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>> i don't want to get ahead of negotiation. the policy is to pursue the complete, irreversible and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that is the purpose of the summit. >> also, if you could address a little bit the criticism of the president sort of tone with the dictator of north korea, kim jong un, that he treated the u.s. detainees excellently. the president rhetoric has shifted on kim jong un. i'm wondering if you could explain why. and whether he thinks that at all he is going too far in praising kim jong un. >> i think the president's rhetoric reflected kim jong un's ...

Or is this administration willing to accept something sort of that? >> i don't want to get ahead of negotiations but our policy has been to pursue the complete irreversible and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula and that's going to be the purpose of the june 12th meeting. >> if you could address a little bit this idea that -- the criticism of the president's sort of tone with the dictator of north korea, kim jong-un, saying that he treated the u.s. detainees excellently. the president's rhetoric has certainly shifted on kim jong-un. i'm wondering if you could explain why and w...

Part? or do you through the sanctions are working and they may stay the course here? >> well, it's important to realize where we are this morning. the fall eagle exercises started a matter of hours ago. so it's a small miracle that today we're not talking about a north korea missile launch. this diplomatic outreach is really the only thing that has restrained north korea's missile testing program so far. it's pushed off those tests and delayed them. normally, these exercises every year are the starting gun for the spring testing season. and we would have expected icbm tests and submarine launc...

With north korean science it ises. the biggest set of sanctions set by the white house on friday, that 90% of north korea's oil will be cut off and the u.s. had some of their wish list watered down a little bit. but for the most part the u.s. got what they wanted and those sanctions which are a response to the most recent icbm tests, those sanctions do have some bite and they brought along china and russia. >> news out today that over the weekend, nikki halle succeeded in negotiating the reduction of 2 $209 million off the u.s. budget. melissa crocker said this is all so misleading, the u.s. f...

Speaks about openly going to war with north korea because as you know, conflict is unimaginable in the korean peninsula. >> reporter: some say trump's been placed in a position no other american president ever has by the aggression of his young adversary. >> some of this is also on kim jong-un, right? >> absolutely. we have seen multiple nuclear tests, tests of a hydrogen bomb. not just a fission bomb. icbm tests over japan. nobody has done this before certainly from north korea. >> reporter: tonight another key strategic question, will president trump visit the heavily fortified dmz as other ...