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As he goes into it. However when you contrast it to what the president has said up to tonight. Here is how the administration has been describing its goal for the singapore talks. North korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. The conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization in the peninsula. The goal and the purpose of the conversations is to have denuclearization of the peninsula. The denuclearization of the korean peninsula. The president has laid out to what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. ...

To denuclearization. and instead of you seeing denuclearization or the standing point, they were willing to actually think about it in a parallel way, not only keeping the pressure up on denuclearization but also trying to cool tensions and improve the relationship at the same time. so the u.s. was already getting to get a little little more lenient heading into hanoi. and that's why a lot of outside watchers were expecting a at least some sort of stated principles coming out of this summit. so even if they weren't able to secure something tangible, that an inventory wasn't agreed upon or some...

I was watching as a lot of you folks over the weeks have said, oh, we've given up -- we haven't given up anything. and i think frankly we'll be good friends with chairman kim and north korea, and i think they have tremendous potential. i've been telling everybody they have tremendous potential, unbelievable potential, and we're going to see. but it was about sanctions. they wanted sanctions lifted but they weren't willing to do an area we wanted. they were willing to give us areas but not the ones we wanted. john? >> as we know, i mean there's an incredibly complex set of issues that are at pl...

Sure, still leaves missiles and war heads and weapons systems. so there's a lot of other elements we couldn't get to. >> and the listing of all elthem. >> and the declaration, so all of those things we couldn't get to today. >> go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. >> taung. >> i just wanted to clarify when you talk about what you would be willing to give up all of the sanctions for, are you still thinking that you want north korea to give up everything to do complete verifiable denuclearization before you lift sanctions? >> that's a good question. i don't want to say that to you because i do...

Yeah? you have to speak up. >> i'm a reporter from south korea and i appreciate your effort to advance denu denuclearization on the korean peninsula, and could you elaborate the various ways you discussed with chairman kim to denuke larization? >> we discussed many ways and the denuclearization is a very important word, has become a very well-used word. and a lot of people don't know what it means, but to me it's pretty obvious we have to get rid of the nukes. i think he's going to have a chance to have one of most successful countries rapidly on earth, too. if you think of it you have on one ...