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>> what is on the table? >> oh, you really want me to discuss that now? >> i do. >> everything is on the table. >> okay. so, if drawing down u.s. troops in south korea is not on the table, it's my understanding that the north koreans in their attempt to define what denuclearization is includes that particular fact -- they want u.s. troops out of south korea. so, to your point of what's nearly impossible, defining denuclearization, where does this go? >> well, that's a problem. the north koreans at the end of the day do want the united states to leave. they do want the end of the us/rok allianc...

To continue to halt the nuclear testing and missile testing. they're going to continue to halt and put a cap potentially on their nuclear miff program. just enough where he's going to be able to walk away and say declare victory. peace declaration saying we have formally ended the war. >> that's the thing. the white house in the last few days has been saying they've been kind of tamping back a little bit that the possibility that there might be a peace declaration but in exchange for the united states dropping the sanctions. do we get a sense there be some major major announcement that will co...

>> everything is on the table. >> everything on the table. obviously kim jong-un would love for sanctions to be dropped and the reduction of troops. what is on the table as far as the u.s. is concerned? >> i think we are willing to give a peace declaration to north korea to say the war is over. we might open a liaison office. we might allow south korea to get the emt unixemption. there's going to be easing of sanctions. we're ready to macon sessions. he has lowered the bar. he said as long as there's no testing he is in no rush. why would north korea have incentive to go through the denucleari...

They're talking about extend umbrella over south korea and our troops in south korea. when we're talking about nukes, we're obviously talking about nukes in north korea. we don't even have an agreed de definition on denuclearization? >> there a posnlt a definition might come out of this? >> i don't thing that's possible. they made it explicit what they mean. they mean u.s. troop presence in south korea, and umbrella. are we willing to scrap -- stop the alliance commitment we have with south korea? no, we don't. i don't even think that's really possible. some sort of a freeze deal that's going ...

Typically in a nuclear negotiati negotiation, you start with that accounting. then you know what the other side will give up in any discussions of hemming in its nuclear program. >> there's concern that the administration may be thinking about giving up too much? >> reporter: this is coming from inside the white house that the president himself, his advisers privately raising concerns that the president could offer too much to kim at the summit, which he insisted upon after his first meeting in june garnered media attention. in that meeting, trump surprised his own advisors by agreeing to canc...