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Only ten yards to go left or less by the time the principals got there. that was not the case here. where the president himself had to negotiate these things. and we ended up in a bad spot. >> and ambassador sherman, that was the subject of the bbcs question to the president, was it premature to have the summit if nothing was agreed to? >> and the simple answer is yes. you have to do a lot of work. back in the end of the clinton administration. we were negotiating a permanent missile testing mor...

Koreans will play shuttle diplomacy to get them to get them to use the channel to create the right conditions for a summit. what i think nobody wants is for this to head down a bad track where the north koreans abandon their testing, missile testing moratorium, which they agreed to at the beginning of this diplomatic process, and if they start testing missiles again or launching things into space, then well end up in a very bad place like we were in 2017 when they did 20 ballistic missile tests ...

Against what hes trying to do. >> but then what do you think his calculation is now if hes going to give up nuclear weapons? do you think thats what hes going to do? is there a concern about the term denuclearization and how that is defined by both sides? >> absolutely. and this is the crux of the matter. i think all signs are happy to say it would be great if we could denuclearize. the question is whats he really going to do. i think a partial step by north korea is very likely, meaning missile...