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North korean president kim jong un, the worst possible thing to do is meet with president trump in person and try to play him. if you do that, it will be the end of you and your regime. he strongly believes and went on to say that he believes there has not been a change in north koreas thinking that donald trump is president. >> i fully agree. think about the last administration. i dont want to cast stones in the past. theres too much of that that goes in the day. i rarely heard president obama ...

>> south koreas said it was the presence of donald trump that led to this. >> if you go back to republican administrations, even like to bush and clinton and obama, all of them tried to make a deal. its not their failing. i think its the failing of the north korea regime to hold to their word. their word was with 6-party talks. they always lied. >> you nailed it by mentions all of the past presidents. this is different. we are the crazy person on the street for once. that is working. he is unpre...

The north korean government made promises before. they have reneged on those. why should we trust kim jong-un now? >> because the united states is going to continue the maximum pressure campaign. were making no concessions and we are not going to move forward until we see concrete and verified actions taking place by north korea. we are also operating from a position of strength that we havent had in previous administrations due to the maximum pressure campaign, not just by the united states. le...

Elevate north korea and make them be seen as a major would power. you can make the argument that 2017 was really a banner year for north korea for the ballistic missile and nuclear testing. they achieved three intercontinental missiles that the intelligence said this week had the potential and capability of hitting north america. you could make the argument kim jong-un reached the point he wants to be at. he has missiles capable of hitting the united states and now if he is to meet with presiden...

Ballistic missile and nuclear testing. they achieved three intercontinental missiles that the defense intelligence agency just said this week had the potential, had the capability of hitting north america. you could make the argument kim jong-un reached the point he wants to be at. hes a nuclear power. he has ballistic missiles that are capable of hitting the united states and now if he is to meet with president trump, well, now, hes seen as a world leader. that optic of him potentially being se...

People who have been deemed to be enemies of the state. theyre arrested, theyre imprisoned and executed along with their families. hundreds of thousands of people have died there. so how is the trump administration going to balance all of that with the possibility of achieving some historic agreement? let me bring in nbcs kelly odonnell who is at the white house for us. so in the bush and clinton administrations, as you know, kelly, even lower level talks involve months of painstaking preparatio...

Establish is very unlikely given all of the other contacts we have seen between trumps associates and various russians but it does raise questions about what aspect of that back channel they were trying to further develop. >> how anomalous is something like this for an incoming administration in transition? >> its entirely anomalous for a very simple reason. the state department avails itself to incoming administrations during the transition period. they make their secure communications systems ...

Channel they were trying to further develop. >> how anomalous is something like this for an incoming administration in transition? >> its entirely anomalous for a very simple reason. the state department avails itself to incoming administrations during the transition period. they make their secure communications systems available. they make their analysts available. the intelligence community makes its products available so that incoming administration team members dont go into these meetings or...

That this is the right move when just in october he was telling his own secretary of state it would be a waste of time to talk directly? >> i think its really clear they misplayed it or we wouldnt be in the position were in. he wouldnt have to clean up the mistakes of the previous three administrations. the president is getting promises out of north korea that havent been made in any recent years. again, we are going to continue the maximum pressure campaign to make sure that they follow through...

Jong-un, the worst possible thing you could do is meet with president trump in person and try to play him. if you do that, it will be the end of you and your regime. hes assuming the president could get played by him the way that is written. that was weirdly insulting. a subtle jab. >> it is a reality. north korea regime has played other american administrations so why wouldnt they try this one. it is a recognition. i think on tariffs, i think that trump was being -- the only issue where hes bei...