To be realized in other callers a glimmer of hope. Also coming up President Trump signs off on terrorists for still an alum many m m ports despite criticism at home and abroad but a growing number of countries seeking exceptions will get the view from the American Chamber of commerce here in germany. President trumps a surprise announcement that he will meet to north koreas leader kim jong un is being cautiously welcomed by most World Leaders but just months after the two sides seemed close to confrontation over pyongyangs Nuclear Program many of the meeting will result in further deescalation so lets just take a look at some historical examples of high stakes face to face talks will start in one nine hundred thirty eight british Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlain came away from a meeting in munich where the german leader he declared peace in our time a year later World War Two broke out. Nine hundred sixty was next to the height of the cold war u. S. President john f. Kennedy had with soviet leader mikhail the key to Khrushchev Kennedy later described the meeting as the worst thing in my life a year later the two Nuclear Superpower stood on the brink of war over the cuban missile crisis he said to two next us president Richard Nixon went to china to meet chairman mao thought business was hailed as a diplomatic success and hes seen as the catalyst that began the process of opening china to the outside world in the mid eightys u. S. President Ronald Reagan held a series of meetings with soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev their efforts to scale back the arms race between the two countries eventually led to the end of the cold war finally if this meeting happens donald trump would become the first u. S. President to meet with a north Korean Leader while in office his change of heart is in part thanks to south korea this is the man doing the running between pianka yang and washington d. C. And hes finally reached a major milestone. For president president from you know meeting north Korean Leader kim jong un hes committed to. Him pledged that north korea really good freeing from any for the nuclear war this so tests that he thrust is the eagerness to meet president from that phone as possible it is a sentiment shared by the u. S. President who confirmed that a meeting is being planned. For historic breakthrough comes after south korean negotiators held talks on monday it was here they learned that denuclearization was on the menu. Far from giving up their bombs in recent years north korea has been ratcheting up its meso program and the threats. Fired back with warnings of annihilation and insults for kim jong il. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. On the front lines of this conflict the capitals of the Korean Peninsula relief and distrust so it is good news now everything is heading the right way that judging from kim jong uns character i dont think he will get the weapons easily. Because i cant believe either of them i dont know whats in trumps head and im doubtful he is serious about this meeting the. Details are still being worked out on when and where exactly trump will come face to face with his or vote enemy. Whether they see eye to eye is another matter entirely. Lets get more on this from a house that most of the professor of korean studies and rollins of a university you know well come to the doubly lets start about port about whether each can trust the oven and whether this will actually happen do you think it will happen this meeting well thats a point of time very difficult to say because there could be a lot of different obstacles to actually then have having the meeting but as of now both leaders quite straightforwardly said they want to beat even trump said yes. So as of now we have to expect that it will be yet except vats in the last few minutes its been said from the us that the president will not meet him unless there he sees some concrete action by yang. Right of course he has to Say Something like that because something for getting into a dialogue has to be given from the north korean side but maybe this could be Something Like the North Koreans already have promised such as freezing another the Nuclear Missiles test or refraining from from any other provocation this could be one thing i could think of what does each side well from the other. Well what the north korean side wants is very clear they want to be recognized officially by the International Community as a legitimate and sovereign state they want have the garden t. Of their regimes survival and they want to have a peace treaty with the us which is complete verifiable and irreversible in the exchange for what well they are. They are they want to have this safety the security and maybe the u. S. Of course once wants to have the success this Foreign Policy success is in midterms elections at the end of the year so both have their motivation to go into these talks quite motivated when the news broke is quite interesting to see reactions china north koreas biggest and most important ally said it hopes that these these actually happened but clearly china was out of the loop u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson clearly out of the loop this all happened very quickly or certainly appeared to happen very quickly quickly what do you know about it im quite confident that south korea is talking to all the surrounding states to all its allies in particular of course to china which is a very important country to the matter and i dont think china is out of the loop but south korea and the involved parties are now concentrating on the most important factors which are north korea south korea in the draw and the driving seat and the u. S. But china was has always been there and is still there sometimes diplomacy has to be quite diplomacy what part of International Sanctions had to play in bringing this meeting about we could we can still get that the sanctions particular recently strengthening these sanctions had an impact on on north korea because within north korea domestically north korea now tries to get on to the next step in of comic development and if it was only for survival they could have also survived with the sanctions but they want to develop economically thats very important to the North Koreans that might have pushed them to re enter the dialogue but lets be optimistic and say this meeting happens all their risks to it they are always. Risks of course but i think these risks can be reduced by before hand exchange of special envoys of the of the different parties and here in this process of course also south korea will continue to play a very Important Role as a broker between these two countries and good story how does a muslim from burdens for university thank you. Kelly from washington now from correspondent accustomed phenomena welcome cost and hows this announcement been met capitol hill and in the media. Well my impression is that the first initial response yesterday after the announcements of was very positive now skepticism is taking over of course there are supporters of President Trump in the media and also among republicans on capitol hill who still insist that this is a win for donald trump it was on the trumps strategy of maximum pressure that brought north korea to the new goshi asian table but Many Democrats of course as well as representatives of the Foreign Policy and security establishment experts of think tanks many media commentators very doubtful about the motives of north korea they fear that north korea might play a game of bait and switch and that donald trump is pretty badly prepared for a meeting in just a few weeks times with kim jong il and that is maybe why the press secretary of the white house or huckabee send us as you just said in your discussion with. The colleague from the Free University she walked back some of the things that were said yesterday apparently saying that we need to have concrete and very final steps by north korea she also talked about denuclearization there and that was confusing because the North Koreans have never promised that they want to talk about denuclearization so that is all very often it seems to be some backpedaling on behalf of the white house if the meeting happened what will washington count as a win. What washington ones is for north korea to give up its nuclear arms and if possible also its long range missile Ballistic Missiles and that is very unlikely to happen because the regime in pyongyang sees those weapons as its best insurance against military intervention by the americans so i dont think there will be any quick wins for the on the ground even if that meeting takes place it is a win already though for kim jong. The meeting itself would be a win for him and it would mean that he would be seen as an equal to President Trump and also he can buy more time once again for north korea you hinted at this and you know. Its washington ready does it have the expertise to handle a meeting like this that is the big question because north korea the u. S. Doesnt have an embassy in north Korea Donald Trump hasnt even sent an ambassador to south korea a lot of old korea hands have left the administration having said that they off course still a lot of people with expertise in the state department in the military in the Intelligence Community who could prepare the president but the bigger question really is does donald trump want to be prepared for such a meeting he likes to shoot from the hip he likes to follow its gut feeling and that might not be the best approach if you meet someone like kim jong un if you want this meeting to be more than just a photo opportunity custom phenomena in washington thank you. Well mr trump start a busy day hes also made good on his threats by signing off on import tariffs twenty five percent on steel ten percent on our menu he blames other countries for americas massive trade deficit still only accounts for two percent of world trade and yet tit for tat arabs and penalties are dangerous the ripple effects could ask him to a full on trade. This is the moment donald trump made as official surrounded by the people whose job he claims to be securing the u. S. President signed off on plans to impose hefty tariffs on steel went out a million employees. The reaction was swift the Worlds Largest trading bloc the European Union says it has knowledge of some of the president s concerns but it rebuffed trump claims that the protectionist measures u. S. National security. We have been in talks with the american friends for quite some time to explain to them that whereas we share the concern of overcapacity in the steel sector this is not the right way to deal with it and it is certainly not the right way to excuse to include europe in that because we are friends we are allies we Work Together we cannot possibly be a threat to National Security meanwhile the w. T. You know whose job it is to manage global trade relationships appear to signal that the tyrants werent yet set in stone is probably still time. As i understand it this measure doesnt apply for another fifteen days and theres a process as well for those members seeking exceptions exemptions to do so so there is still time certainly theres still time to discuss this but on the grounds the potential friends of a trade war is a ready being felt in some on the usual ways take for instance the e. U. Threat to retaliate by taxing us products like Harley Davidson motorcycles this dealership in Frankfurt Germany has actually experienced a temporary surge in business. Knows this thing is that because buying a Harley Davidson is an emotional thing people have already decided to buy one this season are coming to us in the dealership and saying i want to order my harley now before anything happens so that i have that deal in the bag at least before. The deals on motorcycles are one thing deals on steel are another with just two weeks to go before the tire of come into effect from International Trade partners will have to act fast if theyre to secure exemptions. More on this now with a son who is general manager of iraq and. Welcome to day w what is the American Chamber of commerce a few of these new types well why. Think its definitely understandable that President Trump is addressing the overcapacity of steel and aluminum caused by subsidized and cheap steel an element by china and india its definitely the wrong measures hes taking first of all its way too broad the tariffs are way too broad so they hurt actually more the allies of the United States like for instance the European Union and its hurting countries who are actually contributing to the economy in the United States if you take a germany for instance they create jobs in the United States seven hundred thousand they invest in infrastructure and in education so thats definitely a country you dont want to hurt by these tariffs secondly this side effects will hurt the u. S. Economy itself by raising prices and Consumer Prices and in the end this might start an escalation and in a trade war and thats bad for the entire world except mr trumps world view he says america would win big in any trade war what does he opinion on there is no big when there is no win the trade war our supply chain economies are globally connected so effects of trade wars will always be felt globally also at home in the United States if he is addressing a win that can only be a very narrow and short term wind as in catering to his voter base the Blue Collar Workers in the midwest for instance they might see the creation of jobs in a very small sector of the steel sector. But that wont last very long because the side effects will be higher prices and theyre so i dont see any big win certainly not mr trumps figleaves if you like is his excuse for these. And getting all round w. R. T. To w t o rules he says of these steel or aluminum imports affect americas National Security i have been slightly convinced by that not at all i think its actually a vehicle that he is using because actually its congress that house the trade authority and congress has delegated power to the president in trade issues the power to raise or lower tariffs but that is done via legislation so the president needs to use that legislation to actually raise the terror of so hes basically using legislation the delegation of power to him to do that and hes using one particular one from the one nine hundred sixty s. So in my opinion its a vehicle to do that and certainly it wont lead to anything because if you take europe for instance we are definitely not a National Security threat but we are partners. So we heard were looking at fifteen days before this happens what is likely to happen within fifteen days for the those countries who are likely to be affected by this what will they do well the first and most important step will happen and thats tomorrow when the u. S. Trade representative like ties or will meet with the e. U. Trade commissioner cecilia mindstorm and they will sit down and talk and negotiate and thats the imperative thing that we talk and i think that the next fifteen days will be used for that will be used for talks for negotiations and hopefully also others will raise their voices like industry but do you think the vision goes ations are likely to be pleading for an exemption those are the ok if you do that youre playing the game should be should they be going for an exemption or should they be telling mr trump to. Abandon this policy. Well its certainly difficult to tell President Trump to abandon his policy weve seen that hes a negotiator that he needs a deal and i think the tariffs are a political measure hes taking for domestic reasons so hes catering to his voter base so he needs to take something home to show with those who only got minor gains from the tax reform for instance that hes hes on their side putting more on their table so i think it will have to be negotiations he wont abandon the policy choices argue so its very clear. From the American Chamber of commerce in germany thank you youre very welcome. 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