we're consulting with our allies
and partners and
there will be responses if they choose
to escalate
we will respond accordingly but i'm also
prepared
for some form of diplomacy
but it has to be conditioned upon
the end result of denuclearization
well that is president biden's blunt
message to kim jong-un
after the north korean regime fired two
short-range missiles off its coast into
the sea of japan last week
it was seen as a brazen move officials
say it is also a violation of the united
nations security council resolutions
as kim jong-un's regime is again
testing its missiles that though the
first provocation by pyongyang since the
president took office
now a senior north korean official
snapping back criticizing the
president's comments
general jack keane is with us retired
four-star general chairman of the
institute for the study of war
senior fox news senior strategic analyst
so general
i mean kim jong-un never learns back to
his old tricks why do you think what
message is there in the regime's firing
of these missiles
now yeah well it looks like he's taken a
chapter out of the old playbook that he
used in the past
prior to president trump coming in and
certainly during the first year of
president trump's administration when he
fired three icbms
and also set off a nuclear weapons test
underground
but this is a playbook that his father
has used but that i mean
normally some kind of aggressive testing
of rockets and missiles
belligerent rhetoric threatening the
united states and our allies
all with the attempt intent of having
negotiations and getting some economic
assistance in this case
he wants sanctions to remove plus
economic assistance and i believe this
is the beginning stages
of of that playbook i think we'll see
some belligerent
rhetoric coming pretty soon and also i
would imagine
he's going to increase the range of his
missiles in other words he's a short
range ballistic he'll go to
medium range and likely i would expect
to see to get president biden's
attention
uh that we really have to get back to
the negotiating table
uh that he'll go to long-range ballistic
missiles as well certainly that's
that'll be part of his playbook and
again it's all about
getting some relief it has worked in the
past except
remember in 2019 we had the hanoi summit
kim jong-un president trump sitting down
together
and kim jong-un refused to put any
simple plan on the table
to indicate that he was serious about
denuclearization
all he really wanted was sanction relief
when the trump team recognized that
that's
that's what it was that they were being
gained like their predecessors
they walked out so negotiations it seems
like he's just haven't had any
negotiations
yeah it seems like he's uh kim jong-un's
been gaming uh us
and the world you know forever look
president trump reached out to him had
had the meetings even stepped over the
line of the dmz
and older in that time kim jong-un's
regime is still developing
their nuclear program as well as their
missile program
china and russia meanwhile using the
back door apparently violating sanctions
by
helping support that regime so what does
the biden administration do that is
different
is there anything that can be done that
is different than has been done in the
past
well i think there's some things that we
we really should be doing and you
already mentioned
it here i mean it's pretty outrageous uh
we've had three u.n resolutions passed
to administer
sanctions on north korea for their
belligerent attitude
and they're in violation of u.n
resolutions and all the missile fires
they've done through the years
russia and china voted for that as part
of their u.n national security council
but the fact is russia and china are
both violating that the united states
should go to
the u.n security council and lay in
front of that
where the russians and chinese will be
sitting the
indisputable evidence that they are
violating their
own resolution by providing economic
assistance
to north korea and throwing them a
lifeline so to speak
and that is one of the reasons why kim
jong-un has been quiet
all these last couple of years because
of that assistance the other thing that
needs to be done
a lot of nations are supposedly
administering those sanctions as well
eric
in the beginning many of them start out
full throttle
but a lot of them start to pull back as
the number of years go by we've got to
revisit every one of them and make
certain the rigor is there and then some
others
right from the beginning are
half-hearted got to get on top of
all of that and and listen these
short-range missiles
they were fired in the vicinity of 80
000 us troops and our allies in south
korea and japan
we should not minimize it the way the
president president biden just did
that that is a major threat to our
allies and to our own troops in the
region
uh well as you point out the security
council maybe we should do a
cuban missile crisis revelation remember
that or the
kl uh flight that was shot down when we
uh
played the intercepted soviet union
communications and call
kim jong-un out at the security council
general jack keane
uh always good to see you we'll be
following up on your suggestion on that
at the u.n thank you good to see you
good talking