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Is repressive, be but many regimes were brutal from romania to iraq to libya. the kim family is also shrewd at the art of survival. look at the world from kim jong-un's perspective. by the time he came to power, the regime had lost its great patron, the soviet union. its closest ally with whom it fought the korean war viewed it as a nuisance voting to sanction it at the united nations. >> north korea continue. 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 accelerate d the policy of his father an...

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...

Both its nuclear threats to pyongyang and perhaps, although we don't know, it's security umbrella, it's nuclear umbrella that covers japan and south korea. you know, kim jong-un has been waiting not just for this moment in singapore, but for this sit-down with a united ates president not only since he took power, but it was something that his father and his grandfather krafd. they -- craved. they wanted recognition and respect. and i think the pictures that we're look at at the minute show that kim jong-un has achieved run thing already. he is even before the historic handshake tomorrow here o...

Trade. along the path going there, certainly it e rocky a little bumpy at times. but so far i don'tnticipat effe that'srom the defense secretary. that's something that kay bailey hutchison agrees. hanks for s o us, trade our sense too thi tensions betwe all hurting our security relations? >> you know, neil, in a group of disagreements on a bilaterals. ther disagreements within nato on how we do things. there's no disagreement on our goal, our common goal of a security umbrella for all 29 of us. hink the professional diplomats here are very good.

Sides be able to work out those details with this type of a meeting, keeping in mind time is of the essence right now? >> i think there is a lot of statement in this meeting, as you have mentioned. the two sides have very different definition of what denuclearization is. so it remains to be seen whether they can bring together or close the gap between two definitions of denuclearization. now, there is a lot of speculation of what denuclearization mean. some people say face withdrawals. others say kind of a security umbrella before they will give up their weapons. and others would say an toned ...