2017-18 冬 Week 6 Assignment 6.mp4 2017-18 冬 Week 6 Assignment 6.mp3: 1______________________________ today on the North Korean nuclear threat. The U.S. and Canada hosting officials from around the world in Vancouver to discuss next steps. 2______________________________ Andrea Mitchell is there. Hi, Andrea, good morning. Hi, good morning, Savannah. Today's meeting will focus on finding a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis. But Defense Secretary Mattis was here last night. He 3______________________________ on military preparations in case diplomacy fails even as two B-52 bombers landed in Guam to drive home his point. A high-stakes summit, 4______________________________ for the Korean crisis. The U.S. and Canada hosting 20 countries, but without inviting the two key players—North Korea's neighbors, China and Russia. 5______________________________. Vladimir Putin's top diplomat calling it destructive. This as nerves are already on hair-trigger, 6______________________________, raising the spectrum of an accidental response. Miscalculation even leading to a nuclear exchange, warns the man who used to be in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. I hate to say it, but I think the possibility of a nuclear weapon being used today is higher than it has been since the Cuban missile crisis. 7______________________________, showing reporters on his plane pictures of the Nagasaki bombing, telling them, "I think we are at the very limit. I am really afraid of this. One accident is enough to precipitate things." The administration's aim today, cracking down on smuggling to North Korea, even by boarding ships at sea. But that could provoke Pyongyang or even China. And South Korea is taking a very different path, trying to ease tensions through cultural diplomacy, 8______________________________—a joint women's hockey team. Even a North Korean rock group, handpicked by Kim Jong-un himself, performing at the Olympics in South Korea. 9______________________________ of the North Korean leader, who he has called "little rocketman", tweeting a New Year's greeting, saying, "I, too, have a nuclear button. But it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his. And my button works." And North Korea state media responding overnight to President Trump's taunt that his button is bigger than Kim Jong-un's nuclear button, 10______________________________ calling the president's tweet "the spasm of a lunatic". Savannah and Hoda? Andrea Mitchell in Vancouver for us.