resulted in yet another place between north and south korean leaders to officially end the korean war by the close of this year so today we want to look at the backdrop for tensions on the korean peninsula and current prospects for ending the war with us on sight is mintaro has a former u.s. diplomat and speechwriter focusing on u.s. foreign policy in asia and santa cruz california christine hong she's a professor at the university of california santa cruz and a member of the korea policy institute and in honolulu christina on she is the founder and international corden leader of women across d.m.z. that's a global movement of women mobilizing to in the korean war reunite families and ensure women's leadership in peace building welcome to all of our guests this spring and it's a really good. so let's start with a little bit of a newsreel from nine hundred fifty have a look have a listen at this. go real united nations troops push on them the point is that it's against the communists. to think this general ridgeway stage is not to see but to wipe out the enemy the chinese red army by d

they were being pursued by north korean warships. korean, japanese and u.s. warships were in vicinity and that was the situation. if you take out the american ships in that scenario, i think the koreans and the japanese would have been smart enough to figure out, not to kill each other. [laughter] this is a serious problem. missilesare at sea, usually have a tendency of hitting things but not always the right target. i think the koreans and japanese would have been smart enough to communicate that kind of information and that they would have been able to successfully rescue them. the real question is -- what would have been the orders to the ships? the technical side, no problem. communication, the guys and gals would be smart enough to figure it out. what were the korean government and the japanese government have told the crew men to do? that is where the real national level cooperation would have been required. >> one more question on this recommendation. on the u.s.-japan bilateral side, we are not only established alliance ordination mechanism but also b

of north korean people. i hear you there christi men were talking about the legacy of this war that some refer to in the united states as forgotten war one of the things our community is bringing up is that because of that there are misconceptions here's one from khalid on twitter who says yes one of the misconceptions is to imply or infer at times that north korea is not a rational actor thereby inadvertently portraying hostile responses to it as necessary or required similar was used with iraq and consistently with the palestinians he uses two examples there but there is someone in our community mintaro who says there is a history to this there's a history to the reason why people use this phrase rational action whether or not north korea is one and she says it has to do with the war this is what unka culver had to tell the story the north koreans have essentially defined themselves in terms of the struggle against outside powers for a very long period of time they were under japanese clonal control from n

the enemy is sort of those korean regime but those korean military. i think there's something important to know that i did research service for twenty one months and this compulsory for all of those men in there when you go to the military you get too exposed to the view north korea is your enemy. this very different from society where you can have different views about those in the square in the gym you said it that the north korean regime is the enemy not the north korean people why do you think that that distinction is important i think that distinction is important because the north korean people or part could be part of korean families which is true for my grandpa grandfather my grandpa has moved from north korea to south korea because he personally opposed to the communism and he's for the war fighting against those korean regime in north korea our grandparents generations. have lots of family there are those korean people do you think as time goes on and those ties get farther and farther away it will really shift attitudes about north korea an

and north korean summit. this is articulated by the south korean leaders. the south korean government particularly moon jae-in was giving the president -- was giving the credit to president trump. we had no details or policies about denuclearization. everything left over for the u.s. and north korean summit. we can anticipate something good maybe. maybe better than we anticipate. hopes china will play limited roles. this is a kind of implication. kim looks for the compromise. why giving up nuclear capability -- jong-un hopes to keep the nuclear capabilities in the past. summit, kim aims to change his image. also to reduce the pressure of the international societies. you can imagine how they plan to end the cold war. between the soviet union and china. my last suggestion, give me one more minute. now? thank you very much. you are so generous. time is limited. north korea has several regions to adapt and broad approaches. utilize the moment. sure in detail about the nuclear -- the denuclearization measures. our goals and strategies and capabilities to push th

-north korean summit. i believe president moon's vision of peninsula driver was a major factor in carrying us this far. perhaps you've seen the news, . during the summit meeting kim and moon agreed to complete the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. perhaps you have seen the news, former first lady lee told president moon he should receive the nobel peace prize. president moon responded the peace prize should go to president trump, we will take the peace instead. the response highlights the good intentions of president moon. last year president moon gave the party a speech in which he spoke of his vision for peninsula driver and since he has followed through, followed through. during the pyeongchang olympics, he made room for the participation of north korea, by delaying a u.s.-south korea joint military exercise in consultation with the u.s. after the olympics, president moon followed through by sending a special envoy to north korea. kim jong-un expressed his desire for meeting with president trump

april 27, the south korean president and north korean leader held the first summit since 2007. the declaration is an historic low cord. establishing als permanent and solid piece regime , and a nuclear free peninsula. no one could deny this is a major positive development considering nearly a few months ago the korean peninsula was viewed as on the brink of armed conflict. plenty of questions and skepticism among experts related to the path moving forward. genuine, or is this a purely tactical move. will south korea be so eager to pursue reconciliation that president moon will be willing to use his political capital to die fuse criticism. china has claimed to be instrumental in cultivating the dialogue. will china be sidelined and be a bystander? will president trump meet with kim jong-un given the wishes expressed by south and north korea? these are no easy questions. three delighted to have experts from south korea, china and the united states to enlighten us on how we should interpret the outcomes of the summit from each country's perspective. today, the associate -- univers

the enemy is sort of those korean regime and those korean military. i think there's something important to know that i did research service for twenty one months and this compulsory for all of those men in there when you go to the military you get too exposed to the view north korea is your enemy. this very different from society where you can have different views about those in the square in the gym you said it that the north korean regime is the enemy not the north korean people why do you think that that distinction is important i think that distinction is important because the north korean people or part could be part of korean families which is true for my grandpa grandfather my grandpa has moved from north korea to solve korea because he personally opposed to the communism and he's for a lot of war fighting against those korean regime in north korea our grandparents generations. lots of family there are those korean people do you think as time goes on in those ties get farther and farther away it will really shift attitudes about north korea and

those korean and u.s. military officers and civilian leaders determine the actions of the combined forces command and in effect, general brooks will say this publicly that he answers equally to both presidents, as the combined forces command commander. the united nations commander answers to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff because the united nations may the united states the executive agent of the united nations command. he reports to general dunford. commander,ces-korea he reports to admiral harris, up until this week. change of command happens in the next couple days. he works for multiple commanders, multiple leaders. he is the war fighting commander of the command, he answers equally to both korea and the u.s.. transfer started, initiated in january, 2003 after the election. rumsfeld,by secretary as you recall the time frame after the highway 56 incident, secretary rumsfeld's desire to use all forces, u.s. military forces in the war on terrorism suggested to the koreans they change opcom move

peace and want to see a resolution and it's about koreans making peace as much about what trump wants. always gets in the way of everything but if trump of the united states can't support koreans making peace then we need to stay out of a completely agree that i think this is what again the mainstream media can't get their head around that it's about the korean people north and south first in foremost ok and then the us is the interloper here jenny you want to also react go ahead jump in well i mean i'm not sure i necessarily agree with that completely ok because the us does play a big role here because the north koreans believe the u.s. plays a big role here and so yes there has been movement on into korean relations but at the end of the day the north koreans don't look to start korea to really solve the security issues because the enemy still really is the united states and that is sort of the core of their identity and of course of their worries i wanted to piggyback on the professor's comments as well to say that you know i think there is a problem here and the problem is with th

-north korean summit. havetary pompeo and i hasrmed that our alliance long served as the linchpin for peace and stability on the korean peninsula in the region. we also reaffirmed that for the last 65 years, the united states forces in korea have played a crucial role for deterrence and peace and stability in the region. we would like to emphasize again that the u.s. military presence for our alliance first and foremost. after this meeting i am even more confident that our alliance is more robust than ever and there is no daylight in our cooperation in the denuclearization of the peninsula. once again, i would like to think secretary pompeo for today's food from discussion and look forward -- today's fruitful discussion and look forward to working with him. seoul to see him again in and reciprocate the hospitality very soon. thank you very much. >> we have time for two questions. >> thank you. you mentioned, and have mentioned before, that you are looking for permanent, verifiable, irreversible denucleariz

the korean peninsula. and they spoke with the importance of the u.s. rok partnership and we released a report on u.s.-rok for the the fourth industrial revolution. i mention all this because our asia programs work demonstrate so clearly how the u.s.-rok exemplifies international cooperation at its best. let's not forget if peace does come to the peninsula, it will not be because of the confluence of military interests. it will be because of the strength of the longstanding partnership deeply rooted in every aspect of person and political life and one has to think hard about what that partnership looks like going forward. with that, i'd like to thank the east asia foundation with cooperation on the dialog and serves as a reminder of what we can do when we as americans, koreans and the international community work together to secure the future. most of us, i want to thank our two keynote speakers, senator edward markey, who i have admired for many years and dr. moon for being part of this timely and importan

does play a big role here because the north koreans believe the u.s. plays a big role here and so yes there has been movement on into korean relations but at the end of the day the north koreans don't look to south korea to really solve the security issues because the enemy still really is the united states and that is sort of the core of their identity and the core of their worries i want to piggyback on the professor's comments as well to say that you know i think there is a problem here in the problem is with the consistency of messaging and in an active negotiation process you can't have these competing there it is bolton is no longer a fox news commentator he is now the national security advisor and so what he says carries weight and so if you're negotiating with the secretary of state and he is telling you one thing and then you have the national security adviser saying something completely different. public you know in the public in the media regardless of whether or not he isn't actually involved in the process this works to undermine any confi

and north koreans have said they hope will happen how does the u.s.administration go about reconciling these real differences coming from with then of their this is an important question i think the next move in terms of moving back towards dialogue would certainly be for secular state might pompei oh perhaps to make another visit to north korea there might need to be mediation from china as well china will be a key player in this and so the u.s. will need to find a way to present itself which which avoids losing political capital at home in other words sustains this idea of legitimacy of genuinely moving towards dialogue engaging in north korea but at the same time has to show some kind of reconciliation or some kind of move back towards the north koreans otherwise the north koreans will not be able to project this image of legitimacy to their own people and also be able to kind of move the relationship with china and the united states forward what we have actually heard from the chinese foreign ministry reaction to the cancellation of the summits le

they were being pursued by north korean warships. korean, japanese and u.s. warships were in the vicinity and that was the situation. so if you take out the american ships in that scenario, i think the koreans and the japanese would have been smart enough to figure out not to kill each other. this is a serious problem because when u. r. s. e., missiles usually have a bs hating thing, but not always the right target. so, the koreans and the japanese would have been smart enough to communicate that kind of information and that they would have been able to successfully rescue them. the real question is what would've been the order to the ships? the technical side i think is no problem. the communications commend the guys and gals would be smart enough to figure it out. but what would the korean government and the japanese government has told the crew men to do. i think that is where the real national level of cooperation would've been required. >> one more question on this recommendation. on the u.s.-japan bilateral side, we've not only established an alliance c

so a big blow to the south koreans and just another sign of the incredible roller coaster that the korean peninsula, that this region has been through, in the last six months, where you've gone from north korea firing a missile, what it says was its most powerful ballistic intercontinental ballistic missal as recently as last november, a nuclear test, the most powerful and sixth nuclear test last september to suddenly olympic diplomacy between north and south korea during the winter olympics here in south korea and this succession of meetings, face to face, between north and south koreans, then bringing the u.s., then think about this, kim jong-un has been in power six years and he has only made two trips out of the country and that was in the last couple of months, to china. he had two visits from mike pompeo as cia director, and then as secretary of state. so the whiplash here of going from missile test and nuclear tests to potentially historic u.s./north korean leader betwme between leaders that has canceled and you had people reportedly buying up land along the demilt rised zone expec

they also expressed the end the korean war and peace on the korean peninsula. and it was the first time that both leaders expressly addressed the nuclear issue. for the two leaders to express a common goal for a denuclear korea is a major achievement. you may remember how as recently as last december our focus was on stopping the north korean provocations and to bring them to dialog. where do we stand now? the north korea, korean leader pledged to discontinue all nuclear and icbm tests. the president of the united states is preparing to sit down with the north korean leader just as the this has concluded successfully. earlier, many doubted that north korea was willing to denuclearize. since then north korea has clearly expressed its willingness not only to us, but to china and to the united states. at the interkorea summit meeting, this was codified. north korea is a fundamentally different attitude at this time. first, in the-- at the planned meeting, north korea announced to shut down the nuclear test site and shift their focus into economic development. buil

north koreans have historically denuclearization of the korean peninsula, the region's security is guaranteed that does not mean the disarmament. he's talking about breaking u.s.-south korea alliance relationship, getting u.s. troops out of south korea, and ending extended nuclear umbrella the u.s. has over south korea and japan so the regime can feel secure. this is what he means by denuclearization of the korean peninsula. this is a long way to go, and we are not going to get there. please vote for the opposition side of the motion today. [applause] john: thank you, sue mi terry. that concludes round one of this debate, where our motion is negotiations can denuclearize north korea. we move on to round two. this is where the debaters address each other directly, and they take questions from me and our live audience in washington, d.c. the team arguing for the motion, made up of suzanne dimaggio and bonnie jenkins, they have argued that basically, right now, this table is set, that we are living in a very optimistic time, and they are arguing for optimism. the past, they argue, is that deals

north korean point of view well you know the north koreans issued a surprisingly conciliatory statementafter president trump relit his letter to kim jong un and it was very clever because it put the ball in the back in the u.s. court so i think a lot depends now actually on how washington frames its criteria for getting back to diplomatic process and getting back to the summit. must occur if the ball is back in washington's court what do you think they could and should do next could they see secretary of state mike compound returning to pyongyang but that's not something that i can really comment on but certainly the south korean government seems to feel that it's very important to get the u.s. officials to continue staying committed to the process because aren't you have to understand there mr moon doing the president was very recent he seems to us and the way it's been portrayed here in south korea is due he was essentially dismissed by president truong at some point president term even actually said there's no need for interpretation because there's nothing really worth hearing from

does play a big role here because the north koreans believe the u.s. plays a big role here and so yes there has been movement on into korean relations but at the end of the day the north koreans don't look to start to really solve the security issues because the enemy still really is the united states and that is sort of the core of their identity and of course their worries i wanted to piggyback on the professor's comments as well to say that you know i think there is a problem here in the problem is with the consistency of messaging and in an active negotiation process you can't have these competing narratives you know bolton is no longer a fox news commentator he is now the national security advisor and so what he says carries weight and so if you're negotiating with the secretary of state and he is telling you one thing and then you have the national security adviser saying something completely different. public you know in the public in the media regardless of whether or not he is and actually involved in the process this works to undermine any co

does play a big role here because the north koreans believe the u.s. plays a big role here and so yes there has been movement on into korean relations but at the end of the day the north koreans don't look to start to really solve the security issues because the enemy still really is the united states and that is sort of the core of their identity and of course their worries i wanted to piggyback on the professor's comments as well to say that you know i think there is a problem here and the problem is with the consistency of messaging and in an active negotiation process you can't have these competing narratives you know bolton is no longer a fox news commentator he is now the national security advisor and so what he says carries weight and so if you're negotiating with the secretary of state and he is telling you one thing and then you have the national security adviser saying something completely different. public you know in the public in the media regardless of whether or not he isn't actually involved in the process this works to undermine any co

this was completely korean operation. to wish the north koreans did not talk to anybody about this. none of their allies knew about it in advance. none of them were consulted about the -- publicly attacking the north koreans for this. they thought this was a terrible idea. really risky. creating aggressive issues in east asia. it risked giving the united states an excuse to escalate the american involvement in south korea. they were irate about all this. there is even these funny moments where the soviets are trying to get information about what is happening inside north korea. going to release them, how are they being treated, they could not get information. officials would not meet with them. it was a blackhole of information for their allies. >> there were 83 crew. >> 83. one of them killed. another four or five with some relatively serious injuries. they all pulled through. >> what was like -- life like for them? >> it was horrible. a north korean prison camp is probably the top of the list. for the first couple weeks, they were beaten and tortured mercilessly. really primitive

[speaking in native tongue] >> [speaking korean] >> [speaking korean] [speaking korean] [speaking koreanranslator: i would like to thank you mr. president, for your warm hospitality, sharing much of your time with me. i know we have a very domestic calendar as all-important u.s., north korea summit. i heard tragic news of many lives in shooting at texas high school a few days ago. i would like to convey my condolences to you and american people. on brighter note i would like to congratulate you on on the amern citizens detained in north korea. thank you for your vision of achieving peace through strength and as well as your strong leadership. we're looking forward to the first-ever north korean summit. we find ourselves standing one step closer to dream of achieving complete denuclearization on the korean peninsula and world peace. all this is possible because of you mr., president, i have no doubt you will be able to complete, accomplish a historic feat no one has been able to achieve in the decades past. i have to say that the fate and future of korean peninsula hinge on this. i will e

chosen for public engagement by high-level korean officials since the inter-korean summit. the atlantic council is proud to host the event through our center for strategy and security in partnership for the first time with the east asia foundation at such a historic moment. if just the opening conversation we had as we were just preparing to come into this room is any indication of the kind of rich conversation that we'll have now. hold on to your seats. as i watch the summit on the korean peninsula unfold, and i watched the amazing theatrics of the long conversation on the bridge, on going across the line back and forth, i was remind of my own experience conversation the transformation of germany around the fall of the berlin watch. you had a sense of history throughout that period of time, but you were never quite sure where it would all land, and i think that's where we are now. history moves at its own speed, and too often it overtakes the analysis of those living in the thick of it. but here at the atlantic council, particularly the scowcroft center hosting this event

the north koreans want a phased approach.nited states wants to have people out there and making rhetoric like john bolton with the libya model which wouldn't be a phased approach. i'm not saying you can't have differences of opinion but things need to be calibrated and planned and needs to be preparation. i'm in support of this decision. i think it was off the cuff. it was like the decision with the administration on -- where the russia sanctions were announced and nikki haley -- >> neil: everybody was caught off guard. what do you think, amber? those on the left are criticizing. presidents in the past have never gotten this far with the north koreans is. there frustrations that this might be an opportunity missed because we didn't dot is and cross ts? >> i don't think there's an opportunity missed here. this is the very early stages of a negotiation. you can't expect a rogue leader like kim jong-un to overnight just give up his -- completely denuclearize his nation. >> neil: you don't think they did? the language out of the

so you, you've met north koreans before and you've met north koreans recently. we obviously detect from you quite a degree of cynicism. can you tell us about your meetings, your recent meetings with north koreans, the way they are trying to convince you and how you are assessing what they're telling you? >> no. because actually their behavior is different. there is a sense -- so there is something, a change of -- now i'm not saying that's strategy that is fundamentally different that will lead to complete, verifiable irreversible but, i sense north koreans, the officials really are not in the loop. they have not got the talking points. a lot of it is being decided by kim jong-un. it was really president trump and pompeo and the intelligence that has been doing the negotiation. so they don't know quite what to make of this new situation, in six months everybody would tell me, never ever, we're never giving up nuclear weapons. constitution enshrined. well now, what is my talking point? this is very confusing. it is hard to just go by that. i think kim jong-un is v

it was a question from a korean reporter, the question itself was in korean. the answer was in korean. not translated. so you didn't miss anything by bailing out of it. but yeah, i mean definitely what we saw here was -- i mean it was interesting from the standpoint that the president was very open, very forthcoming about where things stand with the summit with north korea and what he is looking for. i asked him whether he envisioned denuclearization happening sort of all in one big move as it did with libya where they boxed up the nuclear program and put it on the u.s. transport planes and they shipped it to oakridge, tennessee, to be stored at the nuclear facility there. or if as south korea suggested it would happen for piecemeal that kim jong un would take this step and be rewarded with this and then slowly go down the line. the president said he'd like to see it all in one but didn't rule out incremental. i thought it was interesting he put a caveat on whether or not it will take place on june 12. the president saying there is a very real possibility that

and soviet -- soviet, south korean military involved. i will say despite the fun we had and the friends we made, none of us want that to be a reality. none of us wanted to say this is something we have to be worried about and everything we are practicing we really have to do. so we should be doing everything possible to try to bring peace to the region area we should do everything possible to negotiate , whenever we have a chance, to take every opportunity to try to find a way to declare -- a way to denuclearize the korean peninsula, and reduce the tensions that we don't have to worry about a nuclear exchange or any other kind of war on the peninsula. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, bonnie jenkins. our next speaker will be speaking against the motion, sue senior fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. sue mi: my paternal grandparents came from north korea. they happened to be in south korea when the war broke out and never made it back, so their lifelong wish was to see their separated parents and siblings hands

and north koreans have said they hope will happen how does the u.s.administration go about reconciling these real differences coming from with then of there this is an important question i think the next move in terms of moving back towards dialogue would certainly be for sectors that might pompei oh perhaps to make another visit to north korea there might need to be mediation from china as well china will be a key player in this and so the u.s. will need to find a way to present itself which which avoids losing political capital at home in other words sustains this idea of legitimacy of genuinely moving towards dialogue engaging in north korea but at the same time has to show some kind of reconciliation or some kind of move back towards the north koreans otherwise the north koreans will not be able to project this image of legitimacy to their own people and also be able to kind of move the relationship with china and the united states forward where we have actually heard from the chinese foreign ministry reaction to the cancellation of the summits le

north korean summit back on track northern north korean leaders revive hopes after a surprise meeting on the border kim jong un says he's fixed on face to face talks with the u.s. president. also coming up thousands march in france against president batons economic reforms unions and civil rights groups say the government's policies are brutal and unbalanced but do they have the power to change that. plus around the british crown king of european football yet again jubilation as the spanish giants claim the champions league trophy for the third straight year defeating the ripple on the final we'll talk about the match the magic and the misfortune. that. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us north korean leader kim jong un says he's still committed to a summit with u.s. president donald trump in singapore next month trump first pushed for the summit and then on thursday abruptly canceled the june twelfth talks and now says preparations are moving ahead again yesterday kim held a surprise meeting with south korean president in that may have really kick started the process. rechy know t

north koreans don't trust us either. the framework and then when the putin administration came in, -- we get it. you are a democracy. you scuttle the deal. we are looking at the trump administration. how can the north koreans trust that? the same goes for us to them. because of the agreements we do have with them -- they talked about verify and verify. verify everyble to single time over verification. now overpopular diplomacy. can we not forget this is 1.5 years ago that this is a guy who killed his half-brother in a major international airport? [laughter] -- [applause] >> we can all agree he is a bad guy. i don't think there is disagreement about him being bad and him not being trustful. i think that is a given. i think the point here is that you have to think about how much is not going to weigh in what you want to do now? do you want to say no to a possibility to denuclearize or do you want to say you are a bad guy? we can try to find a way to get rid of the nuclear weapons and try to find a way to make the korean pe

things are moving quite quickly on the korean peninsula. i've been following very closely like everyone else but i think there's a fundamental misunderstanding in western media about what's really going on because this is what's really going on is the koreans deciding their fate irrespective of who wants to take credit for. the line that the moon of a bomb gave to its article describing this meeting. and most hopeful and most hopeful korean summit with lead to a chance for final success. is building it in their senior year is ok i mean is the only optimistic had been just between koreans the problem would have been solved long ago we see that there is no real perineal anymore city there is no real between koreans the problem is not about north korea not been able to reform itself it is reforming itself the problem is with the west in the wars which in the last twenty years changed completely changed beyond recognition and which could not agree to any kind of compromise even if that allows you to lessen their nuclear danger the underlining c

with the south korean president in joining them a u.s. delegation is in north korea while a team from pyongyang is heading to singapore where the historic meeting is due to take place under thomas has more from so. what a difference one frenetic weekend can make and now looks like it's full steam ahead for a summit in singapore on june twelfth as originally planned has been the u.s. delegation inside north korea on monday that vice on kim south korean born but the u.s. ambassador to the philippines he's been ambassador here in seoul in the past though he was very much involved in the six nation talks that took place while president bush was in office later president obama he knows the issue backwards he's been meeting with north korea's vice foreign minister chase on he again fluent english speaker she knows this issue backwards from a north korean point of view meanwhile in singapore over the coming days they'll be u.s. delegation and a north korean delegation meeting to discuss the logistics security arrangements protocol that all happe

one of these is the north korean nuclear thing. i think coming back to get them with some conditions on our end, some gives, i think that will make the world safer and this is the right way to get to that deal. >> for this -- call it a step back, a hiccup, a major obstacle, do you think the national security adviser john bolton is to blame for this? he's the one who first brought up the libya model with donald trump trying to clean up and vice president pence was asked about which then led to the statement from the north koreans. >> the kim regime knows what was meant by the libya model. everybody really knows. he gave up his nuclear weapons. they jump and say, well, he was deposed, he was deposed because he was a terrible person and oppressed his people and they stabbed him to death in the back of a pickup truck. it is not because he denuclearized, it is because the people rose up. . >> so now we have gone from fire and fury to kim jong-un is an honorable man to we're out at least for now. what is the message, congressman, to the

people for peace on the korean peninsula. let's sign a peace treaty now. amy: christine ahn, founder and international coordinator of women cross dmz, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the korean war. speaking to us from seoul, south korea. and tim shorrock washington-based investigative , journalist, we will link to your peace in the nation. for the nation and the korea correspondentfor the nation and the korea center for investigative journalism in seoul. when we come back, harvey weinstein has turned himself into police on charges of raping a woman and performing another -- and forcing another to perform oral sex on him. we will speak with one of his victims. ♪ [music break] amy: "mr. weinstein will see you now" by amanda palmer and jasmine power. this song was released a few days ago to raise money for the timesup legal defense fund. the musician said, "this song is dedicated to every woman everywhere around the world who has been trapped in a room with a man who used his power to rip her mind in two." this is

this is significant, the fact that the south korean president and north korean leader have met yet again. it goes to show how seriously both sides are taking this. the fact that they want the dialogue to happen. president moon thought it important enough to use the hotline between the offices and made it hop with short notice. the fact that it was kept secret from the press, and we're learning about it two hours after it wrapped up, is extraordinary. panmunjom yesterday was -- yesterday our hotel in north korea, we were told to stay inside the hotel, they wouldn't let us look outside the windows. we didn't know what was happening. we later learned kim jong-un was there inspecting a resort complex that was being built along the beach where we were staying. it was the lead story in the north korean newspaper this morning. now breaking news, a second summit between president moon and kim jong-un, an extraordinary development we just learned about. >> will ripley, we'll talk more throughout the morning about what this means as the u.s. tries to continue to get the summit back on with the nor

-north korean summit. we take you live to seoul, south korea, for more how the big news is playing out there. that's next. >> i believe that this is a tremendous set back for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. ♪ great question. see, for a full service brokerage like ours, that's tough to do. schwab does it. next question. do you offer a satisfaction guarantee? a what now? a satisfaction guarantee. like schwab does. man: (scoffing) what are you teaching these kids? ask your broker if they offer award-winning full service and low costs, backed by a satisfaction guarantee. if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. if you don't like their answer, if his denture can cope with... a steak. luckily for him, he uses super poligrip. it helps give him 65% more chewing power. leaving brad to dig in and enjoy. super poligrip. where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start win

before then the inter-korean summit will wear off. the novelty of kim and trump being good friends all of a sudden will wear off and when you get into the details and start the actual negotiations with how to implement these commitments, you are going to see a lot of criticism and opposition along the way that is not going to be easy for this administration to shoulder. yuki: thanks, jenny. a lot of media reports suggest that this is how it has been portrayed. kim jong-un's rhetoric began to shift after he had a couple of meetings in beijing with xi jinping. how does china feel about this now? do they feel that the summit is back on track? where does the handstand? he stand?oes >> at this point china wants to see the escalation happen because it offers some hope for denuclearization. but as has been pointed out, there will likely not be details. the two leaders could in principle agreed to denuclearization, but i think china will see that as a bad good outcome, they are having speculations about what happened in his second vision to c

the south koreans are panicked. president said we cannot deal with a rogue state that could hit lax, hit washington. and he let the north koreans know that. but what sweetened the deal, being an instagram celebrity. having his sister be the north korean melania. kennedy: you can't blame him for that. labor camps? he's a horrible person and his soul is damned to hell. but the other stuff totally forgivable. coming up, that echo dot you got for christmas can play your favorite songs and turn on the lights. but one family claims echo has been recording their conversations and sending the audio file to random people. oh don't... it's early 90s sitcom star dave coulier... cut...it...out! [laughing] what year is it? as long as stuff gets lost in the couch, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. the digital divide is splitting this country. we have parents who are trying to get their kids off of too much social media and computers, and then we hav

korean leader kim jong-un. it says the following, the u.s. will have to think twice about the fate of the dprk u.s. summit now on high agenda before a provocative military racket against the dprk in league with the south korean authorities there. the statement goes on to say that they will closely watch the ensuing behavior of the u.s. initially reactions from the white house and the state department, the state department says they have not heard of any changes so far to plans for that summit and not heard of any changes to this north korean reaction to those previously planned military exercises. the white house issued a statement saying that they're still looking at what they called a south korean media report but, in fact, it's not a south korea media report, it is a north korean -- comes from north korea state media which as i noted is viewed as speaking for the north korean government here and wolf, we've noted this before. these exercises were planned. they were schedule. they're annual exercises. they we