i mean goodness knows his father kim jong il his grandfather kim il sung were difficult enough north korea establish an early reputation as a provocateur as a rogue state that basically wouldn't do what anyone including gets crazy i are lies told it too but usually they were smarter father and grandfather because of a certain point they would throw the rest of us assault they would tell us what they wanted it might be something outrageous a diplomatic track would start and sooner or later the crisis would diffuse but kim jong un about whom we know all too little or no it was a real shame that no one other than dennis rodman seems to have actually met him is just going on and on and on and we don't really get a clear notion is there a diplomatic track should we fear conquest of south korea i can't really fear that because illyria this is not an islamic state kim is not a fanatic we do know from mr rodman he lives well seven star he called it a north korea has built this very tightly controlled in its own way surprisingly stable society why would they want to upset all that they have a

i mean goodness knows his father kim jong il his grandfather kim il sung were difficult enough north korea establish an early reputation as a provocateur as a rogue state that basically wouldn't do what anyone including gets crazy i are lies told it too but usually they were smarter father and grandfather because of a certain point they would throw the rest of us a saw they would tell us what they wanted it might be something outrageous a diplomatic track would start and sooner or later the crisis would diffuse but kim jong un about whom we know all too little or no it was a real shame that no one other than dennis rodman seems to have actually met him is just going on and on and on and we don't really get a clear notion is there a diplomatic track should we fear conquest of south korea i can't really fear that because illyria this is not an islamic state kim is not a fanatic we do know from mr rodman he lives well seven star he called it a north korea has built this very tightly controlled in its own way surprisingly stable society why would they want to upset all that they have all

while the president initially complimented kim jong-un for his restraint -- >> kim jong-un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. i respect that fact very much. >> reporter: now the administration is making clear its patience is running thin. as this dangerous foreign policy crisis escalates. >> mr. president, will you attack north korea? >> reporter: on sunday secretary of defense james mattis told reporters that military action is under consideration. >> any threat to the united states or its territories, including guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response. >> reporter: as trump ramped up threats of economic pressure, tweeting, the united states is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. and at an emergency meeting of the united nations security council today, u.n. ambassador nikki haley fired off this warning. >> war is never something the united states wants. we don't want it now. but our country's patience is not unlimited. we will defend our allies and our terr

kim jong un and president trump who are relatively new to. this deterrence game and i don't mean that flippantly but the dynamic of that interaction you referred to some of their their comments so yes we could have a situation in which there's an escalation in north could do would have threatened to do which is splashed down some missiles around. i don't think the rhetoric itself will cause an escalation toward fairly confident of that but i think a miscalculation is plausible and now we are dealing not only with the possibility of nuclear war which i think is relatively remote but the possibility of a major conventional look at engagements on the on the conventional point union corn you're in seoul your country's capital has a population nearly ten million less than sixty kilometers from the border with north korea even a conventional non-nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences for your country feel city tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands dead how worried are people in south korea right now or to you about the prospect fo

then kim jong-il died and the current kim jong-un took over and he has been able to just move ahead. there has been no negotiations under the obama administration. strategic patience. nothing has really worked and the kind of sanctions that the world united to bring against iran which has to be said did not have a weapons program but to stop its nuclear reactor energy program, those kind of global coordinated sanctions have never been brought against pyongyang. now this is what's happened, despite the sanctions that are on. and most people who have engaged with the north koreans believe that what has to happen is a strategic framework where they can engage and keep this, you know, walled off. keep this in a situation where even if they are moving ahead with gaining status of another global nuclear power that they are engaged with and they're not, you know, they know clearly there are lines and detente. >> if you are just joining us and wondering what does that mean? we want to continue to bring you the developing breaking news out of north korea. the country says it has just successf

trump calling kim rocket man and a mad man. and kim calling the president a rogue, a beggangster, and a dot which means an old senile lunatic. it's an escalating war of words with no end insight. president trump tweeting this morning, kim jong-un of north korea who is obviously a mad man, who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before. this after north korea supreme leader fired back at trump. the first time the regime has ever released a statement in his name. accusing the president of being a mentally deranged u.s. dotard. the extraordinary personal barbs coming at the president remark, where he did the nickname for the dictator. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. and for his regime. >> reporter: kim is warning that mr. trump would pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the dprk. >> the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> reporter: desp

this is the core goal of the kim regime. kim has been talking about final victory in recent months. this is a time when he could easily miscalculate. we could find ourselves in a war. perhaps a nuclear exchange. this is exceedingly dangerous. robert: that's his end game, he's going to try to blackmail the u.s. into leaving south korea? what do you expect we can expect from the u.s. more show of force in the region? >> i don't know what the trump administration would do. they have done a lot of thing to try to intimidate kim jong-un and they haven't worked. if i were president i would tell beijing and moscow that the youth was going to put forward a security council resolution calling for the complete embargo of north korea. if the chinese and rugs didn't immediately d and the russians didn't -- if the chinese and the russians didn't immediately sign on, they have undermined american policy not on this year, but through the course of decade. the united states has the means to disarm kim jong-un peacefully but we have not had the political will to do what is necessary. this is a story

it is the kim regime and only the kim regime. the kim regime's main competitor is south korea. as pre-postster house this may sound, this regime understands the only long term guarantee of its over survival is to establish hedge-a-money. have we seen positive developments in recent years for the past two decades. basically during the days of kim woo un, they tried to replace money with exchange of rations. during the great days of the great famines, they were no longer able to feed its people for the pbs, ever since the past two decades we have seen innormal marketization in north korea. farmers markets, black markets, open markets. many more people depend on the markets today than the public distribution system which is is still active for those living in the capitol city of pong young. most of the elites live in the capital city of poyongyang. they're quite impressive. i also have the memories of romania where there was a lot of construction but very little economic utility to that construction. the regime of kim jong-un has vested heavily in the building projects such as bui

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>> here is what the president said last month about kim jong-un. >> kim jong-un, i respect the fact that i believe he is starting to respect us. i respect that fact very much. and maybe, probably not, but maybe something positive can come about. >> joining is tom and sarah. we talked this morning about some of the inconsistencies between the president and members of his cabinet and if that is just members on different pages or strategy. i think we need to pay attention what the president has said. he said fire and fury if kim jong-un threatens the u.s. and says they are respecting us. then he says the time for talking days later for talking is over. what room has the president left himself for a response to this nuclear test, tom, that would be -- that would match the latest rhetoric or any of it? >> it's really interesting. right? we need to see what he is going to say and tweet. we are all anxious to see how he is going to respond today. if you look at north korea and kim jong-un what is going is a constant trajectory and constant increasing of what their capabilities and displays and

>> don't think about the post-kim. nobody controls pyongyang without him. >> reporter: nam believes the moment he left his home to travel in malaysia, kim jong-nam was trailed by agents. and he says the use of a powerful weapon was part of the calculation. >> kim jong wants to reign a long time and negotiate as a superpower. the only way to do that is to keep the world in fear of his weapons. >> reporter: men who malaysian police say were north korean agents at the kuala lumpur airport didn't exactly try to hide their faces from surveillance cameras. >> the north korean state has elements of a mafia family. when they do a hit, they want it to have effect. they want to scare and intimidate. >> reporter: lawyers for the two women charged with kim jong-n jong-nam's murder say the women are innocent and were tricked into doing it by their north korean handlers. malaysian police dispute that. kim jong-un's regime denies ordering the hit. one former cia analyst says it's possible the north korean leader didn't intend to send

kim jong un and president trump who are relatively new to. this deterrence game and i don't mean that flippantly but the dynamic of that interaction you referred to some of their their comments so yes we could have a situation in which there's an escalation in north could do would have threatened to do which is splash down some missiles around. i don't think the rhetoric itself will cause an escalation to war fairly confident of that but i think a miscalculation is plausible and now we are dealing not only with the possibility of nuclear war which i think is relatively remote but the possibility of a major conventional look at engagements on the on the conventional point union corn you're in seoul your country's capital has a population nearly ten million less than sixty kilometers from the border with north korea even a conventional non-nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences for your country feel city tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands dead how worried are people in south korea right now or to you about the prospect for

kim jong un and president trump who are relatively new to. this deterrence game and i don't mean that flippantly but that the dynamic of that interaction you referred to some of their their comments so yes we could have a situation in which there's an escalation in north could do would have threatened to do which is splash down some missiles around. i don't think the rhetoric itself will cause an escalation to war fairly confident of that but i think a miscalculation is plausible and now we are dealing not only with the possibility of nuclear war which i think is relatively remote but the possibility of a major conventional look at engagements on the on the conventional point union quorn you're in seoul your country's capital has a population nearly ten million less than sixty kilometers from the border with north korea even a conventional non-nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences for your country feel city tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands dead how worried are people in south korea right now or to you about the prospec

>> yes. >> in north korea similar to what kim jong-il, kim il-sung and kim jong-un could have but it denuclearize north korea. nuclear weapons in north korea will lend itself to strife in the region and beyond the region as we see right now. the status quo with the kim jong-un government, that is respectful to china, that depends heavily on china, and the china that has a 1961 peace and friendship treaty that china is committed to, but a denuclearize north korea. i think that's what china would like. they certainly don't want, my personal view, reunification has to be way down the line. because they do not, i think it's fair to say, i think the concern has to be if there is reunification on south korea's terms, that would bring the u.s. potentially into the north and that would be part of a a discussion that would have to be separate with china. >> is there a possibility we could agree to some of these objectives that china may want it we would agree to remove our troops from south korea? >> i'm sure there's a dialogue going on with china as we speak. there's a question on that. when

it is the kim regime in only the kim regime. the main competitor is south korea, free, democratic prosperous republic of north korea. as preposterous as this may sound, this regime understands that the long-term guarantee of -- own vinyl is to establish have we seen any positive developments the past two decades? to belly, they tended economy as an exchange with rations. they were no longer able to feed its people. small markets were established so ever since, we've seen a process of informal marketization curtis or a farmer's markets, black markets, open market. many more people depend on the market today than they do on the public distribution system which is still active for those living in the capital city. lives in the capital junkof don young -- p on -- one might say and of course i also have a memories of romania where there was a lot of construction, but very little economic utility. regime has invested heavily in these high-profile projects and the same time if one takes a look at pictures from one year ago, typhoon lio

kim jong-un's statement yesterday is interesting. he's acting like mat tour person, talking down, saying mr. trump is not fit to be the leader of a country. so i do think what trump is trying to do in terms of pressure -- >> called him deranged. i don't know if -- >> trump going after secondary boycott against chinese entities and third party entities. all is good. i wish he would tone down the rhetoric. that's not helpful. >> sue mi and gary, thank you both. a shocking development in the search for survivors in mexico following the deadly earthquake. the nemexican navy is apologizi for reports a young girl was trapped and still alive in the wreckage of an elementary school. >>> the fight over obamacare heating up. president trump issuing a new warning to his fellow republicans in the senate, get in line or become a political punching bag. stay with us. my dell small business advisor has gotten to know our business so well that is feels like he's a part of our team. with one phone call, he sets me up with tailored products and servic

kim jong un and president trump who are relatively new to this deterrence game and i don't mean that flippantly but that the dynamic of that interaction you referred to some of their their comments so yes we could have a situation in which there's an escalation in north could do would have threatened to do which is splash down some missiles around. i don't think the rhetoric itself will cause an escalation toward fairly confident of that but i think a miscalculation is plausible and now we are dealing not only with the possibility of nuclear war which i think is relatively remote but the possibility of a major conventional military engagements on the on the conventional point union quander in seoul your country's capital has a population nearly ten million less than sixty kilometers from the border with north korea even a conventional non-nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences for your country feel city tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands dead how worried are people in south korea right now or to you about the prospect for war i'm very much concerned and worried t

tonight another escalation in the war of words between president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un. this time with the leaders of the world watching. the president's first address to the united nations. so what comes next? we go inside the brutal regime. >> a war of words across the pacific. >> details about north korea's missile launch -- >> north korea claims it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. >> north korea has fired off another missile. >> and a show of force from both sides. >> he has said things are horrific. with me he's not getting away with it. >> escalating tensions between the and u.s. north korea on extraordinary heights in recent months. >> they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> and this morning at the u.n. general assembly -- >> if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> president trump singling out kim jong-un on the word stage in one of the most high stakes foreign policy speeches of his presidency. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. and

paektu north korea claims is the birthplace of general kim jong-il. outside historians say he was actually born in russia, but here our guide tells the story of his supposedly mystical birth. >> translator: so it was really cold, and the weather was not normal, but somehow the day the general was born, the strong winds stopped all of a sudden. the sun began shining through. everything was bright, and a quiet calm took over. the flowers bloomed, and in the sky was a particularly bright star. >> is that a legend, or did that actually happen? >> translator: yes, it actually happened. it's not a legend. our general is really a person who heaven sent to us. so he changed the weather too. it's a true story. >> people from the outside hear these stories, and they wonder how any of this could possibly be true. >> translator: it's hard to explain in one word, but our general gris so wcan't say it's only a legend. nature actually transformed itself to announce the birth of our general to the whole world, blessing it. that's how it happened. ♪ >> i realize for

can you do -- can you do kim kardashian maybe? kim kardashian entering a a party? >> hi. [ laughter ] hi. >> jimmy: can you do kim kardashian leaving a party? >> bye. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: james. >> what? >> jimmy: now the time has come that we must give people what they want. give me a beat and i'll break them off a little run dmc. [ laughter ]

and then it didn't work and kim jong-il died and kim -- the current leader, kim jong-un, succeeded him, and it has been confrontational ever since. what they want, we have been told now by the only diplomats, only officials from the united states that have actually met, seen the north korean diplomats and officials, is that they want to be taken seriously as a nuclear power. i think you just have to look at, for instance, iran which is not a nuclear weapons power, however, was able to develop its nuclear program under sanctions. so the idea that these countries can actually perfect engineering and this kind of technology themselves despite some of the heaviest sanctions in the world is something that, you know, the world sort of needs to pay attention to. now we need to know which way diplomats, analysts, officials, governments, what they're going to do to deal with this. some analysts right now are saying this may not be a game changer. we'll see what happens. but it is clearly everything points to north korea moving in one inexorable direction, and that is to perfect its nuclear tech

the rhetoric is heating up between trump and kim. kim called trump deranged. trump is calling kim rocket man. the president is backing this up now with a new round of saxes. >> a new executive order will cut off sources of revenue that fund north korea's efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to human kind. >> the new u.s. sanctions are designed to make life more difficult for the kim regime. going after anyone carrying out trade with north korea. if you do business with north korea, you will not be able to interact with the u.s. financial system and they don't stop there. >> this new executive order enables treasury to freeze assets of any one conducting significant trade in goods, services or technology with north korea. >> that followed trump's tough talk on north korea this week at the united nations. kim, meantime, responded with a statement. whatever trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u.s. with fire. despite the heated rhetoric, so much here is going to d

here's our diplomatic editor mark urban on what we know about kim jong un. kim jong—un, ringmaster of the north korean circus, but a man who apparently has ordered generals who did not applaud enthusiastically enough to be executed, killed his own brother and now forges ahead with nuclear weapons, even if it threatens to impoverish his nation. yet, and man also, who those who meet, often take two. i know people who have met him and they describe an affable young man, a nice sense of humour and easy to be with, very affable in all kinds of ways. very much a family man, devoted to his wife and children, a man who enjoys the nice things in life, he entertains personal guests on his luxury yacht, usually moored up near a port in the west and he likes nice food and drink. he meets foreigners, his father never did. on new year's day, every foreign ambassador gets to shake his hand. that never happened under his father. emerging from the slaughter of the korean war, the leader kim il—sung built a personality cult around himself. he also began, he also personal

so this is an advance for kim jong—un, if thatis is an advance for kim jong—un, if that is truly what it proves to be. at it has also got to be terrifying in china, because chinese people across the border from that area, they were undoubtedly shaken terribly. how do you think those countries will react? well, i think china will be very unhappy, japan, south korea, this is not a happy development, and one to which i think the world is going to want to have serious sanctions put on north korea, in addition to what already exists. in terms of washington, the rhetoric has been increasing over the last few weeks, over the last few months. how do you think a trump white house will deal with this? well, i think they have got to take a combination of actions. i think they will want to explore actions like saying that any more missile tests will be intercepted, if they can be. i think they will want to consider more reconnaissance flights near north korea. i think they will probably want to start taking some internal political actions against north korea, for example describing the fact that

president has branded kim a madman after he called trump to ranged and a barking dog kim jong un lashed out at trump following his threat to destroy his nation young is now considering a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean. or russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has spoken about the tensions on the korean peninsula during a press conference at the u.n. he says everyone involved in the dispute needs to take a deep breath and find a diplomatic solution. with the more we need to calm down the hotheads and understand that we need pauses we need to context together with our colleagues will continue to strive for a reasonable and not be emotional approach instead of a kindergarten fight between children where no one can stop them. britain's prime minister has proposed a two year transition period after the u.k. leaves the european union in a speech delivered in florence uneasily aimed at breaking the deadlock over breaks it to reason may said she wants britain to be allowed to stay in the e.u. single market during that time and she promised that britain will honor its budget commitmen

listen to what he said. >> kim jong-un. i respect the fact that i believe he's starting to respect us. i respect that fact very much. and maybe. probably not. probably not, but maybe something positive can come about. >> the president saying maybe but probably not something could come out of this. then days later when they sent missiles over japan, the president sent out a tweet saying the united states was essentially paying extortion money to north korea and saying talking is not the answer. there's the tweet there. so you've heard a very aggressive line of rhetoric from the president. some of his closest slierzs, secretary of defense james mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson saying that's the route we should take. it will be interesting to see how the president responds. we were excelling a response any minute perhaps as he often does via twitter. victor and christchristi? >> boris sanchez, thank you. >> let's go to mike chinoy. i want to speak on the issue of where they say they'll work with them on the dprk. we

reading the statement kim was responding to trump speech before the u.n. general assembly earlier this week jim called trump speech unprecedented rude nonsense from a drange dotard in new york north korea's for foreign minister really young ho then held down with this threat. i think the strongest ever hydrogen bomb test might be conducted in the pacific ocean . or earlier i asked correspondent jason strother in south korea whether north korea's threat to test a hydrogen bomb over the pacific is credible. well right now there is no indication that such a test is being prepared i haven't seen anything from south korean intelligence indicating that preparations are under way i mean and quite frankly depending on how the test was conducted let's say taking a a barge out into the middle of the pacific or even dropping it via an airplane i mean that would open up north korea to potential attack or retaliation from japan and or the united states of course if north korea were to shoot a missile carrying a nuclear warhead into the pacific it would certainly demons

the town center piece yet another monument to the late president kim ill sun. we're shown a bullet riddled building where he led a surprise attack against the japan. this is a typical village. this is a simple life out here. you don't see shiny buildings, new construction. you see people living a slow, simple life. down another windy road, north site north koreans consider sacred, a cabin near mount paektu north koreans claim is the birth place of kim jong-un. the guide tells of his supposedly mystical birth. >>>translator: the say was gold and the weather not normal, but the day it the general was born, the sun began shining through. everything was bright. and a quiet calm took over. the flowers bloomed and in the sky was a particularly bright star. >> is that a legend or did that actually happen? >>>translator: yes, it actually happened. it's not a legend. our general is really a person who heaven sent to us. so he changed the weather, too. it's a true story. >> people from the outside hear these stories and wonder ou any of this can possibly be true. >>>tran

in the 1980s north korea's founder, kim ill son launched the country's first missile. but since kim jong-un came to power no 2011 he's advanced the nuclear programs faster than anyone predicted. why do they keep doing this? >> translator: for one, propaganda. each launch helps north korea's leaders protect power. but also missiles are like an insurance policy for the regime, protecting north korea from the u.s. and its allies. >> so i have to tell you, your city is very well known around the world because of all the missiles that keep being launched from here. have you ever heard the missiles? >> translator: of course. wham. we see it going up. >> he has lived here in juan son his whole life. >> as a north korean, when you see these missiles in the sky, what message does that send to you? >> translator: it gives me great pride. >> so did this massive military drill along the beach, personally supervised by kim jong-un. many north koreans don't even understand why the u.s. and the world feel threatened. >> translator: why is the trump administration constantly imposing

ambassador saying that that jiang kim jong un is begging for war. well i think united states is extremely frustrated because we have very limited options when it comes to north korea so we want to make this point to north korea that you know if you know if the kim jong un regime continues on this path that you were lead to some sort of a destruction for the north korean regime the problem is no matter what we say it's not really credible because i'm not sure if military option is truly on the table even though we keep saying it is you are korean correct yes i'm korean born how do you regard i guess the other way to put it is your fellow temperament in the north where it's very sad you have to separate the region from the people the people are not all different different from south korean people they are these are the same people and they share a sip thousands of years of the same history they've been a united country for thousands of years they've been only separated since nine hundred forty five also the people are the same they speak the same lang

kim jong-il did. it was limited but nonetheless he engaged with international powers and including with the chinese leadership and so did, obviously, his father kim il-sung, the founder who met the forler u. former u.s. president at the time jimmy carter and led to range of improvements in terms of trying to limit the damage from their nuclear program. kim jong-un has been completely different. he hasn't gone to beijing, he hasn't met with the chinese leadership. he hasn't met with any other leadership as far as we know around the world either. he also has got this incredibly ruthless streak he has been very careful to sort of develop into this savage personality. the machine gunning of family members who he decided were pont opponents and nerve gassing his brother in malaysia, i think it was and knocking off the competition and at the same time racing toward this nuclear ambition. having said that, those who have engaged william perry, former defense secretary, they don't believe that he is suicidal.

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and the focus of the kim regime, kim jong-un, is on getting enough nuclear weapons, hydrogen bombs, that they can turn to seoul and say, we are going to be reunified. but we're going to be doing it under the regime. i think that that is interesting information in that it comes from those who in one case was the senior head of propaganda for the regime. and if that is indeed the calculus, it really complicates things in terms of the feelings of the kim regime, but he seemed to indicate, both seemed to indicate that although that was the focus of the kim family, it may not necessarily be the focus of most north koreans. who would understand, who tend to understand that that drive to do that is what is costing the country its standard of living, its ability to give anyone else opportunity. it is solely in the interest of, you know, the megalomaniac currently in power. that concept is an interesting one when it is shared with us by those who are actually part of the north korean regime, but i do think we need to begin the process of hearing, of having hearings to dig deeper into this whole c

and i think the other big risk is miscalculation that maybe kim jong un -- it's been assumed that kim jong un really, what he wanted to do was preserve the regime's -- make sure that the regime is, in effect, invulnerable to change. but what happens if he uses this weapon, this putative weapon, this arsenal for black mail? he might even miscalculate and think he could unify thecine peninsula by force. these are all calculations which americans and allies are having to figure out now. i also want to echo what nick burns said because this is a time when the trump administration needs to bring the allies close and japan as well as south korea and i think the notion that president trump would threaten to abandon the south korea free-trade agreement at a time he's trying to hug them close doesn't make sense. they need an integrated policy. they need to assess the military calculation but also to pursue diplomacy at the same time, integrated policy, not this sort of ad hockery we've seen in the last few days. >> rose: everybody says there is no military solution but is there something that

duyeon kim, thank you forjoining us. the story that we following here on bbc news other reports of tremors or earthquakes coming from around north korea, being reported by the south korean military, by the united states geological survey, and also by the chinese authorities. they va ry by the chinese authorities. they vary in the magnitudes but they are definitely picking up on some kind of tremors and the south korean military are definitely saying that they believe that those tremors are man—made and outcomes a few hours after north korea announced that it had developed a hydrogen bomb and we saw pictures of the north korean leader kim jong—un looking at those hydrogen bonds, what the north korean news agencies say a hydrogen bonds, capable of being fitted onto intercontinental ballistic missile. that was a few hours ago and then, in the last 30 minutes or so, we started getting these reports, thick and fast, from these —— from the chinese and united states geological surveys and also from south korea, of tremo

. >>> cutting kim's cash. president trump signs an executive order imposing new sanctions on north korea for it's aggressive nuclear weapons program. u.s. is now targeting people and companies that do business with the kim regime. will the new move slow north korea's quest for weapons of mass destruction? >>> late night lashing. jimmy kimmel goes after one of the senators after the latest gop efforts to repeal obamacare and accuses the lawmaker of lying about the bill the senate is now rushing to pass, but a handful of republicans are still not on board. is the party facing another health care failure? >>> and, russian ads. facebook announced it'll give congressional investigators thousands of ads linked to russian accounts that ran during the presidential election. and ceo mark zuckerberg says there may be even more evidence of russian meddling. you're in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news. hurricane maria has laid waste to puerto rico. president trump says the

kim's regime denies ordering the hit. but tonight there is concern that president trump might be painting kim into a dangerous corner. >> my concern is that cumulatively, this will all lead to some sort of horrible miscalculation where kim doesn't take something seriously and he reacts or he thinks there will be u.s. war or he thinks there will be a u.s. attack and he has a use or lose situation where he lobs the first nuclear weapon? we reached out to the white house to ask him why president trump has gotten so personal regarding kim jong-un and his advisers cautioned him to dial it back a. white house official would not comment on either question. wolf. >> also the appearance of otto wab warmbeir made some strong statements in tv interviews. tell us about that. >> that's right. fred and cindy warmbeir say the north koreans tortured their son t. north koreans denied. the warmbeir want to designate them as a state sponsor of terrorism. they say they will do that if there is evidence that warrants it. they are always revie

the president calling kim jong-un a madman. and kim jong-un, i want everybody to just have a look at what he had to say about president trump. the head of the regime, kim jong-un, saying, he, trump, is unfit to hold the perogativ of a supreme country, and i will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the u.s. pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the dprk. he will face results beyond his expectation. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged the u.s. dotard with fire. could he put some sort of hydrogen bomb on a cargo ship and missile and detonate it on or over the pacific ocean, john and poppy. >> another issue the u.s. has to deal with with another regime. iran revealed a long-range missi missile this morning. missiles are not part of the nuclear deal, per se. >> of course these missiles are essentially the delivery vehicle, just like in north korea, for a bomb or a nuclear device, a nuclear warhead on the front end of these ballistic missiles. that's what the threat is

they are not saying generals, they have a statement from kim jong-un, in which kim jong-un says the mentally deranged behavior of the u.s. president expressing on the u.n. arena, the unethical will destroy a sovereign state beyond the threat of regime change. it continues to say things like, i will make the man holding the per ogtive of the u.s. -- continues to say whatever trump expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. trump denied the existence of me and my country in front of the eyes of the world. says trump will pay dearly. jeff zeleny is out front. this statement is upping the ante. >> reporter: it certainly is, erin, no question about it. i heard back from white house press secretary, sarah sanders and she said the white house would not have comment or reaction to this at this time. erin, i can tell you, watch the president's social media over the next 12 hours or so. he likes to comment on this. there's no doubt that the president has laid down a marker here. he was meeting earlier today at a, you know, putting a unified face forward, meeting with the south korean presi

reading the statement kim was responding to trump's speech before the u.n. general assembly earlier this week kim cord transfer each unprecedented rude nonsense from a different door todd in new york and north korea's foreign minister re young hole father raise the stakes. i think the strongest ever hydrogen bomb test might be conducted in the pacific ocean. let me now draw in correspond to the straw that in the film there jason what are we to make of north korea's threat to test a hydrogen bomb over the pacific. well listening to what foreign minister rewash is saying it sounds like he was just improvising when speaking with journalist there is no sign right now that kim jong un regime is preparing to test a hydrogen bomb out in the pacific it would be logistically challenging of course north korea's previous six tests have all been underground in north korea but doing it out of the pacific would make it much more vulnerable to some sort of preemptive strike an opportunity to shoot it down by the u.s. or maybe even japan so no signs of that is a minute at a

the trumpet administration says north korea is begging for war with its nuclear missile tests kim jong un's as a push for new and sanctions means the u.s. will suffer the greatest fame what's next i'll talk with the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations bill richardson on this edition. of politicking on larry king while his administration contends with multiple natural disasters at home tension with north korea continues to rise well the standoff with the rogue nation and donald trump says kim jong un is begging for war with his nuclear missile tests while pyongyang says the u.s. will suffer pain if a push for new sanctions succeeds we'll get the perspective from bill richardson former democratic governor of new mexico new mexico and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. the governor says he believes kim jong un may be unpredictable but he's not suicidal he joins me from woods hole massachusetts or i build a subject at hand north korea celebrated its sixty ninth founding anniversary sunday on the ng warned it might carry out another missile test it did not give me a full assessment

worst case one is kim jong one is a madman. we pray that we don't find a worst case scenario larry i mean the reality is regardless of who the president is and regardless of what you think of donald trump north korea was on this pathway towards developing a nuclear weapon and it is a very dangerous proposition but the reality also is we might have to live in a world where north korea is a nuclear armed state and that is where the actions of the international community matter if you take donald trump out of this and joe referred to this in a very multilateral way we have seen two votes now that i believe are unanimous fifteen nothing the concerns of the world are there the leadership of the president needs to be one to take the volatility out of this because if he does so it will continue to isolate north korea we don't want a worst case scenario it would mean the existence of north korea is likely no longer it would mean a couple hundred thousand very innocent civilians dead and it would forever change the geo political dynamic

and on some level, you can dismiss them when they're from kim. they're often absurd and ry dic rouse and one from president trump, sometimes, they can verge on that as well and people can dismiss them, but they seem to be b a big part of this. you got a nasty thing said, then a real threat of action. kim has called trump a parking dog, mentally deranged and a senile old person. president trump has kim sort of a whacko, a maniac, a bad dude, rocket man and today, a man. as i said, you kind of chuckle when you hear this, but words seem to matter now! they matter in a way we don't think. yesterday, president trump had a great day with the announcement of the sanctions. what we should be talking about now is how to cut off money to north korea. and this should be a conversation the united states, not just in china, but around the world, but we're not, we're talking about this escalation of these tweets and of course all these derogatory comments on mental health, so no, it's not a good thing for trump. >> and general, you've got north korea going to

we've seen this back and forth between president trump and kim jong-un. i suppose most americans are sitting back watching this oh, this is just talk. it's just bluster. >> right. >> when you look at it from your standpoint, the this just bluster? >> the problem is there the bluster, but it can easily get into miscalculation where one side decides they have to take a pre exhibitive action to protect themselves or get some type of advantage. but the president did some correct things. he finally entered into a signature regime i believe and many of us believe can be helpful and compelling north korea to the floor now. he has to follow it include and make sure they're in force. if we do that, we hope we have a better chance of stopping north korea. this has to be a long-term strategy and a comprehensive strategy which the president hasn't laid out. that's what he has to do next. continue with the sanctions he has right now. layout the comprehensive strategy, not just to us but to our allies so we have a future path so they can understand what's going on. the

is looking for kim jong-un to change his ways, and very much send kim the message that he can't survive his regime will not survive if he were to attack the united states or its allies. that is what this is all about. i think sending that very clear message to kim and sending it in a way with mattis and dunford it has not been sent before. i just want to repeat. these two guys, they don't like to come out on tv. they don't like to talk to the press corps very much. we have not seen this before. >> hmm. so christiane, earlier making the point about how important it is that the u.s. have no daylight between, oh, it's allies like a south korea and, of course, we no japan as well. so a message like this coming from james mattis. how might it be received if you are kim jong-un in north korea? >> reporter: oh, it's very, very important. what just happened. for all the reasons we've been talking about and barbara outlined. this is an unambiguous message to north korea. bottom line is the fact they now have apparently an extra capability and that they are there. they want to be considered and t

trump called kim jong-un rocket man. kim called him a senile old man north korea now threatening to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean. we have a lot to cover. let's begin with cnn's leyla santiago live in puerto rico, san juan, the capital there. hurricane maria's aftermath still being measured. leyla? >> reporter: you know, chris, people are waking up in the neighborhood where i am. i'll share an interaction i just witnessed. one neighbor called out to the next saying is there water? and the woman with the biggest smile on her face said, yes, we finally have water. that is one small victory in quite a bit of harsh reality. you just mentioned the 13 people who died. the governor is saying that is very preliminary. in the meantime, rain is expected to continue here today. >> reporter: sections of the northern coast under water two days after hurricane maria ravaged the island. the striking aerial images show the devastation as flash floods inundate the island. residents seen trudging through waist-high floods, car