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The last few weeks of president xi had caught the attention and now unfortunately what is going to happen is the pentagon is going to have to go back to that sending signals that the strong pressure that was believed to have gotten kim jong-un to the table. so once again the pentagon wants this to be a diplomaticly solved resolved issue but we still have 28,500 u.s. troops on the korean peninsula. you still have war exercises taking place in the next coming weeks that have always made kim jong-un anxious. so we're in a very, very tense situation as we see these talks called off. >> melissa: wa...

Different things and be a little bit more flexible as we head into the negotiations. >> just to follow up on one thing we said, do you think that we ought to be willing to put the 28,500 american troops into the mix here? or do you think that ought to not enter the negotiations at this point? >> no, i don't think it should enter the negotiations. in fact, i think it would be a potential cataclysmic mistake for a number of reasons for the united states to withdraw our troops from south korea. first, obviously we are going to have to verify and be very skeptical about any commitments the north k...

They have an economy, $28.5 billion in 2016, the last year we have numbers. we can close off all commerce to north korea and even more important, we can go after the chinese. mark: want to get to that in a minute. my question on north korea is this: we removed about 100 nuclear warheads from south korea. the deal was under george h.w. bush, we've denuclearized the peninsula. as just goodwill and now you don't need nukes. so now the only country that with nukes is north korea and south korea has none. shouldn't we make an effort, if necessary, to reintroduce the nuclear warheads that were remov...

Korea. they have an economy, $28.5 billion in 2016, the last year we have numbers. we can close off all commerce to north korea and even more important, we can go after the chinese. mark: want to get to that in a minute. my question on north korea is this: we removed about 100 nuclear warheads from south korea. the deal was under george h.w. bush, we've denuclearized the peninsula. as just goodwill and now you don't need nukes. so now the only country that with nukes is north korea and south korea has none. shouldn't we make an effort, if necessary, to reintroduce the nuclear warheads that wer...

There's a good chance the summit would fail. >> and what about the other piece of this, which is certainly a lot of signals from north korea that they want u.s. troops out of south korea, how likely is it that the u.s. would agree to that? >> well, we have 28,500 troops there that provide deterrence against north korea, but they are a force stability in the region, they reassure our allies and partners in the south china sea and else where. so it would be dangerous to fake our troops out prematurely. but we think that the president is interested in this. that he thinks we shouldn't be defendin...