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Talking on tuesday, dave. the first item on the agenda, getting a north korean delegation here to south korea for the winter olympics in pyeongchang. the hope is it will lead to more discussions, perhaps bigger discussions between a meeting between moon jae-in and kim jong-un. there is a lot of skepticism is in the region. japan pointing out north korea has often engaged in talks while simultaneously and under the radar aggressively continuing their weapons development. so countries around the r...

That work. hard to see, though, in 2018 that kim jong-un is going to change his mind. all indications are he will proceed with his weapons development. boris? >> yeah. barbara, we also got some mixed messaging from him today. he talked about his countrys nuclear capabilities but then he also talked about potentially sitting down and talking to south korea? >> he did. he hinted that he would be open to some discussion about north korea sending a delegation to the winter olympics being hosted in a...

Surveillance by the regime on their own people. >> this is a regime thats hypocritically spends millions on missile program while its phone people live in poverty. it could feed the people in north korea if it chose the well favor its people over weapons development. reporter: not just a weapons crisis, but humanitarian crisis. arthel? arthel: thank you. >> militarily we are going to be prepared should something go wrong. our military is prepared. eric: thats secretary of state rex tillerson aft...

Hydrogen bomb test with an icbm in the pacific, we cannot deny the possibility it might fly over the country. these kinds of actions cannot be tolerated. >> along with the treasury department measures to target the funding of north koreas missile and nuclear programs, president trump noted yesterday, chinas apparent willingness to get its banks in line. beijing today wasnt so sure. >> as far as i know, what you mentioned is not consistent with the facts. in principle, china has always implemente...

Hydrogen bomb test with an icbm in the pacific, we cannot deny the possibility it might fly over the country. these kinds of actions cannot be tolerated. >> along with the treasury department measures to target the funding of north koreas missile and nuclear programs, president trump noted yesterday, chinas apparent willingness to get its banks in line. beijing today wasnt so sure. >> as far as i know, what you mentioned is not consistent with the facts. in principle, china has always implemente...

I think that its better than nothing. okay? why? if we stop with this and just stop with the agreement, we will enter into a situation that is similar to the north korean situation before what happened this summer. >> so basically what he was saying is what we all know. there has not been even a fraction of the time and energy and diplomatic skills spent on the real live nuclear weapons program as there has been on irans nuclear program and they stopped it before there was any weapons developmen...

Unsuccessful because china and russia watered those measures down. the secretary of state has been pressuring china behind-the-scenes to do so unilaterally, without the u.n. security council. and now the secretary is pushing china publicly. >> i am hopeful that china, as a great country, a world power, will decide on their own if they will take it upon themselves to use that very powerful tool of oil supplies to persuade north korea to reconsider its current path towards weapons development, rec...

Allies were pushing for china to have the full oil embargo. china and russia watered down the latest sanctions. president trump remarked that the sanctions the u.n. security council did pass for no big deal. tillerson says he would like to see china, north koreas major oil supplier, cut some shipments. >> i am hopeful china, as our great country, a world power, will decide on their own and take it upon themselves to use that very powerful tool of oil supplied to persuade north korea to reconside...

Will decide on their own and will take it upon themselves to use that very powerful tool of oil supply to persuade north korea to reconsider its current path towards weapons development, reconsider its approach to dialogue and negotiations in the future. that is a very powerful tool. and it has been used in the past. and we hope china will not reject that or discard that. >> nbc pentagon correspondent hans nichols joins me now. hans, what more do we know about north korea moving these missile la...

Keeping pressure on the north korean regime and shares the view of the president the regime is a small step and hoping china can take stronger action. >> i am hopeful that china as a -- as a great country, a world power, will decide on their own, and will take it upon themselves to use that very powerful tool of oil supply to persuade north korea to reconsider its current path towards weapons development, reconsider its approach to dialogue and negotiations in the future. tech: when you schedule...