with north korea along the way let's get more reaction then from a south korea correspondent and jason strother in the so welcome jason the other south koreans also think they are leaving the dock days behind the people i spoke to today following the signing of the declaration at the end of the summit saying they do feel that this is perhaps the start of a better times some people i spoke with who were watching the summit unfold at a television on on a television inside of souls main train station said that they feel that this could lead to a sustainable peace on the peninsula maybe even denuclearization no one was expecting a breakthrough but this is a starting point then as for the military maneuver on the potential would say is that was a big one how is that being received. well one person i spoke to who. has a lot of followers for his news commentary on twitter says that this was a completely unilateral decision that really caught him off guard and feels that south korea's conservatives who many of whom are former veterans of the korean military and have been fall against north korea during

to discuss this further let's bring in correspondent jason strother who's in seoul jason good to see you north korea's reaction to the summit appears to have causing confusion over the issue of sanctions hasn't it. absolutely a statement dispatched today by the north's official news agency the case c.n.a. says that president trump pledged to lift sanctions against the regime that runs somewhat contrary to what president trump said yesterday during his post some a press conference when asked about sanctions he said that while he'd like to lift the sanctions for now they're staying put until there is some progress made in denuclearizing north korea it's unclear if this was a bargaining chip that president trump said you know off the cuff with kim jong un perhaps a misinterpretation a the perhaps the intentions were misrepresented but again this reflects the fact that this was a very watered down very vague declaration the two leaders signed which could have made matters like this more clear what wasn't vague was concession to suspend joint military drills with south korea that appears

to discuss this further let's bring in correspondent jason strother in seoul jason good to see the first concession coming from trump at the summit it appears to have caught the u.s. military officials and a south korean government off guard though how did this announcement go down in seoul. right i think everyone has been caught. by surprise by trump's remarks let alone the united states forces korea which stations nearly thirty thousand american soldiers here however on the streets let's say it's more of a mixed bag there are certainly south koreans who feel that the. united states forces here the annual exercises are sort of a a a lynchpin of the republic of korea u.s. alliance but there are also many south koreans who would be very glad to see the united states gale down any sort of military maneuvers here. it is correct that the exercises are provocative and north korea uses those maneuvers to justify launching missiles making threats to turn soul into a sea of fire threatening to strike the united states with intercontinental ballistic missiles but again this has called people by s

and north korea jason strother reporting live from seoul thank you very much thank you. now d.w. correspondent alexandra phenomenas following a story this historic summit for us from singapore alexandra tromp and kim have signed this document do we know exactly to what they've agreed to do. walter are copies of this document circulating here at this press conference or both they have to say that the white house the white house press office has not yet distributive officially and that i was even told that we have to wait until the press conference is conducted to learn more about as bad as i said there are. reports about what this document is saying. seems that donald trump would provide specific picture of cigar auntie's to king in exchange for the north korean leader wavering commitment to complete standing clara's a nation of the north korea of the korean peninsula and there are four bullet points and then the command and in which they laid out goals for future rounds of negotiation however we have to say that there are no specific and disick indication what steps each side wou

sole correspondent jason strother joins me now on the line jason we've been talking a lot about the reaction perhaps from the america and north koreans how are people in south korea reacting to developments in singapore. there is a mood of hope here in south korea i think no one expected there to be a breakthrough in this summit today but i think for many people people that i've spoken with see this as the start of a process that would not only lead to the denuclearization of the peninsula but also perhaps the end of the korean war replacing that decades old armistice agreement with a permanent peace treaty. jason south korean president moon jay and said that he hardly slept the night before the summit in singapore do you think that his expectations for what was to unfold today have been matched. well he really hinges entire international reputation on this summit he has acted as the facilitator from the very start he had said not only to the south korean people but to the world that he could make the impossible happen that he could make the u.s. leader and the north korean leader sit down a