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Demilitarized zone. officials trying to determine whether north korea will agree to complete denuclearization and what kim jong-un will demand from the united states in return. sources say that some trump aides including national security adviser john bolton have told the president that even a cursory meeting with kim would be a diplomatic victory and could lead to more serious talks. "the wall street journal" reports that the white house was preparing to announce new sanctions against north kor...

President is writing right now. lets start with north korea. whats happening now is just this flurry of activity all around the world with a key u.s. official in singapore, another key u.s. official in north korea as we speak and a north korean official the former intelligence chief on his way to new york to be here as early as tomorrow. it really does seem as if everything is moving towards this summit. >> right. everything is accelerated. as alisyn pointed out earlier, there is a sense that pr...

Summit to become the goal itself. even though it is for me get people around president trump and himself saying, you know, just being there and talking is a great thing. >> i think thats totally right. as far as the marriott being booked, both have dibs on it for the week after that. it all seriousness, it is dead on right. if the end goal is just to meet then, then that may be achievable. is that enough? doesnt that count for something? isnt that exactly what kim jong-un wants? all he wants is ...

>> do you see it as the presidents letter of having been a successful tactic in getting kim jong-uns attention and putting these things into overdrive to make this summit happen? >> theres a few things going on here, a couple dozen. i do think his demonstrating his willingness to walk away is essential to maintaining some leverage here. the leverage is dissipating because the chinese are playing their own game. the south korean president moon is swooning over a peace treaty with north korea and ...

Shaping up at the white house. president trump laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery this memorial day. paying tribute to fallen service members and their families. at the same time, a flurry of diplomatic activity. positive new signs the face-to-face summit with kim jong-un, the same one the president called off on thursday, may still happen. heres abcs chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: on this memorial day, president trump g...

Already three feet higher than they should be right now. so not the waves on top of the surge, this is the water that is already in your bay, in your back bay. st. marks, water is also rising there, so well watch that. thats the east side of the storm. the other thing is the heavy rain, flash flood watches up and down the east coast and the surge here, about two to four feet, already at three. and look at what happened over the weekend here on the other pictures you showed. ellicott city, now 8....

These talks up for success? >> well, im worried that this kind of summit backlash is kind of -- it is focusing on the wrong issue, which is whether or not theres a summit. the real issue is whether or not a summit can be successful or whether it is going to be a failure. the problem i see right now is that while theres been a lot of this back and forth, im not so sure there has been sufficient preparation by both sides in order to ensure that when a summit takes place that it can be successful i...

Any evidence that you have seen that both sides share a mutual understanding? for instance, the key issue here of what denuclearization means, because both sides sent signal in fact their definitions are very different. >> i think thats a real problem. part of it is that, you know, in some ways this has been handled badly from the beginning. the president immediately agreed to going into a summit without any kind of preparation or discussion about what the north koreans were prepared to negotiat...

And thats where some surprising developments have taken place on the korean peninsula. an unannounced second face-to-face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea, moon jae-in and north korean leader kim jong-un, meeting again today in the demilitarized zone dividing their two countries and no one knew about it before hand. it was unannounced. paula hancocks is in seoul. paula, what did they talk about and how large did the on again, off again summit with president trump loom over th...

Violated our sanctions against north korea repeatedly. so it totally undermines our effort to put maximum pressure on north korea to say, oh, we just caught zte cheating and lying about selling goods to north korea, but you know what if you can cut a deal with the president of the united states on some other trade related issue not related to our security, well let you off the hook. that sends a terrible message to everybody else with respect to our seriousness about our sanctions on north korea...