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Minister over the weekend blasted the state department, said that the unilateral demands to give up nukes, no sanctions relief until all the nukes are out of the country, thats a nonstarter for the north koreans. they said this is old thinking, this isnt going to build confidence. now, critics would say that north korea hasnt taken any meaningful steps yet towards denuclearization, so why should they be awarded with a second summit? but the north koreans, while criticizing the state department a...

Looking at our targets and goals, the president has to meet kim jong un and establish a personal relationship for any opportunity, any chance of success going forward. >> how to the president do what past presidents have not done which is sit down with the leader of north korea and get him to ao denuclearize? >>had a tremendously bold initiative to mount what was a bilateral initiative with north korea was one of the problems we had in the past in my view was two of the parties in the 6 party ta...

>> reporter: he does. another benefit of this summit is it induces a reaction not only in pyongyang but moscow and beijing and mike pompeo as dir. of cia, understands the value of reflections of kim jong uns assessment of donald trump, whether he really does plan to denuclearize. those are key intelligence requirements that i am sure our intelligence community particularly the cia will be pursuing diligently. >> do you think what the north koreans got was a photo op? got a photo with the preside...

And more meetings between donald trump and kim jong un. talked about going to pyongyang, and you will see the president said another couple or 3 meetings between the ree leaders and dozens of meetings between mid-level staff in the united states and north korea who will do the hard work nailing down these details and most importantly getting the verification process in place so we can see what it is kim jong un is doing. >> four things they accomplished the united states and nort kotablw relatio...

Consultant before moving to korea. he claims he was doing agricultural work unrelated to the university itself. unfortunately, this act of diplomacy came too late for some americans recently detained. otto warmbier was sentenced to hard labor after being accused of trying to steal a propaganda poster from his hotel. thats the stuff they throw you in jail for in north korea while he was visiting pyongyang. little is known about his time there. when he was released last year his med sal condition ...

Technology, which claims he was doing agricultural work unrelated to the university itself. unfortunately, this act of diplomacy comes too late for some americans recently detained in north korea. otto warmbier was sentenced to hard labor in march of 2016 before being accused of trying to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel while visiting pyongyang. little is known about warmbiers time in the hermit kingdom but when he was released his health situation was dire and he died just six days leade...

Nuclear capability. they may be boasting more than comprehensive than it is. but you know, typically, when you start negotiations as has happened, we got into serious negotiations and this could be a confidence build iing measure. something that would offer. so its unusual that it cops this early. i think it also raises the question of whether when mike pompeo visiting pyongyang, if he requested this before talks begin as a signal of seriousness, but the timing is interesting and also, i think i...

Nuclear weapons. they said the united states would be ridiculous to assume they would give up that nukes. they agreed toe wahey want to t but north korea will not denuke. the south korean delegation visiting pyongyang. we believe they are meeting and they will have dinner with kim jong un. shortly after the trip, they fly to washington to brief u.s. lawmakers and pass along a message to set the stage for direct talks with the united states and north korea. it is hard to see how much progress the...

Willing to say, and he would be unapologetic about it in order to protect the american people. no doubt the voters who voted for him liked this speech. its what they wanted to hear. how was the rest of the world taking it, though? >> two minds on this, because it was so tough in the rhetoric, so insulting to north koreas leader, and no one in the civilized world supports what the north korean regime is doing. that said, is it smart? is this the way to approach north korea? if you believe that he...