Demilitaryized Zone News Today

If you heard at the top of the hour, he was talking about the importance of the locations. the importance of president trump being there. and seeing this. and as well, how the conditions have changed over time. so, the president now, at the dmz, he will meet now with u.s. and south korean troops that are stationed there. close by. and then, we believe he will finally meet with kim jong-un at some location close to the demilitaryized zone. he confirmed it would be happening in a press conference ...

Exercises, the north koreans, have not extended their exercises. >> stand by, as we await the meeting. we will pause now for an nbc special report. you are watching history right now. president trump, will be meeting with north korea dictator kim jong-un at the demilitaryized zone. that separates north and south korea. you are looking at live pictures right now from the pool. this is just, moments away, just feet away from where the line of demarcation is at. he will be the first to meet with ...

Leaders coming in and meeting together. becauseet kim jong un also travs with ang very large security detail. so youre going to have v president trump if hes not already there or arriving soon showing up -- i would assume hes going to have people all p around him, perhaps trying to stay out of the shot so that it doesnt look like some sort of military assault, trying to stay out of the camera lens and kim jong un asns well with his security at his back. >> andty again for those who ar just joini...

Something. thank you. we start a new hour with president trump extending a bold invitation to north korean leader kim jong un as the president has arrived in south korea to meet with president moon there. all of this of course coming as the u.s. and chin agreed to reon trade talks, likely to be welcomed big-time by wall street on monday morning. welcome to a brand-new hour of americas news headquartersism eric shawn. arthel: im arthel neville, a pivotal point as the g-20 with both sides backing ...

Russia and turkey plan to patrol a demilitaryized zone around the long rebel stronghold in syria. turkish president and russian president vladimir putin announce the agreement for idlib on mono-. calling for rebels to withdraw heavy weapons from the province by next month. defense minister says the syria government planned minister to retake idlib is shelved. >> joining us from instan bull with the latest. how significant is this agreement? can it really avert a full scale attack on idlib. if so...

Welcome back. weve got a couple quick headlines for you. high level military talks taking place overnight between the u.s. and north korea at the demilitaryized zone. they talked about the return of american service members killed in the korean war. theres still work to be done. the return of american remains was part of the agreement made by president trump and kim jong un at their summit last month. a second story for you now. a firefighter killed battling a raging wildfire. braeden varney die...

To resume reunions between relatives who have been separated for more than half a century by the demilitaryized zone, the holdover of the korean war of the 1950s. now when relations were better between seoul and pyongyang, there were these emotional meetings taking place, in some cases between siblings who havent seen each other for decades. again, highly emotional. what we have heard from the south koreans is that in response to this proposal last tuesday, the north koreans raised an entirely s...

Lets talk about conventional war, too. they have over 10,000 conventional artillery zeroed in on seoul, and so its a very concerning situation. >> not to mention the fact that in february the population inside south korea will grow further because it happens to be the site of the next winter olympics, which will add to the population, 50 miles from the demilitaryized zone. add that about the things to worry about. this is the current cia director this week talking about the posture the u.s. ough...

>> this has been through four presidents now, president clinton, president bush, obama and now trump. assuming he is a rational actor, if we could go into a district bilateral negotiation and guarantee that we would not pursue regime change, it seems to me that we should give that a shot before we would have to pre-emptively strike their icbms. >> a pre-emptive strike would result in enormous casualties south of the demilitaryized zone, and in japan, tens of thousands of people within a day or t...

North korea in check? >> reporter: well, the secretary of state and the primary focus here on this trip to asia really is addressing north korean aggression, its nuclear program, ballistic missile program. secretary of state says north korea has to give that up, and to do so, the world needs a new approach to nor korea. >> the diplomatic and other efforts of the past 20 years to bring north korea to a point of denuclearization have failed. so we have 20 years of failed approach. and that include...