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The president is going to end up. >> and short staffed. >> this is worrying our allies who try to look at this and are finally just shrugging their shoulders and saying we're going to have to make our own plans. in asia, the south koreans, the japanese, our key allies in asia, watched the negotiations with north korea in the same way. what's this guy going to do next? >> right. >> they don't know. my point is, they're beginning to make alternative plans for their security. and that's really what should concern us as they begin to move away from what's been a reliable american security umbrella...

Nuclear capacity. having achieved its security umbrella, north korea is now ready to talk and it would probably propose a freeze, a ban on tests, even a rollback of some capacity, but it would take a great deal to make north korea destroy its entire nuclear capacity. it's historically only appeared willing to do so in return for the end of the u.s./south korea military alliance, formal recognition by washington, and large amounts of ink. the negotiations do contain risks. any deal that leaves north korea with nuclear weapons and yet eases sanctions and provides aid would cause dismay in large ...

Continue to negotiate at the ministerial le the biggest single exercise happens in the spring. it will happen in about 10 to 12 months again. >> the president does seem intent on getting the u.s. military out of that region. out of south korea. i was talking to ambassador hill as he said there's 3,000 years of historical evidence as to why the koreans aren't intereste in china being their security umbrella and would still like the united states to be that security umbrella. are you concerned the president doesn't believe in the security umbrell umbrellas? >> i think the president recognizes th...

Commitment that was established in april to complete denuclearization, but still nobody isining at that means and we know that it means very different things to each side. the other issue, of course, is this announcement by president trump that they will stop military exercises with south korea. this is going to raise some concern among the south korean leadership and, of course, among south korean people who have relied on the security umbrella for generations now and gives the sense that perhaps president trump is giving up too much. also watching nervously will be japan. japan was counting ...

Look the at the world from kim jong-un's perspective. by the time he came to power, the regime had lost the great patron the soviet union and the closest ally, china, with whom it fought the korean war often viewed it as a nuisance, voting to sanction it at the united nations. and the most powerful country in the world, the united states, often expressed a desire to see wholesale regime change in pyongyang. >> so kim jong-un accelerated the policy of his father and grandfather. he bought insurance. in the form of a robust nuclear capacity, having achieved the security umbrella, north korea now...