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2000. this is where "the wall street journal" is saying. "south korean moon jae-in said thursday that north korea had dropped its longtime insistence of both the u.s. remove its 28,500 troops from the korean peninsula i have a planned summit, saying that it only thought of security guarantee end and end to the u.s. hostile policy." north korea has nonpublicly confirmed it but does that sound like they are legitimately softening? >> the only reason they are the table as they are afraid of donald trump. donald trump has done a heck of a job convincing north korea that he is serious when he says ...

Wants denuclearization? i mean what bolton has always said the past number of sundays is one, kim wants 28,500 u.s. troops out of south korea. two, he wants to reunify both south and north korea and be in charge of it. and number three, he's not giving up his nukes. >> that's what we have to find out. we know that the past year of military pressure, super tight u.n. sanctions, pressure from china, pressure from the u.n., really has changed the situation. eric, when i saw those eight north koreans come to the olympic closing ceremony, they were saying wow, we have got to talk, maybe they're the...

And leave it to other officials to work out the details, i do know this, as long as they're talking, there will not be more missile tests and more nuclear tests. i think that's a good thing. i think they still need more nuclear tests. there are two possibilities. one is they go for the big home run and god knows what that looks like, and i think the other more likely possibility is you go step by step, you do something, i do something, you build some trust, you start with a freeze, then you go for constraints and then you sort of phase things in over time. >> eric: their freeze, if they freeze...

And carry out the first nuclear test. in the 90s, george h. bush removed nuclear missiles from south korea with the hope of peace. kim jong-un accepted the u.s. south korean military exercises next month, shows he's under pressure. thousands of u.s. military personnel will take part in the exercises. the u.s. has 28,500 troops on alert status in south korea. any talk of denuclearizing will likely include a demand that the u.s. leave south korea. verifying kim's nuclear program that an estimated 60 nukes would look like the iran deal that president trump has criticized. verification will be com...

In his body, what are your thoughts on that? >> obviously the north korean military thinks that their soldiers are going to be fighting in an environment where there is anthrax and that's indication that they plan to use it because we don't plan to use it and the other thing is that american soldiers who were assigned in peninsula, 28500 of them have been vaccinated for anthrax, so there's a real serious deficiency and south koreans need to be prepared to fight in an environment where there has been anthrax and smallpox. heather: absolutely specially since olympicses are coming up. thanks, tim...