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Does that change the threat north korea poses to the u.s.? no, i ve got to tell you. capabilities speak much more loudly than anything else. north korea has a nuclear capability. they have a developed missile capability. they ve indicated on two separate launches that they have an icbm capability. and that might even be irrelevant, because of the threat that a short range missile poses both to south korea and to japan, two strongest allies that we have in the region. and frankly, they might feel left out, going forward, if the development going forward with the president is to tried something with the icbm capabilities and japan sits there and says, wait a minute, what about these short-range missiles. we re still underneath that umbrella. will, i was talking to freard zakar zakaria, was that last night? one night this week. it s been a long week. that denuclearization might mean something different to north korea than it does for the ....
We ve got your back. you cannot afford to try to instigate and start something and be too cute by all of this. because you re going to end up doing this on your own. you re going to end up losing it all, and we, china, will suffer if we lose this regime buffer. you made will ripley blush on the air. i think this is the first time i ve seen him smile giving a report about north korea. i digress. will s on it. who else has been to pyongyang as many times as will? we just don t want you to go native. in their announcement, general, north korea said, we will never see nuclear weapons unless there is a threat or provocation to our country. does that change the threat north korea poses to the u.s.? no, i ve got to tell you. capabilities speak much more loudly than anything else. north korea has a nuclear capability. they have a developed missile capability. they ve indicated on two separate launches that they have an icbm capability. and that might even be ....
This morning from the defense minister in january. they will have an icbm capability. the coast of the united states or ourselves. reporter: the worst case scenario would be kim jong un could reach that milestone by july 23rd this summer, predicated on the north being able to develop a reliable missile system as well, on both fronts. and new construction with the nuclear reactor in pyongyang upping the ante for the potential sit down between donald trump and kim jong un. we don t know when or where that ....
Point putin will make an offer to host this thing because it s irresistible to have the media covering it in this sort of way. they both like that kind of thing. it s going to happen. it doesn t mean that the meeting is going to occur, doesn t mean the meeting is going to be any good. this is all very good for north korea. north korea is now what, 95% of the way to a robust nuclear arsenal, with delivery systems, right? yes. now is the time for them to talk. absolutely. north korea is going to spin this as going into this summit meeting from a position of strength. they re going to say it s because of our nuclear strength. they are 95% done with their nuclear program. they have one more technical hurdle that they have to cross, which is to show successful re-entry capability but south korea and japan are already under north korean nuclear threat, they have between 20 to 06 nuclear warheads. they ve shown icbm capability that can reach all of the united states and they are very ....
Host this thing. because it s irresistible to have the media covering in this sort of way. they both like that kind of thing. it doesn t mean the meeting will occur or be any good. but this is all very good for north korea. north korea is now what, 95% of the way to a robust nuclear arsenal with delivery systems, right? yes. now is the time for them to talk. absolutely. north korea is going to spin this as going into this summit meeting from a position of strength. they re going to say, it s because of our nuclear strength. they are 90 to 95% done with their nuclear program. they just have one more technical hurdle that they have to cross, which is to show successful reentry capability. but, yeah, south korea and japan are already under nuclear threat, they have already shown icbm capability that can reach all of mainland united states. they are very, very close and they re going to say, hey, we are now coming in from a position of strength. all right, we ve got to take a bre ....