the avoiding talking about ending his nuclear program. sixth, don t try to be friends with kim jong-un. he killed his uncle, his half-brother and hundreds of others. he is a despot. those people up in canada, by the way, are our friends. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. msnbc s special coverage of the summit with brian williams and rachel maddow starts right now. two volatile leaders. they have tested each other. rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. they ve taunted each other. kim jong-un issued a direct response. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. now, they re moments away from meeting for the first time face-to-face. i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents a bright new future to the world. with the stability of the region and the world on the line i don t think i have to prepare very much. will their summit bring us closer to peace or peril?
this is an msnbc special
Aimed at seoul and its surrounding suburban area? probably 50,000 to 100,000. there s no anti-rocket artillery mortar system in the wor t could defend the population of seoul from an onslaught from north korea. one of the concerns we ve had is when the trump administration was talking publicly about a potential first strike, a first strike against north korea, the concern of course was that north korea would retaliate not necessarily against the united states but against seoul. and now you see the additional this is tape playback. the playback of the arrival of kim jong un at the hotel there as he enters the building and gets ready for his historic meeting with president trump. as someone recently said, that the mercedes limousine has been the favorite of dictators and spots going back decades around the world. you just see the no license plate thing and it just puts a little shiver down your spine. you know what i m saying? that ll get you pulled over in new york. jere
Know very well, better than i. that s what we really have to look at. are they going to agree to a peace agreement between north and south, which would actually get in the way of reunionifying the peninsula, because a peace agreement would mean ratifying the existence of north korea. andrea, don t go far from a microphone and a camera, because we ll be coming back to you. while you ve been talking, we have preset cameras in singapore that all the television networks are taking advantage of. we have very little control over the picture we re getting, but we have just watched the vast trump motorcade come through this section on their way to the talks. let s go to our experts here with us in new york, sumi terry and victor cha. sumi, what would you like to add to what we ve heard already as they set the stakes? north korea already has gained. kim jong-un has gained. look at this. he is running around singapore taking selfies, acting a normal
The avoiding talking about ending his nuclear program. sixth, don t try to be friends with kim jong-un. he killed his uncle, his half-brother and hundreds of others. he is a despot. those people up in canada, by the way, are our friends. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. msnbc s special coverage of the summit with brian williams and rachel maddow starts right now. two volatile leaders. they have tested each other. rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. they ve taunted each other. kim jong-un issued a direct response. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. now, they re moments away from meeting for the first time face-to-face. i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents a bright new future to the world. with the stability of the region and the world on the line i don t think i have to prepare very much. will their summit bring us closer to peace or peril?
Cannot script. victor cha, thank you very much for that. in terms of what s going to be happening over the course of this next hour, brian, what are we expecting? we just wanted to bring obviously all of this is fluid. so if we can bring folks what we reexpecting, president trump has, as we said, arrived at the cappella hotel. that s the backdrop for tonight s meeting. top of the hour, that s 9:00 p.m. eastern time. the photo op that will in and of itself make history. the handshake between these two that so many are looking to see at 9:15 eastern time. they go into their first and perhaps only bilateral meeting. again, notable because it will be intimate. just the two leaders. and their respective translators, not the usual note takers, and sometimes alyst and specialists who sit in on that kind of thing. then at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, their aides will be invited to join them. 11:30 eastern time, the two