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This is a smart move by president moon to keep president trump moving in the right direction showing him he believes trump has what it takes to get this done. that's a smart maneuver. jon: we all like people to be nice to us. >> yes, we do. jon: joel, thank you. joining us from seoul, south korea, with john roberts. it's a little after 3:00 in the afternoon in south korea. a lot can come out of this historic meeting at the dmz and what it can mean for future u.s.-north korea relations. reporter: the president went to the observation post which is a few hundred yard away from the peace house. w...

The tour of an observation post. a situational briefing p meeting with troops. getting a ceremonial gift. that is the kind of thing that is afforded to any visiting of heads of state. what is different, what has had never been done before, is what we are expecting will happen soon when the delegations fade away and president trump goes up to the demarcation line, a concrete line on the ground that separates old enemies. and kim jong-un, approaches from the north korean side, they meet, initially and it's prezumed on either side and cross over potentially from one to the next in a sign of dip l...

So some of the pool notes are delayed because the cell signal isn't that strong. and what you see, the broadcast coming across, just to get in the technology of it, that requires a lot of cell service. so the pixelates, that's because the service isn't that great right now. hard to tell from what's going on there where the president is in this picture if we see him yet. obviously there's security as well. richard? >> hans, give us a sense of the overlook point here. i'm not sure if there's more than one. i've only been to one of them, and of course there may be more than one. i'm an ware of at...

U.s. presidents have been brought. this is where president obama was, president clinton, george w. bush. this really is an area where you get a good sense of the dmz, and you can look over into north korea, certainly about 20 meters or so from north korea itself, so we are expecting this could be what we see as well. giving a lay of the land. it's a very good observation post to see really just how narrow the dmz is. >> and we should note as you noted that former, previous u.s. presidents have come to this place before, this location before, president obama, president george w. bush, president...

Demilitarized zone. the caisson heights can reach seoul without having to move forward. so not only do we need to focus on the nuclear missile threat, we need conventional force reductions before we sign a peace treaty. jon: tell us how far it is from the observation post where we just saw president trump and president moon jae-in where they will exchange hand shakes with run? >> it's very close. it's observation post post along the demarcation point. it has a good vantage point at the joint security area as well as into north korea. that's the purpose it has there.