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In his answer and he said, well, it does appear that going forward, if there are negotiations, my counterpart is going to be somebody different, but he didnt elaborate on why he thought that or if he had any reason to believe these reports of executions were true. so what we know, according to this report in a south korean newspaper, is that the man who would be the equivalent of the u.s. envoy to north korea, steve bei beacon, was executed along with four other working level diplomats, accused ...

High-ranking north korean officials, this is as if in the united states the u.s. special representative for north korea, steve beagen was executed along with a lot of other state department people, and mike pompeo was sent to a forced labor camp. these are people that we felt like we almost knew having seen them so many times in these high-level meetings, leading up to the summit. we have kim yough chul, the steven began counterpart. according to this report, and this newspaper has had issues in...

>> sue, i want to get your sense of where things go from here going back to the comments of mike paempt ompeo. is there a path forward as you see it walking away from this summit? >> i think its going to be difficult because now theyre at the highest level and we dont have any kind of agreement on anything. eight months after singapore. theyre talking about south korea, u.s. extended nuclear umbrella. our troop brens and when we are talking denuclearization were talking about north korea program...

Now third summit is very unlukely unless working level. and i it dont see that happening any time soon. >> the michael cohen news the last two days, the north korea summit now there is this being reported tonight from the "new york times." thaw are reporting that presidents son in law was granted top secret security clearance because president trump over ruled top intelligence officials. oo according to the times that was so troubling to senior seniorficials he he had been ordered to give kushne...

Where -- and many people have said it was great that it started top-down, but now it needs to be bottom-up so to speak. the working groups need to get down to see whats the art of the possible. >> thats the real trick, christiane, because its about empowerment. our team will be empowered. they will have the imprimatur of pompeo and trump. biegun knows that he can speak for the united states. but on the north korean side, its not the same. >> it will not be authorized to make any big promise unti...

Continuing to stick close to the leader and not criticize him personally. >> i think its because he realizes again, nothing really happens in north korea without kim jong-un, and kim jong-uns approval. were not dealing with a democracy there. so, you know, this is what you call a personal summit versus a plenary or political summit. and i think he realizes that thats the fulcrum. and i quite frankly think that kim jong-un also looks at us in that way. like trumps a different kind of president, a...

Communitys view that during that time period, theyve been making more missiles and manufacturing more fissile material. >> right. >> thats a continuation of their brinksmanship, is it not? whats the game? >> practically i dont think in a real sense, other than the freeze in testing, were really all that different. theyre still producing fissile material. they are still building weapons. they are still developing the technology to have an icbm that can mount a nuclear weapon. they dont have re-en...

Between the two teams? where, when, and at what level are they actually going to start to negotiate this way forward? >> when youre dealing with someone who has absolute power in a country like north korea, focusing on kim jong-un is not an unwise strategy because everything in that country, theres such heavy pressure to do whatever kim jong-un wants you to do. high level officials are not even drinking alcohol right now while hes out of the country because they say they shouldnt be celebrating ...

Prepared to offer in return? the president said there is no third summit set. secretary mike pompeo said there are no talks scheduled at a working level at least yet. he didnt say they are going to stop talking. he said there are no new talks scheduled. the question is, the president imagined with the force of the personality, with the power of the personal relationship hes struck with kim jong-un, that that would be able to move the dial despite warnings he got from senior aides but he was not ...

Basically two into going to stick states this is a big challenge well how would you see that process moving for you say the progress needs to be made on the working level these negotiations are nothing new theyve been going on under different presidents different north korean leaders for quite some time how would you approach that aside from saying they need to work on it what actually has to happen in concrete terms who needs to move what where first of all we have to remind ourselves that this...