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>> reporter: north korea, the engagement between president trump and the north korean leader, there's another summit that's set for the end of february. this was described by intelligence communities as extremely positive, but they want to see more concrete evidence that north korea is committed to dismantling its nuclear weapons program. here's the director of national intelligence once again, dan coats. >> we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities while we assess that san...

Release. they have a north korean summit at the end of the month. venezuela. there's a lot to deal with in this short month of february. >> let alone if mueller comes out in some form. i think the north korea part was most stark for me listening to these intel heads talk about how they really believe that north korea believes that it's essential that they have nuclear weapons and that nuclear capability to deal with what they consider the threat of their foes. that is a much different picture than the optimistic tone you hear from president trump ahead of this summit, second summit, with kim j...

Reward. the real question is whether we've structured this in a way that is likely to get tangible results. i see nothing that suggests we are prepared to discipline north korea and what's happening in the neen timeantime is all the e is unraveling, south korea, russia, they are moving closer to north korea. >> so, katty, count. he as naive but i thought after the first summit in singapore the entire pacific rim breathed a sigh of relief because the president of the united states told us there's no more nuclear threat coming from north korea. i guess not. now the prospect of a second summit, d...

Saying not very much was achieved. you can't go into a second summit for just the photo opportunity and the coins and the first time this happened wow factor because it didn't achieve anything. there is no real denuclearization happening. all of our intelligence agencies are showing us that. the chinese are now more goods are flowing into china than they were at the time. if you're going to have a second summit, it's hard for me to see how this is going to accomplish very much more than the first one and yet the expectations are going to have to be that much higher because the first one didn't...

The channels of communication going better. maybe that's why we're talking about having another summit now. the fact that asia breathed a sigh of relief was partly because donald trump had ratcheted up the tensions and then eased back the tensions. you can point to trade, to the wall, a number of situations where donald trump says there is a crisis and then is de-escalating it and north korea falls into that category. >> there's two dangers here, one is we don't get enough from the north koreans second time and the second is that we give too much, where the united states distances itself from ...