Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal News Headlines And

CSPAN Washington Journal News Headlines And Viewer Calls March 19, 2017

Look for a vote on thursday. Live coverage on all of these events on the cspan networks, but we begin with the latest developments in north korea connecting a ground test saturday for a new type of rocket engine. Kim jongil is calling it a revolutionary breakthrough. It comes at the same time secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in asia with new concerns over north koreas intentions dominating the discussion. Just how should the u. S. Deal with north korea . Our alway phone lines are open. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 if you are a republican. For independents, 2027488002. Join us on facebook. A tweet. Ighd us good sunday morning to you. Thanks very much for being with us. We want to begin with this headline from the bbc. New concerns this morning over north korea as the country conduct a high trust engine test. Here are the details. In jongil declaring a test north koreas rocket industry. He said the engine would help north korea at you a worldclass satellite launch capacity, ate it all and not confirmed elsewhere. That this morning from the bbc. Here are the comments from secretary of state Rex Tillerson, who is in beijing this weekend. He was in tokyo on friday. [video clip] let me be very clear. The policy of strategic patients has ended. We are exploring a new range of diplomatic, security, and economic measures. All options are on the table. North korea must understand that the only path to a secure economically prosperous future is to abandon its development of Nuclear Weapons, as missiles, and other weapons of mass destruction. Incall on all nations joining us to demand that the north korean government choose a better path and a different future for his people. The United States has committed to supporting the defense of our allies, and we will continue to develop that conference of set of capabilities to counter the growing north korean Ballistic Missile threat that is why the u. S. And republic of korea decided to take the defensive measure of deploying fast Missile Systems. While we acknowledge chinas opposition,s economic retaliation against south korea is inappropriate and troubling. We asked china to refrain from such actions. Instead, we asked china to address the threat that makes that necessary. That being the escalating threat from north korea. Host this is the headline from the london guardian with response to secretary of state Rex Tillerson saying all options are on the table with regard to north korea. He made reference to the military equipment being shipped to south korea in several months in advance of the plan to be there in the summer. Asking, how we are should the u. S. Deal with north korea . Robert from wister, massachusetts, democrats line, good morning. Caller this is very dangerous. Powerful. Ery, very we never went to war with china. We went to war with every nation in the world. We do not want to have problems with china just like we had with vietnam. Look at you got china and north korea. Both are underneath china. China is going to protect vietnam. China is going to protect north korea. We have submarines that come on the coast of new york city. Chinese submarines come on the coast of new york city. Be talkingous to this dangerous thing. Ry, ve dangerous. Host robert, thanks for the call. Japan holding its first evacuation drill because of the developments in north korea. That is the headline at cnn. Com. Duck,en playing duck, goose outside their school when the siren blared. The teachers drop to the ground and wait for further instruction. This is a drill. A missile has been launched. This is just a test. Moments later, the entire school body runs from the Athletic Field to the school gym. They are joined by elderly volunteers who lineup in rooms next to the children seated quietly at the floor. This is japans first evacuation exercise preparing for the scenario of a north Korean Missile attack against their country. Again, details on the test at cnn. Com. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 or republicans. We also have a line for those of you outside the u. S. That number is 2027488003. Next in northmike carolina, republican line. How should the u. S. Deal with north korea . Caller morning, steve. How are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller i think a reasonable approach would be to look at what has not worked. What has not worked is six party bribes, oil. Acy, you can use nuclear power, but you cant. This is the path going back to the clinton administration. None of that has worked. Now we have a new administration. I am not sure it will work, but i dont think a hard line is wrong. I think a hard line here is maybe something that we have not done in the past, and maybe it will get some type of a response one way or the other, but again, what has not worked orthis soft diplomacy somewhat tough diplomacy that has been executed. It has not slowed them down at all apparently. It has not been anything. They are still a rogue state that kills the own people so they are not going to have any regard for possibly starting a war and killing people of another nation. Possibly letting japan and south korea off the leash, so to speak, meaning either the threat of it or actually allowing it to happen because it would be admit our purview to not it but encourage it and i would be to allow south korea and japan to go nuclear. There is no doubt that the japanese with their Technology Proficiency have probably a Nuclear Weapon in the basement so to speak. They are capable of deploying Nuclear Weapons. They are just too write a nation and advanced technologically to not be able to do it. They have not been because of our agreement with them to defend them, but if it looks like any nation that feels like they are living under an existential threat from another nation, all bets are off. I applaud the new approach. I applaud the hardline approach. Host thanks for the call. Let me read a couple of tweets. This is from richard. This from bill king. There is this from michael. That based on the cnn story of testing going o preparing for the possibility of the potential of a nuclear strike. Let me go back to the Washington Post that details what happened saturday. While the missiles themselves were not new, the tactic was simultaneous firings. That this morning from the Washington Post. California takeaway ron from san clemente, california. Caller good morning misty. Than good morning, steve. Thank you for all you do. We probably should have said that is robin rather than t Rex Tillerson to try to deal with the johnny one note, kim jongnam. Kim jong un. Years,0 years ago or 30 north korea and south korea were asked to unified into one country. There was a real effort being staged that way. I dont know what happened, but we need to have some of that is looking at this in a totally different way. I mean, this is a kid screaming in the darkness to beat his people. Going to war with kim jong un is a joke. Anyway, just a thought. Lets take a more clearheaded way of looking at this problem. Host thanks for the call. Another comment. Share us your thoughts. Send us your tweets. This from a veteran of the obama white house. Histories available at nytimes. Com with this headline story available at nytimes. Com with this headline. Mr. Kill his and father both proved willing to negotiate. They saw the Nuclear Program as a bargaining chip. Kim jon again, that this morning from the New York Times in the opinion section available at nytimes. Com. Gilbert is next from maryland. Good morning. Caller morning. Morning. If china is worried about china, china is now looking to calm us downight of than us rather than us trying to to calm us down rather than us trying to calm them down. We kind of need to talk to both of them now because the u. S. Is acting a little you radical because of trump. They do not know what trump will do. I am in no way in favor of trump at all. But china is looking at it like we will talk to you now. That means they may think harder about talking to north korea because north korea is the cause of their problems as far as the usa. I dont know if it is that bad of a strategic move right now. Nothing else is working in north korea. They have a little boy running their country. Host gilbert from maryland, thanks for listening. Thanks for listening on cspan radio if you are tuning in or on sirius xm, the potus channel, which also carries this Program Every sunday morning. We are asking how the u. S. Should deal with north korea a new rocket test. Took place yesterday confirmed by the north korean government and by u. S. Officials in south korea and japan monitoring north korea. We will go to jerry in north carolina, democrats line. Good morning. Caller gary. Host go ahead. Caller i think did we have any trouble with north korea, it will be a mass surrender. We probably zeroed in on every bunkerndocket or whatever they got. We can take them o in the first day. That is not the right call. They moved all of these sporting events out of here. They moved from greensboro to greenville, south carolina. There would have been a home game for us in greensboro. Now they moved us to greenville. Int i am going to jump because that is a completely different topic to this network. We want to focus on the situation in north korea. Alan from east chicago, indiana. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and for taking my call. Wecomment is i believe should totally and completely ignore him. We should not make the mistake that korea thinks like america does. We have been through this before with other countries. They have a totally different train of logic. I personally view kim jong un as being a big frog in a little pond. Whatever is on his mind, i have no idea, but lets not panic and go into devcon 4 or whatever level. Igno the guy. We spent over 700 billion a year on our military. Weapons,00 nuclear this guy is trying to make one . No problem. Even more importantly, i believe he is 100 subsidized by china. They are actually broke. Anytime they fire a test missile, that costs money. That has to come from s somewhere. Eventually, that country will have an economic collapse. Host allen from east chicago. President xi expected to visit the u. S. President trump is expected to formally invite him. Why is part of the reason secretary tillerson is in asia this week laying the groundwork for that meeting. Michael has a followup. Another tweet from this viewer. This editorial from the Chicago Tribune. Waking up to a north Korean Nuclear nightmare. Is Available Online on the website. North korea is americas , isolated,dversary paranoid, belligerent, and here is the worst part, armed to the teeth. China has no more interest than anyone else in waiting for north korea to set up world war iii in asia, so amid the scary stories, and it is an opportunity for the Trump Administration. From be Chicago Tribune. Next is joe in indianapolis on our line for independents. Caller good morning. Thank you so much for cspan. Long time caller. Have not called in in a considerably long time. Host glad to hear from you. Caller i am now 4. 5 years cancer free and i think the v. A. For saving my life. As far as north korea is concerned, it all started with and we did nothing. It has expanded from there. It all started hosthost it all . Ss pueblo. E u. S. Poin host mary, how should the u. S. Deal with north korea . Caller i am not sure how we should. I dont have an answer for that, but i believe that trump will take us to war with them. Colorado,der, marie, good morning. Caller thank you, steve. We love the sunday morning show. I am calling with a brief comment. I would disagree with the gentleman, terry i think his name was from north carolina. About the hardline approach that President Trump is taking is a good idea. I would say President Trump and tillerson would be wise to confer and get some smart tactical advice from both former secretary of state hillary clinton, bill clinton, and even barack obama, and i will explain why. Of radical policies President Trump and company mirrors the attention gathering that the adolescent on practices. That will not work. North korea has been a nightmare. We have done with that for a long time , even in the bush years. Dennis rodman has a rather bizarre effect. Let me make myself clear. Bill clinton had a diplomat. People should watch this documentary the diplomat made by his son. Going to kosovo to deal with milosevic, who is another monster. I think bill clinton, former president bill clinton, could advise President Donald Trump appropriately. Thank you for taking my call. Host thank you. Abc ne thiws has story. Abc news. Com. Un. Icture of kim jong ins go to peter charlottesville, virginia. Independent line. Good morning. Caller yes, good morning cspan nation, and thank you. I was calling about the career situation. It is my understanding 60 plus percent of the worlds constant right on tungsten is the area north korea is holding. As some of the callers have suggested, north korea is an arm of china. Right after world war ii, we wanted to go in but truman fired macarthur. Tungsten is what we put on the bullets that go through the text that makes us militarily superior. Host thanks for the call. This tweet from james. This from another viewer. Sam, you are next, washington, republican line. Good morning. You with us . Caller i was in korea for five years. Host what time frame . Caller 1986 to 1993. They are still sending stuff over the border. People have never had an arstice. Chinese are the ones controlling these people. We need to put a leash on that dog, but i dont think they are going to. Careful. O be very we have never had any diplomatic success with these people. Host thank you. Jeffrey lewis has written a piece. Is available at Foreign Policy. This is the headline. North korea is practicing for nuclear war. It is Available Online. The picture of the Nuclear Capacity north korea may be preparing for. North koreas military exercises leave little doubt about the plan to use large Nuclear Weapons against u. S. Forces southhout japan and north korea. That this morning from Foreign Policy magazine and the view of Jeffrey Lewis. North korea is not testing dismissals. It is preparing for a Nuclear First strike. Lets go to russell in kentucky, republican line. Your reaction to all this. Good morning. Caller yes. Goingwondering about over there to fight. Their stuff that they got over there, i dont know if we blew them up or something, but all of ort was spread in the u. S. Whether they got some way to keep it from spreading or whatever. Host are you worried about this, russell . Caller yes. Yes, i sure am. I dont know anything about this stuff. They have had it for many years. They want to harm the United States with it. I dont know what we have to do about it. Us andt let them bomb stuff and shooting rockets over them. Ith stuff on i dont know for sure. Host thanks for the call. New york times, possible options for striking north korea all being viewed as highly risky. Details in the sunday New York Times. Fitzpatrick has this tweet. That is one of the topics secretary of state tillerson is dealing with today and over the next few days. His first thought was tokyo. He will travel to seoul, south korea, before returning to the u. S. Democrats line, joanne, good morning. Caller good morning. It just does not stop. We are going to see the likes of nothing if north korea does this. We are going to be facing more. Has not be mentality to deal with this kind of man. Thank you for taking my call. Host thanks for the call. The bbc on the news outlets reporting on the developments over the weekend. Let me read to you what they are reporting this morning. North Korean Leader kim jong un declaring the test a new birth for the north korean rocket industry. He said the engine would help north korea achieved worldclass satellite launch capability. We will go to frank in frederic, wisconsin, democrats line. Good morning. Caller morning. Host go ahead, please. Caller pardon me . Host you are on the air. Caller i think the best solution would be to try to get south Korean People to move out of there. Love them have that stretch let them have that stretch. Host there are 25 Million People in seoul, south korea. Caller i understand that, but, you know, maybe it is better off to take north korea out and hope are the best for the best. Label arm themselves with they will arm themselves to where they do some damage to us. Host ken joining us from new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. What a way to wake up. Is i hear question very little discussion about the north korean ability to deliver a Nuclear Weapon vm more standard means, a ship, truck, and i am wondering if anyone can illuminate me on this. Otherwise, i have no brilliant thoughts on how to handle this other than to look at the fact that several of the people we have in the white house right now strike me as exactly the wrong type of people emotionally and mentally. Thank you. I will hang up. Host thank you for the call. This is another tweet. He stopped by at the tucson book festival that we covered last weekend. The question, how should the u. S. Deal with north korea. Our phone lines are open. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. We have a line for independents. That number is 2027488002. Those watching outside of the u. S. , 2027488003. We will keep the numbers on the screen. We will hear from fill in brooklyn ne, new york. Caller hi. I think china is using north korea as a pawn. I think our influence in that region is already going down. Think we have a good solution

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