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This is our people. we have military facilities there. we have thousands of soldiers there. they have a governor who is a proud american citizen. so i don't view ignoring guam as viable because any attack on guam is an attack on united states of america. >> of course it is. >> so i think his base would understand that and not default -- >> just for the record, guam was threatened after the president said if you make any more threats i'll incinerate your country. this didn't begin with guam. it began with north korea testing missiles and apparently having the capability of a war head. but our p...

Of threat, not action but words. it's just not a clear way to do things. >> it's interesting though that despite the president's rhetoric, it seems from all the reporting that u.s. military posture in the region has not changed. it's not as if u.s. personnel are being withdrawn, as if marines are being loadedn to vessels. it doesn't seem to be a -- >> you wonder whether all the wires are connected here. from the president's lips to our diplomats to our military people on the ground. and i just worry about -- i don't object. let me simply say, to the president raising the profile of this issue....

And mr. kim better get their act together. kim should be very, very nervous. so, while many are saying the rhetoric is talking down the stock market and people are on edge, the president of the united states said, look, over the last 25 years, past presidents have done all sorts of diplomatic things, where are we now? what's interesting is apparently and we heard on this the radio yesterday. i looked it up and apparently it's true. it was three years ago that the obama administration knew that the north koreans had reduced the size of the war head where they could miniaturize it they knew this...

Testing are getting longer and longer range which does mean their ability to hit farther flung targets could potentially at least be advancing if these longer range missiles they're testing could survive reentry and hit the target and be loaded with a war head and all of that stuff. all of this stuff in terms of them testing missiles and stuff, this has been happening granlly over time. what happened in the last couple of days that made the u.s. government, the president start threatening war in the most bellicose terms as possible against north korea. north korea's last missile test was two w...

Security issue here. you have a president who has been speaking repeatedly about the need to build up defenses in south korea because of the mounting threat but i bring up the point that they use this term not helpful because it speaks to the frequency with which they hear these kinds of threats from north korea, threats of attack, threats of retaliation. so to some extent they know how to handle threats from kim jong-un. yes, it does raise their level of concern, it does prompt the government to look at their defense capabilities. but many of the threats from north korea ring hollow. north ko...