Revealed that a senior u. S. Diplomat has been having conversation with north korean counter parts, another sign that the Trump Administration is quietly trying to calm this down. Joining us now, john bolton. Good evening, ambassador. Seems like weve never been closer to it Nuclear Brink than we are now. Is that a correct statement . Were at a crisis point because of the advances that north korea has made in the last eight years, so donald trump inherits 25 years of a failed policy of Negotiating North Korea out of these programs and his options are few and not very good. What is interesting is the
regime and the threat of Nuclear Terrorism against our country. Without looking backward for too long, do you see the way that some of the administrations, particularly the Clinton Administration, giving money to north korea, and then the parallel of the Obama Administration giving money to iran, do you see that the appeasement that seems to be going on is only to our detriment and its time to stand up because these bullies are at a point where the iranians yell death to america, death to the big devil and the little devil, israel and the United States. Are we supposed to put our tail between our legs . The policy has been called appeasement. Former Secretary Of State jim baker right after the Clinton Administration signed the agreed
framework, wrote an oped that called the Clinton Administration policy appeasement and that was 20 years ago. It hasnt worked. If you want to have a future where north korea can threaten with missiles, you have it look at one more diplomatic play to convince china to reunite the peninsula with us or have to look at the Military Option. People are worried about the difficulty, the chaos that it may create today. The risk is real. What about the chaos when north korea launches missiles at the United States. Yeah. And kim jongun the american student that was sent home and
died shortly after a. What can what options does america have right now. There is no option to negotiate with north korea. We tried it for 25 years. Cite one piece of evidence to think it will succeed in year 26. Thats why the president has inherited an unhappy situation. I do think its worth trying with china on an expedited basis. How do we do that, ambassador . The president has done everything, privately and publicly, and china says, look, if america strikes first and theres issue if it makes us the aggressor if were trying to defend ourselves, then the question is, china said they will fight with north korea against us. They also said that if we were retaliating they would
stand aside and thats a significant development. I think theres a chunk of chinese decisionmakers that think that north korea is an ugly piece of baggage. I think theres a deal that can satisfy china on reunification. Its a hard argument. I wish we had started it 10 years ago. Otherwise, the American People have a choice live with a Nuclear North Korea and threats and bribery that will entail forever and do what the politicians said. Do not accept a Nuclear North Korea. That could well involve a Military Option of some sort. Ambassador john bolton, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Here with more reaction, the host of war stories, lieutenant come near oliver north. Good evening, colonel. Heres my question. The last question i asked the ambassador. What does america do now. We have tillerson saying, were still willing to negotiate. We hear today that there are
back channels and the president is saying, were Locked And Loaded and ready to defend the country and our territories. I agree with what john just said in terms of convincing the president in china and the people that its in their interest to act now. The u. S. Will have to take preemptive Military Action in pyongyang unless it stops now. Consider this, judge, 20 of the north korean population is likely to flee on foot and take to the sea like boat people from vietnam. Thats a disaster of extraordinary proportions. There are things that the president needs to do to convince that were deadly serious. Its not as though the
president hasnt explained to the president in china that, look, you will suffer and you will have mass migration from the peninsula. But i dont think that the president of china is confident that well take action. There are a bunch of things that can be done. We turn the tactical nukes that we withdrew in the 90s. We have reagan going back to port. When will that be deployed . Shes in japan and she can be on the korean coast ready to strike. If we move aircraft and more air tankers to guam and okinawa. These are clear signals to the chinese that were getting ready to act. And deploy Search And Rescue assets and base some in china to recover our aircrews, some of
which will be shot down. If, as you say, we take preemptive action and we strike first, china has said that they will if that occurs, they will take the side of north korea. Well, this is, again, my point. We are going to have to do this. Were facing a clear and present danger, an existential threat from the regime in pyongyang. We faced the same problem from tehran. We could, just for example, deploy the naval ship mercy to north korea. Deploy more u. S. And navy assets. Deploy more intelligence satellites and that will leak in this town. You can launch more equipment to the republic of korea and urge
japanese Prime Minister to go to beijing and tell them, you will go down in history as the man that talked us back from the brink. You will get all the credit if you take kim jongun back down. All of those things have to be done before you start Military Action. Even though there was an unanimous vote of the u. N. Security council. That didnt seem to have any impact, unanimous. But thats because theyre not saying in beijing forget pyongyang, theyre not seeing in beijing that were deadly serious and we are and we have to be because what will happen otherwise, a Military Application will use air force Strike Aircraft to decapitate the regime in pyongyang, take down their air defenses, their coms with Cyber Attacks and things that we cannot talk about on tv. If kim survives that, he will have to issue orders to launch
things with carrier pigeons, because they will not be able to talk to each other. Seoul, south korea, Everybody Knows if they strike us or if we strike them, they will strike south korea. Why are they resistant to the Defense Missile system. Dont they know Whats Going On . Because, again, nobody thinks were serious, as ambassador bolton said, theres been so much bluff and bluster, this is not a president that anybody ought to take anything but deadly serious. Colonel oliver north, be sure to catch colonel north on war stories. Coming up on this edition of coming up on this edition of hannity, retired brigadier no, please, please, oh shrieks in terror Heavy Breathing and snorting no, no. The running of the bulldogs . Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money aleia saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. woman theres a moment of truth. Etes, and now with victoza®, a better moment of proof. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar
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hits. We note that he is boasting tha he is going to turn us into jelly. We will are critical of the president. What should the president be saying . Okay . Are just back off like obama dead and hope it goes away. Look, one more scary thing i they successfully put a rock a rocket into orbit. They have all the pieces i thin we have to see the signs and take very seriously. I agree with my old boss, john bolton, that the play is not with north korea, it is really with china. One interesting thing is that the chinese Remove Oil Sanction from this last round of us sanctions. Then by removing the sanctions, that means that we still have time, which goes to colonel north point that they are not taking us seriously. What they need to understand is this is not president obama jus with a threat of Military Action , but this is President Trump with a credible threat of Military Action. For diplomats we need that
credible threat behind us so that when we are sitting across the table and we are negotiating , the other side knows we need to come to a peaceful deal because if not, w have to transfer the file back to the pentagon and general mattis, Secretary Mattis, they dont negotiate. I can see that. I will go to you, general tata. When the president made it clea that he wasnt going to be soft on this, we often showed our military mechanisms. We also showed the planes and w also talked about the aircraft carriers. The president is putting the power behind the words. Is that enough . Welcome i think what you are seeing is the application of al of the applications of power an working in sync a nation and harmony, so the Obama Administration was particularly
competent at and i agree with what rick says, weve got a rea Perception Gap to overcome here because president obama is so enough the size of the world an so many to our enemies and giving billions of dollars to other countries and now when President Trump comes and says what he means, it is like a stark difference out there and people are waking up. It takes them a little bit of time to say does an american president really mean what he says and i believe that President Trump is using the Information Aspect of National Power in a very effective way. He is saying something that is very clear did you have Secretary Tillerson saying Something Different matter but supporting what President Trump says and Secretary Mattis is saying something that is very direct but supporting what President Trump says. So all of that is aimed at supporting the military and flexible turn options that we have. Theres un sanctions that are part of diplomatic power and economic power with the economi sanctions. So all of that combines and synchronizes two great pressure on north korea and on china. Let me ask you this, rick. This is a big weekend, i think. If nothing happens this weekend i think a lot of people are really concerned. If things seem to tamp down in light of there seems be a back channel that Secretary Tillerso is still, you know, working on, if we can get past this weekend are things okay . Thats number one. Number two, is a Preemptive Strike possible . I think things are going to be okay when we see china move. I give them a short window, one week to shut down all of the trade. We have to remember that in the First Quarter of this year the chinese increased trade with north korea. They didnt get the message. They are increasing their trade so we need to see in the next week a shutdown, if not, i woul
suggest weve got one more play with china which is a unilatera us banking sanctions. Its not without pain. Its a Painful Act For American and wall street, but i think that we immediately go to that and within one week if we havent seen action from china. Preemptive strike, general . Is that what should be done or do we wait for him to hit us or our were territory, kuan . A Preemptive Strike could result the got 8500 artillery pieces, 4500 block rocket launches righ along the dnc there that can range 30, 40, 50 miles, and tha puts soul into play. But salted want to accept th Missile Defense systems. They have the system that we offer them. That would do nothing agains all of these Artillery Shells that would come raining across. That they didnt want anything. You would think. My point is that there is a
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