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Unconventional approach? this moves the needle somewhat, it seems. >> i will give the trump administration credit for the amount of pressure that they have put on north korea. more so for sure than the -- than the obama administration. >> nick kristof said even those sanctions are working. >> what they call in the foreign policy community maximum pressure. and the maximum pressure comes from a multipronged approach. en a one of enemy is the sanctions. and the additional sanctions that the treasury department has put on has also included some banks and some companies in china because the north ...

It up almost instantaneously. now where it is going takes a little longer. the system is in place and depends on not just the ballistic missile defenses in fort greelly and van der berg air force base, but also the detection system deployed in the pacific to include south korea. and by the way i think it's worth adding, we just tested pieces of that ballistic missile system a couple of weeks ago. the thad system successfully shot down a missile fired from hawaii toward alaska. and navy on a destroyer detected but did not engage another test on the hawaiian islands. so i think it's worth under ...

Strategic military capabilities in order to deter against the north. b 52 bombers. aircraft carries. there's been no official confirmation by the pentagon, but south korea president moon was making a speech. south korea will do everything it can to stand up to what he called reckless provocation by the north with strong punishment. what it's doing is under scoring this concern about an arm's race in asia. in particular here in china. china has already been long opposed to having that u.s. made anti-missile defense system in south korea. the thad system. it's something chinese officials are mor...

Floating in the pacific. in terms of, of missile defense. in, i mean, there is a t.h.a.d. system even in south korea now. and the t.h.a.d. system happens to be the last, or a layer, of a defensive shield. >> reporter: so that's part of why the governor here in guam feels comfortable that for missiles to get all the way from north korea to here they have to cross over south korea, over the sea of japan, the east sea. over japan as well and then over hundreds and hundreds of miles to try to reach this area as well, and it would have to deal with u.s., south korean and japanese missile defense, u...

The intercontinental ballistic missiles are the a.b.a. system. we're not there yet. the technology isn't there. calculations so fast. it's like a bullet hitting a bullet. we feel confident in our ability to defend south korea and japan using the t.h.a.d. system. once you get beyond that, then the numbers don't look very good at all. if you look at the missile tests, the antiballistic missile tests it's about i think half of the tests are successful and they aren't. half is not good enough. talking launching nuclear weapons you need to be 100% sure you can do this. this is what's going towards ...