Test, research, etc. we know where some of those are, eric, so we ll be able to verify whether they are giving us the truth or not. if they don t give us that information, we don t have a deal at all. eric: do you think that they ll cough that up and tell us where all these ballistic sites are, where the labs are, where the nuclear materials are, and do you think they ll let international inspectors have full and verified inspections not like iran, which gives permission bars from military sites and they have to give the u.n. permission. beautiful and complete - step two is we re going to have to deal with an inspection regime and they will have to come forward with a plan. let s assume they ve done the first steps. they ll have to come forward with a plan that disarms and dismantles those sites and we ll insist i would assume likely on a time frame within
If this could possibly be serious. will the north koreans declare in a transparent way, the extent of their nuclear chemical and biological programs? i say they ll never do it. they ll never let an inspection regime in the country. they will never denuclearize. we might achieve other objectives, reduce the conventional threat, freeze the icbm program. so far we gave away a bunch and got nothing. thank you very much. we ll stay in the region as president trump works to build that stronger relationship. he may have further strained relations with china. two countries are setting the stage with potential trade war. with me is the co-host of npr s the indicator from planet money. let s start with the basic question here. are we in a trade war? we have the $50 billion worth of
Rigorous inspection regime in history. there is no precedent for it. to duplicate that is extremely difficult. we were told by jim acosta, the president spoke with prime minister abe and president moon as well. what do leaders need to hear today? the primary concern is that the united states will enter into an agreement with north korea that will deal with long range missiles and nuclear weapons and sacrifice their security. we can t abandon them in this effort.
Comprehensive agreement, it may be instructive. in that, in 1992, it was that north korea would not test, manufacture, receive, possess or store nuclear weapons. only use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, they would not possess nuclear reprocessing or uranium enrichment and conduct inspection of the objects selected. is that what we should be looking for? are those the guide posts for this agreement as well? we should be looking for that and for more. the irony is this, alisyn, president trump spent a lot of time demolishing the iran nuclear agreement. whether he can get something as strong as that with north korea is very, very doubtful. iran up front, up front, took apart virtually the entirety of its nuclear program. and up front, allowed the most intrusive inspection regime in the history of arms control. president trump can get that over the next six months, that will be a huge achievement. the important thing is this,
In less than an hour does not mean that the crisis on the korean peninsula will be resolved immediately. both the u.s. and north korea have agendas. what are they exactly? george freidman is the founder and chairman of geopitical future. harry is director of direct studies center of national interests and they both join us tonight. so, in turn, george, first you, what must the u.s. get out of this? what is the goal of the administration going? well, the obvious goal is getting rid of the nuclear weapons and a very robust inspection regime where inspectors, american inspectors, i suspect, can go there and see for themselves what s going on. that s the bottom line. i don t think the united states can back off it. tucker: harry, that has got to be very different from what the north koreans expect to get out of this, i assume. yeah. tucker. i mean, there s no way that the north koreans are ever going to agree to what everybody is calling cvid. the complete verifiable