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About kim jong-un in glowing terms. that suggests the president is being played here. we have paula hancocks from seoul. he said last week he has a letter which is a magnificent piece of art. this is an issue of a brutal dictator. >> reporter: exactly, christine. there have been eyebrows raised at this talk from the u.s. president. it is no secret he is focusing more on the fact he has a personal relationship with kim jong-un. it is that relationship that he is focusing on as opposed to the exact details of any step by step denuclearization. we have certainly heard from many north korean exper...

Summit it appears as though this is as much as the u.s. needed to get these talks back on track. one note, the north korea did agree to shut down a missile test site. one they already promised before. kim jong un told trump he would do that. but did allow inspectors in for that particular part. the facility is very conditional. the north korea want a quid pro quo approach. and step by step denuclearization. and certainly from the initial response from the u.s. it seems like they're not as dead set against that. as they may have once been. >> united states very happy. we saw throughout the cour...

Measures? we know that north korea wants a declaration to the end of the korean war and peace treaty and lifting of sanctions. what we know is washington has said they won't make concessions before complete denuclearization. from the declaration over the past three-day summit, north korea is effectively once again a step by step denuclearization. it wants a quid pro quo agreement with the u.s. and white house and secretary of state mike pompeo seem to be welcoming of the result. we heard from secretary pompeo saying he will meet with the north korean counterpart in new york at the sidelines of...

Summit. he'd been promised by kim jong-un, there's no timeline for that. what we have that's new is that they have agreed now, the north koreans, to allow international experts to verify that. now beyond that, they have said that they would be willing to shut down the nuclear facility. this would be significant, but they have that caveat. they have put a condition on it saying that it -- it depends on u.s. corresponding measures. pyongyang has wanted a step-by-step denuclearization, quidbo pro-question on -- quid o quo, which they have not agreed to. that president moon jae-in will be going to...

Verify that. now beyond that, we're also hearing that north korea would be willing to shut down its nuclear facility if the u.s. were to give corresponding measures. this goes back to what north korea has wanted all along. this quid pro quo, the step-by-step denuclearization, which up until this point the u.s. has said that they are not willing to have. they want complete denuclearization, then they talk about concessions. just minutes after this declaration was signed and the statements were made by kim jong-un and moon jae-in, we did have a tweet from the u.s. president trump saying that he ...