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Russia and japan. >> even some of the high-profile events we have seen have become background noise. kim jong-un has met with xi jinping twice now. it's remarkable the help they have been getting from the chinese side. kim jong-un arrived in singapore on a chinese aircraft. there is a lot to be said about the support coming from the chinese side. russia is still in the background. this ia of trying to establish a direct connection. chairman kim hasn't met with vladimir putin yet. prime minister abe is trying to get that kind of connection. if we see the broader movement in these mechanisms the...

Do you see this as a mission accomplished for north korea or does this somehow play out to the advantage of the united states, this meeting? >> i think this is a big win for kim jung-un. i think people who are expecting a swift denuclearization process are going to be disappointed. in fact i think this meeting will validate north korea's nuclear program at least internally. i think that will be the narrative. north korean leaders have wanted to have this kind of prestigious meeting with an american leader for decades. and the fact that this is occurring now shortly after their axccelerated dev...

Out of there, get u.s. troops out of japan, get the u.s. troops out of germany, why do we need those troops there all this time. certainly china would like to see that unfold. and this whole chinese connection to what is going on with kim jung-un and north korea is still a bit confusing. where do the chinese stand? >> they are playing a complex game. they have a reason to be very concerned about instability on the peninsula. they don't want the american presence to grow. they observed our reactions to the threats that the north koreans were presenting to the south koreans when we decided to de...

Counterparts. it is a wait-and-see attitude. that is what it sounds like from washington as well at this stage. all we can conclude is the u.s. and south korea are pretty heavily invested in the peace process and they don't want to scrap it just yet. i think that's what we're seeing with considerable restraint coming from president trump himself. he and his administration and national security adviser were directly insulted by the north koreans in the last 36 hours. they called john bolton repugnant. they said that his comparison of a possible denuclearization process to north korea is similar...

And make sure that they're on the same page. how the denuclearization process should take place. >> thank you so much for being with us. we're almost out of time. >> we are. jeff zeleny. we have less than 30 seconds for you. what comes next? >> what comes next is really the planning of for that historic summit. the time and date will be announced in the coming days. we believe based on reporting from officials that singapore is a likely spot for the. the question now is that the stakes have been raised, so extraordinarily high with this. the hard work begins and the president clearly he'll be ...