what should we do as we approach the upcoming north korean summit as well as the stability of northeast asia after the summit. on this topic, we time and carried out in-depth and candid exchange of views. i'm not able to talk about the details of what we discussed. but one thing i can say is that japan and the united states are always together. i surely hope that this historic summit in singapore will be aresounding success . it is a beautiful port, facing the sea of japan. a mere 13-year-old girl living there was abducted north korea. >> 35 years have passed since then, during which time family members single-mindedly pray for her return. the parents renaming time is slipping away. it is long-held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of their abductees come home so that the parents , while their healthy can embrace the girl and other fees again and there hold. >> of course i wish the directly face north korea and talk with them. so that that problem can be resolved quickly. to this end, i am determined to face all possible means. >>. >> on behalf of the senate of japan i would

that should we do as we appac upcomingor summit as well as peace and stability for northeast asia after the summit? on this topic we took a good amount of time and carried out in depth and exchange ofvis. o talk about the details of what we discussed, but one thing i can say is that japan and the uted states are always together. i strongly hope that this historic sum in singapore be a resounding success. there is a beautiful port town mikata facing the sea of japan. a mere 13-year-old girl living there was abducted by north korea. 45 years have passed since then during which time family members single-mindedly prayed for her return and kept on waiting. e parents became old, remaining time is slipping away. it is the long held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of abductees come o that the parents, while they are healthy can embrace the girl and other abductees again in their arms. of course, i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them so that abduction problem beesolve quickly. tend, i am determined to take all possible means. on behalf of thes japan ild to tha

military presence in northeast asia so i think that that's really at the core of what's going on here and this specific story that you asked about is is really quite interesting. because it's making the claims that the cia knows very well and has said formally in an intelligence analysis that north korea will not give up its nuclear weapons i have a very strong hunch show you say that what actually happened was that the cia gave the white house or the trying to mr asian a paper that said we don't think north korea is ready to give up its nuclear weapons any time immediately it's going to take a long time and it will be part of a lengthy process that is what the news media have been reporting for a long time with a twist that they suspect there are three things ultimately won't agree to give them up but i don't think the cia actually said what is in the headline of the n.b.c. story and in the lead just to remind people that the cia's mission is to protect the american people in this piece. i mean the nameless officials are quoted as saying kim jong un would really rather use the talks

they are looking for a way to safeguard interests in northeast asia. you know, as professor lee mentioned, north korea will be pushing the united states out of northeast asia and the u.s. south korean alliance. beijing has an interest in that as well. so the trump administration has left our south korea ally to some extent out of the loop. coordination is not as tight as it should have been. the process and the singapore process have been split apart that allow both north korea but also beijing addition nam leverage to play the allies off each other. that's not in america's interest and is part of the broader process of american retrenchment perspective. >> and from the prospect that you so important ly said, the focus is on north korea and kim jong-un. president trump is about to arrive on the left-hand of your screen there at the singapore air force base in what we believe to be a handful of moments, as once said. we'll go to late evening here. trump said he'll know in the first minute if something good is going to happen. what to make of this strate

the next step will test if we can get to ath verifiable deal which enhances the security of northeast asia and of our allies in the united states. resolving the 65-year-old international challenge will take a great deal of hard work as president trump explained a few hoursxp ago that today is the beginning of the arduous process and our eyes are wide open. i remain supportive of the administration position as secretary pompeo has reiterated the goal of the united states is the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula. ifor north korea does not follow through we are is prepared to restore the policy of o maximum pressure i. congratulate the president on this major step and share his hope it is a process that will be to historic peace. >> mdm. president in the early hours of the morning president trump and chairman kim jung-un met in singapore for the first meeting between a sitting u.s. president and the leader of north korea. a welcome improvement to see the two of them having a dialogue rather than engaging in 91 -- name-calling americans feelal better

negotiations will test whether we can get to a verifiable deal which enhances our relationship with northeast asia and our allies. this challenge will take a great deal of hard work. as president trump explained a few hours ago,oday is the beginning of the arduous process. our eyes are wide open. i support the goals contained in the statement and i remain supportive of the administration's mission as secretary pompeo reiterated, the goal of the united states is the, quote, complete and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula. if north korea doe not prove willing to follow through,e and our allies must be prepared to restore the policy of maximum pressure. today i congratulate the president on this major step and share his hope that this is a now, on north korea, in the early hours of the morning, president trump and chairman kim met in singapore for the first meeting between a sitting u.s. president and the leader of north korea. it was a welcome improvement to see the two of them having a dialogue rather than enging in name calling and saber rattling. certainly, americans feel better

military presence in northeast asia so i think that that's really at the core of what's going on here and this specific story that you're asked about is really quite interesting because it's making the claims that the cia knows very well and has said formally in an intelligence analysis that north korea will not give up its nuclear weapons i have a very strong hunch show you say that what actually happened was that the cia gave the white house or the trying to destroy a paper that said we don't think north korea is ready to give up its nuclear weapons any time immediately it's going to take a long time and it will be part of a lengthy process that is what the news media have been reporting for a long time with a twist that they suspect there are three things ultimately won't agree to give them up but i don't think the cia actually said what is in the headline of the n.b.c. story and in the lead just to remind people that the cia's mission is to protect the american people in this piece. i mean the nameless officials are quoted as saying kim jong un would really rather use the talks if

what should we do as we approach the summit as well as the peace and stability of northeast asia after the summit? on this topic, we took good amount of time and carried out in depth and candid exchange of views. i'm not able to talk about the details of what we have discussed. but one thing i can say is that japan and the united states are always together. i strongly hope that this historic summit in singapore will be a resounding success. there is a beautiful town facing the sea of japan. a mere 13-year-old girl living there was abducted by north korea. 45 years have passed since then during which time family members single-mindedly prayed for her return and kept on waiting. the parent became old, remaining time is slipping away. it's the long-held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of their abductees come home so that the parents, while they're healthy, can embrace the girl and other abductees again in their arms. of course, i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them so that abduction problem be resolved quickly. to this end, i'm determined to pay all poss

what should we do as the north and south korea summit as well as peace and stability of northeast asia after the summit? on this topic we took good amount of time and carried out in depth and candid exchange of views. i'm not able to talk about the details of what we discussed, but one thing i can say is, that japan, and the united states always together. i strongly hope that this historic summit in singapore be resounding success. there is a beautiful port town facing the sea of japan. a mere 13-year-old girl living there was abducted by north korea. 45 years have passed since then during which time family members, single-mindedly prayed for her return and kept on waiting. the parents became old, remaining time is slipping away. it is the long-held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of their abductees come home so that the parents, while they are healthy, can embrace the girl and other abductees again arms? i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them, so the abduction problem be resolved quickly. to this end, i am determined to take all possible means. on beh

for the peace do and stability of northeast asia after the summit? we spent a good amount of time and carried out exchange of candid views. i am not able to talk about the details of what we discussed, but one thing i can say is that aren and the united states always together. i hope that this historic summit in singapore will be a resounding success. town facingeautiful the sea of japan. amir 13-year-old girl living there was abducted by north korea. girlmere 13-year-old living there was abducted by north korea. 45 years have passed since family members have been single-mindedly praying for her concern and kept waiting. the parents became old. the remaining time is slipping away. it is the long-held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of the other abductees to come home, so that the parents, while they are healthy, can embrace the girl and other abductees again in their arms. of course, i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them so that the abduction problem can be resolved quickly. tothis end, i am determined take all poss

ago he appears now to believe that it could be the start of an unprecedented era of peace in northeast asia i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future for the world the deed nuclearization of the korean peninsula would assure in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans in north and south and for people everywhere trump also left the door open for more talks with the north korean leader even on home soil if the summit does go well will you in inviting north korean leader kim jong il to the united states well the answer is yes to the second part of your question but certainly if it goes well and i think it would be well received i think he would look at it very favorably so i think that could happen. all i can say is i am totally prepared to walk away i did it once before much thank you but before the singapore summit trump faces more tough diplomacy when he heads to the g seven meeting in canada. now let's catch up on some other news making headlines around the world russian preside

john nilsson—wright, senior research fellow for northeast asia at the chatham house foreign affairs thinkjoining us. and just a reminder that special coverage of the summit will be broadcast here on the news channel overnight and that one—to—one meeting is due to get under way at 2am our time. the prime minister has told conservative mps that if they oppose parts of the brexit legislation in the commons it will undermine the uk's negotiating position in brussels. theresa may was addressing parliamentary colleagues at westminster. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, is in the houses of parliament. why did you think the prime minister was giving such a dark warning to her troops tonight? because she's worried about another potential knock to her authority. tomorrow and wednesday there will be a frenzy of voting in the commons on the draft laws that will take us out of the eu after the lord stoneham there did their best to tweet the plans to what they thought gave them a better version of the government's proposals to what many of the lord's‘ critics would say as a softening up of many o

talking about is the division of the korean peninsula and that being at the heart of the issue in northeast asia and the stability of the entire region well that's a very interesting point it's interesting but it's kind of gotten ahead of me because that's where i really wanted to go here because this process if it is a process we really don't know yet but it's trump owns it now ok and it seems to me that he's actually given a stamp of approval for the koreans say actually get down to business i think about being this point very interesting there because this is if anything is actually really going to happen it's going to happen between the koreans themselves ok and i think that's the door that is been opened here and it looks like the koreans north and south want to walk through it go ahead. well i think melvin is right that was the sort of missing link in the in the whole presentation of the problem in singapore and it obviously was a crucial part of the run up to this summit that both north and south korea were ready to go i think further than ever before in terms of into a career in peace an

-north korea summit as well as for the peace and stability of northeast asia after the summit on thisgood amount of time and carried out in depth and candid exchange of views. i am not able to talk about the details of what we discussed, but one thing i can say is that japan and the united states are always together. i strongly hope that this historic is summit in singapore will be a resounding success there is a beautiful poet town facing the sea of japan. a mere 13-year-old girl living there was abducted by north korea. 45 years have passed since then, during which time family members single-mindedly prayed for her return and kept on waiting the parents became old, remaining time is slipping away. it is the long-held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of their abductees come home so that the parents, while they are healthy, can embrace the girl and other abductees again in their arms. of course, i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them so that abduction problem be resolved quickly. to this end, i am determined to take all possible means. on behalf of the

forward for the united states/north korea summit to open doors to peace and stability of the northeast asiath korea is willing to take steps toward the right direction, north korea can see a bright future ahead for itself. japan, based on the japan/north korea pyongyang declaration to settle and provide economic corporation. japan wishes to play the role as much as possible. donald, i value highly your commitment to world peace and prosperity. in closing, i wish to add that japan stands ready to make every effort to assist you in the success of the u.s./north korea summit. thank you. >> appreciate it. so we'll take a few questions. we can start. general roberts, go ahead. >> mr. president, on the subject and i have a question for the prime minister as well. on the subject of north korea, how far are you willing to go in terms of economic security political guarantees with kim are you willing to move down the road to normalizing relationships and relations with north korea as the prime minister suggested as he was willing to at some point. you teased us last week saying you might sign a peac

one of china's, a longer term objectives is to change and weaken america's military posture in northeast asia. after all their view of the world is asia is for asians and the united states has no place in the western pacific. so they've accomplished a lot. also, some news i think out of that conversation that -- press conference is that the president seems to think that china has been violating the international sanctions on north korea. i think he referred to it as a weakening border security over the last couple of months. more news about china i think came towards the end of the press conference where the president seemed to suggest that he wanted china to be a cig toir -- signatory or an active i think the human rights . question will continue to dog the administration because it is front and center appropriately with -- when we're discussing north korea. they are the most ooppressive and brutal regime on the panel. >> and let me ask, one of the things i t a lot of people are going to be looking at is how th president showered chairman kim with some prai he called him gracious, he alluded

bruce cleaner senior research fellow at northeast asia for the heritage foundation sir thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you thank you. well donald trump has wrapped up his charm offensive with north korea by aiming another barbette america's neighbor and close ally canada at a news conference after the summit trump again attacked the prime minister justin trudeau insisting no one can take advantage of the u.s. on trade and that's the spy the white house trade advisor apologizing for his own attack on trudeau alan fischer has more. as he was making friends with this enemy in singapore u.s. president donald trump also talked about the enemies of his friends the fallout from the g. seven summit in canada has followed him here but the president insists his goal is feed or treat the united states because of bad management because a president said didn't care about trade or didn't understand it or whatever reason . for many years with china being obviously the most successful at it but the european union the second one hundred fifty one billion we lost they were repre

completely denuclearize is an important step towards bringing lasting peace and stability to northeast asia and indeed to the entire world as the president said this will be a process and not an easy one step closer than would advise the republic of korea and japan will be critical to the success of that outcome there it should rest assured that the united states the republic of korea and japan remain committed to achieving the complete the very fabric and irreversible denuclearization of north korea the us i insist with these two countries are absolutely ironclad minister mr kind and i have developed a close friendship and together we will continue to closely coordinated with respect to north korea as we move forward together. there's a trap as i made it clear that it came gently and denuclearize if there is a bright future for north korea and its people he outlined that vision beautifully here and said when he spoke at the national assembly last november when vision a strong connected secure and prosperous north korea that is fully integrated into the community of nations kim jong un indi

joined about that, i am by the senior advisor of northeast asia with the international crisis group. thank you for being with us again. i am sure what has been -- you have read. what is been agreed with as well you feel enough -- do you feel enough detail has been committed here? >> what we have here is a political commitment it is a vague and broad document. there are a lot of specifics. -- there are a lot of specifics missing. this is the agreement we have hoped for and still able to call a successful summit. we moved away from threats of war on the peninsula. the agreement has left all of the details for the future negotiations to be carried out by secretary pomand hi north korean counterpart. that is where the difficult parts always are with the negotiations of -- with the koreans. the question is the timeline and the conditions and what they would expect from the u.s. >> back in 1993 when the sides met, they said we agree to an end of using nuclear weapons. nothing has changed. >> history is repeating. what we have is meetings from the leaders. the gamble for donald trump was th

he is the most eligible bachelor for whatever in northeast asia. everybody is kind of coming to him to see what he wants and what we can do to make you happy and trying to get influence with him. and i think that's a very strong position for him to be in. >> reporter: a strong per post position perhaps. the question that looms over all of this is how serious is kim jong-un and what is he willing to give up along the way? in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >>> samantha be at the late- night tv comedy host is apologizing for using a vulgar term to be -- reserve to -- refer to ivanka trump. she said it was inappropriate and inexcusable. i crossed a line and i deeply regret it. she was crystallizing ivanka trump during a -- criticizing ivanka trump during a comedy segment. two companies, state farm and auto trader say they are suspending their commercials on her show. there's no sign that her show will be canceled. >>> 4:27. did jr smith of the cleveland kevin lawyers -- cavaliers know the score was tied or not? what happened at the end of relation

i followed his work for many years in his role as a senior research fellow for northeast asia at the heritage foundation. next is dr. nic lutsey hook that ntly andgaad of meeting more experience the hst levelsgely as producing a very valuable work in a capacity at brookings where she senior fellow and the ft korea foundation chair in korea studies. finally anthony ruggiero has been tremendous play to be working with past year. i've learned a tremendous amount about north korea i would recommend to all of you his work which you can find on our website. if you just follow him day in a day out with its op-ed, longer pages where he almost won many machine production people but the kind of policy we should have on sanctions. with that also w direct all of your attention to the newddesrchject massur 2.0, how to put sanctions on north korea that is just come out today that anthony is the author. tremendous wealth of in like to thank you agai for coming, for sharing your afternoon with us and turn it over to w barbara to moderate the panel. >> i'm dighted to behe rol of the modernde because

0n of northeast asia after the summit? the details of what we discussed but one thing i can say is that japan and the united states are always together. i strongly hope that this historic summit in there is a beautiful port town of facing the sea ofjapan. a mere 30 new old girl living there was abducted by north korea. 45 years have passed since then, during which time, family members, single—mindedly prayed for her return and kept on waiting. the parents became old, remaining time is slipping away. it is the long—held desire of the japanese people to have her and all of her abductees come home, so that the parents, while they are healthy can embrace the girl, and other adult teas again, in their arms. —— embrace the girl, and other adult teas again, in theirarms. —— other abductees are in their arms. of course, i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them so that abduction problems is resolved quickly, to this end, i am determined to take all forcible means “— determined to take all forcible means —— possible me

and asia, and i think we are a declining power in northeast asia. ayway this goes, if there is deal, it might mean a reduction of u.s. troops. if there is not a deal, do we become more irrelevant? the question for anthony, how important is the u.s. to north korea? we have discussed this before. they seem to be circumventing sanctions, and i do not mean cheating, but they have been doing their own marketization. can they modernize and open up completely without the u.s., or is the u.s. financial system and u.s. sanctions so important to them? mr. ruggiero: in the absence of in the absence of some kind of deal, if you have a trump administration talking about putting some kind of sanctions pressure on north korea, i think that would be difficult for them to do on their own. point, people look at the north korean economy and point to certain things and say, you know, these prices are stable, or, you know, the conversion with the one are stable and things of that sort. i just remind people that we to the commodity sanctions toward the end of the maximum

withdrawn from south korea certainly and preferably from northeast asia as a whole there have been more deaths in the caracal after armed forces backed by the government tried to regain control of the city of messiah his talks between the government of the opposition have been put on hold as violence continues to shake the central american nation out there as many of apollo has more from managua on the right confrontations between anti-government protesters and paramilitary groups have claimed more lives in messiah nicaraguan police and government backed militias fired on demonstrators as scores of people fled to their homes for cover the latest offensive by police comes after representatives of the resistance movement in messiah declared they would no longer allow themselves to be governed by a president or they're. going to get a man who has the blood of our brothers who have been cowardly murdered demand that we continue belligerently and unwavering towards the fight until or take it is gone . messiah is where much of the most brutal fighting has been concentrated as police attempted

peninsula russia and china are interested in peace and stability on the korean peninsula and in northeast asia it's pleasing to see that the into korean talks are being conducted within the framework of the crisis solution roadmap proposed by russia and china recent contacts between russia and north korea confirm pyongyang's aspirations for constructive work there are nuclear deal and ongoing conflict in syria were another two topics up for discussion with both leaders stating their views coincided on how to go about resolving them namely making every effort to keep the iran nuclear deal alive and maintain a stable government in syria to avoid further escalation in that conflict both leaders will our heads for the shanghai cooperation organization summit will bring you full updates as and when we get there as well. and hawkins in china there now the french president's bid to tackle fake news on the national level has been slammed by an pains in parliament passing france to several lawmakers who want the government back bill takes the country in a dangerous direction. the problem is the enforce

withdrawn from south korea certainly and preferably from northeast asia as a whole. still ahead on al-jazeera. i think it's very important that we are straightforward. about the way in which some of these attacks events at the collection the u.k. is ready to load back to the west african country from which it was originally stolen. spalled former tennis world number one. long awaited return from inquiry. welcome back eritrea is sending a senior delegation to ethiopia two weeks after the ethiopian government agreed to withdraw its forces from disputed border regions eritrea's president welcomed the decision and described the efforts as positive earlier this month ethiopia now and still fully accept the terms of a peace agreement signed eighteen years ago the central african republic has rejected former tennis star boris becker is claims of diplomatic immunity and says the official passport he has is fake becker says he was appointed as a sports attash a for the country in april and was issued diplomatic travel documents he says that gives him immunity against bankrupt

military presence in northeast asia because that simply weakens the american strategic position in the far east and the result is that china is strengthened so i think beijing has to be thrilled is there any risk that kim jong un could lose his leadership on a do you have any idea if there are factions in north korea against him. people have been trying to figure out the internal dynamics in the north korea for a long time and there's been endless amounts of speculation my own sense is that kim jong un although he was quite young when he took power after his father died in two thousand and eleven has proved himself to be a pretty ruthless operator he had his uncle executed he had his half brother executed he's had lots of other people either executed or removed from power so i think his position is quite strong and what he's gained domestically from this summit if you look at the way the north korean press has played the meeting i think boosts him immeasurably i think one of the most intriguing questions now is whether or not with a significant shift in the whole tenor of relations wit

ago he appears now to believe that it could be the start of an unprecedented era of peace in northeast asia. i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future for the world the deed nuclearization of the korean peninsula would assure in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans north and south and for people everywhere after promising be the japanese citizens abducted by the north korean regime would be on the agenda at the talks on june the twelfth trump ton to business. the united states seeks a bilateral deal with japan that is based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity we're working hard to reduce our trade imbalance which is very substantial remove barriers to u.s. exports and to achieve a fair and mutually beneficial economic partnership. but before the singapore summit trump heads to the g seven meeting of global economic powers in canada where security is already being beefed up. but rather than protestors it's the group's other members from whom the president is likely to

talking about is the division of the korean peninsula and that being at the heart of the issue in northeast asia and the stability of the entire region well that's a very interesting point it's interesting but it's kind of gotten ahead of me because that's where i really wanted to go here because this process if it is a process we really don't know yet but it's trump owns it now ok and it seems to me that he's actually given a stamp of approval for the koreans to actually get down to business i think about being as points very interesting there because this is if anything is actually really going to happen it's going to happen between the koreans themselves ok and i think that's the door that is been opened here and it looks like the koreans north and south want to walk through it go ahead. well i think melvin is right that was the sort of missing link in the in the whole presentation of the problem in singapore and it obviously was a crucial part of the run up to this summit that both north and south korea were ready to go i think further than ever before in terms of enter korean peace and i am

in making a diplomatic rates you, it could bring lasting change to the security landscape of northeast asia like the sit of former president richard nixon to china and 1972. nice to meet you, mr. president, kim jong-un said against the -- as he sat alongside trump against the back drop of north korean and u.s. flags. good evening. caller: thanks for taking my call. host: absolutely. i am a staunch republican, have been for most of my life. i voted for trump. i believe abortion is wrong and all that. what is going on, it is great some of the things he is doing, but i do not understand. is russia investigation getting a little out of control. just of his next. san antonio, independent line. joseph, good evening. caller: good evening. thank you for e ogram that you are providing. this is an historic event. all americans, irrespective of their party affiliation should of having an american president that he is making such annexed ordinary event possible. eventextraordinary possible. his name happens to be donald trump. unfortunately, he is a man who andeing publicly aided disrespected and despi

militarization and i think that we're going to be able to begin to redefined redefine relationships in northeast asia with a lasting peace between these countries. switching gears now national teams from all across the globe have been arriving in russia for the fifa world cup among the latest arrivals are the national teams of france and australia they will face each other in the city of cazan on june sixteenth teenager has landed in chechnya in southern russia and the squad are in the western city of nizhny novgorod those two teams will be playing on the opening day of the tournament on june fifteenth well for some though the world cup is well it's not just about the beautiful game some media outlets have been focusing on suppose a threat from russian football hooligans in the now has been following two australian filmmakers as they try and separate fact from fiction. russian found this time to violence contact you're going to see places that. you have to fight street tax or sanctioned by the kremlin a lot of me if you see this somehow linked to the hooligans the alleged leader of the russian hoolig

militarization and i think that we're going to be able to begin to redefined redefine relationships in northeast asia with a lasting peace between these countries. a tricky question here for you and i know that no one has all the answers but whether out of necessity or out of desire are we seeing north korea finally lifting its decades long policy of isolation. well you know it's been a mixed thing as of isolation and such i think that obviously kim they're now talking about he spent time in switzerland as a child and he's perhaps not so isolated i've met people in the d.p. r. k. from all over the world who traveled there bassett hers of people training in agriculture and otherwise i think we will see a loosening i think that the country has suffered incredible trauma from a terrible war and repeating it over and over again and i think the justification for for isolating or clamping down has to do with the state of war and i'm drawing a lot of vaclav havel who said the future of human kind if it still exists that there is no other alternative than to shift our rails attention from what separates us t

talking about is the division of the korean peninsula and that being at the heart of the issue in northeast asia and the stability of the entire region well that's a very interesting point it's interesting but it's kind of gotten ahead of me because that's where i really want to go here because this process if it is a process we really don't know yet but it's trump owns it now ok and it seems to me that he's actually given a stamp of approval for the koreans say actually get down to business i think they'll be in his point very interesting there because this is if anything is actually really going to happen it's going to happen between the koreans themselves ok and i think that's the door that is been opened here and it looks like the koreans north and south want to walk through it go ahead. well i think melvin is right that was the sort of missing link in the in the whole presentation of the problem in singapore and it obviously was a crucial part of the run up to this summit that both north and south korea were ready to go i think further than ever before in terms of into a career in peace and

one of those groups that has been forgotten was focused on building a northeast asia peace and security mechanism. we had a really fun acronym that we used for it. the russians really loved having that plform. that was a vision not just as tong described it but how we could potentially realign things in the region and provide some sort of broader system of multilateral institutions and roles etc. i am pretty skeptical of that at this point in time. it never really got very far then and that was a very different time geopolitically on many different fronts. more than 10 years on we are even further from that kind of position but a couple of things i would like to pick up on along these lines i completely agree that kim jong un is playing the long game. and what worries me is i do not see president trump play in the long game. i see kim jong un really in the driver seat of this round of diplomacy really choosing his moments on the world stage. you know as tong said feeling that he has the deterrent in his pocket and with the confidence that he can set out and go forth. there have been man

withdrawn from south korea certainly and preferably from northeast asia as a whole they don't necessarily want to see this happen quickly but they do want to see it happen and so i think the process going forward will be between the u.s. trying to pursue north korea to live up to its claim that it's going to pursue denuclearization of the korean peninsula whatever that means at the same time combating north korea's demands for concessions including of a drawl of u.s. forces from the from the korean peninsula and also more importantly an ending of the u.s. extended nuclear deterrent security guarantees to south korea and japan just a final brief thought from you markham davis some in washington wants beijing to keep up the sanctions pressure on the north but could china now decide to ease the pressure on pyongyang given the tensions beijing has with washington have a trade tariffs. i think it certainly could and also trump's approach to the singapore summit has actually lifted in a weaker position to re in reimpose what you might call the fire of fury approach of maximum pressure so i do t

and in a bigger picture, as a stabilizing force in the region northeast r northeast asia.meaning they are very conscious of kchina's presence. so china's presence. so i think this is very, very prospect and something that should things go wrong and if north korea, indeed, confirms it is something that is plausible. so i think -- i don't think from south korea's perspective there's any plan to drive the u.s. out of the peninsula. in fact, should we have a peace treatise and have a more stable situation, the change of u.s. troops status and maybe size, i think the majority of the people possibly even with north koreans. >> i think he's choreo graphing the stance. i think it's what trends and whether they engage with them. whether there's a broader planned cooked up with them, i have not conceived of that before. and i'm a little hesitant to believe that that is -- that there's a significant enough operation to have sort of laid that out. what i do think is pretty clear is soojin just kind of alluded to and tong was mentioning earlier, beijing certainly has an interest in the

withdrawn from south korea certainly and preferably from northeast asia as a whole. police in ukraine have stopped as administrators from storming the parliament building. more than a thousand war veterans and miners protested against plans to reduce their benefits over five hundred police officers have now been deployed outside parliament. as armed forces backed by the government try to regain control of the city a messiah peace talks between the government and the opposition have been put on hold as the violence continues to shake the central american nation. has more from . right confrontations between anti-government protesters and paramilitary groups have claimed more lives in messiah nicaraguan police and government backed militias fired on demonstrators as scores of people fled to their homes for cover the latest offensive by police comes after representatives of the resistance movement in messiah declared they would no longer allow themselves to be governed by a president or they're. going to. the blood of our brothers who have been cowardly murdered demand t

we approach that coming are us north korea's i mix as well as for the peace and stability of northeast asia after the summit on this topic we took a good amount of time and carried out. in-depth and candid exchange of views i'm not able to talk about the details of what we discussed. but one thing i can say is that japan and the united states are always together that i strongly hope that this historic summit in singapore be a resounding success there is a beautiful to put down niigata facing the sea of japan. a mere thirteen yr old girl living there was abducted by north korea. forty five years have passed since then during which time family members single mindedly prayed for her return and kept on waiting their parents became old. remaining time is slipping away it is a long held the desire of the japanese people to have her and all of the days come home so that the parents while they are healthy can embrace the girl and other a better days again in their arms. of course i wish to directly face north korea and talk with them so that abduction problem be resolved quickly to this end i am de

commitment to completely denuclearize is an important step in bringing lasting peace and stability to northeast asiandeed to the entire world. as the president said, this will be a process, and not an easy one. staying a closely aligned with our allies, the republic of korea and japan will be critical to the success of that outcome. the world should rest assured states, theted republic of korea and japan remain committed to achieving the complete, verifiable and irreveization of north korea. the u.s. alliances with these two countries are absolutely ironclad. we have developed a close friendship, and together we will continue to closely coordinate with respect to north korea as we move forward together. president trump has also made it jong-unat if kim denuclearize is, there's a bright future for north korea and its people. he outlined that vision beautifully here in seoul when he spoke at the national assembly last november. when vision is strong, connected, secure and prosperous, north korea that is fully integrated into the community of nations. kim jong-un indicated in singapore that he shared t