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A failure would be would be too serious i think being a believe things for future beatings having a process start up is going to be good for everybody. trump coordinates his efforts with south korea japan and china but alternately he relies on himself president says he's a master dealmaker and doesn't need much preparation and extremely unusual approach toward such difficult talks trumps offer sanctions relief and economic growth in return for the nuclear is ation of north korea but is that enough we've tried before says bruce clinger the former cia deputy division chief for korea clean there ...

Wright who is just at the dmz last week and bruce clinger, a former cia deputy division chief for korea. bruce, you have worked in the past on talks with north korea. what did you make of this surprise today? >> well, certainly another startling development in what has been a year already of historic surprises. i'm in seoul right now and yesterday we had a expert round table discussion with u.s. and south korean experts where we were debating how far this summit would go in creating a perhaps historic agreement. so waking up this morning to this is quite a shock. the inter-korean meeting which...

Tests since 2006 and it had pledged it would destroy its facility to test nuclear weapons as a sign of good faith. and it pledged to do this next week between massive ceremony with american and other western journalists would be allowed to witness. from may 23rd to the 25th and so a lot set in motion besides just the meetings by head of sta-- h of state and there was a process set out to affect the meetings and the north korea nuclear capability and facilities and plans. >> robin wright and bruce clinger, thank you so much to both of you as we follow this breaking news. north korea pulling out...

Location and a solid choice. >> bruce, what do you think about the timing of these things? you have the americans coming home early this morning. and the announcement then of the time and place. connected? >> well, certainly the release of the americans removes an impediment to what may have otherwise prevented a summit or would have cast a dark cloud. it is another gesture of goodwill by kim jong-un. really another in a rapid fire series of foreign policy initiatives. it removes the impediment, sets a good tone. but most important is what is on the agenda during that summit. >> and, kelly, if...

Wor worlds. up until thousand the talks with north korea has been in intelligence realms. so he's carrying the message from the president regardless of what title he uses. >> is the trip a good thing or a bad thing or does it have to be one or the other? what do you make of it, bruce? >> i think it makes it certainly more likely that the u.s./north korea summit will occur. some had doubted that it would. whether we have a break through or not really depends not only on what mr. pompeo and kim jong-un discuss but what happens during the meeting with president trump. so i think really, you know,...