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Although his definition of that is likely different from that. the announcement seems to catch trump's own secretary of state, rex tillerson, by surprise. coming just hours after he said negotiations were, quote, a long way off. this morning, tillerson tried to clarify what he meant. >> respect to talks with north korea versus negotiations, and i think it seems to be something that people will struggle with the difference. my comments will be the conditions. we've been saying for some time we're open to talks. >> on thursday, the south korean official who delivered kim's message to the white h...

And frankly, that patience is over. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. i really believe that it makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal that's good for the people of north korea and the people of the world. >> song yun, how does this set the table for this meeting? has kim jong-un just not heard or has he forgotten all of that? >> kim jong-un has made no concession whatsoever to seemingly offer the co...

People who have been deemed to be enemies of the state. they're arrested, they're imprisoned and executed along with their families. hundreds of thousands of people have died there. so how is the trump administration going to balance all of that with the possibility of achieving some historic agreement? let me bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell who is at the white house for us. so in the bush and clinton administrations, as you know, kelly, even lower level talks involve months of painstaking preparation. now we have a president who simply has decided to do this. are they ready? >> well, i think t...

Threats against the united states and guam, that fire and fury rattled a lot of people internationally, concerns about the potential for military action. so there has been a plan going on through, oddly enough, olympic diplomacy, through the breakthrough they had there with south and north korea coming together, for an opening for some kind of talks. we didn't expect those talks to happen at this level where you would have the two leaders face-to-face. but what we know about president trump is that he is someone who believes that the power of the personal connection can really make a differenc...

Bomb test, or a more powerful test. so there's an element of ruthless rash nat in all this and the path to pyongyang will be strewn with more traps. >> i don't think there's any doubt on anybody's mind there are two things for sure that kim wants. he wants stature, a meeting with the leader of the free world would give him. he wants some of those sanctions put away. he also wants to continue to be a nuclear power. i don't think anybody is suggesting that he's willing to give everything else up. but when you approach something like this, as kelly o'donnell was talking about, there's usually a p...