defense secretary william j. terry on this edition of politics. politicking on larry king amid problems at home with neo nazis white supremacist hate groups and three dead americans following a weekend of violence in charlottesville virginia the trump administration continues to face rising tensions on the international stage as well most notably on the korean peninsula donald trump is just the latest in a line of u.s. presidents who had to deal with north korea's nuclear ambitions and only last week he promised to rain down fire and fury on the hermit nation if it triggered a military threat to guam or any other u.s. territories or allies where does the president go from here what's happening behind the scenes to tamp down the threats of on directions from all sides let's talk about this with william perry he served us secretary of defense under president bill clinton and talk nukes with globe korea face to face and growing yang he is also found of the william j. perry project a nonprofit efforts to educate the public about the threat of nuclear

nine eleven welcome back to politicking my guest is dr william terry the former us secretary of defense under bill clinton he's founder of the william j. terry project an nonprofit effort to educate the public about the threat of nuclear weapons he's the author of my journey at the nuclear brink he joins me from stanford in nineteen ninety nine you traveled to north korea at the behest of president clinton. what was the mission like what were they like to deal with. they were very business like to deal with we had four days of intense discussions we came away with a verbal agreement at least a handshake agreement on what they could do and what we could do to put us on a track as a serious track to aborting a conflict that involved them giving up not only the nuclear weapons but the long range missiles and tailored significant concessions the united states makes them both in the economic field and most importantly in security assurances. do you think. we wise for president trump to meet with the leader of north korea. not as a first step i think we would have to first of all have a very clear understanding with china about what we woul

defense secretary william j. terry on this edition of politics. the problem taking on larry king amid problems at home with neo nazis white supremacist hate groups and three dead americans following a weekend of violence in charlottesville virginia the trump administration continues to face rising tensions on the international stage as well most notably on the korean peninsula donald trump is just the latest in a line of u.s. presidents who have to deal with north korea's nuclear ambitions.

defense secretary william j. terry on this edition of politic. the problem larry king problems at home with neo nazis white supremacist hate groups and three dead americans following a weekend of violence in charlottesville. virginia the trump administration continues to face rising tensions on the international stage as well most notably on the korean peninsula donald trump is just the latest in a line of u.s. presidents who've had to deal with north.

defense secretary william j. terry on this edition of politics. the politicking on larry king amid problems at home with neo nazis white supremacist hate groups and three dead americans following a weekend of violence in charlottesville virginia the top administration continues to face rising tensions on the international stage as well most notably on the korean peninsula donald trump is just the latest in a line of u.s. presidents who had to deal with north korea's nuclear ambitions and only last week he promised to rain down fire and fury on the hermit nation if it triggered a military threat to guam or any other u.s. territories or allies where does the president go from here what's happening behind the scenes to tamp down the threats of on directions from all sides. let's talk about this with william perry he served us secretary of defense under president bill clinton and talk nukes with north korea face to face and long yang he is also found of the william j. perry project a nonprofit effort to educate the public about the threat of nuclear w