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How to treat the american president? >> yes. tuesday there was this joint statement from the chinese ministries basically to put a big dispute behind them about missile defense being placed in south korea. reportedly president moon has given the chinese secret assurances and he may not have given any consultation with the u.s. before giving those assurances on missile defense. that is that south korea wouldn't allow anymore missile defense in south korea. that puts our forces at risk. we can't use our full capabilities to protect our 28,500 troops on the peninsula or our forces in the region, ...

Time. >> the u.s. military has 375,000 u.s. military personnel under its pacific command, 200 warship, five aircraft carrier strike groups. the u.s. army has 28,500 troops at six bases in south korea. its motto -- ready to fight tonight. they have f-16s on alert. 50,000 american sailors and marines are in japan. f-35 joint strike fighters may be deployed for the first time. 7,000 u.s. troops are based in guam, along with u.s., fast-attack submarines and a new rotation of b-1 strategic bombers. >> we dominate the sky. we dominate the sea. we dominate the land and space. >> on capitol hill this ...

28,500 american soldiers. so forget north korea is a nuclear power that can strike japan and south korea right now with a nuclear weapon. they have this powerful conventional military forces that can wipe out seoul, do catastrophic damage. >> general mccaffrey, a, wait to people figure out that by the way the winter olympics are due to start in five months in south korea. and perhaps a second question entirely, when you hear that kind of talk about a limited target list, some kind of preemptive strike by the u.s., we'll blow up the missile on the pad when it appears, what do you say to yoursel...

Of having a significant icbm capability. can we live with that situation or not? so that's the question on the table. i think by september 19, president trump addresses the u.n. general assembly. we'll know if there's enough global consensus to do something or are we going to consider going to war? >> sue, during the break, i asked you if there's any reason to doubt the figure, that there are 14,000 artillery tubes aimed at south korea at all times. and i'm wondering if you can -- when you hear people talk about a preemptive strike by the u.s. or a limited military strike, you're smiling, why?...

Table. i think by september 19, president trump addresses the u.n. general assembly. we'll know if there's enough global consensus to do something or are we going to consider going to war? >> sue, during the break, i asked you if there's any reason to doubt the figure, that there are 14,000 artillery tubes aimed at south korea at all times. and i'm wondering if you can -- when you hear people talk about a preemptive strike by the u.s. or a limited military strike, you're smiling, why? >> because that's completely not -- it's off the table. as you just mentioned, there's over 14,000 artillery p...