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Coastal city of sinpo, home to north koreas submarine base, u. S. Pacific command saying it was a failure, almost immediately after launch. And what i have experienced in the past when im inside this count country, its never reported in the statecontrolled media. Of course a successful launch would be a lead story with pictures of the north Korean Leader overseeing the event. Given that this appears to be this test appears to be a failure, probably most north koreans, the vast majority, will never know that it happened, ana. And, will, explain the difference between this failed launch and an a...

Let's wait and see what china does first. that's making a leap of faith and speculating. i think we give china an opportunity to pull some of the levers that they control with respect to north korea. they do not want north korea to become a destabilized regime that would result in a max influx of refugees coming into china. so it's in their benefit, to their absolute national security interest with north korea on the border to ensure that if there's going to be a stable transition of power, that it's managed properly, but more importantly and pressing, how are we going to work the denucleariza...

Korean nuclear problem. those same officials also said that, frankly, they're not concerned about increased economic pressure from china. clearly chinese trade is helping this country in the capital city. we're not allowed to get outside of the capital. we don't know what life is like. clearly their living standard is lower but we don't know because we're not allowed to go there but chinese trade with north korea jumped up nearly 40% in the first quarter of 2017 and despite five nuclear tests china has been reluct aant to really expert a tremendous amount of economic pressure on this country b...

The north koreans and they are very rational actors. this was as little as they could do to not create a bigger crisis. >> and yet trump is so unpredictable. you've written about this maneuvering between kim jong-un versus president trump, two people who both are somewhat unpredictable. how do you see this maneuvering taking shape as we get this statement. >> i think that as jamie was saying, kim jong-un has proven to be a rational actor and these continued tests also make sense. they are not random. they come at times of anniversaries and political events in the region such as trump meeting. ...