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‘We want to step back from the brink’ on North Korea: Former ambassador


North Korean leader Kim Jong Un participates in a meeting with the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 4, 2017.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un participates in a meeting with the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 4, 2017.

On Sunday, North Korea said it successfully carried out a test of a hydrogen bomb intended to be carried by an intercontinental ballistic missile. Trump then tweeted that the U.S. is considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.

“We need to look at some financial sanctions, trade sanctions, things like that. We’re clearly not going to cut off all of our trade with China,” she said, calling that threat “unrealistic.”

Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea have been escalating. Last month, after a previous provocation from North Korea, President Donald Trump said Pyongyang’s threats would be met with “fire and fury.”

Soderberg told “Power Lunch” she doesn’t think those types of threats are helpful.

“I don’t think it was wise for the president to extemporaneously threaten nuclear war with North Korea. That’s just ramping up the tensions on all sides and dividing a wedge with our allies in South Korea and Japan,” she said.

On Monday, Haley told the U.N. Security Council that Kim Jong Un was “begging for war” and urged the council to impose the “strongest possible” sanctions to deter him and shut down his trading partners.

— CNBC’s Leslie Shaffer and Reuters contributed to this report.

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