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Diplomats. >> joining me now on set, sumi, former cia korea analyst, and former director of japan and korea at the national securikue council. you know a thing or two about the topic. mattis seems to be saying, it is the state department's issue more than mine. >> it is true, the state department is engaged with the diplomatic process. problem is, president trump said after the summit that there is no longer a north korea nuclear threat. i think now, by saying secretary pompeo should cancel his trip, trump is finally admitting there is no progress being made on the denuclearization front. >> s...

This is going to be a long process. it's good that it's happening. on the denuclearization front, the north koreans have been very silent, and they're not delivering, although they did blow up a missile site. at the same time, they're developing more nuclear fuel. secretary pompeo admitted that. so they're bobbing and waving and not fulfilling their denuclearization commitments. but this is also going to be a long process. this is also going to be a tough negotiation that should be continued. >> as you know, they like to drag out these negotiations. ambassador richardson, thanks very much for ...

Weapons, namely the problem of verification, isn't addressed at all. we're going to have very difficult negotiations ahead, led on the u.s. side by mike pompeo, what had the sense of donald trump handing this over today, now tt he's done the cutting the ribbon at the supermarket, handing it over to mike pompeo. i would note one point that it seem that the u.s. is reserving continuation of sanctions against north korea until there are more concrete, specific promises on the denuclearization front. that's good to not let up the pressure in this first flush of handshakes and good comments. but i,...

Whether or not we're going to keep our word. you heard secretary pompeo talk about the need to build up trust. i know from pompeo's presentation and want to know if the others on the panel think this. he seemed to walk back a cpl things that trump put out there. first he basically said we're going to do complete, ir fiable denuclearization before we relieve any of the sanctions. that's not exactly the tone that the president had laid out there. the president basically said i want to get rid of maximum pressure. and the second thing is he made clear that what north korea seeks, which is the dec...

Denuclearization front. on top of that, we are not going to try to profit from this transition. that might be a beautiful message to send. there could be tense people inside right now. >> for will come to that. joe was mentioning the possibility of civil unrest. the people have been pictured crying in the streets. it appears to have been orchestrated from where i see it. suffering and survival are about the most people can hope for. you remember the famine of 1994 where it left an estimated two million people dead. is there a possibility of a dissident up rising of the people rejecting kim jon...