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To blackmail the united states. to break the alliance with south korea, get our 28,500 service personnel off the korean peninsula, and then try to destroy the south korean state. the destruction of the south korean state is at the core of the kim regime. i'm afraid kim will use his arsenal in a blackmail way. we saw vladimir putin try to do this in 2014 with regard to the baltics, there was very little push back then, and i think kim learned a lesson he may be able to do it now with the feckless response from the international community. i hope he doesn't think that way, but it's a real possib...

Standard operating procedure for the north koreans. they don't want sanctions. so sthar going to say things like that. but once they become convinced about the reliability of their arsenal they're probably going to use it to blackmail the u.s., to break the treaty with south korea. take our 28,500 troops off the peninsula permitting them to realize a long-held goal. absorb the south korean state and rule all of korea. so, therefore, we've got to be concerned this is just a taste of things to come, that north korea will use their arsenal to blackmail us. >> so when the president tweets out that...

Things that matter and not who is cursing out whom, stuff that doesn't. >> he's going to focus on the important things. morgan said, we have waited too long, we have been too patient with north korea. we are going to see some things start to move here. we will increase defensive in the region. barack obama cut missile defense nearly in half for u.s. homeland his first couple of years in office. we might see some cyber activity and try to disable north korea's activity because we don't want to use force but we do have to have a credible threat of force in the region. there are 28,500 american s...

Rather than where we are now which is on the brink of war. >> i have to ask you, mattis saying this doesn't bring us closer to war, what does? what has to happen to make americans think we are closer to war? understanding war and the korean peninsula is a very dangerous matter. with the defense agreement with south korea, with the japanese, 28,500 troops there. what gets us closer to war? >> a couple of things. one is as simple as provocation. as i said earlier, chance of miscalculation is pretty high. now that north koreans are close to having a full capability of hitting the united states wi...

Large scale casualties would likely follow. the big concern is how to neutralize the thousands of artillery units that north korea has hidden in the hills and in bunkers north of the border with south korea. this recent live fire exercise by pyongyang in april shows the potential destruction. this artillery is trained on the south korean capital where ten million people live 35 miles from the border. the u.s. has 28,500 troops based in south korea, there would be heavy casualties and it would take days. the u.s. and south korea conducted a joint ballistic missile drill just hours after the nor...