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Discussions are ongoing and they're going very, very well. we have no rush for speed. we have no time limit. we have no speed limit. we're just going through the process. but the relationships are very good. >> that was president trump just two weeks ago saying there's no rush when it comes to getting north korea to denuclearize. today "the washington post" reports there's signs that north korea may be doing opposite. new satellite images and other indicators show that they could be working on building new liquid-fuelled missiles, this happening outside pyongyang at this facility which produce...

But we can't verify anything. what north korea needs to do to convince us that it is willing to denuclearize is provide a full and complete data declaration identifying all of its facilities, the size of its nuclear and missile arsenal. then we would have to move on to inspections of declared facilities. then eventually challenge inspections of non-declared facilities. >> bruce, president trump last week, he was still really -- remained optimistic about it all saying that discussions are going very, very well in his words and also when he said, there's no rush for speed, there's no speed limit...

To agree to actually give up their nuclear arsenal. >> we do all hope that this time is different, no question about that. bruce, thank you for joining me. still ahead, the biggest trade war in history. china says the u.s. started it. now beijing is striking back. we do whatever it takes to fight cancer.

Secretary of state mike pompeo is back at the table with senior north korean officials this morning. he tweeted this picture and said he and his staff have been working, quote, to keep the conversation moving forward. this comes after president trump said the north korean nuclear threat is over. joining me now to talk about this is bruce clinger, former cia deputy division chief for korea. thank you for joining me this morning. the wording of the -- out of the south korean -- excuse me, the singapore summit was to work toward complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. pretty vague. but...

We appreciate it. joining me here is bruce clinger. he's a former cia division cheap for north korea. you've 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 we're seeing from the reporting out there, was the singapore summit a sham, do you think? >> it certainly didn't accomplish as much as what many of us had hoped for and certainly what the white house was telling. as will points out, the expansion of these facilities are not themselves a violation of the singapore summit bec...