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Soviet union subsequently russia and the united states. what role does the u.s. and nato have in assuring russia there s not an intent to violate the agreements? russia s statement is about the possible offensive use of our missile defenses. in eastern europe. i think, again, we need to establish with them an inspection regime whereby we can show that use is not possible. and vice versa. we need to have access to russian sites to, in fact, confirm their statement or not confirm their statement that, in fact, they have not deployed missiles that violate the range requirements in inf. we believe they re out of compliance. i m trying to explain why it s important. why is it important? we have other missiles in the world. russia and america has missiles. what is important about this type of missile? first of all, you are ....
That he never uses chemical weapons again. that would require an inspection regime, it would require a follow-up, it would require careful diplomatic strategies to make that happen. that should be the goal, but i m not sure that a lot of thought has been given to that. mr. secretary, in your mind would that approach, if it was possible, be preferable to the, you know, wham, launch a missile and drop it on some air field? would you rather see the former or the latter? let s not kid anybody. we have a lot of leverage right now in terms of the potential of a military strike. the question is whether we can use that leverage to get to our objective, which is an assad who will not use chemical weapons in the future. that was the mistake last year. we hit em and there was no follow-up, and the result is we re facing exactly the same situation now. if we hit them military now ....
Giving up missiles, and agree to the most intrusive inspection regime on earth. we need this now, because we ve seen all the reports, not only the ones about submarines, but working on plutonium reactor, which has no peaceful purpose. we need to know where kim stands. david, the iran deal left a bad taste in a lot of our mouths. what can be done here to avoid the pitfalls, in my opinion, of that opinion? pete, i agree with gordon. pompeo has the hard work ironing out of the details in the agreement at the summit to denuclearize. he has to have a list of things that north korea is going to do, things we can proo prove are happening, otherwise the president and pompeo can t say it s a success. i m hopefully, optimistic, but ....
Have stopped working towards a full program. that s why the message has to be clear that it will mean your destruction and we he take military action. he needs to walk away from this meeting with a concrete timeline. verification and an inspection regime. i m going to start with you. secretary mattis said he s not seen any steps from kim jong-un and north korea and the process of denuclearization. have you seen any positive signs that they re willing to denuclearize? not yet. but when secretary mattis made that point, he did say nor did he think there was sufficient time for the steps. so it s been about three weeks since the summit. there s been leaked reports to the media that the u.s. is aware of a secret facility where they may be continuing to refuel potentially. so i think this is really a game-changing moment for secretary pompeo. this is where we will see if the north koreans have any intent n intentioniintentio ....
Into an inspection regime. hopefully we can land this diplomatically but to say the threat is over as the president has done repeatedly. . he told margaret brennan, pompeo could get this wrapped up in a year. he seems to be raising stakes on the secretary to do something the secretary himself told the senate could take a long time. the only way that could happen is if the north koreans could open up in ways that would be totally unprecedented. not just in them but in the arms control world generally. what do you think he s up to here? if you went back to his earlier statements, i theorized at one point he was trying to undermine the agreement. i don t think so at this point. i don t know what he s up to. i think it does make pompeo s ....