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Reversal of its position to something covert. i think it is important to note, too, that technically the agreement does not expire. it basically says indefinitely that iran will not acquire nuclear weapons and it applies for the iaea inspection. this is a critical issue in time. other one i think people are forgetting is this is only one of three threats. iran already stepped up its missile testing program. it has steadily improved its capability it attack tanker, oil shipments, all shipping in the gulf, and it steadily is expanding the influence outside the region, outside the immediate borde...

Part? or do you through the sanctions are working and they may stay the course here? >> well, it's important to realize where we are this morning. the fall eagle exercises started a matter of hours ago. so it's a small miracle that today we're not talking about a north korea missile launch. this diplomatic outreach is really the only thing that has restrained north korea's missile testing program so far. it's pushed off those tests and delayed them. normally, these exercises every year are the starting gun for the spring testing season. and we would have expected icbm tests and submarine launc...

Those talks. that said there really are no indications on either side that there could be any talks in the offing. in fact, the talk we have heard, jon, in the past couple of days is that north korea might be getting ready to launch a satellite into space, even this is seen as a cover for its long range missile testing program. >> jon: there are new concerns about biological and chemical weapons there. >> there are indeed. in the past 24 hours new reports that have people concerned. doctors have investigated, have detected in the body of a north korean soldier who defected to the south recentl...

Korean workers, about 100,000 work outside north korea, must send them home within the next several months. and that will put a financial bite on north korea, because the money they earn goes back into that country. but, of course, the real question still, will any of this make a difference? will kim jong-un come to the table? will he make any gesture to give up his nuclear weapons and his missile testing program? no indication that he plans to give it up. president trump, where he stands publicly, saying still hoping for some kind of diplomatic solution, but very, very tough talk that there c...

He also said the u.s. has direct channels to pyongyang. tillerson, who is now heading back home made the remarks following a meeting with china's president. let's go live to cnn's matt rivers in beijing. matt? >> reporter: the secretary of state was only in beijing for about 12 hours but he did manage to make some pretty big news at a briefing with reporters that we attended right before he left back to the united states. he was in that briefing he said for the first time publicly that the trump administration when it comes to this missile testing program does have direct lines of communicatio...