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Hundreds of miles in both directions over the last 600 years. the korean really fear the chinese. jenna: that's what you say we should do. we have done over the last week or so, the president has canceled some of our military e sizes with south korea, done both to appease north korea to not ratchet up the rhetoric but also some say to appease beijing. should we be backing off this military exercises? what kind of message does that send? >> it send a message to the chinese that they can push us around. they've done this before as we've tried to put pressure on the north koreans. they did it spe...

Administrations negotiate with north korea, that they take our money, they take our fuel and then they go ahead and cheat. so why wouldn't that happen again? why would we trust them? >> john is absolutely correct. that has been the pattern. i have raised that issue with the chinese, i raised it this morning with the prime minister abe. how do we make this different? what is it that is going do make this different because we don't want do go through the same cycle. we don't want to simply repeat history and there has been a history of you know, just playing this game and thenç ultimately, the...

About nuking guam or u.s. possession or alaska which is part of the united states and not the continental united states. when they start saying that and we have to take it very serious. part of the our problem is we have sequestitration and the president wants to go to nuclear zero and he's working it . we are not modernizing our nuclear forces and we sent two b-two and sent certain signals and they are reading the small print on what the united states is doing in our defense establishment . that's why it is it encouraging them to be more provocative. >> uma: what do we have to do to get the m...

But china is still unknown. because they have said the right things up to a point. they have not been as blunt or as direct privately as the u.s. frankly hopes that they would be. so this is a new chinese president, and this is a big test for this new leadership. china was frankly very concerned about the obama administration's stated so-called pivot to asia. which implied more military strength and more of a show of force here. this was long before the north korean threat became so real. and so now china is kind of in a box. because this justifies everything that the u.s. is committing. the f...

I don't know that for a fact, but i assume that they have. but we've also taken some other actions. there's been some airplanes that have flown there, flying over south korea, both b-2s, as well as there's f-22s, as well. there are b-52 -- there's a b-52 flight that has gone there. we have ships which have gone there, additional radars in place. so the united states has responded in kind of a firm way. we haven't used a hot rhetoric that the north koreans have. the heated rhetoric, which hopefully is bluster. and we, on the other hand, can't assume that it's only bluster. we have to be ready f...