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Out what kind of military postures appropriate and thats war games, hes likes to call it, have long been a reassurance to our partners and a show of might to those who might cause trouble. >> right? >> reporter: so this will be something the president will have to really kind of keep negotiating with friends and even with the american people. >> kelly odonnell with us here in singapore. thank you much, my friend. i appreciate it. i want to bring in now speaking of the department of defense, hans...

just in time for the network morning shows, the president treating "korean war to end, the united states and all of its great people should be very proud of what is now taking place in korea." the big question, willie, what are the next steps? what does this mean in north korea being an honest broker or is it trying to cut the u.s. out of the process? well ask the president about this when he holds a joint news conference with german chancellor angela merkel later today. >> kristen welker at ...

North korean leader is willing to give up his nuclear weapons. >> i was in korea covering the olympics a couple months ago and president moon was under a lot of stress, a lot of criticism, getting heat from some corners in south korea for even allowing that north korean delegation to come to the olympic games. that lack of trust, that skepticism has been built up in south korea over generations. >> whats the feeling in south korea as people watch those pictures? >> in the runup to this thing, ev...

Goal of realizing through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free peninsula. so they agree on the goal. they agree to carry out disarmament in a phased manner. as military tension is alleviated. and substantial progress is made, in military confidence-building. in other words, it is conditional. and then came the kind of extraordinary statement -- no more war on the korean peninsula. but look, guys, this isnt a miss world pageant where everyone simply agrees on world peace. this is a summit an...

Guy on this. but it places a lot of weight on the summit between trump and the north korean leader because the key piece has still not been addressed so there will be attention paid to what president trump can get on the nuclear issue from the north korean lead lead leader. i think he will meet with president trump and explain what he learned about this but theres a lot of pressure on the u.s. dprk summit that is supposed to happen. >> dr. victor cha, thank you very much for talking with us this...

Take the gamble of a summit of his own. because the stage has been set by these extraordinary events today. for a trump/kim summit whenever and wherever that might be. >> well its early yet. we may still see a tweet from president trump. nbcs bill neely along the dmz this morning. so richard you had some interesting, if you looked at the conversation between the two men, you had kim jong un saying his delegation was so impressed by the bullet train when they came to the olympics in south korea...

Story. for many life in trumps orbit ends in crash landing, but right now i want to go to richard haass. richard, you look at whats going on with those handshakes in north korea and south korea, talk about the other key principal players here. obviously the united states wants to play a vital role in this, china wants to be a part of it, japan has every reason to be a part of this process, too, since all of those countries are going to be affected by any instability in north korea. talk about ho...

Stakes for him. we know from our reporting that president trump sees that summit as his great man moment. this is going to be tough to top so people are worried about what he might give away or what the concessions would be. but the stage was set with mike pompeo who until yesterday was the cia director. then yesterday confirmed to the secretary of state, hopped on a plane at andrews air force base now in brussels but he got to a senate vote with seven votes to spare. this was supposed to be ver...

Making a statement on the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula, is a whole turn of events from how 2018 opened. where kim jong un and president trump were exchanging threats about their nuclear buttons. there is a healthy degree of skepticism here. people have been down this road before. deals have been brokered and broken before. but there is a different kind of optimism. there are also no illusions. many people see this move toward diplomacy by kim jong un as very tactical. that h...