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Pursue its effort to be recognized as a de facto nuclear-possessing country. i have to say, i read that as somebody who's covered this conflict from the u.s. side for a long time as, okay, testimony us something we don't know, right? north korea has been wanting negotiations for decades with the u.s., with the predicate being that they are a nuclear power. therein lies the problem and the whole reason the trump administration hasn't wanted to negotiate. they want a precondition being that they, the north koreans, will give up their nuclear weapons. >> yeah. in some ways we're in an advanced ga...

There? >> reporter: good morning. stunning words really from senator graham, that's how they're received here in south korea. this is an area of more than 20 million people. we're just about 35 miles away from the border that divides south korea from north korea. that puts all these people within rocket range of north korea. they know the threat is real. so there's a surprise when the u.s. senator talks about thousands of deaths here versus thousands of deaths in the u.s. saying again that the u.s. prefers a diplomatic option and raising the possibility of talks with north korea, but not witho...