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Almost directly to kim jong-un and said the united states does not seek regime change prayed we do not seek to invade, go beyond the 38th parallel, but the united states wants is essentially north korea to stop his aggression in the u.s. has to respond to all of these missile tests and nuclear advances. >> sandra: thank you. life force of the state department as we just mention, the president and vice president being briefed with a team of security advisors. let's turn to senior correspondent rick leventhal who joins us live from bridgewater, new jersey. what are we hearing out of the white ho...

Rhetoric north korea uses about transforming seoul into a sea of fire. and i believe they would if they were attacked. with all that artillery and rocketry they have lined up along the dmz. that fire and fury statement doesn't just apply to north korea because that jeopardizes literally millions of people in south korea not to mention the regional implications. >> you mentioned secretary tillerson. i want to read what he said about north korea just the other day because it really does, it seems like he is trying to de-escalate tensions which you spoke to. he said "we do not seek a regime chang...

Koreans saying if you issue any statements you will lose. they said we don't want a war, we don't want regime change, we don't want to move troops north of the 38th parallel. so who salespeoples for the administration. president trump's statements quite extraordinary. analysts that are optimistic here would say that jim jong-un will not launch any attack because survival, self preservation is the key, but you have two relatively inexperienced and predictable leaders, and south korea really, you know, there is anxiety here. they were satisfied last week with new u.n. angsts, i think that satisf...

Other countries that are affected by this. and that plays into north korea's hands. >> and john kirby, it seems to be, such contrast to what we heard the other day from secretary of state rex tillerson, who said this. he said, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel. we are trying to convey to the north koreans, we are not your enemy. we're not your threat. well, that certainly was not conveyed by the president today. >> no, he's undermining his secretary of state and ambassador hailey, who are trying to work a diplomatic and economic solution to this. and, loo...

How will the trump administration respond? some see mixed signals as a deliberate good cop, bad cop routine, others see it as a diskwekt between the white house and the state department. >> we'll handle north korea. we're going to be able to handle north korea. it will be handled. we handle everything, thank you very much. >> and here's the secretary of state just yesterday. >> we do not seek a regime change, we do not seek the collapse of the regime. we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the palestinians, peninsula, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th para...