the kim jong regime has decided theyre going to pursue a different path. perhaps give up nuclear weapons. or at least stop testing through these provocations. only then i think some sort of peace for little longer is possible. but if theyre back to, you know, missile and nuclear testing, after the joint military exercises resume, were going to be back to the tension youve seen in 2017. >> sue mi terry, thank you. >> thank you for having me on. >> and well be r...

Department, the state department, do the presidents tweets constitute policy or diplomacy? is it part of his official signaling or part of his trying to brow beat others into certain positions? a big question we have. frankly, at the year of 2017, darcht david, we do not have san answer. >> looking at the tweets in contrast to the "new york times" from the secretary of state, read one quotation here about the administrations tact. a door to dialogue remains open but weve made it clear the regime...

For them to be doing this kind of test? >> they normally dont test in the fourth quarter of the year. of the 85 tests they have done since 2011, only five have been in the last quarter. people think that this has to do with weather conditions. sometimes the troops move from military duty to harvesting for whatever reason we dont test this year and the pause that weve seen, the 74 days since the last missile test partly is explained by the time of year it might not have been a gesture. the u.s. s...

For them to be doing this kind of test? >> they normally dont test in the fourth quarter of the year. of the 85 tests they have done since 2011, only five have been in the last quarter. people think that this has to do with weather conditions. sometimes the troops move from military duty to harvesting for whatever reason we dont test this year and the pause that weve seen, the 74 days since the last missile test partly is explained by the time of year it might not have been a gesture. the u.s. s...

The regime to signal its desire to negotiate in good faith. would be immediate cessation of its provocative threats, nuclear tests and missile launches. it says stop testing, stop being provocative here but it sets the bar rather low for north korea to come in and negotiate. >> john, on the contrary. what they said up front is here is the bar. denuclearization is what we should all be working for. this is aspirational. underpinning that are the steps they just described. you can continue to drop...

About what they are doing. they are going against u.n. security sanctions, they are breaking them by the simple act of doing the nuclear deck detonations we know they have done. they are the ones breaking the u.n. security resolutions. china has a very active role in this and china has been complicit to allow north korea to get where they are. >> melissa: it sounds like you would be satisfied with them keeping the weapons as long as they stop threatening assam stop testing them? >> i am not sayi...

Stop testing, make some commitments. thats also an invitation, an over picture to china to see where they can wing in for some kind of effort. and again, as elise said, weve been through this sort of thing before, although not anywhere near the kind of military threat at the same time, in the dance with iran, the very complicated negotiations with iran. but the simultaneous message -- were not looking for regime change, were willing to resume u.s. aid to north korea. people may forget, but there...

Education. i would love to have the students grade the teachers at the end of the year as opposed to just the other way around. so that teachers get feedback. we did that when i got to graduate school. we got to grade the teachers and it was published how each teacher did on a whole series of dimensions and helped the teachers. i believe in a lot of feedback. far from being a guy who would say lets stop testing. i try to make our testing more fec tv, expand it in ways maybe that havent been thou...

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