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Of the white house and president trump is signaling will the start of negotiations with a possible sit-down with north korea. speaking to a group of reporters last night, president trump said of north korea, a couple days ago, they said, we would like to talk. and i said, so would we, but you have to de-nuke. president trump later said, we will be meeting and we'll see if anything positive happens. earlier in the day, the president attended a fund-raiser at his mar-a-lago home where he talked about xi jinping and his consolidating power. >> don't forget, china's great and xi is a great gentlem...

North koreans to stop working on their nuclear weapon system and from their perspective, that makes sense because it gives them leverage and means the united states is paying attention to them, the koreans are paying attention to them, and we have not figured out over the course of the last several presidents what it will take or what can be done to get the north koreans to back down. if president trump has a plan for that and includes meeting with kim jong-un, then perhaps it will happen at some point. but i think we need to wait for a few minutes to see if this is actually u.s. policy or sim...

Nationalal interest. jim hansen is president of the security studies group. they both join us. harry, most of us accept that north korea would have quite a job beating the united states towns a lump of jelly. let's consider it the other wayi around. if we want to de-nuke north korea, is that doable? >> is it doable, absolutely. the challenge is to do that you run the risk of potentially killing c millions of people. for example, let's say the president decided to weigh his military options and launch a strike. d in order to do that, he would have to amass a large amount of fire pow near the as...

The president saying, quote, i will not rule out direct talks with kim jong-un. i just won't. as far as the risk of dealing with the madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine. the president obviously joking there. and then he said, by the way, a couple of days ago, they said we would like to talk, and i said, so would we, but you have to de-nuke. you have to de-nuke. so let's see what happens. maybe positive things are happening. i hope that's true. we will be meeting and we will see if anything positive happens. the foreign ministry of north korea put out a statement saying that the u...

Perspective there is certain a reason to try to talk with the united states. figure out what the trump administration is thinking, what their next moves will be. but in terms of the nuclear issue, no indications at this point, george, that they are willing to relinquish their nuclear weapons which are written into their constitution. you visit pyongyang. all of the state propaganda is built up around this notion of the nuclear weapons almost guaranteeing, you know, proving legitimacy of north korea's leader kim jong-un by the fact that he's built up this nuclear force. so it's hard to see how ...