to begin with north korea late today launching a new missile korea has announced it successfully tested a nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile to join the fish this is a miniaturized nuclear warheads a capability the world hoped north korea would never reach north korea's new missile test is another intercontinental ballistic missile it flew high. and longer than ever before a triumph and north korea says its latest a ballistic missile test demonstrates that it now has the capability to strike anywhere in the united states. and. the world is shocked by this test but north korea's transformation into a nuclear power should come as no surprise. that. they've been working towards this goal for decades it's a sophisticated program that got its start even before the north korean state was founded in nineteen forty eight. and. during world war two many koreans were taken to japan a slave laborers so when the nuclear weapons went off in japan during world war two and many koreans had seen those weapons seen the affection knew about it they went home to korea after the war and des

korea. and if it happens, that would really undermine the security of the korean peninsula and might create absolute worst situation then were before. and finally i scenario, i would call gorbachev scenario. even remember in 1987 on this day, june 12, ronald reagan, then president, u.s. president reagan asks gorbachev to tear down the wall, berlin wall. gorbachev actually did tear down the berlin wall, but together with awol he tore down the soviet union, his country, right? and kim jong-un might do the same thing. he is interested in undertaking reform in his country. his country, he might end up destabilizing the country which might end in the collapse potential and in the collapse of north korea which can create peace, create work, create a civil war, i don't know. we can go anywhere so we have to wait and see. >> tong, president xi jinping has had to so much recently with kim jong-un, not in singapore obviously, but how do you compare what you saw out of the xi jinping -kim -kim jong-un

it was not targeted not only o nort korea, but south korea. he has been saying they are a free rider. they have aade agreement with the united states. soutrea is benefitre than t u date -- united states. i think president trump, by talking about the possibility of upending u.s. exercises with south korea, is telling the southoreans, we might stop helping you anymore. if you do not want that, you have to pay more for the stationing of the u.s. force south korea, and renegotiate. that will become more favorable to the united states. so i think it was a double message the south koreans and north koreans. said, in terms of japanese response, [indiscernible] generally concerned about the outcome because japan has always been hopingru will position. strong has used his position so much in this meeting. i do not know whether he talked about t auction issue in the meeting with kim jong-un. in what way, we do not know. n e overtone of the outcome, i do not think trump made the strong point, of the concerns japan has. they have mid range ballistic missi

north korea. kim il sung was forced to find new sources of foreign aid to help him revive the country's stagnant economy. and ninety ninety two came from states and states said you must reconcile yourself with your commitments to the international. going to. be made pursuing. your history between our frustration treaty which. soviets insisted before giving you where you need your assistance but you do so so this is. the root of the problem they are drawing the train you're pretty except safeguards and of course it's a sequence. ultimately except inspections and inspections turn up an inconsistency in their. hunts flix director general of the international atomic energy agency visited the young young nuclear facility in may nine hundred ninety two. north korea played a game of cat and mouse with international inspectors and this went on for to hear this. on some days they would allow the inspectors access to sensitive sites on others they threatened to expel them. later blix admission that he had l

only at north korea but also at south korea. he has been saying that south korea was a free rider d the signed a free trade agreement to the united states in a fitting more south korea than e ited states so we will have to renegotiate a deal. i think that trump by talking about the possibility of stopping the u.s. exercises with south korea is telling the south koreans wemight stop helping you any more on defense and if you don't want that you have to pay more for the stationing of the forces in south korea and renegotiate the fda so that become more favorable to the unitedstates. i think that was the message to north korea and south korea. that said in terms of japanese response, i think the japanese ticket especially and are generally concerned about the outcome because japan has already spent -- always been hoping that mr. trump will maintain the position in north korea. he has used his position so much in this meeting. i do not know whether he talked about that issue in the meeting with kim jong un and in what way we do not

is north korea. it's a country so impoverished, so backward that it's sometimes seems to be from another century. the economy of south korea is 36 times larger than that of the north yet somehow the north korean leader now commands the center of the world's stage. this is the story of kim jong-un, his past, his present and how has managed to bring an american president to his doorstep. ♪ december 28th, 2011. kim jong-un had just inherited the cruelest, most repressive dictatorship on earth. his father kim jong-il was dead from a heart attack. in icy pyongyang, tens of thousands lined the streets. for many mourners, it was a chance to catch a glimpse of their new leader. >> people believed he's too young. he's too inexperienced. >> there were real fears that kim jong-un still in his 20s was not up to the job. >> he looked like a boy. there he is sobbing over his father's casket. >> some doubted that he could ever command the kind of cult-like worship his grandfather and his father inspired. a reaction

no skill north korea tack your stores in korea has the possibility of escalating into a nuclear option that's the difference between today and nine hundred ninety four we were prepared to take more drastic actions in ninety four there were. in short nuclear weapons. do work as a deterrent they were for the united states is a deterrent but they also work for north korea that they don't and that's exactly what the north korean leadership knows and that's exactly why they build a nuclear arsenal to deter the united states from taking military action against them there is in my judgment no military option against north korea today. was. the. arts twenty one special. because my dear the sword. was iranian are the. women may. pressure liberation exile home. these are some of the motifs in a march in the in her life. w. . time for an upgrade. funder church grows all white. coats with no. design highlights you can make yourself. since tips and tricks that will turn your home to some special. upgrade yourself with d w's interior design channel on youtube. union. leader. this is g w news live fr

china, north korea's chief enabler, already is easing pressure on north korea. north korean goods already are becoming more abundant in china despite being banned by united nations security council resolutions. and immediately following the summit, the chinese foreign ministry suggested making adjustments to existing sanctions on north korea. if china wants to be taken seriously as a responsible global power, it cannot shirk its duts to enforce sanctions on serial violators like north korea. and if north korea back slides at any point, china must be tougher on north korea, oil exports to the north o tf korean regime which still flows in every day from china. three, focus on the threat at hand. north korea's nuclear warheads and other dangerous weapons and their delivery systems are real threats. the administration must not fall for north korea's inevitable theatrics and false concessions, as we cannot afford to be sidetracked. after all, nothing would stopped north korea from conducting another nuclear or missile test if it even believes its warheads and missile

that is against north korea and south korea. we know that previously president nixon used the troops cardigan south korea, entirely, actually withdrew 20,000 troops in 1970 and 1971, and in 1974, put elsewhere, he seriously considered, he had made up his mind to withdrew u.s. troops, and then jimmy carter talked about it, of course. and then in the bush years, more american troops were redeployed. withdrawing 5000 or 10,000 troops, president trump all calculate he is sending oulrn message to both se and pyongyang, you're on your own, fend for yourself, as he said during the campaign. korea, president trump thinks it is sending a very strong message, we are removing our troops from the south, thereby we will no longer allow our troops to stand in harm's way within the range of your artillery. thereby we will be more prone to strike first. work, but i think that is a false hypothesis. probably it will work in north korea's favor, not u.s. interests. sue mi: quickly, i will answer the second part of your question about u.s.-south a

and north korea continued in new york the participants included robert cullen an expert on north korea's nuclear program his visit to the country often. november two thousand and ten are secured her trip professor john morris and me they took us to your ground they walked us into this facility which we were not really expecting we thought maybe we would see a few centrifuges i don't know maybe ten one hundred whatever just small and we would say oh yeah it's really impressive. instead he took he took us into this building. took us up to the viewing window and there are two. follows in centrifuges. they let us in our jaws dropped we were sort of speechless as we tried to kind of centrifuges and then they were steps out of there because they didn't want us to see them. the whole thing too much point worse somebody wanted us. and that this and that the situation become more common. to meet kim jong il died in december twenty seventh he was succeeded by his son kim jong il and many western experts down said whether the inexperienced young man would be up to the job. kim soon launched the fir

-north korea diplomacy. from the stimson center, this is just over one hour. >> welcome to the stimson center. i'm the codirector of the program here. we are delighted to have our four very interesting speakers here to chat with us a bit about what is beyond the trump kim summit. when i give that title, beyond trump kim summit, please imagine the heart attack of me seeing that news, but sure enough, it now seems that the summit seems to be back on. we are basically getting whiplash moments every day on this one where the summit is going to be on, off, on, off. who knows what happens. in light of that, we are delighted to have our guests here. one formally served on the past committee expert panel. and jenny town from 38 north, which i am now proud to say is a part of the family. and my other codirector, my better half of the program is here as well. what i'm going to do is open the conversation with this four people by asking a brief question. i want this to be a dialogue rather than each of them giving 10 m

so do you believe north korea because north korea mentioned some steps?ing mistakes by allowing north korea endless negotiations and try to run out the clock? do you have specific measures? speaks japanese. that was a question about how you will verify denuclearisation. now a question we are getting in corian. we'll see how the foreign minister a nswe rs. we'll see how the foreign minister answers. bear with others. -- bear with us. great to see multilingual representatives with our correspondence. 0k, representatives with our correspondence. ok, so answering in corian. let's go back to what we had a few moments ago in that press conference. from the three representatives. she talked about the substantial progress that had been made but saying that his was a shared goal to see complete denuclearisation, going on to say the alliance between south korea and the alliance between south korea and the united states was as robust as ever. mike pompeo said the summit was a pivotal moment in history. the countries are staying closely co—ordinated. it could be a tu

are in south korea president moon j. and his promise to write a new history with his country's northern neighbor it was full of praise for kim jong un's decision to go ahead with the summit and a statement released by his office president said leaving dog days of war and conflicts behind we will write a new chapter of peace and cooperation we will be there to go with north korea along the way let's get more reaction then from a south korea correspondent and jason strother is in the soul welcome jason drove the south koreans also think they are leaving the dark days behind. people i spoke to today following the signing of the declaration at the end of the summit say they do feel that this is perhaps the start of 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 poi

and south korea. many see this as a turning point. so they must have gone a bit confused by all the momentous changes underway you know consider to model the meisner and was able to do this project because the two countries are so different but the good to go kind of if they grow closer my idea wouldn't work as well the book to be honest i'm glad i managed to do it when i did there my. money yet they were cut out to you know i suppose it's not the whole of. the unification between north and south korea it's still hard to imagine he she does audience already has a hard time telling comes from earlier. on the day is nearly done but don't forget as after the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either at t w news my handle is at sarah kelly t.v. and don't forget you can use the hash tag a day this is live from berlin we thank you so much for joining us and don't forget we have a news update every hour on the hour. will the north korea u.s. summit happen a little poker game. the two si

free world and a steadfast alliance with allies we can overcome whatever challenge north korea rose at the world the singapore powwow is the beginning of a realization for north korea that they must be denuclearization to move forward as a peaceful nation ards the president to be strong good courage and bold to deal with kim we are on a path toward the a precedent agreement in the united states must not waver with complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization with north korea and that is just the way it is. i yield back. >> the senator from massachusetts. >> mr. president i come to the floor today to raise my concerns over the outcome of the summit between the united states and north korea. now after witnessing rhetoric from both sides and the unexpected turn to dlomacy by president trump and kim jung-un by all accounts was a very welcome development. as there is noo military solution k to the north korea nuclear crisis i was pleased to see direct engagement and i have long advocated for this approach. however i am concerned that the agreent si this morning doesn't address the thre

this is north korea? >> kim jong-un at the water park, on the roller coasters wl his beautiful wife. one thing never changed. >> they always wanted the nuclear weapons. >> how much does donald trump really know? >> he is a smart cookie. >> about the man he made a deal with. >> incredible uncertainty. if you wait you die. >> consequences for the next 60, 70, hundreds of years. >> good evening, i'm faree fareed, zakaria. i want to show you a video. one that tells you the story of north korea. this is our planet seen from the space station. that area is south korea, a blaze with light and life. this black hole, looks like water, is north korea. it is a country so impoverished and backwards it seems to be from another century. the economy of south korea is 36 times larger than that of the north yet somehow, the north korean leader commands the center of the world stage. this is the story of kim jong-un, his past, present, and how he has managed to bring an american president to his doorstep. ♪ >> december 28t

, his message was not targeted not only at north korea but south korea or it -- south korea. to him, south korea is a free rider. south korea is benefiting more than the united states. so we have to renegoti deal. chambliss talking about the u.s. excises with south korea. he is saying we mean a help you anymore with defense. if you do not want that, you have to pay more for the stationing of u.s. forces in so that will become more favorable to the united states. that said, in terms of a policymakersonse, are generally concerned about the outcome. japan has always been hoping that mr. trump will maintain a task on strong position against north korea. i don't know whether he talked about the addiction issue with kim jong-un. given the overall tone of the think the ofn't dr. these issue-- the advent abductees issues are easily fit. we have to find a way to get more engaged in the process somehow. >> on the domestic politics, will their hey consequences if she is obvious not able to just hirelationship with trump into policy gains? critics will use criticizetunity to prime minist

korea. >> he may have 20 nuclear weapons, missiles that eventually might hit the united states. >> he sees having nuclear weapons as essential to his survival. >> after seven decades in near isolation, is the country's leader, kim jong-un, changing the global game for north korea? >> for the first time, the leader of north korea stepped into south korea. >> one of the first things he has done is make himself a more acceptable figure on the international stage. >> kim jong-un does something which nobody expects. he again changes the balance of this regime. >> as the historic summit between president donald trump and kim jong-un nears, what will it mean for north korea, the united states and the world? >> we have never had this kind of negotiation before. the stakes are incredibly high. >> this will be the critical test of the trump administration. this is what history will remember trump for. >>> president trump accepted an invitation for a face to face talk with the nuclear armed dictator. >

both south korea and juju talks about this, south korea and north korea for different reasons want to reunion fie that peninsula. this will allow president moon to work on the peace treaty. it has to be a peace treaty between north and south korea. this was back in 1950, a civil war. that civil war has to be ended by the combatants. >>> up next, our exclusive interview with president trump one on one moments ago. >> and one of his closest advisers suffers a heart attack. the latest on larry kudlow coming up. smooth scarred soaked the sun does not care. but we do. walgreens beauty consultants are specially trained to know what works for the health of your unique skin. walgreens. trusted since 1901. now, all sun care products are buy one, get one 50% off. feeclaritin and relief fromwsy symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear. and it's packed with powerful cranberry nutrients that can help your body defend against certain infections. i'll be your body on cranbe

and north korea. including a preview of the presidents planned meeting with the north korean leader, kim jong-un next week. this took place at the heritage foundation in washington. >> welcome. first an admin thing if you have a phone turned off or turn it to vibrate. the event today is the u.s. and north korea summit that was canceled or postponed so i guess we got it right. all they over the weekend one of the panelists tongue-tied said now that trump officially said we are back on, should we change the title? can we said well, it will probably change two or three times before the event or our event even. but actually, there's a bit of a story behind the event. when i lined up the six panelists, the first three and that we have a second panel focused particularly on japan. i had not got around to sending the notification flyer. i came in one morning and i said, i'm going to do nothing else this morning but get the flyer out. just the slum it and was going to happen in one of the implications. and i

and north korea summit was about to be collapsed however he called north korea. kim jong un right away and he talked with condolence and he negotiated with him and he lead it north korea and us to finally meet together though whether or not this will last long or it will just be a show as some people have argued i think that the fact that u.s. and north korea has met on the negotiation table has a big meaning in the historical perspective and for this i believe the president one day and made a fake will says i'm sure we've reviewed the situation has moved forward that there that everybody is safe there are problems with the timetabling and especially with the details of this agreement what's missing. it isn't missing a verification this missing actually concrete assignments steps and the plan for just a moment but it is clear for this meeting it was not nobody expected really that they could within the time they had have such a result to consider both sides not only north of the north korean side when you're talking about the denuclearization of korean peninsula.

today particularly in the border towns of china dividing china in korea and north korea the very fact that with we're having this summit shows and north korea is willing to talk willing to open up and perhaps we willing to cooperate on a tree issues and talking is a very very good start. which asian economies would profit most from a denuclearized korean peninsula and an opening of north korea well immediately we're looking at the northern age in a country such as china japan and south korea as mentioned in the in the clip these are the countries that stand to immediately gain from a prosperous north korea apart from that high yielding emerging markets also stand to gain from denuclearization from north korea and we're already seeing that in currencies like the singapore dollar the other u.s. dollar even the u.s. all itself and the currencies that a picked to the u.s. dollar such as the u.a.e. durum saudi and qatar in ryall and the lebanese pound will also be expected to see . slightly positive wave in the in the days to come i'm tracking that joining us live from singapore thank you

united states and its allies south korea and japan and north korea so i don't think that the military option is really an option is never been a real option the fact is that after a couple of months of verify amatory rhetoric of threat of use of force donald trump backed down from this position if we take a look at the speech of the u.n. national general assembly and then the speech the trump gave the south korean national assembly in the van der it's a very different speech nor for us of use of force focus on the development of north korea the abuses the abuse of human rights of course but there were no threat of use of force so i think that he really backed down from his options like months ago i'm not speaking about inflammatory rhetoric i think this is a very peculiar thing about donald trump he can be very aggressive when he's on social media but i think he's also. malleable to personal touch and a number of american partners like israel for example have already exploited this trade in his personality do you think do you think i can john only will try to leverage this because he

north korea borders south korea. north korea borders china. what is the third country with which north korea has a border? it's right up there on the sea coast in the northeastern corner of north korea, where the tumen river filters into a muddy delta and reaches the sea. it's up there in the far north. it's a wicked cold, winged eye laited gray little corner of the world. north korea has a tiny little sniglet of a border way third country there. there's only one crossing over that border. it's a bridge. it is a bridge you cannot walk across, nor can you drive across it. you can only take a train across it. it's the one crossing on that border between north korea and that third country. if you take that train, which doesn't come very often, if you take that train across are that bridge from north korea and they let you cross that border, where you end up in is russia. that's the third country that borders north korea. in 1860 russia anne came in and annexed that little spift land at the delta of the tumen river. previously, that territory had

wants north korea's denuclearization north korea wants u.s. security guarantees commitments that have been promised and redneck done before trump is confident that this time will be different but his past efforts have shown it's a long way between a handshake and peace. as we await the two leaders who are about to sign a document in a short while joining me in studio once again is yank our talib transatlantic fellow in the asia program at the german marshall fund of the united states thanks for sticking around is this sudden apparent thawing of relations a sign of things to calm. well see i think what we can definitely say is that once this donald trump needs this one day and has planned this and she will benefit from this so i think there's a lot to gain from it for a lot of sites here but caution is i think the word of the hour at the moment you have to wait and see what comes in the next day and as we've seen in the past that one creep can destroy a lot of progress in a heartbeat so we will see what happens later you know we have seen that

korea. i think this committee for its consideration. mr. corker: thank you for being here with us in both of you for your comments. you're welcome to go about your day. admiral, i understand why you have that hawaiian lei on. you may wish to take it off before you testify. ms. hirono: i would be really hurt if you did that. [laughter] mr. corker: thank you both again. today we will consider nominations of and the jewels to serve our nation as ambassador to south korea, and assistant of assistant secretary to both near and eastern african affairs. they will represent our interests, from the syrian civil war our ongoing dialogue with north korea. we welcome all of you and thank you for your willingness to serve, and thank your family the same way. we first have david shanker. he has personal experience in the middle east and speaks fluent arabic. i'm confident he is well-equipped to promote u.s. interests in the middle east. no area has more high-level attention than the middle east, one of ou

it would be great for north korea, south korea. it would be great for japan, the united states and the world. our partnership is valuable in reaching this moment and we will continue to be in close communication in the weeks ahead. including the issue of japanese abductees which i know is a great personal importance to prime minister abe. i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future to the world. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would usher in a new era of prosperity, security and peace for all koreans, north and south and for people everywhere. prime minister abe and i are also working to improve the trading relationship to the united states and japan, something we have to do. the united states sees a bilateral deal with japan based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. we are working hard to reduce our trade imbalance with which is very substantial. we moved barriers us exports. and to achieve a fair and mutually benefic

with south korea. well that's interesting because trump said that the way he got kim into a room was to present him with a vision of the future where and set of he was instead of testing weapons he would have the best hotels in north korea and he encouraged them to think about it from a real estate perspective which of course is the perspective that trump would have as a real estate mogul and in fact the whole summit had a very hard of the deal feel to it in any case the increased economic integration within the region is something about south korean chamber of commerce has said it welcomes its just released a statement saying the south korean industrial sector is preparing for an age of increased economic cooperation with north korea it has to be said however that they have faith that the sanctions on north korea would stay in place so obviously any declarations of an economic golden age impending for north korea would be premature . schools but the deep geo political race has seems to have decreased

without south korea, but south korea is really the one who has been pushing this.f you look at what president moon said when it looked like the meeting was not going to happen and the south korean reaction -- i mean, they were absolutely central to this process. china, given that china is the country that enabled north korea to have these weapons in the first place, by standing by and allowing this nuclear program to progress, it is clear that this is all of one piece, but i think this is exactly what you want. you don't just want the united states and the north koreans to be sitting down at one table. russia is going to have to be involved in the process at some point, too, but in the end, if it does progress -- and in my view, this was just a first step, more of an icebreaker than anything. it would have been unrealistic to think that trump would have come out of that meeting with sort of a full-blown treaty that was ready to be signed, whereby the north koreans would be forgoing nuclear weapons hasver, but at least he created an atmosphere, it appears, where the

korea and the u.s. had been doing. mr. klingner: i will give north korea mixed reviews. sort of of on the one hand, th we haveide just as leadership analysts, they certainly should. i think north korea struggles like others to try to understand president trump because he is uniquend difrent from his predecessors. i read finally "the art of the deal," on a long flight back from new zealand. if you sort of subtract out the week in the life of a real estate broker in new york, there are a number of precepts that's strike home. and six ce them. it is less important to be a point -- atat this this point, it is less important to be a north korea expert than to be a trump expert. what trump said is "i make deals." i do it to do it. it is my art form." this question is doing deals, being better than the predecessor. the other is "listen to your gut." "i draw my own conclusion." i learned not to be overly impressed by academic credentials." if you think back to the campaign, he said -- i know more about afghanis

to the threats from north korea. i will be traveling to meet with my japanese and south korean counterparts after the summit to continue to coordinate with them. i will also stop in beijing following the singapore summit. i will provide them with an update and under score the importance of implementing all sanctions imposed on north korea. president trump recognizes north korea's desire for security and is prepared to ensure a dprk free of its weapons of mass destruction is also a secure north korea. president trump has made it clear that if kim jong-un denuclearizes, there is a brighter path for north korea and its people. we envision a strong, connected and secure and prosperous north korea that is integrated into the community of nations. we think the people of the united states and north korea can create a future defined by friendship and collaboration and not by mistrust and fear. we believe that chairman kim jong-un shares this positive vision for the future and we are committed to find a path forward and we as

north korea summit. thank you. >> i appreciate it. so, we'll take a few questions. if we can start. >> mr. president, on the subject and i have a question for the prime minister as well. on the subject of north korea how far your willing to go in term of economic security granteesithkim. wilng to move down the road to normalize relationships, normalize relations with north korea as the prime minister suggested he was willing to. you teased us out here last week in the t sign a peace deal and >> well, the letter was just a greeting. it was very nice, perhaps i can get approval to put it out. it was a very nice letter, warm letter and i appreciated it very much. nothing other than we look forward to seeing you and we look forward to the summit, and hopefully some wonderful things will work out. so really it was a very warm, very nice. we appreciated it. i think, john, that we are going to -- we're going to have great success. i don't think it will be in one meeting. i thinkt will take longer than that. thi

negotiation process with north korea because north korea made the ready clear they have some red line so they are not going to cross in any way so i think that for trump will be extremely difficult to strike a balance between achieving some results with north korea and satisfy the work part of his that means for now i heard you say before that the united states cannot really afford a military option in north korea and this is exactly what mr bolton has advocated as he always does you just mentioned these striking a balance between you know rational in the rational part of the. chump administration would be a challenge but i wonder if you are perhaps overestimating. the reliance of these administration on the careful and malices and the careful weighing of all of its options. yeah i mean i don't think that the military option is an option and it's never been a real option i think that when trump started with his inflammatory rhetoric last year i think that it was mainly to try to play the card of the madman like richard nixon tried to do in the seventy's but everybody knows that there'

-north korea summit. korea the u.s.-north summit meeting, i would like to refrain from mentioning this at japan'scture, but resolutions were explained at length and president trump has given his understanding and promised that the issue would be brought up in singapore. i am delighted of this. i would like to closely work with president trump on solutions to the issue. itself needs to have direct consultations with north korea. i have not changed my resolve in doing this. results,s decision and what will be conducive to solve the abduction issue, of course i will have to think about the summit meeting. if we are to have the summit , the solutions to all these issues must be resolved, and i hope that we will be able to realize the summit meeting which would lead to a solution of the problems. but first and foremost we need to seek advancement. japan and u.s. should closely cooperate with each other so we will be able to see great success for the historic u.s.-north korea summit meeting. japan would like to give all our e

that is against north korea and south korea. we know that previously president nixon used the troops card against south korea entirely, actually, withdrew an entire division, 20,000 troops, in 1970 and 1971. and in 1974, before he was ed to seek a job elsewhere, he actually seriously considered, he had made up his mind to withdraw u.s. troops. then jimmy carter talked about it. then in the bush years, gorge w. -- george whereby busch, more american troops were reemployed. let's say withdrawing 5,000 or 10,000 troops, president trump will likely calculate he' accepteding a stern message to both snd pyongyang. you keep cozying up to the north like that, are you on your own. fend for yourself. as he himself said during the campaign. to nor korea president trump will think this is sending a strong message. we're removing our troops from the south. thereby we willlonger allow our troops to stand in harm's way within the range of your artillery. thereby we will be more prone to strike first. now, it may work, but i think that is a fal