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North korea's largest trading partner and all of of this falls on beijing to ensure that they live up to the words written on the paper. >> ambassador, you heard nikki haley say that for north korea, it's their move, but as ned points out, do you think there might be some type of aggressive action where they might fly in the face of what the u.s. has done even though russia and china voted for those sanctions? >> i think that's certainly the idea and the way forward that ned laid out is possible. it's not only a matter of next steps being in north korea's ballpark, that, in fact, the sanctions...

Option would be more of a military suggestion that he's going to follow through with when it comes to thwarting north korea? >> that's his first instinct, but whether that would translate into an actual policy move is really hard to say. look, i mean, north korea, there are very few options. there are no good options in north korea that we've gone back and forth between sanctions trying to negotiate threatening, some sort of vigorous military response, but nothing seems to have caused the north koreans to waiver. the only thing we can say is clearly, china is key and having china onboard these...

National security analyst ned price and michael isikoff is back with us, investigative correspondent for yahoo news. gentlemen, great to have you here. ned, do you think the u.n.'s efforts will have a significant impact and get the attention of kim jong-un and his military defense program with balistic missiles. >> >> thomas, it's too early to say. i think if the past is prologged what we should expect of north korea in the coming days and even the coming hours, frankly, could be another missile test. it could be some artillery fire, a show of force to attempt to show that north korea, pyongya...

>>neil: oil prices jumping $1.30 a day. fears of gas spikes because last year during the arab spring they jumped 29 percent to just shy of $4 a gallon and my next guest worries it is history repeating itself. what do you think? >> getting worse. we are seeing the powder keg in the middle east and the tragic death in libya of the arch -- ambassador stevens making the whole region unstable and that makes crude prices rise along with the ned's -- fed's goodie bag of tricks. i just filled up on the way over and it was over $4 a gallon. >>neil: the moderates that protested the protesters, unfortuna...