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>> all american presidents have understood that north korea provokes. it was always important that the president doesn't respond with more provocation. it's either a diplomatic track or some possible military track. but not using the same rhetoric. that heats everything up. that's what the current president is doing. and that's why there's such fear all over the world about where this ends. it's hard to control the military option. it's not as if it's going to work exactly according to some game plan. that's why this rhetoric is dangerous. >> doesn't he have a point that here we are with the n...

More responsible role in global affairs, commensurate with it's economic power. do you agree with that? >> yeah, i do agree, but china has to enforce those sanctions. 80% of commerce going into north korea goes through china. this is -- these sanctions will cost north korea one-third of their yearly income. but they have to be enforced. and there's a lot of cross border smuggling between north korea and china. so if china just kind of winks, this is not going to work, but the fact that china did not veto this resolution, that it also involves russia, north korean workers working in energy in r...

Of these sanctions as a result of a missile test. keep in mind here in china, they have never before approved sanctions on the back end of a missile test. it had taken nuclear tests previously for china to approve other rounds of sanctions here. china also saying that they are prepared to pay an economic price for this. this is essentially a $1 billion economic assault on north korea's exports. what they're trying to do is to get north korea to stop testing missiles and to stop developing nuclear weapons because pretty much all analysts can agree on one thing -- that the military option which ...

Let's turn to the deepening conflict in the korean peninsula and tensions set to dominate the day of high stakes forums in in ma n manila late this afternoon. secretary of state rex tillerson will be attending along with representatives from china, russia and north korea. it will be the first time secretary tillerson and his north korean counterpart are in the same room together. in a news conference overnight he said the best signal north korea can send to show it's serious is to stop testing missiles. the meetings come just days after the united nations security council unanimously voted to ...

Thad batteries to south korea. this coincided with china's army day. this comes a week after a pair of chinese fighter jets buzzed a spy plane in the east china sea. >> neil: worries me, the possibility that something happens accidentally and the world is at a loggerhead. and now china is testing missiles. you and i just got into this a few days ago, this idea of the unintended consequences of constant missile firings. this comes to mind. what do you think? >> yeah. north korea is a reckless country. you know, we watched them -- sometimes we can watch them set up missiles and we have warning b...