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Missiles. john yang is preparing to launch missiles or perhaps something else going on. ambassador bolton talking about this. he answered these questions carefully shall we say. >> the new satellite images out of north korea to suggest that kim jong un is preparing to launch a missile outside pyongyang. on friday president trump said he would be disappointed if cameras zoomed nuclear weapons testing a week after the bottom fell out of this summit in vietnam. this morning the national security ad...

Actions of president trump. we have havent had any missile testing or nuclear weapons testing by north korea in over a year. weve had a return of some of our lost soldiers from the korean war. i think that the heat at the demilitarized zone has been turned down. this will be a long and winding road. you have to be very clear-eyed. its not just kim, his father and the father before them, all of them brutal, ruthless, unforgiving, corrupt dictators. thats who youre dealing with. but i think its cr...

Denuclearization. so i think with the president is probably going to go after in some shape or form is, first, a formal agreement agreeing to the sensation on the part of the north koreans for actual nuclear weapons testing. and the testing of the delivery mechanisms, or their intercontinental ballistic missiles. >> harris: weve seen a secession in that. for a while. how would that be any different from what we already have? >> well, we havent solidified that any formal agreement. it is true, it...

Decided to halt its nuclear weapons testing and its ballistic missile launches at about the time it was really increasing the sophistication of those weapons. the administration points to the fact that north korea has not launched a ballistic missile or detonated a nuclear weapon in more than a year. steve begin spent a couple of days in pyongyang as north korean officials are looking to set up that second summit between president trump and kim jong un. post two leaders met first in june in sing...

Which have failed, we want north korea to provide some sort of first of all accounting of all its nuclear activities and then starting to turn over some of its nuclear material, of which there is a lot. this is much more complex than, for example, the libyan nuclear program which is now in oak ridge, tennessee. the north koreans want some sort of sanctions relief and some sort of diplomatic signal before they start delivering goods. we need to basically sort of come to an agreement and also esta...

Nuclear weapons testing and ballistic missile testing and a promise by the north koreans not to export any of this weaponry out of the country. thats a main american objective. in exchange for certain economic concessions, sanctions relief, et cetera. the timing and verification are the key points but those issues are, i believe, ultimately resolvable. >> all of that sounds very positive. and we hope that well have some good news after this meeting. well talk with you again. martin, thank you fo...

Out of that in respect of arms control. >> how should do you think the u.s. approach denuclearization in this initial meeting? >> north koreans will not give up their nuclear weapons anytime in the near future, but president trump cannot admit that. so it will be aspirational. both parties will say we are working towards denuclearization, we are going to try to get rid of all nuclear weapons, but it wont be an immediate thing. they will have to be immediate objectives and i suspect some of those...

Doesnt plan on going to june 12 and signing a deal, this is a get to know you process. certainly the goal from the u.s. is to get all the weapons out of north korea, all those nuclear weapons. no indication of how quickly they think that could happen or how exactly they incentivize north korea to agree to that without a major concession like a troop drawdown or withdrawal from the korean peninsula which youve heard u.s. officials say is not on the table when it comes to these negotiations concer...

Moon including the optics of a grou groundbreaking summit and announcement of a planned summit with president trump. >> well be meeting on june 12th in singaporesingapore. >> reporter: there were two meetings with xi jinping and along with secretary of state pompeo and now the russians want in. a crucial question now, what made kim change. >> the maximum pressure campaign, the sanctions regime against north korea, has taken a serious bite out of the regime. kim jung-un has been quite desperate. ...

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