he was full o.g. saying north korea best not be messing with the u.s. but on the north korean side, have you seen a shift of being provocative of wanting to find a more mild status quo? well, remember, during the presidential campaign when donald trump said he would sit down and have a hamburger with kim jong-un, media called him a wise politician. then when insults were hurled, we mentioned everything we mentioned before, see night, dotard. but i have been talking with sources familiar with north korea s mind is set. kim jong-un has been studying intently donald trump, to get in his head, to figure out what the best strategy is here. the first year of the trump presidency is defined by more than 20 missiles launched into the sky, nuclear tests.
Dotard and president trump called kim jong un short and fat and a little rocketman. that s water under the bridge bh when they shut down at the table. but whether the meeting amounts to anything that s the open question. that is an open question. and will president trump committing to meet with kim jong un by may what can you tell us about the time line? do we know where? we don t know where. we know that moon jae-in, the president of south korea will be meeting with kim jong un at the demilitarized zone and the truce village, the area straddling the dividing line between the coreias where the interkoran talks happened in january. will president trump come here to south korea for a meeting? will he invite kim jong un to the united states? or could kim jong un invite president trump to pyongyang? we have no idea where the meeting takes place. the key players don t have any idea yet either because this came together who would have thought six hoursing a this would be happening.
Language have recently left the administration so the big question is who will prepare the president for such a meeting and even more important will the president let s people prepare him for such a meeting because president trump is famous for. being a very spontaneous he likes to improvise he likes to follow his gut feeling and that might not be the best approach if you meet someone like kim jong un if you want the summit to be more than a photo opportunity even when it s a historic one carson phenomena reporting from washington thank you. well for more analysis on this historic we want to turn now to hanna somai he is professor of korean studies at the university of berlin thank you so much professor for being with us what i d like to understand is how did we go from fire and fury and mr trump deriving at the north korean leader as a rocket man and then kim of course returning that favor saying he s a dotard to the meeting in the summit i think that s only rhetoric but maybe to
On january 2nd was saying that his nuclear button was bigger than kim s after a very threatening message from kim jong-un to the united states. you know, calling him rocket man and kim calling the president dotard and other insults being lobbed back and forth, the u.n. speech. we first heard it at the gridiron on saturday night that he said there had been positive messages. then we saw those very good talks between north and south probably because of a number of things. we don t really know, but certainly the sanctions have been hurting. and we can assess that there has to be some concern about the threats of military action. you have a very aggressive threat coming out of the nsc and the white house. at the same time madison tillerson urging diplomacy, but tillerson completely undercut on the way back from asia as the president, you ll recall last
You know, calling him rocket man and kim calling the president dotard and other insults being lobbed back and forth, the u.n. speech. the dramatic change here. we first heard it at the gridiron on saturday night that he said there had been positive messages. then as the week proceeded we saw those very good talks between north and south emerging probably because of a number of things. we don t really know, but certainly the sanctions have been hurting. and we can assess that there has to be some concern about the threats of military action. you have a very aggressive threat coming out of the nsc and the white house. at the same time madison mattis and tillerson urging diplomacy, but tillerson completely undercut on the way back from asia as the president, you ll recall last fall, tweeted out don t waste your time on diplomacy, rex. the other big question i would have and bill richardson would be a really good witness on this, is there are no diplomats,