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Side of the border, the south korean side of the border, we had a feeling that something was up. and then when we saw them in that room with two the two chairs and seven american flags and seven north korean flags, a little bit of this had been precooked in the last 24-36 hours and there was some idea that this was going to go on longer than 5-7 minutes. you heard kim jong un, through his interpreter, say he hopes president trump can put all of his bad stuff behind us. well, thats really up to k...

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...

>> cnns national security reporter kiley atwood is with me now from washington, d.c. youve been digging into this. what have you learned about why kim is sending these letters? >> reporter: brooke, as you could see in the oval office yesterday, trump was quite proud to talk about this letter that he received from kim jong un and sources have told cnn that its similar to the past letters hes received from the north korean leader, that it was predictably effusive, offered compliments and appealed ...