, but the fact of the matter is the north koreans have never trusted the united states. haven't before, during and after the korean war, and the mere presidential proclamation of security doesn't mean much to them. remember, bill clinton, george bush, and barack obama all said various forms of if we can come to an accord, you have to reason to worry. >> lieutenant colonel rick francona, your perspective on this. >> this is very interesting. i think there is a lot going on behind the scenes inside north korea that we might not have a good read on. i was struck early on, i think many people were struck with how willing the north koreans appeared to be making concessions early on. as we talked, the north koreans proposed these meetings and offered that the americans continue their exercise, no need to withdraw american forces with -- all things that were preconditions in the past were any kind of an agreement. the north koreans were willing to give that up. i thought that was strange. over the last few weeks, awe got closer to the summit, the north koreans started walking t

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

this is the basic line of north korean policies. throughout the nuclear crisis on on the peninsula there are four kinds of ideas around or in korea about north korea's change. the first idea is the collapse school. the government represents the kind of idea. the second school is neglect. i think the moon governments belongs in the -- course. even though many south korean , or maybe people in washington, d.c., they isieve the jae government inherited from kim jong-un. i can say the policy orientation is quite different from them, even though they embrace the policy idea. plus they are very cautious and they try to keep pace with the information. this is very different. they pay special respect to the u.s. alliance. i can say confidently this kind of idea, because i'm one of the person who try to make a campaign into policies. i was one of the three members. i can confidently say moon jae's policies are different than the past. why did north korea change? problematic the isolations. china joined the sanctions. even though some don't be

the men were beaten for a week when the north koreans found out about this. it was worse than anything they had seen in the past. >> what should we learn about the incident? >> there is so much. is to take lesson north korea seriously on its own merits. as we look at some of the , what we arehives, seeing is the extent to which north korea was never a puppet of the chinese. i see a public official talking about how china has the the reality is it does not. north korea operates for its own reasons. those reasons are driven by the desire to rally the people behind them and prop up their government and times when they're facing some internal weakness. if there's anything else we can take from this, the lesson is to treat all nations as independent countries that act for their own domestic internal risk that reasons. -- reasons. we have looked for easy solutions. that involve dismissing them or simply saying that they are -- their last legacy of stalinism and they are tied to the soviets or chinese. three healthy is, when he taken seriously on their own merits. >>

wants the same thing what would happen next from the north korean point of view well you know the northkoreans issued a surprisingly conciliatory steen an after president trump wrote 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 largely on how washington frames its criteria for getting back to diplomatic process in getting back to the summit. mr coe if the ball is back in washington's court what do you think they could and should do next could they say secretary of state mike compound returning to pyongyang well 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 you have to understand that mr hoon doing the president was very recent he and u.s. and the way it's been portrayed here in south korea is day he was essentially dismissed by president truong at some point president roh even actually said there's no need for interpretation because there's

a narrative a resistance which you agree with all those obsolete resistance is central to the north korean ideology in fact it's centered around self-reliance. i would say it's more about u.s. and western perceptions of north korea that they're sort of baffled by how this small weak state can continue to threaten the outside world and i think for many people that question is best resolved by considering it irrational. professor i'm just thinking about. how the war is viewed from the other side of the d.m.z. from north korea what intel do you have about how people. are thinking about this potential peace process. you know it's not even intelligent i'd say that if you it's just common sense that people as christine on risk and who has been under u.s. war policy including sanctions sanctions were part of truman's war policy three days into the hot fighting of the korean war they were an explicit part of u.s. war policy from that moment forward there is no country on this earth that is more sanctioned the north korea and so basically on the north korean and i'd say that this is just deciding y

neil: you know, the north korean s also had a lot of nutty things they were doing, right? the president was very careful in his letter to single out the north korea leader and not blaming him necessarily for this stuff, so what are we to glean from that? >> it was an interesting letter because on one hand he was saying i'd still like to work this out don't hesitate to call or e-mail or write to me, on the other hand he said, you know, you say that you have a huge nuclear arsenal, wait until you see ours, we have the strength, so really kind of balancing between that wanting to make this happen but also revving up the rhetoric that we saw was tamed down in the lead-up to this. remember all of the talk of rocket man and all of that was tempered in the lead-up to all of this. neil: what if we go back to that kind of language between nations >> does this change? right now you're hearing from some lawmakers on capitol hill saying look this is a time for our allies to be on the same page as it pertains to south korea as it pertains to japan, so keep an eye on those relationships

unfortunate casualties of the overall north korean sanctions regime may be those north korean citizens suffering from disease and severe hardship. example, the global fund terminated its north korea related tb and malaria projects. this occurred despite reports of grant performance projects showing these projects to have met or exceeded program requirements since 2010. shuttering the operation on the part of the global fund will contribute to an epidemic of tb in north korea which may spread into south korea and china. humanitarian experts project the cases of tb, and 5000 new cases resistantrug tuberculosis on an annual basis. with the global fund pull out some of the u.s. executive branch sanctions and other pressures on u.s. humanitarian ngos, along with congressional you and sanctions, a major humanitarian prices -- crisis is stirring with implications for people of china north korea and south korea. in conclusion nothing will surprise me regarding the outcome of u.s. north korean negotiations and a possible trump kim summit. more than any other time since 1953 negotiations may res

basically north korean is a big power sponsor. if president trump does -- then yes, we get a denuclearize, disarmed north korea. >> laura: i always think of russia in the scenario. we talk only about china in the korean peninsula and how russia continued to send key goods and fuel and so forth into north korea. this is where a better relationship with russia would have served us well, also. the idea that china should call the shots and in the way we deal with north korea, i thought this was ridiculous. we should be working with to the extent that we can with eyes wide open to triangulate on this position with china. >> absolutely. imagine if things get worse in syria or we have some sort of armed conflict here. the russians could use the north korean as the ultimate bargaining chip. this is a billion dollars to buy arms, but we don't need that to be honest with you. a decent working relationship. >> i know john bolton, they are if they do and if they don't but it's needed for our national security. by the way, hooton today said he

kennedy: we have breaking news now on president trump's canceling of next month's big meeting with north korean dictator kim jong-un. north korea state media reporting that the state is willing to resolve issues any time. the president called everything out because of a statement they made, meet us in a meeting room or encounter us on nuclear to nuclear showdown. and they also called vice president pence a political dummy. that didn't sit well with the president and what the press is calling an extraordinary letter president trump wrote. then this afternoon at the white house the president warned kim jong-un that the u.s. military was ready to respond to any foolish or reckless act by the north. but the ball is still have much in little kim's court. president trump: when kim jong-un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, i am waiting. in the meantime, our very strong sanctions by far the strongest sanctions ever imposed, and maximum pressure campaign will continue as it has been continuing. but no matter what happens. and what we do, we'll never ever compromise the safety and s

north koreans accept that. we are not cooperating with them on nuclear issues and energy, but we just don't give them a hard time. but i don't think they're going to get that. >> does anyone feel different? >> they won't actually ask us about the indian model and our response was yes, when you become the largest democracy in the world. >> on that note, i think i'm going to wrap it up. i think all of our panelists were terrific conversation. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> a reminder again -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> it's important that we take a step away on the partisan back-and-forth and find ways like this talkathon to come together and engage the public in a positive way to make congress more than and more transparent. >> this year we have an electronic mail test going into a number of congressional offic

i've been working on north korean issues for 20 years. i've been to north korea. i was always deeply skeptical but cautiously optimistic by the changes we had seen from the young leader. now we're back to where it is standard behavior for north korea in terms of their international rhetoric. >>samantha, the wording of the letter, if you change your mind, having to do with this, most important summit, please do not hesitate to call or write. is that how this works? >> it is not how it works. you have your experts and your staff and in constant touch to figure out what it is going to take to actually get two principles to the table. at this point, i feel uncomfortable we're in a gray zone. we don't know if it is going to happen. are they going to shoot missiles or leave the door open. >> the ball is in whose court now? >> i think in some respect the north koreans to see how they respond and how their patrons china and russia react. >> thank you. a lot of gray zone, a lot of gray area here, a lot to be worked out. appreciate it. >>> much more ahead on the breaking ne

do you think the north koreans were ready to cancel the summit first? >> i think they were also uneasy because i think they were worried that if the summit happened, the president would walk out, and they, the north korea koreans, would be blamed for failure. i think they were worried they were getting mouse-trapped and that explains all their criticism of the national security adviser and the vice president. i think they were setting things up to also walk away from this. >> richard, i want you to hold out for a moment. once again the president was speaking in the oval office and he said this. listen. >> thank you very much. this was set up quite a long time ago, and while this is a very interesting day we have going, this was very important to sylvester stallone, my friend for a long time, sly, and the whole group. we have incredible people here. we have the current heavyweight champion of the world, diante wilder. he's 40-0 with no knockouts. he was a talented fighter, a great talented fighter. thank you very much. if i really went and started working

framework when he was in the bush administration i have to say though that the recent protest by the north korean government the u.s. south korean war exercises makes all the sense in the world for them to have complained why in the world we have to do these twice a year the largest military exercises in the world we're not sure that our stuff is going to work what are my tax dollars paying for and the fact that it was reported that the f. twenty two and be fifty two were used of course it looks to north korea like a practice for an invasion or a decapitation strike so part of the problem is the united states has no humility we're the number one superpower the war machine runs on autopilot if we have these planes ready to fly these military exercises we're going to do and eat our dust and the like now and that just doesn't set a good tone for diplomacy and i think when you had the great thaw with the olympic truce and at first north korea not complaining about the war exercises the earlier version of the war exercises that was an astonishing concession by them and then we have to rub their nose i

president moon in says north korean leader kim jong un is committed to sitting down with president donald trump he also says pyongyang is committed to a complete denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula it's the korean leader's second summit in a month and highlights a sense of urgency the world's most heavily armed border says negotiations over the potential june the twelve summit are going well. those are the headlines and that's it for me for now we're back in half an hour but next up it's top twelve zero. really a matter of months into twenty eighteen and it's been full of milestones when it comes to inner korean relations after an especially tense twenty seven thousand on the korean peninsula now there's talk of reconciliation and peace last year north korean leader kim jong un oversaw the testing of a nuclear weapon and short range intercontinental ballistic missiles in what was the country's most advanced lead in its weapons program to date. kim traded fiery rhetoric with the united states president donald trump saying his nuclear button was always on his de

how did he treat the north koreans during his administration? >> reporter: after the agreed framework failed, we launched into several rounds of negotiations with the so-called six parties. the united states, china, north and south korea, russia and japan. and there was some highs and lows throughout this period. we had some breakthroughing. -- break thrust. in 2005, the north koreans agreed to rejoin the nonproliferation treaty. we talked about some concessions, food aid, and president bush removed north korea from the satate sponsor o terrorism act. but the north koreans launched missiles and conducted a nuclear test, which put talks on ice. >> when president obama came into office, given that backdrop, samantha, did he learn he issons during the eight years of the obama administration? >> reporter: president obama did come into office with a different view. his view was more engagement was necessary and he launched a series of secret negotiations. and kim jong-un's father died in late december of 2011. and on february 29th, 2012, we announced

officials say that was more and intelligence gathering to field the true interests of the north korean regime. the second meeting by mike pompeo was to nail down the country, the exact city and even the exact venue of this meeting and more details about what the leaders will discuss. north korea and the us and mike pompeo agreed to a 1-day summit extending to a second day of they believe that is necessary. there are plenty of unknowns, and given the nuclear program, destruction and with the united states and its allies are willing to give in return for that. the defense secretary james mattis is possible for a positive outcome. >> with north korea certainly their capability concerns as a military side. there is some reason for optimism. we said all along this was a diplomatically led effort backed up by military force. there's reason for optimism that these talks could be fruitful. >> reporter: secretary pompeo said he had productive meetings in north korea this time around. there are some points of disagreement. at one point secretary pompeo with having lunch with senior north korean

and guarantee the survival and longevity of north korean regime? and if you like it, please get out of korea. that's north korea's long complaint as indicated. so very unfortunately i found to be a very bad woman who is representative of skepticism, this is not ideology. this is based on how much you know, how much you are really, really pragmatic. >> how big a deal is the future of the 28,500 u.s. troops? we've seen a bit of disagreement played out in public among south korean racing officials about whether it immediately implies then staying or going. is this going to be a key part of the debate and future months, and do they stay or go? >> well, as sue and everybody said, kim is well-trained. nobody can rule a country more close to seven decades without much trouble than kim, dna. he's like good dna. got a lot of training. basically it's really sitting there with his strengths and -- what was the question? >> the troops. >> i am on jet lag right now. now the u.s.-korea relationship, i've been working for rand corporation and defense institution,

-- north korean side of the demilitarized zones. you'll remember when he walked further this time and met for two hours with kim jong-un talking with the inter-korean summit and implementing the agreements they made. more importantly to all parties involved, how to make the summit with the president and the united states take place. 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

>> how were you treated by the north koreans? >> the audio is a little -- we want to stick with it in case we hear something from the president. >> my proudest achievement will be, this is part of it but will be when we denuclearize that entire peninsula. something we've been waiting for for a long time, nobody thought we would be on this track. i'm very honored. these are great people they have been through a lot but it is a great honor. the honor is if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons. >> does this change how you will approach your meeting with kim jong un? >> we appreciate that he allowed them to go before the meeting. it was understood we would be able to get these three terrific people during the meeting and bring them home after the meeting and letting them go before the meeting because we didn't think this was going to happen and it did. very important thing to all of us to be able to get these three great people out. i want to pay my warmest respect to the parents of otto warmbier who was a great young

president and north korean leader and threatening the use of north korea. the moment when political leaders made such statement, it shouldn't be called libyan model because it is clearly different. trust building really matters, but as frank stated, the details matter. for example, when we, in building trust, we have to at some point start lifting sanctions. the problem is that north korea in most cases, the commercial normal products. so how can we effectively maintain meaningful control to regulate the flow of commodities that would not be diverted to north korea's nuclear program but ensuring north korea's economic growth? this is going to be the challenge spirit very good point. i think if it's okay for everyone on the panel i would like to open the floor for questions. so i would open the first question, goes to chris. [inaudible] >> can you wait until the microphone gets to you? thank you. >> great discussion, really since think which really helps because i'm on fumes and i have to type up something. i love the way frank organized the win-win, lose lo

they can say to the international community the north koreans are trying to stall us out. at ensures the blame is blased on north korea. so adam, what risk remains if both sides are able to pull off the summit? >> well, there are serious risks. there are damaging actions that are happening to u.s. alliances in the region. south korea and the united states have had some tension in how they respond to these diplomatic overtures. and that risks the u.s. standing in the region over the long run. there is a risk that there could be deal that is cosmetically good, but bad for u.s. security. that might be something donald trump is willing to do for a political win. then there's the risk that we find ourselves back at the brink of war. it is worse because the north koreans have continued to advance. >> the north invited reporters to witness the destruction of a nuclear site. can anyone engage how much of a blow that was to the nuclear capabilities of north korea? >> this is more of a side show. they have not yet promised to dismantle a single warhead or production facility or to sh

speaking of trust and kim yong chol, he is the high-level north korean official, 72 years old, first rom north korea at his senior level since 2000. he is the vice chairman of the ruling workers party and previously headed north korea's military intelligence agency and believed to be behind two attacks in 2010 killing 50 south koreans and a 2014 cyberattack on sony pictures. this is who we're supposed to trust to have good intentions for south korea? >> well, that's all the more reason why we need to work out an agreement where we look at the interests of north korea, south korea and the united states of america and we try to come up with an agreement that meets the interests of all three countries and that we reach some kind of satisfactory accord that puts this kind of activity behind us. certainly north korea's people can do much better than they have as they divert scarce resources to a build-up of the military. if there is no longer a threat in their minds and at the same time if they no longer have a desire to invade south korea, that frees up a lot of resources that can be used

one is the impact on the north korean economy as a whole. theoretically, north korea was prohibited from 90% of its trade as a result of a series of u.s. and u.n. sanctions. having said that, several japanese journalists or experts have been monitoring price levels in north korea. rice, or of gasoline, other key commodities. spikes, upe sporadic and down in the key commodities, overall for the one year, it's stable. i don't know why but it is stable. the exchange rates, it's stable. i can't find any quantified evidence that shows the critical impact brought by sanctions on that economy. i think currently we heavily to imposeina sanctions. previously, we focused on not sanctions against north korea. focused on smart sanctions. smart sanctions are about targeting people and goods and services. much smarteras than the international community so many countries, we were not so smart and we have to enforce the sanctions. currently, let's imagine a huge pipe. between china and north korea. the pipe has many loopholes, and many funds or goods diverte

them, the united states versus the north koreans. it is an old habit. omebody has been involved in a great deal of negotiations. the issue of trust where it applies to north korea in kim jong-un, can he be trusted? sue: trust is obviously very important. when you are thinking about negotiating with someone, you want to believe you can trust them, but you do not have to trust somebody necessarily to have a negotiation. you have negotiations because you want to come to a conclusion, and that's why you have verification. you have verification because you want to make sure that whatever agreements are made that the other side will do it. we had numerous negotiations with the soviet union and with russia. there were times we did not necessarily trust them, but we still came to an agreement on arms control issues, on nuclear issues, and we a verification regime. so we were able to make it happen. of course you want to have trust. but if there is an important issue you want to work on, which is reducing nuclear weapons, you find out how you want to make it happ

the koreanrend was team was swift and strong against all north korean military provocations. and i think some in the group found that to be surprising, because they had expected, well, you know, the koreans would be a little reluctance to be strong against the north koreans. but the team, i can assure you, was quite united in the fact that no matter what ideology you had, if the north koreans were going to use force, force is what they understood, we would do that. the team also tried their best not thesure it did escalate, and i hope you can understand that is where we live, where our families live, and that is why we wanted to make sure it was managed. third trend was that as the scenario progress, we understood that we needed cooperation. it was going to be in our best interest to talk to our neighbors and here is where we again were able to realize the role of the united states in the region. it came from very fundamental reasons. if we wanted to call the japanese, i am exaggerating a little, we need the americans to make the call for us. i think it emphasize the importanc

at the same time, they did not want a collapse of the north korean state. and have "a," huge flow of refugees across the border. "b," unified korean peninsula which is controlled by the south korean government with american forces on the ground closer to their border. so they have a lot of different interests at stake. they implemented the sanctions along the border than before heretofore and that played a role in call lieu -- calculations for north koreans. >> harris: on the left side of the screen you are seeing j.f.k. international airport where we expect the top spy, kim jong un's right-hand man. what do you think the conversation will be like with mike pompeo, what point will they hit with the former top spy? >> my guess is they are working on not a fully detailed agreement that will be the end of the matter but this is the beginning of a process. my guess is they are working on a statement of the principles or the framework agreement the two will bless. following the summit there is a longer process of hammering out a much more detailed agreement to pr

once again dennis has arrived on north korean soil and after settling in his hotel he's taken straight to an eighteen course welcomed in there was a north korea sports minister he's told that kim jong un is too busy to attend which is no surprise seeing as he's just perched his uncle. the next morning dennis is up early and ready for action. the january game is just a few weeks away and dennis' is in a race to get everything ready in time. his first stop is the stadium where the historic match will take place waiting for dennis is a select group of north korea's best basketball players it's now down to dennis to pick the very best with a final north korean team that will face off against the americans on january eighth. so how good the north korean play is well better than you might think of course due to the country's size lation they won't be making waves on the international scene anytime soon but in classic communist states like north korea athletes and national sports teams are important cogs in the state propaganda machine lauded by the leader to prove what a good job he's doing

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

any explanation you're getting from the north koreans? >> i think what we've seen in terms of the relationship between the united states and north korea has gone downhill. but with the north koreans have really been angry about one are the military exercises happening in south korea, the aerial bombing drills and even more than that has been the rhetoric. first with john bolton with the comments about libya and also those comments by vice president mike pence also mentioning libya. of course muammar gaddafi gave up his nuclear weapons and a few years later he was dead. so any reference to libya is absolutely infuriating. this is more than a minor blip. this is very significant, not even a roadblock. i mean this is nonstarter. things have potentially gone back to square one. we don't know how the north koreans are going to respond, if they're going to try to leverage something diplomatically. my sense is it's going to be a much stronger response and angry response from the north koreans. >> we'll stay in touch with you. will ripply on the s

there were lots of major provocations from north korea in high school we were exposed to those korean military provocations more dan. but talks with north korea well tell me what you learned about north korea growing up my parents were very sympathetic to north korea and they thought they were very one national police think then my peers so when i found my peers my friends or. thinking they're going to make it to be about north korea i think myspace is something also pricing to know. would you say that that chasm in terms of attitudes still exists today of course when you look at the survey. when you contrast between the opinion on the part of north korea employed in twenty's as opposed to those in thirty's and forty's you find that lots of young people are more conservative conservative than. old scene series and forty's because we had more experience with those korean provocation stand talks in dialogues in north korea and i think it still has speaking impact in the perspective would you say that at times you felt afraid for your loved ones your friends or the country to south korea

north korean media indicating russia and north korean leaders will meet this year.sia wants to be involved in the go the negotiation. china has wanted to be involved in the talks. the north korean leader visited beijing. they want to be involved in a final outcome. drawing your attention and our attention to the warding used on the key question whether north korea communicated it is ready to denuclearize, by the definition, they say they are contemplating, he says, he believes a path forward. still thinking about it. if that issue is not resolved raises questions as to what the summit will accomplish, if it does come off. wolf? >> the north koreans are getting international respect. the fact that this north korean official is invited to washington and the white house with a meeting with the president. they want to be recognized as an international power. good reporting, thank you. >>> coming up, a frightening terror plot is revealed. an isis supporter wanted to target prince george. he is only 4 years old. >>> plus, president trump touches off a new political fire s

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 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 on public you know in the public in the media regardless of whether or not he is in actually involved in the process th

they got nothing back at all from the north koreans. >> right. o ante before this happened which was maximum pressure, military pressure on north korea. and i hope the president does not get accused now of warmongering if he puts back maximum pressure on north korea because he really did go the extra mile, praising kim, saying he was going in the right direction, willing to go over and negotiate with him. and the north koreans are the ones who have pulled it back. stuart: we are getting some reaction from the democrats, and we'll bring it to you in just a moment. nancy pelosi has made some statements about the cancellation of the summit. we're just preparing that, getting it dead right. you will see it and hear it momentarily. meanwhile, judge napolitano -- >> i agree with everything dan said. if you know this thing is not going to come about or if you know you're not going to get anything material from it, far better for the president of the united states to cancel it, showing an image of command and being in control and grasping the situation th

>> pompeo insists that when he met with kim jong-un two different meetings in three hours, the north korean dictator understand what the u.s. demand was here. that the american government wanted north korea to surrender all of its nuclear weapons and he wanted to work towards that. while they're saying they're surprised by this, the secretary is saying at least they believe that kim jong-un got that point in his visit to north korea. trace? >> trace: yeah, rich, secretary pompeo says the pressure campaign against north korea will continue, right? >> that's right. he calls it situation normal. the united states is continuing what it calls its pressure campaign to diplomatically and isolate north korea and through sanctions. he's stressed, the secretary, has given nothing. no concessions to north korea as part of this and is not prepared to give any concessions unless north korea can demonstrate that they're dismantling their nuclear weapons program. he says they are where they were about two weeks ago. and mike pompeo said the fate of the summit was up to kim jong-un. state department says t

talks went north and south korean. ng point in the relationship, when things turned sour because north korea said they saw it as an intentional military provocation by the u.s. and the south koreans. it wasn't in keeping with the panmunjom declaration between north and south korea. they cited these drills, which we went to just ten days ago, as a reason why potentially this summit should not happen. anderson. >> you're in south korea. i wonder what reaction has been from south korea about this. did they know in advance that the president was going to cancel this? >> reporter: no, they found out about this when everybody else found out about this. the u.s. saying that they gave japan and south korea a heads-up after that letter was publicized. so south korean officials are reeling. i mean we had a national security council meeting at midnight local time with the president, with all of the ministers that were concerned with this issue. they gave us a photo, and you can see that the stoney faces of the president and everyb

news this morning as it looks like that on again-off again meeting between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un is back on. there's word that u.s. officials have crossed the border into north korea this morning to meet with officials there. after a tumultuous week of international diplomacy, south korean president made a surprise trip across the border yesterday to pete with kim at the nor korean's leader's request that public show of unity and some candid talk behind the scenes appears to set the june 1th summit back on track. >> there's a lot of goodwill. think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get something done. we've got that done f. we can be successful in the denuclearizationn of the korean peninsula it would be a great thing for north korea would be great thing for south korea. >> the president made those remarks in the oval office where he welcomed home joshua holt just released after two years in venezuelan prison on what u.s. officials consider false charges. we've have the latest on the singapore summit and hear from florida republican senator marco

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north and south korea? it is not. it is the text of the 1992 agreement to denuclearize the korean peninsula, signed by north korea while it was in the midst of launching the nuclear weapons program it has completed. nearly all of these promises made with the intent of breaking them. we have been down this road before. we believe that some deal with north korea may be possible, but we also know that denuclearization has never been further from sight. however opponents persuaded there is a specific deal -- have our opponents persuaded that there is a specific deal? they have argued there are talks that could be productive, and we agree. we agreed with that when we entered this room, but we don't agree those talks make him give up his entire hard won nuclear arsenal. that is what denuclearization is. we don't think they have met this burden. don't be fooled into buying what is not for sale. a vote for this motion tonight is a vote for the same policy we have been pursuing for the last 30 years. join us in stead in calling for smart diplomacy that has a chance of making the world safer and more secure through realistic goa