Page 29 - Nancy Soderberg News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Soderberg, goran chang and barry mccaffery. ambassador, is unpredictable a foreign policy? >> no in particular the syria strike has broad support. no one knows whether there is a plan to back it is up of it's fine to be unpredictable and not show your cards but you have to have a plan. i think that's the question with this president, what goes with these actions, military actions alone don't wo. you have to marry force and diplomacy, that's the prescription for success. he has time to do it. on north korea he asked for options the full range of options i think he needs to have a deliberate dis...

Unpredict lk. white house press secretary sean spicer's version of the same thing, quote, we are not going to telegraph what we're going do maybe used on a post of foreign policyish ice over these last 12 weeks including just this last tuesday when he was talking about north korea. >> the president has been very clear when he is negotiating or dealing with an issue you don't telegraph to people how you are going to handle it. we don't telegraph what we're going to do. i think he has been clear he will not tolerate some of this action by north korea. but to answer your question, i think i have ...

Options that nancy and others just talked about, they are discovering, as nancy said, there are really no good choices. brian, i want to take you back to the video you were showing, the live video of the parade for a moment. there were a couple of thing that jumped out at me as i was watching these come across on the monitor. verse of all the very large number of mobile missile launchers these are carried on. these are meant to send a message. the message is if you think you are going to do a preemptive strike remember that most of our missiles now are sitting in tunnels underneath mountains a...

Days. it's primitive. the airpower is zero. the navy -- we've got to get their subs before they get out of port but basically it is an easy job. but it is a humanitarian disaster in south korea and probably would include engaging japan. so that's not going to happen. what is going to happen is the north koreans are not giving up their nuclear weapons. so we've got diplomatic, economic leverage, covert action, and we better build a serious ballistic missile defense system in the region. and i think a lot of that is underway. thaad is going in now. pac 3 patriot missile is there. navy agis air d...

Try to attack the launching systems with a cyber and electronic warfare methods. and you have seen a lot of these missiles go off into the ocean. that has not stopped him from turning out either these missiles or dummies. we don't know what's inside. but we are definitely in the midst of a contest in which they are saying we can produce these faster than you can defeat them or find them. >> ambassador, if you had 60 seconds or 60 minutes with the new president to tell him something about the north korean character, what you've come to know about the people we're dealing with here, what would i...