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To summit. take a listen. >> i can tell you the president has been receiving daily briefings on north korea from his national security team and i can also tell you the schedule for tentatively that first meeting will be on june 12th at 9:00 a.m. singapore time and take pla at june 11th, 9:00 p.m. east coast time. >> no matter what you call it, its maximum pressure that sealed the policy in north korea? >> the policy has not changed. as the president stated, we have sanctions on, very powerful, a...

To summit. take a listen. >> i can tell you the president has been receiving daily briefings on north korea from his national security team and i can also tell you the schedule for tentatively that first meeting will be on june 12th at 9:00 a.m. singare time an ta place at june 11th, 9:00 p.m. east coast time. >> no matter what you call it, its maximum pressure that sealed the policy in north korea? >> the policy has not changed. as the president stated, we have sanctions on, very powerful, and ...

Hitting an american city. so i think the fact that w have bullies like kim jong un, they only understand people who are strong peoe, strong-willed people and not the mushy types we have had in the foreign relations in the last ten years. >> jon: he has shown some good will in recent months. i mean the horrific death of otto warmbier aside. there have been some signs signs from the north korean regime they are malleable. >> sure, jon. we have the three hostages that came back. they have destroyed...

Around their nuclear test site. now kim jong un replaced three topilitary commanders with loyalists ahead of the summit. experts say these are loyalists who may be more amenable to making concessions on north koreas nuclear program than the older officers who are hawk issue on maintaining the program. one of the military leaders helped kim jong un purge his uncle, so these men are among his trusted inner circle. ana: always interesting. for more on this, lets bring in noah rothman. let me read t...

Congressman, are those positive steps? >> i think theyre all p.r. image building than positive steps. i wish i could say they were positive steps. but we cant have amnesia about the past. there were three denuclearization agreements reached with north korean, all of which they breeched in 1994, 2004 and 2012, releasing hostages, they did that many times in the past. they did it under president obama, under bill clintons and george bushs tenure. this is not a new phenomenon. as to blowing up the ...

More powerful. the white house indicated a willingness to hold talks with north korea. in february north korea sent 22 athletes the compete in five sports at the pyeongchang winter olympics. in march president trump accepted the invitation to talk with kim jong un. ? april the president revealed a secret eastern weekend visit by pompeo. two days later north korea announced it had suspended all missile tests and that it was shutting down a nuclear test

Obviously, they dont want to give goodies up front as the u.s. has in the past. they want to make sure north korea is taking steps, fred, the u.s. is taking stems in the past. they gave up a cooling power. they took steps twondz dismantling its nuclear test site. the question is will it be verifiable? are they going to let in inspectors to see this is actually taking place? i think thats what the u.s. will be looking for. fred, i think we need to have managed expectations of what is achievable a...

What do you make of the developments, the meetings of north korean and south korean leaders after you were instrumental in helping inform the north koreans that you were about -- with trumps letter earlier in the week that had called off the summit? >> reporter: yeah, we were on the train ride back from the nuclear test site when the phone call came. that was the first that the north koreans and the journalists on the train had heard of it. we obviously didnt have internet or television. you kno...

T train from the test site. the insult hurled. the north koreans now, it seems they could work with the united states. and that is why you saw that statement. they said president trump was brave for taking steps. and willing to talk with the united states at any time. north korean diplomats have re-opened. and trying to see if they can work out and make something happen. to make this summit occur on june 12th. >> so what happens now? what are the next steps? they can agree to have the summit. bu...

Koreans, they called him a political dummy. president trump canceled the summit, japanese we got on the train ride back from north koreas apparent destruction of their nuclear test site. that sent shock waves through the north koreans on the train with us. we broke the news to them. the next morning, a conciliatory statement from pyongyang praising president trump, calling him brave for showing willingness to sit down and talk face to face with kim jong-un. and now this surprise summit. we dont ...