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Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday announced that they have agreed to continue their negotiations and cooperation in the areas of common concerns.
Summit. >> heather: thanks, rich. let's bring in gordon chang, author of "north korea takes on the world." happy new year. >> happy new year. >> heather: we've talked extensively over the years about north korea, south korea. just listening there to rich talk about the comparison to just 2017, it appears that we have made some progress. >> well, we've made some progress in reducing tensions. we've not made the critical progress, which is getting the north koreans to give up their weapons. president trump's policy is based on the assumption that kim has made that strategic decision to do so. th...
And that's how they pay for materials for their ballistic missiles and nuke programs. >> what struck me about that sucti sanction was the word "individuals"? >> well, individuals are important but they're going after the enterprises and the financial institutions. because we have the largest of the chinaese banks, especially the bank of china named in the 2016 report and perhaps the larger chinese banks also cleaning up the cash flow. this has got to stop and i'm sure that secretary/treasurer ma nu mnuchin is going to do early he possibly can. >> look, it's take-away from the entire day, katy,...
Don't spill across into china. >> they have policy for decades of supporting north korea. what has changed in the last three or four years, they're starting to accelerate transfers of technology and equipment to north korea's nuke programs. so the missile that the north koreans launched on july 4 is carried on a chinese transporter, elector launcher. the chinese made that missile mobile which makes it's hard to find and makes it a threat to the united states. the president has to say that how come the chinese have all o these equipment and missiles in their inventory. >> shepard: stabbed in th...
Thing to do. do you agree with that? >> yeah. i think before the trump administration decides what to do, they should have a very low profiled response. there's a lot -- and it's very difficult. we've had failure over the course of decades in the united states. we've not been able to stop their missile programs. we've not been able to stop their nuke programs. we need to be a little bit humble and think through this. obviously we're going to need new approaches. that's going to take time. and we've got to work very closely with our allies, which means we need to get japan and south korea on bo...