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North Korea has continued to engage in 'malicious' cyber activities and mobilize information technology (IT) workers to bankroll its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs, a U.S. Treasury Department report said Wednesday, calling the North and Russia 'highest-risk threat actors.'
Meeting in singapore last year. now what do you think of their message this time around? >> dia is the best in analyzing north korea's nuclear program. i don't disregard that. but this is very difficult to analyze north korea's wmd programs. they know we're watching. they engage in deception. i don't know the context of this. i know there's talk within the trump administration to ask for a freeze of the nuclear and missile production programs while talks are underway. this has to be at the top of the agenda. >> shannon: how can we verify that? >> it's extremely difficult to verify. the north k...
Intelligence community the realization the one development from both meetings the president has had with kim is that it's been an extraordinary success for kim in the sense that it has elevated him on the international stage and we got nothing? >> well i think, mike, it's fair to say our intelligent community professionals predicted we would get nothing. if you recall dan coats testified in open session before the senate intelligence committee that north korea would not give up their wmd programs. that's what led the president to say the intelligence chiefs were naive and stupid and behavioral...
From north korea to turn over a complete accounting of its nuclear missiles and wmd programs. we know that this accounting is going to be incomplete the first time it's presented. but the of administration is prepared to work with the north koreans to build confidence and to get that accounting right. >> shannon: we talked a little bit and it's a constant theme here about the power of sanctions in this situation and the fact that russia and china not always helpful to the broader goal. to the u.n. goals, the u.s. goal of actually inflicting economic pain to bring north korea to real change. bu...
One north korea is going to agree to inspections and dismantlement of other facilities and also a date and a process on one north korea will provide a full and thorough accounting of its nuclear missiles and wmd programs. that timetable i think is very important. i don't think we will get that out of this moment but if we at least started some inspections i think it would be a big step forward. >> shannon: it's interesting this week, ahead of this a number of democrats especially in the senate, think about chuck schumer, the top democrat they're taking the floor, and he talked about the fact t...