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Really this is a country the size of ohio with the population roughly the size of texas. and an economy smaller than wyoming's, now really with its nuclear program put itself t ce put itself at the center of the global agenda. i think we'll see ramifications of that. that doesn't change the fact that where we are now is different in terms of tensions than where we were six months ago. and the real question is who wins from the next six months. you know, china and russia are already very aggressively talking about easing sanctions. and as one expert i was talking with the other day said, the ch...

>> nic robertson in seoul. thanks very much. i want to go to matt rivers in beijing. any reaction so far from china? >> reporter: overall the chinese government pretty happyh the way things went here in singapore for a number of different reasons. the government congratulated both parties and they used this summit as a way to bring up the fact that countries could start considering easing sanctions against north korea, something china never wanted to do. two big things that the president said. even though it's not on the table at the moment, he talked about his willingness to remove troops fro...

Opened the possibility of easing sanctions. if north korea can abide by the conditions under the ud nations relations, that would open the door to sanctions relief in the future. they are still enforcing what was agreed upon at the u.n., but they are opening the possibility. interesting development. >> certainly president xi did not miss a moment. mt. riv matt rivers, thank you. "early start" continues with the historic summit between kim jong-un and president trump. from trump.press conference >> this is cnn breaking news. >> denuclearization? >> it is starting that process very quickly. ve...

Expectations, saying we don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. >> and kelly, what can president trump offer in exchange for denuclearization? >> well, it depends first of all on what kim jong-un will accept. what are his motivations? that's been a lot of talk that economic sanctions are really affecting the country and that he wants to build up the economy. of north korea. so lifting sanctions is the obvious one, easing sanctions, some sort of economic aid. normalizing relations and trade with the united states. then there's this interesting sort of outlying one. steve bannon before he...

Troubles. h.r. mcmaster was brought on to try to clean up one of the first trump administration officials with the russian government about easing sanctions. h.r. was brought in to replace flynn. both don mcgahn and h.r. mcmaster may be soon planning to leave the trump white house. this comes on a day when steve bannon, former white house chef strategist, the man brought on to run the trump campaign after paul manafort was ousted. his business dealings from the soviet union and links to pro-putin. that's why manafort was ousted from the trump campaign. steve bannon was brought in to run the tr...