the single biggest mistake that people make when analyzing the korean peninsula is that the focus is on the united states i agree you have to understand that for the entire korean peninsula and remember that north korea and south korea have only existed as separate entities for the last seventy years korea has been around for two thousand years for two thousand years korea has been surrounded by great powers united states has only been around for as far as korea's been concerned for one hundred years so for north korea the united states for the last seventy years so for for north korea's nuclear weapons united states is only one actor so so the nuclear weapon serves a strategic purpose about independence and security for all the great powers so even if the united states provides a guarantee of independence and security for north korea now it's still about independence against china russia and potentially any other great power that threatens the korean peninsula in the future ok you said that is why north korea will not give up its nuclear weapons to the united to the that every other

they agreed to to a commitment to denuclearization getting rid of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula and finally they did agree to return the bodies of p.o.w.'s missing in action the bodies of american soldiers who had died during the korean war or the bodies of american soldiers in the korean peninsula those are the four points of agreement now speaking at his press conference following the meeting did clarify some things he first of all he said that they will not be lifting the sanctions until until there is a full denuclearization of the peninsula donald trump said he look forward to lifting the sanctions but they will not be lifting the sanctions at the moment furthermore trump said they would be stopping the war games the military exercises that north korea has often said are very threatening to them and are essentially report rehearsing for their destruction these military exercises will be stopped from said that they were very expensive and very provocative and from there we heard some more talk about what would go on on the peninsula itself this is donald trump we're not redu

nyang to the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula the highly anticipated summit in singapore hailed a success by the leaders. to speak here. today we had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind us were about to sign a historic document the world will see a major change in the view that. we have developed a very special bond show. people are going to be very impressed people are going to be very happy and we're going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world and. that problem nuclear weapons in the agreement north korea has pledged to dismantle its nuclear arsenal but critics say the declaration fails to provide concrete steps as to how that will be achieved and verified. and has reneged on such promises in the past. trump is confident that this time will be different he spoke of his special bond with kim and as with all friendships compromise must come from both sides directly after the summit trump announced washington would cease its joint military drills with south korea. we will be stopping the war games which will save us a treme

war games on the korean peninsula describing them as provocative though the u.s. military is yet to receive an order to actually stop the drills with south korea the pentagon since revealed that to gal who's the director of the china national association of international studies thinks that north korea should be treating the u.s. promises with caution. the lead is let us give hope some chance lead is very very optimistic for what the future may hold however also please allow me to emphasize that the united states does not have a good and solid track record of keeping its promises look at what happened to iraq look at what happened to libya look at what happened to syria look at the fact that the united states are the president decided to walk out of the iran nuclear deal all these are very alarming signs for d.p. r. k. and i would not be surprised if they have as allies of the us changes of their position again and again and again very carefully and whatever they agreed to with president donald trump must have been built upon their deep analysis of what if these a

ahead and no shortage of people whose worst nightmare might come true peace coming through the korean peninsula. cross talking the singapore summit i'm joined by my guest gareth porter in washington he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as author of manufactured crisis the untold story of the iran nuclear scare also in washington we have one she is a visiting professor at georgetown university and a former senior special advisor for embassador and christopher hill at the u.s. state department all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated gareth let me go to you first even bing about what was happening before the summit what are your what are you or your reactions to the summit now now that it's gone into history go ahead gary. you know peter it was never the case in my view that this summit was going to produce a substantive document that was going to represent you know negotiated agreements on some of the tricky issues that necessarily will have to be resolved in reaching the agreement on nuclear deal. in k

they agreed to a commitment to denuclearization getting rid of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula and finally they did agree to return the bodies of p.o.w.'s missing in action the bodies of american soldiers who had died during the korean war or the bodies of american soldiers in the korean peninsula those are the four points of agreement now speaking at his press conference following the meeting did clarify some things he first of all he said that they will not be lifting the sanctions until until there is a full denuclearization of the peninsula donald trump said he look forward to lifting the sanctions but they will not be lifting the sanctions at the moment furthermore trump said they would be stopping the war games the military exercises that north korea has often said are very threatening to them and are essentially report rehearsing for their destruction these military exercises will be stopped doll trump said that they were very expensive and very provocative and from there we heard some more talk about what would go on on the peninsula itself this is donald trump we're no

pledged to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula is what they had to say as a sign. we have developed a very special bond. now i may get even more the threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury and have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man and he is a sick puppy frightened donkey barks louder i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged us daughter with fire we're both very honored to sign the document thank you. today we had an historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind we're very proud of what took place today. the first for better than anybody even if it's an honor to be with you. so good in the face of it we couldn't resist showing you this next spot the to see me get a welcome did to look a little taken back at one point was one of president trump's jokes during the olympics very very slow pace and really all you really. have. to walk. for as new york there's been a process all morning high caliber so brings up speed what were the

two koreas must decide this but let me also point out that peace does not equal stability on the korean peninsula also does not equal unification ok which also does not necessarily mean that the end of conflict or hostility so these are all different things which also does not mean the end of north korea's missile programs or the end of north korea's threats or the end of the north korean regime or the end of north korea's nuclear programs so all of these issues are all completely separate and the world different countries in the region and americans we all need to understand these a separate issues and i think everybody just thought that on june twelfth that president trump and kingdom would want sit down and suddenly americans and everybody else would feel safe if well the summit succeeded or if it failed we would suddenly go to war well it's simply not the case but i think the media and gareth you've been talking about this i mean the media's been pretty shameful in the narratives that they've been pushing but that almost has everything to do with domestic politics in the united states and let

of the korean peninsula in exchange. as for kim jong un promising to give all pais nuclear arsenal donald trump has committed to providing security guarantees for the regime the us president suggested afterwards about the two had formed a strong relationship and that the intend to meet again the turnaround in relations comes just months after the perp with threatening each other with all. predicted and we have developed a very special bond. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury and have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is a sick puppy. a frightened dog barks louder i will surely indefinitely tame the mentally deranged us doted with fire. this is true is proven over and over again and visitors can indeed become friends both very honored to sign the document thank you. so the today we had the story meeting you decided to leave the past behind so we're very proud of what too

real threat here i mean these military exercises themselves have always raised tensions on the korean peninsula so once these exercises go away it's actually a good thing everybody kind of melos out so i mean that's from that potential and then when you're looking at the economic potentials that are happening it comes from the horse's mouth that we heard from a top level korean politician and here's a quote from them and this is often about just about the gas that they need this is for foreign minister can kill him wah and she said should the security situation on the korean peninsula improve we'll be able to review the pipeline that. gas business involving the two koreas in russia so they're talking about the two koreas this pipeline has not been built simply because of the tensions that have been there with tensions there you have that possibility of the north always shutting down the pipeline but if they're working together just imagine what you can have here especially once you have trade between these two koreas never mind a pipeline coming from russia and then that whole east asia part de

as something ends with kim jong un committing to the complete to denuclearize ation of the peninsula in exchange for security guarantees from donald trump but some are already questioning how serious the u.s. president is about sticking to the side of the deal. or not reducing anything we're not reduced very little bit early for that we have to get things moving the sanctions will remain in effect we will be stopping the war games going to last until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should. two days and counting the finishing touches are made ahead of the people in russia to of all world cup special manchester united manager predicts the countries to make it to the latter rounds in july. is going to be really hard to portugal a little while before the squad. because of my cards but. there is it's all sleds and it's in these new government makes good on one of its more divisive campaign promises closing ports to a vessel carrying stricken migrants. either this is r.t. in moscow covering the big stories around the world i'm calling brian welcome to the progr

does not since the early 1990's, have actual nukes stationed on the korean peninsula. range under this protective umbrella in east asia. i have not read through some of wasdetails yet for what signed. i would be surprised if donald trump and the u.s. signed any agreement that would reduce, at this point, the troop presence or that security umbrella over east asia. and two seemne focused on having a new era of relatis. some of the language is about plans for further negotiations. led by secretary of state mike pompeo. "a relevant high-level north korean official at the earliest possible date." the remains of prisoners of war. we are slowly getting details of the signed communique, piece of paper. can we step back, we are going to listen to the president, president trump on this historic day. president trump: our relationship with north korea and the korean peninsula is going to be very much different situation than it has in the past. we both want to do something, we something,ing to do and we have developed a very special bond. get back to haslinda amin. thise drilling

problem itself meaning that was really the heart of the issue of the division of the korean peninsula itself and really what we're 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 they 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

and mr trump will want complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula or had the one done with you and takes the pressure off to have more than one meeting because if you made it all about one meeting the chances of a failure would be would be too serious i think being able leave things for future beatings having a process start up is going to bode good for everybody the ultimate objective we seek from diplomacy with north korea has not changed the completely verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula is the only outcome that the united states will accept. they are two of the world's most provocative and controversial leaders but can u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un do what no leader before them has managed to do for the past seven decades break the hostility and most recently the threat of nuclear confrontation between their two countries at this hour all eyes are on singapore where the summit of the year is taking place trump wants kim to denuclearize and kim wants trump to get u.s. forces off of the korean peninsula neithe

commits to work towards complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula to move d.w. correspondent and hundred from naaman who joins us from singapore welcome alexander are you able to put any more flesh on the bones of what appears to have been a great. both sides agreed on the these four points you were just talking about and the problem is that these points seem to be very vague and there are nothing new each of them can be found in agreements with no screwing up in an even stronger way and particulary what is said about. this. and the president is better read according to experts and because we know. it's to work. and it closes ation what's going to do when it's he going to do it i think what concrete steps are going to be taken by the nosebleed and regime and all of us as it's going to prove to verify that the north korean regime is really committed to the nuclearization so there are a lot of questions that have to be on search and we have to say when you look at this documents today we have to say it's just all talk and no action that was at least one concrete co

from donald trump and kim jong il and i agree to work towards complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula in historic declaration signs at the summit us president said north korean chairman pledged to work towards peace in the current. i feel very welcome to the program first bold step to a bright new future u.s. president donald trump has praised north korea's leader kim jong un after he committed to denuclearizing the korean peninsula historic summit during a press conference president trump said that the north was already destroying a missile site but he explained this detail does not appear in their joint declaration as it was agreed on afterwards they also announced that the us will cease military exercises on the korean peninsula and the sanctions will remain in place for now. so after the signing us president donald trump praised north korea's leader for signing. all right personal to me personally when are american personnel and any leader of north korea. real changes in the past. my meeting with your interviewer was ours. and. we got to know each other well very confined. so here

the other part is commitment and denuclearization of the korean peninsula, not of north korea. this is a bit of a concession as well. this is what the north korean style of negotiation always held that it needs to be the u.s. needs to get its nukes off south korea as well. those have been gone for quite awhile, but the fact is that south korea and north korea are going to have to agree on no nukes on the peninsula, and that's going to include any u.s. nukes that might be in the vicinity as well. >> there's also some talk about recovering pow remains. how significant is that? >> that's a big deal. i can't remember the exact number, but there are thousands of missing pows and remains that have not been repatriated. we have a long history with vietnam, even when we weren't getting along with the whaar, tm helping usu repatriate remains. we lost 36, 37,000 people in that war, the u.s. did alone. many of those never came home, were never found. this is a big step. one thing you'll notice, you remember when prime minister abe met with president trump, and he said please see what you c

document in which trump and kim promised t to work toward the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsulathe question is -- will be's too volatile leaders keep their promises, and is this agreement only going to upgrade the standing of a murderous dictator -- will these two volatile leaders keep their promises? i'm joined in the studio by sascha hach, an expert with the ican organization. he says trump and kim's deal does not go far enough. to succeed, denuclearization of the korean peninsula has to be in bedded in national law. also with us is matthew karnitschnig, chief europe correspondent for politico. he says it may be hard to accept, but trump is right and just getting north korea to the table to talk is an impressive outcome. thedahye yim from communications research center here in berlin who says that understanding and knowing korea is the key to peace. for evening and thank you being here. the south korean president has been quoted as saying that the trump-kim summit opens the way to a new era of peace and cooperation on the peninsula. do you agree? i totally agree. it's a very h

going along like it should so you saying there that the the number of troops on the korean peninsula will be reduced at the moment now they are donald trump talks about the previous administrations and their record in dealing with north korea and how difficult it was to make this meeting this historic meeting between two countries that have been basically at war with each other in a legal sense for the last sixty years how difficult it was to make this meeting happen this is donald trump talking about previous administrations and the difficulties they proceeded down a path in the past and ultimately as you know nothing got done in one case they took billions of dollars during the clinton regime to billions of dollars and nothing happened that was terrible for you and he actually brought it up to me i don't think they've ever had the confidence frankly in a president that they have right now for getting things done and having the ability to get things done well there's obviously a huge amount of optimism around the world in the aftermath of this is story meeting however there are diffe

troops on the korean peninsula. se troops are withdrawn, which may be the case, that would be a gift to china. >> that would be met with welcome arms. open arms here in beijing, january. when we talk about security guarantees, when we get an indication of what's in the statement. the united states says there could be security for kim jong-un, does that mean removal or reduction of the troop size that the u.s. forces have on the korean peninsula? that's the strategic interest that china would very much like to push towards happening, in terms of what are china's goals out of this summit? what they want, if the north koreans are going to give something up, they want the other side, the united states, south koreans, to give up something, as well, that's in the chinese interest. and china has feared the troops on the peninsula. not only that but the troop s i ja japan. if there can be a reduction of the troop level, and the removal of totality of the troops by the united states, china would be thrilled to see that langua

the korean peninsula. security guarantees there are questions though about what's actually changed at the end of the day. we're not producing anything we're not reducing very little bit early for that we have to get things moving the sanctions will remain in effect we will be stopping the war games unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should. two days and counting the finishing touches a major head of the. russia. special manchester united manager predicts the countries to make it to the latter rounds next month. is going to really hard to portugal why of course of course because of my heart's bugs. it itself lets. new government makes good on one of its more divisive campaign promises closing the ports to a vessel carrying. an edge to say the twelfth of june had stuffed. pm here in moscow i want to call them bright welcome to world news from ati first up for you the big news out of singapore today it's a deal done the leaders of the u.s. and north korea earliest signed

have now departed after a whirlwind day filled with new images and maybe even a new paradigm for the peninsula. for the first time in 70 years. with few details available, experts are trying to dweetermi what was achieved. a historic handshake for the first time an american president meets the leader of north korea. later, they sign a joint declaration in which kim jong-un commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. >> translator: today, we had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind. we are about to sign an historic document. the world will see a major change. >> president trump took a victory lap. >> i will say this, we're much further along than i would have thought. i told people, i didn't want to build up people's hopes too much. >> the state was relatively vague, similar to previous agreements with north korea. >> the joint statement does not talk about verifiable or irreversible denuclearization. is that a concession on a part of the united states? >> not at all. if you look at it, it said we are going to -- let's see here. it will be gone.

chief meets the nuclear provocative or will they produce the biggest breakthrough for peace on the korean peninsula in seven decades the face off is now i'm sorry kelly and this is the day. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see. the entire united states is within range of our nuclear weapons and a nuclear button is always on my desk and book the to me those are seeking to break out of the dangerous cycle that created so much concern last year we've had eight international agreements in the past with north korea where they first promised never to build nuclear weapons and then promised to give up the weapons they promised never to build in the first place and all have failed. the north korean regime will lie and say they do not have nuclear weapons. and mr trump will want complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula or have the one done with you and takes the pressure off to have more than one meeting because if you made it all about one meeting the chances of a failure would be would be too serious i think being able leave things for future meetings having a process

spoken with see this as the start of a process that would not only lead to the denuclearization of the peninsula but also perhaps the end of the korean war or replacing that decade's old environment this agreement with a permanent peace treaty. jason south korean president moon jay and said that he hardly slept the night before the summit in singapore do you think that his expectations for what was to unfold today have been matched or he really hinges entire international reputation on this summit he has acted as the facilitator from the very start he had said not only to the south korean people but to the world that he could make the impossible happen that he could make the u.s. leader and the north korean leader sit down across from one another and i'm sure any agreements made i think anything short of the talks completely breaking down is good news for the south korean president now trump has reportedly given security assurances to north korea will fall be concerned that those assurances those guarantees may have gone further than it wants. i mean we have to remember there are parallel negoti

north korea pledged to rid the korean peninsula of nuclear weapons. of a us pledge to halt military exercises, which is seen as a concession. those striking images from the summit are in many of today's newspapers. for singapore's straits times, the historic meeting was the first step on the long road to peace. 0n the front page — a large picture of a smiling donald trump and kim jong—un shaking hands. in china, official reaction from beijing in the china daily. it quotes the foreign ministry saying there was important progress in singapore, and that the whole international community wants to solve the nuclear and political problems. and here is the front page of france's le figaro, which has also features this picture of president trump and kim jong—un. but its editorial has a warning we have been hearing in our coverage of the summit that the devil is in the detail. well, it was certainly an extraordinary turn of events. donald trump is now saying he has formed a special bond with the north korean leader. so what lasting impact could that have? this

kidnapped both left singapore after signing a joint agreement they pledged to denuclearize the korean peninsula and the u.s. also helped to ease tensions there with the north by promising to stop holding military exercises with the south. also coming up the french president a man who had been called announces and lead over the rescue ship left to drift in the mediterranean the more than six hundred stranded migrants now living to spain after it stepped up and offered to help cold accuses the italian government of breaking international. whale of a rock it's great to have you along everyone. they came they shook hands they made history and now the hard part begins donald trump and kim jong un wrapped up their unprecedented summit in singapore with a joint declaration pledging to denuclearize the korean peninsula but the document doesn't specify a timeline or a deadline for pyongyang to get rid of nuclear weapons north korea's human rights record also doesn't feature in the final statement with the impact of the summit still to be determined both leaders seemed keen to let bygones be bygones. it'

the other part is commitment and denuclearization of the korean peninsula, not of north korea. this is a bit of a concession as well. this is what the north korean style of negotiation always held that it needs to be the u.s. needs to get its nukes off south korea as well. those have been gone for quite awhile, but the fact is that south korea and north korea are going to have to agree on no nukes on the peninsula, and that's going to include any u.s. nukes that might be in the vicinity as well. >> there's also some talk about recovering pow remains. how significant is that? >> that's a big deal. i can't remember the exact number, but there are thousands of missing pows and remains that have not been repatriated. we have a long history with vietnam, even when we weren't getting along with the war, them helping us repatriate remains. this is a big deal. we lost 36, 37,000 people in that war, the u.s. did alone. many of those never came home, were never found. this is a big step. one thing you'll notice, you remember when prime minister abe met with president trump, and he said pl

historic handshake donald trump and kevin jong il promised lasting peace on the korean peninsula. chairman jim and i just signed a joint statement in which he reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to promptly denuclearization of the korean peninsula. a signed document says north korea will work towards denuclearization it's not clear how long the process will take. this up kerry this is al jazeera life and also coming up south korea's government shares the sun that while china suggest sanctions relief could be consider for north korea. the divide why british ministers resigned just ahead of a series of crunch votes and are long that. it was a summit high and symbolism low on detail donald trump and kim jong un have just wrapped up their historic meeting in singapore or the two leaders signed a joint statement ken pledged his commitment to the nuclearization on the korean peninsula all saying the two leaders were leaving the past behind spoke very warmly of us north korean counterpart adrian brown reports from singapore. no one was sure quite what to expect from this summit at least

both korea commits to work towards the complete to nuclearization of the korean peninsula shrine trees commit to recovering the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action and clued in the immediate repatriation of those already. identified. so right now let's bring into the conversation cam is the head of the kale and consulting and an adjunct professor at university of foreign studies he joins us live from seoul and we appreciate your time so much so as i hope you were just listening there as i was summarizing some of the things that were on this document that were signed by the two leaders. is it substantive to you know really i think it's much lower than what had been expected you know for days leading up to this moment the corporation is a surprise in the sense that the level of the points agreed is much too low or then more than many people have been told talking about all along the whole point was whether c.v. id the term would be included in the text or not of course there was not included in most of the text the way we remember it it hasn't shown much big dif

commits to work towards complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula well our xandra nabhan has been the following of those talks from singapore welcome alexandra you were able to put more flesh on the fake bones of what appears to have been a growing. well that the commenced that was signed today from was a bold change but had legs detail that's something we have to stress here. and each of the four of main points you talked about can be found in if we in previous agreements with north korea some of them even in a stronger way let's take the most important the key issue here the new clear ization and the paper one commits to work towards a complete stand you close asian of north korea however we don't know what specific steps the north korean regime is going to take and what is the timetable there we don't know how the u.s. is going to verify that that is indeed happened the president just said during the press conference that it's going to happen very soon and that he believes that kim jong il is really willing to give up his nuclear weapons stressed and that's what he's feelin

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 that by having the leaders meet, they would talk down to a decision. what they have is u.s. security guarantees and return for a commitment to denuclearization. what needs to happen is to flesh out the details of that intent to actually lock north korea into a step-by-step process. to get north korea to freeze the current capacity, no more testing, no more nuclear weapons. no more missile launches. also eventually moved to monitoring and evaluation commitment and a f

i live on the korean peninsula it was tense. it's remarkable how quickly we have gotten to this point. >> absolutely. again just this picture just the fact it happened. is a major shift. i'll be it a picture and moment that kim has been wanting for sometime. that his father wanted. and grandfather. jeff zeleny we counted six separate photo ops. six moments and pictures between the two men. and apparently according to you a lot of demand from the koreans in the plans process. >> there was demand for equalfy. equal number of flags and time. kim jong un was treated as an equal head of state. we heard he of course is about half of president trumps age. he's 34 years old. president trump turns 72 this week. on thursday. so he said he arrived early out of deference to the older statesman. in other respect there was equality. what i was struck by and the la language is similar to what we have heard. except from trump. he added a list of super latives and flattering comments. i saw a reversal. he was doing that today. he was calling him

pledged to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula here's what they had to say at the actual signing we have developed a very special bond. north korea best not make any one threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury and have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korean. rocket is a sick puppy frightened dog barks louder i will surely definitely tame that mentally deranged us daughter fire. this is true is proven over and over again and. indeed become friends. very honored to sign the document thank you. so the day we had an historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind we're very proud of what took place today it worked out for both of us far better than anybody even predicted and it's an honor to be with you . despite the two seem to get a welcome did look at the take back with one of president trump's jokes killing everybody so you look nice and really. sort of. maybe just indignant to get here with the time when the summit in singapore with an hour long press briefin

for example we say what do we mean by the korean peninsula, north korea means you can put a bomber onam, that is part of the korean peninsula, we are like don't do this, the nuclear weapons in north korea, that get spelled out in black and white and that is important. >> i want to ask about vladimir putin. what if anything from vladimir putin's north korea negotiations could give donald trump an upper hand if he was to sit down with the kremlin which we heard in the last week they are asking for a sitdown with donald trump. >> the short answer is no and here's why. unlike north korea vladimir putin has to be willing to put something substantive on the table and we have seen that would be a gabfest like the g7. here -- how this new national security team is working and how they are implementing the strategy trump put together in the first year of his presidenc iran decision, a clear, firm decision and strategy and path forward, the second was the north korean meeting. we have seen a very clear strategy, the third is the nato summit. the g7 is a gabfest, who cares. the nato summit is wh

of the korean peninsula exchange for kim jong un promising to give up his nuclear arsenal donald trump committed to providing security guarantees for the pyongyang. the u.s. president suggested after. that the two had formed a strong relationship and that they intend to meet again the turnaround in relations comes just months ago after the pair would threaten each other with all out war far better i watch we have developed a very special bond. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury and have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is a sick puppy. a frightened dog barks louder i will surely indefinitely tame the mentally deranged us doted with fire. this is tree has proven over and over again adversaries can indeed become friends both very honored to sign the document thank you. so the today we had a new story meeting and decided to leave the past behind so we're very proud of what took place today it worked out for both of us far better than a

documents in which trump and kim promised to work towards the complete denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula the question is though will these two volatile leaders keep their promises and is this agreement only going to upgrade the international standing of a murderous dictator so our question here on quadriga this week is trump and came a big deal and it's to answer that question i'm joined here in the studio by sasha hock an expert on disarmament which i can germany's a nobel prize winning organization for the abolition of nuclear weapons he say's trump and kim's deal doesn't go far enough to succeed to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula has to be embedded in international law and other actors need to be involved with this is matthew carney chief europe correspondent for politico and matthew argues that it may be hard for many to accept but trump was of rights just getting the north koreans to the table to seriously top. please he's an impressive outcome and a very warm welcome suited to our union from the korea communication research center here in berlin who believes that prope

for many years, the north koreans were complaining that the united states had nuclear weapons on the peninsula. that is why they considered pursuing nuclear weapons. they do not have that excuse anymore. we do have the ability to strike with nuclear weapons from long distance. that is what the north koreans fear and they do not want to see the clear strike systems anywhere near the korean peninsula involved in war exercises that go on on a regular basis with south korea to make sure that our forces are working together. host: gloria, independent. caller: thank you for taking my call. my comment that i would like to add is i think americans should .ome to a higher level the good of people and the good of human beings, the good of the people that needs to occur in north korea and their neighbors in japan and south korea. china, russia, just start thinking more about the group and leave our hatred behind. host: did you want to talk a little bit about the regional allies and the summit from their perspective? japan, south korea. guest: sure. great point.kes a there is a yearning from the see inpeo

it is reported that mike pompeo is back negotiating on the north korean peninsula. president seemed to be winging so much of it, there are bound to be thinks that need to be rowed back, finessed, ignored, maybe changed entirely? i mean, perhaps the success of yesterday, if indeed you think it was a success, and many people to a certain extent do, the fact that these two men came together and they had their moment is a success. but perhaps the fact they coud reach an agreement was because the comprehensive agreement was only 1.5 pages long, and it did lack detail. now comes the hard work. as i think mike pompeo and also south korea's president, moonjae—in, have described — now comes the hard work. a long process, agreeing a framework between the americans, the north koreans, that will involve the south koreans as well, and then the step by step process of more meetings, more negotiations, building more trust and deciding how they're going to progress in what, again, north korea is reporting, both sides agree will be a step by step process towards denuclearisation. but