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Back its rhetoric a little bit. after a high visibility display of military power aimed at deterring north korea ann provocation, the white house is dialing back the aggress i've posture amid fears that it could inadvertently trigger an even deeper crisis. that's according to u.s. officials. do you think it's a good idea to dial back the rhetoric and tone it down a little bit? >> yeah, i think that is the right posture. what has happened in the past is north korea always likes to test the new leader in south korea. now, there was just an election of a woman president there. she's just been in ...

At the same time provoke some kind of incident. the danger is not a war with the united states or south korea, i think. the danger is some kind of military altercation in the yellow sea, a navy squirmish of some kind. >> what about opening up a line of communication? i hate to bring up dennis rodman but he said the president of the united states picking up the phone and talking to the young leader of the country. maybe not the president but you say yes, you say perhaps north korean envoy should be reaching out. >> yeah. i do believe that. i think there has to be an end game to the administrati...

Long time ally, north korea. >> well, i mean, we can all express dismay. it's like rhetoric and no abs action. i think what china can do, they have leverage over north korea. they provide them food and fuel and hard currency. so they could do a lot more. i'm not blaming them. i still think some kind of diplomacy is needed by this six-party countries in ty ies r. south korea, united states, maybe the secretary general of the united nations who is south korean. maybe some kind of neutral country. but something is needed to cool things down. >> okay. governor bill richardson, thank you. 22 minu...

This very dangerous rhetoric down. there is a pathway that's responsible for the north to get on a path to peace, working with their neighbors. >> the warning from the white house is that north korea needs to concentrate abiding by its international obligations and that if it continues this kind of rhetoric, these kinds of actions, that it will only isolate -- further isolate itself from the international community. brooke? >> dan lothian at the white house. few americans know more about north korea and former new mexico governor bill richardson. we will talk to him in a few minutes. next,...

South korea's defense ministry says it has confirmed north korea has moved an intermediate range missile to the eastern coast. that's an area where the u.s. already has two destroyers, as well as radar platform. the u.s. and south korea both are anticipating some kind of a missile test to come from the north. all of this comes a day after the u.s. is moving a sophisticated anti defense missile system to island bases on guam. meantime, in kaesong, north korea continues to block south koreans from getting into the site and warns it could pull all 53,000 south koreans out of the facility, shuttin...