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Conducted by the south and the u.s. short time ago at the white house, the president said this about the possibility that the summit may be a no-go amid barrage of questions from reporters. watch. >> president trump: we haven't been notified at all. we'll have to see. we haven't seen anything. we haven't heard anything. we will see what happens. >> harris: in that white house moment, the president stood by his pledge to call for denuclearization of the korean peninsula. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is in london. greg? >> harris, i guess on the face of it, we shouldn't be to...

Corner and making a one-sided demand to give up our nukes. he went on to say it could force kim jong un to reconsider next month's planned summit with president trump. they had already branded the air exercises as provocative. they called up a meeting between north and south korean officials and blasted president trump's national security adviser john bolton calling absurd when he said that there could be a libyan-style ridding of nukes from north korea. now most analysts we have been speaking to and we have been seeing don't necessarily think north korea wants to pull out of next month's summ...

There are concerns by north korea of what the united states is deploying in the backup to exercises or to drills. but the interesting thing about the interkorean summit that took place between the leaders of north and south korea was that the north korean leader did not bring up the issue of american troops. we have 23,000 troops based in south korea, critical to the defense of the south for almost seven decades now. it was always assumed that the north with demand the withdrawal of all those forces as part of a peace process and in fact kim jong un did not make that provision they met. so it'...

How it overcomes those hurdles, that remains to be seen. it underlining the community here, three koreans of american descent that are being held in north korea now. how essentially are they to the negotiations? >> i think it's an important element of creating though goodwill ahead of the summit which we're expecting in an realizy june time frame, but the idea of releasing these. it's part of another event being planned and organized. so these two types of elements of building up the goodwill i think is a conscious effort to make sure the interkorean summit, that that momentum carries over. >>...

Actually means. >> one question is simply how far does it go, and the other bigger question, to me, is what would north korea ask in exchange? >> kim jong-un, projecting confidence and swagger, giving an unprecedented press conference before the international media, serving up a side of himself the world has never seen, at a lavish banquet, featuring pyongyang's famous cold noodles and a champagne toast to peace. now the question many are asking, what happens when the buzz wears off? and if you thought the visuals at the interkorean summit were extraordinary, wait until you see this planned su...