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Parallel gesture. more than a gesture, a security assurance. what does that mean to you? >> well, i hope it doe mn that the president would agree to remove u.s. troops early on or that he would take away the nuclear security umbrella we have for japan and south korea, or we would realign our forces in northeast asia. those are steps that shouldn't even be contemplated until north korea really tells us where all the nuclear weapons are and what they're going to do to dismantle their program. where all the ballistic missiles are and what they'll do to undo that program. those are really the yard...

>> wendy sherman, thanks so very much. michael, thanks to you. good to see both of you. thanks for joining us. coming up, men in black. what more do we know about the reclusive dictator from the hermit kingdom who surrounds himself with a wall of security guards wherever he goes? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports," live from singapore, only on msnbc. stay with us.

>> michael, we have known so little about kim jong-un up until now. yet he arrives in singapore and goes out on the town tonight, going sightseeing until about midnight, looking at the sites here in singapore. he's completely remade his image in the last couple of weeks, since agreeing to this summit with president trump. what do you make of it? >> i think this is -- kim jong-un has been, and north korea has been one of the targets for the u.s. intelligence community for decades. and i think that's one of the reasons why it's so hard to know, not just because of president trump's unpredictabil...

Witnessed? >> well, it is a circus. if you needed any more -- any more crazy events to take place in singapore on the eve of this summit, the arrival of dennis rodman, who we now has gone and done basketball exercises and tourneys with kim jong-un and is a favorite of kim jong-un. the he is getting on the train at the airport. i mean, excuse me, getting into the -- getting into a car here at the airport after arriving at singapore's airport. it's only about a 20-minute drive into town. presumably he will not be going to the st. regis hotel and meeting with kim jong-un tonight before the big su...