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Conducted by the south and the u.s. short time ago at the white house, the president said this about the possibility that the summit may be a no-go amid barrage of questions from reporters. watch. >> president trump: we havent been notified at all. well have to see. we havent seen anything. we havent heard anything. we will see what happens. >> harris: in that white house moment, the president stood by his pledge to call for denuclearization of the korean peninsula. senior foreign affairs corres...

Corner and making a one-sided demand to give up our nukes. he went on to say it could force kim jong un to reconsider next months planned summit with president trump. they had already branded the air exercises as provocative. they called up a meeting between north and south korean officials and blasted president trumps national security adviser john bolton calling absurd when he said that there could be a libyan-style ridding of nukes from north korea. now most analysts we have been speaking to ...

There are concerns by north korea of what the united states is deploying in the backup to exercises or to drills. but the interesting thing about the interkorean summit that took place between the leaders of north and south korea was that the north korean leader did not bring up the issue of american troops. we have 23,000 troops based in south korea, critical to the defense of the south for almost seven decades now. it was always assumed that the north with demand the withdrawal of all those fo...

How it overcomes those hurdles, that remains to be seen. it underlining the community here, three koreans of american descent that are being held in north korea now. how essentially are they to the negotiations? >> i think its an important element of creating though goodwill ahead of the summit which were expecting in an realizy june time frame, but the idea of releasing these. its part of another event being planned and organized. so these two types of elements of building up the goodwill i thi...

Actually means. >> one question is simply how far does it go, and the other bigger question, to me, is what would north korea ask in exchange? >> kim jong-un, projecting confidence and swagger, giving an unprecedented press conference before the international media, serving up a side of himself the world has never seen, at a lavish banquet, featuring pyongyangs famous cold noodles and a champagne toast to peace. now the question many are asking, what happens when the buzz wears off? and if you t...

Some kind of conventional weapons freeze. look, this is going to take a long time, this negotiation. its a very risky gamble. but i think its worth taking. thats my view. >> professor lee, you know this country as well as anyone. so on the surface, it sounds like kim jong-un is saying all the right things. even, quote, committing to due nuclearization. is he evolving or is he setting a trap? >> kim is taking a page out of his daddys. kim jong-uns 2000 playbook. we had the first ever interkorean ...

Pence portrayed the u.s. at the olympics. and theres good reason for such criticism. however, i would imagine that the u.s. is more focused on what happens after the olympics. more focused on how north korea acts. when if military exercises resume. thats another issue that president moon will have to discuss closely with president trump. i can imagine a scenario that president moon might want to be tempted to postpone military exercises until after an interkorean summit, to keep the north engage...

Atrocities are forgotten for a couple weeks? >> its really embarrassing for the media that have written like that. vladamir lennon once used the phrase useful idiots to describe the people who would help the communist take power. the media just showed they were s stenoographers for the north korea. it was not unprecedented. this happened three times before the invitation to an interkorean summit. happened twice before. none of any of that had any impact on the nuclear ballistic missile programs....

The potential u.s./north korea summit. we didnt get any more details than that. we are expecting to get more details throughout the night tonight in south korea and then expecting a press release from the office of the presidency in south korea at 10:00 a.m. local time tomorrow. 9:00 p.m. saturday evening in the united states on the east coast. this is truly a remarkable moment, completely unexpected, especially when you consider how disappointed people here in south korea were. president moon j...

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