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The dprk's patience. chinese foreign ministry says the country's goal is to develop friendly neighborly relations with north korea. this could be the latest in what would be a major breakup between the nations. back in february, china banned coal imports from the north, a major blow to pyongyang's economy. and david ignatius, you wrote earlier this week in the "washington post" that trump is right, america needs to talk to bad guys, but carefully. and in part you write this, "here is a shocking statement, president trump is basically right, that the world is too dangerous and that the united s...

Defense system president obama helped put in place. >> let's skip the trade deal. that was the whiplash i had. on one hand i thought it was intriguing of him giving weird praise to kim jong-un. pay a little respect maybe that will calm him down. south koreans threatening trade agreement in the interview. >> that did not appear to be an instinctive, i don't like anything barack obama did. that's really -- >> it sounded like a turrets response. >> particularly obama ones. >> we're talking about korea by the time. south korea doesn't want to hear that. >> they definitely don't. the agreement was ...

Ballistic missiles. three of them fell into the japan sea. close to japan. and then february is when they shot missiles when abe was down at mar-a-lago. this is potentially a continuation of that escalating policy. >> now joining me by phone, a form he ambassador to south korea for the united states. chris hill. it is hard not to wonder if this is a response to president trump when he said a major conflict could occur with north korea. >> reporter: i would say president trump said a lot to reuters including rather odd segment where he talked about somehow king jong un was under a

North koreans, is that the sort of saber rattling they're going to brush off or are they going to take that as some threat of a first attack. >> lanhee, why -- our pentagon correspondent hans nichols reminded us of something that's been true. our intelligence inside of north korea has gotten worse, not better. most of that is a south korean problem. why has it gotten worse? >> i think part of it is because kim jong-un, believe it or not, has become more repressive than his father and his grandfather before that. the part of it is because kim jong-un -- north korean leaders have been irrational...

>> yes, unless you're dealing with a madman. we're dealing with such an unpredictable king jong-un and his father, nobody's been able to stop the madness and unpredictability of them and i'm not suggesting that president trump should be able to do something that previous administrations have failed at and not been able to do but sounds like he's talking about it in a different way. i wonder if that causes you concern or optimism? >> it's important to have all of your options on the table. there's no reason to take it off. >> it doesn't make you nervous that he's talking about military action a...