believe that north korea needs to ta ke believe that north korea needs to take substantive measures firsts to be relieved. in terms of the sanctions imposed by the united nations security council, they have been strengthened along the way following north korea's series of provocations. so if north korea ta kes provocations. so if north korea takes denuclearisation measures in a sincere way, and if we can reach an irreversible stage, then we will be able to think about relieving un sanctions. ok, so when it comes to your trip to europe how you hoping european leaders will help? what you be asking them for? europe has been providing stead fast support to us bya providing stead fast support to us by a government's efforts to achieve the new cure asian —— denuclearisation and peace on the korean peninsular. i would like to convey my gratitude for the countries of europe this. although process has a long way to go and there will be more bumps and bruises along the way, we will be asking for continued support from the european countries. in a nutshell, my visit will be an opportunity to enhance

like we're north korea decided to talk to the united states and south korea at them when north korea became a state also that sanctions were immediately imposed from day one of its existence it is an important factor but it is not the only one. but when the situation got really dicey at the end of last year and it felt like war was inevitable but if things suddenly began to change across the south korea never stopped trying to talk to the north and the p. and chong olympics allowed us to make significant progress so it was a good excuse and a good opportunity to sit down together thoughts and most of the bits and both countries came to an understanding during the storks which is north koreans also did not once and mrs chance to talk to us and then after the talks south korea's signals to the united states to china to russia and japan that there was progress to be made and that north korea was really in dialogue. and now we all see progress which means that it wasn't just the sanctions that made a difference be the north korean leader kim jong un was educated in the west and he unders

and north korea is on the horizon questions remain while north korea give up its nuclear weapons for good or are we going to thrust in another round of chance my guests today. president of the korea and such as for the international economic policy. there's light at the end of the tunnel for the korean peninsula the threat of imminent war has passed for now with the north and south leaders shaking hands and planning meetings with the american president. prevail and bring about a career without nuclear weapons is kim jong un's peace overtures and donald trump's sudden about face trustworthy so what can the rest of the world do to help begins the catastrophic conflict is spreading this year we thank you for being with us today delighted to have you so recently the north korean leader wrote a warm letter to president truong and now we see that a second meeting may be on the cards just can we expect any tangible results from it. but there might be a new summit between donald trump. seems that this time it will be a more productive meeting and we can expect tangible results of course their

to the north korean human rights act finally passed in south korea after more than 10 years, a north korean human rights foundation was established. that foundation has been the -- de facto dismantled. our friends in south korea are telling us that regrettably, south korean law enforcement sensors the content they send into north korea. there are no more balloon launches. pursuant to the military to military agreement, given the existence of the no-fly zone, there will be no more balloons are drones. one of the few vehicles left is plastic bottles that are filled with rice. -- are inserted and thrown into the sea. the current take some of north. there have been instances when south korean cops showed up, asked to see the usbs, checked the content. anything about the assassination of his brother in malaysia, not ok. k-pop,religious drama -- religious,, still ok. a couple of weeks ago, colonel maxwell, roberta and i spoke with a chief who mentioned the lorean -- korean escapee that appeared and complained that there were no more public appearances. they are no longer invited to speak in

and, as you can see, we have already witnessed a historic us—north korea summit, and there has already the process for the complete denuclearisation of north korea is being discussed at the moment. although there are some difficulties regarding working level negotiations in regards to the timetables of this process. broadly, i believe we are headed towards complete denuclearisation, and this is all thanks to the bold decision made by president trump and chairman kim. and i believe that if these two leaders had not reached such a decision, then it would be unthinkable that we would be looking at the resolution of the denuclearisation problem through dialogue. 0n the subject of sanctions, you are hoping to invest a lot of money in north korea — 1.1 trillion won, much of it in road and rail projects — how do you want to achieve that when sanctions are still in place? yes, indeed. as for the large—scale fully fledged inter—korean economic cooperation, i believe that this will only be possible when we have sanctions relief, or if we are granted an exemption from these sanctions. so fully fl

and north korea is on the horizon questions remain well north korea give up its nuclear weapons for good or are we going to miss ruston another round of tension my guests today. president of the korea international economic policy. there's light at the end of the tunnel for the. president. and. the rest of the world. thank you for being with us today delighted to have you so recently the north korean leader wrote a warm letter to president and now we see that a second meeting may be on the cards just can we expect any tangible results from. never know. there might be a new summit between donald trump. and seems that this time it will be a more productive meeting and we can expect tangible results of course their views on the denuclearization of north korea are somewhat different at this point. america says the nuclearization first got the while north korea thinks that we need to end the war and then move forward i think that those leaders are choosing the peaceful path and if that is the case they will breach a solution to the nuclear problem up and i am hopeful that will happen at that

north korea has also been observed shipping weapons. the suez canal. the ship under a cambodian flag was crewed by north koreans. the consignment was forced the labelled assembly parts for underwater pumps. now the us and others want to expose the companies involved in sanctions violations. but north korea says it can withstand pressure from the international community. the perception that sanctions can bring us on our perception that sanctions can bring us on our knees is a pipe dream of the people who are ignorant of us. so can the impact of these sanctions be measured? so can the impact of these sanctions be measured ? it's so can the impact of these sanctions be measured? it's estimated sanctions imposed in 2017 cost north korea $1 billion in lost revenue but the un has estimated that north korea earned $200 million from illegal trade. talks with north korea's leader, kim jong—un, illegal trade. talks with north korea's leader, kimjong—un, have raised the possibility of lifting future sanctions in a deal to end the country's nuclear

productively our relationship with north korea did not come about yesterday in north korea's history of this too is seventy years we are one of very few countries that has seventy years of history of diplomatic relationship with them when pyongyang was being born to the ground our ambassador most of them bastards were leaving in one a few of those that stayed here you know to show the solidarity was among go in the best they never forget that so. during korea war there were many orphans and although mongolia is a small country but with all our heart we tried to help them and we brought many korean more friends to come and stay in mongolian families so already we have family relationships so the relationships are very deep and very longstanding and on the basis of this we are really communicating with the most koreans and we're really trying to also bring across the idea that the nuclearization is a much better option because and in this there is no double standard or hypocrisy we are. new to nuclear free status country so we're telling them well that's what we are and this policy is

the sanctions regime against north korea is probably the single the single greatest obstacle at this moment in time in fact earlier today the north korean mission in new york city released. released a statement. sort of denouncing the sanctions which is not new of course for north korea but i think that it's it's a sign bit you know they're sort of asking for more for more i mean they north korea has done so much and you know they've gotten really really little in return so it's really time for the united states. to start making some real concessions to what i ask you this you've clearly got a lot of study of this going to put the hat on you if you if you're in charge of u.s. foreign policy of the you know of the korean peninsula at this point what is the first move you make to see the region you know sub chile five years you're in charge yeah well yeah well a couple things i mean first i think. withdraw thirty thousand troops from korea. people in korea don't want them there. and shut down all the military bases the other thing is i think the united states should pay reparations to b

what is the goal there, what does denuclearization means the united states, what does it mean to north korea, south korea, and other partners? and what is verification? we don't want to make steps at the last three administrations have done with north korea and certainly not the terrible deal with the previsit administration did with iran that we had to pull out and backtrack a little bit to get that corrected. so if you have knowing what you want to accomplish, it's a lot easier. >> harris: the country owes a debt of gratitude to the leadership of nikki haley from what you're saying because all that you just described has been accomplished in about 24 months. that's pretty impressive. congressman, thank you very much. good to see you. >> thank you, have a great day. >> harris: reaction from the other side of the political aisle which sometimes is not all that different when you're talking about nikki haley. california congressman brad sherman, great to see you. a member of the house foreign affairs committee. ranking democrat and i would say probably a friend on the former congressman yoho

in the beginning, north korea, and now it is moving along really nicely. i could speak for the secretary of state mike pompeo. he thinks the world of her and so we are happy for you in one way that we hate to lose you. i just want to let you know so at the end of the year she will be leaving and we will be in touch. she knows everybody on a first name basis and they like her. maybe more importantly, they respect her. i want to tell you we will miss you, we will be speaking over time that we will miss you nonetheless and i want to thank you very much. >> first of all, i want to thank the president for just allowing us to come out and talk with you in this way. it has been an honor of a lifetime. i am such a lucky girl to be able to serve a country that i love so much. it's been a blessing and i want to thank you for that. look at what has happened in two years with the united ace on foreign policy. now the united states is well respected, countries may not like what we do, but they know if we say we are going to do something we follow it through a. whether

and, if you look at north korea, there was a deal.t was a potentially devastating moment, and now the relationships are good. mike pompeo state just left and had a great meeting. he was also in china and spoke to many of the asian leaders. a good meeting with north korea. made a lot we have of progress on so many other front. the world is really respecting the united states again, much moreso than any other decades. we are respected again. people want to be on our side. even if you look at the vo tes in the united nations, we are getting very strong votes now. i wanted to thank nikki, and this seemed appropriate. when you write it out on a piece of paper and say nice things, people say what is going on? this is the right way to do it. when you think somebody has done a terrific job, this is an appropriate way of doing it. i would just want to thank the ambassador, nikki. >> who are thinking about for a successor. pres. trump: we have a number of people who are in line. she has made it a much better position. it has become a more glamo

we will be unstinting and our assistant and lease the potential north korea holds. however, i must reiterate one thing time and time again. we will bring about the return of all japanese abductees. i am determined to make this a a reality. in order to resolve the abductions issue i am also ready to break the shell of mutual distrust with north korea, get off to a new start, and meet face-to-face with chairman kim jong-un. at present nothing has been decided regarding a japan north korea summit meeting, but if we are going to hold one, that i am determined and must be a meeting that contributes to the resolution. i wish to comment briefly on japan-china relations as well. the mutual visit of the leaders levels of the condition will continue with me visiting china next month to be followed by my inviting president xi jinping to japan, thereby adding to our bilateral relations and to the entire region another definitive axle for stability. when the confrontation, confrontational structure is cleared out of northeast asia the maritime corridor running from the arctic oc

the country of north korea will be a successful country. it will be incredibly economically successful. i want to make it that way. it will be good. other countries and other people and entrepreneurs and banks and i will tell you they are calling wanting to go there and wanting to invest. at some point when chairman can make a decision and i think he will unleash something that will be spectacular, really spectacular. i think he knows it and it's one of the reasons why were having successful conversations. i think he wants to get on with it. yes [inaudible] >> excuse me? >> [inaudible] >> i would say we will name a successor within the next two or three weeks. maybe sooner. >> have you spoken to the saudis about the -- >> i have not. but i will be. at some point. i know nothing right now but i know what everybody else does. >> what is your response to hillary clinton saying last night swearing-in with political wasn't a political event the national. >> i guess that is why she lost. she does not get it. she never did. i knew that a long time

and an offer from north korea to allow inn ternational inspector to verify that north korea destroyed a nuclear test site. this could be a trust building measure for north korea. international experts said the destruction of the specific site would not be regarded as a step toward denuclearization. it would mean that north korea no longer needed or wanted or planned to use that site. the topic of north korea is the subject that pompeo can work with north korea on -- or china, rather. he has gone from pyongyang to seoul to beijing. he has been meeting with his counterparts there. christine, it has been a trip which is off to an awkward start. the initial exchange included bold language for the pool reports in the room. this happened a week after vice president pence made a speech blasting china for trade practices and under mining the u.s. election and military aggression. weng, the chinese counterpart to secretary pompeo pushed back on those accusations, but both sides said they could work together on north korea. weng believed the recent remarks were eroding trust and relationship wi

north korea, you know, putting this message through the south and chairman kim apparently told south korea's moon the pope would be enthusiastically welcomed in north korea. what do you think the motivation is there? >> it's kim jong-un trying to flatter the world, show the world he can bring in big names, big people. the president of the united states, the secretary of state and the pope for pete sake trying to show they're a rational actor. but they are not and will not be considered a rational actor until they denuclearize. there is no legitimization that will occur of north korea. follow the law, international law and the rule of law and maybe they can have all the visits they want. >> sandra: all this coming on the heels of what mike pompeo is describing as a very productive meeting with north korea, watch. >> we had a good, productive conversation. [inaudible] >> sandra: we had a good, productive conversation, he described this as significant progress what we're seeing to date in a long process. so senator, how would you characterize the progress that we're making with north kor

she had china and russia to back sanctions against north korea. something we long struggled to do incredibly important move. as for what she does next, obviously i take her at her word when she says she doesn't want to run a primary challenge against trump, considering his popularity with republicans now wouldn't be a good idea. there are people say, conservative circles talked about her as a potential presidential candidate what if she ended up being on the vice president spot for the second time around, minority woman that took down the confederate flag in her state might be an interesting juxtaposition against the president. >> she's also only 46 years old, michelle and said she believes in term limits she was governor of south carolina for six years and position of u.n. ambassador for only two >> so i would say one, it is common to see people leave after the two year mark. this presidency, people leave sooner than that, she held on a long time. two years is often the mark. and it is an incredibly difficult and time consuming position met with

i would like to say the day also if you look at north korea. i mean, there was a deal that it something that was, it was devastating potentially devastating problem and now the s are very good. secretary of state mike pompeo and had a great meeting and also, was in china spoke to many of asian leaderrors went there and had but had areadings really very good meeting with north korea. world asi think the respecting the and many, many decades we are respected again that i can tell you. very much respected again. people want to be on our side even if you looking to me and votesgetting very strong now. so i just want to thank nikki thought it would be a property way of doing it because pieceou write it out on a of paper that ambassador hall you say nice and things. thiseas do in. aen think somebody has done terrific job i felt it was appropriate way of doing kit and that.h thought i want to thank ambassador. i just want to thank nikki, ok. >> mr. president, are you thinking about success. trump: we have naum ber of people that would like to do it. i

they have the trade chips, as it were, they have north korea as as it were, they have north korea aswant north korea's co—operation but they are treating beijing as though everything can be negotiated. it is quite a good strategy, i feel, that negotiated. it is quite a good strategy, ifeel, that the us is making complaints and then looking for concessions from beijing. starting up a new mass—market carmaker is no easy task, just ask tesla, but that is what this vietnamese company is trying to do. it is showing off its first—ever designs at the paris motor show. 0ur correspondent has been finding out more. this is one of the freshest and newest cars at the paris motor show, the vinfast luxury sedan. and over here we have its big brother, the lux suv. these cars are built by vinfast, a start—up in vietnam, using chassis is built by bmw, and an austrian company is already involved, and the styling is from italy. here is the chief executive of the company. tell me, first of all, vinfast, where does it come from? so to understand vinfast you need to understand the group, the largest congl

you're talking about north korea? who are you with? >> france 24. >> it is amazing the way the media says that. for 80 years they couldn't do a thing. three months of negotiation, it is ridiculous. have said 1000 times we have no rockets flying and no missiles flying, no nuclear testing. theyave nuclear closings, are closing up different areas of north korea. we are getting the remains back, it has already started of our great heroes. we got hostages back and i didn't pay $1.8 billion like the previous administration. we paid nothing. i have agreed to meet and spend time. how long has it been since we left singapore? three months or so. and that is the media saying, how could we be negative. he has done well, how could we be negative. i think this feed is amazing. you have no nuclear tests and no rockets. we have a good relationship with chairman kim which is very important. i like him, he likes me. the relationship is good. mike pompeo had a good meeting. i spoke to him at length yesterday. he will be coming back and he will be back t

if he had had an extra year he would be in a war with north korea. he said it's by far his biggest problem. and i'm not knocking him. look at what we've done and yet when they talk about north korea say what's taken so long? 70 or so odd years and they say i left singapore where we had our meeting, where we really had a very good meeting and a good relationship, like four months ago. they say the new line is what's taking so long? >> laura: how does it help expand your base to call them the enemy of the people? how does it help america heal in times like this? >> president trump: before we finished, we done a great job with north korea. they said we can't get them on anything because the sanctions are wrong, there's no missiles, we got our hostages back. we have the remains coming back. everything. now the new line is -- >> laura: why are you expecting there going to be fair to you? they're never going to be fair to you.

i think they brought north korea to the table. i do want to dig into and i want to get your personal opinion, not the administration's opinion, on what i see as a potential blind spot with regard to this -- regard to the strategy and it's almost a rush and it might be from the president himself. there have been a lot of press reports on removing our forces from south korea. what would be the tactical reason to do that? your personal opinion? >> senator, let me start by saying? >> i have a bunch of questions and i have only two and have minutes. personal opinion. >> disasters. really bad. this is a hypothetical base question. >> but it is not that hypothetical. the president has talked about it. >> i think we should assess the risk. i think we need to look at a time frame in which the decision is made. it needs to be well-informed holistically -- >> general, i need to get more granular here. let's say next year we are going to remove all forces -- u.s. forces off the korean peninsula and what would be the tactical reason for that?

he has brought north korea to the table and has started reunification talks between north korea and southorea. if this would have been any other president they would have a nobel peace prize by now. this is donald trump. we need to get back to the reality of what is happening in washington, d.c. and what this administration is doing and applaud the president when he gets it right. and like the constitution is says, advise when he is wrong and consent when he is right. jennifer: senator cardin, your rebuttal? sen. cardin: if we had some republican members of the senate foreign relations committee i think they would agree with what i said before. that is that we need to stand up and get results before there is another meeting. we have worked together, bipartisan, senator corker and i have worked together on north korea. we passed strong legislation that imposed sanctions against north korea. that is what we need. we need to work with our allies. i can tell you that i have been engaged with our allies and engaged with all the members of the senate foreign relations committee. we know the thr

at the beginning north korea was a massive problem and now we're moving along. it's moving along really .nice i can speak for secretary of state mike pompeo. he thinks the world of nikki. e're all happy for you in -- way but we hate to lose hopefully you'll be coming back at some point. maybe in a different capacity, can you have your pick. t i just want to let you know. so at the end of the year, nikki will be leaving and we'll be in constant touch.en er you have any idea, you'll call me you know all the players. she got to know the players, china, russia,india. she knows everybody on a very first-name basis and they like her, except for maybe a couple, which is normal. they can't all like you. t they do. and maybe more importantly they respect her. so, nikki, iust wand to tell you that we will miss you. we'll be speakingim all the but we will miss you nevertheless and you have done a fantastic job. thank you very much. >> thank you. i want to say, first of all, i want to thank the president for just allowing us to come out and talk to you this way. it has been

one of these countries do that but all three countries and all three countries the united states north korea south korea and india of god the countries in the region like china need to reject nuclear weapons if they want to be worthy of a new. peace process betrays friend executive director of international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons i can thank you very much indeed for talking to us here at al-jazeera thank you. rose here to brazil now where presidential candidates have been taking part in their final debate before the first round of voting on sunday the election comes at a time of a stuttering economy worsening violent crime rates and several high profile corruption scandals our correspondent today is a bow report from sao paolo. the last debate before the elections on sunday something dramatic that would end the e.c. did not want to miss the first time i am worried about what is already happening in brazil we need to tackle fascist ideas there is a complex polarization of our society but we can't forget what's been happening in brazil over the last few years it's important we vot

[inaudible] general abrams, i know you're very familiar with the attacks on this country by north korea, attacks in the cyberdomain, one of the most prominent occurred in may of 2017. want to cry, which was attributed to the north korean entity group, the cyberattack impacted 200,000 tons in 150 countries. i'm sure you're familiar with the details. would you agree with me that we need to do more to make north korea pay a price for this kind of cyberattack? >> we should continue to remain vigilant furniture conducts cyberattacks against our country accountable for their actions. >> are we doing enough now to hold north korea accountable? >> senator, i'm unaware of an unclassified setting of which i can talk about this. but in short i believe we are. >> you're unaware of the depth. >> excuse me, you can't really go into it an unclassified setting, but i am aware of actions we've taken a hold them accountable. >> you think were doing enough? >> i think we are. >> well, i would like to hear more in a classified setting if that is where we can do it. if we were doing enough they wouldn't con

north korea is ready to let outside newspaperrer inspectorsk out nuclear and missile sites. that's according to the secretary of state momp after he met with the north korean dictator kim jong un over the weekend. secretary pompeo said there has been what he calls significant process towards getting north korea to give up nukely weapons. north korea has a pretty unreliable track record. our state department correspondent rich edson is live with the news now. rich? >> shep, the secretary of state says he was also in north korea to try to help coordinate a second summit between president trump and kim jong un. secretary says that he is hopeful, is he confident that they are actually going to have this second summit. but they are still trying to figure out when they are going to have it, where they are going to have it. and he acknowledges they are not quite there yet on figuring that out that would be their first meeting. the president and kim jong un since june 12th where they agreed to this broad framework of north korea surrendering its nuclear weapons program and the u.s. l

we made progress in north korea, yeah, north korea and now you don't hear those things anymore.ach is wrong. no one is saying that the aims are wrong. felt like president trump for a lot of the establishment, you know them better than anyone else, his goals were so lofty and his tactics were so, for lack of a better word, crude or unstatesman-like, now everyone believes he can achieve it all. >> i think the establishment is dumfounded. let's look at it, this president put america back to work. he put this country back to work and he kept us safe. he strengthened, i believe he strengthened our relationships with allies and he reached out to people who in the past who haven't been our allies to try to get them on board. that kept folks like china off balance. they haven't figured him out. they haven't figured him out yet. charles: van, stay with us. walid phares is joining us on the phone. your initial thoughts on breaking news. >> it was not expected. i think that is the common ground of all those who are going to be reacting especially ambassador nikki haley was in line with the

closing up different areas of north korea. we're getting the remains back. it's already started, of our great heroes. we have our hostages back. i didn't pay $1.8 billion like the previous administration. we got -- i paid nothing. but i have agreed to meet. and i have agreed to spend time. but how long has it been since we left singapore? it was three months or so. and people say that's the media saying like how could we be negative? he's done really well. how can we be negative? are you disappointed with the speed? i think the speed is amazing. new nuclear tests, no rockets, and we have a very good relationship with chairman kim, which is very important. i like him, he likes me. the relationship is good. mike pompeo had a very, very good meeting. i spoke to him at length yesterday. and he'll be coming back. he'll be back tonight. and so, i mean, just the opposite. i think we made incredible progress. beyond incredible. i don't think -- some of the press, some of the press really covers it accurately and right, but some of the press really doesn't. yes? >> d

and north korea.n so fraught in the past, so difficult that is actually progress in another cell. a notion that the two leaders can sit down and say we agree for example and a timetable something we need to look at around the denuclearization process. there really is trust building now. mike: is came looking for sanctions before he will take that next step? >> sanctions are one thing. the other thing potentially as u.s. military presence in the region which is deeply concerning the notion we would step back from our engagement in the region. one of the reasons why we've seen relative peace in the region for many, many decades. the north koreans say look were happy to talk to you the united states means to back away from military commitment to the region. i would find that problematic. this is not necessarily a negotiation without trickiness between now and when president trump to sit down with chairman kim the next time. mike: let's shift gears to trade for a bit. u.s. has a new deal with mexico and c

brian: it is damaging because china is north korea's main economic lifeline. n a trade war with the chinese you cannot scold them for undermining sanctions. the greater issue is the south , and they arelies undermining sanctions, importing north korean coal. every time a delegation goes up to pyongyang, north koreans are rewarded very generously for generously for expenses. so far donald trump has said nothing critical about this between the two. it makes it difficult for the americans to get angry at russia or china. haidi: bring to have you on, professor brian myers joining us from pusan. let's get you into the brazilian election. the race is going to an october 28 run off according to brazilian media sources. looks like 95% of votes have been counted. not much has changed over the course of a couple hours. ,hery: but the level of support 47% with 95% counted, really much higher than the expectation was. to the man talking from citigroup, he said it was interesting what could happen in a runoff october 28 because the right-wing candidate has a high support ra

bill: probably north korea.ctions regime, which has been supported in the past by everyone on the security council, including russia and china, shows a lot of signs of fraying right now. the u.s. really needs to keep china on its side for those sanctions to really stick. the next ambassador will probably have north korea as a top issue on the plate, and then i ran. the u.s. is looking -- and then iran. the international the -- the u.s. is looking to ramp up sanctions. the international community is not supportive. david: is there much support for it? is that likely to go forward? how important is it for the white house? month out from tough new sanctions on countries that continue to import iranian oil. it is safe to say the international community is not on board with u.s. policy. are being forced into going along with it. companies are put in a position of either wanting to cap the iranian market -- tap the iranian market, which is nowhere as near -- nowhere near as big as the u.s. market. but it does force ir

agreeing to stop joint military exercises between the united states and south korea, exercises that greatly annoyed the northorea caught off guard by the president's announcement responding that they need to figure out the accurate meaning and intention behind the statement. - uh, good luck with that, south korea. yeah, good luck. we've been trying to figure out trump's accurate meaning and intentions since the day he stepped off that escalator. yeah. but this is incredible. kim jong-un went up against the world's greatest negotiator, the man who literally hired someone to write "the art of the deal" and got him to give up something for nothing. it's almost like kim jong-un did a jedi mind trick on trump. you know, trump was like, "yes, i will stop military exercises, "and i will also pick you up from the airport. it'll be fun." like, kim jong-un, he owned the summit so hard. by the end, he'd even turned the leader of the free world into his personal hype man. - kim jong-un, as you know, has killed family members, has starved his own people. why are you so comfortable calling him "very talented"? - well, he

with north korea who knows. but i think we are doing very well. okay? the fake news says why aren't you going faster. i said i just got back three months ago. i was there with kim jong-un. chairman kim. they spay why aren't you going -- they say why aren't you going faster?

for north korea policy.is another aspect we are watching closely. >> if it is two years and you are six months into discussions and north korea has made no step as required as defined by the trump administration, they said complete, verifiable, irreversible de-nuclearization, if that is the timeline why should folks have confidence that this is going to move forward in a positive way? >> i think it is an aspect of a political process. when you look at the definition of the principles and some of the understandings of de-nuclearization there is a technical interpretation and a political interpretation. i think the idea that it would take time and there would be the up and down aspect is a critical element of the summits. for the technical issues themselves, there is an interesting carrot that was offered not too long ago. president moon conveyed this to preside president trump. they are willing to dismantle if the united states takes the appropriate measures. this is the opening of secretary mike pompeo's mee