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Prosperity. Second, the United States and north korea will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the korean pinsula. Third, north korea commits to workd the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. And finally, the United States and the north commit to recoveringrisoners of war, missing in action remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. President trump held a News Conference just a short time ago and revealed what appears to ...

Hear what kim jong-un sounds like? what did the korean people get? >> well, president trump got his bromance with kim, but koreans have not getting anything on denuclearization. we still dont have an agreed upon definition of what even denuke larization means. and youre right, youre right to mention human rights issues and kim jong-un is the worst violator of human rights in the world. thats a separate system from regular penal system that has up to 120,000 people there. we have not getting anyt...

Aides think it does violate the resolutions. i think it doesnt matter, the president hypothesizing that perhaps kim was trying to get his attention. heres what the president had to say. >> my people think it could have been a violation as you know. i view it differently. i view it as a man perhaps he wants to get attention. and perhaps not. who knows. it doesnt matter. >> reporter: theres still the open question of course of how the president expects kim as he says he does to continue to move to...

Literally no progress other that be perhaps rhetoric on the denuclearization front? >> im comfortable with it right now because i think we have to seep this whole process through because the alternative is really bad. but i think after the second summit if theres no progress thats the point we have to understand there may just not be progress. >> if something doesnt change after summit two you would not want to hear the president say we fell if love. >> we can quit complimenting kim jong-un. let...

Denuclearization process was, quote, may fall apart. and you have the president sitting in there saying, doing well with north korea. >> reporter: yeah, thats right. the president expressing his typical optimism about the situation in north korea, but really the actions were seeing from north korea and from the president with regards to this diplomacy, signaled that the president is really coming to terms with the fact that there has been very little progress on the denuclearization front with n...

Diplomats. >> joining me now on set, sumi, former cia korea analyst, and former director of japan and korea at the national securikue council. you know a thing or two about the topic. mattis seems to be saying, it is the state departments issue more than mine. >> it is true, the state department is engaged with the diplomatic process. problem is, president trump said after the summit that there is no longer a north korea nuclear threat. i think now, by saying secretary pompeo should cancel his t...

This is going to be a long process. its good that its happening. on the denuclearization front, the north koreans have been very silent, and theyre not delivering, although they did blow up a missile site. at the same time, theyre developing more nuclear fuel. secretary pompeo admitted that. so theyre bobbing and waving and not fulfilling their denuclearization commitments. but this is also going to be a long process. this is also going to be a tough negotiation that should be continued. >> as y...

Weapons, namely the problem of verification, isnt addressed at all. were going to have very difficult negotiations ahead, led on the u.s. side by mike pompeo, what had the sense of donald trump handing this over today, now tt hes done the cutting the ribbon at the supermarket, handing it over to mike pompeo. i would note one point that it seem that the u.s. is reserving continuation of sanctions against north korea until there are more concrete, specific promises on the denuclearization front. t...

Whether or not were going to keep our word. you heard secretary pompeo talk about the need to build up trust. i know from pompeos presentation and want to know if the others on the panel think this. he seemed to walk back a cpl things that trump put out there. first he basically said were going to do complete, ir fiable denuclearization before we relieve any of the sanctions. thats not exactly the tone that the president had laid out there. the president basically said i want to get rid of maxim...

Denuclearization front. on top of that, we are not going to try to profit from this transition. that might be a beautiful message to send. there could be tense people inside right now. >> for will come to that. joe was mentioning the possibility of civil unrest. the people have been pictured crying in the streets. it appears to have been orchestrated from where i see it. suffering and survival are about the most people can hope for. you remember the famine of 1994 where it left an estimated two ...