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Smuggling of oil and fuel into south korea. isnt the same at policy of maximum pressure on north korea, isnt that releasing its grip?>> absolutely not. he should be very careful about what you read in the press around the world. the entire un security council remains committed to enforcing the un security council resolutions. i am confident we will renew that in the week ahead. its one of the things we will talk a great deal about to a country, every nation has told me personally, they remain co...

Could this break denuclearization deadlock with the us? here is the author of nuclear showdown, gordon chang. thank you for joining us, appreciate it. what i meant to say at the beginning is is this make or break it for denuclearization? how significant is this? third time the charm? >> reporter: probably not. two korea leaders basically on the same page, they want unification of the korean nation and president moon want to shovel money to kim jong un. that undercuts our efforts to dismantle nor...

Dramatically. kim jong-un is forced to look at a potential collapse of his economy if he cant do something moving forward with this. and so i think we have some leverage here. we continue to have chinese support. we continue to have russian support on exporting and other nations, south korea and others. and so right now we had the pressure on them to go forward and well just see how it plays out. but again, trust and verify, i think im starting with dont put in trust until you see the results. a...

Ga gangster-like in terms of its behavior. calling it regrettable. pompeo and the state department maintaining progress was made. but you have an interesting tweet from pompeo after meeting with shinzo abe in japan. and he talked about, quote, maintaining maximum pressure on north korea. and the reason that its significant is because thats a term that president trump himself said he would no longer use, just a few weeks ago. whats your read? >> well, my read is its a complex situation, first of ...

Doomed. >> well, its very interesting. there are reports suggesting that the secretary of state pompeo has consulted with outside experts and been skeptical about the ability of north koreans really to deliver on this maximalist promise that president trump has offered and obviously john bolton the national security adviser has signaled his skepticism from the beginning. so one question is if the talks dont pan out quickly, whether you might see the trump administration veer back towards their o...

>> yeah. trumps policy was based on an assumption. that assumption is that kim jong-un made a strategic decision to give up the nukes. weve seen from all the reporting to nbc news and others saying theyre working on the missiles and, of course this very belligerent language today from the north korean foreign ministry after that two day meeting with secretary of state pompeo. this is not a good faith negotiation. i think president trump needs to do what he did on may 24th. look, after that strin...

Maximum pressure. heather: iran, one 20th of its trade is at play here. >> exactly right. the us trade is larger than iran, it would make no sense for the europeans to trade with iran and the us relationship, for the world economy. >> $435 billion when you talk about us exports and $24 billion when you talk about partners like iran which is the 66th biggest trading partner. lets talk about money, donald trump, to saying there cannot be the world piggy bank. listen to what the press secretary had...

Good to have the press along for the trip. gordon chang is with me now, hes the author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world." let me ask you again, when you look at the overarching threats in the past eight months. has president trump been played? >> yeah, i think so, but we really wont know until after the pompeo trip. this is really make or break for trumps policy. because that policy is based on the assumption that kim has made a strategic decision to give up his nukes. if he ...

Because they want to delay this process. >> reporter: that possibility of delaying and dodges from pyongyang could be why secretary of state mike pompeo tells cnn the administration wont put a time line on reaching crucial milestones. this is a process that will be grinding. like all past agreements with this regime it could break down. >> what happens is that the process gets bogged down, threats are issued. theres a resumption of more pressure but not maximum pressure yet. eventually, somebody...

Trump of black male in response to his threat of more tariffs. the president says he will slap a 10% tax on another $200 billion worth of chinese goods unless beijing reverses course. it comes days after the u.s. announced first round of tariffs and china hit back with retaliatory fees. the u.s. had a world 375 billion-dollar trade deficit with china in 2017. thats a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. steve: more maximum pressure. jillian: yeah. steve: thanks, jillian. what can ...