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Diplomatic measures on a north korean front so we have to wait and see how forcefully they push those issues on trade, of course, on the diplomatic sense you can do two things at once, one on foreign policy and one on trade but could complicate the chinese calculation on how much they want to help the u.s. >> david mckenzie for us in hong kong, thank you. now over to phil black. tell us about this double freeze, russia urging resaint, saying that both sides, the u.s. and north korea should pause...

Gut the law. >> all right. nbcs hallie jackson, thank you so much. on other news, president-elect trump is speaking out about north korea leaders claims the country is in the, quote, final stages of preparation for a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. in a tweet trump says, "north korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it wont happen. trump followed that up a short time later chiding china not cra...

States. >> humble lieutenant colonel here. >> colonel peters -- sorry, general tata, colonel peters. both good friends by the way. >> just sergeant. anyway, i got to say i read tonys book and its excellent. i recommend it. heres what weve got to look at the deal, what do the iranians want from this deal with obama? well, theyve got what they wanted. they dont need to deal anymore really. they wanted time to continue weapon development. the one thing that might happen now is obama has given them ...

Instance. and they can aim west and hit iran and that is why the indian scientists are so excited about this. listen. >> the military capability is very important. so it is a very important step in terms of strengthening strategy. all defense can quickly become offense and that is the concern to there is any. >>shepard: even the chinese are not too terribly concerned. >>jonathan: the official reaction was muted saying big countries in asia should go on cooperating with each other over the weapon...

Is being designed to be used against us, necessarily. any country has their own right within self-defense realms to develop weaponry that they think is necessary for them within the confines of international law. obviously, the development of this weapon is not new to us, it obviously has to factor into our planning in terms of how we project force around the world, in terms of how we develop in particular our naval fleet going forward, and we are making those calculations accordingly. we have s...