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Week raising the prospect of sanctions easing on north korea have the second summit with kim jong-un in vietnam. the present saying he did not think north korea was reluctant to denuclearize. despite the lack of concrete progress since hand kim first sat down to singapore in june. so what should we expect when the two meet again next week? let's ask a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and the former chief of the cia career branch. welcome, good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> how much progress has been made since the summit last june? >> there has been no progress...

Week raising the prospect of sanctions easing on north korea have the second summit with kim jong-un in vietnam. the present saying he did not think north korea was reluctant to denuclearize. despite the lack of concrete progress since hand kim first sat down to singapore in june. so what should we expect when the two meet again next week? let's ask a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and the former chief of the cia career branch. welcome, good to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> how much progress has been made since the summit last june? >> there has been no progress...

He said he was going to do on the first of january. that will give them a little bit more than a month to negotiate and in exchange china is saying it will increase significantly its purchase of american agricultural and industrial products. the president saying if this deal with china were to go through, it would be one of the largest deals ever struck in the history of this country. that's something he told reporters aboard air force one but it's yet to be seen if he can achieve the kind of concrete progress that would lead to the elimination of tariffs as they've been wanting and getting ot...

1953 when the fighting stopped but still kept north korea technically at war with the south and with the u.s. and its allies. they also want a slow, step-by-step denuclearization process that gives them economic benefits along the way, whereas the united states is saying they're not going to lift sanctions until the end of the process. but they are backed up right now, wolf, by their traditional allies, china and russia, who have told kim jong-un reportedly that they have his back, even if talks with the united states fall apart. >> and remember, one thing the north koreans did before the summ...

Koreans new demand as will ripley just reported that they are seeking firm guarantees that the regime will survive and that sanctions against north korea will be lifted? >> it's not at all surprising. i think the most important thing to note is we have already given up something very substantial, which when you and i talked previously on this topic, i said i thought something we should not do. that is to cease our military exercises with the republic of korea inned a advantages of any demonstrable progress on denuclearization. we've already given a lot. we need to see the north koreans make co...