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Doing the same. saudi arabia, the u.s. and israel have often criticized iran for developing weapons programs. the fears are that if saudi arabia is developing a missile program too, that will only escalate regional risks and tensions. that could also cause possible tensions between the u.s. and saudi arabia too. leland? leland: we know the iranian programs continue. kitty logan in london, thank you. and finally, we get to end a program where we dont have to talk about how long the shut downs bee...

Taking more reliable and ground-breaking measures. >> that means lifting sanctions. the u.s. and allies refuse. they say they will do so after north korea dismantles their weapons programs. russian and china also want the sanctions relaxed. the u.s. has accused them of using their enforcement of sanctions. beyond sanctions relief, kim says he wants south korea to halt military exercises with other countries. >> heather: so it appears theyre still far apart. >> at the june summit in singapore, pr...

>> reporter: the trump administration blame china and russia freezing sanctions enforcement against the kim regime and russias foreign minister suggests the security council consider exemptions to those sanctions. >> a 2 way street, steps towards gradual decide moment -- disarmament should be followed by easing of sanctions. >> reporter: the administrator argues it needs those sanctions to propel north korea to dismantle nuclear weapons and keep kim to his commitment to doing so by january 2021....

But it seems to fit the scenario. now, cuban officials here said we would never allow this to be used, but in a country like cuba, its impossible to imagine a third actor could come in and use these weapons without cuban officials knowing. theyve allowed the fbi to come in. theyve allowed canadian investigators because there are some canadian diplomats that have complained of similar things. you read about these weapons and weapons programs that did exist, and its kind of the perfect weapon beca...

Their approach to iran since president trump took office. he is consistently looking to put pressure on him and used words like what he has seen a change of behavior regarding its weapons programs, its destabilizing activities in the region. accusations iran denies. what do you make of this administrations overall approach particularly since youve seen president trump step in? >> i think its an important alliance that has been rebuilt between the u.s. and israel. lets keep in mind the iranians h...

Respond to their promise to denuclearize. we have to see some sort of reaction. >> descriptions taking place. waiting for concrete action and deeds on the ground. >> direct reaction to secretary pompeo, its unclear what specifically north korea has agreed to do. and how and when it will surrender its weapons programs. the state department refuses to offer time lines and acknowledges there is a lot of work left in that effort. >> so what do we need to see? we need to see chairman kim do what he p...

Places, great deal of progress, other places theres still more work to be done. julie: rich edson is in tokyo with more. >> julie, secretary of state mike pompeo will soon meet with top officials from the japanese and south korean governments here in tokyo. he will update them on the conversations he had with north korean officials over the last couple of days in pyongyang. the secretary says his talks were productive. north korea calls them regrettable. the secretary says u.s. and north korean ...

Capabilities, many other capabilities. they have in the past been duplicitous, the last time they gave a disclosure during the bush administration it contained inaccuracies. all of these governments have a habit of concealing their sensitive weapons programs, we dont put where all of our nuclear programs are. hopefully theyve made this decision to fundamentally change their country. >> melissa: let me ask you about the meeting with president putin. what do you think is the main goal? >> i would ...

We appreciate it. joining me here is bruce clinger. hes a former cia division cheap for north korea. youve been in negotiations in the past with north korea on their weapons programs and so on, last year you wrote that writing to kim jong-un is a waste of time. given what were seeing from the reporting out there, was the singapore summit a sham, do you think? >> it certainly didnt accomplish as much as what many of us had hoped for and certainly what the white house was telling. as will points o...

No mention of verification, monitors, observers, no mention of ballistic missiles, weapons programs. the word denuclearn was only in the context of the entire korean peninsula, not specific to north korea. lot of experts raised questions as to whether or not the word denuclearization means the same thing to both sides. obviously we want that for north korea. they want that for the entire peninsula. does that mean the united states has to movets nuclear umbrella entirely away from the region, inc...