Before. So, lets begin this hour. Michelle is standing by for us, our cnn senior Diplomatic Correspondent and first just on this emergency meeting, what are we expecting to hear from Ambassador Haley. Reporter this is going to be big. Its an emergency session called by the United States in the midst of a crisis. Its not just after yet another Missile Launch by north korea. Its them ramping it up and now testing an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that could potentially strike the United States. So, the pressure is on here. I think this is going to be one of the strongest rebukes and warnings that weve heard so far against north korea. But it gets to a point where what really more can be said at this point. Over the last few months, weve heard the United States and others talk about the potential of military action that all options are on the table, theres a thought of the u. S. Going it alone and trying to counter north korea if necessary, calling on other nations to do more. So the administration now is feeling that this is the time for action. What does that mean exactly . Well, it means more calling on nations, especially china, to cut off north korea and to really tighten the screws and try to get them to act before they ramp up their program even more. You know, china has been resistant to that. Theyre not ready to take the kind of action that the u. S. Is calling for. So i think this is also going to be some of the strongest language weve heard so far, urging china to do that. But then we go back to whats already said, and its been, you know, the u. S. Using words like complicit and aiding and abetting, talking about china in allowing so much trade with north korea to continue. So, this could be a day where there is an agreement to condemn north korea. Well see if that can be unanimous, because at the same time, were seeing now china and russia teaming up. Yesterday, putting out a statement together that was essentially a rebuke of how the u. S. Has handled this so far. So, well see if any action, even if its something symbolic like a condemnation, is taken today. Whats really important, though, is what this spurs nations like china to do from here on out, brooke. I know youll be listening. Well be listening for Ambassador Haley. Well take her life. Michelle kosinski, well say goodbye for now, and just a short time from now, the president will be touching down in poland for his Second International trip since taking office. So, lets go to warsaw to our senior white house correspondent, jeff zeleny who is there. And jeff, he is facing a number of Foreign Policy tests the second he hits the ground. Reporter brooke, no question about that. I mean, the north korea situation that michelle was just explaining, of course, is the most urgent threat the president is facing but so many more are also waiting for him here as he arrives back within the hour or so on this continent for the second overseas trip of his presidency. Really some six weeks after he critted the first time, brooke, and i can tell you that the relationships and the tensions across the board are pretty fraught but it is still that meeting on friday with the president of russia, Vladimir Putin, that is the most high stakes moment of this president ial trip. But you may be wondering why he is coming here to poland before going to germany for the g20 tomorrow. That is because the white house intentionally selected poland as a place to begin this, and the president is going to be giving the biggest overseas speech of his presidency here tomorrow in the square here to some potentially 15,000 people or so, and brooke, we are seeing on social media and talking to other folks here, they are essentially bussing people in from across poland to come and listen to this president. Now, his populist rhetoric, his populist agenda is similar to what is going through the strains here in poland and its one of the things that separates poland from the rest of the eu or other parts of the eu. The president will also be holding a press conference, at least a short one, with the president of poland, having a couple questions on each side. That comes tomorrow morning, brooke, but the highstakes trip, of course, concludes on saturday when he flies back to the u. S. But so much business to be done between now and then. But again, noteworthy that tomorrow morning he will be taking questions. Jeff zeleny, thank you for all of that in warsaw. With me now, john park, the director of the Korea Working Group at harvard and joe, the author of nuclear nightmare. So joe and john, thank you so much for being with me and lets just initially, i really want to drill down on this icbm. So, joe, we know that this brandnew missile has not seen before, according to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, the first stage of the missile is believed to be a kn 17 liquid fueled missing which u. S. Satellites had seen evidence was being prepared for launch, its well known to u. S. Intel but at some point, the north koreans attached a second stage atop the missile. What does that tell you about how advanced their program is. This is a very serious weapon. This is a sophisticated twostage mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that from north korea can strike singapore, australia, or alaska. Its a mobile missile, meaning it was brought to a prefixed launch pad, quickly erected, filled with fuel and then fired. It traveled farther than any u. S. Experts expected to see by this stage in north koreas development. We dont know whether the reentry vehicle survived all the way to the target. We dont know how accurate it was, did it hit the spot they were intending to, but this is a formidable capability and we havent seen the end of it. There are at least two other icbm prototypes i would expect to see tested. These guys are on a tear. John, you say because of what he just outlined, this particular launch crosses a red line. It is a red line. I think when you look at it from the icbm, the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile red line, this is something that has been discussed for a while. But whats catching everyone by surprise is how quickly north koreas crossed this line. And a lot of it, i think, points to the notion that north korea is getting good at what they have proclaimed that they would do, eventually develop a nuclear icbm. So those are developments that are happening at a very startling pace. The obvious question is, what do we do about it. I understand theres a couple options on the table, joe. Let me run through some. Shooting down the missiles before they come anywhere near the u. S. , bolstering the american presence off the Korean Peninsula, step up sanctions and up cyber warfare to sabotage Missile Launches. Of all those and many more, joe, what is the most realistic option . T the negotiations are really the best of the bad options. There is no real military option. Do we like best of the bad . Best of the bad. Negotiations are tough and theres no guarantee theyll work. But what is guaranteed is if you just keep doing what we have been doing, this is going to get a whole lot worse. Pressure has failed. Sanctions have failed. Ignoring the problem has failed. Hoping the regime will collapse has failed. The only thing that has slowed down north koreas program has been negotiations. About an eightyear pause in the plutonium Production Program beginning in 1994, an eightyear pause in their Ballistic Missile program from 1998 to 2006 because of talks but those talks collapsed, the agreements collapsed and its been off to the races ever since. Its time to do what our allies are saying, south korea, japan, even china and russia are urging us to go back to the table to discuss without preconditions whether we can get a freeze on north koreas program. That would be in u. S. National security interests. Let me just remind everyone what secretary mattis said in june about north korea. The regimes Nuclear Weapons program is a clear and present danger to all. It would be a war like nothing we have seen since 1953, and we would have to deal with it with whatever level of force was necessary. It would be a very, very serious war. I mean, john, i feel like the secretary hammered it home perfectly in how he said it but explain to us, unlike any other war weve ever experienced. This is like in a totally different stratosphere. Absolutely. If you look at it, the Korean Peninsula is a very small land mass in the sense if there were military operations youre looking at civilian populations that are intermingled. Forgive me. Lets listen to u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley here at the emergency meeting. Their illegal Missile Launch was not only dangerous but reckless and irresponsible. It showed that north korea does not want to be part of a peaceful world. They have cast a dark shadow of conflict on all nations that strive for peace. Yesterdays act came from the same vicious dictator who sent a Young College student back home to his parents unresponsive and in a coma. For americans, the true nature of the north korean regime was painfully brought home with the images of two guards holding Otto Warmbier up as they transported him from a prison he should never have been in. Otto warmbier is but one person out of millions who have been killed, tortured, or deprived of their human rights by the north korean regime. To americans, the death of one innocent person can be as powerful as the death of millions. Because all men and women are created in gods image. Depravity toward one is a sure sign of willingness to do much more harm. The nature of the north korean regime is clear. Only the scale of the damage it does could become different. Thats why yesterdays escalation is so alarming. If north korea will treat an innocent young student the way it treated Otto Warmbier, we should not be surprised if it acts barbarically on a larger scale. The United States does not seek conflict. In fact, we seek to avoid it. We seek only the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and an end to the threatening actions by north korea. Regrettably, were witnessing just the opposite. Make no mistake, north koreas launch of an icbm is a clear and sharp military escalation. The north korean regime openly states that its missiles are intended to deliver Nuclear Weapons to strike cities in the United States, south korea, and japan. And now, it has greater capacity to do so. In truth, it is not only the United States and our allies that are threatened. North koreas destabilizing escalation is a threat to all nations in the region and beyond. Their actions are quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution. The United States is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. One of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. We will use them if we must. But we prefer not to have to go in that direction. We have other methods of addressing those who threaten us and of addressing those who supply the threats. We have great capabilities in the area of trade. President trump has spoken repeatedly about this. I spoke with him at length about it this morning. There are countries that are allowing, even encouraging, trade with north korea in violation of u. N. Security council resolutions. Such countries would also like to continue their trade such countries would also like to continue their trade arrangements with the United States. Thats not going to happen. Our attitude on trade changes when countries do not take International Security threats seriously. Before the path to a peaceful solution is entirely closed, however, there remains more that the International Community can and must do, diplomatically and economically. In the coming days, we will bring before the Security Council a resolution that raises the International Response in a way that is proportionate to north koreas new escalation. I will not detail the resolution here today, but the options are all known to us. If we are unified, the International Community can cut off the major sources of hard currency to the north korean regime. We can restrict the flow of oil to their military and their weapons program. We can increase air and maritime restrictions. We can hold senior regime officials accountable. The International Community has spoken frequently against the illegal and dangerous actions of the north korean regime. For many years, there have been numerous u. N. Sanctions against north korea. But they have been insufficient to get them to change their destructive course, so in order to have an impact, in order to move north korea off its military escalation, we must do more. We will not look exclusively at north korea. We will look at any country that chooses to do business with this outlaw regime. We will not have patience for stalling or talking our way down to a watered down resolution. Yesterdays icbm escalation requires an escalated diplomatic and economic response. Time is short. Action is required. The world is on notice. If we act together, we can still prevent a catastrophe, and we can rid the world of a grave threat. If we fail to act in a serious way, there will be a different response. Much of the burden of enforcing u. N. Sanctions rests with china. 90 of trade with north korea is from china. We will work with china. We will work with any and every country that believes in peace. But we will not repeat the inadequate approaches of the past that have brought us to this dark day. We cannot forget the multiple missile tests this year or yesterdays escalation. We cannot forget Otto Warmbier and others north korea continues to hold. We cannot forget the threats to our friends and allies around the world. We will not forget. And we will not delay. Thank you. That is Ambassador Nikki Haley there. This is this emergency session that was called at the u. N. Security council all because of this icbm test over north korea, which has alarmed a lot of people, as we were just talking with my panel. Let me bring these two guys back. Joseph and john, we were just talking about, quoting secretary mattiss words on what sort of war this would look like. But hearing her very strong rebuke there, saying time is short, action is required, we must do more. John, on the we must do more point, we were talking about the best of the worst, you know, solutions. Where do you stand on that . So, there are two points from ambassador hailey just said, brooke. One is the notion of trying to stop north korea regimes ability to make more money. One of the inconvenient facts is that north korea regime has amassed large funds from their coal trade in the 2000s. Those are the funds that are on shore inside of china. The ability to draw on those funds, to finance the proliferation, that is a target priority, i think, and one area that some of these measures dont get at directly. Secretary mnuchin in the last week, saying that they would be sanctioning that one chinese bank, precisely for that reason. Are you still with me . Oh, my apologies. I thought we were going to my point being theyre actively laying down the law, at least with regard to one bank. Sorry, continue. Sure. There is that effort. But my point is that these funds currently reside inside of china, where is specifically unclear but using Chinese National laws, their domestic Law Enforcement capabilities is something we havent looked at. If they can do things like redistrict their Anticorruption Campaign apparatus, this is a massive machinery that is going after corrupt Party Officials in china. If we know the facts here and the very clear one, the private Chinese Companies are linked to corrupt Party Officials. To break up that part of the equation and working with north korean clients is a huge area that i think we can get more of the chinese cooperation on. Thats an area that we can further explore in greater detail, and that can slow down the procurement process for north koreas further development of their nuclear as well as Ballistic Missile programs. What about the leader, joe . Just kim jong un. What is his mindset through all of this . Well, that was a very powerful speech. I agree with you. But kim jong uns not going to see it that way. Empty words as far as hes concerned. Hes looking at this that military exercises, the powerful military might that the ambassador spoke about, its aimed at him. He thinks the u. S. Is coming after him. Both from his megahello maniac view of the world and because he looks at recent history and he believes that if he looks at iraq, he looks at libya and iran, and he thinks if he gives up his weapons, america will kill him. They see that he was just concluded a deal with iran, and yet theres increased talk of going to war with iran. So, thats why hes not hes going to be very reluctant to give up his weapons. Can he freeze the weapons . Can he pause the program . Yes, i think. I think he can. And thats where sanctions can come in. Chinas willing to put the screws on, even russias willing to put the screws on, but they see the sanctions as a tool to get to the bargaining table. Im afraid the administration here is looking a