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Of a hermit kingdom. >> reporter: then came kim's new year day speech, expressing desire to soften relations with his enemies, so-called olympic thaw with his sister extending a hand to south korean moon jae-in, including the optics of a groundbreaking summit, even holding hands and announcement of a planned summit with president trump. >> we'll be meeting june 12th in singapore. it went very well. >> reporter: two meetings with chinese president xi jinping, along with secretary of state mike pompeo. now the russians want in, arranging their own meeting with vladimir putin. what made kim chang...

Vladimir putin. they say this is the early stages in which the negotiation is being led by john huntsman. he was at the white house yesterday. the president and vladimir putin have only met in person on two different occasions. if the summit takes place, it would be against the back drop of this investigation into russia's conduct during the 2016 election and whether or not the trump campaign was involved in that conduct at all. at this point, the white house telling t"the wall street journal" if it happens they're not even going to begin the serious planning of that summit until after everyth...

Either the type of peacemaking stuff studied by students on generations or fail on every level and leaving the security of much of the world even more in question. success or failure depends only on the two men, and the famously unpredictability of their personaliti personalities. this is is brian todd. >> reporter: in washington and in seoul, optimism over the possibility of a groundbreaking summit and real concern over what could go wrong. >> in is somewhat haphazardly prepared and very, very very quickly prepared and i'm concerned about it. >> reporter: analysts say so much success and fail...

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>> now there were many in the president's administration. some prominent leaders of congress that were cautioning the president not to forge ahead with this meeting, particularly because north korea didn't seem to be coming to the table with all that much. the president was insistent. one of the reasons he was able to get this done is dialing back the expectations in a big way. no grand bargain expected to be struck at this summit on june 12th. instead the president describing it as a get to know each other meeting. the president at camp david. he is there with many members of his family, incl...