forces in south korea and offshore of south korea. that is going to raise the question, perhaps as early as the summit, subsequently certainly -- what should our response be to that? do we agree to that? or do we basically tell the north, there will have to be taken in terms of agreements and implementation regarding denuclearization before we could begin to talk about u.s. troops? or, you might say, u.s. troops are off the table completely in a denuclearization negotiation? what kind of thinking do you think we should be doing about this? i think this is very crucial. >> chris hill -- >> chris hill has related that he was told throughout the talks, you americans eventually are going to have to come to terms with the issue of u.s. troops with us. that time is about here. as a military person, i don't think we can sacrifice readiness. we have to maintain the rok military capabilities. inould not make any changes u.s. for status contingent on north korea's nuclear status, and on the dismantlement, but they could be discussed as part of

picture of kind of south korea. 2012. north korea for the first time, they bombard. returned.korean army this is how terrible the south korean situation is. but bombardments on all sides. let me skip this. south korean policies, let me introduce those policies. the conservative president always pursues a kind of peace and stability. when people look at it, there are policies. make them observe. north korea was hostile to this kind. when the government change the policy aggression, and they paid special attention to observation. line of moonasic they have ally kinds of ideas in korea about north korea's change. is collapse.ea the other thing is neglect. is -- the sunshine policy as you , theoned, as you know government belongs to the pursuing of peaceful ways and the realistic solutions. conservatives,an ,nd people in washington dc moon jae-in inherited it. isan say moon jae-in different from them even though they embraced the idea. pace.ried to keep this is very different. attention toial the alliance. i am one of the persons who make this campaign into policies. i wa

and south korea. i want to bring in david preece, a former cia officer, who is going to help us understand this. this is breaking, david. what do you make of this? >> if on someone could have anticipated this because almost literally every expert anticipated this. this is what all of the korean negotiators had said -- >> thattes not goi eit not goin smoothly as -- >> specifically that the north koreans are going to find an advantage. we haven't seen signs have changed and this is more evidence that they've played the same games they've played before where we've gone through cycles that they pretended to walk back but then want concession after concession -- >> does this seem arbitrary to you? >> i expect now there is an investment of the president of the united states. he's committed to these talks, he said great things are happening. he's not talking about little rocket man anymore, he's talking about his legacy of being able to do something that president obama could not do. once north korea knows h

nuclearization and security commitment to japan and south korea. so it means not only security threat by north korea would contribute but also might also dramatically change the balance of power in east asia. so third and final list is that the whole process and frail work of the denuclearization and would be designed only by the u.s., south korea and north korea. so if this occurs japan would be abandoned to make financial contributions to the denuclearization towards north korea. i'm not sure the japanese public would be willing accept to having pay money and so it is not easy for the japanese public to accept the change without taking japanese interests because it might affect the security environment in the whole of asia including japan. what should we do? i think there is still time for japan to get involved in the pros fess and contribute to it. there might be also possible to create concurrently with, so one of the ideas it is worth trying for japan is proposing a framework like six-party talks and. that does not seem be in favor of much late

still, so does south korea. lost inrea basically terms of revelry with south korea on every possible thing. nuclear weapons is the only thing they have over south korea. >> defend themselves. >> [indiscernible] >> if i understand your question , until north korea had a reliable nuclear deterrent, u.s. military planners assessed that the united states in south korea woodwind in the war with north korea. any conventional war. sue mi: -- ofthey still inflict enough a blow that it would be too heavy -- interestingwhat is is that for the first time, the north koreans have put forward the possibility of discussing a reduction of their conventional forces, too. it's very interesting. we never heard them say it before. it's another step, a positive step, that we see why this time is this it -- is different. >> right here in front. sue mi: i want to finish that question. 15 seconds. it's not against south korea. it's against the united aids. capability to reach us. it's not about having something over south korea. their

shutting its north which may very well spread into south korea and china. humanitarian experts reject 120,000 new cases of tb and about 5000 cases of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis inside north korea on an annual basis. fund pull out, u.s. executive branch sanctions and other pressures on u.s. humanitarian ngo's operating inside north korea along with , a majorsanctions humanitarian crisis is stirring inside the north with real implications for the people of china and north korea and south korea as well. negotiations may result in an agreement that is impossible to achieve during past u.s. administrations. an unconventional american later, president trump knows history will judge him to a significant to read -- degree by his handling of the north korea situation. his north korean counterpart is unconventional in comparison to his father in some respect as well, one being the allowance of the operation of hundreds of markets and development of a class of north korean entrepreneurs as his country transitions toward a market economy. there are endless issue

looks like south korea will be heavily impacted. jenny, in your vision, how does this hold? could or could not with the power or standing within korea or not? jenny: obviously -- well, first of all, thanks for taking us in. we are the survivors. i would think that south korea has a lot at stake here. moon jae-in has invested a lot of personal capital as well. as frank said, this is one of his top agenda items, one of the first things he wanted to do at the summit, even before he was elected, it was very much a top priority. he's already had the inter-korean summit with all of that success, they got all the commitments they needed to move the process forward and he has been very successful in dragging the u.s. along and getting trump involved in the process, getting them talking directly. now the problem becomes that in this scheme of things, as much as they want to be in the drivers seat of the process, north korea doesn't necessarily see south korea as an equal partner. now that the u.s. and china are involved, they have sort of marginalized south korea's influence in the pr

piece of paper could be the start of a much more detailed process seems to be what people here in south korea are hoping for but it is a hugely divisive issue and the south korean government is in a very difficult position here it has been wanting to get close to the north it was of course the driver behind this whole process several months ago and has arguably has been credited with getting things this far but if things do fall apart and we return to the same rhetoric of the old then the concern for south korea is that they will be called upon by the united states the senior ally in this alliance of the united states japan and south korea to stand firm and get tough again and clearly people here majority of people in fact latest polls point to seventy five percent of people in south korea want this dialogue to continue because it rob thanks very much. celebrations in ireland among those seeking changes to that country's strict abortion laws. exit polls suggest a two to one majority in favor of ending the ban on terminating pregnancies official results are expected on saturday afternoon the v

we helped south korea. and south korea is one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that. that's what you are. that's where you're from. same people. same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it doesn't work out, honestly, he can't be happy. but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. and i think it would be, if you look 25 years into the future, 50 years into the future, he will be able to look back and be very proud of what he did for north korea and, actually, for the world. but he will be very proud of what he did for north korea. [inaudible] >> and just to finish that, because it's a very important question, south korea, china, and japan, and i've spoken to all three, one i happen to have right here, they will be willing to help and, i believe, invest very, very large sums of money into helping to make north korea great. >> mr. president, what do you want to hear from president moon about hi

what -- >> as president trump, i'm a reporter from south korea. if north korea and kim jong un, they decide the cvid, will you really guarantee the safety of the regime of north korea? trump: i will guarantee his safety, yes. we will guarantee his safety. and we've talked about that from the beginning. he will be safe, he will be happy, his country will be rich, his country will be hardworking and very prosperous. they're very great people. they're hardworking, great people. look at what happened with south korea. don't forget, we helped south korea -- we have spent trillions of dollars. not billions, trillions of dollars over many, many years. we helped south korea and south korea's one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that. that's where you are. that's where you're from. same people. same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it doesn't work out, honestly, he can't be happy. but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. and i think i

younger south korea south koreh korean nationalists. they don't see the unification as a big deal. kennedy: that's a generational thing. very interesting. >> politics in south korea are divided and age oriented. some moon comes from the 386 generation, it's 65. they grew up trying to get democracy for south korea and they mistakenly agree that the u.s. owzen the sides of the generals preventing democracy. moon and his generation are largely anti-american but those are the guys running the country right now. they're driving the political system and you've got older south koreans and younger south koreans who have different attitudes. kennedy: and it's interesting because the greatest export that south korea has culturally is k pop. and their pop culture which is so intoxicating for the rest of the world, particularly in the united states, people are very intrigued by it. we'll see -- and the cold war, there is an argument to be made that rock and roll brought down the wall. so maybe the same thing with happen with millennials in south korea and their form of diplomacy will reign sup

pursue more cooperation with south korea how do you feel about president moon it's clear he's interested in a policy of engagement with north korea. he's poli sci it's the only option we have both making more engagement with north korea what do you think of north korea where most of the military i was been taught the north korean people are not the enemy. the enemy is sort of those korean regime but those korean military. i think there's something important to know that i did research service for twenty one months and this compulsory for all of those men in there when you go to the military you get too exposed to the view north korea is your enemy. this very different from society where you can have different views about those in the square in the gym you said it that the north korean regime is the enemy not the north korean people why do you think that that distinction is important i think that distinction is important because the north korean people or part could be part of korean families which is true for my grandpa grandfather my grandpa has moved from north korea to south korea bec

but i think the tone coming out of him and what we saw this last week with the engagement from south korea i think we're at a total new turning point and i think china is going to put north korea under its wing and the question why is why is north korea feel so safe not only they want to vala from the united states that they will not be attacked and then they would be nucular as china given north korea nuclear shield have the have they promised north korea military support not forgetting the korean war they lost over a million people million soldiers so they are you know they're in the game and they're going to support north korea right well yes imagine the sanctions have really put a lot of pressure on north korea and it seems that donald trump maybe locked up the geopolitical chess board argo gorup board and looked at where the u.s. was wasting the last monday and the military budget and said hey now those troops in south korea could probably the ball and we can save a lot of money right there let's get that in laotian and that. the result that brings anthem play china south korea and ru

[translating to korean] >> reporter: i am from south korea. if north korea and kim jong un decide this, will you protect the safety of north korea >> president trump: i will guarantee his safety. yes. i will guarantee his safety. we talked about that from the beginning. he will be safe. he will be happy. his country will be rich. his country will be hardworking and very prosperous. they are very great people. they are hard-working, great people. look at what happened with south korea. don't forget, we helped south korea. we have spent trillions of dollars -- not billions. trillions of dollars over many, many years. we helped south korea. and south korea is one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that. that is where you are. that is where you are from. same people. same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it doesn't work out, honestly he can't be happy. but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. i think it would be, if you look 25

/south korea alliance. and we will try to seek economic benefits from south korea. as donald trump is patting himself on the back for, you know, threatening kim jong-un with the resumption of maximum pressure, kim jong-un is sitting in panmunjom with moon jae-in, the south korean president, talking about economic coordination, the reconnection of railway lines and roads across the dmz. he really does thrive in the space between the alliance. and that's why it's just so critical that the united states and south korea have the same message here and the same coordinated position. >> but, adam, this economic development and potential alliance here between north and south korea and whatever china might bring to the table. can any of that happen without denuclearization? >> ideally, this would all be part of the same process. denuclearization would lead to, you know, an increased normalization of relations between the united states and south korea and north korea, all at the same time. economic incentives would be phased and made contingent upon process in the nuclear are

and south korea. is this potentially north korea putting the u.s. and south korea on notice that going forward what they don't want to see is more military drills. saying that this is against t the -- the panmunjom and saying there wouldn't be anything between the two countries but i think this will -- this will take the south koreans by surprise. >> and now to jeff zeleny. we're hearing that the white house was also caught off guard. >> reporter: they were indeed. the white house was surprised by the news reports. i'm told by a senior administration official that president was made aware of them but from news reports but not from any official sources. so as barbara was reporting, buildings across washington here at the white house and the state department and the pentagon were taken by surprise by this. but jake, this is all coming as an interesting meeting scheduled to take place one week from today. president moon jae-in is scheduled to be here at the white house to talk to president trump -- about that south korea summit and the north korean sum

until their troops are in south korea. there's a need for many of us that certainly china and possibly north korea will demand that there be no troops there so there is no question. it becomes a question within the united states. we have seen historically that has always been true. you remember jimmy carter wanted to remove the troop presence and also in the iraq afghanistan war they were very reset within washington to troop reduction. this is nothing new. i guessed the latest round has been triggered by a the trump administration saying that maybe the presence of the sma, we can think about scope and reducing or withdrawing troops. so that you know, there is history and discussion over all of that but the reality i think is that the public on both sides of the pacific support, very strongly support troop presence on the korean president. in south korea you have about 70% who still support the u.s. troop presence. in the u.s. it is very strong so to me this kind of discussion will happen when we are looking at options and

it's not south korea it's not one of the two koreas and it doesn't have the leverage or the clout thatchina. or the united states does so japan's interest is really in staying relevant in north korea policy game and in a way that benefits when tensions are higher between the united states and north korea because it has been an advocate of the pressure again pain and it is a friend to the hardliners in the ministration. mr coe how is still looking on at what's happened president when jay and said that he was perplexed but what does the cancellation of the summit if anything mean for north south relations well that's a good question there has been a statement coming out of the presidential blue house today that despite this enormous setback south korea has continued to try and get these important parties to do he's process talking at the same time to go going to government will continue to remain committed to improving relations with north korea which according to its own vision was supposed to include significant economic aspects as well the question though at this juncture is where the

the it's the annual us south korea joint military exercises this is taking place south korea was surprised and disappointed by the delay. it's regrettable that north korea has decided to unilaterally postpone you. it also caught us off guard we have not heard anything from that government or the government of south korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises or that we would not continue planning for a meeting between president trump and kim jong un next month trump has taken credit for shepherding the korean peninsula towards peace here meeting newly freed u.s. citizens who had been held prisoner in north korea their release was hailed as yet another sign of thawing relations with pyongyang but now out of nowhere things could be up in the air. and for the very latest joining me now from seoul is josh smith from reuters josh talks with south korea postponed down with the one of the june summit between came and u.s. president trump will take place isn't all korea is not going to try to get out of these talks on its nuclear program is that a move aimed at getting

-south korea military drills. to be clear, these are annual drills and they are regularly scheduled. they were resumed in april 4th after delayed sometime for the korean olympics and at the time south korea officials told the u.s. counterparts that north korea, which in the past had protested these exercises and even scheduled missile launches during the exercises had seemed in their words, surprisingly flexible this time around so this threat now to scudle those summit plans a change in tact from the north korean leadership and you may remember there was a short time ago the president himself said in late april that north korea had been in his words, very honorable in planning for the summit. have a listen. >> so we're having very good discussions. kim jong-un was -- he really has been very open and i think very honorable from everything we're seeing. now a lot of promises had been made by north korea over the years. but they've never been in this position. >> of course north korea did fulfill the promise to rele

look at what happened with south korea. don't forget. we helped south korea. we have spent trillions of dollars. not billion, trillions of dollars over many, many years. we helped south korea. south korea's one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. that's where you are, that's where you're from. same people. same people. so, yes. i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it doesn't work out, honestly, he can't be happy. but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. and i think that will be -- if you look 25 years into the future, 50 years into the future, he will be able to look back and be very proud of what he did for north korea. and actually for the world. but he will be very proud of what he did for north korea. okay. >> mr. president, what do you want to ask president moon about his own summit? >> wait one second. [ speaking foreign language ] >> just to finish that, because it's a very important question, south korea, china, and japan, and i've spoken to all three, one i happ

and the way it's been portrayed here in south korea is day he was essentially dismissed by president ruong at some point president roh even actually said there's no need for interpretation because there's nothing really worth hearing from the south korean side anymore and this is a kind of story that is incredibly damaging to the image of the presidency here in south korea so the government has been. trying to tell the public that it is engaging with the u.s. government in fact foreign minister reportedly called secretary of state ponytail to make sure the u.s. is still on board with that he's process and that's really the only thing that government here can hope for the u.s. is genuinely wanting to have is something if not on june twelfth or some time later down the road. and mr mason you know does the summit being canceled for now does it mean that denuclearization is no longer an option no it doesn't mean that you did it can or is asian is no longer an option but what i think perhaps confirms is that both the north korean side and united states side disagree or at least don't come

gap but let me highlight you know a perception gap going on between here in the united states and south korea from the south korean people's point of view of course no nuclear capability of north korea is a big deal but conventionally in north and south korea already has been placed in a kind of balance of a terrorist situation if one side initiates an economy full blown were the other side would be you know both sides would be completely annihilated so if south korean people are fully aware of such kind of risk damages in that sense kind of situations and having the nuclear capability of north korea of course it has more you know some concerns but not like here in united states so we're hearing denies that what japan nuclear north korea is a kind of a new threat and then looks like an impending threat but at least to the majority of south korean people of course it's a very important issue and we need to take care of it but it's not so it's a kind of impending issue like in united states so how to never with on these different perception gap between the two countries and the people and leade

and south korea that are now under way. we'll talk about it with congressman eric swalwell of the intelligence and judiciary committees and with leon panetta the former defense secretary to president obama. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's get the latest from cnn chief national z-urt correspondent jim scuitto. the white house clearly was caught off guard by this? >> reporter: that's right. we now have the full statement here from north korean state media on this and just damning language here, threatening that planned summit between the u.s., president trump and the south korean and the north korean leader kim jong-un. it says the following, the u.s. will have to think twice about the fate of the dprk u.s. summit now on high agenda before a provocative military racket against the dprk in league with the south korean authorities there. the statement goes on to say that they will closely watch the ensuing behavior of the u.s. initially reactions from the white house and the state department,

-south korea military alliance? is that still the place if north korea is in the peace treaty with the united states does though legality of the alliance still stand? that's one issue. the other issue is we hear a lot of this linkage that china is making, the lake is between a broader u.s.-china relations and the linkage of what china's position north korea really is. i do see that on both sides because remember a year ago president trump's position was that if china cooperates with us on south korea, the trade deal, they would get much better. guess what one year later it's not that much better. so for the chinese they feel there's a strong sense of grievance unappreciative that china did deliver on north korea but the trade deal is as bad as was mentioned. i think there's a transactional issue here that both sides are avoiding to talk about that isn't there. >> let go back to jenny and then katsu for whatever thoughts they want to share, the things you left unsaid that you are dying to say today. >> i think i said

is in a hard place because historically south korea has been semi sovereign that's because the united states to this day retains command authority over south korean military forces in times of war crisis the united states in violation of the terms of the armistice agreement still stations roughly thirty thousand u.s. military forces south of the d.m.z. operates about eighty military installations until it has basically conducted these joint military exercises with south korea that are the largest in the world that i'm simulate to the invasion and occupation of north korea that simulate the decapitation of north korea's leadership and that also as recently as just a couple of weeks ago in this operation max thunder simulate operations that in. a potential nuclear first strike against north korea so when we're talking about the question of peace and we're talking about the question of denuclearization the united states has to realize that it has commensurate obligations denuclearization is not the task of north korea alone the united states has to withdraw that regionally it has t

gap but let me highlight you know a perception gap going on between here in the united states and south korea from the south korean people's point of view of course no nuclear capability of north korea is a big deal but conventionally in north and south korea already has been placed in a kind of balance of a terrorist situation if one side initiates anaconda fullblown were the other side would be you know both sides would be completely annihilated so if south korean people are fully aware of such kind of risk or damages in that sense kind of situations and having the nuclear capability of north korea of course it has more you know some concerns but not like you know the united states so we're hearing denies that what japan nuclear north korea is a kind of a new threat and then looks like an impending threat but at least to the majority of south korean people of course it's a very important issue and we need to take care of it but it's not so it's a kind of impending issue like in united states so how to never with on these different perception gap between the two countries and the people and

counseling the planned summit with north korea president donald trump issued a warning spoken to south korea and japan. and they are not only ready should fully sure reckless acts be taken by north korea but they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden any of the costs associated by the united states in operations if such an unfortunate situation is forced upon us however the president's address to the singapore summit could still happen it's possible that the existing summit could take place or a summit. at. a later date doldrums letter to north korea was a curious mix of threats and polite regret sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting the letter said you talk about your nuclear capabilities but ours are so massive and powerful i pray to god they will never have to be used but the president added i thought a wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me and ultimately it is only the dialogue that matters if you change your mind ha

with our allies, allies being south korea and others. but important to point out the news report came from a government news agency in pyongyang. so this is a north korea news report cancelling those military exercises. kim jong-un always said he would support it. so anderson, the next several weeks are critical for this time. south korea president moon jae-in is scheduled to be here a week from today for a meeting with the president, but at this point the summit is still on. the white house is making plans for it to be on but they don't have the only say in the matter, anderson. >> jeff, i appreciate it. i want to go to paula hancocks who is in south korea for us. these drills between the u.s. and south korea, i think they fired missiles the last time it happened last year. do we know what their issue is this time? >> we don't, anderson. there is a number of different reasons they could be doing this. potentially it could be some kind of negotiation ahead of the u.s./north korea summit. you can see as part of this article, they are sayin

i congratulate south korea and north korea on the historic meeting last month. the united states is encouraged by their stated goal of complete denuclearization. today, foreign minister kang and i discussed the summit and the bold steps president trump is about to take when he meets with chairman ken. -- chairman kim. we would not be here today without the coordination of president trump and president moon. we want to achieve the verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula. there is a future brimming with peace and prosperity for north korea and the north korean people. america's track record of support for the korean people is second to none. takes bold action to quickly denuclearize, the united states is prepared to work with north korea to achieve prosperity on par with our south korean friends. united states look for to continue" ration with our south korean allies on this issue and many others. foreign minister, thank you for being with me today, it was a pleasure to work with you. >> thank you very much, mr. secretary, for the warm

we helped south korea. and south korea is one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that, that is where you are, that is where you're from. same people, same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it didn't woit doesn't w honestly, he can't be happy, but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. and i think that it would be -- if you look 25 years into the future, 50 years in to the future, he will be able to look back and be very proud of what he did for north korea. and actually for the world. but he will be very proud of what he did for north korea. >> what did you want to ask president moon about his own summit with -- [ speaking foreign language n [ . >> just to finish that because it is a very important question, south korea, china and japan, and i've spoken to all three, one i happen to have right here, they will be willing to help and i believe invest very, very large sums of money into helpi

so long as there is complete nuclearization of the north now the parallel fact which north and south korea frankly need to work out because the nuclearization is a sensually a topic of discussion between north korea and the united states with regard to conventional forces what the disposition of the end of the day needs to be that the peninsula is is kind of insulated from the larger the geopolitics off the north east asia south the south korea has already shown that it is not not terribly interested in getting into things like a regional ballistic missile shield well it's not interesting i'm going to eilat for a line we're going to final we're going to find actually let's yeah we're going to find out just how far the pentagon wants to go along with it john let me go to you because if you get if you look at the mainstream media and the punditry that we are bombarded with all of the time and the mainstream media is really not on board here is it just because they don't want to see succeed at anything or in the military industrial complex i mean south korea in there and that region of the wo

for the what the situation the opportunity that we have today is because of president mungy in south korea you know if we had a c.m. all the conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condensed testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything up the fact of the matter is that mungy is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong un out into the sunshine and has open and shown him a pathway to global integration and as well as not south reconciliation. in the south korean progressive government has a lead this process of reconciliation which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is not the insult they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged other parties along including the united states credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less

i went to south korea. did one of the military exercises, one of the exercises north korea is concerned about. it was a great experience, and i met a lot of great south koreans, made good friends, and it was a big exercise, all the branches of the u.s. and soviet -- soviet, south korean military involved. i will say despite the fun we had and the friends we made, none of us want that to be a reality. none of us wanted to say this is something we have to be worried about and everything we are practicing we really have to do. so we should be doing everything possible to try to bring peace to the region. we should do everything possible to negotiate, whenever we have a chance, to take every opportunity to try to find a way to denuclearize the korean peninsula, and reduce the tensions that we don't have to worry about a nuclear exchange or any other kind of war on the peninsula. thank you. [applause] john: thank you, bonnie jenkins. our next speaker will be speaking against the motion, sue mi terry, senior fello

>> i think the key mover has been president moon in south korea. he was probably more than anyone else worried about hostilities on korean peninsula, and he reached out in a major way to north korea. and probably even to his own surprise north korean leader reacted with equal enthusiasm, you know? and so i think that's why where we are today. so if you look at dr. katz has said, what are the equities, within the six-party talks context. right now you have to say a big, big winners are south korea and north korea. i think he was probably kind of, you know, not yet know whether it's a winner or not. i think probably significant one in the negative column is japan, because it's been quite left out. and probably that six-party context to some extent russia, but am not sure they care very much, you know? so moving on i think it will be interesting to see whether that column changes a little bit, but right now unquestionably the winners are north and south korea. >> do you think it's well-designed or it just happened that way? there is a series of -- >> i

also the fact that i am created i was born and raised in south korea. my family was separated by the korean war. so there was a personal interest of understanding what this might be but the professional instin instinct. it took a decade of five visits to north korea and finally being to move there. >> you said your family was affected who ended up where? >> my family and my mother's brother was taken to north in the korean war. those 1950 and 1953. my father side, his constants were taken, they were all around 17 and 18. his cousins were nursing students. they are useful. such a tragic reality. it's not like they died. in my brother's case he is taken away and they thought he was coming back. it was so close and suddenly they put a border there that generation to start whoever ended up on the other side will come home next week. >> 's every time there's a knock at the door. >> my grandmother never moved. when he comes home he should just walk home. this is not just one, there county about a million separated family members. so that entire generation, the

it is up to north korea and i suppose south korea what you're doing together. i saw this morning north korea put out a statement, they have a problem with south korea's leadership. we'll continue to monitor that. and the president, you know very much likes the fact that based on his leadership that and his team, including secretary of state pompeo going over there two times, that north korea has already suspended some of their exercises. but this president made very clear, denuclearizing the korean peninsula is in everybody's best interests. brian: kellyanne, i understand they have not reached formally out to you guys. north korea has not formally reached out, registered any complaints about john bolton's words or about military exercises. all this has been done through the media. is that correct? >> well i say this about that since i will not confirm or deny that. i will tell you this so much is litigated in media and gets repeated and retweeted without verification. some people call it fake news. i refer to it uninformed conjecture, speculation. it is dangerou

and south korea's national security chief saying, quote, there's a 99.9% chance it's still on. the "washington post" reporting two senior u.s. officials are heading to north korea this weekend to hammer out dodge stickal details. the president -- logistical details. the president keeping hope alive, offering guarantees to kim jong-un. >> we will guarantee his safety. we've talked about that from the beginning. he will be safe. he will be happy. his country will be rich. his country will be hard working and very prosperous. they're very great people. >> let's get live to seoul and bring in cnn's ivan watson. good morning, the president appears to be blaming china for the recent shift in north korea's tone. how's that playing in the region? >> reporter: it's a pretty dramatic shift from president trump. of course, he used to heap praise on china and on his great friend, xi jinping, for cracking down on the cross-border trade with north korea and helping the, what the trump administration describes as its maximum pressure campaign to economically stifle north korea and force it to

especially in some cases to some of these activists who are in fact the north koreans who have fled to south korea either as defectors or refugees and they for some years have said information money food and other things across the border into north korea in the past the south korean government has often seen this as a matter of free speech however given their agenda today they are looking a little bit more critically at these efforts and despite these protests in south korea what does that mean for north korea to change their clocks. it's something of an interesting move it's a move that north korea. there reversing a move that north korea made back in twenty fifty five twenty fifteen north korea changed its time by half an hour in fact as a way to differentiate itself from the japanese. history of colonialism in korea when they moved it back however for trade as an effort to put them on the same time zone as the rest of south korea and as i just wrote goodwill and reconciliation with their southern neighbors so we've seen a dramatic warming in relations between north and south korea. and there j

for the what the situation the opportunity that we have today is because of president mungy in south korea you know if we had a the same all the conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condense testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything up the fact of the matter is that mungy is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong un out into the sunshine and has open and shown him a pathway to global integration and as well as not south reconciliation. in the south korean progress of government has a lead this process of free conciliation which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is north and south they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged the other parties along including the united states credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you mo

pursue more cooperation with south korea so how do you feel about president moon it's clear he's interested in a policy of engagement with north korea. he's poli sci it's the only option we have both making more engagement with north korea what do you think of north korea where most of the military i was been taught that those korean people are not the enemy. the enemy is sort of those korean regime and those korean military. i think there's something important to know that i did research service for twenty one months and this compulsory for all of those men in there when you go to the military you get too exposed to the view north korea is your enemy. this very different from society where you can have different views about those in the square in the gym you said it that the north korean regime is the enemy not the north korean people why do you think that that distinction is important i think that distinction is important because the north korean people or part could be part of korean families which is true for my grandpa grandfather my grandpa has moved from north korea to solve korea be

the surprise announcement from south korea after north korea's leader, kim jong-un, and south koreanae-in, wrapped up a second meeting at the dmz. new video coming in now. this is, as you see, moon jae-in coming in, and he will be greeted by kim jong-un. this reportedly is on the north korean side there in the demilitarized zone. of course, these talks between the two men come at a time when the future or potential, you see the picture of a hug here between the two, of talks between the u.s. and north korea renewed after the president canceled talks. there have been conciliatory statements from north korea, from the u.s., as well, the south korean president and the blue house in seoul saying they are happy that the embers of potential talks -- i'm paraphrasing here -- are not out, and the two men here were discussing from 3:00 to 5:00 local time, the potential to continue on with the talks, potentially as scheduled for june 12th. as we learn more, we've got our will ripley covering this, matt rivers there in seoul, as well, and we'll have more on the breaking news. a second summit be