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To the president's re-election campaign efforts head into 2020. >> all right, thanks so much. let's go to jim sciutto now also covering the g-20 summit and this news conference. our chief security correspondent, and wanted to talk with you more about this overture by president trump to perhaps have a handshake at least with kim jong-un at the dmz when he areavrives in south korea. >> yes, and as with so many ideas, plans, announcements the president tweeting this out seemingly to the surprise of the north koreans. their official reaction at least was they had not received an official request, ...

And yet the president seems to be interested in the possibility of that picture. and to be frank, it would be unprecedented, a u.s. president shaking hands with a north korean leader at that border that divides the north and south and has since the end of the korean war 60, 70 some odd years ago, but again can't be divorced from the fact on the essential question north korea ending, curtailing its nuclear program, no progress there and yet the president wants tomorrow to have yet another face-to-face meeting with the north korean leader. we'll see if it happens. >> and if happens we'll see if ...

Jong-un would show up at the border, so that's where we are now. we'll see where it happens. there's a security element to this as well because reporters have known for some time this visit was a possibility, not a handshake with the president's visit to the border. the president putting it out on twitter now so the president now plans to go to the border whether or not kim jong-un shows up there for an agreement. oats a moment to remember that if this third meeting happens what progress has been made on the actual substance of negotiations with the north. giving up or limiting its nuclear pro...

President has touted, north korea is no longer abiding by. for instance, north korea is no longer returning the remains of lost u.s. service members during the korean war. that has stopped, and north korea has at least begun again missile testing, short range, not intercontinental, but again this was one of the concessions the president touted as a sign of the value of these talks. so those things north korea has backed off. there's been no progress on denuclearization. and yet the president offering here what is in effect normally in these negotiations something of a reward or a sign of progr...

Agreement and even on the smaller issues nothing major was expected there on denuclearization, but even on the smaller issues they couldn't make progress. and here we are four months later, five months later and the president wanting to meet again with no progress and as i said some backtracking frankly by the north koreans on other concessions they made. so absolutely risky. but this is president that seems to treat the fact of meeting as a victory as it were for him as opposed to the actual results of those meetings with north korea. we'll see if north korea accepts the offer because you mig...