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From washington, with a look at axios a.m. political reporter for axios alexi mccammen. good morning and talk to us about axios' one big thing today. >> last summer the united states was closer to war with north korea than was previously known according to sources close to the white house who spoke with axios. last summer was a time in which north korea was testing missiles and kim jong un and president trump were exchanging aggressive rhetoric. president trump referring to kim jong un as rocket man and saying he would be met with fire and fury and now as the summit has collapsed we're seeing ...

They're looking at the white house. >> victor, let me ask you, are we in a more dangerous situation now than we were before the whole summit acceptance situation happened? are we back at the line of scrimmage? if so, maybe that's okay. or have we taken a sack at 20 yards and are we in a more dangerous situation? >> i think potentially jeremy, we could have taken a sack here. particularly if the north koreans feel that dialogue between the united states and the dprk is now cut off. they may go back to testing missiles, their testing moratorium was based on the continuation of dialogue. we haven...

And in terms of when, he wants it to be in his first term. but if diplomacy fails, then military action is the only thing left and it would be the utder destruction of the north korean regime which would come at a high price. >> is that where we are, talking military options already? >> i certainly hope not. i think the -- there is of course the possibility that north korea will start testing missiles again. they tested 20 of them last year during the first 12 months of president trump's time in office and i hide dre again bomb. but thus far their statements have been more conciliatory after t...

Up to pyongyang. will there be a return to hostility and tension? north korea had already promised south korea that it would stop testing missiles. but it has made no promise it would stop building them. and even with the dismantling of that nuclear testing site today, it still won't be verified, perhaps never will be verified, and it will change nothing about north korea's nuclear capabilities. >> no.'s janice mackie frayer. thanks very much. for more on this i'm joined by daily beast columnist and author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. gordon change and patrick conan of ...

Koreans will play shuttle diplomacy to get them to get them to use the channel to create the right conditions for a summit. what i think nobody wants is for this to head down a bad track where the north koreans abandon their testing, missile testing moratorium, which they agreed to at the beginning of this diplomatic process, and if they start testing missiles again or launching things into space, then we'll end up in a very bad place like we were in 2017 when they did 20 ballistic missile tests and one hydrogen bomb test. >> carol, the new secretary of state mike pompeo was on the hill a shor...