koreans. they may be able to suggest a freeze for some off the things they have done. an important point, for example, they could freeze their testing program since they have stopped testing. and another important question will be, will they offer or can they be induced to offer to hat their enrichment of uranium. they ve continued to enrich uranium to the point where the last estimate i saw, they could make another six nuclear bombs. they will have somewhere between 30 and 60 now. so i think what s happening here is we re lowering the bar a little bit. yeah. and the difficult decision for the united states, if the north koreans put on table an offer like the one sue mentioned, the difficult decision will be will we concede anything in the way of loosening sanctions. you say we re lowering the bar. we should mention that mike pompeo just a few days ago the today show was saying that the
between there threats of knnort korea and he sendended up givinm what he wanted and what he s doing with iran. their testing program is over. they said so in january that they don t need to do anymore testing. if the president wants to claim credit for that so be it. he s not even on first base with respect to the issue of denuclearization, it was a vague statement and singapore and much vaguer than north korea and given to the bush s administration and clinton s administration. he does not have any tractions right now and he pushed it over to pompeo who went there and as you mention did not get to see the leader and frankly it is clear that north koreans are not prepared to go this route. if the president wants to say i have secured not having any tests from them, terrific, i don t think that s what everyone were thinking would be worth the
nonnuclear means. the cannons, the weapons that could all be launched on seoul. and we have not haerz a discussion if they are included. does president trump deserve any credit that they re not launching missiles p? i think it is good, but they have halted their testing program. the united states has not tested nuclear weapons for decades, but we still have weapons. so, the meeting with president trump at nato is coming up on wednesday and thursday, how will that go? well, there is a lot of questions about this. because he has been very disruptive with the same leaders in the con dex of the economic
dangerous problem. no longer. sleep well tonight. but there are, in fact, many issues that remain unresolved. among them, the agreement includes no timetable for denuclearization, and also no process for verification. kathleen steecphens, under presidents bush and obama, joins me from california. and the director of korean and public policy at the wilson center and opened associate press pyongyang bureau in 2012. the first western news outlet in north korea s capital. honored to have you both. dam ambassador, start with you. start with the president s tweet. this idea that north korea no longer poses a nuclear threat. ? well, it s obviously not correct. north korea has not given up anything yet. it has frozen its testing program for now, and that is
story is the fact that it sounds like the north koreans are about to release those three americans, just to show that they want to wheel and deal with this president. absolutely. as the president has said, listen, we are a long way away. this north korean leader is a ruthless guy who has lied to people before there are tangible steps already happening. have you both leaders talking about a united korea, talking about ending those nuclear programs. the north korean leader has already ended his testing program. there are major steps happening and, again, the only reason it s happening is because of this president s strong leadership. frankly, the south korean president has even said as much. and, you know, you can t help as you watch all this just wonder how do you think folks on the left would be responding right now if this was happening under president obama s leadership. i mean, they would be melting with joy. steve: sure. instead, they are, of course, kind of saying let s wait a