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The north korean soldiers were ambling around. there was an incredible palpable sense of tension is gone from that area. >> bigger picture here, there are the optics, and this will be a powerful optic. it is history, the first time the u.s. president to meet face-to-face with the north k korean leader, and there has been no progress on the actual denuclearization. steps taken to hem in the nuclear program. i'm just going to take a beat here for a moment because i can see off in the distance, these are the president's helicopter, marine one, along with several others. the president, the u.s. pr...

North korea has not made progress on denuclearization which is the administration's own definition of success in these ongoing negotiations has said we are in his words a lot safer as a result of these talks, and it is true that north korea has stopped nuclear tests and north korea stopped at least long range missile tests, although recently it restarted short range missile tests which still put u.s. military bases in the region under threat. is -- are we safer as a result of these talks, at least to some degree in that at least the tensions have ratcheted down, including the tensions along th...

To our knowledge, and therefore, anna, perhaps we could say the expectations are much lower for success here because of course in hanoi, the intention, the goal was to make progress on the nuclear negotiations and those fell apart at the last minute. they were not able to agree. this is a meeting for the sake of meeting to some degree, is it not, anna, so a success at least from the president's perspective. simply for the fact that kuhn has accepted his invitation, and will meet minimum at the border here in a -- meet him at the border here in a short time. >> reporter: jim, as you say, hanoi ...

Sanctio sanctions they want lifted are vital to the economy, however the un sanctions they want lifted are there because of the exports on those items are believed to generate billions of dollars every year that are funneled into the north korea nuclear weapons program. there seems to be a blurred line between where the sources of funding come from for the economy and the nuclear weapons program. >> thank you so much for joining us and to your analysis, jim,enijim, i think it's also important to remember that u.s. intelligence agencies themselves say that north korea has continued to develop i...

>> that was president trump at the border there making comments. clearly president sensitive to the news coverage of this. in prior summits they're saying that it's the press that has seen no difference in the relationship but the tremendous things, in his words -- i should remind our viewers that it's the administration's own definition of success, complete verifiable denuclearization by the koreans. this face-to-face meeting, the subject of denuclearization is where no progress has been made. it is true that north korea has stopped tests. it is true that some sill bolic perhaps meaningful ...